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How to prioritize data strategy investments as a CDO

IBM Big Data Hub

My first task as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is to implement a data strategy. Over the past 15 years, I’ve learned that an effective data strategy enables the enterprise’s business strategy and is critical to elevate the role of a CDO from the backroom to the boardroom. IBM’s data strategy aligns to revenue growth in 2021.

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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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Why the Data Journey Manifesto?

DataKitchen

We wrote the first version because, after talking with hundreds of people at the 2016 Strata Hadoop World Conference, very few easily understood what we discussed at our booth and conference session. Data Journeys track and monitor all levels of the data estate, from data to tools to code to tests across all critical dimensions.

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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. One SCADA engineer, for example, started using generative AI “to create synthetic data for testing our SCADA systems,” Melby says. “As

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Industry clouds give CIOs on-ramp to gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Greg Beltzer has been beta testing key generative AI technologies for the past six months and is eager to capitalize on them when released this spring. My strategy was to put Salesforce at the center,” says Beltzer, who helped launched RBC US’s journey to Microsoft Azure and AWS in 2018 when he joined the company.

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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. Are our leaders committed to the strategy? “No IT Strategy, Offshoring, Outsourcing

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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.”