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
BEA held its annual Users Conference this past month. Everyone was in a good mood. BEA's stock has gone from $65 to over $130 in the past two months and it's still listed as a "strong buy" by most analysts. The underlying reason, as I've mentioned on several occasions in the past, is that BEA has made all the right moves.
All software development projects require two complementary methodologies. A systems development methodology is required to specify the tasks, techniques, and deliverables of each phase of the project. A project management methodology is required to estimate, schedule, and monitor the project. Currently, object-oriented systems development methodologies are focused on the development of "green field" systems.
Executive Update
The Importance of Business Modeling in E-Business
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using precise notations such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model complex business systems, in particular to model the tidal wave of Internet-driven e-business and e-commerce applications. Even mainstream developers and business analysts now toss around terms like "use case" and "activity diagram," often to the point where the terms are being misused and misapplied.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR RENT
With application service providers (ASPs) receiving so much attention these days, sooner or later the question had to arise: is it possible to outsource business intelligence (BI) applications?
EDUCATING CUSTOMERS WITH WISDOM
In the November and December 1999 issues of BIA, which focused on enterprise information portals (EIPs), I briefly discussed how medical and surgical supplies distributor Owens & Minor had extended its data warehouse via an extranet to provide its partners with Web access to its dat
Volume IV, No. 3; March 2000
How do you manage a large organization in today's high-tech environment? More to the point, how do you manage a real-time organization working at Internet speed? These are the questions managers everywhere are faced with today.
Informatica has announced a new line of analytical applications based on its data warehouse extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), and repository technology (PowerMart, PowerCenter, etc.) and the analytical products acquired when it bought Influence Software in December 1999.