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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Our Senior Consultants consider your business needs as well as your infrastructure requirements, and help you prioritize them based on criticality and potential return on investment (ROI). We'll help you develop a governance structure for your business intelligence initiative that includes prioritization, funding of projects, and resolution of conflict -- and we'll guide you through the necessary steps to develop an implementation strategy.
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Our Senior Consultants help you determine where and how to target your knowledge management efforts, and help you outline a program to measure those efforts.
You may have missed the 30 November announcement about service component architecture (SCA) or perhaps you've read all the press releases but you're still trying to figure out what it is and whether or not you should care. Since I've been noodling on this for awhile, I hope I can shed some light on the subject.
Several leading software vendors -- including BEA, IBM, IONA, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Sybase, and Xcalia -- have worked together to make implementing SOA easier (on Java at least). To quote from the press release:
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Sustainable Software Development: Business Issues
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I recently reviewed Kevin Tate's Sustainable Software Development: An Agile Perspective (Addison-Wesley, 2006) for the Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) newsletter In-the-SPIN. The book contains a roadmap to a software development organization that can produce high-quality, feature-rich software year after year without burning out the programmers or the managers. In my review, I generally praise Tate's emphasis on sustainability as key to success in software development.
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