Smart enterprise means analytics with everything - TechCentral.ie

LESLIE FAUGHNAN finds that while automation, augmented intelligence and artificial intelligence are developing at a furious pace in today's enterprise, we are a long way from replacing people and the things they are good at One of the many dictionary definitions of the word'smart' includes the phrase "quick-witted intelligence", which seems as good a way as any of describing what we currently mean by a smart enterprise. Definition is a challenge yet to be met because there is no tech spec for smart. But both the IT industry and its corporate clients share a broad vision of what we are aiming for -- an organisation that is fully joined up digitally and capable of realising the benefits of that synergy. That in turn means corporate agility based on the ability to utilise all of its collected data, complemented by relevant external data, in real time. A useful term in the ether now is'Augmented Intelligence', which will help us somewhat limited humans to make better decisions.