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
Executable UML
I attended an interesting session a few days ago where two vice presidents from Sun and Microsoft "duked" it out over their Web services approaches. It was actually a pretty collegial discussion, and it provided great information on the approaches these two major players are taking. It started me thinking about who will be the likely winner in this Web services "war."
Frameworks and Architectures
Business Processes and CMM
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) was developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the mid-1990s. The book The Capability Maturing Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process , was published in 1995. (It had four editors and nine other contributors.

