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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The latest announcement by open source reporting tools vendor JasperSoft that it has a new business intelligence (BI) server designed to make it easier for corporate and commercial software developers to build reporting environments got me thinking the other day about the extent to which organizations are actually embracing open source BI tools.
A large part of the IT community today seems to be busy applying the principles of service orientation in software product development efforts. What started as a specific programming technique and architectural principle later evolved into a philosophy of taming the complexity of enterprise IT by turning it into a heap of interchangeable, standardized "software LEGO bricks" and finally has become a fashionable concept used in IT marketing.
In the midst of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) hype, there is a critical need to navigate corporate IT between the threats of overpromise and underdelivery.
More than anything else, Windows stands or falls by its graphical user interface (GUI) -- which, with the advent of animation, video, audio, and other refinements, is rapidly turning into a multimedia user interface. That is why, ever since Windows 1.0, Microsoft has made the quality of the "user experience" a high priority.
An understanding of the basic concepts of business rules and how a rule-based system (RBS) works is becoming essential knowledge as the impact of RBSs on our daily lives is continuously increasing.
Grasping the basic concepts of business rules and how a rule-based system (RBS) works offers benefits for every citizen of the information society, as the impact of RBSs on our daily lives is becoming greater by the day.
A content management implementation is similar to a normal Web application development project with one significant difference -- the need for content. With Web applications or traditional software development, there is little content -- it is usually about data that already exists or will be entered by the users of the application.
In the first installment of "Securing Cyberspace," we asked, "Is it time to rethink our strategy?" The answer was a resounding "yes." In next month's issue, our authors discuss a bevy of innovative ways we can protect our cyber infrastructure, from managing cyber risk through cyber insurance to reengineering the base protocols of TCP/IP.