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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Volume XI, No. 3; March 2001
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Executive Summary
Executive Report
Peer-to-Peer Computing in E-Business
Napster, a free application that enables users to trade music with each other at no cost, is the poster child for an evolution of distributed computing architectures, the peer-to-peer architecture. (The recording industry would likely prefer the verb "pirate" to the word "trade" above.) People typically view Napster in one of the following ways:
Executive Summary
Peer-to-Peer Computing in E-Business
The Internet is the core technology that drives today's e-business processes. On that foundation sits the Web, one of the most disruptive technologies in the history of business computing. Not more than five or six years ago, businesses looked at the Web with fear and mistrust; after all, it was a technology that connected individuals directly to institutions at any time of the day from any place on earth.
Recently, a well-known methodologist asked me what books or courses I would recommend to those just getting started in component-based development. This shocked me a bit. I've been writing about component development for so long that I tend to think everyone must already know about components. I must realize, of course, that most of my readers are managers or developers working on cutting-edge projects.
Executive Update
Taking Software Methodologies to the Next Level
The process of creating software has come a long way since the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) was established at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. SEI was sponsored by the US Department of Defense and given the charter of advancing the practice of software engineering from an ad hoc, labor-intensive activity to a well-managed discipline that is supported by technology.
Supply Chain Management and the Supply Chain Environment
A company's supply chain consists of the processes and supporting systems that combine to bring a product or service to market (see Figure 1).
Ascential Software is the new name for Informix Business Solutions. In September 2000, Informix split into two companies: Informix Corporation and Informix Business Solutions. In January 2001, Informix Business Solutions became a software company independent of Informix and was renamed Ascential Software.
Manufacturing companies are now applying data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) techniques to their supply chain operations. The first article in this issue examines this new field, called supply chain intelligence (SCI), which holds great promise for optimizing supply chain operations. SCI involves more than just performing analysis on an ad hoc basis.