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
Having discussed a great deal of theory and a slew of products in the past few issues, I wanted to provide some examples of how organizations are applying data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). The following application studies were chosen because of the unique manner and/or domains in which BI is being applied.
In the March issue of BIA, I examined the concept of supply chain intelligence (SCI) and the requirements for applying business intelligence (BI) across an organization's supply chain operations.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-- Albert Einstein
It's one thing to talk about being customer focused, it's quite another to actually do it.
During life's more rational moments, no software development executive will ever deny that customer satisfaction is an important goal to achieve. The question is, in the midst of quickly evolving technologies, escalating customer expectations, and increasing competitive pressures, how do you achieve it?
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, we IT professionals built systems that lasted for years and years -- sometimes even decades -- before they finally collapsed from old age and got swept into the binary dustbin.
I've received several requests recently for revised market forecasts, and I notice that one of the well-known analyst firms is in the process of preparing one on the e-commerce market. I've been in this business long enough to understand how important such forecasts are to venture capitalists, marketing people making projections, and to a lot of others trying to figure out the market.