CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We are thrilled to share that IBM is named a Leader in the most recent Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management. They are increasingly working across multi-cloud environments and tools — each of which provides their own set of identity and access management (IAM) capabilities to manage.

Management 73

Management Strategy Digital Transformation Reporting 73

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

IT 111

IT Data Architecture Unstructured Data Big Data 111

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

But things have gotten a little more complicated now, as the large-scale roll-out of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has introduced the need for a multidisciplinary approach to innovation. The real power of the technology is its ability to draw on disparate data sets and connect workflows. This is a challenge for many CIOs.

Strategy 138

Strategy Insurance Digital Transformation Enterprise 138

Laminar Security

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the age of cloud computing, data security and cost management are paramount for businesses. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) serves as a critical tool in this landscape, offering businesses a way to keep their data secure while also managing their cloud storage costs effectively.

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Cost-Benefit Risk Optimization Risk Management 95

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

While many organizations have implemented AI, the need to keep a competitive edge and foster business growth demands new approaches: simultaneously evolving AI strategies, showcasing their value, enhancing risk postures and adopting new engineering capabilities. It should be approached thoughtfully to help ensure suitability.

Enterprise 106

Enterprise ROI Risk Strategy 106

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Companies are now recognizing the work ahead of them to get their data, people, and processes ready to capitalize on gen AI’s potential. Integrating AI effectively into a business begins with setting clear objectives that define the business value and aligning the AI strategy with these overarching business goals.

Enterprise 135

Enterprise Modeling Strategy Testing 135

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

IT 97

IT Data Architecture Unstructured Data Big Data 97

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In “ Designing Jobs Right ,” strategist Roger Martin describes it like this: “Whether a CEO has delegated a mission to the president of a business unit, or a business unit president has handed over an initiative to a category manager, or a category manager has entrusted a brand manager with a project, the sequence of events is eerily consistent.

Strategy 132

Strategy IT Uncertainty Machine Learning 132

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance IT Risk Data Lake 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

While implementing effective strategies that harness automation and security technology remain critical, the most successful organizations tackle complex security challenges by involving different organizational disciplines in the risk-management problem statement. involved in the risk management process.

Enterprise 97

Enterprise Risk Management Risk Manufacturing 97

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

It’s a reminder that without a clear view of our data and systems, we’re leaving ourselves vulnerable to all sorts of risks. It’s alarming that data breaches often take nearly a year to be detected and contained, leaving organizations vulnerable for an extended period. That’s where effective vendor consolidation comes into play.

Risk 98

Risk Strategy Dashboards Management 98

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 12, 2022

My first task as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is to implement a data strategy. Over the past 15 years, I’ve learned that an effective data strategy enables the enterprise’s business strategy and is critical to elevate the role of a CDO from the backroom to the boardroom. A data-literate culture.

Data Strategy 83

Data Strategy Strategy Enterprise Data-driven 83

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Architecture Strategy Data Lake 52

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Yet one way to simplify transformation and accelerate the process is using an industry-specific approach. Any vertical modernization approach should balance in-depth, vertical sector expertise with a solutions-based methodology that caters to specific business needs. Consider the critical area of security controls, for example.

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Insurance Data Warehouse Manufacturing Forecasting 114

Ontotext

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It enriched their understanding of the full spectrum of knowledge graph business applications and the technology partner ecosystem needed to turn data into a competitive advantage. Content and data management solutions based on knowledge graphs are becoming increasingly important across enterprises.

Metadata 78

Metadata Sales Consulting Enterprise 78

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a result, new forms of centrally managed digital currencies are emerging alongside cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the notorious volatility of which has challenged their acceptance worldwide. Privacy refers to the right of data owners to control who accesses their transactional information. This can be interpreted in various ways.

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Experimentation Modeling Finance Reporting 100

Cloudera

AUGUST 9, 2022

With all of the buzz around cloud computing, many companies have overlooked the importance of hybrid data. Many large enterprises went all-in on cloud without considering the costs and potential risks associated with a cloud-only approach. The truth is, the future of data architecture is all about hybrid.

Data Architecture 91

Data Architecture Data Strategy Strategy Data-driven 91

Andrew White

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Data and analytics leaders must explore building capabilities to rapidly compose and recompose transparent decision flows. Composable Data and Analytics. Data Fabric Is the Foundation. The data fabric approach can enhance traditional data management patterns and replace them with a more responsive approach.

Analytics 90

Analytics Uncertainty Machine Learning Modeling 90

Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data-fuelled innovation requires a pragmatic strategy. This blog lays out some steps to help you incrementally advance efforts to be a more data-driven, customer-centric organization. For example, providers can start by including more real-time data streams that can enhance customer interactions. Embrace incremental progress.

