O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

Most teams approach this like traditional software development but quickly discover it’s a fundamentally different beast. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges? Whats worse: Inputs are rarely exactly the same.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But the outage has also raised questions about enterprise cloud strategies and resurfaced debate about overly privileged software , as IT leaders look for takeaways from the disastrous event. It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk. What is concentration risk? Still, we must.

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Risk Cost-Benefit Strategy Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. While security risks are daunting, therapists remind us to avoid overly stressing out in areas outside our control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. But there’s good news: When organizations leverage open source in a deliberate, responsible way, they can take full advantage of the benefits that open source offers while minimizing the security risks. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

It can also be a software program or another computational entity — or a robot. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At More recently, Hughes has begun building software to automate application deployment to the Google Cloud Platform and create CI/CD pipelines, while generating code using agents.

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Risk Insurance Cost-Benefit Software 136

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

A Rocket Software survey found that over half (51%) of IT leaders rely on mainframe systems to handle all, or nearly all, core business applications. According to Gartner , IT security software is the top purchase category (28%) for those buying IT-related software. Mainframes are under more pressure than ever before.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I recently attended Infor’s Velocity Summit , designed to showcase the latest versions of its CloudSuite ERP software. The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2027, 70% of healthcare providers will include emotional-AI-related terms and conditions in technology contracts or risk billions in financial harm. New security and risk solutions will be necessary as AI agents significantly increase the already invisible attack surface at enterprises.

Enterprise 135

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

Maintaining, updating, and patching old systems is a complex challenge that increases the risk of operational downtime and security lapse. 3] Looking ahead, GenAI promises a quantum leap in how we develop software, democratising development and bridging the skill gaps that hold back growth.

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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.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 18, 2020

Whether it’s controlling for common risk factors—bias in model development, missing or poorly conditioned data, the tendency of models to degrade in production—or instantiating formal processes to promote data governance, adopters will have their work cut out for them as they work to establish reliable AI production lines. It ranks high (No.

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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

MARCH 4, 2025

The takeaway is clear: embrace deep tech now, or risk being left behind by those who do. No wonder nearly every CEO is talking about AI: those who lag in AI adoption risk falling behind competitors capabilities. Today, that timeline is shrinking dramatically. Thats a remarkably short horizon for ROI.

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Technology ROI Cost-Benefit Manufacturing 118

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.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

This isn’t always simple, since it doesn’t just take into account technical risk; it also has to account for social risk and reputational damage. As with traditional software, the best way to achieve your goals is to put something out there and iterate. This is particularly true for AI products.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence-enabled business applications have advanced considerably over the past year as software providers have added a steady stream of capabilities. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software. Waiting too long to start means risking having to play catch-up.

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Cost-Benefit Risk Forecasting Software 204

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While tech debt refers to shortcuts taken in implementation that need to be addressed later, digital addiction results in the accumulation of poorly vetted, misused, or unnecessary technologies that generate costs and risks. million machines worldwide, serves as a stark reminder of these risks. Assume unknown unknowns.

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Risk Experimentation Testing Strategy 108

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Improving IT operations with AIOps and ServiceOps Jason Rush , senior director, DevOps at BMC, and his team that supports BMC software-as-a-service (SaaS) customers, were dealing with an extremely high volume of alerts and needed better ways to handle incidents. Visit here for more information or contact BMC.

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IT Insurance Cost-Benefit Optimization 98

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. When we consider the risk associated with an action, we need to understand its privacy implications. Source: [link].

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. There’s plenty of security risks for business executives, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, etc., to be wary of. Figure 1 (above).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But supporting a technology strategy that attempts to offset skills gaps by supplanting the need for those skills is also changing the fabric of IT careers — and the long-term prospects of those at risk of being automated out of work. In software development today, automated testing is already well established and accelerating.

IT 128

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Hidden costs and price hikes Deploying AI takes a different approach than other technologies, adds Sumit Johar, CIO at finance software vendor BlackLine. Beyond AI deployment challenges, software vendors are raising prices by 30% because of new AI features tacked on, Gartner says. Later on, those prices will go up,” he adds.

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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.

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Risk Technology Cost-Benefit Internet of Things 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

The lack of a single approach to delivering changes increases the risk of introducing bugs or performance issues in production. Imagine an AI agent specifically designed to guide change management and DevOps teams to deploy system and software changes more rapidly and reliably.

Risk 98

Risk Data-driven Interactive Management 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Gone are the days when simple firewalls and antivirus software could keep our digital assets safe. Theres also the risk of over-reliance on the new systems. The key with AI will be striking the right balanceleveraging its strengths while mitigating the risks and limitations. The cybersecurity world has changed dramatically.

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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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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure. But deep down it’s about the purpose of software. Pretty simple.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

And in an October Gartner report, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2033, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously. If they want to make certain decisions faster, we will build agents in line with their risk tolerance. Ours is totally automated.

IT 141

IT Enterprise Interactive Data Quality 141

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Change requests affecting critical aspects of the solution were accepted late in the implementation cycle, creating unnecessary complexity and risk.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, it’s crucial to recognize the associated risks and conduct thorough research before venturing into this dynamic market. AI technology has the capacity to revolutionize various sectors, attracting investors keen on capitalizing on its transformative potential.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 27, 2020

Most algorithms in the news these days are calculated by software. So the state calculates and publishes a “Risk Adjusted Mortality Ratio”—a comparison between the actual number of observed deaths and the number that would be statistically expected, on average, for patients medically similar to those each doctor actually operated on.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Behind the scenes While AI can have many uses, the sweet spot for SMBs will be in automating back-office functions that cost significant employee time or that SMBs can’t provide themselves, says Erik Severinghaus, CEO of Bloomfilter, vendor of AI tools to monitor software development.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). Why AI software development is different. This shift requires a fundamental change in your software engineering practice. It’s hard to predict how long an AI project will take.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 19, 2021

When we asked respondents with mature practices what risks they checked for, 71% said “unexpected outcomes or predictions.” A farming application that detects crop disease doesn’t have the same kind of risks as an application that’s approving or denying loans. Risks checked for during development. Versioning.

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Enterprise Risk Modeling Manufacturing 364