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.
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IBM has announced it is buying business rules management systems (BRMS) vendor ILOG for Euro 215 million (approximately US $340 million). This deal is important because it gives IBM a leading BRMS it can use to add rule-based management and complex decision-processing capabilities to a range of IBM products and services.
Executive Report
KM and BI: From Mutual Isolation to Complementarity and Synergy
Executive Summary
KM and BI: From Mutual Isolation to Complementarity and Synergy
Consider these two facts.
First, the collection of ideas and techniques known as Web 2.0 has had a profound effect on the way Web sites work, the manner in which they are perceived, and the nature of the proposition that they offer their visitors. These changes have already affected the way that many people experience the Web. They have new expectations of how things work and what can be achieved using this technology.
Second, your intranet can have a strong influence on how your organization's employees feel about their job.
Until recently, users did not expect the same rich experience in Web browsers as in desktop applications. For example, drag-and-drop and other types of interactivity were not possible in traditional HTML Web pages. Now technologies are being introduced to provide rich interactive applications on the desktop, in a Web browser, or on mobile devices. These technologies intensify traditional usability challenges and create new ones.
It has happened to all of us, and no matter what, it makes us feel stupid every time. It does not matter if it's a new Web site, a new application we need to use at work, or even a new kitchen gadget, the frustration is the same. We think it should work a certain way, respond a certain way to our actions, but all we get is the growing sense of despair and doom that comes from needing to read a manual or call tech support. It's an awful feeling.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says the more you try to know about a particle's position, the less you can know about its momentum. A similar dilemma affects IT security. It seems the more features you load into a product, the less usable it can be. Figure 1 illustrates this principle. The problem is particularly acute with security products, because safety and security are at stake.