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
5 June 2001 by Roger Sessions CONTENTS
Partnerships. Alliances. Outsourcing. Joint ventures. Today's economic climate requires companies to speed their time to market while lowering costs and increasing the amount of functionality they can deliver. Many seek to achieve this through partnerships, establishing metrics and benchmark frameworks to ensure that performance goals are being met.
In Part 1 of this story (see ITMS, May 2001), readers learned about a process improvement project taking place in a company based in the US Midwest, along with some of the organizational dynamics involved. With the stage set and the cast of characters assembled, the story of the project is ready to be played out.
By any reasonable measure, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a success. Yet it continues to be underestimated, belittled, or completely ignored. Some critics deride the idea of distributed object computing.
One can hardly read a computer magazine these days without encountering at least one article and a half-dozen advertisements touting the use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Executive Report
Enterprise Portals
The term enterprise information portal (EIP) was first used in a Merrill Lynch report dated 16 November 1998. In this report, Merrill Lynch indicated that EIP systems provide companies with great competitive advantage.
Executive Summary
Enterprise Portals
The accompanying Executive Report reviews the concepts, product categories, features, and benefits of enterprise portals -- also called corporate portals or enterprise information portals (we use the term enterprise portal in this report). These three equivalent terms are defined as:
This is the second part of our analysis of Cutter Consortium survey data measuring corporate customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives. The findings in this analysis (as well as the preceding) are based on answers provided by 159 survey participants.