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
I have just finished attending a number of events around the world on software development. Many of these events are organized by tool developers such as Microsoft or IBM. Each vendor is trying to tell us that teams will deliver better software if we use a certain set of tools.
A new concept has entered the BI space: "enterprise decision management" (EDM). EDM refers to the application of rule-based systems -- in conjunction with analytic models -- to automate, improve, and distribute decision-making capabilities across an organization.
Customer demographics and consumer marketing data vendor Acxiom Corporation has expanded its operations into China by acquiring ChinaLOOP -- a Chinese BI, customer relationship management (CRM), and data management firm based in Shanghai, China.