David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

This shortage is causing executives to take a fresh look at software that manages the full close-consolidate-report cycle end to end. In addition, todays consolidate and close software automates the once very manual intercompany reconciliations process, enabling enterprises to automate the matching of sales and purchases.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Management Finance Cost-Benefit 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

However, he adds,the maturityvaries in one of the most consolidated verticals at a national level. Structuring the digital strategy In recent years, Soltour has launched its own digital transformation plan to consolidate its position as a tech adoption leader among tour operations. We want to have the best specialists in the field.

Strategy 115

Strategy Digital Transformation Optimization Technology 115

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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As such, the data on labor, occupancy, and engagement is extremely meaningful. Here, CIO Patrick Piccininno provides a roadmap of his journey from data with no integration to meaningful dashboards, insights, and a data literate culture. You ’re building an enterprise data platform for the first time in Sevita’s history.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Dashboards KPI Data Lake 119

DataKitchen

MARCH 20, 2025

Unlocking Data Team Success: Are You Process-Centric or Data-Centric? Over the years of working with data analytics teams in large and small companies, we have been fortunate enough to observe hundreds of companies. We want to share our observations about data teams, how they work and think, and their challenges.

Data Quality 161

Data Quality Testing Metrics Management 161

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Gen AI allows organizations to unlock deeper insights and act on them with unprecedented speed by automating the collection and analysis of user data. Gen AI transforms this by helping businesses make sense of complex, high-density data, generating actionable insights that lead to impactful decisions.

Analytics 128

Analytics Metrics Optimization Interactive 128

O'Reilly on Data

MAY 9, 2019

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jeff Jonas on the evolution of entity resolution technologies. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Jeff Jonas , CEO, founder and chief scientist of Senzing , a startup focused on making real-time entity resolution technologies broadly accessible.

Marketing 245

Marketing Technology 245

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2025

As the use of virtualisation, AI, and data science increased in 2020, BMW devised the iFactory, a breakthrough concept that networks every aspect of automotive production with 3D scanning of all vehicles and engine plants. One is data science since the basis of every decision rests on precise and comprehensive data.

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Optimization Data Science Strategy Modeling 69

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Race For Data Quality In A Medallion Architecture The Medallion architecture pattern is gaining traction among data teams. It is a layered approach to managing and transforming data. By systematically moving data through these layers, the Medallion architecture enhances the data structure in a data lakehouse environment.

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Data Quality Testing Metrics Reporting 195

Rocket-Powered Data Science

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The way that I explained it to my data science students years ago was like this. I brought them deeper into the world by pointing out how much more effective and efficient the data professionals’ life would be if our data repositories had a similar semantic meta-layer. What is a semantic layer? There’s more.

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Data Science Forecasting Business Intelligence Sales 286

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

According to IDC’s North American Tools/Vendors Consolidation Survey (November 2023), organizations plan to add even more security tools to their arsenals over time. Security issues: Tools often communicate and work together, sharing data, credentials, and secrets. The final step is consolidation. The short answer is “no.”

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Enterprise Software Marketing 124

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The ability for SAP user sites to “aggregate and harmonize data from assorted skills taxonomies, with the first inclusions being Beamery, Degreed, IMOCA INC, Korn Ferry, Lightcast, Pheonom, TalenTeam, and Techwolf. Albert added, “today, organizations often have skills in numerous systems.

IT 111

IT ROI Data-driven Forecasting 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As the tech economy has adjusted to the current economic environment, there has been a great deal of debate in both the vendor and investor communities about vendor consolidation. When we asked what’s driving that consolidation, finance-driven reasons were close to – but not at – the top.

IT 128

IT Cost-Benefit Data-driven Manufacturing 128

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In todays economy, as the saying goes, data is the new gold a valuable asset from a financial standpoint. A similar transformation has occurred with data. More than 20 years ago, data within organizations was like scattered rocks on early Earth.

Management 111

Management Data Governance Data Science Reporting 111

DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Analytics are prone to frequent data errors and deployment of analytics is slow and laborious. When internal resources fall short, companies outsource data engineering and analytics. There’s no shortage of consultants who will promise to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data from integration to transformation to visualization. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Making decisions based on data To ensure that the best people end up in management positions and diverse teams are created, HR managers should rely on well-founded criteria, and big data and analytics provide these. Kastrati Nagarro The problem is that many companies still make little use of their data.

Big Data 84

Big Data Measurement Visualization Machine Learning 84

datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”– Data is all around us. Data has changed our lives in many ways, helping to improve the processes, initiatives, and innovations of organizations across sectors through the power of insight. Let’s kick things off by asking the question: what is a data dashboard?

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Dashboards KPI Sales Visualization 316

datapine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Gathering data and information from one or multiple platforms and creating a comprehensive social media dashboard is equally important as creating the social content itself. You need to know how the audience responds, whether you need further adjustments, and how to gather accurate, real-time data.

