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 ASP Option
One of the most obvious effects of the Internet and e-business is the change to traditional business models. In consumer sales, for example, the traditional sales and distribution channel from original manufacturer to final consumer consists of a chain of intermediaries -- jobbers, wholesalers, and retailers -- each of which provides a logistical, communicative, or other support function to link manufacturer to consumer.
DOT-COM COMPANIES NEED SOMETHING BESIDES
Readers who have read articles I have written over the course of the last decade will know that in the early 1990s I used to devote more time to rule-based techniques.
Microsoft has a long tradition of renaming things. In the case of its component standards, they have gone from OLE and OCXs to VBXs, and from COM and ActiveXs to Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). Now that Windows 2000 is out and COM and MTS have been combined, it's time for another name change, and apparently the new name is DNA components.
I was fortunate enough to attend the Cutter Consortium Summit 2000 and, over the course of this year's Summit, I sensed an undercurrent around Extreme Programming (XP) versus more conventional, model-driven development. I don't remember the issue being specifically framed for formal discussion and debate, but it was alluded to several times.
Sun held its annual Java Users Conference in San Francisco this past week. There were about 5,000 very enthusiastic people in attendance -- mostly young developers eager to learn the latest Java programming tricks.
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E-Configuration Management
I recently had a conversation with an old colleague from my quality assurance days on the topic of configuration management. As is typical in these conversations, the first challenge was to make sure we were talking about the same thing.