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
There were a number of interesting announcements at Java One and I'll be considering various different ones and their implications in upcoming few weeks.
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't." — Anonymous
Whether you are trying to initiate a software metrics program or trying to sustain one due to organizational changes, budget constraints, or other factors, the benefits must be continuously sold within the IT organization. Software metrics is often perceived as intrusive, therefore, the benefits must be understood in relation to achieving business objectives, because that is the bottom line.
Last month's ITMS discussed the use of metrics in managing deadlines for IT projects. We took two perspectives. One was a forward- estimation view in which we were tasked to forecast the time a project might take, along with effort estimations, staff requirements, and optimization suggestions. The other was a reverse-estimation perspective -- starting with a deadline and working the problem backward to quantify what could be done within certain time limits.
It is an ambitious goal to convey the teachings imparted by a veritable master using merely written words. Edward Tufte (pronounced TUFF-tee) is a true showman and a genius when it come to communication and the display of information. This article summarizes the material presented in Dr. Tufte's fascinating presentation on 25 June 1999 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, so that others may also benefit from his teachings.
I probably read a half-dozen articles a week with the word middleware in the title or the first paragraph. Everyone who is interested in the technologies underlying the Internet, e-business, and distributed computing is interested in middleware. Middleware is made up of all the various software products and technologies that are used to link objects or modules on clients with objects or modules on servers.
As we continue to tackle the challenge of managing IT projects with a known deadline and (usually) unknown requirements, the trick is to take what we've learned about documenting our own trends and put it to good use as we face new projects.
TEXT MINING FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE PORTALS, AND CRM
Text-analysis products have been around for years. For the most part, however, these early products were clumsy; they were difficult to deploy and use.