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The real AI training gap? IT leaders believe in it, but many don’t provide it

CIO Business Intelligence

If you’re among the 95% of IT leaders who believe AI projects will fail without staff who can effectively use AI tools, chances are you’re not doing enough about it. That’s because only 40% of executives and IT leaders say their organizations have formal AI training for employees, according to the recent Pluralsight AI Skills Report. And with CIOs increasingly responsible for setting the workforce AI training agenda , IT leaders may soon find themselves in the hot seat on AI preparedness.

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Is Google’s Imagen 3 the Future of AI Image Creation?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Text-to-image synthesis and image-text contrastive learning are two of the most innovative multimodal learning applications recently gaining popularity. With their innovative applications for creative image creation and manipulation, these models have revolutionized the research community and drawn significant public interest. In order to do further research, DeepMind introduced Imagen.

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Improving cloud ROI—and why CIOs are just the ones to do it

CIO Business Intelligence

Whatever the technology, chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT leaders have always been focused on delivering value. Yet it’s rare for any business leader not to say they wish they had a better ROI from their cloud spend. So why the disconnect? Here are some contributing factors: The impact of “Shadow IT,” a trend that grew steadily during the last decade as business groups implemented SaaS solutions with little IT involvement.

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Top 10 YouTube Channels to Learn Excel

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Excel is indispensable for boosting productivity and efficiency across all the fields. The wide range of resources on YouTube can help learners of all levels find helpful tutorials specific to their needs. This article showcases ten top YouTube channels for learning Excel, with each channel providing distinct content and teaching methods to assist in […] The post Top 10 YouTube Channels to Learn Excel appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Australia pushes for AI rules, focusing on oversight and accountability

CIO Business Intelligence

Australia has outlined plans for new AI regulations, focusing on human oversight and transparency as the technology spreads rapidly across business and everyday life. The country’s Industry and Science Minister, Ed Husic, on Thursday, introduced ten voluntary AI guidelines and launched a month-long consultation to assess whether these measures should be made mandatory in high-risk areas.

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Building Multi-Document Agentic RAG using LLamaIndex

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the ability to process and understand vast amounts of information is becoming increasingly crucial. Enter Multi-Document Agentic RAG – a powerful approach that combines Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with agent-based systems to create AI that can reason across multiple documents.

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Understanding Multimodal RAG: Benefits and Implementation Strategies

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the current-world that operates based on data, Relational AI Graphs (RAG) hold a lot of influence in industries by correlating data and mapping out relations. However, what if one could go a little further more than the other in that sense? Introducing Multimodal RAG, text and image, documents and more, to give a […] The post Understanding Multimodal RAG: Benefits and Implementation Strategies appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Pioneering next-gen AI-powered networks for connected business and customer centricity

CIO Business Intelligence

With an increasingly decentralized workforce and unprecedented demands from both business and the economy, the network as always is the all-important component of a modern IT infrastructure of an organization. The emergence of new age technologies like AI, Gen AI, SD- WAN is pushing the technology companies to evolve rapidly, creating technology that not only keeps pace with development but also enhances it.

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Optimize Your Organisation’s Email Marketing with GenAI Agents

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Congratulations! You run a successful business. Through your web pages, social media campaigns, webinars, conferences, free resources, and other sources, you collect 5000+ email IDs daily. The next obvious step is to send them an email based on the source and user behavior of these users, with the goal of converting them to paid […] The post Optimize Your Organisation’s Email Marketing with GenAI Agents appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Differentiating people, process, and technology problems: A guide for CISOs

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to security, knowing you have a problem is only half the battle – if that. Figuring out how to solve the problem efficiently is what really matters. And to do that, you need to determine the root cause of the problem. Is it a people issue, such as lack of enough security personnel? Is it inefficient processes that hamper communication within security teams?

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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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What is Heuristic Function in AI?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Think of a maze in which you are now alone; your aim is to come out as faster as possible but how many ways are there? Now imagine, if you are given a map where you can highlight areas which are worth pursuing and which ones are not! That’s exactly the part heuristic functions […] The post What is Heuristic Function in AI? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Menos burocracia: CaixaBank adopta la firma ante notario por videoconferencia

CIO Business Intelligence

Uno de los grandes dolores de cabeza a la hora de contratar productos bancarios es la necesidad de acudir ante un notario para la firma, un proceso que muchas veces te obliga a faltar al trabajo o a sufrir largas esperas. Para reducir este proceso burocrático tan odiado por los ciudadanos, CaixaBank ha anunciado la implementación de videoconferencias para la firma ante notario de diversos productos, como líneas de crédito, préstamos, factoring , confirming y leasing , entre otros.

