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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July 1999 Data Management Strategies

Volume III, No. 7; July 1999
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How Is Y2000 Affecting Data Warehousing?

Curt Hall

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Get the Estimate Right

Lawrence Putnam, Tracy Myers, Michael Myers, Alan Myers, Lawrence Myers

Not long ago (in the April issue) we urged you to "get the front end right." That meant getting the important risks under control, finding an architecture that fit the initial requirements, and reaching a size estimate. As we have often said, estimating size is the heart of the software estimating process.

Software Estimation: What We Can Learn from Student Projects

Nancy Mead

In industry, we often think that we would do a better job of estimating if we just had time to "do it right." The student project experience described here shows us that students are under the same pressures as their industry counterparts and share some of the same prejudices for and against estimation as a tool.

The Case for Knowledge-Based Microestimation

Mark Pinis

Imagine you are undertaking a tricky updating of a legacy back office application. The objective is to provide a front end accessible via the company's intranet for data entry and reporting. The technologies that suggest themselves are new to you and your colleagues, although you have the advantage of understanding the existing software and business rules.

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