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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MORE THAN HALF OF COMPANIES USING JAVA 18 April 2000 by Cutter Consortium

According to a recent e-business study from Cutter Consortium, 51% of companies surveyed are currently using Java. An additional 12% are planning to use Java.

I've been doing quite a bit of reading, thinking, and writing about e-business development recently. I've especially focused on the kinds of business process changes that typically occur when a large organization decides to transition to an e-business model. In this Advisor, I want to briefly summarize three of the five major drivers that I've observed.

As everyone knows by now, US District Judge Thomas Jackson has ruled that "Microsoft maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market ... (thereby violating) ...

Sagent Technology has announced a new XML-based information service for dynamically delivering -- at the point of customer interaction -- geographic, business-to-business (B2B), and demographic data from third-party content providers. The new service, called Centrus Real-Time, provides Web access to this information on a per transaction basis in real time as opposed to traditional batch load (daily, weekly, quarterly, etc.) updates.

If we lived in a perfect Internet world, an e-commerce1 site would meet the needs of its customers in terms of providing an effective user interface, meaningful information, easy navigation, fast performance, high reliability, and ongoing security.

Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, used this line about the real nature of many problems long before the Internet and the World Wide Web were invented. However, nowhere is it as true as when a group of otherwise sane human beings attempt their first large e-business project. Herein is a list of some of the Worst Practices (with a capital W) for putting your brainchild on the Web.

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