David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Companies implementing task orchestration tools can quickly generate new ideas and optimize existing processes to drive significant innovation. CIOs and IT leaders play a pivotal role in championing automation technologies that improve alignment with overall business objectives and foster a culture of innovation.

Cost-Benefit 130

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Business Objectives 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 10, October 2024 (n = 70 IT C-level executives) While these rising budgets reflect optimism about GenAIs potential, they also create pressure to justify every dollar spent. million in 2025 to $7.45 million in 2026, covering infrastructure, models, applications, and services.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Through effective implementation of VSM, development leaders can establish portfolios, programs, and cross-functional teams that are better aligned with business objectives. Teams need to determine the optimal way to get work done, and then execute effectively. Step 3: Rally your teams. Step 4: Execute with confidence.

Optimization 96

Optimization Management Business Objectives Digital Transformation 96

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forrester predicts that vague business objectives and premature integration in decision-making will create confusion when it comes to leveraging AI agents. Determining the optimal level of autonomy to balance risk and efficiency will challenge business leaders,” Le Clair said.

ROI 127

ROI Data-driven Enterprise Experimentation 127

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JUNE 17, 2022

Observability is a business strategy: what you monitor, why you monitor it, what you intend to learn from it, how it will be used, and how it will contribute to business objectives and mission success. The key difference is this: monitoring is what you do, and observability is why you do it. The new Splunk Enterprise 9.0

Machine Learning 238

Machine Learning Recreation/Entertainment Risk Business Objectives 238

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 6, 2024

Re-platforming With a re-platforming migration, some adjustments or optimizations are made to the applications before moving them to the cloud. Additionally, without proper monitoring and optimization, ongoing cloud usage costs can escalate rapidly, leading to budget overruns and financial strain.

Optimization 73

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing 73

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

However, cloud services costs can be higher than anticipated, so monitoring and optimizing your cloud spend is critical. Cloud cost optimization combines strategies, techniques, best practices and tools to help reduce cloud costs, find the most cost-effective way to run your applications in the cloud environment, and maximize business value.

Optimization 63

Optimization Forecasting ROI Metrics 63

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Integrating ESG into data decision-making CDOs should embed sustainability into data architecture, ensuring that systems are designed to optimize energy efficiency, minimize unnecessary data replication and promote ethical data use. Highlight how ESG metrics can enhance risk management, regulatory compliance and brand reputation.

IT 59

IT Data Governance Data-driven Metrics 59

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

To do so, we need to first ask ourselves three key questions: Question #1: How will we use AI to meet our specific business objectives? Lets promise ourselves that this will be the year that we adopt a pragmatic approach to harnessing the vast potential of AI. Question #2: How will we make sure that we use AI responsibly?

ROI 52

ROI Business Objectives Technology Optimization 52

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 21, 2023

Such prescriptive capabilities can be more proactive, automated, and optimized, making digital resilience an objective fact for businesses, not just a business objective. From these data streams, real-time actionable insights can feed decision-making and risk mitigations at the moment of need.

Machine Learning 190

Machine Learning Metrics Internet of Things Reporting 190

Smarten

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Can Predictive Analytics Help You Achieve Business Objectives? If an organization wishes to be successful in the market and in its competitive efforts, it must accurately forecast and predict the future of its business, plan for new locations and products or services, and optimize internal operations.

Business Objectives 40

Business Objectives Predictive Analytics Analytics Forecasting 40

datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today, Artificial Intelligence is all over the place – it made the top 3 of our list of our business intelligence trends for 2020 – and next year, it’s expected to make some serious waves. AI optimizes business processes, increasing productivity and efficiency while automating repetitive tasks and supporting human capabilities.

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

Unlike traditional approaches, deep automation is holistic, adaptive, and evolutive, prioritizing human-machine partnership and customer experience for optimal efficiency and impact. AI-integrated tractors, planters, and harvesters form a data-driven team, optimizing tasks and empowering farmers.

Data-driven 130

Data-driven Metrics Optimization Machine Learning 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

“This scalability allows you to expand your business without needing a proportionally larger IT team.” Shankar notes that AI can also equip IT teams with the data-driven insights needed to optimize resource allocation, prioritize upgrades, and plan for the future. Easy access to constant improvement is another AI growth benefit.

IT 143

IT Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Data-driven 143

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Skills: Relevant skills for a cloud systems engineer include networking, automation and scripting, Python, PowerShell, automation, security and compliance, containerization, database management, disaster recovery, and performance optimization. Role growth: 18% of businesses have added data architect roles as part of their cloud investments.

Consulting 130

Consulting Business Objectives Software Optimization 130

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A survey report by Spiceworks shows that 66% of businesses are planning to increase their year-over-year IT spending. You also need to optimize it. In a nutshell, IT budgeting is the process of managing your finances wisely to make sure your tech doesn’t break the bank and keeps your business running smoothly.

Data-driven 124

Data-driven IT Cost-Benefit Big Data 124

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice.

Manufacturing 102

Manufacturing Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Uncertainty 102

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While third-party data can play a role in both optimization and conversions, it isn’t necessarily the most useful in the predictive analytics world. This can cause certain business problems with both your data points as well as your data analytics, web analytics , and response variable.

