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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Packaged analytic applications have generated considerable corporate interest for the past few years, because they offer an integrated approach to data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). Their appeal is that instead of starting a data warehousing or BI application from scratch, organizations can purchase a semi-built application and customize it.
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Agile Metrics
Many people believe that metrics is a barrier that Agile has to solve before it will be widely adopted. Yet many teams using Agile processes collect metrics; XP is fanatic in its collection of and management to velocity. Individual organizations have devised numerous metrics to satisfy themselves and their management that they are under control.
I got into a discussion of component systems the other day, and afterwards reflected on how the conversation had been "so 1990s." In the mid-1990s, people debated EJB and COM components. Today, the focus is on service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and the latest XML standards.