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 Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Committee met in Orlando, Florida, USA, in the last week in March and completed most of UML 2.0.
Several readers have written lately asking me to comment on the use of "virtual databases." Consequently, I've decided to make it the focus of this week's Advisor. First, I will examine virtual database technology in general and then move on to discuss its role regarding data warehousing and BI.
So much gibberish is being generated about the "real-time enterprise" that the IT manager practically needs wings to stay above it. The truth of the matter is that "real-time" information has its limitations, which the war in Iraq illustrates perfectly.