CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2025

Open protocols aimed at standardizing how AI systems connect, communicate, and absorb context are providing much needed maturity to an AI market that sees IT leaders anxious to pivot from experimentation to practical solutions. These protocols enable systems to communicate seamlessly across organizational boundaries. What is MCP?

Experimentation 130

Experimentation Modeling Cost-Benefit Interactive 130

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 30, 2024

Others retort that large language models (LLMs) have already reached the peak of their powers. These are risks stemming from misalignment between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model in a particular way and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed.

Risk 323

Risk Advertising Cost-Benefit Sales 323

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

However, these applications only show a small glimpse of what is possible with large language models (LLMs). A rough estimate: A large company with ten departments, each with five core functions, could benefit from five specialized applications per function. Software providers are already bringing corresponding applications to market.

Enterprise 125

Enterprise Sales B2B Cost-Benefit 125

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 21, 2025

Early tools applied rudimentary machine learning (ML) models to customer relationship management (CRM) exports, assigning win probability scores or advising on the ideal time to call. Today the marketing phrase and technological direction is agentic AI. Customer success and product teams benefit as well.

Sales 130

Sales Measurement Data-driven Dashboards 130

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Bogdan Raduta, head of AI at FlowX.AI, says, Gen AI holds big potential for efficiency, insight, and innovation, but its also absolutely important to pinpoint and measure its true benefits. A second area is improving data quality and integrating systems for marketing departments, then tracking how these changes impact marketing metrics.

Sales 143

Sales Metrics Data-driven Unstructured Data 143

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. million in 2026, covering infrastructure, models, applications, and services.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

AI Benefits and Stakeholders. AI is a field where value, in the form of outcomes and their resulting benefits, is created by machines exhibiting the ability to learn and “understand,” and to use the knowledge learned to carry out tasks or achieve goals. AI-generated benefits can be realized by defining and achieving appropriate goals.

Advertising 362

Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 362

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. By leveraging large language models and platforms like Azure Open AI, for example, organisations can transform outdated code into modern, customised frameworks that support advanced features.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Risk 124

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our experiments are based on real-world historical full order book data, provided by our partner CryptoStruct , and compare the trade-offs between these choices, focusing on performance, cost, and quant developer productivity. You can refer to this metadata layer to create a mental model of how Icebergs time travel capability works.

Metadata 109

Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 109

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.

Enterprise 124

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Data Quality 124

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Organizations that deploy AI to eliminate middle management human workers will be able to capitalize on reduced labor costs in the short-term and long-term benefits savings,” Gartner stated. “AI CMOs view GenAI as a tool that can launch both new products and business models.

Enterprise 135

Enterprise IoT Risk Cost-Benefit 135

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Here are the top cloud market trends and how they are impacting CIO’s cloud strategies.

Marketing 144

Marketing IT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. Were developing our own AI models customized to improve code understanding on rare platforms, he adds. SS&C uses Metas Llama as well as other models, says Halpin. Devin scored nearly 14%.

Software 143

Software Risk Enterprise Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

The study found better oversight of business workflows to be the top perceived benefit of it. AI agents are valuable across sales, service, marketing, IT, HR, and really all business teams, says Andy White, SVP of business technology at Salesforce. Many organizations are in the process of moving AI hype into calculated action.

IT 139

IT Sales Cost-Benefit Data-driven 139

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

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One is going through the big areas where we have operational services and look at every process to be optimized using artificial intelligence and large language models. But a substantial 23% of respondents say the AI has underperformed expectations as models can prove to be unreliable and projects fail to scale.

IT 141

IT Consulting ROI Cost-Benefit 141

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

AI has many practical uses that can help companies improve their marketing strategies, but personalization is arguably one of the most important. In omnichannel marketing, AI personalizes and optimizes the customer experience across multiple channels. AI is essential for scaling end-to-end personalization.

Marketing 144

Marketing Advertising Sales Strategy 144

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Small language models and edge computing Most of the attention this year and last has been on the big language models specifically on ChatGPT in its various permutations, as well as competitors like Anthropics Claude and Metas Llama models.

