Cutter Consortium: Data Insight & Social BI

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:01:20 -0400

Succi, Giancarlo | Events |
Mobile devices have become one of the most important platforms for user-oriented software. Mobile app stores host thousands of apps and report millions of downloads per day. To take advantage of this market, it’s critical that your organization designs and deploys good software products. It’s equally vital that it has a sound mobile-specific strategy based on a clear understanding of the mobile environment.
http://www.cutter.com/events/multimedia/mobile-environment.html

Exponential Data Growth: Challenges and Opportunities

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:06:45 -0400

Teerlink, Marc; Martin, Desmond; Fillie, Jan-Paul | E-Mail Advisors |
Organizations are increasingly inundated by data: more sources of data, more types of data, and more detailed data. Yet while the volume, depth, and diversity of data continue to increase exponentially, the need to cut through the growing noise becomes more challenging and ever-more urgent.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130514.html

Mobile in the Enterprise: Part IV — Mobile BI

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:05:04 -0400

Hall, Curt | Executive Updates |
In this Executive Update, Part IV in a series, I examine trends pertaining to mobile BI.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1308.html

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:01:00 -0400

Succi, Giancarlo | Events |
In this webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant, Professor Giancarlo Succi, will cover a range of topics that will help you understand the mobile environment, the characteristics that make it so unique and how they contribute to a new business model. He will explain what channels are available for distribution of to your organization’s mobile applications. And Succi and will review various strategies to monetize your mobile apps.
http://www.cutter.com/events/multimedia/mobile-environment.html

Intelligent Video Analytics on the Rise, Part II

Tue, 7 May 2013 11:09:48 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
In this article, I examine the use of video analytics and IVA systems in commercial business environments such as retail and restaurants. I also consider the issue of privacy, which inevitably arises with the use of video surveillance and video analytics.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130507.html

Mobile BI and the Role of Tablets in the Enterprise

Mon, 6 May 2013 11:04:43 -0400

Hall, Curt | Executive Reports |
Mobile BI consists of the ability to access, view, and interact with corporate data on smartphones and tablets via mobile reports, interactive dashboards, visualizations, ad hoc reporting, and other functionality. This Executive Report examines the application of mobile BI with a focus on the use of tablets in the enterprise. It includes potential business benefits afforded by using tablets for mobile BI as well as the technology, products, applications, and issues associated with implementing mobile BI applications.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/reports/2013/04/index.html

Intelligent Video Analytics on the Rise, Part I

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:03:21 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
The Boston Marathon bombing on 15 April and the crucial role that video played in identifying and apprehending the suspects in the days after sparked my interest in examining the current state of video analytics and, in particular, new developments with intelligent video analytics (IVA) systems.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130430.html

Programming the World: Part II -- Creating Value Through Augmented Reality

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:56:47 -0400

Feller, Joseph | Executive Updates |
This is the second Executive Update in a three-part series exploring an exciting and rapidly maturing technological trend: the layering of interactive information over the physical world in real time -- aka augmented reality (AR).
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1307.html

A Leadership Approach for a Metrics Program: Part II -- On Leadership's Role and "Staying Out of the Kitchen"

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:55:22 -0400

Klubeck, Martin | Executive Updates |
One of my friends wanted help in growing her business. As a local restaurant owner, she had received many accolades and encouragement to expand. I readily agreed to help her with developing a metrics program to determine how good her restaurant was, which I discuss in this Executive Update.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1308.html

Cloud Performance Metrics and Benchmarking

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:54:03 -0400

Markande, Krishna | Executive Updates |
This Executive Update focuses on an approach for cloud performance benchmarking by examining various considerations as well as the tools available for benchmarking public cloud infrastructures and NoSQL databases. This benchmarking approach improves the short-listing process for cloud infrastructure components while building cloud services.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1306.html

A Matter of Vector

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:53:01 -0400

Dooley, Brian J. | E-Mail Advisors |
Last month we looked at the veracity factor in Big Data, which concerns the uncertainty of input and the need to cross-check and correct it (see "The Veracity Factor"). This is important because results in streams, such as social data comments, do not yield a precise interpretation. Part of this problem of uncertainty, and somewhat independent from veracity, is a matter that might be called "the vector," or source of the data.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130423.html

Corporate Adoption of Tablets for Mobile BI

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:25:56 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
For some time now, tablets routinely have been touted as an ideal platform for making mobile BI practical. But to what extent are end-user organizations actually adopting tablets to support their mobile BI initiatives?
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130416.html

