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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2%

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data.

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly on Data

AI PMs should enter feature development and experimentation phases only after deciding what problem they want to solve as precisely as possible, and placing the problem into one of these categories. Experimentation: It’s just not possible to create a product by building, evaluating, and deploying a single model.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

It’s often difficult for businesses without a mature data or machine learning practice to define and agree on metrics. Fair warning: if the business lacks metrics, it probably also lacks discipline about data infrastructure, collection, governance, and much more.) Agreeing on metrics. Don’t expect agreement to come simply.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Amazing Data-Driven Software Applications Revolutionizing Inventory Optimization

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing an important role in many facets of modern business. One of the most important applications of big data technology lies with inventory management and optimization. Understanding the Best Data-Driven Inventory Optimization Applications for the Coming Year.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

Whereas robotic process automation (RPA) aims to automate tasks and improve process orchestration, AI agents backed by the companys proprietary data may rewire workflows, scale operations, and improve contextually specific decision-making.