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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The Princess and the Pea
Once upon a time, there was a fairy-tale princess who was very, very sensitive. She could feel a pea through her mattress, and it kept her awake at night. In the version of the tale that we saw, the princess was played by comedienne Carol Burnett, and you can imagine how sensitive she could be! Her attendants piled up mattresses on the princess's new bed until they were seven feet from the floor. Sitting on top of the pile, Carol screamed, "I can still feel the pea!"
A QUESTION OF PRIVACY
In the April 2000 BIA, I managed to irk several readers with my statement, "I can't imagine how anyone could enter personal or financial information into, say, a financial Web site and not feel uneasy about where the information will
HEWLETT-PACKARD ANNOUNCES E-VUE
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced E-Vue, billed as "intelligent data integration" software that facilitates real-time customer relationship management (CRM) by pulling together disparate data sources to form a single customer view.
Volume IV, No. 7; July 2000
In the March 2000 issue of BIA, I analyzed the case for outsourcing various business intelligence (BI) applications via an application service provider (ASP) model (see " Business Intelligence for Rent"). I also said that knowledge management (KM) applications are particularly appealing candidates for outsourcing to an ASP.