CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At The big risk is you take the humans out of the loop when you let these into the wild.” According to Gartner, an agent doesn’t have to be an AI model. It can also be a software program or another computational entity — or a robot. And, yes, enterprises are already deploying them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Developing and deploying successful AI can be an expensive process with a high risk of failure. Six tips for deploying Gen AI with less risk and cost-effectively The ability to retrain generative AI for specific tasks is key to making it practical for business applications. The possibilities are endless, but so are the pitfalls.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. Data Is Only As Good As The Questions You Ask.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For example, many tasks in the accounting close follow iterative paths involving multiple participants, as do supply chain management events where a delivery delay can set up a complex choreography of collaborative decision-making to deal with the delay, preferably in a relatively optimal fashion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

As with any new technology, however, security must be designed into the adoption of AI in order to minimize potential risks. How can you close security gaps related to the surge in AI apps in order to balance both the benefits and risks of AI? Enterprises can manage AI risks at every step of the journey with AI Runtime Security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. This is the kind of risk that may increasingly keep CIOs up at night in the year ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

This approach to better information can benefit IT team KPIs in most areas, ranging from e-commerce store errors to security risks to connectivity outages,” he says. This approach to better information can benefit IT team KPIs in most areas, ranging from e-commerce store errors to security risks to connectivity outages,” he says.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At O’Reilly’s AI Conference in Beijing, Tim Kraska of MIT discussed how machine learning models have out-performed standard, well-known algorithms for database optimization, disk storage optimization, basic data structures, and even process scheduling. Machine learning raises the question of explainability.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 15, 2023

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than 350 business and technical leaders, including the developers of today’s most important AI platforms. We satisfice.”

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Starting today, the Athena SQL engine uses a cost-based optimizer (CBO), a new feature that uses table and column statistics stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as part of the table’s metadata. Let’s discuss some of the cost-based optimization techniques that contributed to improved query performance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

INE Security , a leading global cybersecurity training and cybersecurity certification provider, predicts large language model (LLM) applications like chatbots and AI-drive virtual assistants will be at particular risk. “AI Strategies to Optimize Teams for AI and Cybersecurity 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Organizationally, Wiedenbeck is a member of Ameritas’ AI steering committee, called the “mission team,” which includes the legal and risk officers, along with the CIO. Although AI itself is not new, putting a single individual in charge of it is a novel approach that is becoming mainstream.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The company has already rolled out a gen AI assistant and is also looking to use AI and LLMs to optimize every process. The company has already rolled out a gen AI assistant and is also looking to use AI and LLMs to optimize every process. Generally, there’s optimism and a positive mindset when heading into AI.”

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

If you’re an AI product manager (or about to become one), that’s what you’re signing up for. Identifying the problem. The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. Is it a problem that should be solved?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 16, 2024

There’s no risk, because everything Recall stores is kept in local, encrypted files, not in the cloud. That is, vendors are slapping the AI label on their wares regardless of whether their wares’ capabilities warrant it, aided and abetted by the complete and utter lack of a reliable definition of AI. Concerned about privacy lapses?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You risk adding to the hype where there will be no observable value. Whatever it is, it will steal everyone’s job. There is no way it will ever be secure. There is a race to be the first to expose your leveraging of it. Nobody knows what it is, what it really does, and you must become an expert in short order. But is this really wise?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We outline cost-optimization strategies and operational best practices achieved through a strong collaboration with their DevOps teams. We also discuss a data-driven approach using a hackathon focused on cost optimization along with Apache Spark and Apache HBase configuration optimization. This sped up their need to optimize.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Krishna Prasad, chief strategy officer and CIO at UST, a digital transformation solutions company, says that cybersecurity not only remains top of mind but an area of significant work for IT as it’s tasked with executing much of the risk-mitigation efforts. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well.

