September, 2024

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Get From Data To Decisions Faster With Our New Data, AI & Analytics Service

Srividya Sridharan

Data and AI leaders today must create business value from trusted data, build the foundation to scale AI, and cultivate a data-driven culture. To help them meet these challenges, Forrester is launching Forrester Decisions for Data, AI & Analytics. Learn more about this new service and how it can benefit your organization.

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How to Automate Google Sheets?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Google Sheets is one of the most popular and widely used alternatives to Excel. Its collaborative environment offers features such as real-time editing, and version control, and its tight integration with Google Suite which allows you to call Google Sheets in Google Docs, helps to bring the best of the Google workspace. You can […] The post How to Automate Google Sheets?

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO Business Intelligence

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

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7 Steps to Mastering Coding for Data Science

KDnuggets

Are you an aspiring data scientist or early in your data science career? If so, you know that you should use your programming, statistics, and machine learning skills—coupled with domain expertise—to use data to answer business questions. To succeed as a data scientist, therefore, becoming proficient in coding is essential. Especially for handling and analyzing.

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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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Data Sharing is Crucial for Smart Data-Driven Brands

Smart Data Collective

Data-driven decision-making is becoming more important, which means that companies need to share data with their partners more easily.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service: Managed and community driven

AWS Big Data

I’ve always loved the problem of search. At its core, search is about receiving a question, understanding that question, and then retrieving the best answer for it. A long time ago, I did an AI robotics project for my PhD that married a library of plan fragments to a real-world situation, through search. I’ve worked on and built a commercial search engine from the ground up in a prior job.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Building Multimodal RAG Systems

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Retrieval Augmented Generation systems, better known as RAG systems, have become the de-facto standard for building intelligent AI assistants answering questions on custom enterprise data without the hassles of expensive fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). One of the key advantages of RAG systems is you can easily integrate your own data and augment […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Building Multimodal RAG Systems appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Key Challenges and Limitations in AI-Language Models

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Artificial Intelligence has been cementing its position in workplaces over the past couple of years, with scientists spending heavily on AI research and improving it daily. AI is everywhere, from simple tasks like virtual chatbots to complex tasks like cancer detection. It has even recently replaced several jobs in the industry. This inclusion of […] The post Key Challenges and Limitations in AI-Language Models appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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GPT-4o vs OpenAI o1: Is the New OpenAI Model Worth the Hype?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction OpenAI has released its new model based on the much-anticipated “strawberry” architecture. This innovative model, known as o1, enhances reasoning capabilities, allowing it to think through problems more effectively before providing answers. As a ChatGPT Plus user, I had the opportunity to explore this new model firsthand. I’m excited to share my insights on […] The post GPT-4o vs OpenAI o1: Is the New OpenAI Model Worth the Hype?

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What Makes Microsoft Phi 3.5 SLMs a Game-Changer for Generative AI?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The newest model collection from Microsoft’s Small Language Models (SLMs) family is called Phi-3. They surpass models of comparable and greater sizes on a variety of benchmarks in language, reasoning, coding, and math. They are made to be extremely powerful and economical. With Phi-3 models available, Azure clients have access to a wider range […] The post What Makes Microsoft Phi 3.5 SLMs a Game-Changer for Generative AI?

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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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How to Access OpenAI o1?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Strawberry is out in the market!!! I hope this will be as fruitful as the recent advancements in artificial intelligence brought by other OpenAI’s latest models. We have been waiting for GPT-5 for so long, and now OpenAI has released its fact-checking and high reasoning model—OpenAI o1, with a code name of Strawberry. This […] The post How to Access OpenAI o1?

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A Comprehensive Guide to Fine-Tune Open-Source LLMs Using Lamini

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Recently, with the rise of large language models and AI, we have seen innumerable advancements in natural language processing. Models in domains like text, code, and image/video generation have archived human-like reasoning and performance. These models perform exceptionally well in general knowledge-based questions. Models like GPT-4o, Llama 2, Claude, and Gemini are trained on publicly […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Fine-Tune Open-Source LLMs Using Lamini appeared fir

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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23 key gen AI terms and what they really mean

CIO Business Intelligence

As abruptly as generative AI burst on the scene, so too is the new language that’s come with it. A complete list of AI-related vocabulary would be thousands of entries long, but for the sake of urgent relevance, these are the terms heard most among CIOs, analysts, consultants, and other business executives. Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions.

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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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How AI is transforming business today

CIO Business Intelligence

Hannah Calhoon, vice president of AI for Indeed, uses artificial intelligence “to make existing tasks faster, easier, higher quality and more effective.” She points to a recent initiative in which the job matching and hiring platform company started using large language models (LLMs) to add a highly customized sentence or two to the emails it sends to job seekers about open positions that match their qualifications.

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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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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Generative AI strategy dilemma: Buy, build, or partner?

CIO Business Intelligence

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development.

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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

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Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence gets Gen AI-powered developer assistant

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle will be adding a new generative AI- powered developer assistant to its Fusion Data Intelligence service, which is part of the company’s Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the company said at its CloudWorld 2024 event. Fusion Data Intelligence, which is an updated avatar of Fusion Analytics Warehouse, combines enterprise data, and ready-to-use analytics along with prebuilt AI and machine learning models to deliver business intelligence.

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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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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine. “Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum comp

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Deepfakes break through as business threat

CIO Business Intelligence

Deepfakes targeting enterprise financial data used to be a hypothetical concern, but that’s no longer the case, as criminal deepfakers now target more than a quarter of all companies, according to a recent survey. About 15% of executives say cybercriminals have targeted their companies’ financial or accounting data using deepfakes at least once in the past year, while another 11% say they’ve seen multiple deepfake scams.

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Do boards understand their new role in cybersecurity?

CIO Business Intelligence

Julie Ragland was CIO of vehicle manufacturing company Navistar, and has held IT leadership roles at Adient and Johnson Controls. To Ragland, who also sits on several state agency and non-profit boards, one of the greatest responsibilities for today’s boards is in governing cyber security risk. And while board members are generally tuned in to the importance of cyber governance, they don’t always understand the true risks with cyber and their own governing role.

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

CIO Business Intelligence

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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AI could be taken over by a few multinationals, warns UN

CIO Business Intelligence

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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The IT sector is bringing down Europe all on its own

CIO Business Intelligence

On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office. I put long-awaited in quotation marks because, although it is described as such, it takes a certain masochistic disposition to look forward to a slap in the face like this.

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Tres caras de la automatización: orquestación, simplificación y sostenibilidad

CIO Business Intelligence

La masificación de la inteligencia artificial (IA) ha puesto de manifiesto que la automatización, junto con una capa de inteligencia , puede acelerar y optimizar de manera exponencial los procesos operativos de las organizaciones. Pero este viaje de transformación digital en el que la mayor parte de las empresas están embarcadas no está exento de desafíos.

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Reporting cybersecurity posture and systemic risk to the board

CIO Business Intelligence

Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. As we saw recently with the CrowdStrike outage, the interconnected nature of enterprises today brings with it great risk that can have a significant negative effect on any company’s finances. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.