Paul Blogs on BI

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I have a had a lot of conversations about data strategy this year. With both the rise in organizations looking to move their data to the cloud and the increasing awareness of the power of BI and generative AI, data strategy has become a top priority. This is where the infamous “How do you eat an elephant?”

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Business intelligence consulting services offer expertise and guidance to help organizations harness data effectively. Beyond mere data collection, BI consulting helps businesses create a cohesive data strategy that aligns with organizational goals.

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Consulting Data-driven Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 52

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Without an AI strategy, organizations risk missing out on the benefits AI can offer. An AI strategy helps organizations address the complex challenges associated with AI implementation and define its objectives. What is an AI strategy? A successful AI strategy should act as a roadmap for this plan.

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Strategy Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Consulting 71

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

So many vendors, applications, and use cases, and so little time, and it permeates everything from business strategy and processes, to products and services. Here are five best practices to get the most business benefit from gen AI. Define which strategic themes relate to your business model, processes, products, and services.

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Andrew White

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The main angle was from the point of view of a university, but the point was related to business too: They (strategies) take too long to draft or define. Most of these strategies were effectively based on faith, hope, and charity. We have tried mightily to help organizations recognize what strategy is meant to be.

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Strategy Analytics Data-driven Data Strategy 56

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“Ideally, the organization will focus on institutionalizing ways of working that streamline how the business’s functional, technology, data, and change management teams experiment with and learn from new technologies.” AI is a fundamentally different set of technologies that requires a separate strategy and capabilities.”

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Digital Transformation Data-driven Business Objectives Strategy 145

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The primary goal of any data governance program is to deliver against prioritized business objectives and unlock the value of your data across your organization. Realize that a data governance program cannot exist on its own – it must solve business problems and deliver outcomes.

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Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Legendary analytics guru Thomas Davenport takes a more neutral stance in his Harvard Business Review article What’s your Data Strategy? But at Juice, we’re all about building data products. But at Juice, we’re all about building data products. The key is to balance offense and defense.” Balance is fine.

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Cloudera

JULY 29, 2022

Some even have too much data, so much so that the insights are obscured by the sheer volume and speed of the data coming in. All successful organizations have business strategies in place that help them achieve their objectives.

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Data Architecture Data Strategy Risk Management Strategy 89

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Because your data architecture dictates how your data assets and data management resources are structured, it plays a critical role in how effective your organization is at performing these tasks. Meaning, data architecture is a foundational element of your business strategy for higher data quality.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO). Data is the lifeblood of modern business, the fuel that powers digital transformation, and every company should have a data strategy.

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IT Data Strategy Data-driven ROI 78

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By offering everyone the same “data supermarket”, businesses eliminate the data silos that are slowing them down, ensuring integrity and accuracy in the data that is supporting their business objectives.

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IT Business Objectives Digital Transformation Data-driven 104

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data and data management processes are everywhere in the organization so there is a growing need for a comprehensive view of business objects and data. It is therefore vital that data is subject to some form of overarching control, which should be guided by a data strategy.

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Data Governance Data Warehouse Data Quality Data Strategy 89

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As we connect the various elements of the architecture, agility and openness should drive decision making, underpinned by an enterprise data strategy that is aligned with business objectives. At a strategy level, the relationship between the telco and the public cloud providers will be important.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This integration empowers organizations to break down data silos, accelerate analytics, and drive more agile customer-centric strategies. He has been building products for over 9 years using big data technologies. He comes from a background in machine learning and data lake architectures.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In partnership with AWS, we are excited to support customers as they navigate their cloud and data journey to ensure they can accelerate with confidence. To learn more about how to turn your data strategies into action with our partners and us, visit our Partner page at [link] . About the author: .

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Cloudera

JANUARY 5, 2023

As more industries mature digitally and widely adopt AI and machine learning technologies, 2023 will be a pivotal year for organizations looking to deploy emerging tech solutions company-wide to fulfill business objectives. 1- Treating data as a strategic business asset .

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Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Machine Learning Data Architecture 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

Using those principles as a guidepost, IT leaders can evolve culture and processes, starting with the formulation of a solid data strategy that maps to core business objectives and KPIs. Leadership must embrace a unified operating model to drive outcomes and agility.

