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
In June 2003, I commented on the attempt by Oracle Corporation to buy PeopleSoft, which, at the time, was in the midst of buying J.D. Edwards (yes, this soap opera has been going on that long!) (see " An Enterprise Soap Opera," 17 June 2003).
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An Agile Plan
As an analyst, I'm frequently frustrated with large IT companies that seem to have lots of interesting initiatives underway, but somehow never manage to coordinate them. At various times, as I've considered different markets, from artificial intelligence to components, I've railed at IBM, HP, SAP, Microsoft, DEC, and SUN.