David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At that early stage, Verint’s approach was to identify specific use cases that could benefit from AI-based automation, and incrementally developed bots as a definitive solution to those problems. It will be interesting to see how Verint quantifies Genie’s value in ROI terms, as it does for the rest of the bot portfolio.

ROI 130

ROI Interactive Software Measurement 130

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.

Modeling 96

Modeling Cost-Benefit Optimization Digital Transformation 96

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

JULY 5, 2024

This is why many enterprises are seeing a lot of energy and excitement around use cases, yet are still struggling to realize ROI. So, to maximize the ROI of gen AI efforts and investments, it’s important to move from ad-hoc experimentation to a more purposeful strategy and systematic approach to implementation.

ROI 124

ROI Experimentation Risk Cost-Benefit 124

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

For any health insurance company, preventive care management is critical to keeping costs low. The key to keeping costs low is that the number of claims must be low. So how much preventive care can you adopt to take care of your members to keep claims low and to keep costs low? And we’ve already seen a big ROI on this.

Management 111

Management Insurance ROI Cost-Benefit 111

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Many AI projects have huge upfront costs — up to $200,000 for coding assistants, $1 million to embed generative AI in custom apps, $6.5 million to fine-tune gen AI models, and $20 million to build custom models from scratch, according to recent estimates from Gartner. SMBs are particularly vulnerable to these cost increases.”

Risk 131

Risk Cost-Benefit Insurance ROI 131

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2023

ROI becomes a waiting game. What if there was a way to get ROI today and still train the workforce for a quantum tomorrow? Quantum-inspired solutions can train Large Language Models (LLMs) faster and cheaper, provide explainability when making credit decisions, and help spot flaws in production lines.

ROI 52

ROI Machine Learning Optimization Cost-Benefit 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Many of those gen AI projects will fail because of poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, unclear business value , or escalating costs , Gartner predicts. Gen AI projects can cost millions of dollars to implement and incur huge ongoing costs, Gartner notes. For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5

ROI 143

ROI Cost-Benefit Experimentation Deep Learning 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Multiple attacks on well-known manufacturers have ended with huge expenses, including Austrian aerospace parts maker, FACC AG, which lost $61 million thanks to a phishing scam , and Norsk-Hydro , which was hit by a ransomware attack that cost $75 million. The first is the ability to get to ROI faster.

ROI 126

ROI Manufacturing Cost-Benefit IoT 126

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

Many companies that begin their AI projects in the cloud often reach a point when cost and time variables become issues. That’s typically due to the exponential growth in dataset size and complexity of AI models. “In But as models and datasets grow, there’s a stifling effect associated with the escalating compute cost and time. “But

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Modeling Cost-Benefit ROI Data Lake 97

DataRobot Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The new findings from industry analyst ESG, The Economic Benefits of DataRobot AI Cloud , detail how ESG models predict improved operational efficiencies, reduced risk, and improves business outcomes with the DataRobot platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning. ROI in a timeframe that’s up to 90% to 98% faster.

ROI 52

ROI Strategy Enterprise Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

JUNE 30, 2020

They get a leg up on the competition, launch new innovations, and benefit as the economy moves back in a positive direction. CFOs have an opportunity to play a key role in positioning their companies for a successful rebound by carefully assessing return on investment (ROI) and helping the C-suite make the right capital investments.

ROI 59

ROI Uncertainty Finance Cost-Benefit 59

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. That will help us achieve short-term benefits as we continue to learn and build better solutions.

Testing 122

Testing Cost-Benefit Interactive ROI 122

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

Furthermore, the growing importance of AI necessitates the modernization of AI models and data pipelines to prevent issues like model drift and bias. Define clear objectives and secure executive buy-in Articulate challenges and benefits: Communicate the challenges posed by legacy applications and the potential benefits of APMR.

Cost-Benefit 109

Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator ROI Strategy 109

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While corporate departments such as innovation may be easy targets and considered “overhead” for cost cutting, this can be a serious mistake since innovation is a strategic investment in the future of the company. And hear out new thought leadership topics that may come from left field, which could benefit customers.

ROI 120

ROI Scorecard Metrics B2B 120

Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

All of these above metrics track how well governed your organization’s data is, but not the benefit of doing so. What are the benefits of reducing duplicate data? This is why Alation offers intuitive configuration, with a go-live timeframe of 10 to 12 weeks thanks to the Alation Professional Services Right Start Model.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance ROI Metrics Cost-Benefit 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Enterprises want to enjoy genAI’s many advantages and gain a competitive edge, but they need guidance on putting genAI to work and reassurance that it delivers tangible business benefits. Some of the most promising early applications address common enterprise pain points, including overburdened staff and escalating operational costs.

Cost-Benefit 126

Cost-Benefit ROI Enterprise Data-driven 126

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to Kari Briski, VP of AI models, software, and services at Nvidia, successfully implementing gen AI hinges on effective data management and evaluating how different models work together to serve a specific use case. Data management, when done poorly, results in both diminished returns and extra costs.

