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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A STANDARD FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
For nearly a decade, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has been developing a comprehensive standard for specifying distributed processing systems. This standard, the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP), describes the foundations of distributed processing, including key definitions of terminology and an overall architectural framework.
IT managers know that developing good software is hard. It is even harder to coordinate business requirements and software development. As companies begin to transition from more conventional ways of architecting applications to distributed, component-based designs, this process is likely to become even harder.
Executive Update
Implementing Distributed Computing Architecture
Q: I understand that you're working on a project implementing a distributed computing architecture at a major utility.
Yes, I'm currently the chief architect on a project for a large utility in the Midwest. It's the software to implement electrical deregulation.
Q: What's the reason for all of the mergers and acquisitions in the data warehousing field?
In many cases, vendors are acquiring other companies to add new technology to their product line. Most of the vendors are trying to develop more complete data warehouse suites. This is mirroring a trend in the industry -- they're all moving away from offering point solutions.
THE STATE OF THE DATA WAREHOUSE INDUSTRY: TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- PART I
The past year has seen a lot of changes in the data warehouse industry. New companies, products, and technologies have entered the market or appear just over the horizon.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ACTA TECHNOLOGY announced that Monsanto has purchased and deployed ActaWorks, Acta's SAP R/3 data warehouse ETL tool.
Volume III, No. 4; April 1999
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