CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Agentic AI is having a moment, as proponents see the benefits of using autonomous AI agents to automate manual tasks across organizations. CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce. IT service management giant ServiceNow has also added AI agents to its Now Platform.

Business Intelligence

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. In doing so, they will begin recognizing the exponential benefits of their collective AI use cases starting in 2027.

Experimentation

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

AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2025

Vector search has become essential for modern applications such as generative AI and agentic AI, but managing vector data at scale presents significant challenges. Organizations often struggle with the trade-offs between latency, cost, and accuracy when storing and searching through millions or billions of vector embeddings.

Optimization

DataFloq

JULY 8, 2025

Companies implementing intelligent touchpoint optimization see average conversion increases of 45% while reducing operational costs by 30%. Predictive analytics forecast attendance patterns, enabling smart resource allocation and targeted communication strategies that boost show-up rates by 65%.

Interactive

DataKitchen

JULY 8, 2025

Just as software teams would never dream of deploying code that has only been partially tested, data engineering teams must adopt comprehensive testing strategies to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and trustworthiness of their data products. This approach dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of addressing data quality issues.

Testing

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

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. From chatbots handling customer queries to algorithmic pricing strategies and automated inventory management, retailers are finding innovative ways to leverage AI capabilities.

B2B

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

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2025

However, this is closely linked to common processes and clear roles under the umbrella of a binding vision and strategy. The greatest opportunities of IT/OT convergence Those surveyed see increased security and cost savings as the greatest opportunities for convergence. IT versus OT what is it all about?

IT

KDnuggets

AUGUST 12, 2025

There are several benefits of using LLMs to generate SQL, and, as with everything, there are also some cons. # If a customer had more than one order on a certain day, sum the order costs on a daily basis. Output each customers first name, total cost of their items, and the date. Why Use LLMs to Generate SQL?

Data Science

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2025

Ryan and his IDC colleagues advise senior IT leaders around technology strategy – in his case focusing on end user devices. From the benefit of that experience Ryan said that although there is no critical use case for AI PCs today, organizations should be thinking about the future of their workforce and the devices they will need.

Cost-Benefit

Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The presentation offered a rare glimpse into how an agile and forward-thinking organization like WaterWipes tackled the critical issue of data governance during a time of significant digital transformation. This strategic decision allowed them to realize business benefits quickly without compromising on quality or user satisfaction.

Management

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first section of this post discusses how we aligned the technical design of the data solution with the data strategy of Volkswagen Autoeuropa. Reuse of consumer-based data saves cost in extract, transform, and load (ETL) implementation and system maintenance. Finally, we highlight the key business outcomes.

Metadata

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. Klingbeil and Ensono have seen the challenges that legacy apps present for AI firsthand.

Insurance

Smarten

JANUARY 6, 2025

What Are the Benefits of Low-Code No-Code in Analytics? Here, we discuss the benefits of LCNC-enabled analytics, no code business intelligence benefits and employing analytics and low code no code for teams, business users, Citizen Data Scientists and, ultimately, for the enterprise.

Predictive Analytics

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Prerequisites To complete the solution presented in the post, start by completing the following prerequisite steps: Configure operational data provisioning (ODP) data sources for extraction in the SAP Gateway of your SAP system. These data sources should be combined and available to query for analysis. For more information see AWS Glue.

Visualization

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

There are multiple examples of organizations driving home a first-mover advantage by adopting and embracing technology modernization when the opportunity presents itself early.” Rasmussen says the modernization process should begin by forming a strategy team and directing it to build the business case for why change is needed. “As

IT

AWS Big Data

JULY 22, 2025

In this post, we present a multi-layered workload management framework with a rules-based proxy and OpenSearch workload management that can effectively address these challenges. Solution overview GlobalLog implemented a comprehensive workload management strategy to handle the diverse demands of its tenants.

Management

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2025

However, managing schema evolution at scale presents significant challenges. Additionally, it reduces the number of API calls to the metadata store, potentially lowering costs associated with these operations. This schema evolution strategy efficiently handles new data fields across different time periods.

