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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Surfing the BI Waves: Tide Turning to SMEs
Is business intelligence (BI) and its byproducts meant for only large corporations? To a general audience, the answer looks like "yes." This is mostly due to the halo that has been spread around the BI and data warehousing (DW) world, which portrays the approach as "toys for the big enterprises." The benefits of BI and DW are invariably great both in terms of value and insights, but that does not mean these benefits should be beyond the reach of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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With insight gleaned on the business, information, applications, technology, security, and performance architecture domains, your organization will be able to hone its architecture development, design, governance and portfolio management and planning practices. You'll discover just how to produce specific architectures and models, standards, reference models, roadmaps, processes, and more. Read a description of our publication types »
The enterprise software market has gone through a significant period of consolidation, which has resulted in organizations selecting among a decreasing number of vendors for increasingly large and complex applications. Even though the market has changed, too many organizations still make enterprise software decisions based on the obsolete assumption that there are multiple vendors that are primarily differentiated by their product features.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." These words of US President John F. Kennedy are weighed in gold by wise individuals in all walks of life. Such an undeniable truth drives the present-day transformation of enterprise software through a series of technological innovations.
The most popular Web 2.0 technologies used by organizations to support their business performance management initiatives are wikis and social networks. This finding comes from a January 2008 Cutter Consortium survey of 101 end-user organizations worldwide, which was designed to measure the extent that organizations are implementing business performance management technologies and techniques.
In my last Advisor (see "How to Increase Productive Velocity, Part I," 17 April 2008), I had collected strategies for managers and domain experts to make their agile team run faster. This second article in the series is devoted to measures suitable for the development team.