O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

We won’t go into the mathematics or engineering of modern machine learning here. AI systems differ from traditional software in many ways, but the biggest difference is that machine learning shifts engineering from a deterministic process to a probabilistic one. Why AI software development is different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Accordingly, many organizations plan to boost GenAI funding, the survey found. “The companies that harness GenAI are the companies that we believe are going to disrupt their industries,” said Mindy Cancila, vice president of corporate strategy at Dell Technologies, on a recent CXO Spice webcast. These tips will help you get started.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO of DataStax In tech, success means embracing change and moving fast. A radically different way of approaching time management and energy management starts with the fundamental question: “What do you want? What are you trying to achieve? What are you trying to achieve? Jennifer says.

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Data Science 101

OCTOBER 15, 2023

I’d known him when I was at Red Hat in Australia, working on products such as JBoss, and then kept in touch when I moved to SF and founded a SaaS company. With the tech layoffs occurring earlier this year, I’ve been thinking about ways to assist experienced and emerging tech talent to transition into the quantum computing field.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked those four roles as well as Dickson’s career journey, lessons learned, and leadership superpowers — in particular, his focus on building community around the technology, not just on building the technology itself. The traditional CIO isn’t what companies are looking for.

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datapine

MARCH 31, 2022

Does the idea of discovering patterns in large volumes of information make you want to roll up your sleeves and get to work? Does the idea of discovering patterns in large volumes of information make you want to roll up your sleeves and get to work? Table of Contents. 1) Why Shift To A BI Career? 2) Top 10 Necessary BI Skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Signs of a tech talent shift are under way, with IT pros increasingly turning away from Silicon Valley and tech stalwarts in favor of new roles outside the technology industry. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Optum “was the holy grail of healthcare know-how and prowess,” says Bodnari, vice president of product at Optum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. But then the pandemic hit, requiring a historic pivot that set some best-laid plans aside and accelerated others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This creates large problems for the CIO and IT department as they look to create the next-generation IT environment and manage day-to-day challenges such as cybersecurity, digital business technology platform development, and operational excellence,” according to the report. That is a tall order for CIOs, who feel the pressure to do it all.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

According to a research report IDC released in November, based on a survey of over 2,100 business leaders and decision makers with responsibility for AI transformation, 71% of companies already using AI are seeing returns on their AI investments within 14 months, averaging $3.50 EY is one example of a company widely deploying gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When Greg Greenlee joined the IT industry in 2008, the lack of representation of Black IT professionals among attendees and speakers at tech conferences and events was readily apparent. “It That blog quickly grew into Blacks in Technology (BIT) Foundation , a global organization working to “stomp the divide” in the tech industry.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Companies like Twitter have been trying to find ways of salvaging the situation since their AI’s first instance of bias. Kronos is a workforce management company helping organizations to supervise employees using innovative human resource cloud software. Unfortunately, there have been complaints about AI’s bias. Key AI Biases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Digital transformation defined Digital transformation has become a catchall term for describing the implementation of digital technologies to re-engineer existing processes or develop new services that better engage customers, support employees, improve business operations, and drive business value to the organization’s bottom line.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s also sparked conversations around ethics, compliance, and governance issues, with many companies taking a cautious approach to adopting AI technologies and IT leaders debating the best path forward. AI is quickly becoming an essential part of daily work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2023

After 20+ years in tech and speaking with leaders from many of the world’s most recognized brands and fastest-growing startups, I’ve learned that the most important thing about leadership is: Be yourself. Start by leading yourself The first step for anyone who wants to become a leader is to “lead yourself” first. What are your values?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Understand that we might have to throw it away quickly, and that’s not a sunk cost,” Piddington says, adding that as a result CIOs need to get okay with more churn in the tech stack and truly embrace technology strategies centered around smaller investments and iterative builds rather than the big projects of yesteryear.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2023

