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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A couple weeks ago, I discussed the significance of SAP AG's acquisition of BI vendor Business Objects SA (see "SAP Buys Business Objects, Or Keeping Up with the Jones II," 16 October 2007). Last week, SAP made another acquisition: YASU Technologies.
CIOs are responsible for managing many different aspects of IT, ranging from providing IT services, to controlling costs, and aligning IT with the business. One of the most powerful tools that a CIO has to help with this is enterprise architecture (EA). Yet, EA is often misunderstood, misapplied, or simply not present in many IT organizations.
Two weeks ago, I was practically bombarded with e-mail from readers asking if I knew anything about the possibility of Business Objects being acquired. Like many, I'd heard the rumors, but I couldn't really say anything definite because they had been circulating for at least a year. Turns out that all the increased "chatter" was right after all.
Few areas of technology law may be as frustrating to business owners as the law of database rights. Databases represent a significant investment in time, energy, and, in many cases, money by the businesses that compile them. However, depending on where the business that compiles the database is located, the databases may have a great deal, some, or virtually no protection.