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SAP has a new succession plan

CIO Business Intelligence

Déjà vu “In Pekka Ala-Pietilä, I recognize a leader who not only possesses a profound understanding of our industry and the intricacies of European SE governance, but also one who has been a steadfast ally through many of SAP’s pivotal moments,” said SAP co-founder Plattner, who has served as chairman of the supervisory board since 2003. “As

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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO Business Intelligence

In the years since author Michael Lewis popularized sabermetrics in his 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , sports analytics has evolved considerably beyond baseball. Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. So when you break a process down into small parts, it is easy to fall into measurement minutiae.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

We started our cloud journey back in 2003 with the first-ever cloud-based property management system. On demonstrable progress: Amazon has a new AWS carbon footprint tool to measure the emissions being generated from workloads, and see what kind of an impact you’re having. So for us, it’s about how can we have a big part of that.

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IBM and Data Science are Helping Save the World through Call for Code

Business Over Broadway

The devastating impact of natural disasters can be measured in human suffering, loss of life and economic impact. trillion since 2003. It is estimated that 2.5 million people have been directly affected by natural disasters since 2000. Additionally, natural disasters have had an economic impact of $1.3

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What Will Drive Innovation in this Great Reset

Andrew White

Emergency measures are undertaken with little planning. This enthusiasm for the topic hearkens back to Erik Brynjolfsson’s popular opine from a paper in 2003 (Computing Productivity: Firm Level Evidence): we see productivity growth all around us; just not in the data. This period is characterized by immediate reactions to crisis.

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Finding Data Quality

Jim Harris

In the spring of 2003, Pixar Animation Studios produced one of my all-time favorite Walt Disney Pictures— Finding Nemo. These discussions are a critical prerequisite for determining data usage, standards, and the business relevant metrics for measuring and improving data quality. Defect Prevention.