CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. Using the companys data in LLMs, AI agents, or other generative AI models creates more risk. Build up: Databases that have grown in size, complexity, and usage build up the need to rearchitect the model and architecture to support that growth over time.

Risk 140

Risk Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 140

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Benefits of the dbt adapter for Athena We have collaborated with dbt Labs and the open source community on an adapter for dbt that enables dbt to interface directly with Athena. This upgrade allows you to build, test, and deploy data models in dbt with greater ease and efficiency, using all the features that dbt Cloud provides.

Data Lake 103

Data Lake Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Transformation 103

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

Rocket-Powered Data Science

MAY 21, 2024

Another example is Pure Storage’s FlashBlade ® which was invented to help companies handle the rapidly increasing amount of unstructured data coming into greater use, as required in the training of multi-modal AI models. In deep learning applications (including GenAI, LLMs, and computer vision), a data object (e.g.,

Cost-Benefit 239

Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Enterprise Technology 239

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

MongoDB was founded in 2007 and has established itself as one of the most prominent NoSQL database providers with its document-oriented database and associated cloud services. MongoDB has benefited from a focus on the needs of development teams to deliver innovation through the development of data-driven applications.

Data Lake 130

Data Lake IoT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence ( genAI ) and in particular large language models ( LLMs ) are changing the way companies develop and deliver software. The commodity effect of LLMs over specialized ML models One of the most notable transformations generative AI has brought to IT is the democratization of AI capabilities.

Software 128

Software Enterprise Key Performance Indicator Machine Learning 128

O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. 54% of AI users expect AI’s biggest benefit will be greater productivity.

Enterprise 342

Enterprise Testing Modeling Reporting 342

BA Learnings

MARCH 26, 2020

While some companies identify business benefits with the sole intention of getting business cases approved, more mature companies tend to devote their resources to tracking and measuring these business benefits after the projects have been concluded. This is particularly important to note when developing a cost-benefit analysis.

Key Performance Indicator 207

Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement 207

erwin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Understanding the benefits of data modeling is more important than ever. Data modeling is the process of creating a data model to communicate data requirements, documenting data structures and entity types. In this post: What Is a Data Model? Why Is Data Modeling Important? What Is a Data Model?

Modeling 111

Modeling Cost-Benefit Visualization Data Warehouse 111

datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

No matter if you need to develop a comprehensive online data analysis process or reduce costs of operations, agile BI development will certainly be high on your list of options to get the most out of your projects. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

Business Intelligence 276

Business Intelligence Analytics Testing Dashboards 276

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft. This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

The study found better oversight of business workflows to be the top perceived benefit of it. She sees potential in using agents to schedule client work and match client requirements with the best-skilled and cost-effective resources. Think summarizing, reviewing, even flagging risk across thousands of documents.

IT 130

IT Sales Cost-Benefit Data-driven 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As Windows 10 nears its end of support, some IT leaders, preparing for PC upgrade cycles, are evaluating the possible cloud cost savings and enhanced security of running AI workloads directly on desktop PCs or laptops. AI PCs can run LLMs locally but for inferencing only not training models.

Cost-Benefit 91

Cost-Benefit Modeling Marketing Enterprise 91

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) will be at the core of many groundbreaking AI solutions for enterprise organizations. Here are just a few examples of the benefits of using LLMs in the enterprise for both internal and external use cases: Optimize Costs. The Need for Fine Tuning Fine tuning solves these issues.

Cost-Benefit 87

Cost-Benefit Data Processing Machine Learning Testing 87

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

These strategies, such as investing in AI-powered cleansing tools and adopting federated governance models, not only address the current data quality challenges but also pave the way for improved decision-making, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. When customer records are duplicated or incomplete, personalization fails.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

.” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” A single document may represent thousands of features.

Machine Learning 339

Machine Learning Testing Modeling Cost-Benefit 339

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

When organizations build and follow governance policies, they can deliver great benefits including faster time to value and better business outcomes, risk reduction, guidance and direction, as well as building and fostering trust. The benefits far outweigh the alternative. But in reality, the proof is just the opposite. AI governance.

Testing 93

Testing Metrics Cost-Benefit Modeling 93

Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While generative AI has been around for several years , the arrival of ChatGPT (a conversational AI tool for all business occasions, built and trained from large language models) has been like a brilliant torch brought into a dark room, illuminating many previously unseen opportunities. So, if you have 1 trillion data points (g.,

Strategy 290

Strategy Experimentation Uncertainty Machine Learning 290

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

With generative AI businesses can now boost productivity and reduce costs, fundamentally changing how they work. These models capture natural languages and the nuances of user queries. Generative AI allows enterprises to start with a standard LLM, also called a foundation model, which is trained on publicly available data.

