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. The solutionGenAIis also the beneficiary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley. Wetmur says Morgan Stanley has been using modern data science, AI, and machine learning for years to analyze data and activity, pinpoint risks, and initiate mitigation, noting that teams at the firm have earned patents in this space.

IT 140

IT Cost-Benefit Measurement Experimentation 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks.

Risk 140

Risk Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 140

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But shortsighted IT strategies, often pushed by CEOs seeking short-term gains, can saddle CIOs with increasing tech debt that can further undercut long-term outcomes and innovation. This year, many CIOs have focused on getting AI prototypes up and running without fully considering the long-term operating costs , he says.

Cost-Benefit 133

Cost-Benefit Risk Business Objectives Data-driven 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

We examine the risks of rapid GenAI implementation and explain how to manage it. These examples underscore the severe risks of data spills, brand damage, and legal issues that arise from the “move fast and break things” mentality. This is a risk that many organizations don’t consider.

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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. People : To implement a successful Operational AI strategy, an organization needs a dedicated ML platform team to manage the tools and processes required to operationalize AI models.

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Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Experimentation 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. The takeaway is clear: embrace deep tech now, or risk being left behind by those who do. Crucially, the time and cost to implement AI have fallen.

Technology 118

Technology ROI Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 118

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But the outage has also raised questions about enterprise cloud strategies and resurfaced debate about overly privileged software , as IT leaders look for takeaways from the disastrous event. It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk. What is concentration risk? Still, we must.

Risk 144

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Enterprise 144

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. Moreover, most enterprise cloud strategies involve a variety of cloud vendors, including point-solution SaaS vendors operating in the cloud.

Risk 131

Risk Enterprise Strategy Snapshot 131

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.

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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

Risk IT Risk Management Cost-Benefit 142

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.

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Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

datapine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In fact, healthcare analytics has the potential to reduce costs of treatment, predict outbreaks of epidemics, avoid preventable diseases, and improve the quality of life in general. Health professionals, just like business entrepreneurs, are capable of collecting massive amounts of data and look for the best strategies to use these numbers.

Big Data 364

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Cost-Benefit 364

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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 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.

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Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 362

Smart Data Collective

JUNE 19, 2022

AI is particularly helpful with managing risks. How AI Can Help Suppliers Manage Risks Better. The benefits of AI stem from the need to manage close relationships with business stakeholders, which is a difficult task. Failure or Delay Risk. Brand Reputation Risk. Competitive Advantage Risk.

Risk 144

Risk Cost-Benefit Risk Management Manufacturing 144

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg , we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. Our analysis shows that Iceberg can accelerate query performance by up to 52%, reduce operational costs, and significantly improve data management at scale.

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Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 108

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Research firm IDC projects worldwide spending on technology to support AI strategies will reach $337 billion in 2025 — and more than double to $749 billion by 2028. This is the easiest way to start benefiting from AI without needed the skills to develop your own models and applications.”

ROI 137

ROI Cost-Benefit Risk Experimentation 137

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

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Sales Metrics Data-driven Unstructured Data 143

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.

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Cost-Benefit Modeling ROI Marketing 128

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Today we face the harsh reality of cloud costs, if not done right,” says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at SAS. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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Strategy Cost-Benefit IT Key Performance Indicator 145

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

Strategy 128

Strategy Cost-Benefit Risk Enterprise 128

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.

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Cost-Benefit Risk Forecasting Software 204

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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

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

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This approach will help businesses maximize the benefits of agentic AI while mitigating risks and ensuring responsible deployment. Abhas Ricky, chief strategy officer of Cloudera, recently noted on LinkedIn the cost challenges involved in managing AI agents.

Management 119

Management IT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 119

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

These strategies contribute to perceptions of trust. 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. But ethics strategies have major limitations leaders must address. Compliance and ethics.

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Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven Strategy 325

O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The safest course of action is also the slowest and most expensive: obtain your training data as part of a collection strategy that includes efforts to obtain the correct representative sample under an explicit license for use as training data.

Consulting 363

Consulting Risk Cost-Benefit Modeling 363

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor’s strategy is to tailor software with a high percentage of specific capabilities and functionality for customers in its target industries, delivering a faster time to value. 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

Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays dynamic digital landscape, multi-cloud strategies have become vital for organizations aiming to leverage the best of both cloud and on-premises environments. Adopting hybrid and multi-cloud models provides enterprises with flexibility, cost optimization, and a way to avoid vendor lock-in. Why Hybrid and Multi-Cloud?

Cost-Benefit 82

Cost-Benefit Optimization Strategy Data-driven 82

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

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

Some companies are interested in taking advantage of the benefits of existing AI tools like ChatGPT. The ROI of creating their own AI applications can be massive, but they still need to use them cost-effectively. A study done by Deloitte in late 2022 showed that cost reduction is the top priority for CFOs.

Software 142

Software Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing 142

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

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

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Enterprises that adopt RPA report reductions in process cycle times and operational costs. Investing in task orchestration and management technologies aligns with broader digital transformation strategies necessary for maintaining competitive advantage.

Cost-Benefit 130

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Business Objectives 130

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.

Risk 136

Risk Insurance Cost-Benefit Software 136

datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Whether you manage a big or small company, business reports must be incorporated to establish goals, track operations, and strategy, to get an in-depth view of the overall company state. Knowing how to prepare and create one with the help of an online data analysis tool can reduce costs and time to decide on a relevant course of action.

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Reporting Dashboards Visualization Cost-Benefit 297