Predictive Analytics 139

Predictive Analytics Analytics Predictive Modeling Data mining 139

CDW Research Hub

JUNE 11, 2020

Saab Sensis selected Sirius to help them implement a practical, optimized cloud migration strategy. This move will decrease overhead spending and increase efficiency and optimization, while minimizing downtime. Application optimization: performance, function, and design. Process optimization: develop process automation.

Optimization 52

Optimization Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Strategy 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

An optimized network planning experience along with scalability and sustainability built-in, and a simple monthly payment with no upfront capital expenditure. planning and downtime, overtime, expedited freight) associated with your current network, along with specific business processes to be avoided.

Cost-Benefit 105

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives ROI Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Besides technical considerations, however, there are unique business implications to consider, adds Bizagi’s Vázquez. “We We must address the value proposition, who the target user is, what the alignment with the business objectives is, and how APIs can be marketed and monetized, if possible,” he says.

Business Objectives 124

Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Strategy Data-driven 124

erwin

JULY 8, 2020

For business process architects, being able to manage change and address key issues is what keeps the job function highly relevant to stakeholders. The key point is that useful change comes from routinely looking at process models and spotting a sub-optimality.

Slice and Dice 136

Slice and Dice Modeling Digital Transformation Visualization 136

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Public-cloud services can be a tremendous resource if proper care is taken to plan and optimize the environment rather than just pushing the entire estate to the cloud as is. If optimization isn’t done, clients are often left with a larger bill and fall short of their cloud aspirations. For many, multicloud is the new reality.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Business Driver Data Processing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2022

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice.

IT 98

IT Manufacturing Business Objectives Cost-Benefit 98

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This platform will incorporate robust cataloging, making sure the data is easily searchable, and will enforce the necessary security and governance measures for selective sharing among business stakeholders, data engineers, analysts, security and governance officers. As stated earlier, the first step involves data ingestion.

Sales 104

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Though experts agree on the difficulty of deploying new platforms across an enterprise, there are options for optimizing the value of AI and analytics projects. [2] Along the way, they will have implemented upgrades that keep data secure and accessible—imperatives for meeting IT and business objectives in the months and years to come.

Analytics 137

Analytics Key Performance Indicator Unstructured Data Deep Learning 137

datapine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Now, apply this methodology to how businesses engage with their clients, and this is what is KPI management all about. Company A then creates ads, launches a blog, boosts its social media presence, and optimizes its website for enhanced search engine rankings. KPIs are strategic indicators directly linked to business objectives.

KPI 221

KPI Management Key Performance Indicator Measurement 221

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These agents perform critical services like discovery service mapping, capacity optimization, and more, acting as a copilot for teams managing DORA compliance. One notable tool, BMC HelixGPT , uses a large language model (LLM) that drives a suite of AI-powered software agents. Learn more about DORA and how BMC can help.

Risk Management 115

Risk Management Risk Management IT 115

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

For businesses, Shih says, choosing an LLM for a business application is a constrained optimization problem as they balance cost, accuracy, trust and safety, and speed. Cost and performance optimization means you’re not going to use one model for everything,” she says.

Metrics 96

Metrics Sales Business Objectives Modeling 96

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Over the years CIOs often went with a lift-and-shift strategy, moving their legacy applications from on-premises servers to the cloud without reengineering them for optimal performance in the new environment, Jain explains. Organizations should optimize IT ops by bringing in automation to continuously look for cost reduction opportunities.

IT 137

IT Consulting Key Performance Indicator Scorecard 137

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

A staged approach enables risk mitigation and resource optimization and ensures modernization efforts bolster operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Operate and optimize: Continuously monitor and optimize the modernized portfolio, ensuring alignment with evolving business needs.

Cost-Benefit 110

Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator ROI Strategy 110

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With our team’s strong understanding of every service within our catalog, we can quickly adapt to client needs and optimize output for success,” Cziomer says. Decisions, he advises, should focus on optimizing IT services in general and not only concentrate on locally optimized decisions.

IT 139

IT Testing Metrics Optimization 139

BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

How BI Consulting Fosters Data-Driven Success Data Strategy and Business Alignment One of the core roles of business intelligence consultants is aligning data initiatives with business objectives.

Consulting 52

Consulting Data-driven Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 52

erwin

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It facilitates an organization’s efforts in assessing the impact of change and making recommendations for target states that support business objectives. EA often delivers the business use cases that justify the incorporation of ideas into operations.

Management 137

Management Enterprise Cost-Benefit Business Objectives 137

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Data Champions : Acknowledging leaders who have leveraged data and analytics to derive actionable insights, inform strategic decision-making, and unlock new opportunities for growth and optimization.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Business Objectives Risk Management Technology 98

Smart Data Collective

MAY 3, 2022

In order to appreciate the benefits of using big data for optimizing prices, companies must recognize the merits of creating the right price point in the first place. More companies are using data analytics to optimize their pricing models. First and foremost, the company sets a particular objective. Balancing with price points.

Data Analytics 111

Data Analytics Analytics Big Data Sales 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Agile for hybrid teams optimizing low-code experiences The agile manifesto is now 22 years old and was written when IT departments struggled with waterfall project plans that often failed to complete, let alone deliver business outcomes. Release an updated data viz, then automate a regression test.

Digital Transformation 145

Digital Transformation Data Governance Machine Learning Experimentation 145