DataKitchen

AUGUST 11, 2025

Data in this layer is typically organized into project-specific schemas optimized for business intelligence and advanced analytics. The Gold layer delivers the final data products that business users interact with through dashboards, reports, and analytical applications.

Data Quality

Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 2, 2025

The Critical Distinction Your Organization Can't Afford to Miss As an independent AI and Business Intelligence consultant who has worked with organizations across healthcare, hospitality, agriculture, and marketing, I've observed a clear pattern. " or "How many?" " "How many?"

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

According to Unit 42’s 2024 Incident Response Report , the median time between compromise and exfiltration accelerated to just two days in 2024 (from nine days in 2022). In particular, the speed of attacks has increased exponentially, with data breaches now occurring within days or even hours of an initial compromise.

Visualization

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

AI deployment will also allow for enhanced productivity and increased span of control by automating and scheduling tasks, reporting and performance monitoring for the remaining workforce which allows remaining managers to focus on more strategic, scalable and value-added activities.”

IoT

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

GenAI can also play a role in report summarization as well as generate new trading opportunities to increase market returns. GenAI also helps identify patterns that assist in Suspicious Activity Report generation for anti-money laundering, greatly reducing investigation time.

Forecasting

DataKitchen

JUNE 6, 2025

According to Gartner’s breakdown of analytics and data roles , data teams now span far beyond traditional data engineering and business intelligence (BI) analysts. Data Engineers focus on building pipelines, Data Scientists on developing models, and Analysts on creating reports and dashboards.

Data Quality

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

To some consumers and businesses, alike it may appear companies are exaggerating the significance of this emerging technology. AI this, AI that The reality is that AI is here to stay and will play a massive role in the future of global technology, how consumers interact with it and the way businesses operate.

Technology

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

RPA refers to software tools designed to automate repetitive, rule-based tasks by mimicking human interactions with digital systems. It operates through predefined workflows, handling structured data in tasks such as data entry, invoice processing, and report generation.

Unstructured Data

Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 12, 2025

Rather than automating jobs away, intelligent augmentation empowers employees to achieve more, solve complex problems, and make better decisions. automated reporting, scheduling, document review). McKinsey reports that people-centric AI integration can boost employee satisfaction by 20–30% and reduce turnover by 15%.

Consulting

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Kevin Weil, chief product officer at OpenAI, wants to make it possible to interact with AI in all the ways that you interact with another human being. An agent is part of an AI system designed to act autonomously, making decisions and taking action without direct human intervention or interaction. Don’t let that scare you off.

Testing

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to NTT DATAs Global GenAI Report , 97% of CEOs expect a material impact from the technology and 99% of respondents are planning more GenAI investment, even though only 43% of the C-suite strongly agree their existing solutions are meeting expectations. [1] NTT DATAs Global GenAI Report now. [1]

Technology

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This intermediate layer strikes a balance by refining data enough to be useful for general analytics and reporting while still retaining flexibility for further transformations in the Gold layer. At the same time, the Gold layer’s “single version of the truth” makes data accessible and reliable for reporting and analytics.

Data Quality

AWS Big Data

JULY 9, 2025

Either legacy AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) with Amazon Athena integration or Data Exports configured and integrated with Athena for queries. To view overall costs per project, configure the following report parameters: For Date Range , enter your range. The following screenshot shows a sample report.

Dashboards

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Gartner recently suggested AI is heading for the trough of disillusionment , and two reports imply the AI honeymoon is ending: Deloittes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise reports that nearly 70% of respondents said their organization had moved 30% or fewer of their gen AI experiments into production.

Digital Transformation

DataFloq

AUGUST 12, 2025

By allowing users to just “ask” their data questions in natural language, Business Intelligence (BI) platforms are becoming intuitive, usable, and powerful. Rather than typing SQL queries, drilling through dashboards, or asking analysts for reports, users can ask questions like: “What were our sales last quarter?

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to NTT DATAs Global GenAI Report , 97% of CEOs expect a material impact from the technology and 99% of respondents are planning more GenAI investment, even though only 43% of the C-suite strongly agree their existing solutions are meeting expectations. [1] NTT DATAs Global GenAI Report now. [1]

Technology

AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2025

Amazon SageMaker has announced an integration with Amazon QuickSight , bringing together data in SageMaker seamlessly with QuickSight capabilities like interactive dashboards, pixel perfect reports and generative business intelligence (BI)—all in a governed and automated manner.

