CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases. According to a Capgemini survey released in mid 2024, 60% of executives at large companies say that AI agents will handle most of the coding in enterprises within three to five years.

Software 143

Software Risk Enterprise Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are very good at spotting patterns in data of all types, and then creating artefacts in response to user prompts that match these patterns. Despite these limitations and concerns among CIOs over AI costs, real progress has been made this year and we can expect to see this grow further in 2025.

Enterprise 116

Enterprise ROI Cost-Benefit Measurement 116

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

Despite all the interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI), ISGs Buyers Guide for Data Platforms serves as a reminder of the ongoing importance of product experience functionality to address adaptability, manageability, reliability and usability. This is especially true for mission-critical workloads.

Data Lake 130

Data Lake IoT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 130

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor’s Embedded Experiences allows users to create first drafts of text for specific business purposes and summarize insights as well as quickly analyze and interact with data. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Gain stronger control over data Jae Evans, global CIO and executive vice president at Oracle, is planning to prioritize data control in 2024, and CIOs across industries would be wise to follow suit. “As As a large enterprise, we have vast amounts of data from disparate sources,” she says.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Optimization Measurement 142

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Global Banking Benchmark Study 2024 , which surveyed more than 1,000 executives from the banking sector worldwide, found that almost a third (32%) of banks’ budgets for customer experience transformation is now spent on AI, machine learning, and generative AI. Among laggards, only 70% think so.

Digital Transformation 141

Digital Transformation Consulting Cost-Benefit Marketing 141

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” Here, we detail those and others that comprise eight of the top priorities for CIOs in 2024.

Cost-Benefit 139

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Consulting Strategy 139

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2024, squeezed by the rising cost of living, inflationary impact, and interest rates, they are now grappling with declining consumer spending and confidence. It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. But 2025 and 2026 will bear good news, according to Deloitte.

B2B 105

B2B Data-driven Cost-Benefit Sales 105

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.”

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After all, every department is pressured to drive efficiencies and is clamoring for automation, data capabilities, and improvements in employee experiences, some of which could be addressed with generative AI. Meanwhile, CIOs must still reduce technical debt, modernize applications, and get cloud costs under control.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Unstructured Data Machine Learning Risk Management 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

According to a recent survey by Foundry , nearly all respondents (97%) reported that their organization is impacted by digital friction, defined as the unnecessary effort an employee must exert to use data or technology for work. AI-driven asset information management will play a critical role in that final push toward zero incidents.

Management 86

Management Data-driven Cost-Benefit Risk 86

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. It enables teams to securely find, prepare, and collaborate on data assets and build analytics and AI applications through a single experience, accelerating the path from data to value.

Analytics 88

Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 88

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.”

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. The first three considerations are driven by business, and the last one by IT.

Optimization 98

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Challenge: Consumers want to shop on their own terms Recent research shows that 77% of consumers today buy through a mix of digital and physical shopping, while just 17% buy only online or only in physical stores (IDC Retail Insights: Consumer Sentiment Survey, 2024 — Findings and Implications, July 2024).

IT 64

IT Cost-Benefit Manufacturing Sales 64

AWS Big Data

MAY 31, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce that AWS has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51053123, March 2024). There are no servers and clusters to manage, and there is no compute and storage infrastructure to set up. You pay only for the resources you use.

Software 109

Software Analytics Cost-Benefit Data-driven 109

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s especially poignant when we consider the extent to which financial data can steer business strategy for the better. Way back in 1999, his team did a cost-benefit analysis of the free shipping model, which is arguably one of the key drivers of Amazon’s stupendous growth. Poor quality data. billion a year.

Data-driven 116

Data-driven IT Finance Forecasting 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

As regulatory scrutiny, investor expectations, and consumer demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) accountability intensify, organizations must leverage data to drive their sustainability initiatives. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

IT 59

IT Data Governance Data-driven Metrics 59

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide (August 2024) , the global AI market is expected to surge from US$235 billion in 2024 to US$632 billion by 2028. Tencent Cloud stands to benefit, particularly in APAC, where market size is predicted to grow from US$45.4

Marketing 122

Marketing Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Data-driven 122

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2024, sustainability is taking center stage. These efforts are often driven by stakeholder expectations, regulatory requirements and the recognition that sustainable business practices can improve the bottom line. 2 For example, some are turning to software solutions that can more easily capture, manage and report ESG data.

Reporting 88

Reporting Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Data-driven 88

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Data Processing Reporting Enterprise 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape. This article presents essential strategies for CIOs to strike the optimal balance among innovation, value, cost, and practicality in tech investments.