Interactive 143

Interactive Cost-Benefit Modeling Machine Learning 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Documentation and diagrams transform abstract discussions into something tangible. They achieve this through models, patterns, and peer review taking complex challenges and breaking them down into understandable components that stakeholders can grasp and discuss. From documentation to automation Shawn McCarthy 3.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Technology Metrics Measurement 119

datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

SaaS is a software distribution model that offers a lot of agility and cost-effectiveness for companies, which is why it’s such a reliable option for numerous business models and industries. Flexible payment options: Businesses don’t have to go through the expense of purchasing software and hardware.

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

According to Gartner, poor data quality is estimated to cost organizations an average of $15 million per year in losses. We detailed the benefits and costs of good or bad quality data in our previous article on data quality management , where you can read the five important pillars to follow.

Business Intelligence 361

Business Intelligence Analytics Prescriptive Analytics Data Quality 361

datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Paired to this, it can also: Improved decision-making process: From customer relationship management, to supply chain management , to enterprise resource planning, the benefits of effective DQM can have a ripple impact on an organization’s performance. These needs are then quantified into data models for acquisition and delivery.

Data Quality 241

Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s embedded in the applications we use every day and the security model overall is pretty airtight. The cost of OpenAI is the same whether you buy it directly or through Azure. Its model catalog has over 1,600 options, some of which are also available through GitHub Models. That’s risky.”

Enterprise 136

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Experimentation Modeling 136

erwin

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

With effective change management, organizations usually realize faster implementations and lower costs. Organizations looking to adopt such an approach to change management would benefit from erwin Evolve – a solution addressing both enterprise architecture and business process modeling and analysis use cases.

Management 137

Management Enterprise Cost-Benefit Business Objectives 137

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Gen AI takes us from single-use models of machine learning (ML) to AI tools that promise to be a platform with uses in many areas, but you still need to validate they’re appropriate for the problems you want solved, and that your users know how to use gen AI effectively.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Metrics Insurance Measurement 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

To help alleviate the complexity and extract insights, the foundation, using different AI models, is building an analytics layer on top of this database, having partnered with DataBricks and DataRobot. Some of the models are traditional machine learning (ML), and some, LaRovere says, are gen AI, including the new multi-modal advances.

Modeling 140

Modeling Testing Cost-Benefit Metadata 140

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Gen AI offers many opportunities to spend too much and get too little in return when, instead, companies can use their gen AI budgets more strategically, allowing them to reap more benefits from investments and pull ahead of their competitors. Last year, only 3% of respondents said that gen AI implementation cost was a concern.

Cost-Benefit 140

Cost-Benefit Modeling Consulting Enterprise 140

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Organizations are collecting and storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data like reports, whitepapers, and research documents. End-users often struggle to find relevant information buried within extensive documents housed in data lakes, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

Data Lake 115

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 115

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The UK government’s Ecosystem of Trust is a potential future border model for frictionless trade, which the UK government committed to pilot testing from October 2022 to March 2023. The models also reduce private sector customs data collection costs by 40%.

Testing 83

Testing Modeling Cost-Benefit Consulting 83

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

ChatGPT is capable of doing many of these tasks, but the custom support chatbot is using another model called text-embedding-ada-002, another generative AI model from OpenAI, specifically designed to work with embeddings—a type of database specifically designed to feed data into large language models (LLM).

Modeling 98

Modeling Enterprise Cost-Benefit Data Science 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

During the new AI revolution of the past year and a half, many companies have experimented with and developed solutions with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 via Azure OpenAI, while weighing the merits of digital assistants like Microsoft Copilot. It could be a very, very low barrier to entry.”

IT 131

IT Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Testing 131

erwin

AUGUST 20, 2020

Benefits of Enterprise Architecture. Through EA, organizations benefit from a context-rich, top-down and holistic perspective of their structure, including its limitations and potential. As a practice, EA involves the documentation, analysis, design and implementation of an organization’s assets and structure.

Enterprise 140

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Risk Data Governance 140

Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

The sudden growth is not surprising, because the benefits of the cloud are incredible. Cloud technology results in lower costs, quicker service delivery, and faster network data streaming. The model enables easy transfer of cloud services between different geographic regions, either onshore or offshore. Multi-cloud computing.

Technology 140

Technology Enterprise Cost-Benefit Data Processing 140

Smart Data Collective

MAY 1, 2022

In this age of the internet, we come across enough text that will cost us an entire lifetime to read. This problem will not stop as more documents and other types of information are collected and stored. But with text analysis tools, information in the form of emails, documents, and more can be easily structured.

Unstructured Data 132

Unstructured Data Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Marketing 132

erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

Top Five: Benefits of An Automation Framework for Data Governance. Organizations also are experiencing multiple bottlenecks in their data value chains, including documenting complete data lineage, understanding the quality of source data, and finding, identifying and harvesting data assets and curating assets with business context.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance Metadata Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation 145

erwin

AUGUST 13, 2020

Today, enterprises are trying to grow and innovate – while cutting costs and managing compliance – in the midst of a global pandemic. Cost Reduction : What can we do to reduce costs while not impacting the business (e.g., balance growth goals with cost reduction, forecast resources needs vs. revenue)?

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Uncertainty ROI 143