David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At one point, analytics and business intelligence were considered non-mission critical activities. The most common complaint about analytics and BI technologies is that they are hard to integrate with business processes. But today, analytical systems are integral to many aspects of operations.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

AUGUST 29, 2023

If I had a magic wand, I would want to add scenario evaluation to all business intelligence tools on the market. I have previously written about the need to make intelligent decisions with decision intelligence. Analyzing historical data to understand what happened and why it happened is a very mature market segment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Laying the foundations for generative AI requires a business-wide approach to data-driven decision-making that empowers the entire workforce to take full advantage of the technology while offering confidence and assurance to the business that it is safe and secure to embark on this journey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the UAE, 91% of consumers know GenAI and 34% use these technologies. In markets such as India, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates, AI usage exceeds the levels in so-called mature markets. Governments like the UAE showcase robust AI engagement, with initiatives like the Falcon 2 AI model, designed to compete with Meta and Open AI.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Despite all the advances organizations have made with respect to analytics, our most recent research shows the majority of the workforce in the majority of organizations are not using analytics and business intelligence (BI). Less than one-quarter (23%) report that one-half or more of their workforce is using analytics and BI.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This perspective addresses another gap — the gap in skills between business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). Recently, I suggested you need to “ mind the gap” between data and analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Integrating advanced technologies like genAI often requires extensively reengineering existing systems. This shift allows for enhanced context learning, prompt augmentation, and self-service data insights through conversational business intelligence tools, as well as detailed analysis via charts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

You can’t treat data cleaning as a one-size-fits-all way to get data that’ll be suitable for every purpose, and the traditional ‘single version of the truth’ that’s been a goal of business intelligence is effectively a biased data set. For AI, there’s no universal standard for when data is ‘clean enough.’

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

Either you didnt have the right data to be able to do it, the technology wasnt there yet, or the models just werent there, Wells says of the rash of early pilot failures. Theyre being more purposeful about what they want to spend the time and energy and dollars on versus, Lets just experiment and see what the technology might be able to do.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bigeye was founded in late 2018 by Chief Executive Officer Kyle Kirwan and Chief Technology Officer Egor Gryaznov. This has increased the focus on data observability software providers such as Bigeye and the role they play in ensuring that data meets quality and reliability requirements. 

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

Hes leveraging his vendor relationships to keep pace with emerging as well as tried-and-true technologies and practices. Were looking at how were enabling our employees to use the technology and think about the art of the possible to deliver business value. But its no longer about just standing it up.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Business leaders, developers, data heads, and tech enthusiasts – it’s time to make some room on your business intelligence bookshelf because once again, datapine has new books for you to add. We have already given you our top data visualization books , top business intelligence books , and best data analytics books.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. When I think about the technology we started working with early in my career and look at what we’ve been able to do since, it truly is amazing, a global transformation led by and driven through technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. In many cases, CIOs and other IT leaders have moved past the peak expectations about what gen AI can do for their organizations and are headed into more realistic ideas about the future of the technology, Lovelock adds.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With this integration, you can now seamlessly query your governed data lake assets in Amazon DataZone using popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools, including partner solutions like Tableau. He leverages his experience to advise customers on their data strategy and technology foundations. Yogesh Dhimate is a Sr.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

AI enables the democratization of innovation by allowing people across all business functions to apply technology in new ways and find creative solutions to intractable challenges. Gen AI must be driven by people who want to implement the technology,” he says. However, emerging technology must be used carefully.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

The bigplayers,such as OTAs [Online Travel Agencies], are advancing in their adoption of new technologies, taking advantage of AI andbig datatools,while other actors are in earlier stages of integration, he says. In addition, Abril highlights specific benefits gained from applying new technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The updated measures have also added 140 Chinese entities to a blacklist, targeting firms seen as pivotal to Beijing’s ambitions for semiconductor self-sufficiency through advanced manufacturing technologies. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said. CIOs should create proofs of concept that test how costs will scale, not just how the technology works.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

But as with any transformative technology, AI comes with risks chief among them, the perpetuation of biases and systemic inequities. This lack of representation is more than a diversity issue; its a systemic failure that risks embedding biases into the very foundation of our technologies. Finally, we need a cultural shift.

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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 technology is in its early days, and several questions remain open chief among them, how AI agents will be priced.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. How do we expand the benefits of this technology to what we’re trying to achieve as a business?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The survey points to a fundamental misunderstanding among many business leaders regarding the data work needed to deploy most AI tools, says John Armstrong, CTO of Worldly, a supply chain sustainability data insights platform. Theres a perspective that well just throw a bunch of data at the AI, and itll solve all of our problems, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, its becoming increasingly clear that solutions must balance immediate needs with long-term workforce transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has said it is unlikely to equip its new US plant in Arizona with its most advanced chip technology ahead of its Taiwan factories, raising concerns about supply-chain hurdles for tech companies. Delays in accessing modern technology may postpone those launch dates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Generative AI has seen faster and more widespread adoption than any other technology today, with many companies already seeing ROI and scaling up use cases into wide adoption. Our custom models are already starting to power experiences that aid freelancers in creating better proposals, or businesses in evaluating candidates, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. In addition, 48% say theyre using LLMs in IT and operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

As a consequence, these businesses experience increased operational costs and find it difficult to scale or integrate modern technologies. 1] Retaining outdated technology may seem like a cautious approach but there are mounting inherent dangers. The foundation of the solution is also important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Look around and youll see technological, economic, and competitive obstacles that CIOs must not only handle, but defeat. A PwC Global Risk Survey found that 75% of risk leaders claim that financial pressures limit their ability to invest in the advanced technology needed to assess and monitor risks. Risk is inescapable.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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