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
BUILDING SYSTEMS THAT INTEGRATE COM, CORBA, AND JAVA by David Frankel and Michael Rosen
The rush toward Internet-based enterprise business systems has become a major driver for the use of distributed component systems.
DECISIONPOINT APPLICATIONS: "PACKAGED DATA WAREHOUSES R US" by Curt Hall
I recently had the chance to talk with Marc Demarest, CEO of DecisionPoint Applications, Inc. (DPA).
INFORMATICA POWERCONNECT FOR SAP AND PEOPLESOFT by Curt Hall
Data warehouse tool vendor Informatica Corporation has just released new products designed to make its PowerMart data warehouse ETL tools and PowerCenter data integration hub better suited for use with ERP applications.
CLEMENTINE SERVER AND SPSS SERVER by Curt Hall
SPSS, Inc., has released two software products that extend the application of the company's data mining offerings: SPSS Server and Clementine Server.
Having just completed a study of software development practices in the Internet software industry, I have gained some insights into the practices that firms use to overcome the extreme levels of uncertainty in this environment. The data was gathered through interviews with over 30 project managers over the period 1996-1998. The results show that in this industry, projects with a more flexible approach to development yielded better performing products.
Advisor
Getting Into the Game
My last Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor, "Spiking the Architecture" (18 August 1999), motivated the following response from Paul Trimming at TELKOM SA: