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 next time you find yourself struggling to get plans or funding approved to better secure your organization's customer information systems, be sure to point out that data breaches are costly in more ways than one. For real-world proof, you need look no further than the ongoing saga at TJX Companies, Inc.
David Lineman makes a number of points in his wonderful Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor "Securing the Long Tail." Some of the points, while well known, are still true and important to state.
Back in the 1980s, I taught distributed database design. At that time, there was a lot of interest but there weren't a lot of applications. Moreover, with some real exceptions, the technology wasn't quite ready for prime time. Today, when there is a lot of real need and real technology, the distributed database has fallen out of favor.
Over the past few years, I have noticed a trend of streamlining IT spending. In general, it all depends on the implications that IT may have in achieving the strategic business goals of a company. However, as service-oriented architecture (SOA) becomes a popular buzzword, IT practitioners are forced to recognize the significance of the role business organizations play in their world.