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CIOs face mounting pressure as AI costs and complexities threaten enterprise value

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver meaningful returns from generative AI initiatives, yet spiraling costs and complex governance challenges are undermining their efforts, according to Gartner. hours per week by integrating generative AI into their workflows, these benefits are not felt equally across the workforce.

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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

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. To benefit from this wider range of RAG services, organizations need to ensure their data is AI-ready. I see this taking shape in 5 key areas.

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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly on Data

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed for enterprise-grade reliability.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly on Data

In enterprises, we’ve seen everything from wholesale adoption to policies that severely restrict or even forbid the use of generative AI. 54% of AI users expect AI’s biggest benefit will be greater productivity. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Today, enterprises are leveraging various types of AI to achieve their goals. This is where Operational AI comes into play.