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

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 130

Data Governance Data Quality Data-driven Metadata 130

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 134

Data-driven Marketing Risk Sales 134

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 21, 2025

Early tools applied rudimentary machine learning (ML) models to customer relationship management (CRM) exports, assigning win probability scores or advising on the ideal time to call. The root cause of the problem came down to data quality. Today the marketing phrase and technological direction is agentic AI.

Sales 130

Sales Measurement Data-driven Dashboards 130

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

Sales Metrics Data-driven Unstructured Data 143

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Uber no longer offers just rides and deliveries: It’s created a new division hiring out gig workers to help enterprises with some of their AI model development work. Data labeling in particular is a growing market, as companies rely on humans to check out data used to train AI models.

Manufacturing 121

Manufacturing Data-driven Marketing Testing 121

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.

Data Quality 241

Data Quality Metrics Data-driven Management 241

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

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.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

datapine

APRIL 21, 2022

For instance, when it comes to Human Resources, a digital transformation entails streamlining operations and digitizing personnel data. An accounting department may consider leveraging electronic contracts, data collecting, and reporting as a part of the digital transition. Approach To Digital Marketing.

Digital Transformation 206

Digital Transformation Marketing Advertising Scorecard 206

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So far, no agreement exists on how pricing models will ultimately shake out, but CIOs need to be aware that certain pricing models will be better suited to their specific use cases. Lots of pricing models to consider The per-conversation model is just one of several pricing ideas.

Cost-Benefit 129

Cost-Benefit Modeling ROI Marketing 129

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

But some companies, particularly in the IT sector, now appear to be reevaluating their business models and will consider selling non-core lines of business and products to fund AI projects, says James Brundage, global and Americas technology sector leader at EY, an IT and tax advisory firm.

Sales 130

Sales Data-driven Marketing Optimization 130

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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%

IT 133

IT Data-driven Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation 133

datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data exploded and became big. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM). We all gained access to the cloud.

Business Intelligence 361

Business Intelligence Analytics Prescriptive Analytics Data Quality 361

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 22, 2025

I recently described how business data catalogs are evolving into data intelligence catalogs. These catalogs combine technical and business metadata and data governance capabilities with knowledge graph functionality to deliver a holistic, business-level view of data production and consumption.

Metadata 130

Metadata Enterprise Data-driven Publishing 130

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?

Consulting 52

Consulting Data-driven Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 52

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 133

Data-driven Strategy Modeling Technology 133

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 30, 2024

Others retort that large language models (LLMs) have already reached the peak of their powers. These are risks stemming from misalignment between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model in a particular way and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed.

Risk 323

Risk Advertising Cost-Benefit Sales 323

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 128

Strategy Data-driven Predictive Analytics Dashboards 128

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

IBP is a technology- and process-driven approach to business planning. It connects the forward-looking activities in which organizations routinely engage into a unified process using shared, consistent data. This includes marketing, sales, customer, supply chain and workforce planning as well as budgeting.

Forecasting 130

Forecasting Software Finance Uncertainty 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Instead of seeing digital as a new paradigm for our business, we over-indexed on digitizing legacy models and processes and modernizing our existing organization. This only fortified traditional models instead of breaking down the walls that separate people and work inside our organizations. And its testing us all over again.

Digital Transformation 144

Digital Transformation Sales Optimization Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made a big splash last week when it unveiled an open-source version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, claiming performance superior to OpenAIs o1 generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). That echoes a statement issued by NVIDIA on Monday: DeepSeek is a perfect example of test time scaling.

Modeling 117

Modeling Data-driven Technology Strategy 117

Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 19, 2021

How to make smarter data-driven decisions at scale : [link]. The determination of winners and losers in the data analytics space is a much more dynamic proposition than it ever has been. A lot has changed in those five years, and so has the data landscape. But if they wait another three years, they will never catch up.”

Internet of Things 259

Internet of Things Analytics IoT Prescriptive Analytics 259

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

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. It enables teams to securely find, prepare, and collaborate on data assets and build analytics and AI applications through a single experience, accelerating the path from data to value.

Analytics 110

Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 110

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

AI agents are valuable across sales, service, marketing, IT, HR, and really all business teams, says Andy White, SVP of business technology at Salesforce. Enriching the sales pipeline Jay Upchurch, CIO at SAS, backs agentic AI to enhance sales, marketing, IT, and HR motions. Another area is democratizing data analysis and reporting.

IT 139

IT Sales Cost-Benefit Data-driven 139

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This is particularly true with enterprise deployments as the capabilities of existing models, coupled with the complexities of many business workflows, led to slower progress than many expected. Employee knowledge of their companys products, processes, and the markets they operate in and customers they sell to is often uncoded and tacit.

Enterprise 116

Enterprise Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement 116

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

AI has many practical uses that can help companies improve their marketing strategies, but personalization is arguably one of the most important. In omnichannel marketing, AI personalizes and optimizes the customer experience across multiple channels. AI is essential for scaling end-to-end personalization.

Marketing 144

Marketing Advertising Sales Strategy 144

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]

Cost-Benefit 125

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Risk 125

datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“Software as a service” (SaaS) is becoming an increasingly viable choice for organizations looking for the accessibility and versatility of software solutions and online data analysis tools without the need to rely on installing and running applications on their own computer systems and data centers.

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And, more importantly, how will the outcome affect the way we train and use large language models? The more important claim is that training a model on copyrighted content is infringement, whether or not the model is capable of reproducing that training data in its output. How will this lawsuit play out?

Publishing 338

Publishing Modeling Data-driven Strategy 338

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Together, these capabilities enable terminal operators to enhance efficiency and competitiveness in an industry that is increasingly data driven.

IoT 109

IoT Machine Learning Metadata Data-driven 109

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

For CIOs leading enterprise transformations, portfolio health isnt just an operational indicator its a real-time pulse on time-to-market and resilience in a digital-first economy. Understanding and tracking the right software delivery metrics is essential to inform strategic decisions that drive continuous improvement.

Enterprise 120

Enterprise Technology Metrics Measurement 120

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

The market for enterprise applications grew 12% in 2023, to $356 billion, with the top 5 vendors — SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and Intuit — commanding a 21.2% market share between them, according to International Data Corp. With just 0.2% With just 0.2%

Marketing 128

Marketing Enterprise Forecasting Statistics 128

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

In at least one way, it was not different, and that was in the continued development of innovations that are inspired by data. This steady march of data-driven innovation has been a consistent characteristic of each year for at least the past decade.

Machine Learning 279

Machine Learning Data-driven Deep Learning IoT 279

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.

Unstructured Data 115

Unstructured Data Manufacturing Data Governance Sales 115