Dashboards 193

Dashboards Scorecard KPI Metrics 193

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today’s digital data has given the power to an average Internet user a massive amount of information that helps him or her to choose between brands, products or offers, making the market a highly competitive arena for the best ones to survive. First things first – organizing and prioritizing your marketing data.

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Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 9, 2024

Data and analytics have become increasingly important to all aspects of business. The modern data and analytics stack includes many components, which creates challenges for enterprises and software providers alike. As my colleague Matt Aslett points out , a better term might be modern data and analytics smorgasbord.

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Analytics Software Enterprise Technology 130

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 4, 2024

Instead, once the market had consolidated, Uber and Lyft only reached profitability through massive price increases. They weren’t buying users with subsidized prices; they were building data centers. OpenAI, for example, has trained not just on publicly available data but reportedly on copyrighted content retrieved from pirate sites.

Marketing 237

Marketing Finance Modeling Experimentation 237

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Risk assessments revealed vulnerabilities and inefficiencies, guiding our strategy to optimize, consolidate, enhance security, and align with business goals. Discussions led to a comprehensive review, optimization, and consolidation of our lab infrastructure, adopting models like lab-as-a-service and refining our offerings.

Digital Transformation 88

Digital Transformation Strategy Optimization Technology 88

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach. People have been building data products and machine learning products for the past couple of decades.

Testing 174

Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 174

datapine

MAY 2, 2023

Table of Contents 1) Benefits Of Big Data In Logistics 2) 10 Big Data In Logistics Use Cases Big data is revolutionizing many fields of business, and logistics analytics is no exception. The complex and ever-evolving nature of logistics makes it an essential use case for big data applications. Did you know?

Big Data 275

Big Data Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Optimization 275

DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We’ve read many predictions for 2023 in the data field: they cover excellent topics like data mesh, observability, governance, lakehouses, LLMs, etc. What will the world of data tools be like at the end of 2025? Central IT Data Teams focus on standards, compliance, and cost reduction. Recession: the party is over.

Metadata 130

Metadata Testing Data Science Risk 130

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 89

Finance Sales Reporting Optimization 89

Cloudera

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The AI Forecast: Data and AI in the Cloud Era , sponsored by Cloudera, aims to take an objective look at the impact of AI on business, industry, and the world at large. AI is only as successful as the data behind it. LLM precision is good, not great, right now Paul: I wanted to chat about this notion of precision data with you.

Manufacturing 82

Manufacturing Forecasting Metadata Data Processing 82

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 116

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 116

DataKitchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Data tables from IT and other data sources require a large amount of repetitive, manual work to be used in analytics. DataOps consolidates processes and workflows into a process hub that curates and manages the workflows that drive the creation of analytics. In business analytics, fire-fighting and stress are common.

Business Analytics 245

Business Analytics Analytics Testing Dashboards 245

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Setting the roadmap Blocks developer experience team determines its roadmap using quantitative and qualitative data to identify opportunities and measure impact. Every engineer has access to look at their teams data and everyone elses data, and benchmark themselves against our industry peers.

Experimentation 69

Experimentation Metrics Data-driven Measurement 69

datapine

JUNE 23, 2020

With so much responsibility and such little time, financial data analysis is no easy feat. But, while working efficiently with fiscal data was once a colossal challenge, we live in the digital age and have incredible solutions available to us. Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.”— What Is A CFO Report?

Dashboards 298

Dashboards Reporting KPI Metrics 298

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

Cost-Benefit 124

Cost-Benefit Data Processing Reporting Enterprise 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Unfortunately, hackers see our industry as a prime target, particularly for ransomware and data privacy attacks. The opportunity to leverage automation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity consolidation to improve protection and mitigate the effects of budget and personnel issues. This all helps the regulatory environment.

Manufacturing 119

Manufacturing IoT Management Risk 119

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Woolley recommends that companies consolidate around the minimum number of tools they need to get things done, and have a sandbox process to test and evaluate new tools that don’t get in the way of people doing actual work. Don’t hire data scientists just to write some emails. With too many tools, you’re always playing catch up.

IT 141

IT Consulting ROI Cost-Benefit 141

Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 16, 2021

Managing data is a challenge. It’s not hard to collect data, but most companies collect data in disparate locations and across multiple applications that don’t talk to each other. With this model, multiple reports are required to crunch data from multiple sources. Automated data management simplifies operations.

Management 141

Management Sales Data-driven Reporting 141

TDAN

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Data migration the process of transferring data from one system to another is a critical undertaking for organizations striving to upgrade infrastructure, consolidate systems, or adopt new technologies. However, data migration challenges can be very complex, especially when doing large-scale data migration projects.

Technology 52

Technology Data Quality Data Architecture Data Integration 52

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