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datapine

MAY 2, 2023

You can use big data analytics in logistics, for instance, to optimize routing, improve factory processes, and create razor-sharp efficiency across the entire supply chain. The complex and ever-evolving nature of logistics makes it an essential use case for big data applications. Did you know?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although innovation always carries risk, there are common mistakes that CIOs tend to make that heighten the chances of innovation failures. Years into digital transformation, and decades into the IT function itself, many CIOs still fall short when it comes to innovation. You have to be able to tie it back into something that’s meaningful.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But supporting a technology strategy that attempts to offset skills gaps by supplanting the need for those skills is also changing the fabric of IT careers — and the long-term prospects of those at risk of being automated out of work. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JUNE 17, 2022

Reference ) Security information and event management (SIEM) on the Splunk platform is enhanced with end-to-end visibility and platform extensibility, with machine learning and automation (AIOps), with risk-based alerting, and with Federated Search (i.e., None of that was necessary on the Splunk.conf22 virtual conference platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

CIOs have a new opportunity to communicate a gen AI vision for using copilots and improve their collaborative cultures to help accelerate AI adoption while avoiding risks. They must define target outcomes, experiment with many solutions, capture feedback, and seek optimal paths to delivering multiple objectives while minimizing risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Solution: A phased approach to modernization can mitigate the risks associated with legacy systems. IT modernization is a necessity for organizations aiming to stay competitive. However, the journey toward modernization has significant hurdles. Understanding these barriers and implementing effective solutions is crucial for the journey.

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IT Consulting Recreation/Entertainment Data-driven 122

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Using modern delivery practices, CIOs can optimize cloud operations with greater visibility into risk controls and vulnerabilities to encourage proactivity in addressing risks and defects, with a focus on value instead of capabilities. So why the disconnect? This often took both budget and control away from CIOs.

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ROI IT Risk Strategy 126

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 7, 2022

And granted, a lot can be done to optimize training (and DeepMind has done a lot of work on models that require less energy). Gato is a model that can solve multiple unrelated problems: it can play a large number of different games, label images, chat, operate a robot, and more. That the only problem left is scale? I don’t think so.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Those highly scalable platforms are typically designed to optimize developer productivity, leverage economies of scale to lower costs, improve reliability, and accelerate software delivery. Berke Menekli, VP of digital platform services, says it’s one of the best things he ever did.

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IT Software Cost-Benefit Optimization 138

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. It’s a full-fledged platform … pre-engineered with the governance we needed, and cost-optimized.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Waiting too long to start means risking having to play catch-up. AI-enabling on-premises software is preferable where there is some combination of incurring less disruption to operations, faster time to value, lower risk of failure and lower total cost of ownership relative to migrating to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. But it’s not the only one.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

But there are also risks, including potential cost overruns, lack of commitment and availability of the consultant, communications issues, contract breaches, and lack of needed skills. Here are some tips for getting the most value from using IT consultants and ensuring that the engagement is successful and aligned with your objectives.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This helps them maintain optimal inventory levels, reducing costs as well as the risk of overstocking or stockouts. Oracle announced significant updates to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) software at the recently held Oracle Cloud World. It can do this across an array of applications and data sources.

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Management IT Sales Manufacturing 130

datapine

AUGUST 19, 2020

In our cutthroat digital economy, massive amounts of data are gathered, stored, analyzed, and optimized to deliver the best possible experience to customers and partners. At the same time, inventory metrics are needed to help managers and professionals in reaching established goals, optimizing processes, and increasing business value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

RFID-enabled visibility can also mitigate counterfeiting and gray market diversion risks, he adds, while streamlining recalls and sharpening compliance with regulatory requirements. Retailers are preparing their technology systems to scan 2D barcodes and ingest the data, an initiative known as Sunrise 2027. The benefits are potentially huge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

Girl Power Talk, specifically, offers services around client engagement, community management, digital marketing, custom software development, website and application design, system integration and optimization, and risk mitigation. We can help you build a technology team that’s more malleable and complimentary,” says Somal.

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IT Testing Marketing Advertising 119

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing?

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