CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2024

For its 2023 Security Priorities report, Foundry surveyed 790 IT security workers to understand their projects and priorities. Its conclusions were less than optimal. And only 45 percent of CISOs were very or somewhat concerned about the risks of unsecured printers, compared to 72 percent of CIOs. Doing penetration testing.

IT 106

IT Measurement Risk Testing 106

Rita Sallam

APRIL 2, 2023

Are there mitigation strategies that show reasons for optimism? Are there mitigation strategies that can be implemented successfully that could provide policy guidance and reasons for optimism in the face of ever increasing frequency of extreme weather events? million people at risk of catastrophic, flooding.

Optimization 52

Optimization Machine Learning Insurance Risk 52

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

Risk 139

Risk Manufacturing Enterprise Technology 139

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Cloud infrastructure is especially sensitive, as many critical applications are at risk, such as customer-facing applications. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the majority of cyber attacks are led by organized criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data to sell.

Management 97

Management Data Processing Risk Digital Transformation 97

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years. According to State of Java Survey and Report 2023 , an independently run study of more than 2,000 Java users, Java users have taken notice. Are your JVM/JDK binaries Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) tested?

ROI 52

ROI Cost-Benefit Testing Risk 52

DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On 24 January 2023, Gartner released the article “ 5 Ways to Enhance Your Data Engineering Practices.” Release New Data Engineering Work Often With Low Risk: “Testing and release processes are heavily manual tasks… automate these processes.” Learn, improve, and iterate quickly (with feedback from the customer) with low risk.

Data-driven 130

Data-driven Testing Risk Cost-Benefit 130

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis. Their work earned them a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

IT 86

IT Machine Learning Risk Optimization 86

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In December 2023, Gartner named Oracle a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services , joining the “big three.” It’s a compelling proposition for any organization looking to optimize its database management in the cloud,” he says. The inherent risk is trust.

Enterprise 122

Enterprise IT Data Processing Strategy 122

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.

Consulting 126

Consulting Software Business Objectives Optimization 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales could jump by 50% in the following fiscal quarter, that its stock market valuation soared, catapulting it into the exclusive trillion-dollar club alongside well-known tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Forecasting Software Marketing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Of the nearly 6,000 CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who shared their insights for VMware’s Multi-Cloud Maturity Index , a global survey conducted by market-research firm Vanson Bourne, more than half believe the stakes are even higher: 53% say organizations that do not adopt a multi-cloud approach risk failure.

Enterprise 95

Enterprise Management Cost-Benefit Optimization 95

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. There are other risks, too. Cloud computing doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and neither should your cloud strategy,” Gartner advises in its 2023 Cloud Strategy Cookbook. data, security, development, architecture) as well.

Strategy 144

Strategy Cost-Benefit IT Key Performance Indicator 144

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

And according to the latest 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report , you don’t need to reach for an executive career in IT to earn a six-figure salary. Relevant skills for a systems architect include risk management, performance optimization, security, leadership, and a strong knowledge of complex computer systems.

IT 113

IT Software Risk Management 113

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Both of these options require manual effort to implement and increase the cost and risk of the migration project. hist_plan_prolog_1"; For our test table, the script prints the last transaction identifier, which is 2691798 : XID | -+ 2691798| To make sure that our table doesn’t include new transactions, AWS SCT runs the following script.

Data Warehouse 86

Data Warehouse Data Processing Data Lake Management 86

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Andreessen Horowitz (link resides outside IBM.com ) , in 2023, the average spend on foundation model application programming interfaces (APIs), self-hosting and fine-tuning models across surveyed companies reached USD 7 million. AGI wouldn’t just perceive its surroundings; it would understand them.

Cost-Benefit 90

Cost-Benefit Modeling Manufacturing Interactive 90

DataKitchen

MARCH 16, 2023

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. Automated data test tools can help identify data entry errors or processing errors. It is the enabling of deployment with low risk as well.

Metrics 130

Metrics Data Analytics Analytics Measurement 130

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

Any issues with these applications can lead to decreased productivity, wasted time and potential security risks. To stay ahead of potential service disruptions, processes must be optimized before they can be automated. As the demand for process optimization grows, the supply of professionals is not keeping pace.

Management 70

Management IT Optimization Consulting 70

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Christian Mate, CIO, Elara Caring Elara Caring CIOs have more tactical aspirations right now, especially with regard to digital initiatives, according to Gartner’s 2023 CIO and Technology Executive Agenda. That’s a pitfall, and it is critical to always have a very comprehensive risk assessment practice in place,” Renganathan says. “We

Strategy 136

Strategy Technology Experimentation Testing 136

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. Cloud is transforming the way life sciences organizations are doing business.

Consulting 73

Consulting Cost-Benefit Optimization Machine Learning 73

Cloudera

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While it’s important to have the in-house data science expertise and the ML experts on-hand to build and test models, the reality is that the actual data science work — and the machine learning models themselves — are only one part of the broader enterprise machine learning puzzle. Laurence Goasduff, Gartner.

