CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

In a global economy where innovators increasingly win big, too many enterprises are stymied by legacy application systems. As a consequence, these businesses experience increased operational costs and find it difficult to scale or integrate modern technologies. The solutionGenAIis also the beneficiary.

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Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Risk 124

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions. You’re not alone.

ROI 136

ROI Cost-Benefit Metrics Strategy 136

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

But alongside its promise of significant rewards also comes significant costs and often unclear ROI. For CIOs tasked with managing IT budgets while driving technological innovation, balancing these costs against the benefits of GenAI is essential.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. Forrester reports that 30% of IT leaders struggle with high or critical debt, while 49% more face moderate levels.

Risk 140

Risk Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 140

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. It also has the benefit that as underlying AI costs drop over time service providers can extract more margin for this work.

Cost-Benefit 128

Cost-Benefit Modeling ROI Marketing 128

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. How long do they retain these logs?” Levine says.

Risk 131

Risk Enterprise Strategy Snapshot 131

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Research firm IDC projects worldwide spending on technology to support AI strategies will reach $337 billion in 2025 — and more than double to $749 billion by 2028. AI spending on the rise Two-thirds (67%) of projected AI spending in 2025 will come from enterprises embedding AI capabilities into core business operations, IDC claims.

ROI 137

ROI Cost-Benefit Risk Experimentation 137

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

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Sales Metrics Data-driven Measurement 143

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Task automation platforms initially enabled enterprises to automate repetitive tasks, freeing valuable human resources for more strategic activities. Enterprises that adopt RPA report reductions in process cycle times and operational costs.

Cost-Benefit 130

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Business Objectives 130

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.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. If I am a large enterprise, I probably will not build all of my agents in one place and be vendor-locked, but I probably dont want 30 platforms.

Management 119

Management IT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 119

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

Strategy 145

Strategy Cost-Benefit IT Key Performance Indicator 145

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The key areas we see are having an enterprise AI strategy, a unified governance model and managing the technology costs associated with genAI to present a compelling business case to the executive team. Our research indicates a scramble to identify and experiment with use cases in most business functions within an enterprise.

Experimentation 97

Experimentation Cost-Benefit Enterprise Strategy 97

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

Strategy 128

Strategy Cost-Benefit Risk Enterprise 128

Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays dynamic digital landscape, multi-cloud strategies have become vital for organizations aiming to leverage the best of both cloud and on-premises environments. As enterprises navigate complex data-driven transformations, hybrid and multi-cloud models offer unmatched flexibility and resilience. Why Hybrid and Multi-Cloud?

Cost-Benefit 82

Cost-Benefit Optimization Strategy Data-driven 82

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The resulting infrastructure of choice — a combination of on-premises and hybrid-cloud platforms — will aim to reduce cost overruns, contain cloud chaos, and ensure adequate funding for generative AI projects. This refinement of thinking about the cloud comes as hefty AI costs loom on the horizon.

Strategy 144

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Processing Data-driven 144

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cloud analytics migration project is a heavy lift for enterprises that dive in without adequate preparation. If expectations around the cost and speed of deployment are unrealistically high, milestones are missed, and doubt over potential benefits soon takes root. But this scenario is avoidable.

Analytics 97

Analytics Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven 97

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Why is TreeHouse Foods moving from a holding company model into an enterprise model? And retailers benefit from their ability to bring customers into their stores, grow their own brand loyalty, and demonstrate commitment to their customers. What advantages does moving to an enterprise model offer? Take pickles, for example.

Strategy 98

Strategy Enterprise IT Cost-Benefit 98

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, many enterprises have existing on-premises applications that, in most cases, will not get AI-enablement from the software provider. Those customers should be evaluating if, when and how they will tap into the benefits that AI and GenAI can provide to improve operational and financial performance.

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Cost-Benefit Risk Forecasting Software 204

datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

As a result, BI can benefit the overall evolution as well as the profitability of a company, regardless of niche or industry. Download here the top benefits cheat sheet, and start reporting! Benefits Of Business Intelligence And Reporting. Let’s see what the crucial benefits are: 1. What Is BI Reporting?

Business Intelligence 259

Business Intelligence Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards 259

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

While new and emerging capabilities might catch the eye, features that address data platform security, performance and availability remain some of the most significant deal-breakers when enterprises are considering potential data platform providers. This is especially true for mission-critical workloads. The recent launch of MongoDB 8.0

Data Lake 130

Data Lake IoT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 130

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg , we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. Our analysis shows that Iceberg can accelerate query performance by up to 52%, reduce operational costs, and significantly improve data management at scale.

Metadata 110

Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 110

DataKitchen

JANUARY 6, 2021

Being able to quantify the value and impact helps leadership understand the return on past investments and supports alignment with future enterprise DataOps transformation initiatives. An effective DataOps strategy can help a team invert this ratio and provide more value to the company. . Cost of Slow Decision Making.

Cost-Benefit 246

Cost-Benefit Testing Strategy Metrics 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. They, too, were motivated by data privacy issues, cost considerations, compliance concerns, and latency issues.

Optimization 128

Optimization Strategy IT Cost-Benefit 128

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With the right AI investments marking the difference between laggards and innovative companies, deploying AI at scale has become an essential strategy in today’s business landscape. This is why Dell Technologies developed the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, the industry’s first end-to-end AI enterprise solution.

IT 111

IT Cost-Benefit Optimization Manufacturing 111

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs are facing these challenges head-on by designing integrated resilience strategies to future-proof their organizations. Why risk management is vital Risks in enterprise IT have significantly evolved in the past year, demanding an emphasis on short- and long-term resilience plans spanning multiple areas.

Risk 105

Risk Risk Management Cost-Benefit Measurement 105

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. It can help uncover hidden costs that could come back to bite you down the road.

Software 131

Software Enterprise Cost-Benefit ROI 131

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Testing Business Objectives Experimentation 143

datapine

MAY 31, 2022

3) Cloud Computing Benefits. It provides better data storage, data security, flexibility, improved organizational visibility, smoother processes, extra data intelligence, increased collaboration between employees, and changes the workflow of small businesses and large enterprises to help them make better decisions while decreasing costs.

Risk 237

Risk Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence Data-driven 237

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Decades-old apps designed to retain a limited amount of data due to storage costs at the time are also unlikely to integrate easily with AI tools, says Brian Klingbeil, chief strategy officer at managed services provider Ensono. Other IT leaders see the same challenges that legacy apps create for AI.

Insurance 108

Insurance Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Data Lake 108

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) software can transform various aspects of enterprise operations, which makes it a critical component of modern business strategies. GenAI can improve overall operational efficiency, resulting in time and cost savings for the organization.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Interactive Software Cost-Benefit 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. Melby points out there are numerous benefits and claims there is potential for AI PCs to disrupt some SaaS markets.

Cost-Benefit 91

Cost-Benefit Modeling Marketing Enterprise 91

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. These applications are designed to benefit logistics and shipping companies alike. Did you know? Where is all of that data going to come from?

Big Data 275

Big Data Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Optimization 275

datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Whether you manage a big or small company, business reports must be incorporated to establish goals, track operations, and strategy, to get an in-depth view of the overall company state. Knowing how to prepare and create one with the help of an online data analysis tool can reduce costs and time to decide on a relevant course of action.

Reporting 297

Reporting Dashboards Visualization Cost-Benefit 297

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI.

Enterprise 136

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Experimentation Modeling 136