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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So, Let's Get on with It
"It takes longer to turn a good idea into good software than it should," Eric Lander claimed in an interview with Computerworld (4 January 1999). Lander is a pure mathematician who has been working on the Human Genome Project for many years. We all have our troubles getting the software we use to work smoothly. Lander's work is undoubtedly far more difficult than what most of us encounter.
As every software architect knows, it's dangerous to write off any computer technology. A new technology comes along and it seems certain that older technologies will die. Then, the older technology takes a new twist, and there it is again -- the latest "New Thing" that everyone is talking about.
Despite the sagging NASDAQ, things at a lot of dot-coms I have visited recently seem to humming happily, frantically along. There are countless meetings, never enough conference rooms, hurried conferences on the way to those meetings, and the really frantic are zipping by on those ubiquitous, obnoxious little scooters.
The drawn-out disputes in Florida about the US presidential election have come to a close. Don't worry, this article is not a commentary on US democracy, nor a recommendation for electronic voting. Cutter Consortium Technology Council Fellow Ed Yourdon has already discussed that, asking, "Will election chaos lead to technology-based voting changes? ...
The business intelligence (BI) market is developing so rapidly that organizations are presented with a large number of products and implementation choices ranging from packaged data warehouses, analytical applications, and corporate portals to active data warehousing and real-time BI.