Wed.Nov 15, 2023

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to

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Unlock innovation in data and AI at AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS Big Data

For organizations seeking to unlock innovation with data and AI, AWS re:Invent 2023 offers several opportunities. Attendees will discover services, strategies, and solutions for tackling any data challenge. In this post, we provide a curated list of keynotes, sessions, demos, and exhibits that will showcase how you can unlock innovation in data and AI using AWS for Data.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Generative AI, in particular, is at the heart of many of the new product announcements Microsoft is making at the event, including new AI capabilities for wrangling large language models (LLMs) in Azure, new additions to its Copilot range of generative AI assistants, new hardware, and a new tool to help developers de

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BMW Cloud Efficiency Analytics powered by Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

This post is written in collaboration with Philipp Karg and Alex Gutfreund from BMW Group. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is a motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Germany with 149,475 employees worldwide and the profit before tax in the financial year 2022 was € 23.5 billion on revenues amounting to € 142.6 billion. BMW Group is one of the world’s leading premium manufacturers of automobiles and motorcycles, also providing premium financial and mobility services.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How ServiceNow gets the most out of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Competition among software vendors to be “the” platform on which enterprises build their IT infrastructure is intensifying, with the focus of late on how much noise they can make about their implementation of generative AI features. ServiceNow wasn’t the first to announce its generative AI capabilities, but it was among the first of the major platform vendors to make them generally available to all customers.

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Introducing shared VPC support on Amazon MWAA

AWS Big Data

In this post, we demonstrate automating deployment of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) using customer-managed endpoints in a VPC, providing compatibility with shared, or otherwise restricted, VPCs. Data scientists and engineers have made Apache Airflow a leading open source tool to create data pipelines due to its active open source community, familiar Python development as Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) workflows, and extensive library of pre-built integrations.

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Implement Apache Flink near-online data enrichment patterns

AWS Big Data

Stream data processing allows you to act on data in real time. Real-time data analytics can help you have on-time and optimized responses while improving the overall customer experience. Data streaming workloads often require data in the stream to be enriched via external sources (such as databases or other data streams). Pre-loading of reference data provides low latency and high throughput.

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A new and stronger entity: Versuni transforms its company – and technology

CIO Business Intelligence

In September 2021, Philips Domestic Appliances became a stand-alone company called Versuni. As part of the carve-out, Versuni made the decision to transform its entire technology landscape. It would be a formidable undertaking, given the siloed nature of the systems in place at the time. For example, there were segregated applications for the various finance functions.

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Clean up your Excel and CSV files without writing code using AWS Glue DataBrew

AWS Big Data

Managing data within an organization is complex. Handling data from outside the organization adds even more complexity. As the organization receives data from multiple external vendors, it often arrives in different formats, typically Excel or CSV files, with each vendor using their own unique data layout and structure. In this blog post, we’ll explore a solution that streamlines this process by leveraging the capabilities of AWS Glue DataBrew.

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Malicious innovation, building resilience, and the importance of chocolate

CIO Business Intelligence

I recently had the privilege of talking with Keren Elazari, Joanne Friedman, and Isaac Sacolick. They are just three of the smart, compassionate, and forward-thinking speakers you can hear from at CSO’s Future of Cybersecurity Summit on December 7, 2023. This is a virtual event so take part from wherever you are, but don’t miss out on the inspiration and information that is being offered for free to those who qualify to attend.

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8 Steps to Transformation at Speed & Scale – Your Guide to Deploying StratOps

📌Is your Data & AI transformation struggling to really impact the business? Discover the game-changing StratOps approach that: Bridges the Gap : Connect your Data & AI strategy to your operating model, to ensure alignment at every level. Prioritizes Outcomes : Focuses on concrete business outcomes from day one, rather than capabilities in isolation.

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A Better Way To Evaluate LLMs

KDnuggets

This article introduces a new approach to evaluation LLMs, which leverages human insight to compare LLM responses to real-world user prompts categorized by NLP tasks, offering a promising solution for advancing LLM evaluation standards.

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Illuminating the black box: why CIOs should consider publishing an annual IT report

CIO Business Intelligence

This article was co-authored by Ishan Prakash , a Manager at Metis Strategy. The black box For decades IT has been a black box—an obscurity of inner workings mostly just accepted by the firm. But that paradigm is changing and not least because IT itself has changed. Once relegated to a role of support, the function now can inform entire strategies as critically as it does key processes or core products.

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Make Your Own GPTs with ChatGPT’s GPTs!

KDnuggets

Want to out-GPT ChatGPT with your own GPT? Then let's GPT the GPTs!

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Watsonx: a game changer for embedding generative AI into commercial solutions

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM watsonx is changing the game for enterprises of all shapes and sizes, making it easy for them to embed generative AI into their operations. This week, the CEO of WellnessWits, an IBM Business Partner, announced they embed watsonx in their app to help patients ask questions about chronic disease and more easily schedule appointments with physicians.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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KDnuggets News, November 15: 10 Essential Pandas Functions • 5 Free Courses to Master Data Science

KDnuggets

This week on KDnuggets: Check out ten Pandas functions that are important as well as handy for every data scientist • Start upskilling today with these free courses to learn programming, data analysis, and machine learning • And much, much more!

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XOps: Your AI Assembly Line for Safeguarding Long-Term IP

Dataiku

Organizations are moving beyond mere pilot projects and proof of concepts, much like the automotive industry's shift from custom-made vehicles to standardized assembly lines that promote efficiency and scalability. In this blog post, we not only uncover these AI scaling challenges, but also take it one step further while drawing intriguing parallels with the automotive engineering realm.

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The Rise and Fall of Prompt Engineering: Fad or Future?

KDnuggets

This article provides an overview of prompt engineering, from its inception to current status.

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Implement Apache Flink real-time data enrichment patterns

AWS Big Data

Stream data processing allows you to act on data in real time. Real-time data analytics can help you have on-time and optimized responses while improving the overall customer experience. Data streaming workloads often require data in the stream to be enriched via external sources (such as databases or other data streams). Pre-loading of reference data provides low latency and high throughput.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Introduction to Streaming-LLM: LLMs for Infinite-Length Inputs

KDnuggets

A new approach for LLM in the real-time production.

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What’s cooking with Amazon Redshift at AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS Big Data

AWS re:Invent is a powerhouse of a learning event and every time I have attended, I’ve been amazed at its scale and impact. There are keynotes packed with announcements from AWS leaders, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, an elaborate expo, executive summits, after-hours events, demos, and much more.