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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Do you trust the Internet enough to send your life's savings to your business partner electronically? How much would you be willing to risk? Are you sure whom you are communicating with at the other end of the line? These are the questions one must answer for electronic commerce to flourish.
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming paradigm that explicitly promotes separation of concerns. In the context of security, this would mean that the main program should not need to encode security information; instead, it should be moved into a separate, independent piece of code.
On-time delivery 99.5% of the time would be wonderful -- right? Improved morale would lead to better staff retention and higher productivity -- right?
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
-- Conrad Brean
(played by Robert De Niro in the 1997 movie Wag The Dog)
Last summer, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Paul Harmon posed the question, "Is it too early to start talking about 'Intelligent E-Business Applications?'" in his Distributed Computing Architecture/e-Business E-Mail Advisor, " Artificial Intelligence Lives" (2 August 2000).
There are three major forces driving the need for a new paradigm of project management.
The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time. Its roots are in the world of mathematics, yet AI also has a long history in the field of computer science. AI (the artificial creation of all aspects of life) has been seen as a daring concept but, in reality, AI is used routinely today by more people than ever before.