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IT Data-driven Business Objectives Digital Transformation 98

BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Business Intelligence (BI) encompasses a wide variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources, process it and deliver it to business users in a format that is easy to understand and provides the context needed for informed decision making.

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BizAcuity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Business Intelligence (BI) encompasses a wide variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources, process it and deliver it to business users in a format that is easy to understand and provides the context needed for informed decision making.

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Anmut

MAY 12, 2022

Executive teams want results fast, and without tangible proof that data strategies and investments are making a difference, they often have to move onto the next thing, and sometimes the next CDO. Data investment drives tremendous business value. Build a differentiated, prioritised data strategy.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 27, 2024

This integration empowers organizations to break down data silos, accelerate analytics, and drive more agile customer-centric strategies. He is passionate about ensuring customers can build and optimize their data lakes to meet stringent security requirements.

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Data Lake Analytics Data-driven Management 109

Sisense

MARCH 19, 2021

A lot of those remnants of the past remain in the position, but as the value of data has soared, a data executive’s success is increasingly tied to business goals. Data quality, availability, and security. Developing the modern data strategy. Provide new value to the organization.

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Data-driven Data Strategy Strategy Business Objectives 52

bridgei2i

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are some general functions which an AI Consulting Company will fulfill in your AI initiatives: Develop A Coordinated Data Strategy. An AI Consulting Company provides support to organizations to build the right data strategy for AI implementation. It enables them to identify how their business can best use AI.

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Consulting Key Performance Indicator Business Objectives Data Strategy 52

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2024

Additionally, organizations must carefully consider factors such as cost implications, security and compliance requirements, change management processes, and the potential disruption to existing business operations during the migration. Organic strategy – This strategy uses a lift and shift data schema using migration tools.

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Data Warehouse KPI Optimization Cost-Benefit 113

Sisense

MAY 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll dig into what data modeling is, provide some best practices for setting up your data model, and walk through a handy way of thinking about data modeling that you can use when building your own. Building the right data model is an important part of your data strategy. Discover why.

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Modeling Big Data IoT Data Warehouse 84

Cloudera

JANUARY 27, 2022

I have been researching more about how we can use the new data from those devices to design more innovative insurance products while being aware that these should all be contingent upon customer opt-in. I recently attended one of Majesco’s excellent webinars hosted by Denise Garth, Chief Strategy Officer. Putting Data to New Use .

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Insurance IoT Risk Data Processing 85

TDAN

MAY 15, 2024

In discussions with data management professionals, conversations often veer toward the technical intricacies of migration to the cloud or algorithm optimization, overshadowing the core business objectives that originally spurred these initiatives.

Business Objectives 52

Business Objectives Analytics Metrics Optimization 52

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From a business and IT perspective, this helps in cycle time and eventually price per business object. Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows.

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Ontotext

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Otherwise, they are like a black box, where very little is known as to how they arrive at answers and responses and organizations can lose control of private data, GenAI pipelines can get compromised, or applications can be attacked in subtle ways by hackers.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2022

An automated and intelligent data governance strategy ensures you have access to the data needed to optimize your global supply chain. TJX provides a great example of data governance best practices in a global supply chain. Integrate a defensive and offensive data strategy. Utilize a data catalog.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data storytelling is a superpower Moment: Dr. Margaret Heffernan , bestselling author of Willful Blindness , summarized the challenges of data strategy when specialists and generalists must work together. Quote: And so the data people didn’t understand context and strategy. And so nothing would happen.

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Anmut

MARCH 24, 2022

The use cases and customer outcomes your data supports and the quantifiable value your data creates for the business. How does defining data landscape in this way help your organisation? In the next section, we’ll discuss more about why your data landscape is so vital to your company’s success.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2023

He is passionate about helping customers building scalable, secure and cost effective cloud native solutions in AWS to drive the business growth. She works with customers and help them attain their business objectives by designing secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions in the AWS Cloud. Sumitha AP is a Sr.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Transformational CIOs continuously invest in their operating model by developing product management, design thinking, agile, DevOps, change management, and data-driven practices. SAS CIO Jay Upchurch says successful CIOs in 2025 will build an integrated IT roadmap that blends generative AI with more mature AI strategies.

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Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143