CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

While digital initiatives and talent are the board directors’ top strategic business priorities in 2023-2024, IT spending is forecasted to grow by only 2.4% Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months.

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Digital Transformation Data Governance Machine Learning Experimentation 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2024

“We know what we’re trying to achieve, because we know the business goals and objectives,” We want to grow substantially, and we want to do that with speed,” says Bilker, whose clarity on IT’s business objectives mirror the top directives CEOs are giving their CIOs, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com.

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IT Digital Transformation ROI Strategy 131

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Salesforce’s findings gibe with IDC’s Worldwide C-Suite Survey 2023-2024 , released in September. The Salesforce report found that 87% of technical leaders say that advances in AI make data management a higher priority and 92% say that trustworthy data is needed more than ever before.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2024

With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. Anurag Dhingra is no stranger to the challenges CTOs face today.

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Digital Transformation Business Objectives Reporting Technology 130

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Evolving BI Tools in 2024 Significance of Business Intelligence In 2024, the role of business intelligence software tools is more crucial than ever, with businesses increasingly relying on data analysis for informed decision-making. Keen to explore the full potential of BI tools?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, in my 2017 “ State of Digital Transformation ” report, I learned that only 37% of businesses viewed digital transformation as an investment in the fight against market evolution and disruption. More recently, KMPG reported in its 2023 Technology Survey that a majority of U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2024

Foundry’s 2024 State of the CIO research report shows 87% of CIOs are now more involved in leading digital transformation initiatives than their business counterparts, and 85% of IT leaders who responded view the CIO role as a changemaker, increasingly taking the lead on business and technology initiatives.

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Digital Transformation Technology Cost-Benefit Insurance 132

Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we see in another new year, it’s that time to hear about all the new strategies from software and Business Intelligence( BI) vendors for 2024. The BusinessObjects community has a lot to look forward to in 2024, not least of which will be seeing previews of BI 2025.

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Paul Blogs on BI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here it is : “BusinessObjects will continue to thrive and remain the most solid BI reporting tool for the next 10 years and beyond”. Yes, organizations still run on paginated reporting – like it or not – it is reality. Secondly, there is no simple and inexpensive way to replace Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. Experts stress the need to ensure that digital transformation initiatives are aligned with corporate objectives and the company’s strategic vision.

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FineReport

APRIL 24, 2024

Seamless integration ensures smooth workflows by allowing users to leverage existing infrastructure while incorporating visualizations into reports or applications seamlessly. Proactively tailoring a dashboard to align with your business objectives sets the stage for enhanced performance and informed decision-making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

Borrow language from investor-day presentations and earnings reports. Clarify how they will obstruct your achieving the IT vision and any overarching business objectives. Aim to define three to five objectives that together envelop projects proposed for 2024, ongoing and new. Why change now?

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Strategy IT Cost-Benefit Finance 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The exam covers topics such as IT governance, IT risk assessment, risk response and reporting, and information technology and security. A new CompTIA Network+ N10-009 certification exam was released in June 2024 and the prior N10-008 exam, originally released in 2021, is set to retire in December 2024.

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Paul Blogs on BI

MAY 13, 2024

allows you to create a master Webi document and then place a universe on top of this document to enable users to create child reports, dashboards and extracts from this one master document. SP04, we can now dynamically refresh both master and child reports making this feature even more versatile and desirable to use.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JUNE 4, 2024

Some of these components can be used to create new offline Webi reports and dashboards where a data set can be embedded and then distributed so that a user can interact with the report/dashboard without being connected to BusinessObjects. Crystal Reports will also continue to be enhanced.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 10, 2024

Need to create an operational or paginated report that you will often need to export to Excel? Tableau does not have a paginated report capability and PowerBI’s answer with Report Builder, which is a totally different tool to PowerBI and is a port of their old SSRS tool, is like taking a huge step backwards.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 15, 2021

functionality now and some use Crystal Reports and not Webi, so these customers may choose to move to BI 4.3 In addition, regression testing is not really needed for your reports since there were no changes to calculation engines or other underlying services. The new and current SAP BusinessObjects release, BI 4.3, SP01 this year.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 5, 2023

is relatively straightforward although we do recommend installing on new servers/VM’s and arranging for training on Web Intelligence differences for anyone creating Webi reports. SP4 and the BI 2024. . It will be busy for sure. The upgrade from BI 4.2 If you’re planning to upgrade to BI 4.3 IBIS / In-Person Events.

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This leads to a lot of issues being reported with the first version. a test database) then try out different reports as well as ad-hoc queries. SP4 at IBIS 2024 so think about attending that as well. As with previous BI 4.3 service packs, there is a lot of new functionality and code in SP4 outside of just patches and fixes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Board of Directors Survey from Gartner , for example, found that 80% of non-executive directors believe their current board practices and structures are inadequate to effectively oversee AI. How does our AI strategy support our business objectives, and how do we measure its value?

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Strategy ROI Experimentation Risk 141

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

But this year three changes are likely to drive CIOs operating model transformations and digital strategies: In 2024, enterprise SaaS embedded AI agents to drive workflow evolutions , and leading-edge organizations began developing their own AI agents.

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Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143

FineReport

MARCH 31, 2024

In 2024, business intelligence (BI) software has undergone significant advancements, revolutionizing data management and decision-making processes. In essence, the core capabilities of the best BI tools revolve around four essential functions: data integration, data transformation, data visualization, and reporting.

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Dashboards Visualization Data mining Data-driven 52

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

They do nothing to motivate people to make improvements to their data.” – Senior Data Quality Person, Financial Services, DataKitchen Market Research 2024 Moreover, relying solely on DAMA dimensions tends to produce dashboards disconnected from an organization’s or its stakeholders’ unique needs.

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Data Quality Dashboards Metrics Cost-Benefit 215

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Most telling could be a 2024 report from IBM. In its Technology Leaders Survey, IBM reports that only 36% of CEOs say IT is effective at providing basic technology services, down from 64% in 2013; 50% of CFOs rate the IT organization as efficient, down from 60% in 2013; and only 47% of surveyed tech leaders say as much, down from 69%.

IT 140

IT Measurement Metrics Cost-Benefit 140

Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 2, 2025

BusinessObjects had another great year in 2024. While Microsoft PowerBI continued to eat into the Tableau base, BusinessObjects beat them both hands-down for operational and BI reporting. That was basically the story in 2023 and the trend just continued throughout 2024. in 2024 to avoid the end-of-life support for BI 4.2

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Reporting Visualization Risk 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2025

Then in 2024, the White House published a mandate for government agencies to appoint a CAIO. According to Foundrys 2025 State of the CIO survey, 14% of organizations now employ CAIOs, with 40% of those reporting directly to the CEO and 24% to the CIO. And then there is technology, she says.

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Technology Business Objectives Strategy Machine Learning 129

Cloudera

JANUARY 13, 2025

This approach and our focus on inclusion are crucial to both our broader business objectives and to establishing the kind of workplace where our employees can be their best, authentic selves every day. The report is critically important, highlighting successes and areas for improvement.

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Reporting Business Objectives Metrics Technology 78

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

The 2024 State of Agile report from Digital.ai Instead CIOs can incent staff based on the percentage of time they work with groups outside IT to further business objectives, he says. He says the approach is paying off.

Digital Transformation 109

Digital Transformation Testing Metrics Technology 109

Jet Global

MARCH 31, 2025

With robust integration capabilities and an intuitive user experience, Longview Close ensures faster, more accurate reporting and compliance with accounting standards. It automates data collection, consolidation, and reporting, enabling organizations to generate reliable financial statements quickly.

Reporting 52

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