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
The consolidation of the business intelligence (BI) market continues with the recent announcement that data warehouse extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools vendor Informatica is buying mainframe data integration software vendor Striva Corporation for approximately US $62 million in a cash-and-stock transaction.
I've been following Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Rob Thomsett's Advisor series, and he's got me thinking.
Everyone likes Scrum. What's not to like? Scrum increases productivity, improves return on investment, delivers useful functionality every month, and helps everyone enjoy working. Yet everyone wants to tinker with it, to improve it, to increase its accuracy, to make it more amenable to his or her culture.
There has been quite a bit of talk in the press recently about a Japanese proposal to create an open source PC operating system for Asia. In essence, the Japanese government has suggested to China, South Korea, and other countries that Japan might be willing to invest about $86 million (1 billion Yen) in a foundation to undertake such an effort.