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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Have you ever encountered a project failure? Project management research suggests that many projects would qualify as failures. Most statistics clearly imply that things are not getting any better and failures are commonplace.
IBM announced it's buying Alphablox Corporation for an undisclosed amount. Alphablox's namesake product is a component-based Java application development environment (ADE) that is particularly useful for developing and embedding analytic functionality within other software applications.
I remember when "platform" meant hardware, and later "hardware and an operating system." Today, the term is used in a variety of ways, but it always seems to suggest the platform on which key applications will sit or the environment the applications will depend on as they are executed.
