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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Executive Report
Pragmatic Programming
"Science Finds -- Industry Applies -- Man Conforms"
-- Motto of the Chicago World's Fair, 1933
Executive Summary
Pragmatic Programming
You're probably reading this summary and the accompanying Executive Report because you want to improve software development in your organization.
Variation in your environment -- whether furniture, heating, air-conditioning, transportation, or your technology infrastructure -- is expensive. But while there are great savings embedded in standardized environments, the whole is fraught with emotion.
Everything you buy, you have to support -- or hire someone else to support. That's the problem with buying and deploying lots of stuff: it all needs attention. To make your support dollars effective, there are a number of things that you need to know.
Executive Summary
This Executive Report discusses the challenges that legacy applications and data structures place on organizations attempting to meet a wide variety of business requirements along with options for addressing these challenges. Leveraging legacy applications to meet time-critical business requirements is not a luxury in today's competitive business environment -- it is a necessity.
If your organization is making a significant investment in enterprise application integration (EAI) technology, you are not alone. Estimates state that the EAI technology market is pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars annually with service revenues dwarfing technology revenue estimates by a factor of 10-to-1. Integration is in demand in the private and public sector.
"A fundamental problem in our industry is that software projects are chronically overconstrained and underspecified," said Cutter Senior Consultant Ken Orr. This statement underscored a lively debate during the Modern Project Management panel discussion at the recent Summit 2002 conference.