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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Caught in the frenetic rise of the dot-com phenomenon and following hot on the heels of Y2K, IT departments find themselves drowning in a sea of spaghetti logic and a Gordian knot of networked applications and legacy systems. As if that were not enough, the stock market deflation and the loss of business due to the tragic events of 9/11 have further shrunk much-needed IT budgets.
Caught in the frenetic rise of the dot-com phenomenon and following hot on the heels of Y2K, IT departments find themselves drowning in a sea of spaghetti logic and a Gordian knot of networked applications and legacy systems. The design of these IT applications has been tactical and not strategic. Few, if any, applications were designed in anticipation of the business processes they serve.
Enterprise architecture means very different things to different people. Some think of it as one thing, while others view it as a set of different architectures or perspectives. In recent years, the Zachman framework has become an increasingly popular way of defining the breadth and scope of an enterprise architecture.
Is there a single action that could virtually guarantee improvement of software estimation? Well, you might say, if you knew of one, you would have implemented it already. But what if the answer were making software projects smaller and simpler? Undoubtedly, estimating a small project is easier than estimating a large one.
Personalization is often considered a tool for customizing Web sites. But, as you will see, the techniques of personalization go far beyond Web sites. It is not too far-fetched to suggest that within a relatively brief period of time -- perhaps as little as a decade -- all human/computer interactions will be intensely personalized.
Personalization is often considered a tool for customizing Web sites, but it is important to understand that the techniques of personalization go far beyond Web sites. It is not too far-fetched to suggest that within a relatively brief period of time -- perhaps as little as a decade -- all human/computer interactions will be intensely personalized.
