AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

This post explores how Iceberg can enhance quant research platforms by improving query performance, reducing costs, and increasing productivity, ultimately enabling faster and more efficient strategy development in quantitative finance. Moreover, our tests show that for read-intensive workloads, Iceberg reduced DPU hours by 32.4%

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But financial services companies need skilled IT professionals to help manage the integration of new and emerging technology, while modernizing legacy finance tech. As demand for tech skills grows in the finance industry, certain IT jobs are becoming more sought-after than others. Full-stack software engineer. Data engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2022

But financial services companies need skilled IT professionals to help manage the integration of new and emerging technology, while modernizing legacy finance tech. As demand for tech skills grows in the finance industry, certain IT jobs are becoming more sought-after than others. Full-stack software engineer. Data engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Certinia got an early look at Salesforce’s generative AI effort, Einstein GPT, and has been testing it to automate customer success plan drafting based on data held within Salesforce Data Cloud. At Certinia he also oversees IT and finance, helped by another new appointment, CFO Erin Sawyer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And its testing us all over again. If you work in finance, youre working in SAP. The same is true if youre in marketing, finance, product, sales, or business services. But theres more work to be done and we have a new opportunity for change in front of us. The era of digital transformation is officially over.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2022

The current European Banking Authority Guidelines (EBAG), a predecessor to DORA, already gives finance regulators some of this oversight in the form of guidance. DORA takes things further with additional components that EBAG does not have. In Europe, you sometimes hear complaints about GDPR.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

Three months ago, Apple released a new credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs that aimed to disrupt the highly regulated world of consumer finance. Apple is a great producer of computer hardware, while Goldman knows finance and its complex rules backwards and forwards.

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datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Your Chance: Want to test professional business reporting software? This first example focuses on one of the most important and data-driven department of any company: finance. Empowering a steadfast and operation-sensitive plan is one of the most important goals a business can have, and finance is right in the middle of this process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its since evolved to become a widespread methodology adopted by corporations to bolster internal business processes in industries such as technology, healthcare, and finance. This certification never expires and theres a free self-study guide available to prepare for the test.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 27, 2021

Figure 3 shows various data sources and stakeholders for analytics, including forecasts, stocking, sales, physician, claims, payer promotion, finance and other reports. The Otezla team built a system with tens of thousands of automated tests checking data and analytics quality. DataOps Success Story. Has the data arrived on time?

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We help people with all aspects of their property experience—not just buying, selling, and renting—through the richest content, data and insights, valuation estimates, and home financing solutions. To address this, we used the AWS performance testing framework for Apache Kafka to evaluate the theoretical performance limits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Opkey, a startup with roots in ERP test automation, today unveiled its agentic AI-powered ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform, saying it will simplify ERP management, reduce costs by up to 50%, and reduce testing time by as much as 85%. The problem is how you are implementing it, how you are testing it, how you are supporting it.

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datapine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As Tyrone Cotie, treasurer of Clearwater Seafoods says in 2015 Benchmarking the Accounting & Finance Function report , “…no matter how quickly you compile and release historical financial statements, you never make a decision from them. Ask other key stakeholders within the organization to test your report and offer their feedback.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

have a large body of tools to choose from: IDEs, CI/CD tools, automated testing tools, and so on. We have great tools for working with code: creating it, managing it, testing it, and deploying it. Anomaly detection may have originated in finance, but it is becoming a part of every data scientist’s toolkit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Workday announced new AI agents to transform HR and finance processes, and Google issued more AI-powered advertising and marketing tools. In September, for example, OpenAI released a new model that claims to have unprecedented reasoning abilities in math and science. There were new releases for AI video and image generation, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Whether you’re in claims, finance, or technology, data literacy is a cornerstone of our collective accountability. Phase two focused on developing use cases, creating a backlog, exploring domains for resource allocation, and identifying the right subject matter experts for testing and experimentation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 9, 2024

Pilot projects are small-scale test runs aimed at determining the feasibility of a project before full-scale commitment. My IT group once had an idea to shorten the timeline for processing employee payroll, which Finance thought was great, too. The problem was: No one in the company except for IT and Finance even cared.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Query documents with different personas Now let’s test the application using different personas. Modify user access As depicted in the solution diagram, we’ve added a feature in the web interface to allow you to modify user access, which you could use to perform further tests. Refer to Service Quotas for more details.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

For example, consider a company that aims to build and sell an AI-enabled personal finance app. a deep understanding of A/B testing , and a similarly deep knowledge of model evaluation techniques. a deep understanding of A/B testing , and a similarly deep knowledge of model evaluation techniques.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 15, 2019

In recent posts, we described requisite foundational technologies needed to sustain machine learning practices within organizations, and specialized tools for model development, model governance, and model operations/testing/monitoring. New digital-native companies (in media, e-commerce, finance, etc.) credit scores ).

