CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk. What is concentration risk? Looking to the future, IT leaders must bring stronger focus on “concentration risk”and how these supply chain risks can be better managed. Unfortunately, the complexity of multiple vendors can lead to incidents and new risks.

Risk 144

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This year, many CIOs have focused on getting AI prototypes up and running without fully considering the long-term operating costs , he says. Gartner recently estimated that organizations that don’t understand how their generative AI costs scale could make a 500% to 1,000% calculation error, he notes. That’s not where you want to be.”

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Cost-Benefit Risk Business Objectives Data-driven 133

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To fully benefit from AI, organizations must take bold steps to accelerate the time to value for these applications. Operational AI offers organizations significant benefits, including time and cost savings, and critical competitive advantages in today’s business landscape. This is where Operational AI comes into play.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. While security risks are daunting, therapists remind us to avoid overly stressing out in areas outside our control.

Risk 142

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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. Maintaining, updating, and patching old systems is a complex challenge that increases the risk of operational downtime and security lapse.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Risk 124

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. CIOs should also consider total cost of ownership, he says.

Cost-Benefit 128

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This is the easiest way to start benefiting from AI without needed the skills to develop your own models and applications.” For the global risk advisor and insurance broker that includes use cases for drafting emails and documents, coding, translation, and client research.

ROI 137

ROI Cost-Benefit Risk Experimentation 137

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.

Cost-Benefit 204

Cost-Benefit Risk Forecasting Software 204

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Despite these limitations and concerns among CIOs over AI costs, real progress has been made this year and we can expect to see this grow further in 2025. Assuming a technology can capture these risks will fail like many knowledge management solutions did in the 90s by trying to achieve the impossible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Developing and deploying successful AI can be an expensive process with a high risk of failure. How can CIOs deliver accurate, trustworthy AI without the energy costs and carbon footprint of a small city? Train overnight when data center demand is low for better performance and lower costs.

Risk 132

Risk Cost-Benefit Modeling Optimization 132

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 New security and risk solutions will be necessary as AI agents significantly increase the already invisible attack surface at enterprises.

Enterprise 135

Enterprise Risk IoT Cost-Benefit 135

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

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 136

ROI Cost-Benefit Metrics Strategy 136

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Another benefit is that with open source, Emburse can do additional model training. You get more control over your costs.

Cost-Benefit 115

Cost-Benefit Modeling Marketing Sales 115

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 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

GRC certifications validate the skills, knowledge, and abilities IT professionals have to manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in the enterprise. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals. What are GRC certifications? Why are GRC certifications important?

Risk 119

Risk Risk Management Management Enterprise 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Wei also noted that chemical supply costs in the US are substantially higher, citing the need to ship sulfuric acid from Taiwan to Los Angeles and then transport it to Arizona by truck. Supply chain constraints, such as higher material costs and logistical challenges, further increase expenses.

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Manufacturing Cost-Benefit Recreation/Entertainment Technology 116

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

The previous state-of-the-art sensors cost tens of thousands of dollars, adds Mattmann, who’s now the chief data and AI officer at UCLA. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At The big risk is you take the humans out of the loop when you let these into the wild.” They also had extreme measurement sensitivity.

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Risk Insurance Cost-Benefit Software 136

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” You can’t lose.

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Risk IT Insurance Risk Management 116

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.

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Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 318

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The results can be used to uncover the source of bottlenecks, delays, unseen risks and unnecessary workloads that, in turn, allows organizations to institute improvements. The main shortcoming I found in the software is that it does not take costs into account in its optimizing routines, but I expect that will be added shortly.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

If exploited, a single mainframe code vulnerability can allow a hacker to bypass security controls and corrupt a system, all while covering their tracks—all of which come at a high cost to the company. What steps can be taken to minimize the risk of hackers penetrating the mainframe? Mainframes are under more pressure than ever before.

Risk 124

Risk Software Insurance Cost-Benefit 124

O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Determining the risk profile of a given model requires a case-by-case evaluation but it can be useful to think of the failure risk in three broad categories: “If this model fails, someone might die or have their sensitive data exposed” — Examples of these kinds of uses include automated driving/flying systems and biometric access features.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

But many enterprises have yet to start reaping the full benefits that AIOps solutions provide. Understanding the root cause of issues is one situational benefit of AIOps. In addition to making IT systems more resilient, these operational improvements lower IT costs, enable innovation, and bolster the customer experience.

IT 105

IT Cost-Benefit Data Science Data-driven 105

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. Also, the time travel feature can further mitigate any risks of lookahead bias.

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Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 111

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While cloud risk analysis should be no different than any other third-party risk analysis, many enterprises treat the cloud more gently, taking a less thorough approach. Interrelations between these various partners further complicate the risk equation. That’s where the contract comes into play.

Risk 131

Risk Enterprise Strategy Snapshot 131

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. This is the kind of risk that may increasingly keep CIOs up at night in the year ahead.

Risk 131

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Risk Management 131

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The typical reaction is to ban any use of it until you can figure out what it is, what it does, how it will benefit your business and how you can safely and securely deploy it. Do you really benefit by awaiting others to figure it out for you and then sell you their services — when they know little to nothing about your business?

Risk 124

Risk Technology Cost-Benefit Internet of Things 124

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

As with any new technology, however, security must be designed into the adoption of AI in order to minimize potential risks. How can you close security gaps related to the surge in AI apps in order to balance both the benefits and risks of AI? Enterprises can manage AI risks at every step of the journey with AI Runtime Security.

Risk 119

Risk Cost-Benefit Enterprise Modeling 119

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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Analytics Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven 97

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Below, I recap my virtual event conversation with two IT leaders, who shared their first-hand experience of the benefits that BMC Helix solutions have delivered in respective use cases. They automated remediation and significantly improved MTTR and overall service quality.

IT 98

IT Insurance Cost-Benefit Optimization 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life. Here’s where CIOs can rethink their approach to the long-term benefit of their organizations.

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Risk IT Risk Management Sales 128

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are under constant pressure to adopt new technologies quickly, manage costs effectively, and maintain robust security and compliance standards. Procuring through AWS Marketplace has a number of benefits.

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Cost-Benefit Optimization Software Management 98

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As applications process more and more data over time, customers are looking to reduce the compute costs for their stream processing applications. which enables you to reduce your stream processing cost by up to 33% compared to previous KCL versions. Additionally, we cover additional benefits that KCL 3.0 We then show how KCL 3.0

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