O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 21, 2025

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed for enterprise-grade reliability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1]

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In 2025, thats going to change. Here are five keys to addressing these issues for AI success in 2025. What are the associated risks and costs, including operational, reputational, and competitive? Change management creates alignment across the enterprise through implementation training and support.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Middle East is rapidly evolving into a global hub for technological innovation, with 2025 set to be a pivotal year in the regions digital landscape. Looking ahead to 2025, Lalchandani identifies several technological trends that will define the Middle Easts digital landscape.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

While most provisions of the EU AI Act come into effect at the end of a two-year transition period ending in August 2026, some of them enter force as early as February 2, 2025. particular, companies that use AI systems can share their voluntary commitments to transparency and risk control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year saw emerging risks posed by AI , disastrous outages like the CrowdStrike incident , and surmounting software supply chain frailties , as well as the risk of cyberattacks and quantum computing breaking todays most advanced encryption algorithms. To respond, CIOs are doubling down on organizational resilience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2025

A sharp rise in enterprise investments in generative AI is poised to reshape business operations, with 68% of companies planning to invest between $50 million and $250 million over the next year, according to KPMGs latest AI Quarterly Pulse Survey. However, only 12% have deployed such tools to date.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

Enterprises worldwide are harboring massive amounts of data. Interest in turning enterprise data into new revenue is soaring. According to the 2025 State of the CIO survey , 38% of IT leaders say monetizing company data is the most significant business initiative driving their IT investments this year the No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks.

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datapine

MAY 31, 2022

It provides better data storage, data security, flexibility, improved organizational visibility, smoother processes, extra data intelligence, increased collaboration between employees, and changes the workflow of small businesses and large enterprises to help them make better decisions while decreasing costs. Cost management and containment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Is our AI strategy enterprise-wide?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

SpyCloud , the leading identity threat protection company, today released its 2025 SpyCloud Annual Identity Exposure Report , highlighting the rise of darknet-exposed identity data as the primary cyber risk facing enterprises today. Additional Report Findings: 17.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Customer relationship management ( CRM ) software provider Salesforce has updated its agentic AI platform, Agentforce , to make it easier for enterprises to build more efficient agents faster and deploy them across a variety of systems or workflows. Christened Agentforce 2.0, New agent skills in Agentforce 2.0

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

What will the world of data tools be like at the end of 2025? This will drive a new consolidated set of tools the data team will leverage to help them govern, manage risk, and increase team productivity. What will exist at the end of 2025? The vendor sprawl leaves enterprises to integrate and rationalize their approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The key areas we see are having an enterprise AI strategy, a unified governance model and managing the technology costs associated with genAI to present a compelling business case to the executive team. Our research indicates a scramble to identify and experiment with use cases in most business functions within an enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot. Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency. Infor offers applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and human capital management, among others. The average expected spend for 2024 is 3.7%

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Agentic AI was the big breakthrough technology for gen AI last year, and this year, enterprises will deploy these systems at scale. According to a January KPMG survey of 100 senior executives at large enterprises, 12% of companies are already deploying AI agents, 37% are in pilot stages, and 51% are exploring their use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

See also: Gen AI in 2025: Playtime is over, time to get practical. The challenge of ROI in innovation The same IDC survey reveals that 58% of IT executives anticipate higher IT spending in 2025 compared with 2024. million in 2025 to $7.45 million in 2025 to $7.45

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Agentic AI is the new frontier in AI evolution, taking center stage in todays enterprise discussion. UIPaths 2025 Agentic AI Report surveyed US IT execs from companies with $1 billion or more in revenue and found that 93% are highly interested in agentic AI for their business. We use AI to scale our mission, not replace our people.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As concerns about AI security, risk, and compliance continue to escalate, practical solutions remain elusive. as AI adoption and risk increases, its time to understand why sweating the small and not-so-small stuff matters and where we go from here. Additionally, does your enterprise flat-out restrict or permit public LLM access?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. The reason is because enterprises look for some predictability. Potentially good for customers, but maybe not for shareholder returns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Business risk (liabilities): “Our legacy systems increase our cybersecurity exposure by 40%.” Our research shows 52% of organizations are increasing AI investments through 2025 even though, along with enterprise applications, AI is the primary contributor to tech debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

14, 2025, many CIOs find themselves at a crossroads, with some considering Copilot+ certified AI PCs as part of their enterprise fleet plans for Windows 11. OEMs that have shipped or are readying AI PCs for 2025 or 2026 include Dell, Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

And, yes, enterprises are already deploying them. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At The big risk is you take the humans out of the loop when you let these into the wild.” When it comes to security, though, agentic AI is a double-edged sword with too many risks to count, he says. “We

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Jet Global

APRIL 30, 2025

April 30, 2025 insightsoftware , the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, introduces EZLease Lessor , a lease lifecycle management solution that reduces risk, cost, and complexity for lessors. This allows teams to focus on higher-value, strategic tasks.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 19, 2025

Our latest 2025 BARC Score on Data Intelligence Platforms reveals four key trends that are reshaping how organizations harness their data assets. You need tools that provide comprehensive oversight of your AI systems, from cataloging the unstructured data feeding your models to assessing the risks associated with AI-driven decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Meanwhile, Gartner predicts at least 30% of gen AI projects will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept stage by 2025. That high level of democratization doesn’t come without risks, and that’s where CIOs, as the guardians of enterprise technology, play a crucial role.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the European Union, for example, three-quarters of organizations are in the early stages of doing so (IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, April 2023). Back to the good news: Organizations are slowly conquering this issue. Businesses have no choice but to adapt to these new regulations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There’s already more low-quality AI content flooding search results, and this can hurt employees looking for information both on the public web and in enterprise knowledge repositories. And we’re at risk of being burned out.” Finding a result that’s actually useful can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

IT 141

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

These IT pros are tasked with overseeing the adoption of cloud-based AI solutions in an enterprise environment, further expanding the responsibility scope of the role. These IT pros can help navigate the process, which can take years navigating potential risks and ensuring a smooth transition.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 12, 2021

Predicts 2021: Data and Analytics Leaders Are Poised for Success but Risk an Uncertain Future : By 2023, 50% of chief digital officers in enterprises without a chief data officer (CDO) will need to become the de facto CDO to succeed.

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erwin

JANUARY 23, 2025

Companies are leaning into delivering on data intelligence and governance initiatives in 2025 according to our recent State of Data Intelligence research. With a variety of providers and offerings addressing data intelligence and governance needs, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed in selecting the right solution for your enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They will oversee four working groups, each focusing on different aspects of AI governance — transparency and copyright, risk identification and assessment, technical risk mitigation, and internal risk management for general-purpose AI providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In IDCs April 2024 CIO Poll Survey of 105 senior IT professionals and CIOs, developing better IT governance and enterprise architecture emerged as one of the top priorities for 2024, ranking fourth. It is fundamental for AI and essential for reducing cybersecurity risks or streamlining cloud migration processes, among other things.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 14, 2025

To fulfill todays data-driven agendas, many enterprises need an evolved perspective on data governance. Good data governance provides guardrails that enable enterprises to act fast while protecting the business from risks related to regulatory requirements, data-quality issues and data-reliability concerns.

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