David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

This impending shift not only poses significant risks for individuals but also presents a high-stakes event that every enterprise must anticipate and prepare for; inadequate preparation could lead to substantial data breaches, compromised systems and irrevocable damage to customer trust and organizational reputation.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This article poses some questions and (perhaps) some answers, without trying to present any conclusions. Our guess is that, without ways to measure “code quality” rigorously, code quality will probably degrade. Thomas Johnson said, “Perhaps what you measure is what you get. What you don’t (or can’t) measure is lost.”

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

What gets measured gets done.” – Peter Drucker. In essence, they are able to learn from historical data and adjust for present and future operational and strategic performance. By setting operational performance measures, you will know what is happening at every stage of your business. Who will measure it?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Measuring AI ROI As the complexity of deploying AI within the enterprise becomes more apparent in 2025, concerns over ROI will also grow. Measuring the impact of new technologies from a financial and productivity perspective has been a challenge for many years. Part of the problem is the lack of common standards for measuring returns.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

When the presentation becomes interactive, clicks will provide even deeper insights into your financial KPIs, findings, and desired outcomes to make a company healthy in its financial operations. By gathering all your findings into one single CEO dashboard , the information presented is clear and specific to the management’s needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For the first time, it presented us with the opportunity to adopt the cloud for a system that’s not an accessory, but core to the operation of the company. An innovation for CIOs: measuring IT with KPIs CIOs discuss sales targets with CEOs and the board, cementing the IT and business bond.

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

Data dashboards provide a centralized, interactive means of monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and extracting a wealth of business insights from relevant datasets in several key areas while displaying aggregated information in a way that is both intuitive and visual. Learn all about data dashboards with our executive bite-sized summary!

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

An evolving regulatory landscape presents significant challenges for enterprises, requiring them to stay ahead of complex, shifting requirements while managing compliance across jurisdictions. This type of data mismanagement not only results in financial loss but can damage a brand’s reputation. Data breaches are not the only concern.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2028, 40% of large enterprises will deploy AI to manipulate and measure employee mood and behaviors, all in the name of profit. “AI AI issues represented a significant portion of Gartner’s Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025 , which the firm also presented this week.

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MAY 28, 2019

From Fortune 100 companies to small business owners, BI tools and technology are becoming the standard to oversee historical, present, and future data of business operations. Implement your BI solution and measure success. Implement your BI solution and measure success. Clear the clutter and define a timeframe.

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MAY 11, 2022

Digital data not only provides astute insights into critical elements of your business but if presented in an inspiring, digestible, and logical format, it can tell a tale that everyone within the organization can get behind. Data visualization methods refer to the creation of graphical representations of information. Set Your Goals.

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JUNE 27, 2019

A CEO dashboard is an interactive platform that visualizes data to empower business leaders to track, measure, analyze, and monitor business performance in a number of areas, enabling them to make data-driven decisions and see the big business picture. Investor Relations Dashboard For Powerful Presentations. Let’s get started.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

While the articles focus is on GenAI, many of the strategies discussed here are broadly applicable to other innovations in IT, as they provide CIOs with a flexible framework for balancing costs and opportunities presented by emerging technologies.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The trends we presented last year will continue to play out through 2020. 2020 will be the year of data quality management and data discovery: clean and secure data combined with a simple and powerful presentation. Time gain is also present in the form of AI assistants. Suddenly advanced analytics wasn’t just for the analysts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

Cyber resilience has become a top-of-mind priority for our customers, as the data shows that it presents a challenge most today are ill-equipped to address. With our longstanding technology and go-to-market partnership, we are yet again innovating to deliver value in the space of cyber and disaster recovery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It ensures that all relevant data and information is consolidated, evaluated and presented in a clear and concise form. Solid reporting provides transparent, consistent and combined HR metrics essential for strategic planning, risk management and the management of HR measures.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We’ve assembled sessions from leading companies, many of which will share case studies of applications of machine learning methods, including multiple presentations involving deep learning: Strata Business Summit. Strata Data Ethics Summit - a day of presentations from leading experts and practitioners. Deep Learning.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music.” – Hans Rosling, Swedish statistician. Data visualization, or ‘data viz’ as it’s commonly known, is the graphic presentation of data. But if the same insights or metrics are presented in a simple graph, the number rises to 97%.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 24, 2020

You can’t control for, or even measure, several of these factors. But, since we’re thinking of them as random, the fact that Hong Kong has had a relatively minor outbreak that appears to have been controlled quickly means that several factors that limit spread were present, and added up.

