CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

The second point is that while we’re seeing significant layoffs across Silicon Valley and IT companies worldwide, most still report good results, unlike Dell.” During the pandemic time, many companies inflated their cost structures in anticipation of growth and demand that didn’t materialize.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. With AI, their users can get extremely smart research assistants.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2022

Only a minority of companies who are either current SAP customers, or plan to become SAP ERP users, have completed their migration to the company’s S/4HANA system, even though support for its ECC on-premises suite will end in 2030, according to a report from digital transformation services provider LeanIX.

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Financial reporting requires a significant amount of time, attention, and input to prepare reports that offer valuable analysis and deep insight into enterprise performance. Rather, these issues are evidence of a financial reporting process that’s producing untrustworthy information and eating extra time along the way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

The next generation of leaders in family businesses is poised to embrace the transformative power of generative AI (GenAI) despite marked resistance from the incumbent leaders, according to a PwC report. The survey findings too echoed Hinojosa’s sentiment.

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Jet Global

JUNE 23, 2020

As companies grapple with economic shutdowns, plummeting revenues, market instability, and economic uncertainty now and into the foreseeable future, they need financial insights more than ever before. Reporting has always been necessary, but now it’s paramount. Self-service reporting looks like the obvious solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cloud computing industry faces the heat Microsoft and Google, which compete with AWS for cloud computing market share, have reported similar reduction in customer spending, impacting growth in their respective cloud businesses. Note that Microsoft does not separately report Azure revenue. In Q4, Google Cloud reported revenue of $7.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several economists, a bank president, and a couple of reporters walk into a bar. The economists lament, “ A thick fog of uncertainty still surrounds us.” The reporters keen about “ gut-churning feelings of helplessness ” and “a world of confusion.” Uncertainty is our jam.” After all, uncertainty is the one certainty.

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Octopai

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Data is processing, information is moving through various systems, and reports are generating valuable insights for the decision-makers down the line. Then a BI reporting nightmare crops up – a significant mistake has been discovered in a data field. Anxiety and uncertainty descend. BI Reporting Best Practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.” “The

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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Jet Global

MARCH 19, 2020

If your organization is considering a switch to a cloud-based ERP solution, there may be some uncertainty about putting your data and numbers onto remote servers. Most financial reporting teams have questions about the flexibility, accuracy, and security of data in the cloud.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Executives see the big picture, not only vis-à-vis operations and strategy, but also with respect to problems—and, especially, complaints —in the units that report to them. Figure 6, below, combines two things.

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BA Learnings

JULY 18, 2019

I tend to describe the agile approach as a way of working; A targeted way of working that allows us to make changes, respond to customers’ needs and manage uncertainty with minimal delays, and without needing to wade through “red tape”. This may be in the form of weekly or monthly status reports depending on the organisation.

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John Wheeler

JANUARY 31, 2021

This week the Wall Street Journal reported that due to emerging virus mutations , Harvard economist James Stock sees a “scenario of this thing sticking around for a much longer time frame.’’ No doubt, 2021 will be the year of uncertainty and change. These uncertainties can make or break a business.

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Dataiku

JULY 6, 2022

Which metrics should be reported? In this article, we relate our experience in building an evaluation framework for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in ML. How can we ensure enough diversity in the selected datasets? Which baselines should be included for fair comparison?

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 17, 2020

There is uncertainty, too, around the business climate in many urban areas of the US in the wake of the damage done by rioters and looters. When each update to a report requires that someone go through that extract/copy/paste process all over again, the organization as a whole tends to operate on day-old information (or worse).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Viole Kastrati: Without systematic and continuous reporting, it is almost impossible to get a complete picture of the personnel situation and make informed decisions based on it. This is due, on the one hand, to the uncertainty associated with handling confidential, sensitive data and, on the other hand, to a number of structural problems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

A growing number of workers worldwide are considering changing employers within the next year due to rising workloads and the rapid pace of technological change, surpassing the levels seen during the “Great Resignation” of 2022, a report by PwC said. This sense of uncertainty appears to coincide with rising workloads.

