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
Here in Part II of this series, I continue my discussion of the survey findings by focusing on corporate application trends (see page 2 for survey objectives and methods). Specifically, I consider the following questions:
Here I continue my discussion of the survey findings by examining the success of respondents' portal efforts as well as the benefits applications provide (see page 2 for survey objectives and methods). Specifically, I consider the following trends and issues:
Here in Part IV, I conclude the discussion by examining the survey findings on corporate use of commercial portal software products for building EIPs (see page 2 for survey objectives and methods). Specifically, I consider the following trends and issues:
Do you know that, like many other companies, yours is slowly but surely being sucked into using portal technology? If you are a committed CIO, CTO, or senior IT executive who is fully engaged in reaping the benefits of portals, you may think you know how to make prudent use of "portal power." If you are unsure whether your enterprise is fully utilizing that power, then you are in trouble. But in either case, today's economic climate makes it essential for companies to use the power of portals to build collaborative environments while delivering business value and support to customers.
Over the past decade, pretty much anyone who has used the Internet has also used portals. Portals have become familiar; we know what they are, what they do, and how to use them. But as corporate IT applications, they have suffered from an identity crisis. It's not the fault of the portals or of portal vendors. The problem lies with us -- the current and prospective users of corporate portals -- and it boils down to this: we don't know what we want portals to be.
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Bridging the BI Disconnect Between Corporate IT and Business