IT: Finding Common Ground with Your Customers

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:24:30 -0400

Multhaup, Bob | Executive Updates |
This Executive Update focuses on how to better define a common ground of objectives, language, and costs between IT professionals and their customers to establish the basis for creating and measuring real IT value creation, especially concerning ongoing operations.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1307.html

A Bigger Cloud Ecosystem Is on Its Way

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:06:35 -0400

Murugesan, San | E-Mail Advisors |
Driven by several converging and complementary factors, cloud computing is advancing as an IT service delivery model at a staggering pace. It is also causing a paradigm shift in the way we deliver and use IT.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130409.html

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:00:57 -0400

User Experience Analysis Framework: From Usability to Social Media Networks

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:44:38 -0400

Unhelkar, Bhuvan | Executive Reports |
A user experience analysis framework (UXAF) is an all-encompassing view of a user's experience with a business that transcends the "known" areas of usability of systems. UXAF draws your attention to the invaluable pre-user and post-user that exist outside the electronic firewalls of your business -- and reside in the exploration and reflection phases of UXAF -- facilitated by social media networks (SMNs). This Executive Report lays the foundation for the future of business analysis in the SMN Age by encouraging in-depth analysis of user experience beyond usability and into the realms of user communities, their demographics, and their perceptions.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/reports/2013/03/index.html

The Veracity Factor

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:41:20 -0400

Dooley, Brian J. | E-Mail Advisors |
Big Data has frequently been described as differing from standard BI and analytics by volume, velocity, and variety. These factors describe most of the current initiatives within the area and point to issues that make analysis difficult. However, there is also another intriguing "V" that might be added to introduce a new level of complexity and higher goals: veracity.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130402.html

Big Data: Part III -- Privacy and Security

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:31:57 -0400

Herold, Rebecca | Executive Updates |
To round out this three-part Executive Update series on Big Data, let's get a better handle on all the significant privacy and security issues we touched on in Parts I and II.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1305.html

What's Up with Watson?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:29:56 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
Two years ago, I examined Watson-IBM's natural language question answering system (see "How Smart Is Watson, and What Is Its Significance to BI and DSS?"). At that time, Watson was getting a lot of publicity because it had successfully challenged, and defeated, some of the best Jeopardy! (human) contestants in the history of the popular TV game show.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130326.html

The Emerging Cloud Ecosystem: Innovative New Services and Business Models

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:26:24 -0400

Murugesan, San | Journals |
Cloud service providers, the IT industry, professional and industry associations, governments, and IT professionals all have a role to play in shaping, fostering, and harnessing the full potential of the emerging cloud ecosystem.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/03/index.html

The Promise of a Diverse, Interoperable Cloud Ecosystem -- And Recommendations for Realizing It

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:24:43 -0400

Grise, Kathy L. | Journals |
The cloud is here to stay. It is a vital part of the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem, even though it is still a dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing addition to the ICT environment.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/03/itj1303d.html

Cloud Ecology: Surviving in the Jungle

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:09:55 -0400

Baudoin, Claude R. | Journals |
The technology of the cloud has been evolving fairly quickly, in fact faster than many people expected, this author included. The number of serious market players and their sheer size (including companies such as Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft) attests that we have passed the point of no return: this new model is here to stay.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/03/itj1303c.html

Merging IaaS with PaaS to Deliver Robust Development Tools

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:08:23 -0400

Cohen, Beth | Journals |
In this article, we will discuss how PaaS is the key to maximizing the benefits of cloud architectures, allowing companies to create new business models for delivering services better, faster, and cheaper.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/03/itj1303a.html

Intrusion Detection as a Service (IDaaS) in an Open Source Cloud Infrastructure

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:06:54 -0400

John Prakash Veigas; K Chandra Sekaran | Journals |
In this article, we offer an overview of IDSs and the work that is being done to adapt them to the cloud. We then introduce a framework for an intrusion detection and reporting service for cloud consumers based on the type of application and the consumer's security needs.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/03/itj1303b.html

Q&A: Privacy and Big Data

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Herold, Rebecca | Events |
In her ongoing Executive Update series on Big Data, Cutter Senior Consultant Cutter Consortium Rebecca Herold explores some of the privacy risks involved with Big Data analytics, ways in which organizations using Big Data can mitigate these risks, and some of the emerging legal issues related to Big Data use. In this special online Question and Answer session for Cutter members and invited guests, Rebecca will answer the questions you have about how to ensure that your company is a good data and privacy steward and makes thoughtful decisions about how it is using data.
http://www.cutter.com/events/multimedia/privacy-big-data.html

