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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Companies are turning to Web services to help them extend their data warehouses to key suppliers and other supply chain partners via BI extranets. This is just one finding from a recent Cutter Consortium survey that asked companies about their data warehousing and BI practices.
I'll assume that we're all cured: that we're no longer susceptible to fads or hype; that we've matured after the dot-com crash; that we know how to spot a serious technology trend. That said, let's talk about Web services.
Everyone is aware that the past two years haven't been the best of times for companies or IT vendors. The economy has been in recession, and is only slowly starting to recover. Most companies have cut back spending, laid people off, and hunkered down to wait for better times.
One of the many questions Cutter Consortium seeks to answer with our frequent surveys we conduct is the extent to which organizations are applying various technologies to support their data warehousing and BI initiatives. A question that has peaked my interest lately is the percentage of companies that are currently using broadcast servers for automated alerting and event broadcasting.
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Frankenstein at Work
There have been times in my career as an IT manager when I felt my primary role was to motivate people. I wanted to bring out the best in them because people are the fundamental resource in IT. Their imagination and energy make everything work. Sometimes my attempts at motivating people seemed to work well, and sometimes it was a disaster.