November, 2024

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. But the challenge many executives face is that they tend to focus on how their particular area aligns with overall goals, to the exclusion of other facets of the organization.

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Tencent Hunyuan3D-1.0: 3D Modeling with AI-Driven Speed and Precision

Analytics Vidhya

Introducing Hunyuan3D-1.0, a game-changer in the world of 3D asset creation. Imagine generating high-quality 3D models in under 10 seconds—no more long waits or cumbersome processes. This innovative tool combines cutting-edge AI and a two-stage framework to create realistic, multi-view images before transforming them into precise, high-fidelity 3D assets.

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Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

O'Reilly on Data

One popular term encountered in generative AI practice is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Reasons for using RAG are clear: large language models (LLMs), which are effectively syntax engines, tend to “hallucinate” by inventing answers from pieces of their training data. The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact.

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Best No-Code LLM App Builders

KDnuggets

Build an LLM application by easily picking and dropping components and connecting them, such as a vector store, web search, memory, and custom prompt.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

CIO Business Intelligence

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 billion estimate in May. And speaking at the Barclays Global Financial Services conference in September, he said gen AI will have a big impact in improving processes and efficiencies. The company has already rolled out a gen AI assistant and is also looking to use AI and LLMs to optimize every process.

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Bigeye Enable Monitoring, Quality and Lineage of Data

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis. Maintaining quality and trust is a perennial data management challenge, the importance of which has come into sharper focus in recent years thanks to the rise of artificial intelli

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How to Choose Best ML Model for your Usecase?

Analytics Vidhya

Machine learning (ML) has become a cornerstone of modern technology, enabling businesses and researchers to make data-driven decisions with greater precision. However, with the vast number of ML models available, choosing the right one for your specific use case can be challenging. Whether you’re working on a classification task, predicting trends, or building a recommendation […] The post How to Choose Best ML Model for your Usecase?

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Blown Away

O'Reilly on Data

Between vacation, end-of-year projects, the coming holidays, and other hysteria, I haven’t come up with an article this month. So here’s a quick list of things that have amazed me recently. Are we virtual yet? I’m far from the first person to find NotebookLM amazing, and I certainly won’t be the last. I did a simple experiment: I pointed it at two of my recent posts, “ Think Better ” and “ Henry Ford Does AI.

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Expand data access through Apache Iceberg using Delta Lake UniForm on AWS

AWS Big Data

The landscape of big data management has been transformed by the rising popularity of open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. These formats, designed to address the limitations of traditional data storage systems, have become essential in modern data architectures. As organizations adopt various open table formats to suit their specific needs, the demand for interoperability between these formats has grown significantly.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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When is data too clean to be useful for enterprise AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects. And while most executives generally trust their data, they also say less than two thirds of it is usable.

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Data Errors in Financial Services: Addressing the Real Cost of Poor Data Quality

TDAN

Data quality issues continue to plague financial services organizations, resulting in costly fines, operational inefficiencies, and damage to reputations. Even industry leaders like Charles Schwab and Citibank have been severely impacted by poor data management, revealing the urgent need for more effective data quality processes across the sector.

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Infor’s Velocity Summit Highlights Multiple Advances and Enhancements

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I recently attended Infor’s Velocity Summit , designed to showcase the latest versions of its CloudSuite ERP software. Also center stage were Infor’s advances in artificial intelligence and process mining as well as its environmental, social and governance application and supply chain optimization enhancements. The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency.

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Using Maskformer for Images With Overlapping Objects

Analytics Vidhya

Image segmentation is another popular computer vision task that has applications with different models. Its usefulness across different industries and fields has allowed for more research and improvements. Maskformer is part of another revolution of image segmentation, using its mask attention mechanism to detect objects that overlap their bounding boxes.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Introducing Cloudera Fine Tuning Studio for Training, Evaluating, and Deploying LLMs with Cloudera AI

Cloudera

Large Language Models (LLMs) will be at the core of many groundbreaking AI solutions for enterprise organizations. Here are just a few examples of the benefits of using LLMs in the enterprise for both internal and external use cases: Optimize Costs. LLMs deployed as customer-facing chatbots can respond to frequently asked questions and simple queries.

