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Captive centers are back. Is DIY offshoring right for you?

CIO Business Intelligence

You’d be forgiven if you’re wondering whether you’ve stumbled on an article from 2016 , but, in fact, the practice of launching an offshore IT center wholly owned and operated by the enterprise it serves is back in vogue with notable twists. The upside of captives today Some benefits of captive centers are the same as ever.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8 Attributing an exact cost to the ERP failure is difficult, as the company faced additional challenges from a poor avocado harvest in Mexico around the same time.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As Belcorp considered the difficulties it faced, the R&D division noted it could significantly expedite time-to-market and increase productivity in its product development process if it could shorten the timeframes of the experimental and testing phases in the R&D labs. This allowed us to derive insights more easily.”

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

But the benefits of buying in early to cloud-based productivity services didn’t stop there for Grant Thornton. Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. “We didn’t have the bottlenecks our competitors had.

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Generative AI is electrifying. Charge ahead or get shocked.

CIO Business Intelligence

But today, every customer and prospect I speak with is thinking about how generative AI (GenAI) can benefit their business. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. But GenAI is fundamentally different from previous iterations because the capabilities are so human-like. The bottom line?

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Big Data: The Technology Behind Retailers Success

Smart Data Collective

Here’s a brief overview of the top benefits it brings: A better understanding of the customer. Retailers can conduct A/B testing to find out which prices work the best. Apart from all-above pros of big data, leading global retailers use it to their benefit in the unique way. Key advantages of big data in retail.

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Business Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paul Blogs on BI

This first metric requires people to be tested and, as we all know, that is only possible in places where testing is available (and confirmation takes a few days) and only a fraction of people have been tested. As more testing becomes available this first metric will increase significantly.