CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But when not managed strategically in the long run, cloud spending can quickly escalate and impact margins, cost of goods sold (COGS), and cost of revenue (COR). To optimize cloud investments, C-level executives are increasingly adopting cloud financial operations (FinOps).

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datapine

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Every day, more and more businesses realize the value of analyzing their own performance to boost strategies and achieve their goals. Keep on reading to learn a definition, benefits, and a warehouse KPI list with the most prominent examples any manager should be tracking to achieve operational success. What Is A Warehouse KPI?

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

One benefit is that they can help with conversion rate optimization. This article is going to provide some great insights on developing strategies for unlocking additional value from an online business, which can do a lot to boost revenue and catapult the enterprise to new heights. billion on analytics last year.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 20, 2023

Here’s what you need to know in order to build a successful strategy. The following are the six stages of asset lifecycle management: Planning: In the first stage of the asset lifecycle, stakeholders assess the need for the asset, its projected value to the organization and its overall cost. What is an asset?

Strategy 75

Strategy Management Cost-Benefit IoT 75

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. How much will it cost?

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Talent acquisition refers to the ongoing strategy and process an organization and its HR department uses to source, attract, evaluate, hire and retain the highly-qualified new employees it needs to grow. A well-crafted talent acquisition strategy has become a critical component for organizations seeking to secure a competitive edge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2024

“We were using LLMs for chat support for administrators and employees, but when you get into vector data, and large graphical structures with a couple of hundred million rows of inter-related data and you want to optimize towards a predictive model for the future, you can’t get anywhere with LLMs,” says MakeShift CTO Danny McGuinness.

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datapine

JUNE 15, 2023

These analytical tools allow decision-makers to get a sense of their performance in a number of areas and extract valuable insights to inform their future strategies and boost growth. Keep reading to find a definition, benefits, examples, and some key best practices to generate them successfully! What Is A Performance Report?

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With the right insights, energy production from renewable assets can be optimized and better predict the future of supply and demand. Organizations working in traditional energy generation will have to adjust costs by improving the efficiency of these plants. Investment is unavoidable, so the question becomes about smart investment.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 25, 2023

A smart grid is a digital electricity network that supplies power to consumers using interactive two-way communication, enabling automated, advanced energy delivery and a litany of opportunities for consumers to control their electricity use and costs. And real-time grid monitoring is vital for optimizing smart grid technology.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 15, 2024

However, the rise of hybrid and multi-cloud patterns has led to challenges in optimizing value and controlling cloud expenditure, resulting in a shift from capital to operational expenses. To maximize benefits and realize the potential of FinOps, organizations must forge a clear path and avoid common mistakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2024

Process automation and improvement is a perennial CIO agenda item, and the call for business process optimization is only getting louder — especially for those processes directly tied to the bottom line. Expion hasn’t yet calculated the potential new business created, but the tool will save the company the cost of about 1.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

First, Optimas is using data analytics internally for a number of functions, including material acquisition for manufacturing; forecasting of production and customer demand; improving efficiency and accuracy with ordering from suppliers; and managing its inventory. Analytics is also helping the company better predict demand and consumption.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

BPR examples are not one-time projects, but rather examples of a continuous journey of innovation and change focused on optimizing end-to-end processes and eliminating redundancies. This blog outlines some BPR examples that benefit from a BPM methodology.

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datapine

APRIL 12, 2023

A loyal, high-value repeat customer is worth more than a cheap sale, and by implementing the right strategy, setting the right goals, and working with the right KPIs, you will achieve the results you desire. But how do you calculate the impact of your promotional strategies? Keep reading to find out!

