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

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.

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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. Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. SS&C uses Metas Llama as well as other models, says Halpin.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can collect many examples of what we want the program to do and what not to do (examples of correct and incorrect behavior), label them appropriately, and train a model to perform correctly on new inputs. Nor are building data pipelines and deploying ML systems well understood. Instead, we can program by example. and Matroid.

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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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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Data analytics helps to determine the success of the business. The data-driven trends are helping IT businesses to adopt the changes and meet customer expectations. Most of these businesses rely on data to provide the best customer experience. Therefore, data-driven analytics eventually helps to bring a change.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 21, 2022

Data analytics is incredibly valuable for helping people. More institutions are recognizing this, so the market for data analytics in education is projected to be worth over $57 billion by 2030. We have previously talked about the many ways that big data is disrupting education.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. The takeaway is clear: embrace deep tech now, or risk being left behind by those who do. Today, that timeline is shrinking dramatically. Thats a remarkably short horizon for ROI.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Taking the time to work this out is like building a mathematical model: if you understand what a company truly does, you don’t just get a better understanding of the present, but you can also predict the future. Since I work in the AI space, people sometimes have a preconceived notion that I’ll only talk about data and models.

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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

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.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As concerns about AI security, risk, and compliance continue to escalate, practical solutions remain elusive. as AI adoption and risk increases, its time to understand why sweating the small and not-so-small stuff matters and where we go from here. The latter issue, data protection, touches every company.

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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.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Big data has become a highly invaluable aspect of modern business. More companies are using sophisticated data analytics and AI tools to overhaul their business models. Some industries have become more dependent on big data than others. New advances in data technology have been especially beneficial for marketing.

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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 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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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 19, 2021

During the first weeks of February, we asked recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to participate in a survey on AI adoption in the enterprise. The second-most significant barrier was the availability of quality data. Relatively few respondents are using version control for data and models. Respondents.

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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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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

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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. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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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

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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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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

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. Fault Tolerant Versus Fault Intolerant AI Problems.

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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). Most language models use a combination of pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and then some RL to polish things up.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

Data-driven decision-making has become a major element of modern business. A growing number of businesses use big data technology to optimize efficiency. However, companies that have a formal data strategy are still in the minority. Furthermore, only 13% of companies are actually delivering on their data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2023

The big picture : In the midst of a rush to technology modernization, it’s critical to ensure the organization’s data assets are not overlooked. Why it matters:  Data-driven business decisions must factor prominently in modernization efforts. The bottom line:  Don’t leave data behind.

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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

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.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a present reality that’s reshaping the insurance landscape across the United States. A recent New York Times investigation revealed that the impact of climate change on the U.S.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. This is the kind of risk that may increasingly keep CIOs up at night in the year ahead.

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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. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. AI has the power to revolutionise retail, but success hinges on the quality of the foundation it is built upon: data. The Data Consistency Challenge However, this AI revolution brings its own set of challenges.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While generative AI has been around for several years , the arrival of ChatGPT (a conversational AI tool for all business occasions, built and trained from large language models) has been like a brilliant torch brought into a dark room, illuminating many previously unseen opportunities. So what? (2)

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 14, 2024

Generative AI models are trained on large repositories of information and media. They are then able to take in prompts and produce outputs based on the statistical weights of the pretrained models of those corpora. In essence, the latest O’Reilly Answers release is an assembly line of LLM workers.

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