CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

By articulating fitness functions automated tests tied to specific quality attributes like reliability, security or performance teams can visualize and measure system qualities that align with business goals. Technical foundation Conversation starter : Are we maintaining reliable roads and utilities, or are we risking gridlock?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Though loosely applied, agentic AI generally refers to granting AI agents more autonomy to optimize tasks and chain together increasingly complex actions. Agentic AI can make sales more effective by handling lead scoring, assisting with customer segmentation, and optimizing targeted outreach, he says.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Luckily, there are a few analytics optimization strategies you can use to make life easy on your end. Let’s dive right into how DirectX visualization can boost analytics and facilitate testing for you as an Algo-trader, quant fund manager, etc. So, how can DirectX visualization improve your analytics and testing as a trader?

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 15, 2023

Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” The creators of generative AI systems and Large Language Models already have tools for monitoring, modifying, and optimizing them. And they are stress testing and “ red teaming ” them to uncover vulnerabilities. Some systems and use cases are riskier than others.

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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?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

These IT pros can help navigate the process, which can take years navigating potential risks and ensuring a smooth transition. At organizations that have already completed their cloud adoption, cloud architects help maintain, oversee, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud architecture over time.

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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.

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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.

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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. One is going through the big areas where we have operational services and look at every process to be optimized using artificial intelligence and large language models. And we’re at risk of being burned out.”

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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

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 ).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

There are risks around hallucinations and bias, says Arnab Chakraborty, chief responsible AI officer at Accenture. Meanwhile, in December, OpenAIs new O3 model, an agentic model not yet available to the public, scored 72% on the same test. And EY uses AI agents in its third-party risk management service.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s similar to prices – price optimization through machine learning is a great tool to grow your revenue. By processing and analyzing big amounts of data, they can help you establish optimized pricing plans. Hire machine learning to make optimal pricing decisions. Do an A/B testing and find out. How exactly?

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 19, 2019

In a previous post , we noted some key attributes that distinguish a machine learning project: Unlike traditional software where the goal is to meet a functional specification, in ML the goal is to optimize a metric. A catalog or a database that lists models, including when they were tested, trained, and deployed.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. We’re not encouraging skepticism or fear, but companies should start AI products with a clear understanding of the risks, especially those risks that are specific to AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

From the CEO’s perspective, an optimized IT services portfolio maximizes cost efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. It enables the organization to focus on its core business while managing risks and accelerating time-to-market for new products and services.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It’s at these endpoints that company and user data is vulnerable to various types of attacks and security risks, including: Authentication-based attacks : where hackers try to guess or steal user passwords or exploit weak authentication processes to gain access to API servers. Security testing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing. See also: How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You risk adding to the hype where there will be no observable value. The learning phase Two key grounding musts: Non-mission critical workloads and (public) data Internal/private (closed) exposure This ensures no corporate information or systems will be exposed to any form of risk. Test the customer waters.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can see a simulation as a temporary, synthetic environment in which to test an idea. Millions of tests, across as many parameters as will fit on the hardware. “Here’s our risk model. A number of scholars have tested this shuffle-and-recombine-till-we-find-a-winner approach on timetable scheduling.

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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. Your Chance: Want to test a professional logistics analytics software? A testament to the rising role of optimization in logistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

The path may be a multi-step upgrade marathon Upgrading is a process that demands time, effort, testing, and yes, downtime. New features in any software often come with risks, bugs and performance issues that take time to work out. A few examples are AI vector search, secure data encoding and natural language processing.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, companies can optimize time-to-value with standardized contracts and flexible payment options, allowing them to test software, pay as they go, negotiate custom terms, and save with volume pricing. Organizations procuring through AWS Marketplace reduce risk with centralized governance and control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This retreat risks stifling long-term growth and innovation as leaders realize that the ROI from AI will unfold over a more extended period of time than initially anticipated.” The rest of their time is spent creating designs, writing tests, fixing bugs, and meeting with stakeholders. “So

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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. Note that the emphasis of SR 11-7 is on risk management.). Sources of model risk.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The best way to ensure error-free execution of data production is through automated testing and monitoring. The DataKitchen Platform enables data teams to integrate testing and observability into data pipeline orchestrations. Automated tests work 24×7 to ensure that the results of each processing stage are accurate and correct.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JUNE 17, 2022

Explore and test-drive it (with a free trial) here. 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., is here, now!

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

One benefit is that they can help with conversion rate optimization. Collecting Relevant Data for Conversion Rate Optimization Here is some vital data that e-commerce businesses need to collect to improve their conversion rates. One report found that global e-commerce brands spent over $16.7 billion on analytics last year.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2023

What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? Many of these go slightly (but not very far) beyond your initial expectations: you can ask it to generate a list of terms for search engine optimization, you can ask it to generate a reading list on topics that you’re interested in.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There, I met with IT leaders across multiple lines of business and agencies in the US Federal government focused on optimizing the value of AI in the public sector. AI can optimize citizen-centric service delivery by predicting demand and customizing service delivery, resulting in reduced costs and improved outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Fragmented systems, inconsistent definitions, legacy infrastructure and manual workarounds introduce critical risks. The decisions you make, the strategies you implement and the growth of your organizations are all at risk if data quality is not addressed urgently. Manual entries also introduce significant risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

But today, Svevia is driving cross-sector digitization projects where new technology for increased safety for road workers and users is tested. Since the route optimization came into place, fewer emptyings are required, he notes. A third area to be optimized is the salting of roads during the winter.

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 7, 2022

We have a lot of vague notions about the Turing test, but in the final analysis, Turing wasn’t offering a definition of machine intelligence; he was probing the question of what human intelligence means. And granted, a lot can be done to optimize training (and DeepMind has done a lot of work on models that require less energy).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

That echoes a statement issued by NVIDIA on Monday: DeepSeek is a perfect example of test time scaling. Deep interest for CIOs Dekate believes the DeepSeek news is yet another reminder of the speed at which AI innovation is accelerating, and that CIOs need to engage with gen AI now, if they havent already, or risk becoming obsolete.

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