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ADVANCE: Redefining IT Organizations & Competencies
What next-generation BI technologies will catapult my business?
Hot Topic 1
Advanced Analytics … More Powerful, More User Friendly, More Strategic
With a broader set of users, and a broader set of application and business processes, the value of business intelligence, information management and analytics is more about business impact and transformation than ever before. As it becomes both more sophisticated, more user friendly and more proven, further reaching into and outside the organization, business intelligence and analytics is becoming a strategic focus for enterprises.
Trends & Technologies
Collective intelligence, Data warehouses, E-Discovery, In memory analysis, Integrated search, Interactive visualization, Master data management, Predictive analytics, Process-driven business intelligence
Primary Area(s)
Business Intelligence & Information Management, The Future of Business Software, The Future of Knowledge Work
ITxpo Marketplaces
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Business Applications
How can enterprise architects foster innovation, not stifle it?
Hot Topic 2
Enterprise Architects as Change Agents?
The rub on enterprise architecture is it smothers innovation with all its standards and rules. That’s unworkable with IT now expected to drive innovation, and where the consumerization of IT continues to invade the enterprise. Enterprise architects have to stop designating specific choices, and start establishing boundaries … a model Gartner calls Managed Diversity.
Trends & Technologies
Business agility, Change management, Consumerization of IT, Context-delivery architecture, Emergent architecture, Managed diversity, Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Primary Area(s)
Stronger Synergies in Enterprise Architecture
ITxpo Marketplaces
Enterprise Architecture
How will the arrival of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants remake my IT group?
Hot Topic 3
The Children Are Our Future: Digital Natives and the Quest for Talent
Today’s IT organization looks little like it did a decade, and will be unrecognizable a decade from now. Serving a constituency that rarely understood technology is a lot different than serving one that’s immersed in technology every waking minute of their day. What skill sets will the next generation of IT talent need, and where will you find them?
Trends & Technologies
Consumerization of IT, Digital natives, Digital immigrants, Distributed Workforce, Global teams, New roles in IT
Primary Area(s)
Broader Roles for IT Leaders
ITxpo Marketplaces
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