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
I've been working with a client that is trying to learn about SOA, helping the team to implement a pilot project. Although it's a fairly junior team, the problems that they are encountering are not limited to inexperience. I've seen the same confusion at many different clients. They don't understand the relationship -- or difference -- between SOA and the user interface.
In my previous Advisors in this series (see the sidebar), I have submitted my conservative views on getting started with SOA and I have explored the challenges of SOA initiative planning. While addressing these challenges, like many other practitioners, I observed the concept of enterprise service bus (ESB) pop up many times for many of my SOA initiative engagements.
Last month, I discussed why Business Rules Management Systems (BRMSs) are increasingly becoming an important part of organizations' service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives (see "The Role of Business Rules Management Systems in Service-Oriented Architectures," 27 December 2006).
