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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketer's Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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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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A Guide to the Six Types of Data Quality Dashboards

DataKitchen

A Guide to the Six Types of Data Quality Dashboards Poor-quality data can derail operations, misguide strategies, and erode the trust of both customers and stakeholders. Data quality dashboards have emerged as indispensable tools, offering a clear window into the health of their data and enabling targeted actionable improvements. However, not all data quality dashboards are created equal.

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What is Adaptive Gradient(Adagrad) Optimizer?

Analytics Vidhya

Imagine you’re planting a garden with a variety of plants, each requiring a different amount of water. If you used the same amount of water on all of them every day, some plants would thrive, while others might get overwatered or dry out. In machine learning, a similar challenge exists with gradient descent, where using […] The post What is Adaptive Gradient(Adagrad) Optimizer?

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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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Intel Accelerators on Amazon OpenSearch Service improve price-performance on vector search by up to 51%

AWS Big Data

This post is co-written with Mulugeta Mammo and Akash Shankaran from Intel. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) technology acceleration on vector search workloads when you run OpenSearch 2.17+ domains with the 4 th generation Intel Xeon Intel instances on the Amazon OpenSearch Service. When you run OpenSearch 2.17 domains on C/M/R 7i instances , you can gain up to 51% in vector search performance at no additional cost compared to pr

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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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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The Race For Data Quality in a Medallion Architecture

DataKitchen

The Race For Data Quality In A Medallion Architecture The Medallion architecture pattern is gaining traction among data teams. It is a layered approach to managing and transforming data. The Medallion architecture is a design pattern that helps data teams organize data processing and storage into three distinct layers, often called Bronze, Silver, and Gold.

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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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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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Educating a New Generation of Workers

O'Reilly on Data

There is a crisis in technical education. The golden road to a career has always been through a college education. However, this “golden road” has developed deep cracks and is badly in need of maintenance. Postsecondary education is rapidly becoming unaffordable, even at public colleges and universities. Tuition has risen at a rate 50% greater than inflation.

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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 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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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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Roadmap for Becoming a Data Scientist

KDnuggets

From learning Python to creating analytical reports, learn about ten easy steps to become a data scientist.

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A Planning Center of Excellence Delivers Performance Improvement

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Artificial Intelligence and generative AI are beginning to change how enterprises do many things, especially planning and budgeting. This technology has the potential to significantly redefine the mission of the financial planning and analysis group. It will do so by substantially reducing the time spent on the purely mechanical aspects of day-to-day tasks.

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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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Image Classification with JAX, Flax, and Optax : A Step-by-Step Guide

Analytics Vidhya

In this tutorial, you will learn how to construct iterate update and train a CNN model using JAX, Flax, and Optax on the MNIST dataset. This tutorial starts from how to set up the environment and preprocess the data to how to define the CNN structure and the final step is to test the model. […] The post Image Classification with JAX, Flax, and Optax : A Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Using Machine Learning to Prevent Fraud in E-Commerce Transactions

Smart Data Collective

Empower your e-commerce with machine learning: Your shield against fraud, ensuring safe transactions and happier customers!

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Agentic AI: 6 promising use cases for business

CIO Business Intelligence

Agentic AI is having a moment, as proponents see the benefits of using autonomous AI agents to automate manual tasks across organizations. Agentic AI, which Forrester named a top emerging technology for 2025 in June , takes generative AI a step further by emphasizing operational decision-making rather than content generation. The promise the approach has for impacting business workflows has organizations such as Aflac, Atlantic Health System, Legendary Entertainment, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion La

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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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Tips for Handling Large Datasets in Python

KDnuggets

Working with large datasets is common but challenging. Here are some tips to make working with such large datasets in Python simpler.

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Capital One Offers Cost Controls for Cloud Data Warehouses

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The adoption of cloud environments for analytic workloads has been a key feature of the data platforms sector in recent years. For two-thirds (66%) of participants in ISG’s Data Lake Dynamic Insights Research, the primary data platform used for analytics is cloud based. Many enterprises adopted cloud-based analytic data platforms with a view to improving operational efficiencies by reducing the need for upfront investment in physical infrastructure as well as the ability to scale cloud services

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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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Amazon EMR streamlines big data processing with simplified Amazon S3 Glacier access

AWS Big Data

Amazon S3 Glacier serves several important audit use cases, particularly for organizations that need to retain data for extended periods due to regulatory compliance, legal requirements, or internal policies. S3 Glacier is ideal for long-term data retention and archiving of audit logs, financial records, healthcare information, and other compliance-related data.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Can AI Help with Regional Nuances in International SEO?

Smart Data Collective

AI is great for helping to improve your SEO strategy, especially when you are trying to reach customers across different regions.

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Security-FinOps collaboration can reap hidden cloud benefits: 11 tips

CIO Business Intelligence

For enterprises operating on the cloud, security and cost management are rising concerns. Typically, these issues are addressed in silos, with cyber teams and FinOps teams pursuing their charters and priorities separately — and with little thought given to collaboration opportunities between these teams that could be leveraged for better business results.

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10 Python Libraries Every Data Analyst Should Know

KDnuggets

Interested in data analytics? Here's a list of Python libraries you cannot do without.

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Restructuring Cybersecurity: Lessons from Microsoft's Recent Changes

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The structures that govern enterprise security teams are under scrutiny. A recent report from a government watchdog group has taken issue with Microsoft’s cybersecurity strategies in the wake of its Exchange Server attacks, prompting the enterprise software giant to re-evaluate its reporting structures. The implications of this shift extend beyond Microsoft itself, with cybersecurity becoming a leading challenge for companies from every industry as cyber and ransomware attacks have grown in freq

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.