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
The number of data warehousing and BI appliances -- prepackaged offerings that include software (and sometimes hardware) designed for data warehousing and BI applications -- on the market continues to grow. The latest entry into this hot market is the Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance from open source information management specialist Ingres Corporation.
The most interesting development to affect the business process market recently is business process management (BPM) suite vendor Metastorm's announcement that it has acquired Proforma Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise architecture (EA) and business process analysis (BPA) modeling tools. (Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.)
A reader called last week to chat about important trends and developments affecting the application of BI. This week's Advisor is based on our discussion.
I see a number of important trends that are helping to influence organizations' BI and data warehousing efforts, or which are indicative of where they are focusing their activities. These include the following:
Two years ago, in an Advisor titled "Update on Eclipse" (4 May 2005), I wrote about the advances in the Eclipse framework accelerated by the spin-off of Eclipse into the independent, open source, Eclipse Foundation.