O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Evolution of Expectations For years, the AI world was driven by scaling laws : the empirical observation that larger models and bigger datasets led to proportionally better performance. Security Letting LLMs make runtime decisions about business logic creates unnecessary risk. Its quick to implement and demos well.

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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

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

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 105

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datapine

MAY 31, 2022

It provides better data storage, data security, flexibility, improved organizational visibility, smoother processes, extra data intelligence, increased collaboration between employees, and changes the workflow of small businesses and large enterprises to help them make better decisions while decreasing costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We actually started our AI journey using agents almost right out of the gate, says Gary Kotovets, chief data and analytics officer at Dun & Bradstreet. In addition, because they require access to multiple data sources, there are data integration hurdles and added complexities of ensuring security and compliance.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2023

What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? ChatGPT, or something built on ChatGPT, or something that’s like ChatGPT, has been in the news almost constantly since ChatGPT was opened to the public in November 2022. A quick scan of the web will show you lots of things that ChatGPT can do. It’s much more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But supporting a technology strategy that attempts to offset skills gaps by supplanting the need for those skills is also changing the fabric of IT careers — and the long-term prospects of those at risk of being automated out of work. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This approach will help businesses maximize the benefits of agentic AI while mitigating risks and ensuring responsible deployment. Building trust through human-in-the-loop validation and clear governance structures is essential to establishing strict protocols that guide safer agent-driven decisions.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said. Gartner’s data revealed that 90% of CIOs cite out-of-control costs as a major barrier to achieving AI success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

The 2024 Security Priorities study shows that for 72% of IT and security decision makers, their roles have expanded to accommodate new challenges, with Risk management, Securing AI-enabled technology and emerging technologies being added to their plate. Regular engagement with the board and business leaders ensures risk visibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

At the same time, the scale of observability data generated from multiple tools exceeds human capacity to manage. Observability builds on the growth of sophisticated IT monitoring tools, starting with the premise that the operational state of every network node should be understandable from its data outputs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. Data theft leads to financial losses, reputational damage, and more.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1) What Is Data Quality Management? 4) Data Quality Best Practices. 5) How Do You Measure Data Quality? 6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. 7) Data Quality Control: Use Case. 8) The Consequences Of Bad Data Quality. 9) 3 Sources Of Low-Quality Data. 10) Data Quality Solutions: Key Attributes.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. CIOs should consider placing these five AI bets in 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

There are risks around hallucinations and bias, says Arnab Chakraborty, chief responsible AI officer at Accenture. The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows.

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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. Forrester predicts a reset is looming despite the enthusiasm for AI-driven transformations.

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datapine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Big data has changed the way we manage, analyze, and leverage data across industries. One of the most notable areas where data analytics is making big changes is healthcare. In this article, we’re going to address the need for big data in healthcare and hospital big data: why and how can it help?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. Gen AI holds the potential to facilitate that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By eliminating time-consuming tasks such as data entry, document processing, and report generation, AI allows teams to focus on higher-value, strategic initiatives that fuel innovation. Similarly, in 2017 Equifax suffered a data breach that exposed the personal data of nearly 150 million people.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

With cybersecurity now fundamental to business operations, it must be considered alongside financial, operational, and reputational risk planning to ensure continuity in the face of disruptions. The survey results underscore the pressing need for organizations to rethink their approach and shift towards resilience by design.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lot of the current focus with AI projects is to cut costs and drive efficiencies, but organizations also need to think about longer-term innovation, says Taylor Brown, co-founder and COO of Fivetran, vendor of a data management platform. Don’t borrow from the future to get quick wins that your organization won’t be able to scale.”

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Nor are building data pipelines and deploying ML systems well understood. That doesn’t mean we aren’t seeing tools to automate various aspects of software engineering and data science. We’ve also seen (and featured at O’Reilly’s AI Conference) Snorkel , an ML-driven tool for automated data labeling and synthetic data generation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI systems can analyze vast amounts of data in real time, identifying potential threats with speed and accuracy. Companies like CrowdStrike have documented that their AI-driven systems can detect threats in under one second. Thats the potential of AI-driven automated incident response.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, enterprises increasingly leverage AI and analytics to strengthen their risk management strategies. By adopting AI-driven approaches, businesses can better anticipate potential threats, make data-informed decisions, and bolster the security of their assets and operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

According to research from NTT DATA , 90% of organisations acknowledge that outdated infrastructure severely curtails their capacity to integrate cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, negatively impacts their business agility, and limits their ability to innovate. [1] The foundation of the solution is also important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

For CIOs and IT leaders, this means improved operational efficiency, data-driven decision making and accelerated innovation. The lack of a single approach to delivering changes increases the risk of introducing bugs or performance issues in production. Agentic AI promises to transform enterprise IT work.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s data-rich environment, the challenge isn’t just collecting data but transforming it into actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. What is BI Consulting?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

As a business executive who has led ventures in areas such as space technology or data security and helped bridge research and industry, Ive seen first-hand how rapidly deep tech is moving from the lab into the heart of business strategy. The takeaway is clear: embrace deep tech now, or risk being left behind by those who do.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 27, 2020

Whether driven by my score, or by their own firsthand experience, the doctors sent me straight to the neonatal intensive care ward, where I spent my first few days. And yet a number or category label that describes a human life is not only machine-readable data. Algorithms tell stories about who people are.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor’s Embedded Experiences allows users to create first drafts of text for specific business purposes and summarize insights as well as quickly analyze and interact with data. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

And there are dangers of moving too fast,” including bad PR, compliance or cybersecurity risks, legal liability, or even class-action lawsuits. “And And there are dangers of moving too fast,” including bad PR, compliance or cybersecurity risks, legal liability, or even class-action lawsuits.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. The results showed that (among those surveyed) approximately 90% of enterprise analytics applications are being built on tabular data.

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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. Why are GRC certifications important? Is GRC certification worth it?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As a major producer of memory chips, displays, and other critical tech components, South Korea plays an essential role in global supply chains for products ranging from smartphones to data centers. Its dominance in critical areas like memory chips makes it indispensable to industries worldwide. It accounts for 60.5%

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