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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

He says organizations are looking to automate, streamline operations, and reduce costs to help deal with an unsettled labor market, worker shortages, inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty. That’s an investment strategy and it’s a conversation about agility — agility to be competitive in the market,” she adds. 13, respectively.

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Data integration: The key to AI-supported planning systems

Jedox

In our previous blog post “ Proven AI solutions for modern planning “, we shared detailed insights from Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel, our Chief Marketing & Product Officer, into data management and data integration as a basis for advanced analytics and automated sales forecasts at Mitsui Chemicals Europe.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

ln this post he describes where and how having “humans in the loop” in forecasting makes sense, and reflects on past failures and successes that have led him to this perspective. Our team does a lot of forecasting. It also owns Google’s internal time series forecasting platform described in an earlier blog post.

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The Case for Continuous Financial Planning after Covid-19

Jet Global

Financial planning has always been vital to businesses in order to make sound, long-term decisions. Companies use forecasting to make critical investments, plan for covenant compliance, and even decide on future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategies. What is continuous planning?

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Incorporating Artificial Intelligence for Businesses : The Modern Approach to Data Analytics

BizAcuity

Combined, it has come to a point where data analytics is your safety net first, and business driver second. By 2025, AI will be the top category driving infrastructure decisions, due to the maturation of the AI market, resulting in a tenfold growth in compute requirements. AI in Marketing. Source: Gartner Research).

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The Digital Transformation of your Planning Process

Jedox

Managing the business logic as part of a planning repository is an important part of the digital transformation. Business logic repository” should include business drivers and their impact on the business results. Different periods (Last forecast, last year budget). Technology matters for CPM.

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Invest in a Data Culture or Fall Behind: Q3 2021 State of Data Culture Report

Alation

This is our fifth installment of the report, which means we can make year-over-year comparisons and explore longer-term trends, as well as the areas that have seen minimal change due to the market. They include missing out on new revenue opportunities, poorly forecasting performance, and making bad investments.