Technology Forecast: Spring 09

 
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The future of enterprise applications and their role in creating a foundation for agility in an era of accelerating change.
   

Fall 2008
Managing projects in an era of continuous change without tearing the organization apart.
Message from the editor
   
Paul Horowitz Paul Horowitz
In the middle of a downturn, the nature of industry change becomes more apparent.
   
Features
   
Spinning a data Web
Semantic Web technologies could revolutionize enterprise
decision making and information sharing. Here’s why.
   
Making Semantic Web connections
Linked Data technology can change the business of
enterprise data management.
   
A CIO’s strategy for rethinking “messy BI”
Take the initial steps toward your next-generation data architecture.
Interviews
   
Traversing the Giant Global Graph
Tom Scott of BBC Earth describes how everyone benefits from interoperable data.
   
From folksonomies to ontologies
 Uche Ogbuji of Zepheira discusses how early adopters are introducing Semantic Web to the enterprise.
   
How the Semantic Web might improve cancer treatment
 M. D. Anderson’s Lynn Vogel explores new techniques for combining clinical and research data.
   
Semantic technologies at the ecosystem level
 Frank Chum of Chevron talks about the need for shared ontologies in the oil and gas industry.

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