David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

Domo is best known as a business intelligence (BI) and analytics software provider, thanks to its functionality for visualization, reporting, data science and embedded analytics. Facilitating self-service data analytics was an early design goal for Domo, providing the company with differentiation compared to many of its rivals.

Metrics 130

Metrics Data Governance Unstructured Data Data-driven 130

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In todays economy, as the saying goes, data is the new gold a valuable asset from a financial standpoint. A similar transformation has occurred with data. More than 20 years ago, data within organizations was like scattered rocks on early Earth.

Management 111

Management Data Governance Data Science Reporting 111

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

Visualization 118

Visualization Data Lake Testing Data Governance 118

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This week on the keynote stages at AWS re:Invent 2024, you heard from Matt Garman, CEO, AWS, and Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data, AWS, speak about the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all of your data, analytics, and AI. The relationship between analytics and AI is rapidly evolving.

Data Analytics 104

Data Analytics Analytics Data Lake Data Quality 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. The World Economic Forum shares some risks with AI agents , including improving transparency, establishing ethical guidelines, prioritizing data governance, improving security, and increasing education.

Cost-Benefit 142

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Strategy Marketing 142

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Today, advancements like gen AI are more accessible, costing a fraction of what things did previously. Deep understanding of how to monetize data assets IT leaders aren’t just tech wizards, but savvy data merchants. Offering value-added services on top of data, like analysis and consulting, can further enhance the appeal.

IT 130

IT Data Governance Risk Consulting 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs. AI a primary driver in IT modernization and data mobility AI’s demand for data requires businesses to have a secure and accessible data strategy. Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th.

Marketing 128

Marketing Data Quality Data Governance Digital Transformation 128

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

Enterprises worldwide are harboring massive amounts of data. Although data has always accumulated naturally, the result of ever-growing consumer and business activity, data growth is expanding exponentially, opening opportunities for organizations to monetize unprecedented amounts of information.

Data-driven 134

Data-driven Marketing Risk Sales 134

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Curate the data.

Data Architecture 122

Data Architecture Management Consulting Internet of Things 122

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 18, 2020

The update sheds light on what AI adoption looks like in the enterprise— hint: deployments are shifting from prototype to production—the popularity of specific techniques and tools, the challenges experienced by adopters, and so on. Few organizations are using formal governance controls to support their AI efforts. Regional breakdown.

Enterprise 350

Enterprise Deep Learning Data Governance Risk 350

Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

We live in a data-rich, insights-rich, and content-rich world. Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Plus, AI can also help find key insights encoded in data.

Data Warehouse 325

Data Warehouse Metadata Digital Transformation Machine Learning 325

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

Metadata 105

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Data-driven 105

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the quest to reach the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), there’s no substitute for readily accessible, high-quality data. If the data volume is insufficient, it’s impossible to build robust ML algorithms. If the data quality is poor, the generated outcomes will be useless.

Data-driven 111

Data-driven Machine Learning ROI Uncertainty 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the past, the motivations around technology have been innovation, and probably innovation for serving humanity, doing good in the world, and building great products,” she adds. If we’re developing products or developing AI systems that are creating bias, we may have to roll back because they’re causing brand and reputational issues.

Technology 131

Technology Strategy Risk IT 131

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This award-winning access management project uses automation to streamline access requests and curb security risks. Access management is crucial in the legal world because cases depend on financial records, medical records, emails, and other personal information.

Management 97

Management Risk Measurement Interactive 97

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

Data Architecture 128

Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Experimentation 128

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. It enables teams to securely find, prepare, and collaborate on data assets and build analytics and AI applications through a single experience, accelerating the path from data to value.

Analytics 113

Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 113

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis.

Data Quality 130

Data Quality Dashboards Data-driven Software 130

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 2, 2019

A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see “Related resources” at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. So, why is this new open source project resonating with data scientists and machine learning engineers? Model governance.

