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 JAVA UPDATE by Paul Harmon

At the Java Business Expo, which took place in New York City in early December, Sun celebrated the release of version 1.2 of the Java Development Kit (JDK), which the company's marketing folks have now decided to call the Jav

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XML by Paul Harmon

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).

Use Cases and Function Points -- Where's the Fit? by Carol A. Dekkers, Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.

It is well documented by leading experts such as Howard Rubin, Robert Glass, Larry Putnam, and Ware Myers that the top development challenges center around requirements, estimation, and change management.

INTRODUCTION

We truly live in the information age. It's hard to imagine that just over 50 years ago, the first electronic, general-purpose digital computer was invented. The ENIAC could perform 5,000 additions per second and more than 300 multiplications per second -- not even close to the power of the personal computer that I'm using today to write this report.

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS AS APPLICATION BUILDING BLOCKS by J. Bradford Kain © Copyright QUOIN, 1998 Introduction

The concept of software components - units for the construction of applications - is well-established in languages and development tools.

COMPONENTS: THE BASICS by J. Bradford Kain © Copyright QUOIN, 1998 Components and Software

Software development has become dramatically more complex in the last few years.