David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases. Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. The system went into production in mid-2024, and processed 50,000 documents in November.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a survey of 451 senior technology executives conducted by Gartner in mid-2024, a striking 57% of CIOs reported being tasked with leading AI strategies. Gartner’s data revealed that 90% of CIOs cite out-of-control costs as a major barrier to achieving AI success. “You

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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. As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

AWS re:Invent 2024, the flagship annual conference, took place December 26, 2024, in Las Vegas, bringing together thousands of cloud enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders from around the globe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

AI allows organizations to use growing data more effectively , a fact recognized by the entire leadership team. Langer believes CIOs should seize this opportunity to inform leadership about AI-driven possibilities. As a support technology, AI works on data that is dependable, proven, and secure,” says Langer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It is also conducting pilot tests with Reflex Robotics and Apptronik humanoid robots. With Tesla building the most advanced humanoid robot, it can be directed by deep intelligence at the data set level, Musk said, noting that Grok-3 was trained with synthetic data and far more Nvidia horsepower than any other model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

And in an October Gartner report, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2033, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously. Having clean and quality data is the most important part of the job, says Kotovets. Infrastructure modernization In December, Tray.ai

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A DataOps Approach to Data Quality The Growing Complexity of Data Quality Data quality issues are widespread, affecting organizations across industries, from manufacturing to healthcare and financial services. 73% of data practitioners do not trust their data (IDC). The challenge is not simply a technical one.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data exploded and became big. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM). We all gained access to the cloud.

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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. They tested free shipping as a lever against a 10% discount on each order and found that the former generated twice as much business. billion is lost to low-value, manual data processing and management while $1.7

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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). IDC, June 2024).

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Otherwise, companies will struggle to realize business value with AI/ML capabilities left to endure high cloud cost expenses, as it has been for many companies in 2024 for AI solutions. The first three considerations are driven by business, and the last one by IT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

The 2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey , however, does a better job at that. This is not surprising given the high stakes of real patient outcomes, the sensitive nature of healthcare data, and a host of regulatory standards to adhere to. Despite the rosy outlook, it doesn’t paint the full picture of GenAI in healthcare.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Here is the lates Salesforce news and analysis: Salesforce unveils autonomous agents for sales teams August 22, 2024: Salesforce today announced two autonomous agents geared to help sales teams scale their operations and hone their negotiation skills. Salesforce has a market cap of $252.71 billion in revenue or 11% year-over-year growth.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively. The complexity and scale of operations in large organizations necessitate robust testing frameworks to mitigate these risks and remain compliant with industry regulations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Embrace the future-proofing imperative Eighty-three percent of IT leaders and 88% of LOB leaders expect full-year spending in 2024 to be higher or in line with original 2024 budgets despite inflation and potential recession concerns, according to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 (March 2024).

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

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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% Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. With over 85,000 queries executed in preview, Amazon Redshift announced the general availability in September 2024. Within this feature, user data is secure and private.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

] Forty-one percent of organizations adopted and used digital platforms for all or most functions in 2024, compared with just 26% in 2023, according to IDC’s May 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 5. Implement robust testing: As the CrowdStrike incident demonstrated, thorough testing is crucial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

This approach enhances the agility of cloud computing across private and public locations—and gives organizations greater control over their applications and data. Public and private cloud infrastructure is often fundamentally incompatible, isolating islands of data and applications, increasing workload friction, and decreasing IT agility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2024

Lawrence Bilker can easily articulate the business values that his IT initiatives should deliver: better experiences for both employees and customers, more insights from data to enable smarter decision-making, and more intelligence for improved operations. And CEOs are looking to CIOs to create those products.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

2024 is rapidly shaping up to be a defining year in generative AI. AI systems are invaluable, enabling us to process vast amounts of data with unmatched speed and accuracy, detect anomalies, predict threats, and respond to incidents in real-time. This variety helps prepare the team for a wide range of potential real-world situations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits. The average cost of a data breach is $4.64 In 2024, LinkedIn surveys show that half of all Americans want to change jobs.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 19, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s not hyperbole: TEKsystems’ 2024 State of Digital Transformation report found that 53% of organizations classified as digital leaders are confident that their digital investments will meet expected ROIs. I need one managing data and orchestrating the OEM platform base to drive business results.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

CIOs and IT leaders are uniquely positioned to contribute based on their ability to extract vendor commitments, prioritize socially relevant improvements, and lead data strategy as it informs AI and automation investments. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.),

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FineReport

MARCH 31, 2024

In 2024, business intelligence (BI) software has undergone significant advancements, revolutionizing data management and decision-making processes. Through meticulous testing and research, we’ve curated a list of the ten best BI tools, ensuring accessibility and efficacy for businesses of all sizes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2023

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time. As a result, the Private 5G project had to be put on hold.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After such a fractured experience, you begin asking harder questions like what biases might be embedded in this technology, how is it processing my data, how often is it audited to ensure fairness and transparency, and can it actually be taught to behave ethically.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

But the tools that data scientists use to create these proofs of concept often don’t translate well into production systems. As a result, it can take more than nine months on average to deploy an AI or ML solution, according to IDC data. “We And the data pipeline management functionality is also critical to operationalizing AI. “If

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

The impact of generative AIs, including ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), will be a significant transformation driver heading into 2024. Define a game-changing LLM strategy At a recent Coffee with Digital Trailblazers I hosted, we discussed how generative AI and LLMs will impact every industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Data volumes continue to expand at an exponential rate, with no sign of slowing down. For instance, IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will grow to 12.8 Cybersecurity strategies need to evolve from data protection to a more holistic business continuity approach. … ZB by 2026. To watch 12.8

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