Technology 111

Technology Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Optimization 111

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

Interest in AI, building since last year, will push a 10% increase in data center system spending this year, driving worldwide IT spending to $5.06 Companies buying the marketing hype about the benefits of AI need to look for proofs of concept, added Mark McDonald, a distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. growth in 2023.

IT 132

IT Software Cost-Benefit ROI 132

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Now, picture doing that with a mountain of data. Infused with the magic of artificial intelligence (AI), DataLark revolutionizes data migration, making it faster, more efficient, and surprisingly painless. It involves shifting massive amounts of data from outdated legacy systems to a sleek, modern ERP platform.

Cost-Benefit 64

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Integration Data Quality 64

Jen Stirrup

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To achieve AI ambitions, organizations need data and a cyber-resilient data platform to support them, and this will mean a growing need for data observability. As organizations become increasingly data-driven toward achieving AI ambitions, they recognize the need to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and quality.

Data-driven 75

Data-driven Data Governance Data Quality Cost-Benefit 75

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2024

In the age of big data, where information is generated at an unprecedented rate, the ability to integrate and manage diverse data sources has become a critical business imperative. Traditional data integration methods are often cumbersome, time-consuming, and unable to keep up with the rapidly evolving data landscape.

Data Integration 102

Data Integration IoT Cost-Benefit Machine Learning 102

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. They, too, were motivated by data privacy issues, cost considerations, compliance concerns, and latency issues.

Optimization 128

Optimization Strategy IT Cost-Benefit 128

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With the growing emphasis on data, organizations are constantly seeking more efficient and agile ways to integrate their data, especially from a wide variety of applications. In addition, organizations rely on an increasingly diverse array of digital systems, data fragmentation has become a significant challenge.

Data Integration 113

Data Integration Data Lake Statistics Data-driven 113

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

Deep automation transforms enterprises into living organisms, integrating technologies, processes, and data for self-adjustment. AI-integrated tractors, planters, and harvesters form a data-driven team, optimizing tasks and empowering farmers. Prioritize data quality to ensure accurate automation outcomes.

Data-driven 130

Data-driven Metrics Optimization Machine Learning 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

However, amidst the allure of newfound technology lies a profound duality—the stark contrast between the benefits of AI-driven software development and the formidable security risks it introduces. Moreover, the report underscores the critical need for organizations to prioritize security in their AI-driven development initiatives.

Testing 124

Testing Risk Data-driven Cost-Benefit 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

For example, in the 2024 CISO Burnout Report , 80% of CISOs classify themselves as “ highly stressed ,” 63% say they receive little to no support managing their roles, and 50% report losing team members because of workplace stress. Now, add data, ML, and AI to the areas driving stress across the organization.

Risk 142

Risk IT Risk Management Cost-Benefit 142

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

CIOs are under pressure to integrate generative AI into business operations and products, often driven by the demand to meet business and board expectations swiftly. Samsung employees leaked proprietary data to ChatGPT. We examine the risks of rapid GenAI implementation and explain how to manage it.

Risk 111

Risk Strategy Consulting Cost-Benefit 111

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The resulting infrastructure of choice — a combination of on-premises and hybrid-cloud platforms — will aim to reduce cost overruns, contain cloud chaos, and ensure adequate funding for generative AI projects.

Strategy 144

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Processing Data-driven 144

Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the sessions I sat in at UKISUG Connect 2024 covered a real-world example of data management using a solution from Bluestonex Consulting , based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Impact of Errors : Erroneous data posed immediate risks to operations and long-term damage to customer trust.

Management 52

Management Data Governance Consulting Risk 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

As such, Scavuzzo and his team look for technologies that do way more than boost productivity or cut costs. Moreover, Scavuzzo saw an additional business benefit to such an approach, thanks to scale: Using anonymized data, Marcum could analyze and compare client performance and thereby provide better consulting advice to them.

IT 126

IT Data-driven Strategy Consulting 126

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Data engineers and data scientists are focused on developing new applications to meet their goals. There are a lot of great software applications that can be used for a variety of data science objectives. Unfortunately, developing software that was capable of handling big data challenges has been rather complex.

Big Data 135

Big Data Software Data Science Data-driven 135

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When we asked what’s driving that consolidation, finance-driven reasons were close to – but not at – the top. As buyers consolidate, pressure on vendors increases Clearly there is pressure to consolidate – both internally and externally driven.

IT 128

IT Cost-Benefit Data-driven Manufacturing 128