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
Summertime is traditionally the period when I catch up with the trade magazines and computer journals that pile up in the office while I'm gone. While skimming through several back issues of *Information Week*, I came across an article discussing the top business issues of today's CEOs. Interestingly, IT and management of corporate data was at the top of the list, followed by "impact of new technology," and business reengineering.
COMPONENTS by Paul Harmon Components and Objects
A cynic might say that the term "component" means whatever any specific marketing person wants it to mean.
DISTRIBUTED COMPONENT SYSTEMS by Paul Harmon
In the last issue of CDS, I provided a basic introduction to components. In this issue I want to take a slightly different perspective and consider distributed component systems.
The OMG's Business Object Standard by Paul Harmon
During the past month, the members of the OMG have been voting on the proposed Business Object Component Architecture (BOCA).
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The Encryption Issue
The Encryption Issue by Pete Loshin
The FBI worries about it. So do the presidents of almost every software, networking, and hardware vendor of note - as well as the President of the United States, and more than a few other political leaders.
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SAP BUSINESS INFORMATION WAREHOUSE UPDATE by Curt Hall
In the April 1998 issue of DMS on "SAP R/3 and the Data Warehouse: Key Issues and Products," I noted that SAP AG was developing its own data warehouse component for use with its popular R/3 system.