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
Late last year, I wrote an article about ensuring appropriate business cases exist for projects (" Benefits: Not As Intangible As You Think!", Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, 22 November 2000).
One of the interesting presentations at the Object Management Group's (OMG) E-Business Application Integration (EAI) workshop in Orlando, Florida, USA, in January was given by Colonel Lawrence Sweeney, US Air Force. Sweeney is the joint program manager of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Space and Naval Warfare Information Technology Center (SPAWAR ITC) project.
Executive Summary
This issue continues discussions started in January on organizational learning and defect inspections, specifically focusing on organizational issues and how to deal with emotions and tensions in a high-pressure IT environment. The word metrics implies an objective, sterile view of our working world. The notion of benchmarks seems safe -- after all, they're simply charts and graphs that tell us the state of our IT programs.
In Part 1 of this article, I described defect metrics and the behavior patterns that have become evident through scientific research on software projects (see CBR, January 2001). Metrics on defect-find rates throughout a project's lifecycle (from the early design phases to deployment) show a buildup to a maximum peak, followed by a gradual decline characterized by a long tail.
In last month's BIA, I said that we are now witnessing the application of advanced technologies for enhancing the search-and-retrieval capabilities of BI applications. In this vein, nQuire Software, Inc. has added an English language search capability to its nQuire Suite search, analysis, and content aggregation tool.