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
Enterprise application integration (EAI) continues to haunt the thinking of those who are tasked with designing large e-business applications.
Some of you have probably heard of Extreme Programming, or XP, as it is usually called. XP is a lightweight software development methodology that advocates (Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, and others) claim is a way of developing high-quality software with low schedule and budget risk.
When a company or department becomes single-mindedly obsessed with time to market, it sometimes acts in risky, self-destructive ways that result in the thing it fears most: blowing the delivery date even more than originally anticipated.
What happens when two organizations go bump in the night? Well, if they are boats, they spring leaks, take on water, miss arrival times, and sometimes sink. If they are a client organization needing software and a software organization providing software, they run into trouble, too. The sad experience in 1995 of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and a software contractor reveals what happens when ignorance -- actually, partial knowledge -- bumps into partial knowledge.
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Sagent Technology has just announced its new enterprise information portal (EIP) -- Sagent Portal. In a nutshell, Sagent Portal combines the company's data mart/analytical platform and Centrus data integration/data enhancement products, with the Sequoia XML Portal Server, which Sagent has licensed from Sequoia Software.
Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss the Sagent Portal with the Sagent folks. Here's an overview of Sagent Portal and why I think it's important.
The emerging electronic economy has created an entirely new focus on the critical importance of managing customer relationships. Competition for customers is increasing in every major industry. New technologies are rapidly changing the realm of what is possible in customer contact, care, and insight. Customer expectations for quality, service, and value are constantly on the rise.