CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2022

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. For more information on the benefits of the latest version of ITIL, see “ ITIL 4: ITSM gets agile.”.

IT 105

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

This greatly improves performance and compute cost in comparison to external tables on Snowflake , because the additional metadata improves pruning in query plans. In 2014, Brian joined Amazon Web Services, where he helped Canadian customers from startups to enterprises explore the AWS Cloud.

Data Lake 91

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Peter James Thomas

MARCH 17, 2020

These need to be woven together to form the fabric of a Data Strategy and to deliver several other more detailed supporting documents, such as Data Roadmaps, or Cost / Benefit Analyses. The latter has to be imbued with real commercial benefits being delivered. I find Data Strategy creation a very rewarding process.

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Data Strategy Strategy Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 80

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

Her pitch laid the groundwork for a pilot program in which Gusto covered the cost of a seven-month, full-time bootcamp while continuing to pay McGrath a salary and maintain her benefits and vesting. Lain McGrath, benefits engineer, Gusto.

IT 136

IT Software Cost-Benefit Strategy 136

Smart Data Collective

MAY 17, 2021

The current digital economy runs on our data, and allowing these companies to collect it and process it for their benefit seems to be the cost of entry. For instance, Facebook’s decision to buy WhatsApp in 2014 was based on data collected via the Onavo VPN.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

However, there is a lot more to know about DataOps, as it has its own definition, principles, benefits, and applications in real-life companies today – which we will cover in this article! DataOps as a term was brought to media attention by Lenny Liebmannin 2014, then popularized by several other thought leaders. What Is DataOps?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In addition to providing Black IT pros less opportunity for advancement, companies that are not addressing issues that underlie this turnover are also costing themselves talent and money. Between 2014 and 2021, the tech industry only increased black representation by 1%, according to data from the Kapor Center.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 2, 2019

We have heard experts all over the world talk about the benefits of big data in renewable energy. Better distribution, cost savings, technical improvements and, above all, the optimization of resources are some of the spaces that are opened up thanks to new technologies. Here are some of their findings.

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Data Analytics Internet of Things Analytics Big Data 76

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

In 2014, Amazon built AI-powered recruiting software that overwhelmingly preferred male candidates. Beyond the public relations benefits of being able to explain why the AI system did what it did, companies that embrace explainability will also be able to fix problems and streamline processes more easily.

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Risk Consulting Machine Learning Data Science 145

Insight

APRIL 8, 2020

Since 2014, Insight been successfully running a fully distributed and fully remote interviewing process that has helped us sift through thousands of applications and identify top-tier candidates who have joined our Fellowship programs and gone on to work as data engineers at Netflix, Facebook, Vanguard, Apple, Bosch, and others.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 25, 2019

Then, it intelligently assigns a risk grade from A to F, with an F-graded business most likely to have the highest claims costs. In 2014, Cloudera and Hortonworks had much-hyped IPOs. But, one likely possibility is that the time required to benefit from big data will shorten. billion merger with Cloudera.

Big Data 85

Big Data Insurance Risk Cost-Benefit 85

Insight

AUGUST 8, 2019

As they work on their projects, Fellows also benefit from a unique opportunity to meet hiring managers from Insight’s partner companies, allowing them to learn more about trends in the industry and get behind-the-scenes knowledge about the company’s open roles. In 2014, Insight started its first Data Engineering program.

Data Science 66

Data Science Cost-Benefit Big Data Management 66

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. A great benefit of isolating applications into containers is the inherent security provided.

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Cost-Benefit Enterprise Data Processing Software 98

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Hence, over time, though the costs were reasonable, I've become shy about these resources as a source of value/quality. It is pretty interesting that while bluenile kissed kay in Sept 2013, it never comes close to Kay, who is pulling way in 2014. So some benefit from being able to be specific about the benchmarks.

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Key Performance Indicator Metrics Reporting Marketing 133

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

Other estimators, such as those based on matching and subclassification, may benefit from the balancing property, but the discussion of those estimators is postponed to a later post. This algorithm is implemented in the SuperLearner R package (Polley & van der Laan, 2014). 2014): 243-263. Political Analysis 20.1

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Statistics Optimization Modeling Experimentation 44

O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 25, 2019

Stablecoins have the opportunity to reap the benefits of cryptocurrencies while mitigating price volatility to acceptable levels. Smart contracts can run at cost without intermediaries carving out high margins, a paradigm similar to well-run public utilities. Value opportunity: Open platforms. Stablecoin history.

