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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As most readers know, Sun has moved away from supporting the Java language, as such, and prefers to create packages that include not only the Java Virtual Machine (Interpreter) and the basic classes to support the Java language, but also classes to support a wide variety of interface and data access functions, Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) and EJB components, applets, servlets, and IIOP, as well as a variety of utilit
In early 1999 there was quite a bit of discussion about a new technology called the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). SOAP was developed by a group of people closely associated with Microsoft, and it quickly received Microsoft's blessing. SOAP is not an official part of Microsoft's Distributed Network Architecture (DNA 2000), COM+, or Windows 2000.
Three weeks ago, in the Architecture/e-Business E-Mail Advisor, I considered some of the issues involved in outsourcing IT services. I suggested that a company would probably want to use packaged applications or outsource everything that wasn't strategic to the company as it shifted to e-commerce and the Internet.
Several years ago, while a software development lead, I was introduced to the concept of automated software testing. Just point, click, and record the test cases, the vendor promised. Their tool would, we were told, quickly accumulate a huge collection of automated test cases that would dutifully execute unattended.
Last week's Advisor focused on the fact that the US Department of Justice has asked, as part of its settlement of the Microsoft case, that Microsoft middleware products be grouped with the applications company and not with the operating systems company. I said that it would be a good thing, since it would level the playing field between COM+ and Enterprise JavaBeans.
Ed Roman, CEO of The Middleware Company, (edro@middleware-company.com) and the author of one of the best EJB books, took the trouble to read the government's petition to have Microsoft broken into two separate companies and pointed out something that you probably haven't yet seen in the popular press.
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