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Succi, Giancarlo | Events |
In this webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant, Professor Giancarlo Succi, will cover a range of topics that will help you understand the mobile environment, the characteristics that make it so unique and how they contribute to a new business model. He will explain what channels are available for distribution of to your organization’s mobile applications. And Succi and will review various strategies to monetize your mobile apps.

http://www.cutter.com/events/multimedia/mobile-environment.html

Dirty Data, Missing Data, or Insufficient Training -- The Impact on Decision Making Is the Same

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:06:29 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
The recent announcement that NATO and the US Pentagon were retracting a statement reporting that Taliban attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan had declined (in 2012) is a good reminder of just how important training and data quality are when it comes to analytics and decision making.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130319.html

Big Data -- Does Size Matter?

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:05:10 -0400

Mazzucchelli, Lou | E-Mail Advisors |
While the term "Big Data" continues to encroach on the common vernacular, it's important to understand the drivers of the phenomenon, its possible value, and also its potential for misuse. Many of the "misuse" examples come from areas of privacy and ethics, but there is also the potential for misuse that is just bad business.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130312.html

Big Data: Part II -- Legal Issues

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:51:21 -0400

Herold, Rebecca | Executive Updates |
Here in Part II of our 3 part series, we examine some of its legal impacts, with particular attention paid to energy usage, protected health information (PHI), e-discovery, and intellectual property (IP).
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1303.html

An Integrated EA Approach for Effective ERM

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:49:38 -0400

Chapala, Nethaji | Executive Updates |
Organizations need to develop strategies to make ERM more effective. One such strategy is bringing enterprise architecture (EA) into the mix. In this Executive Update, we'll explore the challenges of operational risk management and how integrating ERM practices with EA will alleviate the failures organizations face today.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1304.html

The Promises and Challenges of the New IT: Part III -- The Real-Time Enterprise and the Web

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:47:25 -0400

Greco, Frank D. | Executive Updates |
In this last installment of the 3 part series, we discuss the Web roadblocks ahead for anything as a service (XaaS).
http://www.cutter.com/content/architecture/fulltext/updates/2013/eau1306.html

Amazon Joins the DWaaS Craze

Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:45:35 -0400

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
Under the full-blown data warehousing as a service (DWaaS) model, organizations can have the service provider manage almost all aspects of the implementation -- from definition and setup to provisioning and maintenance. The latest provider to introduce a DWaaS offering is Amazon, with its Redshift data warehousing platform designed to run on AWS.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130305.html

Marketecture: Selling Your Cause

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:44:28 -0400

Evernden, Roger | Executive Updates |
Good architects also need to be good "marketects": they must be able to sell and promote their cause as well as publicize their achievements, outcomes, and results. But how do they do this? What tips and guidelines from the world of marketing can architects adopt to their advantage?
http://www.cutter.com/content/architecture/fulltext/updates/2013/eau1305.html

Is SMAC Adding Business Value or More Complexity and Uncertainty?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:42:49 -0400

Chapala, Nethaji | Journals |
With all the emerging social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technologies, IT is not merely a supporter or enabler of the business but a game changer, bringing differentiation to organizations. While SMAC improves the customer experience -- which has become an essential ingredient in the survival of all organizations -- it is also yielding innovative services and products through co-creation.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/itj1302c.html

Gamification: Driving Behavior Change in the Connected World

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:26:44 -0400

Bess, Charles E. | Journals |
Since this month's Cutter IT Journal is focused on social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC), it seemed like an ideal opportunity to provide more detailed information about how gamification can enable organizations to reach their goals at the convergence of these four other trends.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/itj1302e.html

Leveraging Social Science to Boost Adoption of SMAC Technologies

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:25:07 -0400

Higgins, Dave; Clark, Sam |Journals |
Having been involved in the IT industry for many years, we find it interesting to observe the constant evolution of technical jargon. Thus we were delighted when we first learned of the acronym "SMAC" -- for "social, mobile, analytics, and cloud" -- as it embodies the essence of what our company has been doing for over a decade.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/itj1302a.html

SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:23:20 -0400

Kellen, Vince | Journals |
From time to time, the corpus of information technologies absorbs new classes of technology, often in one fell swoop. The collection of technologies discussed here -- social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) -- represents such a bundle. A decade ago, social, mobile, and cloud technologies were more a gleam in the eye of innovators than part of the CIO repertoire.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/index.html

How Can an API Platform Support the Integration of SMAC?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:21:51 -0400

