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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Executive Update
Success Secrets of Pair Programming
Pair programming is a common practice that originated from Extreme Programming (XP), in which two programmers work collaboratively at one computer on the same design, algorithm, or code. The benefits of pair programming on software development are well documented and include improving design quality, reducing defects, lowering staffing risks, enhancing technical skills, and improving team communications [3, 8, 11]. Although pair programming has become increasingly popular, some programmers remain skeptical of pairing.
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IT technology
Assertion 157:Agent technology is now necessary to reduce costs; to improve efficiency and effectiveness; and to support the requirements of individuals, groups, companies, and universities as they collaborate globally. More importantly, it will enable us to create and support a whole class of IT applications and approaches that we previously could not have developed.
Executive Report
Enterprise Architecture Trends 2007
While 2007 looks like another interesting year for enterprise architecture, what will be most important? What are the trends? To answer these questions, this Executive Report assembles a collection of articles from several Cutter Senior Consultants on some of the more important topics.
Welcome to 2007. It promises to be another exciting and busy year in architecture. To start the year off, in the accompanying Executive Report, we examine the trends we can expect in enterprise architecture (EA) this year. To that end, we've assembled a collection of articles from Cutter Senior Consultants on some of the more important topics. We've divided our look ahead into four main topic areas: more of the same; struggling to see value; bigger and better; and new demands.
This is the last of a series of four Executive Updates in which I examine the results of a Cutter Consortium survey on service-oriented architecture (SOA). In this final Update, we shall be looking at the favorite products and vendors for SOA development, security, mainframe connectivity, and Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs).
As companies begin to feel the effects of coming out of the 2001 recession, many are turning their attention away from primarily cost-focused strategies and objectives toward business growth through new product development and innovation. In a recession, cash flow can often determine the success or even the survival of a company.
PREAMBLE
This is the first benchmarking opportunity for CBR's annual IT trends and technologies issue. We've got some comparative data against last year's survey for a number of topic areas, and we've added some new questions this year on IT staffing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise architecture (EA), and innovation.