CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

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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. Maintaining, updating, and patching old systems is a complex challenge that increases the risk of operational downtime and security lapse. The foundation of the solution is also important.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1) What Is Data Quality Management? 4) Data Quality Best Practices. 5) How Do You Measure Data Quality? 6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. 7) Data Quality Control: Use Case. 8) The Consequences Of Bad Data Quality. 9) 3 Sources Of Low-Quality Data. 10) Data Quality Solutions: Key Attributes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This year, many CIOs have focused on getting AI prototypes up and running without fully considering the long-term operating costs , he says. Gartner recently estimated that organizations that don’t understand how their generative AI costs scale could make a 500% to 1,000% calculation error, he notes. That’s not where you want to be.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. Gen AI holds the potential to facilitate that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It also has the benefit that as underlying AI costs drop over time service providers can extract more margin for this work. A third way that AI agents could be priced is by calculating the underlying costs and charging a small markup, he says. Potentially good for customers, but maybe not for shareholder returns.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor’s Embedded Experiences allows users to create first drafts of text for specific business purposes and summarize insights as well as quickly analyze and interact with data. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 21, 2022

Data analytics is incredibly valuable for helping people. More institutions are recognizing this, so the market for data analytics in education is projected to be worth over $57 billion by 2030. We have previously talked about the many ways that big data is disrupting education.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s data-rich environment, the challenge isn’t just collecting data but transforming it into actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. What is BI Consulting?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are very good at spotting patterns in data of all types, and then creating artefacts in response to user prompts that match these patterns. Despite these limitations and concerns among CIOs over AI costs, real progress has been made this year and we can expect to see this grow further in 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. While security risks are daunting, therapists remind us to avoid overly stressing out in areas outside our control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

If expectations around the cost and speed of deployment are unrealistically high, milestones are missed, and doubt over potential benefits soon takes root. The right tools and technologies can keep a project on track, avoiding any gap between expected and realized benefits. But this scenario is avoidable.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Big data has become a highly invaluable aspect of modern business. More companies are using sophisticated data analytics and AI tools to overhaul their business models. Some industries have become more dependent on big data than others. The e-commerce sector has been one of the most affected by major advances in data technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age.

IT 122

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 27, 2020

Whether driven by my score, or by their own firsthand experience, the doctors sent me straight to the neonatal intensive care ward, where I spent my first few days. And yet a number or category label that describes a human life is not only machine-readable data. Numbers like that typically mean a baby needs help.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Big data technology has been instrumental in changing the direction of countless industries. Companies have found that data analytics and machine learning can help them in numerous ways. However, there are a lot of other benefits of big data that have not gotten as much attention. Global companies spent over $92.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2024, squeezed by the rising cost of living, inflationary impact, and interest rates, they are now grappling with declining consumer spending and confidence. It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. But 2025 and 2026 will bear good news, according to Deloitte.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

But many enterprises have yet to start reaping the full benefits that AIOps solutions provide. At the same time, the scale of observability data generated from multiple tools exceeds human capacity to manage. Understanding the root cause of issues is one situational benefit of AIOps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As the study’s authors explain, these results underline a clear trend toward more personalized services, data-driven decision-making, and agile processes. According to the study, the biggest focus in the next three years will be on AI-supported data analysis, followed by the use of gen AI for internal use.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Retailers around the world are discovering that big data can be incredibly valuable to their bottom lines. A growing number of businesses are starting to look for new data-driven approaches to streamline their business models. Targeting the Right Variables for Your Data-Driven Retail Business Model.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Enterprises that adopt RPA report reductions in process cycle times and operational costs. Enhanced analytics driven by AI can identify patterns and trends, allowing enterprises to better predict future business needs. This ability facilitates breaking down silos between departments and fosters a collaborative approach to data use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Its promise of AI-driven features and enhanced capabilities sound easy to access, but is it so linear? And if youre moving from versions older than Oracle Database 19c, get ready for a multi-step upgrade marathon at a substantial cost. A few examples are AI vector search, secure data encoding and natural language processing.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this post, we focus on data management implementation options such as accessing data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), using popular data formats like Parquet, or using open table formats like Iceberg. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

Data-driven decision-making has become a major element of modern business. A growing number of businesses use big data technology to optimize efficiency. However, companies that have a formal data strategy are still in the minority. Furthermore, only 13% of companies are actually delivering on their data strategy.

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datapine

MAY 2, 2023

Table of Contents 1) Benefits Of Big Data In Logistics 2) 10 Big Data In Logistics Use Cases Big data is revolutionizing many fields of business, and logistics analytics is no exception. The complex and ever-evolving nature of logistics makes it an essential use case for big data applications. Did you know?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age.

IT 105

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Understanding the company’s true purpose unlocks the business model and sheds light on what is useful to do with the data. Since I work in the AI space, people sometimes have a preconceived notion that I’ll only talk about data and models. How did you obtain your training data? Source: Shane.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

As enterprises navigate complex data-driven transformations, hybrid and multi-cloud models offer unmatched flexibility and resilience. Heres a deep dive into why and how enterprises master multi-cloud deployments to enhance their data and AI initiatives. The terms hybrid and multi-cloud are often used interchangeably.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

According to a recent survey by Foundry , nearly all respondents (97%) reported that their organization is impacted by digital friction, defined as the unnecessary effort an employee must exert to use data or technology for work. AI-driven asset information management will play a critical role in that final push toward zero incidents.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 10, 2023

More small businesses are leveraging big data technology these days. One of the many reasons that they use big data is to improve their SEO. Data-driven SEO is going to be even more important as the economy continues to stagnate. Data-driven SEO will be one of the most important ways that they can achieve these goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

GRC certifications validate the skills, knowledge, and abilities IT professionals have to manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in the enterprise. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals. What are GRC certifications? Why are GRC certifications important?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Many AI projects have huge upfront costs — up to $200,000 for coding assistants, $1 million to embed generative AI in custom apps, $6.5 Those costs don’t include recurring costs, which can run into the thousands of dollars per user each year. SMBs are particularly vulnerable to these cost increases.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This approach will help businesses maximize the benefits of agentic AI while mitigating risks and ensuring responsible deployment. Building trust through human-in-the-loop validation and clear governance structures is essential to establishing strict protocols that guide safer agent-driven decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. This is the kind of risk that may increasingly keep CIOs up at night in the year ahead.

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Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Risk Management 131

datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 5, 2023

That’s because AI algorithms are trained on data. By its very nature, data is an artifact of something that happened in the past. Data is a relic–even if it’s only a few milliseconds old. When we decide which data to use and which data to discard, we are influenced by our innate biases and pre-existing beliefs.

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