White Paper: “Crafting your Future-Ready Enterprise AI Strategy, e2”
It has become obvious how difficult so many organizations are finding it to actually craft and execute their AI strategy, in part because of the (often) decades they’ve spent kicking their proverbial data can down the road, in part because it turns out that enterprise-grade AI really does require the adoption of ecosystem-oriented architecture to truly scale, but largely because many organizations have no idea where to start. Many lack the wherewithal to really assess where they stand on day one, and to identify areas where they must mature to get to day 100 (and beyond).
We’ve learned a great deal about maturity and readiness for - and responsibility to the ethics of - AI over the past year, as well. It’s now time to broaden the thesis, so in this second edition we offer a model through which organizations may realistically assess their current maturity to adopt and scale artificial intelligence, and then identify specific areas to invest time, talent, and funding along their journey.
White Paper: “Ecosystem-Oriented Architecture in the Public Sector”
This whitepaper offers CIOs, enterprise architects, and other public sector technologists a comprehensive introduction underscoring the need to adopt ecosystem-oriented architecture (EOA) to build scalable, resilient, and flexible cloud ecosystems that can absorb successive waves of technological change.
White Paper: “Scaling your Enterprise Cloud with Power Platform”
Power Platform has been woven into the fabric of enterprise IT for far longer than most people realize, and, as such, is often the backbone of mission-critical “Tier 1” workloads. This white paper is the technology leaders’ guide to strategic Power Platform in a modern cloud ecosystem, diving deep on some of the most important methods of scaling your entire enterprise cloud—data, AI, applications included—with Power Platform: Using Power Platform with your enterprise data, lowering your long-term costs, securing and governing your data to reduce risk, infusing AI into daily work, then scaling AI across your org, and scaling your cloud and other tech investments with specialized capabilities.
White Paper: “Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture”
For all the talk about Power Platform as a ‘’low-code’’ tool (and this is the last time I will use the word), for all the attention given to how supposedly easily it allows non-technical users to create simple apps, Power Platform’s greatest value lies not in the app, but in the data the app collects or serves back to its users. Power Platform isn’t an app phenomenon. It’s a data phenomenon. This white paper takes on the question of how Power Platform integrates with Azure data services including Microsoft Fabric, outlining five patterns that organizations ought to mix and match to extract Power Platform’s greatest value.
White Paper: “Crafting Your Future-Ready Enterprise AI Strategy”
It is yet unknown if artificial intelligence is more akin to a “great inventions” of the 19th and 20th centuries, or if it will ultimately represent another more incremental evolution of existing capabilities. The former—as seems more likely given the immense investments being made today—will present significant challenges to nearly every organization that, having become accustomed to incremental change, is suddenly faced with a “great inventions” caliber paradigm shift that AI seems to portend. This white paper explores foundational concepts for AI technology and your AI strategy, five pillars for your AI strategy—data consolidation, data readiness, incremental AI, differential AI, scaling AI—and trends that are likely to shape AI in organizations going forward.
Sharing the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second edition
Today we’re releasing the second edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework. We're introducing some new ideas—and new ways of thinking about existing concepts—as we enter the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second year. As a "framework", we're committed to broadly applicable best practices for adoption at scale, not to being a technical manual.