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 year 2003 is shaping up to be the one in which companies will decide whether to embrace open source software or fail to adopt it and allow Microsoft to extend its control of desktop deep into the enterprise.
Sitting here reading a news item that reports that Oracle and SAP plan to release new analytic capabilities for their respective enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications (Oracle Financials and SAP R/3), the first question that comes to my mind is: Where have they been?
I read an interesting interview with Brian Arthur, a Santa Fe Institute theorist who studies technology revolutions. He argues that we had a big bash in the late 1990s and are now in the doldrums. But he also says he expects that 2003 is the year we start a new expansion.
Cutter launched its Enterprise Architecture Advisory Service in 1999. It seems appropriate to begin the new year with a brief survey of where this field has come in the last four years.