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Jedox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The goal is to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, make proactive decisions and to optimally support this with a professional, fully integrated S&OP solution. 5 steps to optimize S&OP performance. Step 1 – Product portfolio optimization based on strategic company goals. Figure 3: Top-down vs. bottom-Up product planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. The cost of implementing and running AI models can be quite high, so you have to be really careful in assessing the business worthiness of AI use cases,” he says. “The

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DataRobot Blog

AUGUST 18, 2022

Challenges in inventory management, demand forecasting, price optimization, and more can result in missed opportunities and lost revenue. According to McKinsey & Company, organizations that implement AI improve logistics costs by 15%, inventory levels by 35%, and service levels by 65% 2. Benefits of AI in Supply Chain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

1 The rapid migration to the public cloud comes with numerous benefits, such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and enhanced collaboration. 6 On top of that, the average cost of a data breach is over $4.4 6 On top of that, the average cost of a data breach is over $4.4 Operational costs. 8 Complexity. 8 Complexity.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

When implemented effectively, a successful BI strategy will reach every corner of the organization, having a positive impact and enabling people to make the right decisions quickly. What is business intelligence strategy? At the same time, enterprises can use the BI strategy to gradually reach various business objectives.

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FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

When implemented effectively, a successful BI strategy will reach every corner of the organization, having a positive impact and enabling people to make the right decisions quickly. What is business intelligence strategy? At the same time, enterprises can use the BI strategy to gradually reach various business objectives.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

That figure is expected to grow as more businesses discover its benefits. Analytics Can Be Essential for Helping Companies with their Pricing Strategies. In today’s business world, pricing has become one of the most important parts of a company’s strategy. Cost-Plus Pricing.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Being profitable and delivering the most value to shareholders starts with having a robust tax planning strategy that enables you to keep more of your hard-earned money while ensuring compliance with every tax district—and keeping your reputation intact. Unfortunately, when it comes to taxes, there are many moving parts to consider.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 14, 2024

Despite the headwinds, there are tailwinds in which we can use new technology to enable CFOs to perform in their business partnering roles and drive productivity, cost take out, accuracy, control and business value. There are benefits to being a consumer of AI but far greater benefits for being a value creator.

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Jen Stirrup

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Artificial Intelligence revolutionizes large and small businesses with automation, data analysis, and improved customer experiences, offering cost savings and a competitive edge. Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries and everyday lives, but how can it benefit small businesses? What is AI?

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Cloudera

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we navigate the fourth and fifth industrial revolution, AI technologies are catalyzing a paradigm shift in how products are designed, produced, and optimized. There are many functional areas within manufacturing where manufacturers will see AI’s massive benefits.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals. Specific types of sourcing minimize costs in different ways.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The main challenges are pointed out as a lack of resources/expertise, security, and from a different perspective, cloud cost management. The decentralized resource provisioning approach, foundational to cloud solutions and infrastructure, faces a big challenge when it comes to governing the costs of on-demand resource allocation/utilization.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With the rise of highly personalized online shopping, direct-to-consumer models, and delivery services, generative AI can help retailers further unlock a host of benefits that can improve customer care, talent transformation and the performance of their applications. The impact of these investments will become evident in the coming years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2022

Holistic, multi-dimensional collaboration delivers the highest total value, considering cost, speed, risk, quality, and overall customer experience. It includes order collaboration, forecast, capacity, inventory, quality, and cost collaboration with suppliers. To succeed, holistic supply chain collaboration is critical.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. What are the benefits of Integrated Business Planning process?

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 12, 2023

IBM’s recommendations included API-specific improvements, bot UX optimization, workflow optimization, DevOps microservices and design consideration, and best practices for Azure manage services. Learn more about the benefits of cloud-native development.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 10, 2020

Machine learning is helping companies in every sector optimize their business models. We want to cover the costs of both job scheduling and appointment scheduling issues in this post. Companies that use machine learning can significantly reduce the costs of major accounting errors. Machine learning can help with both.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This allows companies to understand consumer behavior better and also optimize their processes as well as operations. This way, organizations can discover new opportunities and develop strategies accordingly. Tesla powerwall can then be used to optimize energy consumption by providing customers with customized recommendations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

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