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
The importance of data quality for data warehousing and BI has received considerable attention in the industry. But what are companies actually doing to ensure the quality of their data for their data warehousing and BI initiatives? That is the question we sought to answer.
Many of the traditional reasons for considering outsourcing are still driving today's sourcing decisions.
In this edition, we check in on the status of enterprise systems and infrastructure transformation. As usual, we've got lots of good survey data to help you assess where you are similar and where you are different from others engaged in IT transformation.
Executive Report
Making Enterprise Integration Real
Editor's note: This Executive Report is the second in a two-part series on enterprise integration (EI). The first, "Enterprise Integration: Business's New Frontier" (see Distributed Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, Vol. 4, No. 12), covers the rationale and architecture for enterprise integration.
Executive Update
Web Services Paradigm
A Web service is a programmable entity that provides a particular element of functionality, such as application logic, and is accessible to any number of potentially disparate systems through the use of Internet standards, such as XML and HTTP.
As the next revolutionary advancement of the Internet, Web services will become the fundamental structure that links together all computing devices.