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datapine

JUNE 3, 2019

To compete, evolve, and remain relevant, today’s forward-thinking businesses always strive to improve the efficiency of their internal processes while measuring their success – and hiring talent is no exception. It measures the amount of time it would take to locate and hire a potential new employee. .” – Bill Gates.

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JULY 17, 2019

KPI is a value measured to assess how effective a project or company is at achieving its business objectives. In other words, KPIs provide organizations with the means of measuring how various aspects of the business are performing in relation to their strategic goals. What Is A KPI? What Is A KPI Report? 2) Select your KPIs.

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JULY 11, 2019

Will dashboard be viewed on-the-go, in silence at the office desk or will it be displayed as a presentation in front of a large audience? If your dashboard will be displayed as a presentation or printed, make sure it’s possible to contain all key information within one page. The modern dashboard is minimalist and clean.

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datapine

APRIL 2, 2019

A KPI scorecard is a term used to describe a statistical record that measures progress or achievement towards a set performance indicator. Often it is called also a balanced scorecard dashboard since values can be presented on a dashboard. It includes top indicators per perspective (usually the most measurable KPIs).

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datapine

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Warehouse KPI is a measurement that helps warehousing managers to track the performance of their inventory management, order fulfillment, picking and packing, transportation, and overall operations. These powerful measurements will allow you to track all activities in real-time to ensure everything runs smoothly and safely.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A data-driven finance report is also an effective means of remaining updated with any significant progress or changes in the status of your finances, and help you measure your financial results, cash flow, and financial position. b) Measure Revenue Loss. Metrics used to measure these factors can include: Number of daily transactions.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

In the best case scenario, the trained neural network accurately represents the underlying phenomenon of interest and produces the correct output even when presented with new input data the model didn’t see during training. Measurement, tracking, and logging is less of a priority in enterprise software.

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JULY 8, 2020

We won’t delve into details about the career prospects of this C-level position but we will present COO dashboards and reports that are critical for helping chief operating officers across the world to effectively manage their time, company, operational processes, and results. And present COO dashboard examples and templates.

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datapine

APRIL 16, 2019

By implementing the right reporting tools and understanding how to analyze as well as to measure your data accurately, you will be able to make the kind of data driven decisions that will drive your business forward. Qualitative data analysis is based on observation rather than measurement. 8) Present the data in a meaningful way.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Yet, before any serious data interpretation inquiry can begin, it should be understood that visual presentations of data findings are irrelevant unless a sound decision is made regarding scales of measurement. Interval: a measurement scale where data is grouped into categories with orderly and equal distances between the categories.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The audit found that reporting consistently presented an optimistic view, burying serious risks and challenges in supporting materials where they were less likely to attract attention or scrutiny. The re-implementation challenge Birminghams current re-implementation effort presents an interesting test case for these principles.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

We will finish by presenting a business dashboard that will show how those metrics work together when depicting an inventory data-story. Inventory metrics are indicators that help you monitor, measure, and assess your performance – and thus, give you some keys to optimize your processes as well as improve them.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The shorter the conversion cycle the better, and this invaluable supply chain metric will help you take the right measures to ensure that you can run your business with less money tied up in operations. The days sales outstanding (DSO) KPI measures how swiftly you are able to collect or generate revenue from your customers.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

But, these reports are only as useful as the work that goes into preparing and presenting them. They collect data from various departments of the company tracking key performance indicators ( KPIs ) and present them in an understandable way. Let’s dive into the best practices for preparing and presenting them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Invest in core functions that perform data curation such as modeling important relationships, cleansing raw data, and curating key dimensions and measures. It provides standard definitions for data management functions, deliverables, roles, and other terminology, and presents guiding principles for data management. Curate the data.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

Once you have your data analytics questions, you need to have some standard KPIs that you can use to measure them. OK – so far, you’ve picked out some data analysis questions, and you’ve found KPIs to measure them. There are basically 4 types of scales: *Statistics Level Measurement Table*. Did the best according to what?

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 19, 2019

First, the machine learning community has conducted groundbreaking research in many areas of interest to companies, and much of this research has been conducted out in the open via preprints and conference presentations. A catalog of validation data sets and the accuracy measurements of stored models.

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APRIL 2, 2020

By measuring KPIs regularly and automatically, you can increase productivity and decrease costs. . Doing so will not only help you to squeeze additional value from your organizational data, but it will also provide the opportunity to set performance targets and measure incremental success in vital areas of the business.

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