Strategy 105

Strategy Data Strategy ROI Cost-Benefit 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Never one to back down in the face of a challenge, Dimension Data has a long track record of success using its extensive portfolio of IT solutions and services to solve complex problems. For most, a hybrid approach to IT that harnesses the cloud is the natural way forward, but it’s not a simple undertaking. That’s where we come in.”.

IT 98

IT Internet of Things Optimization Enterprise 98

Ontotext

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

What Makes a Data Fabric? Data Fabric’ has reached where ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Grid Computing’ once trod. Data Fabric hit the Gartner top ten in 2019. This multiplicity of data leads to the growth silos, which in turns increases the cost of integration. It is a buzzword.

Metadata 69

Metadata Knowledge Discovery Data Quality Strategy 69

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

IT 138

IT Cost-Benefit Finance Consulting 138

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 11, 2022

Take a second to think about all the ways data has changed in the last 20 years. The transformation in our phones is analogous to the evolution of the modern data architecture for enterprises. The transformation in our phones is analogous to the evolution of the modern data architecture for enterprises. Data virtualization.

Data Architecture 57

Data Architecture Enterprise Optimization Technology 57

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Some African entrepreneurs have begun to address this urgency by developing atypical accounting automation and new management systems where CIOs drive the ins and outs of the processes to keep up with ever-changing markets. Some entrepreneurs say they’ve already found solutions to make management easier and more beneficial to organizations.

Management 98

Management Digital Transformation B2B Marketing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. The net result?

IT 98

IT Data Science IoT Digital Transformation 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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Data-driven Enterprise Data Governance Data Lake 58

Ontotext

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Achieving this advantage is dependent on their ability to capture, connect, integrate, and convert data into insight for business decisions and processes. This is the goal of a “data-driven” organization. We call this the “ Bad Data Tax ”. This is partly because integrating and moving data is not the only problem.

IT 69

IT Cost-Benefit Data-driven Technology 69

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Examples of AI bias in the real world show us that when discriminatory data and algorithms are baked into AI models, the models deploy biases at scale and amplify the resulting negative effects. Bias can be found in the initial training data, the algorithm, or the predictions the algorithm produces.

Advertising 75

Advertising Machine Learning Data Architecture Cost-Benefit 75

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

We’re moving away from rigid hierarchies of managers and subordinates, transitioning towards more dynamic and flexible teams.” This approach is vital for staying competitive and responsive in an era where technological advancements, particularly in AI, are rapid and transformative.”

IT 144

IT Cost-Benefit Statistics Consulting 144

Andrew White

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This time, since we were virtual I only managed to close out the week with the 1-1 summary. Monetization/Link data to outcome (value pyramid) business value of data/business impact 20. Analytics Tactics (known outcome/known data/BI/analytics v unknown outcome/unknown data/data science/ML) 11. Automotive 1.

IT 52

IT Data Lake Strategy Data Science 52

Cloudera

JANUARY 5, 2023

In the past year, businesses who doubled down on digital transformation during the pandemic saw their efforts coming to fruition in the form of cost savings and more streamlined data management. 1- Treating data as a strategic business asset . 2- Operationalizing adaptive AI systems for quicker business decision-making.

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Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Machine Learning Data Architecture 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. Luckily, today’s data management approaches aren’t limited by traditional constraints like location or data patterns.

Data Strategy 57

Data Strategy Strategy Business Objectives Data-driven 57

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2023

According to data from Statista, $1.3T was spent on digital transformation initiatives in 2021, yet BCG data tells us that 70% of digital initiatives fail. Second, there is the matter of organization change management and cultural change. Can you talk about what you mean by alignment in that context?

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Business Objectives Strategy Technology 98

Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh is still in its infancy, and data personas and organizations are craving clarity and specificity. It is critical to be aware of the “why” and “what” and fully understand the role that knowledge graphs play when considering adopting a data mesh strategy. The debate on what constitutes a data mesh rages on.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Quality Data Architecture 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 12, 2023

In less than a year, we’ve gone from the “run your business and apply AI to help” paradigm to a reality where enterprises in every industry are navigating how to embed AI into the fabric of their strategies. A hybrid multicloud approach enables easier scalability and adoption of new processes and workflows on a larger scale.

Enterprise 57

Enterprise Unstructured Data Modeling Machine Learning 57

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I am excited to announce, therefore, that a few months ago I took on the role of IBM Power general manager. Accelerating business transformation with SAP HANA on Power As the 2027 end of mainstream maintenance for SAP’s legacy ERP is approaching, our customers are all in different stages of their business transformation journey.

Strategy 98

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data-driven Digital Transformation 98