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. It also offered a chatbot that utilized Amazon Lex.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Vibram certainly isn’t an isolated case of a company growing its business through tools made available by the CIO.

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ROI B2B Business Objectives Digital Transformation 117

AWS Big Data

JUNE 2, 2025

Although AWS manages the underlying infrastructure, you must carefully plan and execute your Amazon MWAA environment updates according to the shared responsibility model. Solution overview Amazon MWAA provides two primary upgrade solutions: In-place upgrade This method works best when you can accommodate planned downtime.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

Although data has always accumulated naturally, the result of ever-growing consumer and business activity, data growth is expanding exponentially, opening opportunities for organizations to monetize unprecedented amounts of information. It requires ideation, market research, pricing analysis, and go-to-market plans.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Compared to other parts of the world, the uptake of AI within Australian businesses is lagging. Without it, businesses risk perpetuating the very inefficiencies they aim to eliminate, adds Kulkarni. Yet research shows Australians are already using AI without formal policies.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our experiments are based on real-world historical full order book data, provided by our partner CryptoStruct , and compare the trade-offs between these choices, focusing on performance, cost, and quant developer productivity. Business impact heavily relies on quality data (garbage in, garbage out). What about performance?

Metadata 111

Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 111

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 21, 2025

They looked at the deal progression, compared it with past successful opportunities and issued next best actions: update the legal clause, add a stakeholder, send a pricing sheet. When evaluating any AI software provider, ignore sales and marketing hype and question the measurable business impact.

Sales 130

Sales Measurement Data-driven Dashboards 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2025

Ann Funai , CIO and vice president of IBMs Business Platform Transformation, says Big Blue has achieved a 30% reduction in infrastructure-related operational costs since completing its migration to SAPs cloud ERP platform last July. Businesses that use this are dependent upon this technology working flawlessly. It is the core.

Cost-Benefit 111

Cost-Benefit Consulting Sales Enterprise 111

datapine

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The supply chain is essentially the backbone of any business: a living ecosystem that ensures the smooth, efficient, and consistent delivery of a product or service from a supplier to a customer. This particular insight is one of the most critical supply chain KPIs for businesses operating in a multitude of sectors. Perfect Order Rate.

Metrics 260

Metrics KPI Dashboards Sales 260

BA Learnings

JULY 18, 2019

Moving from the traditional/waterfall approach to software development to an agile approach certainly involves a mindset shift that may not always come naturally or even easily for Business Analysts. This mental shift comes with implicit obligations of adopting new ways of working. This is the first of a series of articles on this subject.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This is particularly true with enterprise deployments as the capabilities of existing models, coupled with the complexities of many business workflows, led to slower progress than many expected. Businesses that see AI as a replacement for skilled and experienced workers will go down the wrong path.

Enterprise 113

Enterprise Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement 113

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping how businesses operate, offering unprecedented opportunities for greater efficiency, streamlined operations, revolutionized customer service, and enhanced decision-making. This technology offers transformative potential, but it also demands thoughtful financial management and strategic planning.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

datapine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Using data in today’s businesses is crucial to evaluate success and gather insights needed for a sustainable company. Identifying what is working and what is not is one of the invaluable management practices that can decrease costs, determine the progress a business is making, and compare it to organizational goals.

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KPI Metrics Sales Visualization 269

datapine

APRIL 2, 2019

Monitoring the business performance and tracking relevant insights in today’s digital age has empowered managers and c-level executives to obtain an invaluable volume of data that increases productivity and decreases costs. Exclusive Bonus Content: Get Started With Scores And Business KPIs! Let’s start with a simple definition.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Comparatively few organizations have created dedicated data quality teams. Most of those who don’t say they have no plans to start. Executives bring a different, transcendent , perspective to bear in assessing data quality, particularly with respect to its impact on business operations and strategy.

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Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Publishing 363

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. The why: Establish clear business principles to address why youre doing this.

Optimization 98

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Enterprise 98

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

Business value : Once we have a rubric for evaluating our systems, how do we tie our macro-level business value metrics to our micro-level LLM evaluations? Beyond the technical challenges, these complexities also have real business implications. The story doesnt always start with a business goal. How do we do so?

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Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 184

datapine

MAY 9, 2019

In a world dominated by data, it’s more important than ever for businesses to understand how to extract every drop of value from the raft of digital insights available at their fingertips. This concept is known as business intelligence. Introduction To Business Intelligence Concepts. Learn here! But more on that later.

Business Intelligence 270

Business Intelligence Dashboards Data Warehouse Visualization 270

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

These changes can expose businesses to risks and vulnerabilities such as security breaches, data privacy issues and harm to the companys reputation. It is the activities that cover planning, approvals, security, process, monitoring, remediation and of course auditing. Business governance. Lack of clarity on AIs business impact.

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datapine

JUNE 15, 2023

2) The Importance of Performance Reports 3) Performance Report Examples 4) Performance Reporting Tips Performance reporting has been a traditional business practice for decades now. That said, just like many other business processes, reporting has mutated to meet the fast-paced environment organizations face today.

