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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It seems as though you can hardly open a business or IT magazine without running across a vendor or company hyping customer relationship management (CRM). Unfortunately, opinions vary considerably concerning the real value of undertaking CRM initiatives. Opinions swing just as wildly as to what goals or trends are driving corporate CRM initiatives and what benefits organizations are hoping to gain from them. Moreover, depending on whom you talk to, companies are either enamored with their CRM initiatives or extremely disillusioned due to high failure rates.
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Effective Decisionmaking on Software Projects
For a software development or maintenance manager, a typical day involves making a seemingly endless string of decisions. But what is a good decision? One that:
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The Agile Alliance Revolution
A small group of dedicated software engineers met in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in February to discuss revolution. They had spent the past five years living with the people, eating their food, and wearing their clothes. They had become one with the people. And now, they were gathering to share their experiences and discuss the overthrow of the tyranny that had so damaged their profession and their people.
"Change, that is the only thing in the world that is unchanging," or so wrote Heraclitus some 2,500 years ago. The subject of this and an upcoming Executive Update is the changing world of project management and the coping strategies being used by organizations, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's ongoing surveys.
"Things do not change; we change." Henry David Thoreau's words are our guideposts for this Executive Update, in which we complete our look at the changing world of project management and the coping strategies being used by organizations, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's ongoing surveys.
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Software Development
Assertion 48The use of third-party components places an unexpected and potentially severe limitation on the reliability of software products.
Volume XI, No. 5; May 2001
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Designing Scalable Enterprise JavaBeans Applications
The biggest challenge faced by many organizations conducting business on the Web is maintaining a successful Web site. Successful Web sites attract large volumes of hits, and large volumes of hits stress the software that runs the site. It's not uncommon for sites to be accessed millions of times a day.