Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To answer that question, Alation worked with Forrester Consulting and seven of our production customers to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study. The research examined the potential ROI enterprises realize by deploying Alation. They looked at the benefits, costs and risks associated with a data catalog investment.

ROI 52

ROI Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Data Lake 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2023

Corporate projects are classically evaluated on standard matrices such as return on investment (ROI), break-even period, and capital invested. To capitalize on the gains offered by digital technologies, CIOs are building technology portfolios by allocating diverse investments based on prospective risk, reward, and value.

Digital Transformation 105

Digital Transformation Experimentation ROI Risk 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Of late, concerns about the public “cloud-first” approach have emerged to challenge business value and skewer ROI, TCO and KPIs. Maybe you’ve even surpassed expectations in each of these yardsticks.

ROI 126

ROI Cost-Benefit KPI Uncertainty 126

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

Management consulting firm AArete has been using other gen AI to do just that for about a year. “We At Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting services firm, executive search practice managing director Tom Wilson says his team uses gen AI for research and written communications.

IT 128

IT Consulting Testing Cost-Benefit 128

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

But in 2024, CIOs will shift their focus toward responsible deployment, says Barry Shurkey, CIO at NTT Data, a digital business and IT consulting and services firm. However, one of the questions CIOs have about this disruptive technology is how do they govern generative AI, says Daniel Saroff, group VP for consulting and research at IDC.

Cost-Benefit 139

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Consulting Strategy 139

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. billion this year.

IT 111

IT Cost-Benefit Risk Consulting 111

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Picking the right approach requires carefully studying all of the available options before making a final selection.

Consulting 98

Consulting Testing Software Cost-Benefit 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Here are six things to consider: • Work with the business to identify the most practical use cases that will yield ROI. Keep cyber and resilience as standing board topics, even when not at elevated risks, to create muscle memory and potential energy for when action is required. Recognize that there will be roadblocks and plan for them.

Marketing 111

Marketing Recreation/Entertainment Interactive Risk 111

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 2, 2023

IBM Consulting’s Accelerated Incremental Mainframe Modernization Legacy applications, while being the current crown jewels of states’ IT ecosystems, hinder business agility and are expensive and complicated, therefore making any rebuild, refactor or integration attempts risky. Why IBM Consulting and AWS?

Consulting 80

Consulting Cost-Benefit Technology ROI 80

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 23, 2023

Bet on (and vet) AI-driven workflows We tapped into the minds of our very own F&A experts at IBM Consulting — the ones that know that how you help businesses make data-driven decisions indicates your ability to support future business. Risk management and controls are an imperative in F&A. Apply the controllership lens.

Finance 56

Finance Consulting Data-driven Risk 56

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Companies that do not anchor to brand purpose run the risk of spending millions on technologies that do not align to what customers care about. Otherwise, risks include lags in response time, a shortfall in anticipating customer needs, a reduction in customer trust and damage to the CX. Implement change enablement. Bryan Comite.

ROI 105

ROI Digital Transformation Risk Optimization 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

But when it comes to PDF editors, a recent study from Forrester Consulting shows that this is not the case. In fact, by switching from a legacy PDF editor to a lower cost alternative, organizations saw a three-year ROI of 284%. A lower price tag often comes with a pared down, lower-quality product. Digital Transformation.

ROI 52

ROI Digital Transformation Risk Consulting 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

With this objective in mind: Determine your organization’s innovation appetite (versus its risk appetite; it is too early to speak of ROI in the metaverse). Successful companies stay focused on delivering products and services in any technology context. Are we trying to improve efficiency? Learn more at vision.protiviti.com/metaverse.

Digital Transformation 105

Digital Transformation ROI Business Objectives Manufacturing 105

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the experience of our IBM Consulting teams, organizations that are just getting started on their modernization journeys need perspective on the “art of the possible” when it comes to understanding the benefits and value of AI-driven automation. Data availability and governance factors are also considerations when assessing ROI.

Cost-Benefit 83

Cost-Benefit ROI Modeling Testing 83

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With 89% of digital businesses investing in personalization to enhance the customer digital experience , those that fail to do so risk falling behind. Paired with IBM’s data consulting services, enterprises can leverage watsonx.data to track usage, generate dashboards and ultimately enable strategic decision making.

Cost-Benefit 103

Cost-Benefit Enterprise ROI Data Warehouse 103

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 21, 2023

At IBM Consulting , our finance consulting practitioners have seen first-hand how the CFO can help foster enterprise-wide change. These are the consultants that are often engaging with collaborative CFOs on ways to deliver new value- and work-streams within the finance function, as well as across the enterprise too.

Finance 74

Finance Consulting Enterprise Data-driven 74

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Ensuring all IT spend is directly tied to business demand acts as an automatic cost optimizer.

IT 138

IT Cost-Benefit ROI Digital Transformation 138

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2023

The complexity of an organization’s application landscape, along with the lack of perceived value in modernizing core applications to introduce new capabilities and enhance existing capabilities, introduces risk to both internal colleagues and external customers.

Consulting 59

Consulting Data Governance ROI Digital Transformation 59

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Supply insightful, actionable data IT should supply sales team members with the timely, accurate data they need to become top performers, recommends Michael Tantrum, national sales director at IT consulting firm Resultant. Team members must accurately answer customer questions as soon as possible or risk losing sales.

