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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I've been involved with a company attempting to straighten out a decision support system it developed to streamline its software sales, marketing, and customer support operations.
Software development is increasingly object-oriented (OO). Java is an OO language. The latest version of Visual Basic and Microsoft's new C# are also OO languages. And components and various component techniques rely on object techniques. Thus, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) application servers are also OO programming environments. The popular press may prefer to dismiss objects and focus on components, but serious software developers know that object technologies, in one guise or another, now dominate software development and architectural designs.
I continue to come across articles and marketing material pushing the idea that maybe companies don't really need to build and maintain data warehouses anymore due to data brokering products such as those from Enterworks or Metagon.
In the early 1990s it was fashionable to talk about object reuse. In recent years it has been more fashionable to talk of component reuse. In either case, there has been a movement from storing and reusing smaller objects and components to the storage and reuse of large modules -- usually called business objects or components.
Forget most of the hype you've read or heard about intelligent robots and artificial intelligence (AI) since the release of Steven Spielberg's movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
There will be a lot written about the fact that the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the decision, made last year by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, to break up Microsoft. Aside from the circuit court being upset with Judge Jackson for talking to the press, in essence telling them how upset he was with Microsoft, the decision focuses on three things:
CONSIDERING PACKAGED DATA WAREHOUSES