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
I.S. ARCHITECTURE MANAGEMENT: E-BUSINESS SURVIVAL SKILL
In the era of "Internet speed," one can feel deep disregard for formal frameworks in software development. This disregard stems from a lack of evidence that complicated mental models such as defined software processes, formal project management methodologies, and so on actually add value to our practice.
ITMS subscriber surveys tell us what you're looking for to help you with your job. Requests for case studies top the list, so I've included two in this issue.
Both of my guest authors this month, Jim Mayes and Jim Heires, provide real-world situations that discuss how to create support from top to bottom for software processes and metrics, as well as how to read metrics data to get an "x-ray view" of what's really going on within an organization.
GETTING PERSONAL (PART I)
The pervasiveness of the Internet in today's society means that the first interaction most companies have with a potential customer is via the company Web site.
Domain
Software Development
KALIDO: AN INNOVATIVE PACKAGED DATA WAREHOUSE
In the May 2000 BIA, I covered the market for business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse products, including packaged data warehouse applications. In this issue, I will discuss a recent addition to the packaged data warehouse space.
W3C PRIVACY PREFERENCES PROJECT UPDATE
In the July issue of BIA, I presented my views on the implications of data privacy. I also described the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) technology currently under development.
TRIPEZE.COM: PERSONALIZATION APPLIED SENSIBLY
Over the past 12 months, the online industry has taken some pretty heavy flak and negative coverage from the press.