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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"Collaboration without process is chaos, and process without automation is unrealistic," says Sky Basu, founder and CEO of speeDEV (http://www.speedev.com), a small (the company was formed in 1994, but released the first product, speeDEV, in 2000) company that has entered the collaborative software tool market.
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The Impacts of Poor Data Quality
As the availability of large amounts of information increases, companies' abilities to exploit that information for business purposes becomes proportional to the level of quality of the data. When bad data items are injected into a system, there are significant impacts, all of which cut into profitability.
This is my last Advisor during the summer vacation season here in California. Next week, most of my readers will be back in the office, thinking about enterprise architecture issues and other weighty business topics. Before summer is over entirely, however, I thought you might like to know about my birthday gift to myself: a Kyocera.
Anyone involved in developing component-based software is probably aware that a growing number of people are advocating "new" software methodologies. In the US, these new methodologies are typically called Extreme Programming (XP -- http://www.extremeprogramming.org).
Oracle recently ran into trouble with some of its packaged application customers when it announced it was planning to discontinue support for version 10.7 of Oracle Applications.