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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EXTREME PROGRAMMING by Jim Highsmith
As we have explored in several issues of eAD, the two most pressing issues in information technology today are:
The enterprise first saw Java in the browsers of its employees four years ago. These applets, the vanguard of the revolution, have all but vanished, and Java has moved from employee clients to corporate servers. Along the way, performance and compatibility problems have largely been solved.
To feel confident about using a technology for critical applications, certain questions must be answered satisfactorily: Is this technology succeeding in production elsewhere? Is there enough support for developing applications? Are enough people committed to the success of this technology? Are vendors providing the necessary tools to get the job done?
One of my pet peeves is the limited coverage of object database management systems (ODBMS) in the industry weeklies. Think back. How many times over the past six months have you seen a news report highlighting ODBMS? People frequently ask me why nothing is happening with ODBMS, since they see no news.
Everyone has read about Charles Schwab's Java/CORBA-based Internet trading system and Dell's COM-NT-based system for ordering customized PCs via the Web. The question is: how widespread is this trend and how rapidly it is growing?
Enron Energy Systems, Inc. (EES) of Houston, Texas, USA, is a reseller of electricity and natural gas, providing energy facility outsourcing solutions to commercial and industrial customers across the nation. EES offers services such as custom billing, equipment financing and maintenance, usage monitoring, and consultation.
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This past month, a number of business intelligence (BI) companies have informed me of their plans to offer hosted BI applications and online data analysis services that companies can rent for a monthly fee. Moreover, I expect more to do so as soon as the attraction of the application service provider (ASP) model proves too irresistible for many BI companies.