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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. One meaning: initiatives that, as outlined above, have potential benefit but a high probability of failure. In risk management terms it “prevents” (aka avoids) them.

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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life. Here’s where CIOs can rethink their approach to the long-term benefit of their organizations.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

As exchanges were modernizing, they looked at the cost benefit and realized it was better to buy Nasdaq’s technology,” Peterson says. When you have to calculate risk, it works really well to spread it horizontally in the cloud,” Peterson says. The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

The solution should be scalable, cost-efficient, and straightforward to adopt and operate. Amazon Redshift features like streaming ingestion, Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration , and data sharing with AWS Data Exchange enable near-real-time processing for trade reporting, risk management, and trade optimization.

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Business process management (BPM) examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Business process management examples BPM can help improve overall business operations by optimizing various business processes. Here are some BPM examples that outline the use cases and benefits of BPM methodology: Business strategy BPM serves as a strategic tool for aligning business processes with organizational goals and objectives.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Other priorities include delivering more strategic insights (41%), getting more active support from senior management (33%), and investing in additional EA resources, training, and certification (32%). Bizzdesigns asked respondents what IT benefits their EA program currently delivers and the top response was improved IT investment decisions.

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Six EAM trends pushing the oil and gas industries forward

IBM Big Data Hub

The following are some of the most impactful ways oil and gas is embracing EAM as an asset management strategy: Asset lifecycle management : Oil and gas assets are intricate, costly and have lengthy lifecycles. Cost control and budgeting : EAM systems provide valuable insights into asset performance as it relates to maintenance costs.