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. Optimizing GenAI Apps with RAG—Pure Storage + NVIDIA for the Win!

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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. 2) Vertical SaaS.

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

A growing number of businesses use big data technology to optimize efficiency. This illustrates the benefits of combining big data and lean thinking. While there are various interpretations or models to address such problems, Lean Thinking can contribute to the implementation of more optimal projects for a business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Recent research shows that 67% of enterprises are using generative AI to create new content and data based on learned patterns; 50% are using predictive AI, which employs machine learning (ML) algorithms to forecast future events; and 45% are using deep learning, a subset of ML that powers both generative and predictive models.

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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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Risk Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence Data-driven 237

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Benefits and Challenges of The Data Quality Dimension Approach Data quality dimensions are often heralded as foundational principles for evaluating and improving data quality. For instance, a bank might use a CDE dashboard to monitor the accuracy of customer credit scores, which are vital for regulatory compliance and effective risk modeling.

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Data Quality Dashboards Metrics Cost-Benefit 219

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

domains on C/M/R 7i instances , you can gain up to 51% in vector search performance at no additional cost compared to previous R5 Intel instances. For instance, it’s used in generative AI applications to match user queries to semantically similar knowledge articles providing context and grounding for generative models to perform tasks.

Cost-Benefit 122

Cost-Benefit Optimization Machine Learning Software 122

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

Advertising 276

Advertising Cost-Benefit Marketing Risk 276

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

If this sounds fanciful, it’s not hard to find AI systems that took inappropriate actions because they optimized a poorly thought-out metric. You must detect when the model has become stale, and retrain it as necessary. The guardrail metric is a check to ensure that an AI doesn’t make a “mistake.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2024

Cloud maturity models are a useful tool for addressing these concerns, grounding organizational cloud strategy and proceeding confidently in cloud adoption with a plan. Cloud maturity models (or CMMs) are frameworks for evaluating an organization’s cloud adoption readiness on both a macro and individual service level.

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datapine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Identifying what is working and what is not is one of the invaluable management practices that can decrease costs, determine the progress a business is making, and compare it to organizational goals. Marketing: CPC (Cost-per-Click). Marketing: CPA (Cost-per-Acquisition). What gets measured gets done.” – Peter Drucker.

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KPI Metrics Sales Visualization 269

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs. By processing data closer to the source, edge computing can enable quicker decisions and reduce costs by minimizing data transfers, making it an alluring environment for AI.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Manufacturing Data-driven Optimization 143

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO.

Cost-Benefit 113

Cost-Benefit Modeling Marketing Sales 113

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Enterprises moving their artificial intelligence projects into full scale development are discovering escalating costs based on initial infrastructure choices. Many companies whose AI model training infrastructure is not proximal to their data lake incur steeper costs as the data sets grow larger and AI models become more complex.

Experimentation 137

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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.” And harder to sell a data-related product unless it spoke to Hadoop.

Machine Learning 253

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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

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A robust foundation, one founded on a digital workforce and an AI-optimized infrastructure, is necessary to reap the technology’s outsized rewards. Employees who wish to boost their efficiency through AI can benefit not only from upskilling, but also be supported with the right data, applications, and collaboration tools.

Cost-Benefit 128

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

Companies eager to harness these benefits can leverage ready-made, budget-friendly models and customize them with proprietary business data to quickly tap into the power of AI. But first, they need to consider where it fits in their organization, which processes will benefit the most, whether to buy or build it, and what it’ll cost.

Cost-Benefit 140

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Interactive Modeling 140

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

These objections often include, “But we’ve always done it this way” (resistance to change), “It works just fine as is” (accepting the status quo which may be a sub-optimal solution), “Let’s wait until post-build” (pushing things off until later), “Let’s start with the metaverse” (being distracted by shiny objects), and more.

Cost-Benefit 136

Cost-Benefit ROI Manufacturing Optimization 136

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

This has all helped Optimas manage and reduce overall costs by enabling it to make smarter decisions, “making our supply chains more efficient and improving overall cash management,” Korba says. Second, Optimas is using data analytics to help better collaborate with its business customers to reduce costs and better manage their inventories.

Analytics 145

Analytics Cost-Benefit Forecasting Manufacturing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Data privacy and compliance issues Failing: Mismanagement of internal data with external models can lead to privacy breaches and non-compliance with regulations. Bias and hallucinations Failing: GenAI models often produce biased or inaccurate outputs, leading to misinformation and potential legal issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Then, identify opportunities to reduce run costs and free up funds to invest in transformation and new technology capabilities. So your usage and costs should be elastic, expanding and contracting with workload.

Cost-Benefit 138

Cost-Benefit IT Uncertainty Optimization 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

“It’s very reminiscent of the early days of cloud when it was ‘weapons-free’ on spending with everyone trying to implement cloud — and now genAI — everywhere but with little to no cost control or governance,” he says. We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

Cost-Benefit 136

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 20, 2023

There are many ways businesses are using big data to make better decisions and operate more efficiently Organizations can use big data to optimize expenses and reduce costs. One of the many ways big data is helping companies operate more cost-effectively is through the construction of smart buildings.

Internet of Things 140

Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Big Data Data-driven 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.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We will go into detail with each report below in the article, but it is important to keep in mind that low-level metrics such as CPC or CTR will not take part in the strategic report that focuses on customers’ costs. This is useful since seniors need to know and control customer costs and the quality of leads. click to enlarge**.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

That figure is expected to grow as more businesses discover its benefits. Prices must account for the company’s key value metric, cost structure, buyer personas, and other factors like competition. Analytics technology can help companies optimize their prices more effectively. Cost-Plus Pricing.

B2B 139

B2B Analytics Cost-Benefit Metrics 139

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

Inferencing has emerged as among the most exciting aspects of generative AI large language models (LLMs). Crunching mathematical calculations, the model then makes predictions based on what it has learned during training. Inferencing funneled through RAG must be efficient, scalable, and optimized to make GenAI applications useful.

Cost-Benefit 135

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

These details are from the Check Point 2024 Cyber Security Report , which paints a combination of grim prospects and optimism. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings.

Cost-Benefit 128

Cost-Benefit Optimization Reporting Software 128

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In this article, discover how HPE GreenLake for EHR can help healthcare organizations simplify and overcome common challenges to achieve a more cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable solution. It also helps optimize spending and lower risk while increasing patient satisfaction.

Cost-Benefit 134

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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.

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Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On top of that, Gen AI, and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, are super-computing workloads that devour electricity.Estimates vary, but Dr. Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Not at all.

Risk 132

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Plus, you need to balance the FinOps team’s need for autonomy against the CIO’s need for centralized control to gain economies of scale and avoid runaway costs. Then there’s housekeeping.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Measurement Optimization Metrics 124

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Predictive analytics definition Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. Models can be designed, for instance, to discover relationships between various behavior factors.

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Predictive Analytics Analytics Predictive Modeling Forecasting 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape. This article presents essential strategies for CIOs to strike the optimal balance among innovation, value, cost, and practicality in tech investments.

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