Thu.Oct 31, 2024

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How Norma Group standardizes its global IT

CIO Business Intelligence

You may be unfamiliar with the name, but Norma Group products are used wherever pipes are connected and liquids are conveyed, from water supply and irrigation systems in vehicles, trains and aircraft, to agricultural machinery and buildings. And with his almost 200 IT employees, Thomas Reitz, the company’s group CIO, sees himself primarily as a driver of innovation and transformation, and a promoter of what he calls real ​​digitalization.

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Unlocking Success with Enterprise GenAI Tools

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Generative AI (GenAI) software can transform various aspects of enterprise operations, which makes it a critical component of modern business strategies. GenAI tools can automate repetitive tasks such as data entry, report generation and customer interactions. GenAI can improve overall operational efficiency, resulting in time and cost savings for the organization.

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How to Fine-Tune T5 for Question Answering Tasks with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Fine-tuning the T5 model for question answering tasks is simple with Hugging Face Transformers: provide the model with questions and context, and it will learn to generate the correct answers.

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The Increasing Importance of Open Table Formats

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I previously wrote about the importance of open table formats to the evolution of data lakes into data lakehouses. The concept of the data lake was initially proposed as a single environment where data could be combined from multiple sources to be stored and processed to enable analysis by multiple users for multiple purposes. The first iteration of data lakes, based on Apache Hadoop and then object storage, fulfilled the first part of this equation, providing a relatively inexpensive way of sto

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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When to Go Out and When to Stay In: RAG vs. Fine-tuning

KDnuggets

This article presents a comprehensive discussion of when to choose which approach for your LLM and potential hybrid solutions.

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Managing Misuse, in Dual-Use Foundation AI Models

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes When making decisions that are critical to national security, governments rely on data, and those that leverage the cutting edge technology of generative AI foundation models will have a distinct advantage over their adversaries. Pros and Cons of generative AI. The post Managing Misuse, in Dual-Use Foundation AI Models appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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As the WordPress saga continues, CIOs need to figure out what it might mean for all open source

CIO Business Intelligence

While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024. The latest legal documents came from Automattic, which argued that its people did nothing wrong and that the blame lies solely with WP Engine.

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Integrate Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Redshift ML for generative AI applications

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift has enhanced its Redshift ML feature to support integration of large language models (LLMs). As part of these enhancements, Redshift now enables native integration with Amazon Bedrock. This integration enables you to use LLMs from simple SQL commands alongside your data in Amazon Redshift, helping you to build generative AI applications quickly.

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Why CIOs need a two-tier approach to gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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How Volkswagen Autoeuropa built a data mesh to accelerate digital transformation using Amazon DataZone

AWS Big Data

This is a joint blog post co-authored with Martin Mikoleizig from Volkswagen Autoeuropa. Volkswagen Autoeuropa is a Volkswagen Group plant that produces the T-Roc. The plant is located near Lisbon, Portugal and produces about 934 cars per day. In 2023, Volkswagen Autoeuropa represented 1.3% of the national GDP of Portugal and 4% in national export of goods impact with a sales volume of 3.3511 billion Euros.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Toyota y NTT apuestan por la IA para reducir los accidentes de tráfico

CIO Business Intelligence

La inteligencia artificial (IA) conquista a la industria del automóvil al perfilarse como un aliado en la asistencia al conductor. Toyota Motor y NTT han anunciado una inversión de alrededor de 3,3 millones de dólares con vistas al 2030 para el desarrollo de una plataforma de infraestructura y software que, sirviéndose de la IA, reduzca posibles accidentes de tráfico.

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Replace Crystal Reports With Spreadsheet Server for Optimized Reporting

Jet Global

As a finance team member, it’s likely your main goals are to reduce risk, improve profitability, and maintain exceptional levels of compliance. To achieve success, you need direct access to accurate data from your ERP and the ability to quickly create drillable Excel reports for GL and other finance requirements. Many finance teams rely on their ERP’s native reporting for this.

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Santalucía agiliza los trámites del seguro de decesos mediante IA y robotización

CIO Business Intelligence

Santalucía ha implementado tecnologías de inteligencia artificial (IA) y automatización robótica de procesos (RPA) para agilizar cerca de 300.000 trámites documentales del seguro de decesos. La aseguradora lleva implementando estas tecnologías de vanguardia en el seno de su operativa desde el pasado 2023, lo que ha contribuido a mejorar el procesamiento documental en la gestión de decesos , incluyendo certificados médicos, DNI, libros de familia y declaraciones de herederos.

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El crecimiento de la oposición a la nube

CIO Business Intelligence

Es un momento emocionante para ser un experto en computación en nube. Me he dado cuenta de que cada vez que me opongo a la computación en nube pública, incluida la repatriación de la nube y los rechazos estratégicos , recibo más visitas e interés de ustedes. ¿Por qué? Hay un claro interés en oponerse a la computación en nube por muchas razones que hemos tratado aquí.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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El AC Milan moderniza su infraestructura TI con el foco en el rendimiento deportivo y la experiencia del aficionado

CIO Business Intelligence

El mundo del fútbol se rinde a la tecnología de vanguardia. Si recientemente explorábamos la estrategia de datos del Sevilla F.C , ahora es el gigante del fútbol italiano, el AC Milan, quien se apoya en la inteligencia artificial (IA) y la analítica de datos para impulsar el rendimiento deportivo y la mejora de la experiencia del aficionado. El club centenario fundado por inmigrantes ingleses en 1899 confía en la transformación digital para modernizar su infraestructura TI de la mano de PureStor

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Maneras de evitar una estrategia de ‘stakeholders’ condenada al fracaso

CIO Business Intelligence

Aunque las nuevas tecnologías han cambiado las prioridades, no ha sucedido lo mismo con la necesidad de gestionar a las partes interesadas, afirma Krishna Prasad, director de Información de la empresa de servicios tecnológicos UST. Con el uso de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en casi todas las áreas de la empresa, las partes interesadas son ahora mucho más expertas en tecnología, lo que reduce su dependencia de los departamentos de TI.

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How to protect your business from email compromise – and be prepared if protection falls short

CIO Business Intelligence

Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams pose a growing threat to organizations of all sizes, and they are only increasing in sophistication and frequency. The attacks, in which criminals frequently leverage social engineering to impersonate company insiders, C-suite executives or trusted vendors to request urgent payments, can financially devastate organizations.

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Ecco come i CIO stanno ricalibrando le strategie multicloud. Non senza problemi

CIO Business Intelligence

Negli ultimi tempi, le strategie cloud sono andate incontro a un cambiamento radicale, con i CIO che stanno diventando sempre più propensi a sfruttare al meglio le formule multiple. Tuttavia, la gestione di ambienti multicloud presenta complicazioni peculiari, soprattutto quando si tratta di problemi di interoperabilità e di fluidità del carico di lavoro.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Is now the right time to invest in implementing agentic AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, and take actions much as a human worker would, without human intervention. It’s more than just a smarter RPA Agentic AI isn’t just a better version of robotic process automation (RPA) : It promises to take enterprises places RPA never could.