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
If you're like me, you have the best of intentions around the new year but somehow never get around to coming up with meaningful resolutions. As a special service to Enterprise Architecture Advisor readers, we're providing a list of ready-made resolutions that you can adopt for 2006 or beyond.
Enterprise reporting tools vendor Actuate Corporation has acquired business performance management vendor Performancesoft, Inc. for an initial US $16.5 million. Actuate will also pay -- in 2007 -- an additional contingent cash payment of up to $13.5 million based on achievement of certain revenue and operating margin targets for 2006.
The past five years have seen a significant trend toward the corporate outsourcing and offshoring of both business operations and specific workforce skills. Now more than ever, companies are viewing these as viable options for improving cost containment, productivity, quality of service, ROI, and so on. As IT organizations consider outsourcing, hosting, and ASP models to manage mainline programs and projects, there is discussion about whether or not to outsource business intelligence (BI) programs as well.
Executive Update
Type B Scrum: Advancing the State of the Art
