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 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.
Whether a software organization succeeds or fails at changing its culture depends largely on leadership and the successful institutionalization of desired practices. Cultures capable of sustaining change and high performance respect, value, and support their people throughout the change.
As the aftershocks of the September 11 events continue to reverberate, many companies are hunkering down, tightening their belts, and cutting the budgets of projects that will not directly contribute to fourth-quarter profits.
On 14 November, IBM announced its support for the Object Management Group's (OMG) new Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and indicated that it would be including MDA in an upcoming release of WebSphere. This is a major boost for the OMG's MDA approach.
This seems to be the year for disasters. In the last three months, in addition to the September 11 disaster, I've seem three very large IT projects cancelled after the expenditure of considerable sums of money. One was in excess of US $50 million -- an ambitious Web project whose managers did not think it necessary to include performance modeling in the design.