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
The past three years have seen an enormous emphasis on application servers -- whatever they may be. The term is used in overlapping ways:
Last month, we explored the question of how many companies were developing e-business applications. We determined that 17% of the companies Cutter Consortium surveyed already had an e-business infrastructure, while 76% were currently evolving an e-business architecture. We also reported that 92% of the surveyed companies were committed to some kind of e-business development.
Executive Update
Case Study: The Process Side of Java
For many, the process of implementing software is the same today as it was a decade ago. Many new techniques have been devised, but few, if any, have been widely adopted. Organizations still mitigate their risks by engaging strong technical resources at a high price, neglecting the real issue: e-business projects require a strategic focus on implementation techniques.
First, I continue to bang away at the topic of managing risk in my article "Sizing Up Your Promises and Expectations." When we examine IT project overrun statistics, we see that the small percentage of projects that manage to make both cost and schedule do so by the only method known to mankind when the deadline looms like a freight train -- they cut function to the core. I take a look at how people get into that sordid mess in the first place.
GETTING PERSONAL (PART II): PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
There are literally hundreds of products that are being marketed as an easy way to add personalization capabilities to your Web site. In reality, the state of the market for personalization products is extremely confusing. Contrary to what the vendors say, there are no complete solutions available.
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There are five important conferences coming up this fall. Since they are spread out over three different continents, few people will be able to attend all of them. Moreover, they are are specialized in different ways. Still, I thought I'd point them all out, since at least four are annual meetings and will recur next year, elsewhere.
I'm probably widely considered an enthusiastic supporter of Java and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) application servers. I think both hold great potential for the development of important enterprise systems.