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Managing Seasonal Fluctuations in Retail with Analytics

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. There are a number of huge benefits of using data analytics to identify seasonal trends.

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How customers capture real economic value with zero trust

CIO Business Intelligence

But in today’s world, endlessly extending the network to more branch offices, remote users, and cloud apps, and defending network access through ever-growing stacks of point product hardware appliances breeds significant costs. You will also see examples of the benefits reaped by customers of the One True Zero Trust Platform.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

To get back in front, IT leaders will have to transform lessons learned from 2023 into actionable, adaptable processes, as veteran technology pros have been remarkably consistent in identifying global and economic uncertainties as key challenges for IT leaders to anticipate in 2024 as well.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Then, identify opportunities to reduce run costs and free up funds to invest in transformation and new technology capabilities. So your usage and costs should be elastic, expanding and contracting with workload.

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Ahead of the curve: How generative AI is revolutionizing the content supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

This blog and the IBM Institute for Business Value study The Revolutionary Content Supply Chain aim to answer these questions to help executives and their employees to better understand the changing landscape in content creation and embrace the power of generative AI models when it comes to optimizing their content supply chains.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Each dollar of operational cost reduction drips directly to the bottom line.”

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Is there a “right” cloud strategy for banking?

IBM Big Data Hub

While central banks have a very different mission from commercial banks, what they do have in common is the need to modernize their IT operations to support digital transformation, contain costs, source key skills and mitigate operational and cybersecurity risks.