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
Previously available only to its development partners, Microsoft has just announced general availability of the beta 2 release of its SQL Server 2000 database. SQL Server 2000 includes a slew of new features and functionality targeted at Internet commerce and business intelligence (BI). Key highlights in SQL Server 2000 include:
With more attention being given to process, requirements management processes have received a fair amount of study over the past few years. On the other hand, there also have been significant advances in requirements engineering, with the recognition that the development of a good software product is very difficult without a well-engineered set of requirements.
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Executive Update
E-Business Strategy for Established Companies
"Companies that don't have an e-business strategy will be out of business in two years." "E-business is changing everything." "If you don't 'get' e-business, e-business will get you." Ad libitum. Ad infinitum. Ad nauseam.
There are many approaches for defining software requirements, including scope models, joint application design (JAD) sessions, requirements management, prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), and others. Given a degree of rigor, and with experienced developers and users involved, these techniques deliver a set of documented user requirements.
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