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 Unified Process [11] is the latest endeavor of Rational Corporation, the same people who introduced what has become the industry-standard object modeling notation, the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Executive Update
EAI: Report From the Front Lines
As companies begin creating and implementing enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions, they are finally realizing the true importance of sound architecture practices. There is no magic recipe for implementing EAI solutions. Rather, EAI requires a successful combination of multiple concurrent technology initiatives, and, like the proverbial chain, it is only as strong as its weakest link.
A couple of years ago, I went on a few job interviews. Though I was experienced and confident that I could answer the possible queries, waiting at the company before being called for the interview was always difficult for me.
As companies get swept up in the rush to become an e-business, it's important to remember that distributed computing has been around for a long time. In some cases, a slight change in a technology results in a new name. For example, before 1990, companies selling tools that generated software applications from structured diagrams referred to their products as CASE tools.
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.