O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s a simple rough sketch of RAG: Start with a collection of documents about a domain. Split each document into chunks. One more embellishment is to use a graph neural network (GNN) trained on the documents. Chunk your documents from unstructured data sources, as usual in GraphRAG. at Facebook—both from 2020.

Unstructured Data 318

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

People have been building data products and machine learning products for the past couple of decades. FOCUS ON PRINCIPLES, NOT FRAMEWORKS (OR AGENTS) A lot of people ask us: What tools should I use? The cost of iteration in compute, staff time, and ambiguity around product readiness. This isnt anything new.

Testing 174

Testing Data-driven Software Measurement 174

Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Imagine you are building a customer support AI that needs to answer questions about your product. Sometimes it needs to pull information from your documentation, while other times it needs to search the web for the latest updates. Agentic RAG systems come in handy in such types of complex AI applications.

Analytics 110

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

AUGUST 22, 2021

AI is great for pattern recognition, product and service recommendations, anomaly detection, next-best action and next-best decision recommendations, and providing an insights power-boost to all of those. Not only is the CX amplified, but so is the EX (Employee Experience).

Data-driven 277

Data-driven Interactive Behavioral Analytics Machine Learning 277

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 18, 2024

Farmer.Chat helps agricultural extension agents (EAs) and farmers get answers to questions about farming and agriculture. This one area where keeping an extension agent in the loop is critical. They solve real problems rather than appealing to the “let’s start another Facebook” fantasies of venture capitalists.

Testing 318

Testing Software Modeling Measurement 318

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Log Producer Example Example Producer Log Configuration Application Logs AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch Logs Application Agents FluentBit Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion AWS Service Logs Amazon Web Application Firewall Amazon S3 The following diagram illustrates an example architecture. For full configuration information, see.

Metadata 122

Metadata Metrics Analytics Data Processing 122

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Customer relationship management ( CRM ) software provider Salesforce has updated its agentic AI platform, Agentforce , to make it easier for enterprises to build more efficient agents faster and deploy them across a variety of systems or workflows. New agent skills in Agentforce 2.0 New agent skills in Agentforce 2.0

Enterprise 98

Enterprise IT Sales Metadata 98

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We are now deciphering rules from patterns in data, embedding business knowledge into ML models, and soon, AI agents will leverage this data to make decisions on behalf of companies. Data is now alive like a living organism, flowing through the companys veins in the form of ingestion, curation and product output.

Management 111

Management Data Governance Data Science Reporting 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Using the companys data in LLMs, AI agents, or other generative AI models creates more risk. CIOs should look for signs where open-source dependency debt is crippling DevOps productivity, including the frequency of disruptive code updates, increases in security alerts, or time spent on addressing dependency conflicts.

Risk 140

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

Clearly, such a content delivery system is not good for business productivity. So, there must be a strategy regarding who, what, when, where, why, and how is the organization’s content to be indexed, stored, accessed, delivered, used, and documented. I believe that this product is good. Do not forget the negations.

Strategy 267

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

TIAA has launched a generative AI implementation, internally referred to as “Research Buddy,” that pulls together relevant facts and insights from publicly available documents for Nuveen, TIAA’s asset management arm, on an as-needed basis. When the research analysts want the research, that’s when the AI gets activated.

IT 132

IT Manufacturing Data Science Modeling 132

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 21, 2020

IBM’s announcement went the furthest; they’re withdrawing from face recognition research and product development. So, much as I approve companies pulling back from products that are used unethically, we also have to be clear about what this actually accomplishes: not much. These statements are fine, as far as they go.

Technology 313

Technology Sales Testing Software 313

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

LLMs deployed as internal enterprise-specific agents can help employees find internal documentation, data, and other company information to help organizations easily extract and summarize important internal content. Increase Productivity. Deploy trained LLMs to production environments.

Cost-Benefit 87

Cost-Benefit Data Processing Machine Learning Testing 87

O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And harder to sell a data-related product unless it spoke to Hadoop. A basic, production-ready cluster priced out to the low-six-figures. A single document may represent thousands of features. This is where agent-based modeling (ABM) comes into play. The elephant was unstoppable. Until it wasn’t.

Machine Learning 339

Machine Learning Testing Modeling Cost-Benefit 339

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

According to Gartner, an agent doesn’t have to be an AI model. When multiple independent but interactive agents are combined, each capable of perceiving the environment and taking actions, you get a multiagent system. It was many measurements the agents collectively decided was either too many contaminants or not.”

Risk 136

Risk Insurance Cost-Benefit Software 136

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

Agents come in many forms, many of which respond to prompts humans issue through text or speech. In such systems, multiple agents execute tasks intended to achieve an overarching goal, such as automating payroll, HR processes, and even software development, based on text, images, audio, and video from large language models (LLMs).

Sales 143

Sales Software Marketing Testing 143

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Einstein for Service — Autodesk’s first use of Salesforce’s gen AI platform — has driven sizable efficiencies for Autodesk customer agents, says Kota, singling out AI-generated summaries of case issues and resolutions as a key productivity gain. Agents want to spend more time with customers rather than sitting and documenting.”

Digital Transformation 119

Digital Transformation Experimentation Sales Software 119

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

With this aim, Block has established a global developer experience function focused on empowering developers to innovate rapidly and deliver high-quality products. The aim is to reduce duplication while investing in a core set of patterns and tools, enhancing productivity and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Experimentation 69

Experimentation Metrics Data-driven Measurement 69

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Businesses can use Now Assist to triage tickets, automating responses to some and helping agents be more productive as they deal with others. More recently, OpenAI upset the business plans of smaller developers that sold specialized chatbots built on its flagship product, ChatGPT. he says, 58% said yes after one month of use.

