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
No doubt about it, you've got to hand it to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: the most important event to take place concerning the enterprise software market since Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft is Oracle's new move to buy Siebel Systems for US $5.9 billion. Siebel is the CRM market leader. Thus, with this single acquisition, Oracle becomes the number-one CRM vendor.
Pitney Bowes is acquiring data quality tools vendor FirstLogic for approximately US $50.3 million. Pitney Bowes plans to integrate FirstLogic's specialized data cleansing and enhancement technology with its own data quality, enterprise mail, and document management systems, thus further solidifying its position as a major player in the market for such products and services.
Executive Update
Enterprise Architecture Governance: Keeping It Simple
In 1972, Oliver Wight wrote the book The Executive's New Computer: Six Keys to Systems Success. It is literally dedicated to the proposition that "systems are tools for the manager, not toys for the technician ... and it is about time we dispensed with all the pious nonsense about computer systems and got down to business" [2].