Management 141

Management Data Governance Cost-Benefit Structured Data 141

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But it did talk about cost implications, and implied that CIOs would be better off using the vendor’s systems, even with the Big Blue markup. There is a cost arbitrage and a quality play that can be built into a well-structured managed services deal,” Schadler said. “As It creates stickiness if nothing else.

Consulting 122

Consulting Strategy Cost-Benefit Modeling 122

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 300

Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 300

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2023

Without it, businesses incur steep costs, but the downside, or costs, are often unclear because calculating data management’s return on investment (ROI), or upside, is a murky exercise. For many organizations, the real challenge is quantifying the ROI benefits of data management in terms of dollars and cents.

Strategy 116

Strategy Management Key Performance Indicator ROI 116

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“We are embedding AI-powered capabilities across the suite so customers are benefiting from it as soon as they log in,” Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, said in a statement. “By Bickley cautioned, however, that NetSuite will have to prove value to drive a renewal cost increase for these services. “It

IT 116

IT Cost-Benefit ROI Enterprise 116

BA Learnings

MARCH 26, 2020

While some companies identify business benefits with the sole intention of getting business cases approved, more mature companies tend to devote their resources to tracking and measuring these business benefits after the projects have been concluded. This is particularly important to note when developing a cost-benefit analysis.

Key Performance Indicator 207

Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement 207

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2023

To fully harness the benefits of modern network architectures, network operations teams need a deep understanding of how these systems perform. Even by making small advances in this IT arena, teams can deliver large business benefits and demonstrable return on investment (ROI). million and an ROI of 160%.

IT 98

IT Cost-Benefit ROI Software 98

datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

More generally, low-quality data can impact productivity, bottom line, and overall ROI. No, its ultimate goal is to increase return on investment (ROI) for those business segments that depend upon data. Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood. The 5 Pillars of Data Quality Management. 1 – The people.

Data Quality 241

Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s embedded in the applications we use every day and the security model overall is pretty airtight. The cost of OpenAI is the same whether you buy it directly or through Azure. Its model catalog has over 1,600 options, some of which are also available through GitHub Models. That’s risky.”

Enterprise 136

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Experimentation Modeling 136

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Even Goldman Sachs, previously bullish on the AI story, has raised concerns over whether there’ll be positive ROI for many of the investments being made in the technology. But there comes a point in a new technology when its potential benefits become clear even if the exact shape of its evolution is opaque.

Cost-Benefit 131

Cost-Benefit Experimentation ROI Digital Transformation 131

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

A common but critical challenge I hear from CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs every day is that they have a difficult time helping the C-suite understand that IT is the very architecture for the future of business, not a cost center. Speak their language: Frame your arguments in terms of business outcomes and financial benefits.

Modeling 105

Modeling Cost-Benefit ROI Business Objectives 105

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 138

IT Consulting ROI Cost-Benefit 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to Martin Rapos, CEO of AR/VR platform Akular, which converts 3D models into digital twins, the impact of every dollar spent early is an order of magnitude higher than if you spend it five years down the road as a follower.

Cost-Benefit 136

Cost-Benefit ROI Manufacturing Optimization 136

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hybrid cloud allows them to take advantage of powerful open-source large language models (LLMs), use public data and computing resources to train their own models and securely fine-tune their models while keeping their proprietary insights private. They need to champion modernization as a business initiative, not an IT project.

Cost-Benefit 82

Cost-Benefit ROI Modeling Data-driven 82

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

With a cloud deployment, enterprises can leverage a “pay as you go” model; reducing the burden of incurring capital costs. Not only can resources be quickly provisioned and optimized for different workloads and processing needs, but it can be done cost effectively. Data that needs to be tightly controlled (e.g. Conclusion.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake ROI Metadata Cost-Benefit 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Data-driven decisions: Leverage data and analytics to assess new technologies’ potential impact and ROI. Adobe’s transition from packaged software to the Creative Cloud service model is an example of a strategic move to exploit new market opportunities and scale for success with recurrent revenue and a broader user base.

Technology 98

Technology Experimentation Cost-Benefit ROI 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

To that end, Wiedenbeck and his team are tackling “unit cost,” or the expense of specific products and services, such as writing a policy, servicing a claim, or handling a customer request. See IDC PlanScape: Unit-Based Costing to Optimize IT Performance for an exploration of how unit cost can be applied to digital products and services.)

IT 130

IT Insurance Cost-Benefit Risk 130

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

Experimentation Cost-Benefit Data Lake Data Science 137

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Of late, concerns about the public “cloud-first” approach have emerged to challenge business value and skewer ROI, TCO and KPIs. Others conducted apples-to-apples comparisons of public cloud versus on-premises costs.

ROI 126

ROI Cost-Benefit KPI Uncertainty 126

Cloudera

AUGUST 1, 2024

Among various AI implementations, Generative AI (GenAI) stands out as the most popular, with 67% of respondents utilizing generative models in some capacity. When asked about the most valuable advantages of hybrid data architectures, respondents highlighted data security (71%) as the primary benefit.

Data Architecture 81

Data Architecture Enterprise Cost-Benefit Deep Learning 81