Software 141

Software ROI Modeling Interactive 141

datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

SaaS is taking over the cloud computing market. 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. billion by 2022—a level of growth that will shape SaaS trends in 2020. billion.

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2025

Ann Funai , CIO and vice president of IBMs Business Platform Transformation, says Big Blue has achieved a 30% reduction in infrastructure-related operational costs since completing its migration to SAPs cloud ERP platform last July. Yet Funai is clear that enterprises dragging their feet are resisting the inevitable move to a SaaS model.

Cost-Benefit 109

Cost-Benefit Consulting Sales Enterprise 109

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.

Analytics 97

Analytics Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven 97

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.” This is the power of marketing.) The elephant was unstoppable.

Machine Learning 342

Machine Learning Testing Modeling Cost-Benefit 342

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide (August 2024) , the global AI market is expected to surge from US$235 billion in 2024 to US$632 billion by 2028. Tencent Cloud stands to benefit, particularly in APAC, where market size is predicted to grow from US$45.4

Marketing 122

Marketing Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Data-driven 122

Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Big data technology has changed the future of marketing in a multitude of ways. A growing number of organizations are leveraging big data to get higher ROIs from their organic and paid marketing campaigns. As a result, companies around the world spent over $52 billion on data-driven marketing solutions in 2021.

Marketing 145

Marketing Big Data Data-driven Sales 145

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 344

Enterprise Testing Modeling Reporting 344

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

As an IT leader, deciding what models and applications to run, as well as how and where, are critical decisions. History suggests hyperscalers, which give away basic LLMs while licensing subscriptions for more powerful models with enterprise-grade features, will find more ways to pass along the immense costs of their buildouts to businesses.

Uncertainty 122

Uncertainty Marketing Cost-Benefit Risk 122

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

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

In this post, we explore the benefits of SageMaker Unified Studio and how to get started. From within the unified studio, you can discover data and AI assets from across your organization, then work together in projects to securely build and share analytics and AI artifacts, including data, models, and generative AI applications.

Analytics 110

Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 110

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

But eventually, they run into the same old bottleneck: the funding model. Even after theyve shifted the operating model, funding remains stuck in the past. They know the funding model is the least mature, least understood element of the product operating model, and maybe the biggest unlock of all. Sound familiar?

Cost-Benefit 71

Cost-Benefit Finance Metrics Modeling 71

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

ISGs Market Lens Cloud Study illustrates the extent to which the database market is now dominated by cloud, with 58% of participants deploying more than one-half of database and data platform workloads on cloud. million revenue in the second quarter of fiscal 2025.

Data Lake 130

Data Lake IoT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 130

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?

Big Data 275

Big Data Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Optimization 275

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As a result, AI factories will eventually take their place, serving as key market differentiators while driving unprecedented efficiencies. The Dell AI Factory brings AI as close as possible to where data resides to minimize latency, secure proprietary information, and reduce costs.

IT 111

IT Cost-Benefit Optimization Manufacturing 111

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

Decades of refinement and focused development to support specific industriesand even specialized categories within these industrieshave increased their utility while decreasing the total cost of ownership, especially in implementation expense and maintenance.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Management Finance Cost-Benefit 130

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

For example, payday lending businesses are no doubt compliant with the law, but many aren’t models for good corporate citizenship. Compliance functions are powerful because legal violations result in clear financial costs. The era in which fines were merely a cost of doing business appears to be ending.

Cost-Benefit 323

Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven Strategy 323

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. This new paradigm of the operating model is the hallmark of successful organizational transformation.

Optimization 98

Optimization Strategy Cost-Benefit Enterprise 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2025

The greatest opportunities of IT/OT convergence Those surveyed see increased security and cost savings as the greatest opportunities for convergence. Uniform processes, clear requirements Because IT/OT convergence allows processes to be standardized and centralized, many companies can also reduce costs in this way.

IT 101

IT Cost-Benefit Manufacturing Reporting 101

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. Our customers and prospects face a growing challenge of managing vast amounts of product data across multiple channels and markets, adds Fouache.

B2B 105

B2B Cost-Benefit Data-driven Sales 105