Dashboards

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Plus, they can be more easily trained on a companys own data, so Upwork is starting to embrace this shift, training its own small language models on more than 20 years of interactions and behaviors on its platform. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.

ROI

Smarten

AUGUST 7, 2025

As data democratization and data literacy drive the enterprise strategy and business users begin to leverage augmented analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools, the data scientist is also called upon to refine and present analytics and reports created by team members in order to ensure that these are appropriate for more strategic decisions.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

There are also pure-play agentic AI platform providers such as CrewAI and intelligent automation providers like UiPath. In a report released in early January, Accenture predicts that AI agents will replace people as the primary users of most enterprise systems by 2030. For us, agents are essential to interacting with our data, he says.

Software

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In addition, despite billions of dollars invested in AI infrastructure and generative AI in 2023, only 20% of businesses reported earnings benefits from AI in 2024.” To effectively leverage AI agents, he said enterprises need to reevaluate processes designed for human interaction and replace outdated technologies.

ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

They promise to revolutionize how we interact with data, generating human-quality text, understanding natural language and transforming data in ways we never thought possible. They can also automate report generation and interpret data nuances that traditional methods might miss. This article reflects some of what Ive learned.

Unstructured Data

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Forrester reports that 30% of IT leaders struggle with high or critical debt, while 49% more face moderate levels. Even in the case of moderate to low risk, technical debt impacts can change quickly as business needs evolve. Engineering teams also risk drowning in tangled service interactions instead of delivering new features.

Risk

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

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. The study found better oversight of business workflows to be the top perceived benefit of it. Another area is democratizing data analysis and reporting.

IT

AWS Big Data

JULY 9, 2025

These issues lead to lengthy development cycles, inefficient resource utilization, reactive troubleshooting, and difficult-to-maintain data pipelines.These challenges are especially critical for enterprises processing terabytes of data daily for business intelligence (BI), reporting, and machine learning (ML).

Testing

DataKitchen

JULY 8, 2025

In this context, data serves as the raw material, while the production outputs include refined datasets, visualizations, models, and reports. This approach offers no proactive benefits and results in customers discovering and reporting problems, making it unsuitable for professional data operations.

Testing

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

The 2024 NACD Blue Ribbon Commission Report, Technology Leadership in the Boardroom: Driving Trust and Value , was released in early October 2024. This report from the NACD examines the impact of technology and data on corporate governance. The report gives a well-written rationale and game plan to get the improvement started.

Reporting

Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 11, 2025

For forward-thinking organizations, the real opportunity lies in the data: every virtual interaction, transaction, and experience generates insights that can drive measurable business results. We defined “engagement” with precise, measurable metrics before building any reports. As always, the virtual data tells a story.

Measurement

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight. Many early gen AI wins have centered around productivity improvements.

Sales

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For many, the main channel of interaction with users is the telephone. Yet Ivanti’s Everywhere Work Report found only 40% of respondents were using AI for ticket resolution, 35% for knowledge base management, and only 31% for intelligent escalation. How AI can help AI can improve many help desk tasks.

Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

Theyre handling student applications, financial aid, resource allocation, faculty workload balancing, and compliance reporting as well as back-office functions like procurement. AI could also be useful across the board to help identify students who need some high-touch interaction, such as when someone misses a class three times in a row.

Interactive

AWS Big Data

JULY 11, 2025

Materialized views are particularly useful for speeding up predictable and repeated queries, such as those used to populate dashboards or generate reports. Application/Users/BI Reporting : The application or business intelligence (BI) tools interact with the nested materialized views to generate reports and dashboards.

Data Warehouse

AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2025

Data scientists can train ML models on fresh data and data analysts can generate reports using current information, with typical synchronization latency in minutes rather than hours. This dataset captures customer behavior and interactions on an ecommerce platform. Upload the CSV file you downloaded.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By eliminating time-consuming tasks such as data entry, document processing, and report generation, AI allows teams to focus on higher-value, strategic initiatives that fuel innovation. With the rise of AI and data-driven decision-making, new regulations like the EU Artificial Intelligence Act and potential federal AI legislation in the U.S.

Data Governance

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. Today’s users expect instant, intelligent, and insight-rich online experiences,” says Macrometa’s Venkatesh.

Cost-Benefit

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It takes the input from the analyst, provides the responses to analysts’ questions, and generates the report,” explains Durvasula. It might be for low-margin customer interactions, but for times when millions of dollars are on the line, the cost of invoking generative AI is a pittance, Gualtieri says. “If

IT

Smarten

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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Reporting