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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Everyone knows that Microsoft is interested in Web services. It is in the process of rolling out a completely new component model, collectively known as .NET, to support XML, SOAP, and all the associated technologies.
THE THREE-SENTENCE PROJECT MISSION STATEMENT: ARE WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE? 18 July 2002 by Doug DeCarlo
A one-page project mission statement is way too long, I've found. Here are some reasons:
THE MIDDLEWARE SCENE 17 July 2002 by Paul Harmon
I was trying to explain the changing middleware scene to a friend recently and realized just how complex it is. Let's see if I can do it for you.
The arrival of Web services has been heralded with great fanfare, and the noise -- as usual -- has drowned out the real message. The publish/subscribe metaphor, where one publishes a service -- such as a well-defined business process -- and others subscribe to that service, offers a new take on process integration and automation.
Last week I discussed the growing importance of content management for some industries (" Content Management and XML," 3 July 2002). In essence, content management involves breaking documents into their constituent elements and storing each element so that it can be maintained and reused independent of the document for which is was originally created.