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
Studies have shown that 53% of software defects are attributed to poorly defined requirements. Therefore, from a process improvement perspective, it is imperative that project managers establish a more effective and efficient way of defining and tracking business requirements. At the same time, project managers must have a process that allows requirements to drive the automated testing cycle.
Application Integration
There is an IBM e-commerce TV commercial in which a young programmer is sitting at a screen developing a flashy graphic and the veteran businessman is remarking on how great it would be to have the system integrate orderi
The data from a recent study on data warehousing, conducted by Curt Hall and published by Cutter Information Corp., shows that companies have entered the "second round" of technology adoption and are
XML
In February 1998, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopted the eXtended Markup Language (XML) as a new Internet protocol. XML and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) are both subsets of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
The information presented in this section is the first of a multipart series summarizing the results of 1998 data collection that will appear in the 1999 Worldwide Benchmark

