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 Role of Program Management for BI
Database Refactoring: Improving Data Quality After the Fact
One of the wise decisions the Object Management Group (OMG) made when it standardized on UML in the late 1990s was to focus only on notation and to ignore specific methodological issues. That kept UML independent of any specific methodology, and it provided time for methodologies to evolve.
Visual Data Mining
Connecting CORBA to the Web
Over the years, many large companies have used the Object Management Group's (OMG) CORBA middleware to link large enterprise applications. The leading vendor of CORBA -- IONA -- for example, claims it has more than 4,500 customers that rely on CORBA solutions. In many cases these are the same applications that companies are now considering integrating via the Internet to create Web services.
Real-Time Data Warehousing
There's been a lot of talk at data warehousing conferences and in the press (and by the extraction, transformation, and loading [ETL] tool vendors) about the need to update and refresh data warehouses in real time. In practice, however, few organizations are currently conducting real-time (or near real-time) data warehouse updates and refreshments.
Architectures and Tools
This week I want to talk about a problem I'm interested in and invite you to suggest options or products I haven't considered.

