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
At the beginning of the year, I said that I doubted that the US Congress would get around to enacting any sort of new data breach regulations because it would simply be too preoccupied with trying to come up with a solution to the disastrous situation in Iraq (see "BI Trends and Developments to Watch for In 2007," 2 January 2007). But n
Refactoring and automated testing can improve your efficiency, whether your organization uses agile or traditional development methods. In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Jens Coldewey leads you through a simple simulation that demonstrates and compares the results that can be achieved from implementing refactoring and automated testing practices in a typical project setting.
Executive Update
The Role of Information in a Service Oriented-Architecture
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) strives to provide an information infrastructure that is highly responsive to rapidly changing business requirements, including new competition, mergers, acquisitions, business models, and regulatory requirements. SOA has shown great promise in reaching these goals and is rapidly gaining widespread interest and acceptance.
Business process management (BPM) is a hot management topic and an equally compelling IT product subject these days. True believers are setting up business process management as one of the last remaining sources of competitive advantage as other sources have evaporated. While BPM is a management philosophy first and a class of packaged application second, you wouldn't know it from the way vendors convey the value of their products.