Paul Blogs on BI

MARCH 25, 2020

At the same time because I am so passionate about Business Intelligence and can see how it is being both used and abused in this situation, I felt compelled to share my viewpoint. As more testing becomes available this first metric will increase significantly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

Recognizing this need, we have created a cutting-edge VSM maturity model. Drawing upon our extensive experience facilitating successful VSM initiatives within large-scale enterprises, this model serves as a compass, offering insights into their current VSM maturity and providing practical direction to advance and reap the additional benefits.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

For decades, data modeling has been the optimal way to design and deploy new relational databases with high-quality data sources and support application development. Today’s data modeling is not your father’s data modeling software. So here’s why data modeling is so critical to data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model? We built that end-to-end data model and process from scratch while we ran the old business. We knew we had a unique opportunity to build a new end-to-end architecture with a common AI-powered data model. Today, we’re a $1.6 Today, we’re a $1.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

Don’t move into a distributed decision-making model without providing the right guidance to your team or you’ll be taking a higher risk,” he says. Ultimately, says Gartner’s Sanchez-Reina, the benefits of delegating more outweigh the risks because doing so allows CIOs to focus on more strategic business goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively. Healthcare-specific task-oriented models were also highly favored, with more than half (57%) of respondents using these models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2024

E potremmo utilizzare per questo scopo uno Small Language Model”. Gli Small Language Model: il CIO vuole il controllo Gli Small Language Model (SLM) sono algoritmi di machine learning addestrati su set di dati molto più piccoli e specifici rispetto ai Large Language Model, i grandi modelli di deep learning su cui si basano prodotti come GPT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sonnet large language model has gained a new ability: operating a computer. The new ability, which the company is calling “computer use,” is currently in beta test. Up until now, LLM developers have made tools fit the model, producing custom environments where AIs use specially-designed tools to complete various tasks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Source code analysis tools Static application security testing (SAST) is one of the most widely used cybersecurity tools worldwide. Many organizations have internally acknowledged the challenges listed above and started to integrate supervised learning models with their offerings. This is where AI is going to create an impact.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are hard to beat when it comes to instantly parsing reams of publicly available data to generate responses to general knowledge queries. Moreover, challenges around data privacy and recognition of intellectual property often require a level of transparency that simply does not exist in many off-the-shelf models.

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

When encouraging these BI best practices what we are really doing is advocating for agile business intelligence and analytics. Therefore, we will walk you through this beginner’s guide on agile business intelligence and analytics to help you understand how they work and the methodology behind them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) plans to introduce mandatory reporting requirements for developers of advanced AI models and cloud computing providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. What are the benefits of business analytics? What is the difference between business analytics and business intelligence?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

To ensure robust analysis, data analytics teams leverage a range of data management techniques, including data mining, data cleansing, data transformation, data modeling, and more. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“This agentic approach to creation and validation is especially useful for people who are already taking a test-driven development approach to writing software,” Davis says. With existing, human-written tests you just loop through generated code, feeding the errors back in, until you get to a success state.”

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Smarten

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engaging Technology – It is perhaps no surprise that Musk decided to give his AI model a bit of a personality. Training Models – The current Grok training model is based on 33 billion parameters, as compared to ChatGPT 3.5 with a 175 billion parameter training model and GPT 4 with 1.76 trillion parameters.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Gen AI has become a priority tool across all industries for all types of companies, where up to 40% have a budget or related gen AI initiatives, and 30% believe this technology is disruptive to the business, according to recent data from IDC. So large corporations are still being put to the test with their implementing processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

Medium-sized companies are actively experimenting with and developing AI models, while small companies, often constrained by resources, show the highest percentage not actively considering GenAI. The survey reveals that cost is the least important factor, suggesting a willingness to invest in high-quality, reliable models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“Organisations still struggle to connect the algorithms they are building to a business value proposition, which makes it difficult for IT and business leadership to justify the investment it requires to operationalise models.”. This is where the AI Test Drive solution comes in. Artificial Intelligence

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That’s because significant challenges persist in leveraging GenAI’s large language models (LLMs). To make accurate, data-driven decisions, businesses need to feed LLMs with proprietary information, but this risks exposing sensitive data to unauthorized parties. One is the security and compliance risks inherent to GenAI.

