Jen Stirrup

JULY 15, 2025

Why Traditional Analytics Often Falls Short Despite significant investments in sophisticated analytics platforms and dashboards, many organizations find themselves data-rich but insight-poor. What does this trend mean for our strategy? Like a three-legged stool, all three components must be present and balanced for the story to stand.

Analytics

Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 2, 2025

It enables teams to understand basic dashboards, interpret standard reports, and complete technical training programs. The technical implementation is often the easiest part of the transformation; developing the organizational fluency to leverage the technology effectively presents the greater challenge. " or "How many? "

Data-driven

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. Sign in to OpenSearch Dashboards and open Dev tools. More specifically he loves to help customers use AI in their data strategy to solve modern day challenges.

Optimization

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, dashboarding applications are a very common use case in Redshift customer environments where there is high concurrency and queries require quick, low-latency responses. First query response times for dashboard queries have significantly improved by optimizing code execution and reducing compilation overhead.

Data Lake

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. The financial implications of these strategies are significant. without running real data.

Testing

Smarten

AUGUST 7, 2025

As data democratization and data literacy drive the enterprise strategy and business users begin to leverage augmented analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools, the data scientist is also called upon to refine and present analytics and reports created by team members in order to ensure that these are appropriate for more strategic decisions.

Analytics

Smarten

JANUARY 6, 2025

User Benefits Data Creation vs. Data Consumption When a team member or business user is presented with self-serve analytics, the user will often see the new tool as less of an opportunity and more of a burden. Data is presented in a way that is meaningful to each user, no matter their business function or their technology experience.

Predictive Analytics

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

KDnuggets

JULY 29, 2025

NotebookLM first provides detailed calculations and then presents the final answer. This file concisely summarizes essential insights, making it ideal for presentations or executive briefings. This is particularly useful for users who want to see the underlying analysis, not just the conclusion.

Machine Learning

AWS Big Data

JULY 11, 2025

Materialized views are particularly useful for speeding up predictable and repeated queries, such as those used to populate dashboards or generate reports. Application/Users/BI Reporting : The application or business intelligence (BI) tools interact with the nested materialized views to generate reports and dashboards.

Data Warehouse

BizAcuity

JUNE 10, 2025

The complexity and speed of decision-making demand more than static dashboards or reports. This widespread adoption underscores that AI integration is a present-day necessity for organizations seeking to make data-driven decisions at scale. AI automates these steps, freeing experts to focus on higher-value strategy.

Business Intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

Traditionally, these systems have focused on: A graphical alarm dashboard with real-time data and alerts Complex, filterable tabular representations of time series data These features are useful but often require significant human interpretation to yield meaningful insights. Pro can process up to 2,000,000 tokens.

Software

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It ensures that all relevant data and information is consolidated, evaluated and presented in a clear and concise form. A clear definition of these goals makes it possible to develop targeted HR strategies that support the corporate vision. Subsequently, the reporting should be set up properly. What growth targets has the company set?

Big Data

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

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

MARCH 25, 2025

In the next sections, we describe how to set up a multi-Region resilient MSK cluster using MSK Replicator and also show the failover and failback strategy. To verify this, you can check the AWS Health Dashboard , though there is a chance that status updates may be delayed. The entire setup is deployed within a single AWS account.

Metrics

DataFloq

JULY 21, 2025

As presented in the table below, LLMs are much larger and pricier than SLMs. The table below presents an SLM vs. LLM comparison Is one language model better than the other? Step 1: Align AI strategy with business value Before diving into implementation, align your AI strategy with clear business objectives.

Modeling

AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2025

Table statistics (also known as planner statistics ) provide a snapshot of the data available in a table to help the query planner make an informed decision on execution strategies. The next section reviews features in Amazon Redshift that help improve query performance on data lakes even when table statistics aren’t present or are limited.

Data Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2025

After piloting various tools and seeing how interested students were in GenAI, we quickly realized we needed a comprehensive strategy.” An AI Dashboard that tracks weekly AI usage and AI grant funding activity. Marketing uses GenAI tools within M365 Copilot to write ad copy, emails, and presentations. And it’s working.

Testing

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2025

This article presents ideas in four categories focusing on a reliability culture, the deploy trade-off, resilient teams, and sustaining progress. For us, this was: Making performance visible Visibility is important to us we put our primary metrics for p95, p99 latency error rates, and SLOs in team dashboards. Establishing visibility.

