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
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.
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XML AND DATA: THE WIRELESS CHALLENGE
The wireless Web represents the convergence of two technologies -- the Web, which has radically changed how we do business, interact, and entertain ourselves in cyberspace, and wireless technology, which through the cell phone has added a mobile dimension to e-commerce and enterprise computing.
Conferences, trade journals, and the Internet provide valuable information on vendor products and services. I always find it interesting, however, that many vendors believe their marketing hype is more highly valued than a good reference from a client or customer who has used their product or service. It is not. Customers provide you with the real story.
I've been involved in a dozen discussions in the past two months on the nature of e-business. In some cases, I've talked with non-IS people, and the discussion often revolves around the failure of the dot.coms and what that means about the future of e-business. The other conversations have been with IS folks and those conversations are, in many ways, more interesting to me.