Arvind Sathi Knihy

This book delves into cognitive behavior within the Internet of Things, utilizing current and futuristic examples such as appliances, personal assistants, robots, driverless cars, and more. It addresses key questions surrounding Cognitive Things, including their definitions, potential applications today and in the future, and their collaboration with individuals and organizations. The text distinguishes the cognitive era from the automation era, exploring how Cognitive Things can enhance human problem-solving and redistribute workloads between humans and machines. It also discusses the types of data these devices can collect, sharing protocols with external organizations, user recognition and authentication, data security against theft, and ownership rights. Through case studies, the author illustrates how innovators are already capitalizing on the surge of devices and data. This exploration provides valuable insights for business executives, operational managers, and IT professionals, highlighting the fundamental changes needed to leverage cognitive technologies effectively for organizational success.

Bringing a practitioner’s view to big data analytics, this work examines the drivers behind big data, postulates a set of use cases, identifies sets of solution components, and recommends various implementation approaches. This work also addresses and thoroughly answers key questions on this emerging topic, including What is big data and how is it being used? How can strategic plans for big data analytics be generated? and How does big data change analytics architecture? The author, who has more than 20 years of experience in information management architecture and delivery, has drawn the material from a large breadth of workshops and interviews with business and information technology leaders, providing readers with the latest in evolutionary, revolutionary, and hybrid methodologies of moving forward to the brave new world of big data.

Through a series of case studies from a variety of industries to show how customer experience analytics (CEA) is reshaping business, this book explores the technologies available to help businesses create a competitive advantage and real-time relationship with customers. This book provides a program based in business values that appeal to senior management and a solution architecture that utilizes the fast, intelligent, andproductive capabilities of CEA. Exploring the internet's impact on consumer power, this book reflects on the sophistication of business markets in multisupplier management, electronic gateways, and customer and product data across the supply hierarchy."