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
Only recently have most companies started to seriously consider the changes they must make to their core information systems in order to successfully deploy major applications on the Internet, intranet, and related forms of open distributed computing. Companies were largely caught flat-footed by the rapid rise of the Internet and are having a tough time playing catch-up.
In 1997, IMA, a well-known independent software vendor of large-scale, high-volume customer interaction center (call center) applications, made a conscious decision to re-architect its entire software line and its software development organization around component technology and open distributed computing.
As most readers know, reengineering was a popular management concern at the beginning of the 1990s. Reengineering was largely a response to data that indicated that companies had spent vast amounts of money on computers yet received little back in the way of increased productivity.
Executive Update
Enterprise Application Integration Strategies
With the Y2000 crisis behind us (keep your fingers crossed), most IT departments will now turn their attention to two serious issues: integrating the legacy systems that have been mostly neglected over the past five years and building an e-business component of the enterprise. Ideally, you could do both with the use of a new breed of software called enterprise application integration (EAI).
I am sure many of you have heard people say that "no one is using object database management systems [ODBMSs] in serious applications," or that "they are slow," or that "they cannot support large databases." Well, that is all bunk. In fact, the inverse of these myths is actually the truth.
HAND HELD WIRELESS DIGITAL DEVICES 29 December 1999 by Paul Harmon
If I was going to give a new corporate architect one phrase to help him or her think creatively about the next several years, that phrase would be "hand-held wireless digital devices." I've purposely used a rather vague p
38% OF COMPANIES SAY E-BUSINESS IS "NECESSARY RESPONSE" TO COMPETITION 28 December 1999 by Cutter Consortium
According to a new comprehensive study on e-business conducted by Cutter Consortium, 38% of companies see e-business as a necessary response to competition.