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 292

Cost-Benefit Testing Interactive Software 292

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organizations will always be transforming , whether driven by growth opportunities, a pandemic forcing remote work, a recession prioritizing automation efficiencies, and now how agentic AI is transforming the future of work.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143

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

Risk Management Risk Management Data-driven 59

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Do we have the data, talent, and governance in place to succeed beyond the sandbox? These, of course, tend to be in a sandbox environment with curated data and a crackerjack team. They need to have the data, talent, and governance in place to scale AI across the organization, he says. How confident are we in our data?

Strategy 141

Strategy ROI Experimentation 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

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

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

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.

Data Governance 132

Data Governance Risk Insurance Metadata 132

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

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 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.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Risk 124

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

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.

ROI 127

ROI Data-driven Enterprise Experimentation 127

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 311

Software Machine Learning Risk Data-driven 311

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 92

Data-driven Marketing Risk Sales 92

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.

Insurance 52

Insurance Data-driven Risk Marketing 52

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

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 119

Risk Risk Management Management Enterprise 119

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.

Data-driven 98

Data-driven Risk Interactive Management 98

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. Companies pilot-to-production rates can vary based on how each enterprise calculates ROI especially if they have differing risk appetites around AI.

ROI 127

ROI IT Experimentation Risk 127

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, large enterprises are aware of the immense opportunities that data and analytics present. Yet, the true value of these initiatives is in their potential to revolutionize how data is managed and utilized across the enterprise. Take, for example, a recent case with one of our clients.

Enterprise 105

Enterprise Insurance Unstructured Data Business Intelligence 105

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. As digital transformation accelerates, so do the risks associated with cybersecurity.

IoT 105

IoT Digital Transformation Internet of Things Machine Learning 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

CIOs are under pressure to integrate generative AI into business operations and products, often driven by the demand to meet business and board expectations swiftly. We examine the risks of rapid GenAI implementation and explain how to manage it. Samsung employees leaked proprietary data to ChatGPT.

Risk 111

Risk Strategy Consulting Cost-Benefit 111

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.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

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.

Uncertainty 111

Uncertainty Risk Strategy Manufacturing 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Technical foundation Conversation starter : Are we maintaining reliable roads and utilities, or are we risking gridlock? DevSecOps maturity Conversation starter : Are our daily operations stuck in manual processes that slow us down or expose us to risks? Like a citys need for reliable infrastructure and well-maintained services.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Technology Metrics Measurement 119

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.

Risk 131

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Risk Management 131

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.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

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

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

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Gen AI must be driven by people who want to implement the technology,” he says. He emphasizes the importance of PoC studies in gaining stakeholder buy-in, and the role of data science, ML, and AI to enhance weather forecasting. Currently, we don’t have gen AI-driven products and services,” he says. “We

Forecasting 133

Forecasting Risk Technology Strategy 133