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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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The importance of data quality for data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) has received considerable attention in the industry. But what are companies actually doing to ensure the quality of their data for data warehousing and BI initiatives?
by Lewis Ward
In the 1950s, as the interstate highway system was being constructed, who could have predicted the rise of suburban shopping malls 20 years later? In the wake of the September 11 attacks, some second- and third-order effects are already coming into focus.
What is the opposite of a Bengal tiger -- a Siberian tiger, an elephant, a gnat, or a puddle of water? None of them, of course. The phrase non-"Bengal tiger" is uninformative, just as is non-elephant, non-gnat, or non-water. Being a non-something doesn't depict anything.
Agile, or lightweight, OO methodologies appear to offer a new approach to building software. They appeared a few years ago as a reaction to the perceived "heaviness" of some of the more "rigorous" OO methodologies existing at that time. While proponents of each extreme are adamant about the rightness of their cause, is it possible that each, in being right, is only right in certain specialized conditions?
Is There Still a Case for Distributed Software Development?
At the dawn of the 21st century, software development is an international activity. It is not uncommon to find parts of development organizations dispersed in distant locations. The world of software is indeed shrinking, and the global village is becoming more and more a reality.
Is There Still a Case for Distributed Software Development?
Software development is an international activity with parts of development organizations dispersed in distant locations. But after the events of September 11, many wonder whether this trend will continue. Will changes in global relationships and travel behavior affect the way software is being developed?
