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
NCR TERAMINER FOR ENTERPRISE DATA MINING by Curt Hall
NCR has released the first product component of its TeraMiner data mining initiative: TeraMiner Stats.
MANAGING DISTRIBUTED PROJECT TEAMS by Jim Highsmith
"We've tried numerous virtual-team projects over the past several years," lamented a Fortune 100 company IT project manager at a recent conference workshop. "They all failed."
Today's state-of-the-art in computer and software security is dismal. The main reason for this is that most companies do not have a deep enough understanding of the serious technical risks that exist to make intelligent decisions about reducing those risks. For the most part, companies simply do not have qualified personnel to aid them in making appropriate decisions.
Many businesses are offering goods and services on the Internet or are making proprietary information available to others. But not all of these companies realize that offering such services on the Internet or any other large network has massive security implications that can dramatically affect their bottom line.
Executive Update
Distributed Computing in the Healthcare Insurance Industry
In this Executive Update, Patrick McNeese describes United Wisconsin Services, Inc.'s (UWSI) current distributed computing initiatives and plans for future development. As the parent company for a group of heath insurance companies, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, UWSI is turning to distributed computing to improve customer services, solve Y2000 noncompliancy issues, and comply with proposed guidelines from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
E-COMMERCE + INTEGRATED DATA WAREHOUSING = A BLUE MARTINI
I recently met with Bill Evans and Ronny Kohavi of Blue Martini Software to check out the company's new e-merchandising system for selling goods and services on the Internet. Lots of companies offer e-commerce systems; you might wonder what's so special about Blue Martini.
NCR TERAMINER FOR ENTERPRISE DATA MINING
NCR has released the first product component of its TeraMiner data mining initiative: TeraMiner Stats. TeraMiner represents NCR's overall data mining strategy, which seeks to leverage the inherent parallelism of the company's Teradata database platform by moving data mining processes into the Teradata database itself.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BROADBASE SOFTWARE announced it has filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO. Contact Broadbase at +1 650 614 8300 or www.broadbase.com.