Banerjee, Suman | Journals |
The world is going through a massive digitalization in the consumer ecosystem due to the influence of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC). The evolution of SMAC throws integration challenges in front of enterprises, forcing them to handle various SMAC endpoints in the simplest way.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/itj1302d.html

Challenging CIOs to Drive Front-Office Transformation

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:19:44 -0400

Teerlink, Marc; Martin, Desmond; Fillie, Jan-Paul | Journals |
Organizations are increasingly inundated by data: more sources of data, more types of data, and more detailed data. Yet while the volume, depth, and diversity of data continue to increase exponentially, the need to cut through the growing noise becomes more challenging and ever more urgent.
http://www.cutter.com/content/itjournal/fulltext/2013/02/itj1302b.html

The Role of Chief Data Officer in the 21st Century

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:18:32 -0400

Moss, Larissa T.; Adelman, Sid | Executive Reports |
Fifteen years after enterprise resource planning and over two decades into data warehousing, many business executives are still frustrated over their inability to trust their company's data. They have spent millions on new technologies, only to find that the state of their data assets has deteriorated. This significantly reduces the business value of their investments. One big reason for this continuing data chaos is that companies do not manage their data as a business asset, and there is no one watching the store. In this Executive Report, we look at the role of chief data officer and why this role is so important.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/reports/2013/02/index.html

The PMO Tool: An Information Source for Dashboards

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:17:11 -0400

Garcia-Alonso, Jose; Joaquin Guillen Melo; Miranda, Javier; Berrocal, Javier; Hernandez, Fernando; Murillo, Juan M. | Executive Updates |
This Executive Update proposes an approach that facilitates the integration of the PMO model in large software organizations. It presents an environment in which multiple tools are integrated to ensure that software processes are executed as specified by the PMO and that significant information about the outcome of the project is retrieved during all project phases and presented in the most suitable way.
http://www.cutter.com/content/project/fulltext/updates/2013/apmu1304.html

Corralling the Crowd

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:15:48 -0400

Dooley, Brian J. | E-Mail Advisors |
To view social media as monolithic in nature is to ignore some of its most interesting attributes. One area of growing importance is the use of social participation to create crowd behavior that suits a variety of interesting purposes.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130226.html

Agility and Discipline in Business Processes: A Case Study

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:14:40 -0400

Baudoin, Claude R. | Executive Updates |
In April 2012, while in Boston for the Cutter Summit, I started a dinner conversation with a friend and ex-colleague under the assumption that we would simply have a pleasant chat, giving each other updates on our respective work since our previous meeting.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1303.html

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:19:02 -0500

User Experience Analysis

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:16:30 -0500

Unhelkar, Bhuvan | E-Mail Advisors |
User experience analysis (UXA) can be described as the understanding, modeling, documenting, and reviewing of multiple aspects of a user's (and user group's) relationship with the business with the aim of creating lasting and sharable value.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130219.html

Mobile in the Enterprise: Part II -- Support, Strategy, and Standardization Trends for Tablets

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:11:02 -0500

Hall, Curt | Executive Updates |
Part I of this Executive Update series examined corporate mobile device adoption practices and strategies and the main benefits organizations hope to achieve by using mobile technologies as well as the top obstacles to enterprise mobile adoption. In this Update, I focus on survey findings pertaining to support for tablets in the enterprise, strategic significance of tablets and trends in corporate platform standardization efforts.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1302.html

Your Job Is to Make Work Easy

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:07:01 -0500

Derby, Esther | Executive Updates |
"My job is to get people to work hard." That's how Manager Mike characterized his role. And that's how many managers see their roles. I take Mike's declaration of a manager's role and turn it on its head: a manager's role is to make it easy for people to work. Am I encouraging social loafing? Not at all. But often, people mistake "working hard" for working well. This Executive Update helps to differentiate between the two.
http://www.cutter.com/content/project/fulltext/updates/2013/apmu1303.html

Big Changes on the Horizon for Big Data, Part II: Market Happenings

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:04:10 -0500

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
Last week, in Part I of this Advisor, I discussed important changes I saw happening in the Hadoop/Big Data world in order to accelerate enterprise adoption of the technology (see "Big Changes on the Horizon for Big Data -- Part I"). Basically, I said that we could expect to see a shift from focusing so much on the technological aspects of Hadoop to one that champions better methods and well-defined use cases.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130212.html

Webinar: Understanding the Mobile Environment

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:31:49 -0500

Big Changes on the Horizon for Big Data, Part I

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:29:44 -0500

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
For the past year and a half, much of the hype surrounding Big Data focused on the technological aspects of Hadoop. During this time, Hadoop became almost synonymous with Big Data.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130205.html

