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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Cutter Consortium continues to survey companies to ascertain data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) implementation trends. In a recent survey, we asked 130 companies a variety of questions pertaining to data quality in the data warehouse environment.

There are now around 200 million online users of the Internet, with an estimated growth of 70,000 new users each day. During the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, IBM claimed that www.olympics.com, which it maintained, received more than 11 billion hits.

Microsoft has published a blueprint for the next generation of computing services, the ".NET" strategy. Although mainframes are not well represented in the blueprint documents, the architecture is ideal for bringing legacy mainframe applications forward into this next generation of computing alongside distributed platforms.

The Internet has inserted information into the heart of the organization and transformed the role of the CIO, giving that individual an unparalleled opportunity to influence the efficiency, costs, and profitability of the business.

Better, faster, cheaper -- the siren song of software development. Each new era of information technology belts out a chorus or two, and the e-business era is no exception. In the e-business version, faster is the lead singer, and better and cheaper sing harmony. Time to market, first-mover advantage, Internet time, getting Amazoned -- these phrases and others pepper discussions of e-business. Speed is everything.

Executive Summary

Microsoft has put considerable resources into turning its vision of component technology into a reality over the past decade, adopting component-based interfaces across all of its products and introducing tools that make it easier to build and use components.

Better, faster, cheaper -- the siren song of software development. Each new era of information technology belts out a chorus or two. The e-business era is no exception. In the e-business version, faster is the lead singer, and better and cheaper sing harmony. Time to market, first-mover advantage, Internet time, getting Amazoned -- these and other phrases pepper discussions of e-business.