Measurement 134

Measurement Digital Transformation Metrics Sales 134

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints are runnable AI workflows pretrained for specific use cases that can be modified by any developer,” said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI software products at NVIDIA. We focused on first launching these because we think they are super critical for every industry,” Boitano said.

Manufacturing 128

Manufacturing Interactive Enterprise Software 128

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Workday has joined the ranks of tech vendors scrambling to roll out their own agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with its announcement Tuesday of a new AI platform and several specialized AI agents. A lot of top HR and ERP vendors are all in the race of producing AI agents,” said Akshara Naik Lopez, senior analyst with Forrester.

IT 122

IT Recreation/Entertainment Finance Reporting 122

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 7, 2022

Minutes from prior conferences, documents about Methodist rules and procedures, and a few other things. Since AI models are essentially cobbling together answers from other sources that have their own licenses and business models, how will our future agents compensate the sources from which their content is derived?

Modeling 364

Modeling Interactive Optimization Deep Learning 364

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I recommend three primary roles: a product manager owning the vision, a delivery leader overseeing agile teams and implementation, and a program sponsor. One solution is to assign the responsibility to enterprise architects in a product management capacity.

Enterprise 145

Enterprise Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Risk 145

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Some ECM systems have intelligent document processing (IDP) capabilities that can mimic the way an employee would read a document, extract key information, and enter it into another system for processing. “AI It can perform data extraction, sentiment analysis, and language detection, as well as document classification.

Management 134

Management Enterprise Unstructured Data Deep Learning 134

Smarten

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A BI reporting tool that enables users to customize their view and approach and is easy to understand and use will make the user more productive and ensure Return on Investment (ROI). Every business has unique reporting and documentation needs. 7 out of 10 business rate data discovery as very important.

Reporting 52

Reporting Key Performance Indicator KPI Business Intelligence 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

German software giant SAP is under investigation by US officials for allegedly conspiring to overcharge the US government for its technology products over the course of a decade. Federal agents have searched Carahsoft’s offices in Washington, DC, and the DOJ is reviewing court records filed in Baltimore.

Sales 126

Sales Reporting Software Technology 126

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Consider a file share full of briefing documents and presentations, the team’s email inboxes, and even the moment in a sales presentation where the prospect seems to perk up. Give them room to be agile, and document and celebrate both the wins and failures with learning. And that’s where the data scientist shines!

Unstructured Data 117

Unstructured Data Data Science Uncertainty Sales 117

datapine

MAY 6, 2022

Then, when the packer receives the order, they scan every product a final time as items are placed into the parcel. Automation enables companies to verify they have the stock for orders, route orders to locations with the correct stock, or signal that a product is on backorder. Was the product damaged in transit?

Management 229

Management Sales Insurance Dashboards 229

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2024

Middleware vendor Boomi has bolstered its API management capabilities with new products and acquisitions. The Boomi AI Agent Framework allows the automation of repetitive application integration administration tasks. The launch version of the framework comes with four agents. APIs, PaaS

Management 105

Management Data-driven Marketing Software 105

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We are witnessing a new phase of evolution as AI assistants go beyond conversations and learn how to harness tools through agents that could invoke Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to achieve specific business goals. Tasks that used to take hours can now be completed in minutes by orchestrating a large catalog of reusable agents.

Optimization 116

Optimization Data-driven Modeling Enterprise 116

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions. When multiple agents work together in pursuit of a single goal, they can plan, delegate, research, and execute tasks until the goal is reached. And we’ll perhaps see more agent frameworks evolve and mature in 2025.”

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Modeling Enterprise Contextual Data 143

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Salesforce today announced two autonomous agents geared to help sales teams scale their operations and hone their negotiation skills. Slated for general availability in October, Einstein Sales Development Rep (SDR) Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent will be available through Sales Cloud, with pricing yet to be announced.

Sales 101

Sales Interactive Management IT 101

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Faster app development: By leveraging Generative AI, companies can automate documentation generation, improve software reusability, and seamlessly integrate AI functions such as chatbots and image recognition into low-code applications.

Digital Transformation 128

Digital Transformation Testing Software Cost-Benefit 128

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

Released in May 2023, the project — which garnered MITRE a 2024 CIO 100 Award for IT leadership and innovation — is integrated with MITRE’s 65-year-old knowledge base and tools, and has been put into production by more than 60% of its 10,000-strong workforce. API available to projects, Cenkl says. We took a risk.

Experimentation 134

Experimentation Data mining Reporting Data Processing 134

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

For example, people are encouraged to use it for documentation since it’s something many tech people don’t like to do or want to do, says Lenane. Lenane herself uses it to help rewrite emails or documents. “If For example, the AIs could review documentation or create draft messages. People use it for general research, too. “We

Cost-Benefit 131

Cost-Benefit Software Testing Interactive 131

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum. No,” he says.

Cost-Benefit 140

Cost-Benefit ROI Sales Enterprise 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

But once a company’s done its proof of concept, deploys the model into production, and the bills start piling up, then it might be time to look at open source alternatives, he adds. Europe’s AI Act will require some of this documentation, but most of its provisions won’t go into effect until 2026, she says. “I

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Modeling Risk Software Enterprise 137