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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO Business Intelligence

As of February 2, 2024, the employee count stood at approximately 120,000, declining from the 133,000 recorded in February 2023. This sector is expected to see an annual growth rate exceeding 20 percent from 2023 to 2026. “We These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If the relationship of $X$ to $Y$ can be approximated as quadratic (or any polynomial), the objective and constraints as linear in $Y$, then there is a way to express the optimization as a quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments.

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AWS growth slows further by persistent macroeconomic uncertainty

CIO Business Intelligence

“Starting back in the middle of the third quarter of 2022, we saw our year-over-year growth rates slow as enterprises of all sizes evaluated ways to optimize their cloud spending in response to the tough macroeconomic conditions,” Brian Olsavsky, chief financial officer at Amazon, said during an earnings call with analysts. “As

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Why Finance Teams are Struggling with Efficiency in 2023

Jet Global

What are the top strengths, challenges, and areas of improvement for finance decision-makers in 2023? External Market Challenges are Hampering Finance Teams In 2023, the impact of external factors is clear as the optimism from the previous year has been replaced by pragmatism and realism. The Result?

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Top 5 Finance Challenges of 2023

Jet Global

2023 has been a unique year for Finance–although organizations celebrated recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic last year, their celebrations were short-lived. This year, companies worldwide find themselves navigating constant market uncertainty, needing to accomplish more with less resources, and preparing for a potential recession.

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insightsoftware Launches Angles Professional for Oracle to Automate Recurring Operational Reports at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023

Jet Global

The issues finance and operations teams face are twofold: the nature and increasing demands for operational data and analytics, and the fact that tools on hand are not optimized to handle the data or analysis. This data is gleaned from a report from insightsoftware and Hanover Research: The Operational Reporting Global Trends Report.

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The only CIO resolution that matters

CIO Business Intelligence

Perhaps in an age when our forebears huddled around campfires waiting for warmer weather annual reviews were the optimal way to accumulate knowledge and empower human agency. As a first step toward reducing uncertainty and surprise in 2024, I suggest CIOs take baby steps to operationalize learning by leaning into this briefing structure.