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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By far the biggest news out of the Oracle OpenWorld Conference was Oracle's announcement that it will "support" Red Hat Linux. Just in case you missed this bombshell, the new "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" will be almost exactly like the open source operating system (OS) distributed by Red Hat. The main differences are that Oracle will strip the Red Hat trademarks from the software and Oracle will offer support services for about half of what Red Hat charges. Oracle also says it will support older versions of the OS.
There's been a lot of talk lately about Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. There's been even more talk around why the heck there's so much talk -- as both terms have achieved overhyped buzzword status. But underneath all the hype there is some fundamental value.
Although text-mining technology has been available for years, its use has been relegated mainly to government agencies (e.g., intelligence services) and companies whose business largely has to do with handling or processing textual information (e.g., news organizations, wire services). The major roadblock standing in the way of more mainstream business use of text mining technology has been the high degree of expertise and specialized skills required to build and use applications.
In my previous Advisor (see "Doing SOA Right Today, Part 1: Making Sure We're on the Right Track" 27 September 2006), I urged all fellow practitioners in the field not to embark upon SOA initiatives just because everyone else you know is pursuing the transformation of their existing business applications to Web ser
Oracle Corporation announced it bought data integration vendor Sunopis SA for an undisclosed amount. But Oracle already has a pretty good data integration toolset: Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB). So why is Oracle buying Sunopsis?
Imagine a perfect world where everything works just fine -- all goes as planned and nothing goes off track. For a CIO attempting to deliver business solutions in today's IT world, there is no such thing as a perfect world. Most CIOs and other practitioners involved in making business decisions willingly agree on one thing: change is the only constant fact in their world.
Let's anticipate where we'll all be in 10 years and then try to figure out how to get there. As more technology becomes commoditized and continues to deliver reliable, secure, and "always on" services, the role it plays in the early 21st century will continue to change dramatically. Twenty years ago, we said it was all going to be about the data; 20 years from now, it's all going to be about information, knowledge, and the intelligence they enable.