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Jet Global

JULY 16, 2020

COVID-19 uncovered some important truths about the state of financial reporting. Financial reporting promises to offer users a glimpse of what’s coming, yet few managed to predict the onset of a global pandemic or take meaningful steps to prepare early. If reporting was important before, it’s mission-critical now.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 27, 2024

It’s nearing the end of the summer in North America, and one report has been a staple on my reading list for more than a decade: the Flexera State of the Cloud Report. I’ve referenced the latest iteration of the report dozens of times since its inception. 89% of respondents report using multiple clouds, up from 87% in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

At least as it was reported, it comes across sounding like a flip dismissal of what genAI might have to offer. GenAI itself can report week-on-week progress, putting it to work across your organization–including the ROI. Contrast that with what I heard recently from a knowledge worker about how he uses genAI in his workflow.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.” “The

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Jet Global

JANUARY 5, 2021

Although Microsoft’s rollout of its two ERP cloud products (D365 F&SCM, and for smaller businesses, D365 Business Central) has been going on for some time, the current climate of economic uncertainty has prompted a lot of companies to hit the pause button on migration, choosing instead to stay the course with their existing Dynamics AX systems.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Single source of truth reporting is exactly what it sounds like: reporting based on a shared repository of facts that includes all information relevant to every user. It’s the ideal approach to reporting, but it’s rarer than people realize. PeopleSoft users are an excellent example. Here’s how.

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Jet Global

JANUARY 22, 2020

Turning raw data into actionable or strategic insights typically involves putting it through a financial reporting process based around the ERP and an army of static Excel spreadsheets. Capable as these programs may be, neither was designed specifically for financial reporting. A New Roadmap for Financial Reporting.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 20, 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic, the world has been thrown into complete uncertainty. The uncertainty comes with a major market shift, the dimensions of data software cannot be ignored. According to a report by Capgemini from 2019, up to $813 billion is feasible if we integrate the necessary tech. Effects of Analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

To get back in front, IT leaders will have to transform lessons learned from 2023 into actionable, adaptable processes, as veteran technology pros have been remarkably consistent in identifying global and economic uncertainties as key challenges for IT leaders to anticipate in 2024 as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the new report, titled “Digital Transformation, Data Architecture, and Legacy Systems,” researchers defined a range of measures of what they summed up as “data architecture coherence.” He specializes in removing fear, uncertainty, and doubt from strategic decision-making through empirical data and market sensing.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

The auditor’s report contained both good news and bad news. AI and Uncertainty. Some people react to the uncertainty with fear and suspicion. Recently published research addressed the question of “ When Does Uncertainty Matter?: Understanding the Impact of Predictive Uncertainty in ML Assisted Decision Making.”.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To support verification in these areas, a product manager must first ensure that the AI system is capable of reporting back to the product team about its performance and usefulness over time. Returning to previous anti-bias and AI transparency tools such as Model Cards for Model Reporting (Timnit Gebru, et al.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

For instance, the increasing cost of capital has affected access to and use of money across all sectors; an increasing regulatory focus on competition and industry dynamics has driven increased scrutiny as a critical factor for uncertainty; geopolitical uncertainties, including unprecedented conflicts across many regions, have forced delays.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Interest in digital transformation has also merged with the need to rebuild organisations after a period of disruption caused by the pandemic, supply chain and employee shortages, and economic uncertainty. However, these problems have also encouraged new thinking and problem solving.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It’s been one year since we’ve started publishing the Alation State of Data Culture report, and uncertainty still remains the only sure thing. The Alation State of Data Culture Report provides a quarterly assessment of the progress enterprises have made in creating a data culture. Data Culture Separates Winners From Losers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Seventy-one percent of business leaders expect AI and ML to have a worldwide impact, according to the Workday C-Suite Global AI Indicator Report. Business leaders are excited about what AI and ML could do for their organizations—especially operational efficiency, better decision-making, and competitive advantage,” says the report.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. The time is now.

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