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, developing and testing robust data transformations presents significant challenges that can impact data accuracy, pipeline performance, and overall business outcomes. To address these concerns, the table below highlights five major challenges that commonly arise when developing and testing data transformations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

With a large workforce generating a high volume of IT, HR, and finance-related support requests and inquiries, the company faced increasing operational pressure and strain. Significant time and cost savings Employees can now resolve issues independently, reducing the burden on IT, HR, and finance support teams.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

If the finance department raises an alarm, everyone must carefully listen because it concerns the most crucial information and can lead to serious damages if ignored. That said, when it comes to digesting and taking action upon vital financial metrics and insights, well-designed finance graphs and charts offer the best solution.

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datapine

MARCH 4, 2020

c) Finance operational reporting. This section is dedicated to finance as one of the most important parts of any business. A finance-based operational reporting tool drills down into every essential pocket of an organizations’ budget and expenditure. Quick Ratio / Acid Test. click to enlarge**. Cash Conversion Cycle.

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Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 6, 2021

All models require testing and auditing throughout their deployment and, because models are continually learning, there is always an element of risk that they will drift from their original standards. The primary focus of model governance involves tracking, testing and auditing. Purpose of Model Governance and Why It’s Important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As the Generative AI (GenAI) hype continues, we’re seeing an uptick of real-world, enterprise-grade solutions in industries from healthcare and finance, to retail and media. However, testing priorities differed slightly, with a stronger emphasis on explainability and hallucinations/disinformation.

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datapine

JUNE 29, 2022

Your Chance: Want to test accounting reporting software for free? It details the sources and uses of cash in relation to a business’s operations, investments, and financing. And on the other hand, we have the indirect method which considers cash movements coming from operations, investments, and financing activities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

Large banking firms are quietly testing AI tools under code names such as as Socrates that could one day make the need to hire thousands of college graduates at these firms obsolete, according to the report. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for a future of AI organizational disruptions that remain to be seen, according to the firm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

LLMs can pass the bar exam or the medical board because those tests are too clean to be useful benchmarks, explains Swaminathan. For AI, there’s no universal standard for when data is ‘clean enough.’ It’s giving you a patient vignette with all the pertinent information already there for you,” he says. “It

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

One of the biggest benefits is testing processes for optimal effectiveness. The main purpose of machine learning is to partially or completely replace manual testing. One example is using machine learning tools like Selenium to test web development processes. There are a number of great applications of machine learning.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 27, 2023

This highlights an added value in training on a domain-specific dataset: it’s unlikely that anyone would, say, trick the finance-themed chatbot BloombergGPT into revealing the secret recipe for Coca-Cola or instructions for acquiring illicit substances. Why not take the extra time to test for problems?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

Among the relationships that technology teams have with other business departments, the potential for improved IT-finance collaboration is quite possibly the most under-explored. They tested free shipping as a lever against a 10% discount on each order and found that the former generated twice as much business. Poor quality data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

During pilot testing, UPS earned 50% reduction in the time agents spent resolving e-mails. United Parcel Service last year turned to generative AI to help streamline its customer service operations. The in-house developed project, Message Response Automation (MeRA), is already delivering.

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datapine

APRIL 2, 2020

Your Chance: Want to test a professional KPI tracking software for free? Usually presented in the form of an interactive dashboard , key performance indicator reports offer a digestible representation of critical business functions, from sales and marketing to finance, fulfillment, and beyond. We offer a 14 day free trial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Creating a development culture that embraces compliance starts with executive buy-in, comprehensive training across teams, and processes and tests that assess and enforce regulatory compliance culture.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Modern machine learning and back-testing; how quant hedge funds use it. Similarly, hedge funds often use modern machine learning and back-testing to analyze their quant models. Here, the models get tested using historical data to evaluate their profitability. Methods of Algo-trading, machine learning tests, back-tests.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 31, 2022

As for what steps can be taken to maximize productivity and improve workflow management at an accounting with AI, consider the following tried and tested suggestions: Identify all business processes (the work) and rank them in accordance with their necessity and value to the firm.

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