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
You've read all the articles, attended all the conferences, and now you're charged up to start your own data warehousing/business intelligence (BI) project and attain that 401% return on investment (ROI) that you've heard everyone talking about. You've gone to the chief financial officer or the vice president of marketing and gained the funding for your enterprise data warehouse. Congratulations!
After countless hours of research, reading articles, and attending conferences, you are ready to tackle a data warehousing/business intelligence (BI) project and finally see the 401% return on investment everyone else seems to be getting. You get the funding, only to realize the real work lay ahead of you -- purchasing software, hardware, and middleware.
Rework is the single most costly activity in software projects. It consists of finding and fixing defects that were introduced earlier in the project.1 Given the labor-intensive nature of software development, defects are unavoidable.
A large proportion of software project cost is spent on rework. Rework is the effort expended on finding and fixing defects that were introduced earlier. A defect is introduced because of a misunderstood customer need or a programmer who made a mistake.
In this Executive Update, we continue our look at the issues involved in the agile versus heavy methodology fray, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's ongoing surveys.
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Assertion 78Within the next decade, XML will have a major impact on the way that application systems are put together (interfaced) and will revolutionize the interconnection between businesses and individuals as well.
Phil Knight -- of Nike's oft quoted public utterance, "This is what I get for $400 million?" -- has become the poster child for highlighting the difficulty of implementing supply chain technologies.