CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Schumacher and others believe AI can help companies make data-driven decisions by automating key parts of the strategic planning process. This process involves connecting AI models with observable actions, leveraging data subsequently fed back into the system to complete the feedback loop,” Schumacher said.

Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2025

Data governance has evolved from a compliance necessity to a strategic pillar for AI-driven enterprises. With data volumes exploding across cloud, edge and hybrid environments, traditional governance models, built around static policies and periodic audits, are increasingly ineffective. Dynamic policy engines.

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a survey of 451 senior technology executives conducted by Gartner in mid-2024, a striking 57% of CIOs reported being tasked with leading AI strategies. Gartner’s data revealed that 90% of CIOs cite out-of-control costs as a major barrier to achieving AI success. It’s essential to evaluate all AI initiatives using the same criteria.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

As the enthusiasm around artificial intelligence (AI) reaches its peak, it has become clear that AI is no longer just a “nice-to-have” for enterprises. Now a game changer for its efficiency and productivity gains it offers businesses, it’s no wonder that nearly every enterprise has some form of AI in place.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organizations will always be transforming , whether driven by growth opportunities, a pandemic forcing remote work, a recession prioritizing automation efficiencies, and now how agentic AI is transforming the future of work. 2025 will be the year when generative AI needs to generate value, says Louis Landry, CTO at Teradata.

Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. The Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report highlights AI adoption, challenges, and the future of this transformative technology. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

Marketing

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

Data Architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Their top predictions include: Most enterprises fixated on AI ROI will scale back their efforts prematurely.

ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. As such, IT leaders need to see tools such as AI assistants and copilots “as really important mechanisms for building their data democracy,” she adds.

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

In a global economy where innovators increasingly win big, too many enterprises are stymied by legacy application systems. Indeed, more than 80% of organisations agree that scaling GenAI solutions for business growth is a crucial consideration in modernisation strategies. [2] The solutionGenAIis also the beneficiary.

Cost-Benefit

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce. It will be important for enterprises to pool all their data and avoid information silos. Think about all of the knowledge you have of your enterprise. Microsoft and others are also joining the fray.

Business Intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2025

Think of your enterprise AI strategy like a rocket. The fuel that AI needs is data, and the good news is that enterprises certainly no longer have to worry about finding enough AI data. Now, it’s about getting the right data and using it in the right ways. It’s a whole new world of possibilities.

Data Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

Optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Rule 1: Start with an acceptable risk appetite level Once a CIO understands their organizations risk appetite, everything else strategy, innovation, technology selection can align smoothly, says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at enterprise advisory firm Resultant.

Risk Management

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As organizations struggle with the increasing volume, velocity, and complexity of data, having a comprehensive analytics and BI platform offers real solutions that address key challenges, such as data management and governance, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and democratization of insights. Heres how they did it.

Sales

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

Data Quality

DataFloq

JULY 28, 2025

Introduction The rise of enterprise data lakes in the 2010s promised consolidated storage for any data at scale. However, while flexible and scalable, they often resulted in so-called “data swamps”- repositories of inaccessible, unmanaged, or low-quality data with fragmented ownership.

Data Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

As enterprises and IT departments are being asked to do more with less, many are casting a critical eye over their storage costs. That dovetails with the recent growing debate about repatriating workloads to on-premises infrastructure driven by cloud spending exceeding original estimates. Many enterprises exploit both strategies.

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our fast-changing digital world, it’s essential to sync IT strategies with business objectives for lasting success. Effective IT strategy requires not just technical expertise but a focus on adaptability and customer-centricity, enabling organizations to stay ahead in a fast-changing marketplace.

Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2025

A sharp rise in enterprise investments in generative AI is poised to reshape business operations, with 68% of companies planning to invest between $50 million and $250 million over the next year, according to KPMGs latest AI Quarterly Pulse Survey. However, only 12% have deployed such tools to date.

ROI

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.

Sales

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

Sales

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurance business. Yet, despite the huge role it plays and the massive amount of data that is collected each day, most insurers struggle when it comes to accessing, analyzing, and driving business decisions from that data. There are lots of reasons for this.

Insurance

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

Cost-Benefit

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A Guide to the Six Types of Data Quality Dashboards Poor-quality data can derail operations, misguide strategies, and erode the trust of both customers and stakeholders. However, not all data quality dashboards are created equal. These dimensions provide a best practice grouping for assessing data quality.

Data Quality

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

Enterprises worldwide are harboring massive amounts of data. Although data has always accumulated naturally, the result of ever-growing consumer and business activity, data growth is expanding exponentially, opening opportunities for organizations to monetize unprecedented amounts of information.

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Moreover, in the near term, 71% say they are already using AI-driven insights to assist with their mainframe modernization efforts. Many Kyndryl customers seem to be thinking about how to merge the mission-critical data on their mainframes with AI tools, she says. I believe you’re going to see both.”

Data-driven

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 14, 2025

Data governance has always been a critical part of the data and analytics landscape. However, for many years, it was seen as a preventive function to limit access to data and ensure compliance with security and data privacy requirements. Data governance is integral to an overall data intelligence strategy.

Data Governance

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. The reason is because enterprises look for some predictability. It is all dependent upon the features and usage volume, she adds.

Cost-Benefit

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency. Infor offers applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and human capital management, among others.

Finance

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This second post of a two-part series that details how Volkswagen Autoeuropa , a Volkswagen Group plant, together with AWS, built a data solution with a robust governance framework using Amazon DataZone to become a data-driven factory. Next, we detail the governance guardrails of the Volkswagen Autoeuropa data solution.

Metadata

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This convergence enhances decision-making and sparks innovation across the enterprise. In this landscape, knowledge becomes a strategic asset, and with the right tools, it fuels continuous improvement and future-ready business strategies. Data becomes a strategic asset, driving innovation and continuous improvement.

Internet of Things

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and from third-party sources. Using Amazon DataZone lets us avoid building and maintaining an in-house platform, allowing our developers to focus on tailored solutions.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. These areas are considerable issues, but what about data, security, culture, and addressing areas where past shortcuts are fast becoming todays liabilities?

Risk

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. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research. As mentioned earlier, 80% of quantitative research work is attributed to data management tasks.

Metadata

AWS Big Data

JULY 7, 2025

In this post, we show you how Stifel implemented a modern data platform using AWS services and open data standards, building an event-driven architecture for domain data products while centralizing the metadata to facilitate discovery and sharing of data products.

Data-driven

DataKitchen

JULY 31, 2025

The Harsh Reality of Data Governance 💥 80% of data governance initiatives fail. But because the business isn’t involved, and no one agrees on what data truly matters. That’s where Critical Data Elements (CDEs) change everything. What Are Critical Data Elements? Not because of tools.

Data Governance