DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Next, data is processed in the Silver layer , which undergoes “just enough” cleaning and transformation to provide a unified, enterprise-wide view of core business entities. Bronze layers can also be the raw database tables. Bronze layers should be immutable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Thats why we need mechanisms like the AI Pact that acts as a regulatory sandbox: a test bed of how the law works. For example, LLMs in the enterprise are modified through training and fine-tuning, and CIOs will have to make sure they always remain compliant both with respect to what the vendor provides and to their customers or users.

Enterprise 128

Enterprise Risk Reporting Measurement 128

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Testing and Data Observability. It orchestrates complex pipelines, toolchains, and tests across teams, locations, and data centers. Testing and Data Observability. DataOps is a hot topic in 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It’s a position many CIOs find themselves in, as Guan noted that, according to an Accenture survey, fewer than 10% of enterprises have gen AI models in production. “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT It’s time for them to actually relook at their existing enterprise architecture for data and AI,” Guan said.

Unstructured Data 136

Unstructured Data Testing Modeling Enterprise 136

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 25, 2023

But what’s also clear is that the process of programming doesn’t become “ChatGPT, please build me an enterprise application to sell shoes.” In this post, Fowler describes the process Xu Hao (Thoughtworks’ Head of Technology for China) used to build part of an enterprise application with ChatGPT. That excitement is merited.

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Testing Software Strategy Enterprise 371

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Agentic AI is the new frontier in AI evolution, taking center stage in todays enterprise discussion. Boosting IT and security AI agents are transforming software engineering , aiding in code generation , testing, refactoring, observability, and beyond. Testing is something weve been spending a lot of time on, says Salesforces White.

IT 139

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Rule 1: Start with an acceptable risk appetite level Once a CIO understands their organizations risk appetite, everything else strategy, innovation, technology selection can align smoothly, says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at enterprise advisory firm Resultant. Cybersecurity must be an all-hands-on-deck endeavor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Data organizations don’t always have the budget or schedule required for DataOps when conceived as a top-to-bottom, enterprise-wide transformational change. In a medium to large enterprise, many steps have to happen correctly to deliver perfect analytic insights. Start with just a few critical tests and build gradually.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Development teams starting small and building up, learning, testing and figuring out the realities from the hype will be the ones to succeed. In our real-world case study, we needed a system that would create test data. This data would be utilized for different types of application testing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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.

Enterprise 145

Enterprise Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Risk 145

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DataOps adoption continues to expand as a perfect storm of social, economic, and technological factors drive enterprises to invest in process-driven innovation. Model developers will test for AI bias as part of their pre-deployment testing. Quality test suites will enforce “equity,” like any other performance metric.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

The proof of concept (POC) has become a key facet of CIOs AI strategies, providing a low-stakes way to test AI use cases without full commitment. Companies pilot-to-production rates can vary based on how each enterprise calculates ROI especially if they have differing risk appetites around AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. What CIOs can do: To make transitions to new AI capabilities less costly, invest in regression testing and change management practices around AI-enabled large-scale workflows.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 8, 2025

We expect a senior developer to have both broader and deeper knowledgebut what makes a senior developer is everything else on the list: teamwork, the ability to work on large projects, understanding enterprise requirements, mentoring, and much more that we havent listed. We can sum it up by saying experience, but thats not really helpful.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As enterprises seek to automate aspects of decision-making processes using AI, it is essential that they have confidence in the data upon which AI depends. To improve data reliability, enterprises were largely dependent on data-quality tools that required manual effort by data engineers, data architects, data scientists and data analysts.

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Data Quality Dashboards Data-driven Software 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Is our AI strategy enterprise-wide?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Uber no longer offers just rides and deliveries: It’s created a new division hiring out gig workers to help enterprises with some of their AI model development work.

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Manufacturing Data-driven Marketing Testing 121

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

By analyzing problem reports and test failures, AI can identify patterns and underlying issues that human operators might miss. Enterprises should use ethical frameworks to ensure that AI applications undergo rigorous testing and validation before being deployed in order to safeguard patient safety and data privacy.

