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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Although the marketplace seems to be fascinated with the UML-RUP (Unified Modeling Language-Rational Unified Process) approach to object-oriented development, I believe that there are many reasons why UML-RUP is insufficient for component-based development. UML-RUP seems suited for "green field" projects. It provides no help in dealing with the development or with the reuse of components and designs.
At a recent conference, I had an interesting discussion with a manager about iterative development practices. As we discussed the advantages/disadvantages of the approach, he summarized his position as follows. "You know, I don't really see anything different in this new, iterative style of development. We've always iterated. Still do. We start with a simple entity-relationship diagram and refine it through successive meetings until we get it right. Then we move to design and continually refine our design until it is right.
CHANNELING THE FLOW: BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE AND ENTERPRISE INFORMATION PORTALS 11 August 1999 by Stowe Boyd
The recent barrage of articles in the information technology press regarding enterprise information portals are heralding several converging trends:
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Are Requirements Dead?
When Copernicus initially proposed that the earth revolved around the sun, his theory was met with derision. After all, any damn fool could look up and see that the opposite was true. A century and a half later, after proving that Copernicus was right after all, Galileo was packed off to Rome to have a little chat with the Inquisition.
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Technology Deployment Issues
META ARCHITECTURES 4 August 1999 by Paul Harmon
I found myself trying to explain a meta architecture to a colleague the other day and came up with the following rather belabored analogy.