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
CIOs and IT managers and professionals can no longer afford to simply ignore social networks, dismissing them as a platform for fun for young people. However, in order to harness the opportunities social networks present, you must first gain a deeper knowledge of social networks, including an understanding of how they work and their inherent power.
In this Executive Report we address these questions and explore what social networks mean to you and your enterprise. Specifically, we begin by examining the dark side of social networks, including dangers, risks, and privacy and security issues. We then look at the future of social networks, identifying and discussing several yet-to-be explored trends and your potential opportunities. We conclude by looking at the impact social networks have on the business and what IT can do to take advantage of its potential.
One of the most exciting areas of interest in IT today is information extraction. While the prospect of unlimited information coming our way can be thrilling in some respects, users have become wary of the risks and threats associated with such proliferation (for example, the huge amount of time necessary to filter, acquire, and usefully apply all such knowledge).
This Executive Report by Suzanne Robertson discusses how managers can use consistent and understandable requirements knowledge as input to making decisions and steering a project down its most agile path.
The accompanying Executive Report focuses on five broad business technologies that deserve our attention: software development and delivery; Web 2.0; master data management (MDM) for business intelligence (BI); convergence customer relationship management (CRM); and access d