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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Use Case Migration Problems
I have been working with a large group of traditional software developers, introducing them to the use case technique for documenting system requirements. I have encountered some very strong and unexpected resistance to the use case approach from these developers, as represented by the following comments:
UML Profiles
Although rather technical and a bit vague, one of the most important efforts under way in the OMG (Object Management Group) is the development of "profiles."
According to a new comprehensive study on e-business conducted by Cutter Consortium, Java is the e-business programming language of choice, used by 51% of respondents
BEA's New E-Commerce Strategy
In the first three articles in this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption (below). This article focuses on how companies can move from Level 2 to Level 3.
Auto Part Exchanges
The E-Business Skill Challenge
The world of e-business systems is commonly associated with highly developed technical skills, ranging from Web-wizardry, graphic design ability, and HTML/XML/Java programming to knowledge of component standards such as CORBA, MTS, and EJB. The design talent to configure such systems in very short time periods also receives lots of attention.