The biggest tech fail was expecting folks to come back to the office without sophisticated scheduling for knowledge workers, who found themselves commuting to the office to find there was no one there they needed/wanted to see,’’ Wettemann says. This can be a big mistake as the way we used to work won’t anymore.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

Nearly three-quarters (74%) of technology purchases are funded, at least in part, by business units outside of IT, according to a recent Gartner survey , with 26% of tech investments funded — and presumably controlled — entirely by IT. Analytics and AI are increasingly the capabilities for which business technologists are taking the lead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

Those results align with Foundry’s more recent July 2023 CIO Tech Talk survey that found 60% of IT leaders are actively using gen AI in their enterprise, with 28% more in the exploratory phase. Some companies have lifted their bans and are allowing limited use of the technology; others have not.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” Therefore, engineering leadership should measure software developer productivity, says Mann, but also understand how to do so effectively and be wary of pitfalls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

But companies of all sizes still face the challenges of complexity and fragmentation. Developers who build the real-time experiences that customers love need a tech stack that lets them access data quickly and easily. Everyone has data lakes, data ponds – whatever you want to call them. Demand for apps isn’t going to slow down.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 11, 2023

One tourist company utilized data analytics to boost website conversions by 40%. Landscaping companies are a prime example. How Landscaping Companies are Taking Advantage of Big Data to Boost their Marketing Strategies. However, despite this increase in demand, some landscaping companies are still not getting enough projects.

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Data Science 101

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You were the first software engineer at a startup. Chaotic They initially hired me to kick-start their web platform, but I also got to help with computer vision algorithms and wrote firmware for sensors in a device we were building. What advice do you have for a software engineer considering joining an early stage startup?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

NJ Transit’s digital infrastructure has come a long way since Lookman Fazal took the top tech post more than three years ago. Data engine on wheels’. Today, NJ Transit is a “data engine on wheels,” says the CIDO. Since joining NJ Transit, Fazal has primarily been chipping away at his major goal: enabling data innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which the business can operate and innovate. “As For us, it’s about enabling the technology platforms that support and deliver on that.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

When Tom Peck joined Sysco during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his major goal was ensuring the survival of the world’s largest food service delivery company and helping its thousands of customers stay afloat. The pandemic forced us to review our company and the entire industry.” Surviving the pandemic wasn’t enough,” Peck adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

And yet, conversations with South African female founders of technology companies reveal that the business world is still not wired to support them. For example, venture capital (VC) funding for female-founded companies fell dramatically in 2020 across the world, according to Crunchbase. Aisha Pandor. “I They ask them about numbers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

As the general manager for IT services, he explains that being back of the queue when it comes to innovation presents the industry with an incredible opportunity to transform processes without having to make the mistakes made by their more tech-savvy counterparts. What technologies are we talking about?

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2021

The rise of the Internet, Search, social media, apps, and platforms has resulted in an information landscape that bypasses the centralized knowledge/reality-generation machine of broadcast media. It is, however, driven by the incentives (both visible and hidden) of significant power structures, such as Big Tech companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Are you ready to begin creating the career you always wanted to have? Digital transformation initiatives are effective platforms for developing new business models, customer experiences, business innovation, and data-centricity. Try not to get stuck in any particular functional lane. Refocus your leadership. Widen your scope.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Data analytics technology is being used more and more by leading engineers all over the world. Engineers and product architects around the world have since changed the concept of the Dream Team to accommodate this new technology. In the data-driven world today, the Dream Team is what we want on every project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2023

So if you are leading a tech team, it’s likely that someone in your crew may be on the autism spectrum (ASD), be living with ADHD, or have an auditory processing disorder, learning disability, or other mental difference. This disconnect is hitting companies hard when it comes to retaining talent. I asked experts how to fix this.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2022

Using Agile is a new way to improve the state of the tech industry, especially for cybersecurity engineers who often trust waterfall methodology. Using Agile is a new way to improve the state of the tech industry, especially for cybersecurity engineers who often trust waterfall methodology.

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