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6 Valuable Business Intelligence Lessons From Brexit

Smart Data Collective

For those not in the know, Brexit started as the 2016 vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union for a whole host of reasons. Whether you work in government or own your own business, you can take a lot of practical tips from how Brexit is unfolding. The vote was incredibly divisive.

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FinOps is the discipline enterprises need to optimize cloud spending

CIO Business Intelligence

Upchurch is an accomplished IT executive with more than 24 years of experience leading global managed hosting, managed application, cloud, and SaaS organizations. With more efficient analytics, organizations can achieve better results in less time, gaining better value from their cloud investments.

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now capable of hosting a full range of traditional and modern IT workloads, and for many enterprise customers, Oracle is a proven vendor,” says David Wright, vice president of research for cloud infrastructure strategies at research firm Gartner. Secondly, the company will continue to invest in SaaS.

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Dairyland powers up for a generative AI edge

CIO Business Intelligence

He brought that experience with him to Dairyland in 2016 when he was appointed as the cooperative’s first CIO to oversee 24 power grids in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. Previously head of cybersecurity at Ingersoll-Rand, Melby started developing neural networks and machine learning models more than a decade ago.

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Governance for responsible AI: The easy things and the hard ones

CIO Business Intelligence

The easy things: A clear understanding of AI terminology and risks There’s a host of things that can be established with relative ease early in an organization’s AI journey. In 2016, Steven founded Accenture’s Data Ethics and Responsible Innovation practice, which he led until joining DataStax last year.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

This was the case for Murray & Roberts’ CIO Hilton Currie in 2016, when the cloud services market in South Africa was booming. Honestly, in 2016, cloud wasn’t really affordable. We used a locally hosted cloud vendor that was connected to our outsource partner, but also with affiliation to a big global company.

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Sandbox AQ is Alphabet’s new bet on the future of quantum cryptography

CIO Business Intelligence

The company already claims customers for its cybersecurity offering, including Vodafone Business, the enterprise arm of European mobile operator Vodafone; Japanese operator Softbank Mobile; Mount Sinai Health System, the New York hospital network; and web-hosting company Wix.