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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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.
In last week's Architecture/e-Business E-Mail Advisor, I discussed the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and the fact that most companies are using CORBA mixed with some other technology, like Java and Enterprise JavaBeans. At the same time, I suggested that the Object Management Group (OMG) was increasingly focused on standards derived from other OMG specifications, especially UML, MOF, and XMI.
There is renewed interest in development of systems that are able to survive attacks, accidents, and failures, while maintaining the ability to provide users with essential services [1]. Such systems require new approaches during various lifecycle activities. We find that a spiral model, modified to highlight survivability considerations, is one way to approach systems development so as to gain survivability [2].
The Object Management Group (OMG) was established in the late 1980s to coordinate the work of a number of companies that wanted to develop standards for object-oriented (OO) development. After some discussion, the group agreed to focus first on the problem of facilitating communications between different OO languages. To do this, it developed CORBA -- the Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
A recent report published by TrendWatch suggested that the average age of Web designers/developers is 30 years of age and that the individuals are hired right out of college. One has to be careful with averages, of course. The statistic might mean that half of the designers were 20 and that the other half were 40.
Microsoft has made a number of major announcements in the last couple of weeks. If one was a cynic, one might suggest that Microsoft is eager to drive up its stock value and to counteract the despair surrounding Judge Jackson's order to break up the company into two separate companies.
The quality of a Web site is fundamentally based in its information content -- if that content is hard to locate and understand, the value of the site is significantly diminished. Here are five reasons why you should conduct usability testing of your e-commerce site: