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
This Executive Report provides practical advice on how to prepare your organization to take advantage of future changes in software. The software industry has been and will continue to be buffeted by fads and hyped information in addition to truly transformative technology.
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.
The accompanying Executive Report provides practical advice on how to prepare your organization to take advantage of future changes in software. The software industry has been and will continue to be buffeted by fads and hyped information in addition to transformative technology.
If there is one group of people within your IT department that truly deserves respect, it is the one that performs the job of legacy data integration. Legacy data integration is a critical component of your enterprise application integration (EAI) efforts -- one that your organization must master if it is to succeed.
Every large company has hundreds of applications that were developed to solve one problem and are being used today for vastly different purposes. There's the accounting system that was designed to update customer accounts and generate statements that's now being used to provide online customers with information about their account balances.
Executive Update
"Requirements Always Change" ... Or Do They?
It has become fashionable to design and develop business systems by starting in the middle, with the latest technological or e-commerce fads, which, supposedly, can solve most business problems.
Executive Update
The COBOL Legacy
Business intelligence (BI) decision-support initiatives are expensive cross-organizational endeavors. These initiatives involve extracting and merging disparate business data from online transaction processing systems, from batch systems, and from externally syndicated data sources.