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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XML: Solving Business Problems
Important technologies inspire innovation, motivating technologists and entrepreneurs to both create new roles for the technology and use it to solve old problems. The Internet is the most glamorous example of such a technology. Among the innovations inspired by the Internet are network-centric technologies such as Java and XML; however, these innovations are wrapped in a veil of hype.
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XML: Solving Business Problems
The evaluation of cutting-edge technologies can be a difficult task in the face of the hype that naturally accompanies their evolution. XML is no different from other technologies in this respect. If you believe the hype, XML obviates the need for Java, brings Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) into the Internet era, replaces the relational database, and revolutionizes the development of Web sites.
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES Books
Gates, Bill. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System.
Warner Books, 1999.
The rush to develop e-commerce applications has forced most companies to reconsider their component-based development choices. While it's certainly possible to develop modest Web sites and simple Internet applications without component-based approaches, it's almost impossible to build enterprise-oriented e-commerce applications without components.
Volume XII, No. 3; March 2000
In the first five articles in this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption (below). This final article focuses on how companies can move from Level 4 to Level 5. This model parallels the SEI-CMM in that Level-5 organizations continue to develop, continue to measure where they are against industry leaders, and are ever vigilant in their search for new technologies, new methods, and new business models that offer competitive advantage.
On 14 February, it was announced that Computer Associates (CA) had agreed to acquire Sterling Software in a stock deal valued at $4 billion.