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2023: The year of the rise of the digital economy in GCC countries

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies and governments are aware of the benefits of new technologies and digitization: optimizing costs and operating resources, ensuring customer satisfaction, attracting new customers, and gaining a competitive advantage through digital adoption. The Middle East is on the edge of a massive digital disruption.

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Compaction is the process of combining these small data and metadata files to improve performance and reduce cost. Systems of this nature generate a huge number of small objects and need attention to compact them to a more optimal size for faster reading, such as 128 MB, 256 MB, or 512 MB. impl":"org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO",

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AI helping Oil And Gas Sector navigate sustainability

Jen Stirrup

AI can help here in various ways, notably to support optimization in exploration and production efforts with a view on sustainability. AI can optimize drilling and production processes by analyzing enormous amounts of data at speed, such as seismic data, well logs, and reservoir simulation data.

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Gen AI without the risks

CIO Business Intelligence

How can CIOs deliver accurate, trustworthy AI without the energy costs and carbon footprint of a small city? Six tips for deploying Gen AI with less risk and cost-effectively The ability to retrain generative AI for specific tasks is key to making it practical for business applications.

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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Big Data Hub

The challenges continue: one 2023 survey found 44% of companies had to make changes in the past year due to issues with their supply chain footprint, and 49% said supply chain disruptions had caused planning problems.

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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

IBM Big Data Hub

These efforts often go hand in hand with broader corporate sustainability initiatives and can lead to significant cost savings and improved environmental performance. trillion in economic benefits by 2030. Companies are investing in renewable energy projects and implementing energy-efficient technologies and practices.

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Improving supply chain resiliency in the industrial sector

IBM Big Data Hub

Optimize your maintenance inventory. As an added benefit, this can reduce working capital tied up to carrying high M&R part inventory levels. ​ Ensuring improved performance by proving out fulfillment scenarios prior to go-live​ Intelligently balancing omnichannel fulfillment costs against service to protect margins.