In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, choosing the right tools and vendors to support enterprise architecture (EA) is more critical than ever. These decisions can significantly impact how well an organization aligns its IT capabilities with its strategic goals. Gartner, one of the most influential players in technology research, provides resources like the Magic Quadrant …
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How Enterprise Architecture Can Foster Sustainable Practices
From Sustainability Strategy to Execution In the last ten years, enterprise architects have played a central role in the digital transformation. Their holistic view of the organization, underpinned by comprehensive methodologies and extensive access to IT and business portfolio data, makes them ideally suited to translate business strategies into actionable plans. However, enterprise architects have …
Machine Learning as Decision Making
Can ML replace all decision logic? Traditionally, software developers used logical gates or decision trees to make choices in code. When the criteria are met, the system can make a decision without human input. One of the uses for Machine Learning is to allow the software to make decisions without hard-coded logic or semantic-based algorithms. …
How Emerging Technologies Are Transforming Businesses
Advances in emerging technologies have created an environment ripe for inventors and entrepreneurs seeking to create innovative solutions and products which are designed to improve and better existing business processes. The role of Digital Transformation can be thought of as a process facilitating the shift towards more efficient and productive ways of doing things. In this article, we will review some of the more recent advancements in emerging technologies which are helping businesses transform their operations.
The Future of Personal Digital Assistants
oday, an average person can have over a dozen individual tasks that need to be completed in any single day. Food shopping, going to work, making dinner, picking up kids from school, going to the gym, seeing a stylist, planning a vacation, doing homework, and so on. As our lives get busier and more fast-paced, we start to rush through things, which often results in lower attention to detail and subsequent less than optimal results.
Is it Time to Switch to Conversational UI?
Can AI Improve Marketing Outcomes?
Marketing industry has been one of the first areas where digitization and automation have taken place. As internet usage exploded and the number of digital advertising channels has grown to large proportions, it became obvious that marketers needed complex and effective tools to help them manage things like media buying, user analytics, consumer journeys and …
Smart Chatbots and Virtual Assistants are Coming!
Recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have created an environment ripe for inventors and entrepreneurs seeking to create automated chat engines which can almost mimic human behavior. Since Microsoft first released Clippy, their Office Assistant, professionals everywhere have been realizing the beneficial potential of a virtual assistant. Nowadays, most prominent websites feature some kind …
Will AI Make Your Company Better?
Myths about artificial intelligence (AI) have made many professionals fearful about how their roles may be impacted. However, this is not an entirely new phenomenon. Major shifts in productivity have occurred in the past, usually coinciding with industrial revolutions, and indeed these shifts did transform entire professions. Eventually, AI may affect almost every occupation, but …
Next Steps in Digital Transformation
Although most ridesharing and hotel booking companies didn’t exist until a decade ago, the concept of Digital Transformation has been around for quite some time. As computer technologies and programming skills have evolved, paving ways for better systems and more intuitive user interfaces, companies from all industries have begun improving their manual processes with automation …