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.

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datapine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Management reporting is a source of business intelligence that helps business leaders make more accurate, data-driven decisions. In this blog post, we’re going to give a bit of background and context about management reports, and then we’re going to outline 10 essential best practices you can use to make sure your reports are effective.

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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. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research. As mentioned earlier, 80% of quantitative research work is attributed to data management tasks.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

And ensure effective and secure AI rollouts AI is everywhere, and while its benefits are extensive, implementing it effectively across a corporation presents challenges. Bots will handle common inquiries ranging from sales account summaries to HR benefits, reducing response times and freeing up resources for strategic initiatives, she says.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Operational efficiency: Logistics firms employ AI route optimization, cutting fuel costs and improving delivery times. Crucially, the time and cost to implement AI have fallen.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But shortsighted IT strategies, often pushed by CEOs seeking short-term gains, can saddle CIOs with increasing tech debt that can further undercut long-term outcomes and innovation. This year, many CIOs have focused on getting AI prototypes up and running without fully considering the long-term operating costs , he says.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Table of Contents 1) What Is KPI Management? 4) How to Select Your KPIs 5) Avoid These KPI Mistakes 6) How To Choose A KPI Management Solution 7) KPI Management Examples Fact: 100% of statistics strategically placed at the top of blog posts are a direct result of people studying the dynamics of Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs.

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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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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1) What Is Data Quality Management? However, with all good things comes many challenges and businesses often struggle with managing their information in the correct way. Enters data quality management. What Is Data Quality Management (DQM)? Why Do You Need Data Quality Management? Table of Contents.

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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?

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor offers applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and human capital management, among others. Use cases are proliferating, including tasks or managing details that outwardly seem trivial but result in a substantial gain in productivity and improved performance.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. Even modest investments in database tooling and paying down some data management debt can relieve database administrators of the tedium of manual updates or reactive monitoring, says Graham McMillan, CTO of Redgate.

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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.

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datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

In your daily business, many different aspects and ‘activities’ are constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes. Benefit from great business reports today! Let’s get started. Explore our 14-day free trial. What Is A Business Report?

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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. Indeed, they help you drive the most effective behaviors, strategies, and decisions. Inventory Metrics Examples For Better Management. Inventory accuracy.

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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. These applications are designed to benefit logistics and shipping companies alike. Did you know?

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The evolution from basic task automation platforms to advanced task orchestration and management marks a milestone in the journey toward Intelligent Automation. Enterprises that adopt RPA report reductions in process cycle times and operational costs.

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

As mentioned earlier, a data dashboard has the ability to answer a host of business-related questions based on your specific goals, aims, and strategies. A data dashboard assists in 3 key business elements: strategy, planning, and analytics. We’ll discuss the primary features or benefits of BI-powered dashboards in due course.

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datapine

APRIL 13, 2021

But how do you manage all your new clients while still focusing on giving them a good service and their expected results? Starting with its definition, following with the benefits of agency reports, a list of tools, and a set of agency dashboard examples. Explore our 14 days free trial & benefit from interactive agency reports!

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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. Such decisions are largely driven by the need to maximize performance and business benefits while not losing track of costs.”

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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.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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. With a perception of limited or no benefit, not taking any action can appear attractive and may be the right choice.

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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. Adopting hybrid and multi-cloud models provides enterprises with flexibility, cost optimization, and a way to avoid vendor lock-in. Why Hybrid and Multi-Cloud?

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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.

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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. In many cases, outdated apps are completely blocking AI adoption, Stone says.

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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. Companies tend to invest heavily in the data plane where data is stored, organized and managed.

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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.

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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. That’s why data management is such an integral part of the AI journey, with a set and tools that will help companies unlock true value from their data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Azures growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. Furthermore, robust security management is critical for safeguarding identity and ensuring compliance across cloud operations.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

Despite all the interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI), ISGs Buyers Guide for Data Platforms serves as a reminder of the ongoing importance of product experience functionality to address adaptability, manageability, reliability and usability. This is especially true for mission-critical workloads.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 6, 2021

An effective DataOps strategy can help a team invert this ratio and provide more value to the company. . Thirty-six percent of the total time of a ten-person team, based on a full-time employee (FTE) cost of $156,000 amounts to $561,000. Cost of Slow Decision Making. Insourcing Through DataOps.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A dashboard in business is a tool used to manage all the business information from a single point of access. It helps managers and employees to keep track of the company’s KPIs and utilizes business intelligence to help companies make data-driven decisions. Managers can also see if the team as a whole is reaching its goals.

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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. Enter Akeneo, a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) and AI tech stack solutions. But 2025 and 2026 will bear good news, according to Deloitte.

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