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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DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE STANDARDIZATION EFFORTS
Data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) are no longer just about building a central repository where a company's data, sourced from multiple databases, is maintained in a static manner and analyzed on a "need be" basis.
BIZWORKS: ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION MEETS ENTERPRISE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Implemented on an enterprise scale, e-business requires integrating Internet applications with not only your core operational systems -- enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, customer relationship management (CRM), data warehouse, etc.
A number of organizations with high software capability are finding it possible to increase their capability even further by successfully exploiting the concept of software product lines. A software product line is a group of software products that, in relation to their given market or mission and their implementation, have a set of common features and well-understood variations.
RESEARCHERS APPLY DATA MINING TO PREDICT INTERNET TRAFFIC
Researchers at the Statistics and Data Mining Research department at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies and MCNC's Next-Generation Internet (NGI) Research project (which develops technologies that enable networks to scale dramatically to accommodate extreme ranges of user demand) are
The term "server" has become a seriously overused word. There are hardware platforms called servers and there are operating systems called servers (e.g., Windows 2000 Server). At the same time that Microsoft has called one of its 2000 systems a server, it has included a variety of utilities inside Windows that it also calls servers (e.g., Microsoft Transaction Server [MTS], Microsoft Message Server).
Volume IV, No. 11; November 2000
In the September and October 2000 BIAs, I covered a number of products useful for conducting business intelligence (BI) for personalizing online operations. Recently, I had the chance to examine the BI enhancements Oracle is making to the next version of its flagship database and application server platform -- Oracle 9i.