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Cost-Benefit Risk Marketing Finance 109

Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 6, 2019

Guess who benefits most by that? For another perspective: ask anyone who’s ever maintained a popular open source project about the benefits of publishing and peer review w.r.t. Lend a friendly ear when they’re ready to change jobs and need to talk about new opportunities. Provide references. Suggest options, caveats, guidance.

Data Science 56

Data Science Machine Learning Reporting Visualization 56

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

These benefits have made it useful for a number of industries. If you have never heard of blockchain before, you might understandably be skeptical of the benefits it provides or the security claims behind its architects. Here are some benefits and drawbacks. The company was founded in 2013, and it has been around since then.

Cost-Benefit 90

Cost-Benefit Marketing Finance Strategy 90

BizAcuity

MAY 10, 2022

Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. While that allows easy access to users, and saves costs, the cloud is much more and beyond that. The primary benefit is cost-savings over using multiple physical computers.

Data-driven 52

Data-driven IoT Unstructured Data Data Lake 52

Jet Global

JULY 29, 2020

Oracle’s 2014 Statement of Direction laid out its support strategy. Users who transferred from premier to extended support did not have the benefit of being certified with most new third-party products/versions (such as web browsers and Windows 10), or more new Oracle products.

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Reporting Cost-Benefit Consulting Finance 98

Jet Global

MAY 27, 2021

Back in 2014, The Lab Consulting wrote in CFO.com about the waste that exists in management reporting. Their analysis highlighted that the average annual production cost of each report that finance teams maintain is around $8,000. Lower total cost of ownership. The problem with lift and shift. Fewer reports to manage.

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Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards Finance 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

This left room for cost optimizations because Alcion’s workload is bursty—there are large variations in the number of search and indexing transactions per second, both for a single customer and taken as a whole. To reduce costs and operational burden, the team turned to OpenSearch Serverless, which offers auto-scaling capability.

Cost-Benefit 70

Cost-Benefit Modeling Management Optimization 70

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

In 2014 those numbers are 5:46 for digital and 4:28 on TV. In early 2014 that number is 2 hours and 51 minutes! It is 2014 after all. I click on Paypal and then Continue and I get my review page for the costs and a nice green Checkout With Paypal button. It is 2014. Our time on desktops actually went down.

Marketing 150

Marketing Strategy Sales IT 150

datapine

MAY 2, 2019

In our example above, we are showing Sales by Payment Method for all of 2014. In the example above, the story isn’t about the total number of customers aged 15-25, but that 22% of the customers were 15-25 in the first quarter of 2014 (and 26% in Q4). They display relationships in how data changes over a period of time. What to avoid.

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Visualization Dashboards Sales KPI 173

datapine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Try our 14-day trial & benefit from visual data analysis today! In the example above, the story isn’t about the total number of customers aged 15-25, but that 22% of the customers were 15-25 in the first quarter of 2014 (and 26% in Q4). Try our 14-day trial & benefit from visual data analysis today!

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Visualization Dashboards Sales Measurement 177

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. The downside is that this awesomeness comes at the cost of having to learn new things on top of my recommendation above. What was surprising, even to me (!),

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Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. It will ultimately help them spot new business opportunities, cut costs, or identify inefficient processes that need reengineering.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 22, 2019

[Note: In more technical machine learning terms, the cost function of the skip-gram architecture is to maximize the log probability of any possible context word from a corpus given the current target word.] At the time—in 2014—the three were colleagues working. A major benefit of fastText. Pennington, J., GloVe: Global vectors.

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Deep Learning Modeling Metrics Testing 111

Alation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Compared with a past survey from 2014, the new results show that the share of companies basing half or more of decisions on data (instead of gut feel) nearly doubled from 42% to 81%. Another people-focused benefit is a greater acceptance of decisions, implying that you can’t argue with the data. Crossing the Data Culture Gap.

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Data-driven Cost-Benefit Reporting Data Governance 52

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. Three cool benefits: 1. Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. The graph below shows the predictions of what would have happened if aggressive intervention started in June 2014. Short story #5: Segmented Stacked Square Charts.

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Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 143

Alation

MARCH 24, 2022

Risk prevention and mitigation for both data privacy and security offer several business benefits. On the data security side, you also protect your business from incurring costs from activities, like notifying customers that a breach occurred or rebuilding your brand after a data breach is made public. Apress, 2014.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The benefits are numerous. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The way it works is that you compute the total cost of your Social Media program: SM employee salaries and benefits, agency fees, content acquisition/production costs, analyst salaries, executive time invested etc.

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B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You can see a specific shift in strategy starting May 2014 for Shutterstock, while we have continued to plod along at the same pace. But, more than that, the cost of providing digital only services (like photos, or literally anything in the cloud) is extremely low. Especially since Shutterstock is 4x the traffic size as Getty.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155