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
Until recently, the purchasing function and supply chain systems were considered corporate backwaters. How things have changed: a feature section on supply chain management strategies made it to the cover of the October issue of CIO magazine. The main thrust of the article is that we have done a wonderful job integrating the enterprise, and now it's time to do the same across the supply chain.
IT applications outsourcing of this sort is becoming increasingly popular as demand for new functionality continues to outpace IT capacity, and companies rush to expand into new markets.
Process productivity limitations, combined with IT staff shortages, are forcing companies to increasingly hire outsiders to build applications for them. The problem is, how do you know if a contractor can deliver what it promises during the courtship (aka proposal) phase?
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Volume IV, No. 10; October 2000
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.