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
One area that many EA programs struggle with is demonstrating the value that they bring to an enterprise. A useful way to address this challenge is to think of EA as a service organization; i.e., as providing a service to the enterprise and, in particular, to specific user groups (customers) within the enterprise. To start with this approach, we first identify who the customers are and what service is provided to them.
NCR's Teradata data warehousing division has acquired packaged financial performance data warehouse vendor DecisionPoint Software for an undisclosed amount. Teradata plans to integrate DecisionPoint's data warehousing and financial performance management (FPM) technology with the Teradata enterprise data warehouse offering.
Web services are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment, including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to the community of users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single Web service is essential and provides better benefits to users.
SAP AG has acquired enterprise information integration (EII) vendor Callixa for an undisclosed amount. SAP plans to use Callixa software to supplement the data integration capabilities of its enterprise software offerings.