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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life. A recent example is Windows Server 2012, which was sunsetted by Microsoft in October 2023.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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Telecom Network Analytics: Transformation, Innovation, Automation

Cloudera

The Dawn of Telco Big Data: 2007-2012. Reductions in the cost of compute and storage, with efficient appliance based architectures, presented options for understanding more deeply what was actually happening on the network historically, as the first phase of telecom network analytics took shape. Let’s examine how we got here.

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A Guide To The Methods, Benefits & Problems of The Interpretation of Data

datapine

In fact, a Digital Universe study found that the total data supply in 2012 was 2.8 Now that we have seen how to interpret data, let’s move on and ask ourselves some questions: what are some data interpretation benefits? So… what are a few of the business benefits of digital age data analysis and interpretation?

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Blauner points out the many failed attempts for outsourcing data during the 9/11 attack, which he saw again during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and again in the early weeks of COVID in the US. It is far more cost-effective to use the cloud provider’s zones.” Enterprises expect to be able to “recover into a cloud environment during a crisis.

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5 Tips For Achieving Business Model Innovation

BA Learnings

According to a study conducted by IBM in 2012, companies that perform well tend to innovate their business models quite frequently, compared to underperformers. On the other hand, companies that dare to break the moulds of traditional business practices via innovative business models continue to enjoy significant benefits today.

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5 Tips On Achieving Business Model Innovation

BA Learnings

According to a study conducted by IBM in 2012, companies that perform well tend to innovate their business models quite frequently, compared to underperformers. On the other hand, companies that dare to break the moulds of traditional business practices via innovative business models continue to enjoy significant benefits today.

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