Metrics

AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2025

In this post, we share how Kaltura transformed its observability strategy and technological stack by migrating from a software as a service (SaaS) logging solution to Amazon OpenSearch Service —achieving higher log retention, a 60% reduction in cost, and a centralized platform that empowers multiple teams with real-time insights.

Dashboards

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2025

 Financial benefits are often easier to quantify and present to the board than operational ones, making finance-focused ERP systems more immediately justifiable. Real-time dashboards might show fluctuations that seem alarming but are benign in context.  Vendors frequently present finance use cases as quick wins.

Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2025

We pushed decision-making closer to the systems, empowered control owners with visibility and built dashboards that replaced stale trackers. The team had bandwidth to learn about cybersecurity tools, build data-driven dashboards and co-develop risk registers with IT. I brought in local leads to co-present findings.

Optimization

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

x , which supports enhanced performance and security features, and native retry strategy. Readers can create up to five schedules per dashboard for themselves. Previously, only dashboard owners could create schedules and only on the default (author published) view of the dashboard.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2025

We then explore design and orchestration strategies, discuss human oversight and governance, and outline practical examples to illustrate deployment and scaling. Agents can refine their strategies or models, using new data or sources to improve accuracy, efficiency or other user goals, including ones that may not have been originally stated.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

Too often, organizations conflate dashboards with intelligence. These are your standard reports and dashboard visualizations of historical data showing sales last quarter, NPS trends, operational thoughts or marketing campaign performance. The new analytics mandate is descriptive, predictive and prescriptive in context.

Prescriptive Analytics

Anmut

JUNE 23, 2025

The Infrastructure Gap Sustainable asset management was another prominent theme, with a clear call to shift from short-term fixes to long-term, data-informed strategies. Challenges in the boardroom Board-level decision-making presents a key challenge. This also requires improved methods for quantifying value over time.

Risk Management

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Weve built processes and automations for DevOps, operations, and dashboarding to determine what services have been underutilized and which ones had to be turned off. CarMaxs strategy has also evolved. The early wins with FinOps, when teams focus on consolidating contracts and purchase strategies, are the easy money, practitioners say.

Optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2025

Here’s what I do: whenever I write a document — whether it’s a strategy memo or product plan — I send it to my team and ask them for brutal feedback (something they’re exceptionally good at). Alternative Hypotheses • Present 2-3 alternatives in structured format • Evidence for/against each • Overlooked possibilities ## 3.

Uncertainty

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Your boss is waiting for you to present results on quarterly marketing performance, and you have 75 dense slides. Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. It all starts with sharp focus. What do you do?

Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2025

The rapidly evolving AI ecosystem, where new products and services seem to appear daily, presents CIOs and IT purchasing leaders with increasingly challenging decisions, in part because of uncertainty about where the AI market may ultimately be headed.

Strategy

DataFloq

JUNE 2, 2025

To illustrate, imagine an infographic showing a robotic arm scanning a circuit board, highlighting heat maps of defect areas detected in real-time, alongside a dashboard presenting live analytics. The time to rethink your inspection strategy is now.

Visualization

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2025

This paper presents a bold re-architecture of the Spotify model through the lenses of composite teams, liquid workflows, cognitive meshes and agentic governance. Rather than relying on monthly syncs or manual documentation, the strategy adapts itself contextually. Why reinvent the Spotify model? You operationalize trust.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2025

That tension presents a paradox: The product model promises better business alignment, faster innovation and greater agility, but requires a front-loaded investment to get there. They tracked and published those savings on a dashboard each month, using it to validate the model and expand adoption. So, how do you make the case?

Cost-Benefit

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2025

With more data at our fingertips, its getting harder to focus on whats relevant to problems, and then present it in an actionable way. With that, business analysts can build and refine dashboards using natural language. Beyond dashboards, QuickSights gen AI can create executive summaries and autogenerate data stories.

Business Intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 9, 2025

At Precisely, they’re working on capturing meeting notes and autonomously updating project trackers and dashboards via internal APIs. Interoperability hurdles will also hinge on a strong core data strategy — something not fully realized in many enterprises. Another area is project management.

Insurance

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2025

Users or user agents need not be present between the application and the backend services for this authorization to happen, unlike methods like SAML where a user agent needs to be present between these entities as a go-between for exchanging assertions. See Mapping roles to users under Managing permissions.

Dashboards