Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we see in another new year, it’s that time to hear about all the new strategies from software and Business Intelligence( BI) vendors for 2024. So, I expect to see a slew of new strategies based around these areas for BI. Nowhere is that more true than in the world of Business Intelligence.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

The right data architecture can help your organization improve data quality because it provides the framework that determines how data is collected, transported, stored, secured, used and shared for business intelligence and data science use cases. Steps for developing an effective data strategy include: 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Your answers will lay the foundation for your strategy and highlight where your story needs work if you want to avoid fire drills in the eleventh hour. IT Strategy

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 22, 2019

Big or small, every business needs good tools to analyze data and develop the most suitable business strategy based on the information they get. Business intelligence tools are means that help companies get insights from their data and get a better understanding of what directions and trends to follow.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says. API-first strategies on the rise APIs are ubiquitous within modern software architectures, working behind the scenes to facilitate myriad connected capabilities. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The ripple effect of COVID-19 has really shone a spotlight on how much work still needs to be done when it comes to DEI, says Suraya Hamdulay, based in Johannesburg as VP for strategy and engagement at 2U, a US educational technology company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors. There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It

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TDAN

MAY 15, 2024

In discussions with data management professionals, conversations often veer toward the technical intricacies of migration to the cloud or algorithm optimization, overshadowing the core business objectives that originally spurred these initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“Ideally, the organization will focus on institutionalizing ways of working that streamline how the business’s functional, technology, data, and change management teams experiment with and learn from new technologies.” AI is a fundamentally different set of technologies that requires a separate strategy and capabilities.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Regardless of whether they take a ‘build on’ or ‘create anew’ approach, CIOs should consider three key actions to meet their sustainability and broader business objectives. In other cases, they’re innovating and creating better solutions by identifying, building, and scaling those technologies to be more sustainable.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It also emphasizes Involta’s focus on the three pillars of its ESG strategy: environmental sustainability, employee well-being, and strong governance practices. Such efforts he notes are consistent with each of the three key pillars of Involta’s ESG strategy: environmental sustainability, employee well-being, and strong governance practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2024

Obviously, technology strategy and business strategy have to be ultimately driven by the vision of the organization,’’ Jones says, “but it was surprising that over a third of CTOs we surveyed felt they weren’t getting clear vision and guidance.” “Don’t get bogged down in the bureaucracy,’’ he says.

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Paul Blogs on BI

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So let’s dispel a few myths (4 big ones) and set the record straight as to why BusinessObjects remains the most widely used Business Intelligence suite in the world today. In June 2022, SAP announced a new statement of direction for its BI strategy that included a 10 year plus roadmap for BusinessObjects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

A common but critical challenge I hear from CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs every day is that they have a difficult time helping the C-suite understand that IT is the very architecture for the future of business, not a cost center. How do you convince decision-makers to collaborate on linking IT strategy with business strategy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Failure to align technology capabilities with business goals can result in a wasted investment in technology that doesn’t support business objectives. Develop a clear strategy: A clear strategy that outlines goals and objectives, timelines, and resources required is essential for digital transformation success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2022

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice. The HPE GreenLake Advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Supporting business objectives has long been IT’s mantra, but how to go about doing that when the objective is aggressive business growth isn’t always cut and dry. Delivering for growth Today, McCullen is creating new technical foundations to ensure that adaptability, and further support ongoing business growth.

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I am also fascinated by Business Intelligence and love seeing new ways it is being applied every day. release and, in particular, the all-new Web Intelligence user interface and the amazing new Data Mode and Data Profiling features. Be sure to check out the full agenda which this year is an actual Squirrel application.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

This was 12 months in which interest rates and inflation soared, and persistent business, economic, and geopolitical uncertainty weighed heavily on corporate strategy. Unfortunately, they didn’t get it. Yet for IT operations teams little changed. Excessive workload, interruptions, and burnout remained all too common.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

Organizations should embrace value-based decision making that focuses on the business objectives and that benefits for the various stakeholders (technology, operations, procurement, finance, security, data analytics, environment, etc.) Additionally, the NaaS provider removes the traditional challenges of managing/operating networks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. A driver of this is the ability to innovate at scale faster,” she says, noting that 60% of hotels are primarily moving to a cloud-first approach even as they continue to utilize on-premises IT stacks for certain applications.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Agility, innovation, and time-to-value are the key differentiators cloud service providers (CSP) claim to help organizations speed up digital transformation projects and business objectives. It is not strange to hear and know about companies adopting a cloud-first strategy in the short term.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. And it continues at a rapid clip post-pandemic as artificial intelligence and immersive web technologies bring promises of new opportunities and disruptions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2022

It was a daunting challenge, not least with technology leadership being restructured in the wake of CDIO Norma Dove-Edwin’s departure in March, but also owing to complex business operating across five departments and more than 20 companies. He also wanted to increase the visibility of IT – with the COVID-19 pandemic giving him a helping hand.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2023

Kirk Ball: The particular topic for which a strategy is being developed needs to be well defined with a scope and associated activities required to deliver the strategy. I view digital transformation as the integration of digital technologies to accelerate business objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If they need their phone to do business and use the latest apps, even in the field, then new technology is a must. Then, you should link your infrastructure adoption and governance strategy to specific business outcomes. The phone will have to be replaced every few years to keep supporting new apps.

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Smarten

APRIL 10, 2023

Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Instead, they can use assisted predictive modeling to improve business agility and align processes, activities and tasks with business objectives and goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“Provide an IT service that focuses on user experience,” advises Edgar Padua, business value architect at digital workplace provider Nexthink. This strategy places the end user — whether it’s an internal employee or an external customer — at the center of the decision-making process,” he explains. IT Leadership, IT Strategy, ITSM

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

In this case, the candidate’s original executive summary was short and redundant in the context of the rest of the document, and the experience section “came across as a laundry list of duties,” positioning the candidate as an “IT manager focused on tactics instead of a CIO focused on strategy and organizational value,” Van Vreede says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“When assembling the case for a move to public cloud, organizations tend to overload stakeholder expectations and lose sight of the main imperatives behind the initiative – namely, supporting business agility and cost-efficiency,” DePerro says. Agility is not always well understood,” explains DePerro. For many, multicloud is the new reality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Also offering cloud migration and modernization services. Hybrid and multi cloud services : Provision, monitor, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and/or Container Platforms on any cloud environment (public, private, hybrid, or multi).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. Make sure you work with this champion outside of the board setting to ensure alignment and adoption of your technology strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Executive leaders of small businesses and startups frequently lament that they lack the same access to data and insights that enterprise competitors and other more entrenched players enjoy. The solution: business intelligence tools While mindset is a difficult obstacle to overcome, technology and budget are easier ones to surmount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

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