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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Last week's service interruption at on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) provider Salesforce.com illustrates the risk that companies assume when they choose to outsource their CRM applications; that hosted applications have all the downtime and security risks of remotely located and managed systems.


The service component architecture (SCA) is a new specification created by a group of enterprise software vendors that includes IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle, SAP AG, Siebel Systems, Sybase, and Iona Technologies. Although still under development, SCA holds the promise of simplifying application development within the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model.


In recent years, a number of seminal books have helped to define the software security field [1, 2, 8]. The approach to "building security in" introduced in these books has been enhanced and expanded by practitioners and published in various technical articles, including the "Building Security In" series in IEEE Security & Privacy.

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