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
In the previous parts of this Executive Update series, I focused on the application of the concept of refactoring needs to various processes related to software development -- refactoring needs being an ingredient of enterprise architecture (EA) [1-4]. Here in Part V, I share some insights regarding the value that EA and its management processes gain from the concept.
Web 2.0 is the most talked about emerging technology trend today; it is creating quite a splash as it stretches the boundary of what the traditional Web can do. In the absence of any industry consensus, Web 2.0 can best be explained as the second phase in the evolution of the Web that provides an enriched end-user experience and enhanced online social collaboration.
As we all know, enterprise architecture (EA) is not a technical affair; it is not just for the technologists and architects to demonstrate the technical marvels in developing IT solutions or services for the business world. Instead, EA is now the widely regarded conduit for developing a collaborative environment for both business and IT.
Last week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complied with a US congressional request that the space agency release the findings from a four-year airline-safety study it conducted involving thousands of interviews -- including those with 24,000 pilots. The trouble is, NASA released the information in a format that makes it all but impossible to analyze further.
I believe that traditional EA teams are set up to fail from the very beginning. Not on purpose, mind you, but more due to a lack of understanding of the realities of modern software development. The EA teams I've seen would often produce white papers and models that the developers would never read or, if they did read them, would soon forget.
Abstract
Content management represents a critical area of infrastructure for the enterprise. As content becomes digitized, managed, and accessible through portals, the advantages of bringing most if not all content under a single management scheme become more apparent.