CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2025

But investments in data governance, data operations, and data security — which have always been important — have all too frequently taken a backseat to business-driven initiatives, leaving AI success today in limbo.

Risk

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2025

Think of your enterprise AI strategy like a rocket. The fuel that AI needs is data, and the good news is that enterprises certainly no longer have to worry about finding enough AI data. Now, it’s about getting the right data and using it in the right ways. But first, enterprises need a future-proof AI data strategy.

Data Strategy

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

Jen Stirrup

JULY 12, 2025

The most alarming aspect isn't that these projects fail due to technological limitations or lack of innovation, but rather because they're built upon weak data foundations. "Organizations rushing to implement AI without addressing fundamental data challenges are essentially building sophisticated engines without reliable fuel."

Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

Sales

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As organizations struggle with the increasing volume, velocity, and complexity of data, having a comprehensive analytics and BI platform offers real solutions that address key challenges, such as data management and governance, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and democratization of insights. Heres how they did it.

Sales

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

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and from third-party sources.

Analytics

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A Guide to the Six Types of Data Quality Dashboards Poor-quality data can derail operations, misguide strategies, and erode the trust of both customers and stakeholders. However, not all data quality dashboards are created equal. These dimensions provide a best practice grouping for assessing data quality.

Data Quality

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

As gen AI heads to Gartners trough of disillusionment , CIOs should consider how to realign their 2025 strategies and roadmaps. The World Economic Forum shares some risks with AI agents , including improving transparency, establishing ethical guidelines, prioritizing data governance, improving security, and increasing education.

Cost-Benefit

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data has become an invaluable asset for businesses, offering critical insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational optimization. Today, this is powering every part of the organization, from the customer-favorite online cake customization feature to democratizing data to drive business insight.

Data Governance

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

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This second post of a two-part series that details how Volkswagen Autoeuropa , a Volkswagen Group plant, together with AWS, built a data solution with a robust governance framework using Amazon DataZone to become a data-driven factory. Next, we detail the governance guardrails of the Volkswagen Autoeuropa data solution.

Metadata

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. Above all, robust governance is essential. This type of data mismanagement not only results in financial loss but can damage a brand’s reputation.

Data Governance

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

These areas are considerable issues, but what about data, security, culture, and addressing areas where past shortcuts are fast becoming todays liabilities? Types of data debt include dark data, duplicate records, and data that hasnt been integrated with master data sources.

Risk

DataFloq

JULY 15, 2025

And that’s the red flag in today’s AI-influenced, agile data environments. Not only does it lose business context, but it also destroys relationships and data utility. They require context-aware, entity-level data anonymization , something that was long overdue.

Data Governance

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

Sales

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

And executives see a high potential in streamlining the sales funnel, real-time data analysis, personalized customer experience, employee onboarding, incident resolution, fraud detection, financial compliance, and supply chain optimization. Another area is democratizing data analysis and reporting.

IT

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

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

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

As regulatory scrutiny, investor expectations, and consumer demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) accountability intensify, organizations must leverage data to drive their sustainability initiatives. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

IT

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How do data strategies work and do companies even need them? A key factor in achieving this goal is the effective use of data: it allows companies to identify efficiency reserves in processes and to better understand customers to adapt products and services or even develop new offerings. The result?

Data Strategy

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

Visualization

AWS Big Data

JUNE 24, 2025

The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is the center for your data, analytics, and AI. SageMaker brings together AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics capabilities and delivers an integrated experience for analytics and AI with unified access to data.

Testing

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs. By processing data closer to the source, edge computing can enable quicker decisions and reduce costs by minimizing data transfers, making it an alluring environment for AI.

Cost-Benefit

Jen Stirrup

JULY 11, 2025

The integration of multiple data types, such as text, images, audio, and video, into unified AI systems has created a range of new ways in which how organizations process information and make decisions. However, even the mature data warehousing struggles with the rich, multidimensional nature of modern business information.

Business Intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2025

AI is a boon for data analysis. Professionals can automate routine tasks, such as data processing and anomaly detection, while complicated mathematical equations can run in almost real-time. Most business leaders I talk to can see the connection between AI and data,” she says.

Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs must tie resilience investments to tangible outcomes like data protection, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness. CIOs are facing these challenges head-on by designing integrated resilience strategies to future-proof their organizations. To respond, CIOs are doubling down on organizational resilience.

Risk

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

Metadata

DataFloq

JULY 21, 2025

With the increasing volume, variety and velocity of data, non-profit organisations face a strategic dilemma: how to leverage data as a valuable strategic asset, whilst working with limited resources, scattered data and information systems. DataOps is short for Data Operations and seeks to address these persistent issues.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management. The rise of AI, particularly generative AI and AI/ML, adds further complexity with challenges around data privacy, sovereignty, and governance.

Finance

erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to using AI and machine learning across your organization, there are many good reasons to provide your data and analytics community with an intelligent data foundation. For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured. Lets give a for instance.

Metadata

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.

IT

AWS Big Data

JULY 10, 2025

Under the company motto of “making the invisible visible”, they’ve have expanded their business centered on marine sensing technology and are now extending into subscription-based data businesses using Internet of Things (IoT) data.

Manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Most recently she was the chief digital and technology officer at Ralph Lauren, where she was responsible for the global e-commerce strategy and revenue as well as driving digital transformation. Peter Drucker famously said, ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ Where do most go wrong with organizational design?

Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC.

IoT

TDAN

JANUARY 15, 2025

In my journey as a data management professional, Ive come to believe that the road to becoming a truly data-centric organization is paved with more than just tools and policies its about creating a culture where data literacy and business literacy thrive.

Data Governance