Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
Insight
This issue of CBR focuses on a very important and timely topic: how to unlock the value of social networking. The perspective we take is that of the organization, not the individual. While online communities are almost as old as the Internet, there is no available blueprint for organizations that wish to take advantage of the seemingly unending stream of new community-enabling tools -- from Facebook to LinkedIn to Tweeter or TripIt.
This survey examines how organizations use social networks both to support interactions among employees and/or to support interactions between the organization and its customers or other business partners. Fifty-nine percent of the 119 respondents come from organizations headquartered or based in North America, 20% from organizations in Europe, 14% from organizations in Asia/Australia/Pacific, and the remainder from organizations in other regions.
Abstract
Quite simply, the Web has a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. It will continue to do so, becoming the dominant platform for everything from communication to business transaction processing. Within a decade, the personal/professional merger will be complete with virtually no distinctions between what we do to live and what we do to work.
It cannot be said any plainer: we have significantly underestimated the impact that the Web is having -- and will continue to have -- on our personal and professional lives. Within five years, the Web will become the dominant personal and professional platform for communication, collaboration, entertainment, learning, and all forms of business transaction processing.
Research & Analysis
With insight gleaned on technologies, strategies and new tools in the business intelligence, data integration, and collaboration space, your organization will improve the way it views, shares and leverages its corporate knowledge and critical business data.
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The Web, in the last couple of years, has changed dramatically. Tens of millions of people are now -- for the first time -- actively participating in online communities. Social and professional networking sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, have attracted millions, and the average age of users continues to rise.
As more and more enterprises realize a need for architecture, the vendors of tools that support architecture are jumping on the opportunity. I'm seeing a growing trend in the acquisition of enterprise architecture repositories. Unfortunately, I haven't yet seen most organizations realize the value that these tools can bring.