Machine Learning 270

Machine Learning Modeling Data Science Software 270

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

The first wave of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions has already achieved considerable success in companies, particularly in the area of coding assistants and in increasing the efficiency of existing SaaS products. This is the only way for the company to ensure consistent performance and control access to data and tools.

Enterprise 125

Enterprise Sales Cost-Benefit B2B 125

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

O'Reilly on Data

MAY 21, 2019

Companies successfully adopt machine learning either by building on existing data products and services, or by modernizing existing models and algorithms. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in London earlier this year. Use ML to unlock new data types—e.g.,

Machine Learning 279

Machine Learning Technology Deep Learning Data Science 279

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AI’s ability to automate repetitive tasks leads to significant time savings on processes related to content creation, data analysis, and customer experience, freeing employees to work on more complex, creative issues. Building a strong, modern, foundation But what goes into a modern data architecture?

Enterprise 139

Enterprise Data Architecture Unstructured Data Insurance 139

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

This transformation requires a fundamental shift in how we approach technology delivery moving from project-based thinking to product-oriented architecture. By offering higher-level abstractions platforms, patterns, shared-services and guardrails enterprise architects reduce toil, preserve quality and accelerate product delivery.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise Technology Metrics Measurement 119

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

The story went viral on Twitter, and led to an official government investigation for bias. Even if Apple—the privacy leader— did not discriminate on gender, it experienced one of its worst product launches in recent history. If anyone could launch this product right, it would be these two companies. Don’t do it.

Cost-Benefit 318

Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven Strategy 318

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai , a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making.

Metadata 90

Metadata Management Data Governance Data-driven 90

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

Testing 304

Testing Machine Learning Consulting Data Science 304

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At AWS, we are committed to empowering organizations with tools that streamline data analytics and transformation processes. This integration enables data teams to efficiently transform and manage data using Athena with dbt Cloud’s robust features, enhancing the overall data workflow experience.

Data Lake 104

Data Lake Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Transformation 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

They want to expand their use of artificial intelligence, deliver more value from those AI investments, further boost employee productivity, drive more efficiencies, improve resiliency, expand their transformation efforts, and more. One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley.

IT 140

IT Cost-Benefit Measurement Experimentation 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2025

What opportunities does the much-vaunted convergence open up and how can the previously separate worlds be efficiently controlled and managed in terms of IT/OT governance? The lowest logical level includes sensors in production plants. In contrast, classicIT revolves around systems that manage data and applications.

IT 101

IT Cost-Benefit Manufacturing Reporting 101

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The US government has already accused the governments of China, Russia, and Iran of attempting to weaponize AI for those purposes.” Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically.

IT 122

IT Insurance Consulting Risk 122

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. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources.

Finance 130

Finance Prescriptive Analytics Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 130

O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We suspected that data quality was a topic brimming with interest. The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality. Data quality might get worse before it gets better.

Data Quality 363

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Publishing 363

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are very good at spotting patterns in data of all types, and then creating artefacts in response to user prompts that match these patterns. Employee knowledge of their companys products, processes, and the markets they operate in and customers they sell to is often uncoded and tacit.

Enterprise 116

Enterprise Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement 116

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For several years now, the elephant in the room has been that data and analytics projects are failing. Gartner estimated that 85% of big data projects fail. Add all these facts together, and it paints a picture that something is amiss in the data world. . The top-line result was that 97% of data engineers are feeling burnout. .

Testing 246

Testing Data Governance Measurement Software 246

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“It’s going to help us change the way people work and bring those activities to a different level, where you can work more productively than you might have in the past.” Stoddard recognizes executives must be cautious because gen AI can be used less productively. But it’s not all good news.

Forecasting 133

Forecasting Risk Technology Strategy 133

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale, cloud data warehouse that tens of thousands of customers rely on to power their analytics workloads. With its massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and columnar data storage, Amazon Redshift delivers high price-performance for complex analytical queries against large datasets.

Sales 105

Sales Metadata Enterprise Testing 105