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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Open source BI tools leader JasperSoft Corporation has released an open source data extract, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool. Called "JasperETL," this tool adds data integration capabilities for data warehousing and BI to the JasperSoft BI Suite, which consists of JasperServer (report server), JasperAnalysis (OLAP), JasperReports (end-user reporting), and iReport (report designer).
Once conventional becomes, well, conventional, offering an alternative reality bears similarity to standing in front of a downhill runaway train and thinking this will stop it. It's conventional wisdom's fierce momentum that prevents a competing worldview from getting any mindshare.
There is a lot of talk in the EA community about the increased focus on the business architecture (see for example, Enterprise Architecture Practice Director Mike Rosen's "The Rise of Business Architecture," 10 January 2007).
Quite often, people complain that they have been asked to provide an estimate before they have enough information.
This usually happens in the very early stages of a software project, but will also occur anytime we need to look at a major change. We need to figure out how long it will take to get the job done.
The recent announcement by TJX Companies, Inc. that its computer systems had been compromised, leading to credit and debit card purchase information being stolen and used for fraudulent purposes, dramatically underscores the nasty experience that companies can expect to go through should they suffer a customer data breach.
It is time for a new framework for enterprise architecture (EA). It has been exactly 20 years since John Zachman published his first article on information systems architecture in IBM Systems Journal [1]. Since that time, Zachman's model has evolved to become what is known today as the Zachman Framework.