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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This report is the second in a series of four installments that examines how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from traditional computing to component computing.

This report is the second in a series of four installments that examines how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from traditional computing to component computing, a critical transition that most large organizations will make in the coming decade.


In this Executive Update, Senior Consultant Roger Sessions, one of Cutter Consortium's experts on middle-tier software systems, discusses how companies are faring in their quest to get component-oriented systems to work efficiently in a distributed environment.

EXPLORATION WAREHOUSES: TECHNIQUES AND PRODUCTS

This past year, most of the focus in the computer press regarding database technology as it pertains to data warehousing has revolved around the latest releases of the major relational database players' products, with a whole lot of attention given to industry leaders Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, among others.

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Trends

TRENDS IBM DecisionEdge for Relationship Marketing, Finance

IBM has introduced a new customer relationship management package targeted at small to medium-sized banks.

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Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • INFORMATICA announced it has filed for an initial public offering. Contact Informatica at +1 650 687 6200 or www.informatica.com.
  • BRIO TECHNOLOGY announced it will buy enterprise reporting and analysis tool vendor Sqribe for $270 million.

Solving the problem of a shortage of software professionals in the US and Europe by searching for labor elsewhere can only ever provide a partial answer. It is the brute force option. The main thrust is to find the right individuals, which can be challenging from a distance, let alone the immigration complexities and some people's reluctance to leave home that further complicate matters.