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Write queries faster with Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. Amazon Q generative SQL brings the capabilities of generative AI directly into the Amazon Redshift query editor. Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift was launched in preview during AWS re:Invent 2023.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. However, there’s a significant difference between those experimenting with AI and those fully integrating it into their operations. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

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IKEA’s Data Transformation: Lessons from a Global Giant

Timo Elliott

In the digital era, data is the backbone of innovation and transformation. At IKEA, the global home furnishings leader, data is more than an operational necessity—it’s a strategic asset. In a recent presentation at the SAPSA Impuls event in Stockholm , George Sandu, IKEA’s Master Data Leader, shared the company’s data transformation story, offering valuable lessons for organizations navigating similar challenges.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Data Insights Assure Quality Data and Confident Decisions!

Smarten

Why is Data Insight So Important? Every business (large or small) creates and depends upon data. One hundred years ago, businesses looked to leaders and experts to strategize and to create operational goals. Decisions were based on opinion, guesswork and a complicated mixture of notes and records reflecting historical results that might or might not be relevant to the future.

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2024 for OpenAI: Highs, Lows, and Everything in Between

Analytics Vidhya

The year 2024 was nothing short of a rollercoaster for OpenAI, a company that has become synonymous with the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. From groundbreaking product launches to leadership shake-ups and even legal disputes, OpenAI navigated a whirlwind of events. These happenings showcased both the promise and the challenges of building advanced AI systems […] The post 2024 for OpenAI: Highs, Lows, and Everything in Between appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Octopai Acquisition Enhances Metadata Management to Trust Data Across Entire Data Estate

Cloudera

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai , a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making. Cloudera’s mission since its inception has been to empower organizations to transform all their data to deliver trusted, valuable, and predictive insights.

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Introducing generative AI upgrades for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (preview)

AWS Big Data

Organizations run millions of Apache Spark applications each month on AWS, moving, processing, and preparing data for analytics and machine learning. As these applications age, keeping them secure and efficient becomes increasingly challenging. Data practitioners need to upgrade to the latest Spark releases to benefit from performance improvements, new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements.

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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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Redefining customer experience: How AI is revolutionizing Mastercard

CIO Business Intelligence

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. Once synonymous with a simple plastic credit card to a company at the forefront of digital payments, we’ve consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation while respecting tradition and our relationships with our merchants, banks, and customers.

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Advancing Automatic Knowledge Extraction with PubMiner AI

Ontotext

Introduction Research published in academic journals plays a crucial role in improving drug discovery by revealing new biological targets, mechanisms, and treatment strategies. To effectively tap into this wealth of information, various AI technologies can sift through large amounts of literature to uncover key insights. This helps researchers identify potential drug targets and innovative solutions more easily, fostering collaboration and speeding up the drug development process.

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Why Should Business Users WANT to be a Citizen Data Scientist?

Smarten

Making the Case for Citizen Data Scientists! When a business decides to undertake a data democratization initiative, improve data literacy and create a role for Citizen Data Scientists, the management team often assumes that business users will be eager to participate, and that assumption can cause these initiatives to fail. Like every other cultural shift within an organization, the management team must support the transition to Citizen Data Scientists by educating team members and helping them

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Exploring GraphRAG from Theory to Implementation

Analytics Vidhya

GraphRAG adopts a more structured and hierarchical method to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), distinguishing itself from traditional RAG approaches that rely on basic semantic searches of unorganized text snippets. The process begins by converting raw text into a knowledge graph, organizing the data into a community structure, and summarizing these groupings.

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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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Looking Back on Our First Women Leaders in Technology Event

Cloudera

Over the last few months, Cloudera has been traversing the globe hosting our EVOLVE24 event series. It has been a time full of excitement, innovative ideas, and connection with our partners and customers. It also provided a moment for us to launch an important initiative for Cloudera: our Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) initiative. WLIT is a global initiative developed to create a forum wherein women and allies in tech leadership roles can connect with and demonstrate to women and girls tha

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Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to deliver real-time data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

AWS Big Data

In this post, we show how to use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to buffer and aggregate real-time streaming data for delivery into Amazon OpenSearch Service domains and collections using Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion. You can use this approach for a variety of use cases, from real-time log analytics to integrating application messaging data for real-time search.

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CIOs to spend ambitiously on AI in 2025 — and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

While the ROI of any given AI project remains uncertain , one thing is becoming clear: CIOs will be spending a whole lot more on the technology in the years ahead. Research firm IDC projects worldwide spending on technology to support AI strategies will reach $337 billion in 2025 — and more than double to $749 billion by 2028. Those bullish numbers don’t surprise many CIOs, as IT leaders from nearly every vertical are rolling out generative AI proofs of concept, with some already in production.

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