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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BACKGROUND

In the past few decades, information technology has become increasingly important to enterprises of every size around the world. IT has literally changed the way the world works. And in the 21st century, not only must organizations continue to reengineer their businesses, they have to do so at breakneck speed.

Executive Summary

Agile Requirements

The "agile software movement" has reached a point where more and more organizations around the world are beginning to use, or at least experiment with, many of the major ideas involved in agile development.

"Getting more from less" is an oft-repeated cliche, especially in hard economic times. As most IT professionals can attest, pressure on IT costs is stronger than ever, yet executives still expect higher performance. These pressures go beyond wringing more performance from IT staff, extending to the projects and assets managed by the IT organization.

In tough economic times, "getting more from less" is a common refrain. For IT organizations, the pressure on costs is enormous, yet high performance is still expected. After wringing performance gains from IT staff, IT managers are seeking to increase business value by actively managing their application and project portfolios.

A BRIEF OVERVIEW

During the past two to three years, both the IT and business communities have been seriously discussing the possibility that Web services may become the next big thing.

Although corporate America is still reeling from the excessive IT spending of the late 1990s, numerous disparate, standalone systems still abound in many organizations as a painful reminder to the myopic and reactive approach to enterprise computing. Many systems acquired (or built) with the intent of addressing only one business problem are now strong candidates for abandonment.