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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Second-Generation Legacy-to-Web Strategies Using XML

The economic case for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is overwhelming in its potential benefits. But as with every disruptive technology, there will be winners and losers. The early adopters are more likely to be the winners, particularly in those businesses subject to the "winner takes all" effect.

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.

FORMER MICROSOFT DATA MINERS FORM digiMINE.COM

An Internet startup called digiMine.com plans to offer data mining and other business intelligence (BI) applications and services targeted at dot-coms and business-to-business e-commerce companies.

Volume IV, No. 6; June 2000

The increased interest in mini operating systems at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (HPL) corresponds, not surprisingly, with the rise of the new enterprise Internet data center (IDC).

Volume X, No. 6; June 2000
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Paul Harmon, Editor