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
At first blush, agile methodology projects seem better than heavy methodology projects at meeting their schedule, cost, and quality targets. Projects using agile approaches reported better schedule and cost performance indices and were perceived to be equal to, if not slightly better in quality than, projects using heavy methodology.
Executive Report
Enterprise Integration: Business' New Frontier
Editor's note: This Executive Report is the first of a two-part series on enterprise integration. The second installment, "Making Enterprise Integration Real," will be published in the first quarter of 2002.
Executive Update
The Changing Legacy Integration Landscape
The past year was tumultuous in so many different respects, IT being just one of them. One of the conclusions we can draw about this year is that change happens fast, often faster than we can react. I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect on the technology trends I've observed in the past 12 months. One of these technologies -- enterprise application integration (EAI) -- is of great interest to me.
Executive Report
Business Rules
Within any industry, companies are guided by the same business directives as well as by the same laws and regulations. Therefore, at any company, the business processes that guide both tactical and strategic operations are expected to be invoked in well-understood business scenarios.
Executive Summary
Business Rules
Within any industry, companies are guided by the same business directives as well as by the same laws and regulations. Therefore, at any company, the business processes that guide both tactical and strategic operations are expected to be invoked in well-understood business scenarios. However, despite operating under the same regulations, companies have wildly varying degrees of success.