IoT

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive. Most data management conferences and forums focus on AI, governance and security, with little emphasis on ESG-related data strategies.

IT

DataFloq

JULY 21, 2025

TL;DR Small language models (SLMs) are optimized generative AI solutions that offer cheaper and faster alternatives to massive AI systems, like ChatGPT Enterprises adopt SLMs as their entry point to generative AI due to lower training costs, reduced infrastructure requirements, and quicker ROI. What are small language models? Faster ROI.

Modeling

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

This allows companies to benefit from powerful models without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. However, this comes at the cost of some of the advantages offered by the leading frontier models. In-depth analysis: LLMs can go beyond simple data presentation to identify and explain complex patterns in the data.

Software

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Zero Trust strategies, long viewed as a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, must now evolve to accommodate AIs rapid advancements. Research presented during the conference underscored how GenAI complicates vulnerability management even as it streamlines certain aspects of software development.

Cost-Benefit

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As research suggests, the potential benefits of generative AI (genAI) adoption far outweigh the challenges, making it imperative for businesses to adopt a strategic approach toward scaling their AI implementation while observing guidelines for ESG compliance.

Enterprise

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jumia is a technology company born in 2012, present in 14 African countries, with its main headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. Jumia is present in NYSE and has a market cap of $554 million. With this architecture, Jumia was able to reduce their data lake cost by 50%.

Metadata

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For him, the reason for this also lies in the bare metal: A hardware-heavy infrastructure in particular presents companies with many challenges. This could be, for example, problems with stability in IT operations or the potential for cost savings. And how does an accelerated resolution affect operating costs and downtime?

IT

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The engineering efforts necessary could include assessing and then exposing the right services, APIs, data, and controls to the agentic platform to ensure that the agent has the context and tools to complete the given task, said Jason Andersen, principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy.

Consulting

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They pointed out that, while AI wasnt generally a keyword in job descriptions before 2022 , many skills required for AI have already been present in jobs such as IT, data science, and computer engineering. Also, it said, the organizations that benefit the most from new infrastructure should bear the brunt of growing costs.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

Technological paradigm shifts and disruptive global forces require CIOs to rethink their digital strategies every two years. Two years ago, I shared how gen AI impacts digital transformation priorities , focusing on data strategies, customer support initiatives, and AI governance.

Digital Transformation

Smarten

MAY 22, 2025

You want your business to enjoy the benefits of fact-based decision making? To make good business decisions, adjust strategies and forecast and plan, you must use that historical data to plan for the future. Explore The Benefits of our Augmented Analytics And BI Tools , Contact Us.

Analytics

AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2025

More statistics about the underlying data can often help a query planner select a plan that leads to the best query performance, but this can require a tradeoff among the cost of computing, storing, and maintaining statistics, and might require additional query planning time.

Data Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2025

Before the advent of generative AI, we at Rest — one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds — had already embarked on a strategy to simplify the retirement investment experience for our members. Generative AI presented a great opportunity to achieve this. To make this a true experiment, we set clear benchmarks for each use case.

Measurement

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2025

Performance, cost and security are all factors that need to be measured. Our storage costs were enormous. This solution used 95% less storage (with a cost reduction to match). When I presented this idea to senior stakeholders in the business, they killed it instantly. We rarely measure trust.

Enterprise

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

ANZ’s federated data strategy In response to the challenges, ANZ Group formulated a data strategy that focuses on empowering employees to securely use data to improve the sustainability and financial well-being of their customers. Nodes and domains serve business needs and are not technology mandated.

Metadata

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2025

This fusion enables the automation of tasks such as data analysis, document understanding, customer service interactions, and supply chain management, leading to increased efficiency and reduced operational costs. A system-agnostic strategy shifts the focus from tool-specific automation to enterprise-wide intelligence.

IoT

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

However, AI adoption also presents complex challenges, including security vulnerabilities, ethical concerns and regulatory compliance. Challenges Despite its benefits, AI adoption introduces a range of challenges that require initiative-taking risk management: Cybersecurity threats. Ensuring ethical practices.

Data-driven