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Amazon Redshift data ingestion options

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift , a warehousing service, offers a variety of options for ingesting data from diverse sources into its high-performance, scalable environment. Whether your data resides in operational databases, data lakes, on-premises systems, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or other AWS services, Amazon Redshift provides multiple ingestion methods to meet your specific needs.

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El ‘coaching’ ejecutivo de CIO experimentados marca la diferencia

CIO Business Intelligence

La leyenda de los CIO, Charlie Feld, no duda cuando dice: “Este es un momento excepcional para ser un líder de TI”. Y con razón. En la era digital, los líderes de TI tienen más oportunidades de encabezar la innovación, orquestar grandes esfuerzos de transformación e impulsar el valor empresarial. Pero con la velocidad y la complejidad de los negocios de hoy en día, los CIO y los líderes de TI también se enfrentan a muchos nuevos desafíos , cuyas apuestas nunca han sido tan altas.

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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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Integrate sparse and dense vectors to enhance knowledge retrieval in RAG using Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Big Data

In the context of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge retrieval plays a crucial role, because the effectiveness of retrieval directly impacts the maximum potential of large language model (LLM) generation. Currently, in RAG retrieval, the most common approach is to use semantic search based on dense vectors. However, dense embeddings do not perform well in understanding specialized terms or jargon in vertical domains.

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Saudi Arabia CIO Summit: IDC and e& enterprise join forces for 14th edition

CIO Business Intelligence

The theme of this year’s summit is “The Future of IT: Rethinking Digitalization for an AI Everywhere World,” reflecting the growing importance of artificial intelligence and digital transformation across industries. With the rapid evolution of AI, organizations are reimagining how they operate, enhancing efficiency, boosting productivity, and driving profitability to new levels.

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Using FastAPI for Building ML-Powered Web Apps

KDnuggets

A beginner tutorial on building a simple web application for machine learning model inference using FastAPI and Jinja2 templates.

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Calsina Carré se apoya en la nube pública para expandir su negocio a nuevas geografías

CIO Business Intelligence

Calsina Carré ha entrado en una nueva fase de crecimiento, en la que buscará expandir su negocio hacia nuevas geografías, para sumar filiales a las que ya tiene en España, Francia, Marruecos, Túnez, Rumanía, Portugal, Holanda y Luxemburgo. Para ello, ha decidido dejar su sistema ERP desarrollado internamente tras utilizarlo por 20 años, para pasar a una nueva solución basada en la nube pública.

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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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Understanding the Basics of Reinforcement Learning

KDnuggets

How does AI learn by doing? Read this to discover the basics of reinforcement learning.

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Minor Hotels lays foundations for a purely digital future

CIO Business Intelligence

The hotel sector has been undergoing a digital revolution for years, transforming not only the way hotels operate and interact with their customers, but also with the environment, all without harming their bottom lines. Case in point is Minor Hotels Europe & Americas, an international chain with more than 540 branded hotels, resorts, and residences in 56 countries.

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Harnessing the Power of Generative AI for Your Enterprise

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) represents a transformative leap forward in AI, offering businesses unprecedented opportunities to innovate, optimize, and engage. This cutting-edge technology, capable of generating outputs such as text, images, music, and other media, is already reshaping industries. The post Harnessing the Power of Generative AI for Your Enterprise appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Art

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Trusted, decision-grade data: What is it and why does it matter?

Anmut

Everyone is talking about AI, but what about the data it depends on? A month ago I attended the world’s largest gathering of management scholars – the Academy of Management conference – in Chicago. The meeting, which brings together over 10,000 academics, is always great fun and thought provoking. Many of the world’s leading thinkers attend to share their ideas and views about organisations and of management more generally.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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How to Create a Custom Tokenizer for Non-English Languages with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Learn to create tokenizers for specific languages using Hugging Face Transformers to improve model performance.

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¿Existe una brecha en la formación sobre IA? Los responsables TI creen en ella, pero muchos no la abordan

CIO Business Intelligence

Si usted se encuentra entre el 95% de los líderes de TI que creen que los proyectos de inteligencia artificial (IA) fracasarán sin personal que pueda utilizar eficazmente las herramientas de IA, lo más probable es que no esté haciendo lo suficiente al respecto. Esto se debe a que sólo el 40% de los ejecutivos y líderes de TI dicen que sus organizaciones tienen formación formal en IA para los empleados , según el reciente informe de Pluralsight sobre habilidades de IA.

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