Capability Smart on Route to Becoming New Buzzword
December 21, 2012
The countdown to 2013 is here in the form of predictions of technology trends. This year ‘capability smart’ popped up on Gartner’s recent list. Soon after,Connotate posted a recent article called, “Gaining Insights from Big Data and Analytics Requires Companies to be “Capability Smart.”
We learned how Connotate sees this idea manifesting at their company: partnerships. They have partnered with Clarabridge, Crowdsource, Digital Reasoning, Luminoso, SJV Associates, and Temis.
While capability smart veers off into many possible directions as far as a definition, the most fundamental level suggests:
“[T]hat we shouldn’t spin our wheels trying to build in-house solutions when there is a perfectly good commercial technology available that can do what it is that you need. For instance, when it comes to leveraging Web data for your Big Data projects, it’s not necessary to ask IT and Developer resources to build web scrapers to monitor products, pricing, reviews, asset sales, inventories or any other kind of accessible Web data, you can use a commercial solution.”
Now that Gartner has called 2013 the year where vendors must become capability smart, we might be seeing this phrase more often than big data. Capability smart means, amongst other definitions, that buzz words still work.
Megan Feil, December 21, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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