AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg , we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. This capability is particularly valuable in maintaining the integrity of backtests and the reliability of trading strategies.

Metadata 106

Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 106

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Financial institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage AI/GenAI to expand services, drive massive productivity gains, mitigate risks, and reduce costs. GenAI is also helping to improve risk assessment via predictive analytics.

Forecasting 105

Forecasting Predictive Analytics Risk Finance 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Just as state urban development offices monitor the health of different cities and provide targeted guidance based on each citys unique challenges, our portfolio health dashboard offers a comprehensive view that helps guide different business units toward optimal outcomes. This alignment sets the stage for how we execute our transformation.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Technology Metrics Measurement 119

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The demand for ESG initiatives has become an integral part of a company’s strategy for long-term success, offering a promising future for those who embrace them. This could involve adopting cloud computing, optimizing data center energy use, or implementing AI-powered energy management tools.

Metrics 124

Metrics Optimization Strategy Technology 124

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By analyzing data and extracting useful insights, brands can make informed decisions to optimize their branding strategies. This article will explore data mining and how it can help online brands with brand optimization. Predicting Customer Churn Data mining can be used to predict which customers are at risk of leaving a brand.

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Data mining Optimization Technology Marketing 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks.

Risk 140

Risk Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

GRC certifications validate the skills, knowledge, and abilities IT professionals have to manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in the enterprise. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals. What are GRC certifications? Why are GRC certifications important?

Risk 119

Risk Risk Management Management Enterprise 119

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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley. Wetmur says Morgan Stanley has been using modern data science, AI, and machine learning for years to analyze data and activity, pinpoint risks, and initiate mitigation, noting that teams at the firm have earned patents in this space.

IT 140

IT Cost-Benefit Measurement Experimentation 140

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.” When it comes to security, though, agentic AI is a double-edged sword with too many risks to count, he says. “We That means the projects are evaluated for the amount of risk they involve.

Risk 136

Risk Insurance Cost-Benefit Software 136

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. As digital transformation accelerates, so do the risks associated with cybersecurity.

IoT 105

IoT Digital Transformation Internet of Things Data-driven 105

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Fragmented systems, inconsistent definitions, legacy infrastructure and manual workarounds introduce critical risks. I aim to outline pragmatic strategies to elevate data quality into an enterprise-wide capability. This challenge remains deceptively overlooked despite its profound impact on strategy and execution.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

However, this enthusiasm may be tempered by a host of challenges and risks stemming from scaling GenAI. Optimizing GenAI with data management More than ever, businesses need to mitigate these risks while discovering the best approach to data management. That’s why many enterprises are adopting a two-pronged approach to GenAI.

Strategy 143

Strategy Modeling Management Data Lake 143

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. Optimize workflows by redesigning processes based on data-driven insights. Establish and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

Strategy 128

Strategy Cost-Benefit Risk Enterprise 128

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.

Risk 131

Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Risk Management 131

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This issue resulted in incorrect risk assessments, where high-risk claims were mistakenly approved, and legitimate claims were wrongly flagged as fraudulent. Incorporating custom knowledge graphs, enriched with domain expertise, further optimizes data consolidation.

Enterprise 105

Enterprise Insurance Unstructured Data Business Intelligence 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

The time required to familiarize oneself with the requirements and consequences of the various laws and to develop and roll out your organizations strategies and solutions should also not be underestimated. Develop a compliance strategy Companies should first develop the strategic direction of the compliance organization.

IT 95

IT Key Performance Indicator Risk Reporting 95

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

The coordination tax: LLM outputs are often evaluated by nontechnical stakeholders (legal, brand, support) not just for functionality, but for tone, appropriateness, and risk. They used some local embeddings and played around with different chunking strategies. Wrong document retrieval : Debug chunking strategy, retrieval method.

Testing 168

Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 168

Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays dynamic digital landscape, multi-cloud strategies have become vital for organizations aiming to leverage the best of both cloud and on-premises environments. Adopting hybrid and multi-cloud models provides enterprises with flexibility, cost optimization, and a way to avoid vendor lock-in. Why Hybrid and Multi-Cloud?

Cost-Benefit 82

Cost-Benefit Optimization Strategy Data-driven 82

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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

IT 105

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Jayesh Chaurasia, analyst, and Sudha Maheshwari, VP and research director, wrote in a blog post that businesses were drawn to AI implementations via the allure of quick wins and immediate ROI, but that led many to overlook the need for a comprehensive, long-term business strategy and effective data management practices.

ROI 127

ROI Data-driven Enterprise Experimentation 127

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

Data Strategy 145

Data Strategy Strategy Enterprise Consulting 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Well also examine strategies CIOs can use to address these challenges, ensuring their organizations can recognize the rewards of GenAI without compromising financial stability. CIOs must develop a clear strategy for projecting and demonstrating ROI to ensure that innovation investments align with organizational goals.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As IT landscapes and software delivery processes evolve, the risk of inadvertently creating new vulnerabilities increases. These risks are particularly critical for financial services institutions, which are now under greater scrutiny with the Digital Operational Resilience Act ( DORA ).

Risk Management 115

Risk Management Risk Management IT 115

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

People : To implement a successful Operational AI strategy, an organization needs a dedicated ML platform team to manage the tools and processes required to operationalize AI models. As a result, ​developers — regardless of their expertise in machine learning — will be able to develop and optimize business-ready large language models (LLMs).

Data Architecture 128

Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Experimentation 128

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. What’s clear though, is that these organisations risk being left behind if they aren’t maximising the potential of AI.

Strategy 141

Strategy Technology Optimization Reporting 141

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The power of AI operations (AIOps) and ServiceOps, including BMC Helix Discovery , can transform how you optimize IT operations (ITOps), change management, and service delivery. New migrations and continuous features were being deployed, and the team was unable to prioritize process optimization and noise reduction efforts.

IT 98

IT Insurance Cost-Benefit Optimization 98

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 As automated attacks increase, our defense strategies must also be automated and intelligent.

Optimization 122

Optimization Gap analysis Strategy Data-driven 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

The goal is to give such leaders widespread visibility into planning, benchmarking, and optimization of their IT investments, according to the TBM Council. IT spending has evolved from an operational necessity to a key component of business strategy, he says.

ROI 100

ROI Optimization Risk Management Forecasting 100

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.

Optimization 123

Optimization Testing Data-driven Strategy 123

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. Intel’s cloud-optimized hardware accelerates AI workloads, while SAS provides scalable, AI-driven solutions.

Analytics 97

Analytics Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven 97

O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Technical competence results in reduced risk and uncertainty. AI initiatives may also require significant considerations for governance, compliance, ethics, cost, and risk. Likewise, AI doesn’t inherently optimize supply chains, detect diseases, drive cars, augment human intelligence, or tailor promotions to different market segments.

Advertising 362

Advertising Cost-Benefit ROI Machine Learning 362

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. There are other risks, too. Why are we really going to cloud?

Strategy 145

Strategy Cost-Benefit IT Key Performance Indicator 145

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage. What is GRC?

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Risk Risk Management Strategy Enterprise 115