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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. If you go out and ask a chief data officer, a head of IT, ‘Is your data strategy aligned?’,

Data Strategy 137

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. This principle makes sure data accountability remains close to the source, fostering higher data quality and relevance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To succeed with real-time AI, data ecosystems need to excel at handling fast-moving streams of events, operational data, and machine learning models to leverage insights and automate decision-making. It’s clear how these real-time data sources generate data streams that need new data and ML models for accurate decisions.

Data Strategy 116

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Cloudera, together with Octopai, will make it easier for organizations to better understand, access, and leverage all their data in their entire data estate – including data outside of Cloudera – to power the most robust data, analytics and AI applications.

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Metadata Management Data Governance Data-driven 90

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured. And being that data is fluid and constantly changing, its very easy for bias, bad data and sensitive information to creep into your AI data pipeline. Lets give a for instance.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

In early April 2021, DataKItchen sat down with Jonathan Hodges, VP Data Management & Analytics, at Workiva ; Chuck Smith, VP of R&D Data Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ; and Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen, to find out about their enterprise DataOps transformation journey, including key successes and lessons learned.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data.

Data Strategy 78

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

One recent study shows that only 50% follow a product-centric operating model focusing on customer centricity and delivering delightful customer experiences. But there are common pitfalls , such as selecting the wrong KPIs , monitoring too many metrics, or not addressing poor data quality. Digital Transformation

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

This can include a multitude of processes, like data profiling, data quality management, or data cleaning, but we will focus on tips and questions to ask when analyzing data to gain the most cost-effective solution for an effective business strategy. 4) How can you ensure data quality?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

That’s according to a recent report based on a survey of CDOs by AWS in conjunction with the Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium. The CDO position first gained momentum around 2008, to ensure data quality and transparency to comply with regulations following the housing credit crisis of that era.

Data Strategy 131

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Business intelligence consulting services offer expertise and guidance to help organizations harness data effectively. Beyond mere data collection, BI consulting helps businesses create a cohesive data strategy that aligns with organizational goals.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Big data technology has helped businesses make more informed decisions. A growing number of companies are developing sophisticated business intelligence models, which wouldn’t be possible without intricate data storage infrastructures. Unfortunately, some business analytics strategies are poorly conceptualized.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

Less than half of organizations have a coherent data management process in place before they launch AI projects, say IT leaders at Databricks and Astera Software, both in the data management space. If they don’t actually have their data in order, they’re not going to have the impact they want.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

In all of these roles, I’ve come across patterns that enable organizations to build faster business insights and innovation with data. These patterns encompass a way to deliver value to the business with data; I refer to them collectively as the “data operating model.” Execution patterns in an operating model.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

The SAP Data Intelligence Cloud solution helps you simplify your landscape with tools for creating data pipelines that integrate data and data streams on the fly for any type of use – from data warehousing to complex data science projects to real-time embedded analytics in business applications.

IT 135

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

By harmonising and standardising data through ETL, businesses can eliminate inconsistencies and achieve a single version of truth for analysis. Improved Data Quality Data quality is paramount when it comes to making accurate business decisions.

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Jen Stirrup

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Often, this problem can be due to the organization concentrating solely on technology and data. However, organizations can be supported by a synergistic approach by integrating systems thinking with the data strategy and technical perspective. Data strategy in a VUCA environment. Data in an uncertain environment.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yet, so many companies today are still failing miserably in implementing data strategy and governance protocols. Why is your data governance strategy failing? So, why is YOUR data governance strategy failing? Common data governance challenges. Top 3 Roadblocks to Successful Data Governance.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, the healthcare industry has been fascinated by the potential of AI models to generate new content. While the average person might be awed by how AI can create new images or re-imagine voices, healthcare is focused on how large language models can be used in their organizations.

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Unstructured Data Digital Transformation Data Strategy Modeling 98

Cloudera

JULY 20, 2021

Once companies are able to leverage their data they’re then able to fuel machine learning and analytics models, transforming their business by embedding AI into every aspect of their business. . Build your data strategy around the convergence of software and hardware. Airline schedules and pricing algorithms.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 21, 2019

Instead of focusing on solely collecting data for their customers, Endor has continually helped users extract more value from datasets. Companies like Endor understand the risks and develop data science models that account for them. Risks of using a poorly conceived data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Data-first leaders are: 11x more likely to beat revenue goals by more than 10 percent. 5x more likely to be highly resilient in terms of data loss. 4x more likely to have high job satisfaction among both developers and data scientists. Create a CXO-driven data strategy.

Digital Transformation 132

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Anmut

MARCH 22, 2023

Data maturity models are a crucial step for any organisation looking to improve their data, informing if your current data practices are helping, or holding back, your business. ? Click the links below to navigate to different sections What are data maturity models? Why do we need data maturity models?

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Data Virtualization

MAY 19, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes The post Data Strategies for Getting Greater Business Value from Distributed Data appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Machine learning analytics – Various business units, such as Servicing, Lending, Sales & Marketing, Finance, and Credit Risk, use machine learning analytics, which run on top of the dimensional model within the data lake and data warehouse. This enables data-driven decision-making across the organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

It’s well acknowledged that data, when used correctly, has the potential to be a strategic growth asset driving innovation – and with the recent developments in large language models (LLM) for AI, data is really having its day in the sun. And we’ll let you in on a secret: this means nailing your data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Making the most of enterprise data is a top concern for IT leaders today. With organizations seeking to become more data-driven with business decisions, IT leaders must devise data strategies gear toward creating value from data no matter where — or in what form — it resides. Quality is job one.

Unstructured Data 130

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

To reflect the needs of their customers spread across different geographies and industries, Altron has organized their operating model across individual Operating Companies (OpCos). Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 24, 2021

It is sad to admit this but some of our more sophisticated models, early on took somewhere from 14 to 16 months on average, and we were like, what the heck, this takes way, way, way too long for us to keep up with the demands of our customer. Most companies have legacy models in software development that are well-oiled machines.

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Cloudera

JUNE 13, 2024

Only Cloudera has the ability to help organizations overcome the three barriers to trust in Enterprise AI: Readiness – Can you trust the safety of your proprietary data in public AI models? Reliability – Can you trust that your data quality will yield useful AI results?

Big Data 103

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Cloudera

MARCH 28, 2024

At a time when AI is exploding in popularity and finding its way into nearly every facet of business operations, data has arguably never been more valuable. More recently, that value has been made clear by the emergence of AI-powered technologies like generative AI (GenAI) and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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