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Yogurt maker stirs in SAP to boost its demand planning capability

CIO Business Intelligence

More than 120 ‘flavors’ to handle When your company is dealing with today’s volatile market, a variety of products, and a supply chain covering 120+ countries – each with its own rules and processes – demand planning, including forecasting, can get a bit gut-wrenching. Such was the case with Danone.

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Financial planning & budgeting: Navigating the Budgeting Paradox

IBM Big Data Hub

Obsolete data and financial projections A budget, at its core, is a financial forecast. Unanticipated risks Good budgeting plans for risks. Using an old budget can result in inadequate hedging strategies, poor financial decisions, exposure to unfavorable currency fluctuations or misjudged credit risks.

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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

IBM Big Data Hub

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. Data integration and analytics IBP relies on the integration of data from different sources and systems.

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Get Analytics with Reports Your Users Can Understand!

Smarten

Gartner defines Data and Analytics (D&A) as, ‘…the ways organizations manage data to support all its uses, and analyze data to improve decisions, business processes and outcomes, such as discovering new business risks, challenges and opportunities.’

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Controlling escalating cloud and AI costs and preventing data leakage are the top reasons why enterprises are eying hybrid infrastructure as their target AI solution. IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services — which includes hosted private cloud and dedicated cloud infrastructure as a service — will hit $20.4

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Ask IT leaders about their challenges with shadow IT, and most will cite the kinds of security, operational, and integration risks that give shadow IT its bad rep. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT. There may be times when department-specific data needs and tools are required.

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Great Benefits of Leveraging Big Data in Investing

Smart Data Collective

In this article, we will show you the use of the tools and the top reasons to hire Django developers to help you with big data integration. Main Types of Big Data. It is crucial to research the field before you use big data implementation. This type of big data is used to forecast and for making the right decisions.

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