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Core AWS Services Every IT Executive Should Know
Shadow IT exists in your company. Some form of DevOps is being implemented, and somewhere online tools and the public cloud are being used without your approval. Shadow IT can create many risks and bad economic management of IT resources. You can choose to go to war and forbid the use of the new methodologies and tools or learn how to leverage them. This Advisor advocates for the latter.
Using Contextual Software Analysis to Mitigate Business Risk
Modern software systems are routinely very complex, comprising millions of lines of code with many thousands of dependencies. Moreover, software engineer availability, workloads, and turnover compound the problem of keeping track of the complexities of systems. In this Advisor, we examine the benefits of contextual software analysis for mitigating business risk.
Build Value Over Time, All the Time
External phenomena have transformed competitive advantage from sustainable to transient. Organizations must learn how to succeed and survive in this new business environment, an environment that has forever changed due to digital technologies.
Architecting for Disruptive Change
The notion of architecting for flexibility so that enterprises can change is not new. But what about disruptive change? And why does disruptive change matter? Why now?
Using Twitter to Analyze Data
In this Advisor, the authors demonstrate their analytical approach with a direct and practical example of using Twitter data in real time to understand the sentiments (positive or negative) of trade show participants and to gain insights from them.
Agile Values and Principles in Software Systems: 4 Metrics
Agility is about being adaptable to changing environment conditions, delivering or acting swiftly to fulfill customer needs, and in turn becoming a successful and sought-after organization. Being connected to the fundamentals of agility and tracking the transformation progress based on the Agile principles described in this Advisor helps organizations to be on track toward transformation progress and stay connected to the big picture.
Challenges Ahead for Big Data in Teaching and Learning
I suspect that of all things, big data will address the human mind last. For whatever reason, people approach the science of the mind differently than they approach the science of the body.
7 Steps to Happy Customers
The constants across all the customer experience winners include listening, communication, honesty, responsiveness, and innovation. Follow these seven steps to make your customers happy.
Using the BCA to Innovate with Business Architecture
The dynamic nature of the business capability architecture (BCA) aptly lends itself to modeling the new paradigm of big data analysis.
Cognitive Rising: Applications by Industry and Other Interesting Trends
The commercialization of cognitive systems is impacting both the consumer and enterprise worlds; in effect changing the way people interact with computers along with the methods for data analysis. In short, with the ability to ingest, analyze, and summarize massive data sets and facilitate self-service analytics, intelligent decision support, and smart advisory systems via the application of various artificial intelligence (AI) technologies — including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and other intelligent reasoning capabilities — cognitive computing is starting to transform information-intensive industries.
Top Intriguing Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies Articles for 2017
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practice this year for today's Advisor.
Top Intriguing Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence Articles for 2017
Here are the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients in 2017. Look for these lists from each of our four practice areas, and rediscover Cutter's most intriguing articles of the year!
Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2017
Here are the Business & Enterprise Architecture articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients in 2017. Look for these lists from each of our four practice areas, and rediscover Cutter's most intriguing articles of the year!
Top Intriguing Cutter Business Technology Journal Articles for 2017
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Cutter Business Technology Journal this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.
Top Intriguing Data Analytics & Digital Technologies Articles for 2017
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.
The Agile Transformation Journey: The Leadership Skill Set Must Change
The change to an Agile mode of operation demands a manager who is able to act as a leader with an emphasis on inspiration, motivation, learning, and giving responsibility and trust.
Focusing in on Fog Computing's Implications for Business
Cloud has paved the way for the rapid growth of the IoT, but with such growth, businesses need faster and more efficient solutions than ever, since information that is as new as one day old can lose value. Companies are turning to fog computing for higher efficiency, better security, faster decision-making processes, and lowered operating costs.
Trends in Big Data Technologies and Analytics — An Introduction
How can analytics and their accompanying technologies help make sense out of the immensity of big data? What are the challenges and risks associated with such initiatives? This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal explores various angles to big data with a focus on the trends in predictive analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and the cloud.
Integrating Legacy and Modern Infrastructure in an SDA-Based Platform
A Service Dominant Architecture operationalizes concepts from service science in an architectural blueprint for the implementation of a service platform. Within two-speed IT, a service platform can be implemented on top of a legacy infrastructure, adding important complementary capabilities to legacy IT.
The Modern Healthcare Data Warehouse: Sensor Data Meets Traditional Health Information
Mobile, wearable devices support noninvasive, biometric monitoring. They are generating a wealth of data detailing important indicators of the user’s health, ranging from heart rate, respiration, and temperature to perspiration, gait, blood sugar levels, balance, grip, and more. Incorporation of data from sensor-enabled devices with other health and medical information adds a real-time capability to healthcare that has been lacking in all but the more complex medical device monitoring applications to date.
Proactive and Reactive: Taking on Technical Debt
In this Advisor, we will look at some of the proactive and reactive recommendations for dealing with vendor-created technical debt.
Why Market Structure Matters
Having a market structure that supports and encourages diversification of risks is key to avoiding systemic risks not only to national economies, but to the global economy as well.
Business Leadership in Data Science Requires EA Support
Data science is essential in extracting value from big data but it is not sufficient. It makes use of technical, management, and business analysis skills. Data science also deals with the enterprise architecture (EA) of the organization. Astute leadership is essential and an imperative for value extraction from big data.
Best Practices of Successful Innovators
Business is poised for an unprecedented wave of innovation. Digital transformation is upon us with myriad technological advances such as augmented reality, virtual reality, cognitive assistants, 3D/4D printing, personalization, conversational interfaces, drones, deep learning, predictive analytics, the Internet of Things, blockchain, new payment systems, and affective computing — all playing major roles in enabling the next wave of innovation.
IIoT Applications in Oil and Gas
It is now possible to search on the Web for “IoT use cases in [industrial sector __ ]” and find links to hundreds of case studies and white papers. Of course, these should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt. In general, however, published case studies (especially when an end-user company is named) present some good evidence of an area in which the IIoT shows solid potential.