Sales 127

Sales IT Enterprise Technology 127

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

To gain a deeper understanding of how retail organizations can benefit from Generative AI applications, we spoke with James Caton, Practice Leader, Data and Artificial Intelligence, at Microsoft , and Girish Phadke, Technology Head, Microsoft and Cloud Platforms, at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Sales Visualization ROI 98

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As a result, it’s hard to calculate its ROI, but knowing cybercrime rates are likely to rise during tight economic times, these leaders understand that cutting cybersecurity expenditures could, in fact, cost more than they had anticipated. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.

Strategy 105

Strategy ROI Consulting Technology 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Having a trustworthy and proven location to source Microsoft licenses, such as the Lenovo Pro Small Business Store, SMBs can efficiently stay on top of their Microsoft licensing requirements, without risk of dealing with unlicensed copies of the software. This is what Lenovo Pro Small Business Store has been designed to help address.

ROI 52

ROI Digital Transformation Software Risk 52

erwin

AUGUST 13, 2020

managing risk vs ROI and emerging countries)? As enterprise architects, we need to overcome certain undeniable truths to better serve our organizations: Management does not always rely on EA to make critical decisions: They often hire consultants to come in for six months to make recommendations.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Uncertainty ROI 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2022

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. ITIL is a collection of e-books, but merely going on a reading binge won’t improve your IT operations.

IT 105

IT Cost-Benefit ROI Risk 105

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 26, 2023

For today’s IT professionals, AIOps is also one of the fastest ways to realize tangible ROI from digital transformation investments. But “always-on” is costly, and too many organizations overprovision to mitigate performance risks (and overspend in the process).

Digital Transformation 52

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit ROI Data-driven 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth. Five years ago, it was more about getting your data ready for AI. Now it’s this move to generative AI.

Digital Transformation 137

Digital Transformation Strategy Data-driven Consulting 137

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Gone are the days of the CIO being a back-office IT cost manager,” declares Chris Scheefer, vice president of intelligent industry at technology services and consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Relationships are built on listening, says Rebecca Fox, group CIO at security consulting firm NCC Group. Are you up to the task?

Cost-Benefit 119

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Strategy Consulting 119

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Panorama Consulting Solutions, which regularly surveys businesses on the outcomes of their ERP projects, shows in its 2022 report that 81% of projects met ROI expectations a year or more after go-live. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”

Manufacturing 128

Manufacturing Cost-Benefit Sales Consulting 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

1 directive for CIOs this year was to upgrade IT and data security to reduce corporate risk, cited by a third of survey respondents. Security and risk management is the highest-ranked technology initiative commanding IT investment this year, cited by 45% of respondents. For example, the C-suite’s No.

IT 131

IT Digital Transformation Consulting Technology 131

Smarten

JUNE 24, 2022

The McKinsey consulting firm reports that organizations with fast and efficient decision-making processes are twice as likely to report financial returns of at least 20% as a result of recent decisions. Provide forecasts to estimate the financial impact of proposed initiatives and projects and ensure positive return on investment (ROI).

Analytics 52

Analytics Key Performance Indicator Finance Sales 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

These capabilities allow us to reduce business risk as we move off of our monolithic, on-premise environments and provide cloud resiliency and scale,” the CIO says, noting National Grid also has a major data center consolidation under way as it moves more data to the cloud. I call it cloud density in the right way,” Karaboutis adds.

IT 105

IT Digital Transformation Internet of Things Data Architecture 105

BA Learnings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Boston Consulting Group conducted a digital transformation study in 2020 to find out why such projects are missing the mark. In addition to that, the risk assessment will not be carried out properly, and you won’t know what pitfalls lie ahead until you’re already knee-deep in the problem. Let’s consider customer service as an example.

Digital Transformation 130

Digital Transformation Key Performance Indicator Cost-Benefit KPI 130

Anmut

MARCH 22, 2023

The Anmut 5-step data maturity model At Anmut, we’ve created a data maturity model in consultation with data managers, academics, and business leaders. Stage 2: Risk While there is a general awareness of the benefits of data governance , roles are poorly understood. And data governance both starts and depends on people.

Measurement 52

Measurement Modeling Data Quality Data Governance 52

Alation

JANUARY 10, 2023

Plus, for customers focusing on the defensive side of a catalog, having data that is centralized and well governed can help companies comply with regulations and avoid both reputational damage and financial risk from GDPR fines. The study looked at the possible ROI businesses may get from using Alation.

ROI 52

ROI Data Lake Strategy Data-driven 52

Sisense

MARCH 23, 2020

As Charles Holive , Managing Director of Strategy Consulting at Sisense observes, “It is far more beneficial to a company to find ways to accelerate what we call return on existing investment — the ability to create revenue from existing assets like data, market penetration, domain expertise, technology decisions, people, and operational excellence.

Analytics 64

Analytics Data-driven Consulting Marketing 64

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s more vexing than regulation, cyber risk, and even supply chain disruptions. Most admit uncertainty around ROI and nearly half struggle with adequate insights from their data. It’s the most frequently identified challenge CEOs expect to face over the next two to three years.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Strategy Measurement ROI 52

Ontotext

APRIL 3, 2024

Nimit Mehta : You are talking about the three big ones: cost, revenue, and risk. And, when you get to the top, it’s about risks and existential threats to the business. How do I make sure I can manage risk?” We are currently doing non-financial risk identification for a big Financial Services organization.

Technology 59

Technology Risk Digital Transformation Measurement 59