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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Accrue Software, Inc. announced its intention to acquire online analytical processing (OLAP) pioneer Pilot Software. This acquisition will result in Accrue adding Pilot's OLAP server and balanced scorecard applications to Accrue's already impressive line of analytical products targeted at business intelligence for e-business and online personalization applications. The terms of the proposed stock-for-stock transaction were not disclosed.
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"Why bother writing patterns that just boil down to advice my grandmother would give me?"
"Because some patterns are so good and useful that even your grandmother knows them. Writing them down makes the context, value, and implications of the advice clearer than your grandmother probably did."
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Using Microsoft Distributed Object Technology
DISTRIBUTED OBJECT TECHNOLOGIES Distributed Computing: The Early Days
The vision of distributed computing has been an attractive one for the computing industry for many years. The original goal was to build computer systems that reflected the distributed nature of real organizations. This was made possible by the advent of relatively low-cost minicomputers that could be located in field offices and warehouses alongside their users.
Destiny is an e-business consulting firm to large financial institutions. Founded in 1994 amidst the early online banking wave and rise of the Internet, Destiny has grown 50% (to 100 people) in the past year. This article is based on Destiny's foray into the world of architect Christopher Alexander's pattern language concepts, applied to our consulting business.
Executive Summary
Using Microsoft Distributed Object Technology
The vision of distributed computing has been an attractive one for the computing industry for many years. The original goal was to build computer systems that reflected the distributed nature of real organizations -- low-cost computers that could be located in field offices and warehouses alongside their users, with improved productivity and reduced costs.