Machine Learning 83

Machine Learning Data Science Visualization Optimization 83

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Alongside the significant brand reputation risk, there’s also a growing set of data and AI regulations across the world and across industries — like the upcoming European Union AI Act — that companies must adhere to. Similarly, facts can be collected while the model is in the testing and validation stages.

Metadata 56

Metadata Machine Learning Data-driven Modeling 56

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

If IT takes too long to gather all the requirements, then design, test, and build, by then the business requirements may have changed. Keeping growing pains in check with solid IT strategy and culture CoinFlip’s steep growth curve in 2023 has kept Sebastiaan Gybels, global CIO and CISO, and his IT team very busy.

Strategy 91

Strategy Technology Enterprise Business Objectives 91

Laminar Security

DECEMBER 11, 2023

million in 2023. DDR detects anomalous or suspicious data behavior that may indicate insider threats or other data security risks. SIEM can also lack the context and intelligence to identify insider threats or other data security risks. What are the risks and challenges that you face in protecting the data?

Behavioral Analytics 55

Behavioral Analytics Machine Learning Risk Cost-Benefit 55

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

If the relationship of $X$ to $Y$ can be approximated as quadratic (or any polynomial), the objective and constraints as linear in $Y$, then there is a way to express the optimization as a quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). However, joint optimization is possible by increasing both $x_1$ and $x_2$ at the same time.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. As of November 2023: Two-thirds (67%) of our survey respondents report that their companies are using generative AI. Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing.

Enterprise 270

Enterprise Modeling Testing Reporting 270

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

For example, a quarter of IT decision-makers in Foundry’s 2023 AI Priorities Study are piloting gen AI technologies, but only 20% have moved on to deployment. But talking to IT teams like the AI professionals in Intel’s 2023 ML Insider survey suggests only 10% of organizations put gen AI solutions into production in 2023.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Metrics Insurance Measurement 143

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we introduced more performance enhancements in query planning and execution such as enhanced bloom filters , query rewrites, and support for write operations in auto scaling. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we extended data sharing capabilities to launch multi-data warehouse writes in preview.

Data Warehouse 101

Data Warehouse Data Lake Analytics Machine Learning 101

Jen Stirrup

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Problem-Solving Artificial Intelligence systems can leverage search and optimization algorithms to solve complex problems across many domains, from gaming strategies to logistics. These examples provide benefits and risks for smal businesses, which are discussed below.

Cost-Benefit 71

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Testing Sales 71

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

This has CIOs moving from experimenting and testing intelligence in pockets to scaling up deployments and rolling out intelligence throughout their organizations. Risk management came in at No. That’s up from 85% who said as much in 2023. The approach taken by James Phillips, CIO at software maker Rev.io, reflects that trend.

IT 141

IT Risk Management Machine Learning Risk 141

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. Although innovation always carries risk, there are common mistakes that CIOs tend to make that heighten the chances of innovation failures.

IT 135

IT Digital Transformation Risk Cost-Benefit 135

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

While digital initiatives and talent are the board directors’ top strategic business priorities in 2023-2024, IT spending is forecasted to grow by only 2.4% Devops teams now look to shift left security and implement continuous testing to develop more innovative, secure, and reliable features from the start.

Digital Transformation 145

Digital Transformation Data Governance Experimentation Machine Learning 145

Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

In the financial sector, regulations are essential for financial institutions to maintain stability by preventing excessive risk-taking, ensuring adequate capitalization and reducing the likelihood of failures or financial crises. What is DORA?

Risk Management 77

Risk Management Risk Testing Management 77

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Users could now assess risk, profitability, and cross-sell opportunities not only for piecemeal divisions or products, but also globally for the business as a whole. This means that workloads can be isolated to individual clusters, allowing for a more streamlined schema design, WLM configuration, and right-sizing for cost optimization.

Data Warehouse 68

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit KPI Risk 68

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Cloudera and Dell are excited to announce a new milestone in our journey: the Quality Assurance Test Suite (QATS) certification for Dell PowerScale to work seamlessly with Cloudera Data Services. They signify that a product has undergone rigorous testing and meets specific quality and compatibility standards.

Management 84

Management Cost-Benefit Data-driven Testing 84

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2024

Transaction cost analysis (TCA) is widely used by traders, portfolio managers, and brokers for pre-trade and post-trade analysis, and helps them measure and optimize transaction costs and the effectiveness of their trading strategies. Dataset For this analysis, we used the LSEG Tick History – PCAP OPRA dataset from May 17, 2023.

Marketing 84

Marketing Analytics Visualization Strategy 84

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. Data silos: With data spread across multiple clouds and platforms, an organization risks creating data silos.

Strategy 92

Strategy Cost-Benefit Risk Optimization 92

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

In partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft, CarMax worked to develop, test, and iterate GPT-3 natural language models aimed at achieving those results. A risk-limiting audit (RLA) is one audit type used for election verification. They turned to artificial intelligence to help.

IT 97

IT Manufacturing IoT Cost-Benefit 97