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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BI and business performance management vendors have offered facilities that give mobile users the ability to view and interact with performance-related information -- managed by their BI tools and analytic applications -- via such wireless devices as smartphones and PDAs for years.

A quick Google search tells the story. Value networks are "hot" -- hot enough for the term to generate 15.5 million hits. The same search two years ago yielded about 30,000 hits. Narrow it down to a discrete term, and it still pulls 250,000. Want a bigger number? Try "social networks," clocking in at 35 million. Or "business networks," at 15 million.

Hannibal of Carthage was one of the greatest military strategists of ancient times, and his methods are still studied today. He is probably best known for the herd of elephants he drove into Italy in the third century BC, which he used to terrify the Roman legions.

All of a sudden, Microsoft seems to be moving aggressively -- at least, aggressively for Microsoft -- into the area of high-level architecture. I have read about this recently with some hope.

Data integration tools provider Talend has introduced an open source data profiling toolset. Talend Open Profiler, as the new software is called, rounds out Talend's open source data integration platform by providing tools to help developers evaluate and document the quality of their data.

In the first two Advisors in this series (see "How to Talk to Architects, Part I: The Enterprise," 28 May 2008, and "How to Talk to Architects, Part II: Business and Information," 18 June 2008), we discussed the issues involved in communicating with archi

I've been doing a lot of research on BI search -- tools that combine the ease of use of enterprise search engines with the reporting and analysis capabilities of BI tools. The goal of BI search is to enable organizations to distribute BI functionality to (nontechnical) business users in a manner that makes self-service BI practical.

Abstract

This Executive Report by Sebastian Konkol focuses on temporalities embedded in enterprise architecture and offers a means of organizing them inside technology management processes.