Big Data: Part I -- New Privacy Concerns

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:28:16 -0500

Herold, Rebecca | Executive Updates |
How many business organizations are actually looking into the privacy issues for how they use or plan to use Big Data? Here in Part I of this three-part Executive Update series, we explore new privacy concerns surrounding Big Data.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/updates/2013/biau1301.html

The Promises and Challenges of the New IT: Part II -- Cloud Strategies for the Enterprise

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:12:54 -0500

Greco, Frank | Executive Updates |
In Part I of this three-part Executive Update series, we highlighted the importance of understanding and evaluating the value and impact of the many new technologies, techniques, and tools that are part of the state of IT today. This Update explores the enterprise's need to go beyond the firewall to enhance customer satisfaction, increase revenue, and maintain a competitive edge.
http://www.cutter.com/content/architecture/fulltext/updates/2013/eau1303.html

Spreading the Vision: Bringing Analytics to Culture

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:11:46 -0500

Dooley, Brian J. | E-Mail Advisors |
Corporate culture is an important part of the analytics effort. In a previous Advisor ("Staffing for the Big Data Future") we looked at team-building issues and the need to incorporate an emerging breed of data scientist. Another important part of the analytics mix is to move analysis beyond the traditional silos and into the ordinary operations of the business.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130129.html

2013 Predictions on Collaboration: Part II

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:56:11 -0500

Coleman, David | Executive Updates |
This year, 2013, may finally be the long-predicted "year of collaboration." In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series, 1 I discussed five predictions related to increasing collaboration. Here are five more predictions that point to 2013 as the year of collaboration.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1302.html

2013 Predictions on Collaboration: Part I

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:54:23 -0500

Coleman, David | Executive Updates |
If anything, the pace of change in technology is speeding up. So how will 2013 be different than 2012? Many of my predictions are about new and sweeping technologies, but many others are about people and process. Let's see how things play out via the 10 predictions I share with you for 2013. This Executive Update covers the first five; I will expand on the last five predictions in Part II.
http://www.cutter.com/content/alignment/fulltext/updates/2013/bitu1301.html

A Model-Based Management Dashboard: Harmonizing Management Efforts to Optimize the Enterprise

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:41:07 -0500

Cummins, Fred A. | Executive Reports |
This Executive Report proposes personalized dashboards for all managers in an enterprise as well as an active business model based on the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML). The report describes the VDML concepts and facilities that model the operation of the enterprise, the mechanisms for integrating the model with operational business systems, and, finally, the implications of the shared VDML model and modeling facilities to the future evolution of the enterprise.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/reports/2013/01/index.html

Manage IT As a SaaS Business

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:27:24 -0500

Multhaup, Bob | E-Mail Advisors |
With the advent of cloud computing and SaaS, there is a new business model that can be adopted by the IT industry that forces a direct linkage between the cost of IT and the value that the customer receives.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130122.html

Thoughts on the Market for Tablets in the Enterprise

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:14:20 -0500

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
The tablet market is currently very dynamic; not only are new products by the leading providers like Apple, Google, and Samsung getting introduced with hyper-frequency, but new vendors -- the most recent and notable being Microsoft -- are also appearing, while other players are fighting for their lives. Here are some of the key trends I see impacting the enterprise market for tablet products.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130115.html

Press Release: Stat of the Week -- What are the main benefits your organization hopes to attain from using mobile devices and applications?

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:02:07 -0500

Cutter Consortium |
"Today's mobile technologies allow employees to not only work from wherever they are, but also to perform their jobs more efficiently."
http://www.cutter.com/press/130115.html

Look to Mobile Combined with Other "Disruptive" Technologies for Killer Apps in 2013

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:59:50 -0500

Hall, Curt | E-Mail Advisors |
Last year, organizations across almost every industry became really serious about using mobile technology. This trend will accelerate in 2013, with organizations continuing to deploy mobile apps in the form of management dashboards and tools for supporting the three main domains of CRM .
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130108.html

Analytic Visions

Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:58:41 -0500

Dooley, Brian J. | E-Mail Advisors |
Visualization has always played an important role in BI and analytics, aiding in our ability to process complex numerical information and improving our understanding. Graphics are an important part of BI dashboards, with graphs, plots, and speed dials providing instant and automatic access to analytics results. Data visualizations have a role in analytics from automated systems, but also form the basis of manually crafted presentations meant to elucidate numerical analysis.
http://www.cutter.com/content/bia/fulltext/advisor/2013/bia130102.html