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Smarten

JANUARY 31, 2019

Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. How is Advanced Analytics Different from Business Intelligence? Advanced Analytics is the logical tool to help a business optimize its investments and achieve its goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. Decision support systems vs. business intelligence DSS and business intelligence (BI) are often conflated. Model-driven DSS. Commonly used models include: Statistical models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2024

Data scientists at Bayer have developed several proofs of concept of generative AI models on the new platform that remain in discovery and evaluation phase for “efficacy,” McQueen says, adding that the models won’t be in production until 2025. and Mistral’s Large 2, its most advanced gen AI model. It’s additive.”

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 15, 2021

However, it is important to make sure that you understand the potential role of AI and what business model to build around it. However, even the most brilliant idea built around AI technology can fail without a proper business model. Not even the most sophisticated AI technology can make up for a subpar business model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

The company needs massive computing power with CPUs and GPUs that are optimized for AI development, says Clark, adding that Seekr looked at the infrastructure it would need to build and train its huge AI models and quickly determined that buying and maintaining the hardware would be prohibitively expensive. Clark says.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

One of the main reasons for such a disruption may be the obsolescence of many traditional data management models; that’s why they have failed to predict the crisis and its consequences. Based on this assumption, specialists relied on false predictive data models that could only reflect a simplified picture of the possible future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The two new features, namely a testing center and the provision of prompt engineering suggestions, are the fruit of significant investment in the company’s AI engineering team, said Claire Cheng, vice president of machine learning and AI engineering at Salesforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2023

It has also developed predictive models to detect trends, make predictions, and simulate results. AI takes that data and combines it with historical tracking data from about 2,000 matches to create new insights, such as the Goal Probability model, one of 21 new stats it debuted in 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Organizations experimenting with gen AI typically set up enterprise-grade accounts with cloud-based services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, and early field tests and productivity benefits may inspire them to look for more opportunities to deploy the technology. This typically needs to happen in real time.

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Smarten

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Knowledgebase Articles Datasets & Cubes : Spark Sql : Split the dataset columns using Regex Dashboards Improve dashboard loading performance for dashboards with multiple objects Integration API : API Call to rebuild cubes / datasets Predictive Use cases Assisted predictive modelling : Classification : Machine Maintenance Using Smarten Assisted (..)

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

During the new AI revolution of the past year and a half, many companies have experimented with and developed solutions with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 via Azure OpenAI, while weighing the merits of digital assistants like Microsoft Copilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

During pilot testing, UPS earned 50% reduction in the time agents spent resolving e-mails. The LLM gives agents the ability to confirm all responses suggested by the model. Still, Subramanian is confident MeRA can continue to evolve and learn to handle the most complex of customer requests and business processes. Turbo and GPT4.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The testing phase, particularly user acceptance testing (UAT), can become a labor-intensive bottleneck — and a budget breaker. According to a 2023 Capgemini report , companies spend about 35% of their IT budget on testing — a figure that has remained stubbornly high despite advancements in automation. Result: 80% less rework.

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Sisense

JANUARY 14, 2021

VP of Business Intelligence Michael Hartmann describes the problem: “When an upstream data model change was introduced, it took a few days for us to notice that one of our Sisense charts was ‘broken.’ With that in mind, the developers at Billie came up with the idea to automatically test Sisense charts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2022

As organisations pivot to hybrid working models, cloud collaboration tools have proved they are scalable, secure, and resilient – finally dispelling any lingering concerns that the technology is not yet enterprise ready. Russell makes the point that they must now resist the urge to revert to tried-and-tested pre-pandemic working models.

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