CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

This article explores how CIOs can address each of their CFO’s key concerns when moving away from project-based teams to persistent funding, including the need to better track ROI, reduce risk, and reduce cost. The persistent teams used a benefits delivery roadmap, which outlined the SMART benefits to be delivered throughout the year.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 30, 2023

However, there are other benefits of AI in marketing that get less publicity. AI technology is the backbone of many modern marketing strategies. As AI continues to change the marketing landscape , marketers will keep looking for new ways to automate various processes, reduce the scope of human error and lower costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum. No,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. We have to make sure everyone understands what they are doing, why they are doing it, and — most importantly — how success will be measured.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cloud, sustainability, scale, and exponential data growth—these major factors that set the tone for high performance computing (HPC) in 2022 will also be key in driving innovation for 2023. As a community, we keep sharing information and we stay on top of developments to realize the maximum benefits of HPC.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2024

” Given the statistics—82% of surveyed respondents in a 2023 Statista study cited managing cloud spend as a significant challenge—it’s a legitimate concern. A successful cloud strategy requires a comprehensive assessment of cloud maturity. Why move to cloud?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

This blog outlines some BPR examples that benefit from a BPM methodology. A comprehensive supply chain overhaul might involve rethinking procurement strategies, implementing just-in-time inventory systems, optimizing production schedules or redesigning transportation and distribution networks.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 23, 2024

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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DataKitchen

MARCH 16, 2023

How to measure your data analytics team? Gartner attempted to list every metric under the sun in their recent report , “T oolkit: Delivery Metrics for DataOps, Self-Service Analytics, ModelOps, and MLOps, ” published February 7, 2023. Under Velocity, the Mean Time to Deliver Data metric measures the time it takes to deliver data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following. Consider the findings of a report from professional services firm Accenture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

According to a Deloitte report , 73% of respondents said their organizations have embarked on a path to intelligent automation and they predict that robotic process automation (RPA) will reach almost universal adoption sometime in 2023. Understand the cost. How much labor will be saved with the implementation of automation?

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 18, 2023

Entities will also be expected to put appropriate cybersecurity protection measures in place. It focuses on providing a proven strategy around data protection and business continuity in case of advanced ransomware or cyberattacks, including scenarios where data is encrypted by ransomware. What is cyber resilience? In the U.S.,

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

Other leaders remind you that the company’s primary allegiance is to the bottom line and that your solution needs to be cost-effective and “thread the needle” by providing the most return for the least investment possible. Development costs to survey the land, clear the site and prepare it for construction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

All of this needs to work cohesively in a real-time ecosystem and support the speed and scale necessary to realize the business benefits of real-time AI. Downstream teams can create strategy drift without a clearly defined and managed execution strategy; is the strategy staying consistent, evolving, or beginning to drift?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

As an IT management framework, ITIL 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. As of 2023, ITIL 4 has been fully rolled out and Axelos announced the discontinuation of ITIL 3 at the start of 2022.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 25, 2023

Fortunately, there are a number of measures that small businesses can take to protect their sensitive information from unauthorized access. Additionally, cybercrime costs SMEs over $2.2 Cybercriminals target these businesses primarily due to their resource inadequacy and often lack of progressive cyber security measures.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

1 In pursuit of net zero, organizations will focus their sustainability efforts on two paths in 2024: Clean energy : The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is central to sustainability strategies and net zero initiatives, and was a central issue last year at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Generative AI is a key part of our business strategy, facilitating growth with AI-enabled processes already live in production,” he says. Neil Ward-Dutton, VP, AI and Intelligent Process Automation European Practices at IDC , suggests that generative AI usage is high but business strategy may lag.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 14, 2021

