Deep dive into the Trend 4 of the Technology Vision 2015 - Intelligent Enterprise - and discover software that propels innovation throughout the business and enhances the customer experience.

1. Digital Business Era: Stretch Your Boundaries
Trend 4: Intelligent Enterprise

2. Vision Trend Evolution
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5 Trends

4. 4
Intelligent Enterprise:
Huge data, smarter systems—
better business.
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5. For years, software’s expanding capabilities were geared primarily toward helping
employees make better and faster decisions.
Amid the influx of data—along with advances in processing power, analytics and
cognitive technology—software intelligence is helping automobiles, thermostats and
other everyday things recognize, “think” and respond accordingly.
To fully capture the power and potential of software intelligence, visionary
companies will find new ways to get smart software out of the lab and into as many
practical scenarios as possible. Only then will their software be able to spur
innovation and raise the operating-performance bar across the organization.
Intelligent Enterprise:
Huge data, smarter systems—better business.
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6. Trend Perspectives:
Business and IT Executives
41%
Are using machine
learning, 36% are
experimenting with it
and 16% are considering
using it.
55%
Average increase in
amount of data
managed over the
previous year by each
organization surveyed.
91%
Believe software
intelligence will be
critical to simplifying IT.
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7. More Data is creating an
Unexpected Catalyst for More
Intelligent Software
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Most enterprises struggle to fully utilize their
data—they wrestle not only with the volume
of data, but also with the many complexities
of identifying, capturing, categorizing,
analyzing, and sharing it throughout the
data supply chain.
To address this, more decisions are being
made by software—and that many more
decisions can and should be entrusted to
machines. But as software takes on more
decision-making duties, it must be made
smarter, too. Only then can the enterprise
consider itself truly data driven and
intelligent.

8. Software that learns
Much of the power of software intelligence comes from its ability to self-
evolve and make novel discoveries.
It enables software to stay up to date without relying on manual updates, and
it uncovers opportunities to attract customers with new and improved
products and services, respectively.
Businesses that leverage massive amounts of data to identify and define
associations—the foundations of machine learning—will gain an edge over
their competitors.
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9. Enterprise Commitment
Business and technology leaders must view
software intelligence not as a pilot, but as an
across-the-board functionality
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10. Understanding the Software Intelligence Maturity Curve
• A Foundation in Automation: Rule-
based automation is a powerful driver
of intelligence that many companies
have yet to fully embrace.
• Software that Learns: Machine
learning can learn from software data,
to discover connections, and
automatically evolve with to keep pace
with user expectations.
• Scaling Intelligence through
Cognitive Computing: The ability to
automate the “best” answer can allow
enterprises to solve entirely new daily
challenges.
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Intelligent Enterprise: Looking Ahead
Visionary companies will find new ways to get smart software out of the lab and into as
many practical scenarios as possible, thereby spurring innovation and raising the bar of
operating performance across their organizations.
Software intelligence is a game-changer for every business in every industry. Ignoring
that fact is, simply, not very smart.

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