Enterprise 126

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. According to a Bank of America survey of global research analysts and strategists released in September, 2024 was the year of ROI determination, and 2025 will be the year of enterprise AI adoption.

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Software ROI Modeling Interactive 141

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot. Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly.

Software 143

Software Risk Enterprise Cost-Benefit 143

O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. An Overarching Concern: Correctness and Testing. Why did something break?

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IT Testing Experimentation Software 364

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Looking beyond existing infrastructures For a start, enterprises can leverage new technologies purpose-built for GenAI. This layer serves as the foundation for enterprises to elevate their GenAI strategy. They help companies deploy the tool with ease, reducing the time spent on designing, planning, and testing digital assistants.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Data-driven Risk Testing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And we gave each silo its own system of record to optimize how each group works, but also complicates any future for connecting the enterprise. A new generation of digital-first companies emerged that reimagined operations, enterprise architecture, and work for what was becoming a digital-first world. And its testing us all over again.

Digital Transformation 144

Digital Transformation Sales Optimization Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their top predictions include: Most enterprises fixated on AI ROI will scale back their efforts prematurely. The expectation for immediate returns on AI investments will see many enterprises scaling back their efforts sooner than they should,” Chaurasia and Maheshwari said.

ROI 127

ROI Data-driven Enterprise Experimentation 127

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is ripe for a major makeover thanks to generative AI, as some experts see the tandem as a perfect pairing that could lead to higher profits at enterprises that combine them. Now they merely review AI content and can get back to more strategic tasks,” he says.

Enterprise 134

Enterprise Forecasting Unstructured Data Reporting 134

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Agentic AI was the big breakthrough technology for gen AI last year, and this year, enterprises will deploy these systems at scale. According to a January KPMG survey of 100 senior executives at large enterprises, 12% of companies are already deploying AI agents, 37% are in pilot stages, and 51% are exploring their use.

IT 141

IT Enterprise Interactive Data Quality 141

O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

However, it may not be easy to access or contextualize this data, especially in enterprises. Finally, integrating AI products into business tech stacks (especially in enterprises) is nontrivial. The number of projects that actually add value (especially in an enterprise context) is probably even lower.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Large enterprises integrate hundreds or thousands of asynchronous data sources into a web of pipelines that flow into visualizations and purpose-built databases that support self-service analysis. The sales team at the consulting firm proposed that a bigger budget was needed to keep the data factory churning out enterprise-critical analytics.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 18, 2024

AI is too often seen as a “first world” enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. It’s important to test every stage of this pipeline carefully: translation software, text-to-speech software, relevance scoring, document pruning, and the language models themselves: can another model do a better job? Results need to pass human review.

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Testing Software Modeling Measurement 321

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The configuration of federation between Microsoft Entra ID and IAM to enable seamless access to Amazon Redshift through a SQL client such as the Redshift Query Editor V2 involves the following main components: Users start by authenticating with their Microsoft Entra ID credentials by accessing the enterprise applications user access URL.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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. Build and test training and inference prompts.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Enterprises that need to share and access large amounts of data across multiple domains and services need to build a cloud infrastructure that scales as need changes. To address this, we used the AWS performance testing framework for Apache Kafka to evaluate the theoretical performance limits.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 20, 2021

As DataOps activity takes root within an enterprise, managers face the question of whether to build centralized or decentralized DataOps capabilities. Centralizing analytics helps the organization standardize enterprise-wide measurements and metrics. Develop/execute regression testing . Agile ticketing/Kanban tools.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These rules are not necessarily “Rocket Science” (despite the name of this blog site), but they are common business sense for most business-disruptive technology implementations in enterprises. Keep it agile, with short design, develop, test, release, and feedback cycles: keep it lean, and build on incremental changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

But this year three changes are likely to drive CIOs operating model transformations and digital strategies: In 2024, enterprise SaaS embedded AI agents to drive workflow evolutions , and leading-edge organizations began developing their own AI agents.

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Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143