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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Has Design Become Obsolete?
Recently, I've observed yet another disturbing trend in the software industry. The various groups I work with exhibit considerable interest in requirements and coding, but the word "design" rarely comes up. I often ask seminar audiences how they do software design. The response is usually an awkward silence. Then someone hesitantly says, "We mostly write text descriptions of our designs," or "We all draw whatever kinds of pictures we feel like."
THE STATE OF THE DATA WAREHOUSE INDUSTRY: TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- PART II
In this issue, I continue coverage of the state of the data warehouse industry by examining trends and developments in the data transformation and movement market, as well as with data integrity and cleansing product vendors.
TRENDS
Oracle and MapInfo Offer Internet-Based GIS for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and E-Commerce
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ADVANCED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS (ASA) announced its initial entry into the South African market by signing an agreement with Dataworx of Johannesburg to implement ASA's data mining products and services. ASA markets the ModelMAX predictive modeling system and the dbPROFIlE database marketing application.