They are armed with more knowledge than ever before, as a result, four strategic pillars have emerged that have resulted as leading retailers and brands have deployed a data-centric strategy enabling a customer-first approach. Reinventing Brick and Mortar is Delivering Fresh Customer Experiences.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While leaders have some reservations about the benefits of current AI, organizations are actively investing in gen AI deployment, significantly increasing budgets, expanding use cases, and transitioning projects from experimentation to production. 46% of survey respondents in 2024 showed a preference for open source models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Gallup estimates that this phenomenon cost the economy $7.8 According to the Gallup State of the Global Workforce 2023 Report , 41% of respondents attributed their lack of engagement to leadership and the workplace culture. When you get rewards right, however, you will reap near instant benefits, according to Gallup.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As the new year approaches, so will a litany of predictions regarding the biggest issues facing CIOs in 2023. The results showed a real dichotomy between the desire for more choice and control over employee work lives versus the toll that some changes have created in the form of isolation, loneliness, increased workloads and costs.

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FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

In this article, we will explore the concept of a financial dashboard, highlight its numerous benefits, and provide various kinds of financial dashboard examples for you to employ and explore. The balance sheet plays a vital role in internal management, helping companies fine-tune their business strategies and prevent misuse.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 23, 2023

Figure 3 highlights ancillary benefits that conversational AI technology provides. Improve consistency and accuracy: Consistency in messaging across different reports and reporting periods is a critical benefit. Here are some important considerations our F&A experts provided: Start with a sound AI strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. It doesn’t matter how accurate an AI model is, or how much benefit it’ll bring to a company if the intended users refuse to have anything to do with it.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , for the second year in a row, phishing was the leading cyber threat, identified in 41% of incidents. Advanced endpoint protection, risk-based application patching and laptop management have an important benefit in common: automation and centralized management.

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datapine

MAY 31, 2022

3) Cloud Computing Benefits. It provides better data storage, data security, flexibility, improved organizational visibility, smoother processes, extra data intelligence, increased collaboration between employees, and changes the workflow of small businesses and large enterprises to help them make better decisions while decreasing costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An arrow for the right: This way lies calculating the cost of IT assets versus their business value. And frankly it’s the difference between being viewed as a cost center or as a value generator. Multicloud estates heighten cost complexity However, the IT landscape has become far more distributed of late.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

According to TEKsystems’ 2023 State of Digital Transformation , 41% of organizations’ digital transformation (DX) initiatives have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. Am I using data to drive my transformation strategy? Is my strategy organized around problems to solve, or technologies? Adya says many executives answer no.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, 50% of C-suite execs surveyed for a 2023 report on digital transformation from fintech company Broadridge admitted they struggle to balance innovation with daily tasks. It is nearly impossible to separate the business strategy from the organization’s technology strategy.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 30, 2024

Increasingly, enterprise organizations are adopting a multicloud approach—the use of cloud services from more than one cloud vendor—to optimize performance, control costs and prevent vendor lock-in. billion in 2023. Security risks: Maintaining strong security measures is a critical component of enterprise cloud adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Managed service provider business model Managed service providers structure their business to offer technology services cheaper than what it would cost an enterprise to perform the work itself, at a higher level of quality, and with more flexibility and scalability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 13, 2024

Corporate and IT strategy are one, and technology is the tool to deliver strategic objectives. In contrast, CEOs didn’t even list AI in their top 10 priorities for CIOs in 2023. The other key strategies are investing in new lines of business; marketing and promotions; and upskilling and retaining existing talent.)

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2021, FanDuel’s workloads almost tripled since they first started using Amazon Redshift in 2018, and they started evaluating Redshift RA3 nodes vs. DC2 nodes to take advantage of the storage and compute separation and deliver better performance at lower costs. The following diagram illustrates this architecture.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A 2023 report found that global investment in green or low-carbon energy sources exceeded USD $1 trillion, 1 while advanced data collection tools and artificial intelligence (AI) are helping to better monitor emissions and inform sustainability strategy. Today, sustainability efforts are being shaped by new urgency and new technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

The implication is that while some businesses are cutting costs and many tech companies are announcing layoffs, forward-looking enterprises are investing and collaborating with startups. CIOs should have plans for the upsides and also develop risk mitigation strategies. But CIOs should remain strategic.

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