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. Development velocity grinds to a halt.

Cost-Benefit 287

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). But there’s a host of new challenges when it comes to managing AI projects: more unknowns, non-deterministic outcomes, new infrastructures, new processes and new tools.

Management 363

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 363

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 123

Risk Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 123

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.

Risk 237

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

According to a recent survey by Foundry , nearly all respondents (97%) reported that their organization is impacted by digital friction, defined as the unnecessary effort an employee must exert to use data or technology for work. Managed, on the other hand, it can boost operations, efficiency, and resiliency.

Management 86

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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.

Risk Management 59

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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.

Enterprise 141

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Broadcasting Risk 141

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.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

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.

Enterprise 134

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai , a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making.

Metadata 90

Metadata Management Data Governance Data-driven 90

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.

Testing 174

Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 174

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor offers applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and human capital management, among others. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

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

MARCH 19, 2025

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. Before that, though, ServiceNow announced its AI Agents offering in September, with the first use cases for customer service management and IT service management, available in November.

Software 143

Software Risk Enterprise Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

The high number of Al POCs but low conversion to production indicates the low level of organizational readiness in terms of data, processes and IT infrastructure, IDCs authors report. IT managers are leveraging this trend to try to get greenlights for broader technology efforts, Andersen says. Its going to vary dramatically.

ROI 127

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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. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5

Sales 143

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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.

Behavioral Analytics 122

Behavioral Analytics Data-driven Risk Insurance 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

For CIOs and IT leaders, this means improved operational efficiency, data-driven decision making and accelerated innovation. Traditionally, the manager from the change advisory board (CAB) coordinates the teams and stakeholders, makes final decisions to approve or reject proposed changes, and directs the implementation of changes.

Risk 98

Risk Data-driven Interactive Management 98

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 128

Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Experimentation 128

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In a recent interview with Jyoti Lalchandani, IDCs Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), we explore the key trends and technologies that will shape the future of the Middle East and the challenges organizations will face in their digital transformation journey.

IoT 106

IoT Digital Transformation Internet of Things Machine Learning 106

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.

Technology 118

Technology ROI Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 118

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. If these risks are not addressed, the business is at a disadvantage,” she says.

Cost-Benefit 133

Cost-Benefit Risk Business Objectives Data-driven 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. Enter Akeneo, a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) and AI tech stack solutions. AI has the power to revolutionise retail, but success hinges on the quality of the foundation it is built upon: data.

B2B 106

B2B Cost-Benefit Data-driven Sales 106

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 120

Risk Risk Management Management Enterprise 120

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.

Data-driven 188

Data-driven Enterprise Analytics Machine Learning 188

datapine

MARCH 8, 2021

Rapid technological evolution means it’s now possible to use accessible and intuitive data-driven tools to our advantage. We’ve delved into the impact of big data in healthcare. Without healthcare data reporting, it’s unlikely healthcare institutions will ever reduce these figures to an acceptable level on a sustainable basis.

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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.

Software 304

Software Machine Learning Risk Data-driven 304

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Real-time data streaming and event processing are critical components of modern distributed systems architectures. Apache Kafka has emerged as a leading platform for building real-time data pipelines and enabling asynchronous communication between microservices and applications.

Data-driven 98

Data-driven Management Risk Big Data 98

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 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the sessions I sat in at UKISUG Connect 2024 covered a real-world example of data management using a solution from Bluestonex Consulting , based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Impact of Errors : Erroneous data posed immediate risks to operations and long-term damage to customer trust.

Management 52

Management Data Governance Consulting Risk 52

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The evolution from basic task automation platforms to advanced task orchestration and management marks a milestone in the journey toward Intelligent Automation. Enhanced analytics driven by AI can identify patterns and trends, allowing enterprises to better predict future business needs.

Cost-Benefit 130

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Business Objectives 130

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. Numbers like that typically mean a baby needs help.

Risk 361

Risk Testing Reporting Measurement 361

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Product managers for AI must satisfy these same responsibilities, tuned for the AI lifecycle.

Marketing 364

Marketing Experimentation Metrics Testing 364

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A modern data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform running on scalable processors can handle diverse analytics workloads and speed data retrieval, delivering deeper insights to empower strategic decision-making. They are often unable to handle large, diverse data sets from multiple sources.

Analytics 97

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s also the data source for our annual usage study, which examines the most-used topics and the top search terms. [1]. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Security is surging. to be wary of.

Data-driven 363

Data-driven Software Statistics Marketing 363

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) solutions help manage the complexity of IT systems and drive outcomes like increasing system reliability and resilience, improving service uptime, and proactively detecting and/or preventing issues from happening in the first place. These challenges drive the need for observability and AIOps.

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IT Cost-Benefit Data Science Data-driven 106