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
You've spent a fortune on databases, data analyses, and data warehouses -- all that stuff -- and what do you have to show for all that cash? Chances are you've been spending without a clear plan. There are a number of decisions you have to make going forward -- decisions that can cost you a little or a lot.
The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet. The Internet had been around for several decades without having much commercial impact. But the immense popularity of the World Wide Web in the late 1990s has forced everyone to rethink how companies should manage distributing information.
The advent of distributed object computing (DOC) has been hailed as the harbinger of a vast market for plug-in components that represent the entities, processes, rules, and events that occur in the real-world business environment.
Distributed Computing Overview
The practice of programmers' dragging and dropping GUI applications together, using component technologies such as ActiveX or JavaBeans controls, is increasingly commonplace. The IT marketing machine invites us to apply the same metaphor to full-scale business components: suddenly component-based development (CBD) is the latest hot topic.
The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet.