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Reporting Dashboards Cost-Benefit Sales 207

datapine

JUNE 3, 2021

This complete guide will cover every aspect of gauge charts, from the definition, its benefits, steps to create them, and a list of practical examples that will help you visualize how this chart type works in real business scenarios. Business executives use them because they are able to transmit an important metric simply and clearly.

KPI 218

KPI Metrics Visualization Cost-Benefit 218

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2025

That could reach up to 80% by 2028 according to Gartner, adding that by 2030, itll be used for more business decision making than real data. Generating large volumes of training data on demand is appealing compared to slow, expensive gathering of real-world data, which can be fraught with privacy concerns, or just not available.

Statistics 110

Statistics Testing Modeling Risk 110

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years. Experienced CIOs know there is never a blank check for transformation and innovation investments, and they expect more pressure in 2025 to deliver business value from gen AI investments.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

datapine

AUGUST 19, 2020

At the same time, inventory metrics are needed to help managers and professionals in reaching established goals, optimizing processes, and increasing business value. That said, It’s extremely important setting up and tracking the inventory KPIs for your business is in order to evaluate and improve your performance.

Metrics 286

Metrics KPI Cost-Benefit Dashboards 286

datapine

MARCH 25, 2022

1) What Is Business Intelligence And Analytics? 4) How Do BI And BA Apply To Business? If someone puts you on the spot, could you tell him/her what the difference between business intelligence and analytics is? We already saw earlier this year the benefits of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics.

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

Enter data dashboards – one of history’s best innovations in business intelligence. Without the existence of dashboards and dashboard reporting practices, businesses would need to sift through colossal stacks of unstructured data, which is both inefficient and time-consuming. Dashboards Answer Critical Business Questions.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Let’s face it: every serious business that wants to generate leads and revenue needs to have a marketing strategy that will help them in their quest for profit. Noticing that something does not work as planned on the 7 th day instead of the 47 th is a lot of time saved, and less money wasted. Types Of Marketing Reports.

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Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, with all good things comes many challenges and businesses often struggle with managing their information in the correct way. That quality is necessary to fulfill the needs of an organization in terms of operations, planning, and decision-making. With a shocking 2.5 Why Do You Need Data Quality Management?

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Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

datapine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

From startups to big enterprises, businesses are collecting more and more data every day and, it is no secret, that whoever is not taking advantage of it will simply stay behind. A monthly report is a data analysis tool that provides a summary of the performance of several business processes. Table of Contents.

Reporting 211

Reporting Dashboards Metrics Cost-Benefit 211

datapine

JUNE 18, 2019

As a business, you need the reliability of frequent financial reports to gain a better grasp of your financial status, both current and future. These are powerful tools that you can apply to increase internal business performance. To reveal specific business transaction details. To reveal specific business transaction details.

Reporting 251

Reporting KPI Metrics Finance 251

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But for many business use cases, LLMs are overkill and are too expensive, and too slow, for practical use. Looking ahead to 2025, I expect small language models , specifically custom models, to become a more common solution for many businesses, says Andrew Rabinovich, head of AI and ML at Upwork.

Software 141

Software ROI Modeling Interactive 141

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Thanks to the new automation process, Święty says, engineers can now get access to their namespaces in less than a day, compared to the previous average of five days. The award honors security projects that demonstrate outstanding thought leadership and business value.

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datapine

AUGUST 21, 2019

Feritta, what’s the number one mistake you see small businesses making in the modern economy?”. We used this little story to draw you in and illustrate how even the highest echelons of business are focused on knowing your numbers. Because after all – a business dashboard is worth a thousand Excel sheets.

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Sales Dashboards Visualization KPI 235

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 17, 2025

Workforce planning has long been a cornerstone of business strategy, yet many enterprises still approach it with outdated methods. Technology is reshaping workforce planning, making it more dynamic, precise and forward-thinking. In fact, its a shared responsibility across the entire business.

Forecasting 130

Forecasting Data-driven Gap analysis Finance 130

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence-enabled business applications have advanced considerably over the past year as software providers have added a steady stream of capabilities. The TCO to value ratio also may be unfavorable compared to AI-enabling an existing application or doing nothing.

Cost-Benefit 204

Cost-Benefit Risk Forecasting Software 204

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

Atos, struggling to restructure its business operations, has presented its financials for the first half of 2024. billion)in the first six months of the year, compared to a loss of €434 million a year earlier; Its net loss for the half-year was €1.91 billion, compared to €600 million a year prevously. billion (about $1.8

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Sales Forecasting Finance Big Data 125

datapine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The secret is out, and has been for a while: In order to remain competitive, businesses of all sizes, from startup to enterprise, need business intelligence (BI). But what do you do with all this business intelligence? This is where the power of business dashboards comes into play. What Is A Dashboard In Business?

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