David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

As quantum computing advances at an unprecedented pace, the concept of Q-Daya day when quantum computers can fundamentally undermine our current encryption methodshas entered discussions among cybersecurity professionals and business leaders alike. While there is no definitive date set for Q-Day, we are approaching a critical juncture where traditional cryptographic techniques may no longer suffice to protect sensitive data, digital communications and transactions.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 15, 2025

AI is coming for your job – and mine too.– Micha Kaufman, CEO, Fiverr This chilling sentence isnt a clickbait headline – its the harsh truth written by Fiverrs CEO in a candid email to his employees. And hes not alone. In the past few months, weve seen a wave of unsettling announcements from companies […] The post BEWARE: AI is Coming for Your Jobs!

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

Doing more with less is the defining characteristic of finance and accounting departments in midsize enterprises, which ISG research defines as organizations with between 100 and 999 workers. One frustrating truth confronting executives in these organizations is that, once their company stops being a small business, it has many of the same challenges that large enterprises face but with fewer resources to deal with them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

We are standing at a once-in-a-generation inflection point that will rival the most transformative infrastructure eras in US history. Fueled by the rise of AI, more than $7 trillion is being invested into the infrastructure needed to power the future, with companies projected to invest $5.2 trillion into data centers by 2030 to add 125 gigawatts of AI-related capacity.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

Founded as Software Development Laboratories in 1977, Oracle is a behemoth in the software industry, generating more than $50 billion in revenue in its fiscal year 2024. Originally focused solely on the relational database market, the software provider operated as Relational Systems, Inc. for several years before adopting the name Oracle in 1982. The company went public in 1986 and became one of the largest software providers in the world, eventually amassing a large portfolio of business applic

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 15, 2025

Conversational automation is one of those software segments that means something different depending on who you are or your role in an organization. According to my colleague Jeff Orr , the core of the idea is that conversational automation tools benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), allowing software agents, chatbots and virtual assistants to automate customer interactions and internal processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

More than half of all CEOs dont have faith that their CIOs have enough AI expertise to meet their organizations short-term needs, raising serious questions about CIO job security and enterprise ability to execute AI priorities. Just 44% of CEOs believe their CIOs are savvy enough to guide their organizations to meet their organizations AI needs through 2026, according to a survey conducted by Gartner in the second half of 2024.

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KDnuggets

MAY 15, 2025

Confused by AI agent frameworks? This article makes sense of A2A and MCP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

We have helped dozens of organizations make the leap from project to product. Most of the time, the new product teams launch with great fanfare. Theyre cross-functional. Agile. Empowered. Theyve got the right tools and a healthy backlog. It feels like all the ingredients are there for the best meal of their lives. But eventually, they run into the same old bottleneck: the funding model.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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KDnuggets

MAY 15, 2025

Learn about the AWS machine learning service that helps you build machine learning pipelines, from processing data to training and deploying models.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 15, 2025

New tools are helping law enforcement process complex evidence faster and revisit unsolved cases with fresh eyes.

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Dataiku

MAY 15, 2025

In a world where GenAI is no longer a novelty but a strategic imperative, the role of the CIO is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. AI&Us, the web series from Dataiku, is back for its third season Guardians of AI Innovation and dives headfirst into this new reality, offering an unfiltered look at how top CIOs are not just keeping up with AI advances but using them to reinvent their businesses.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 15, 2025

More accounting teams are turning to AI to improve accuracy, save time, and reduce financial risk.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

Security teams face increasingly fast-acting, and dangerous, threats. And AI is increasing the pace of cyber attacks to the point where conventional responses are no longer enough. According to researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the median time it takes an attacker to penetrate a network and access confidential data has fallen from an average of nine days in 2022, to under 24 hours in almost 45% of cases in 2024. [1] In some cases, successful hacks are carried out in just minutes.

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Jet Global

MAY 15, 2025

UKs largest privately-owned produce supplier aims to improve its enterprise performance management (EPM) capabilities RALEIGH, N.C. May 15, 2025 insightsoftware , the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, today announced Fresca Group , one of the UKs largest fresh produce businesses, will deploy JustPerform from insightsoftware.

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Teradata

MAY 15, 2025

AI enables telcos to evolve beyond utility providers, becoming trusted B2B partners in digital transformation by offering high-value, AI-driven services.

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Anmut

MAY 15, 2025

Human trafficking and exploitation are often perceived as distant issues, yet they are deeply embedded in our day-to-day livesfrom care homes and construction sites to the manufacturing of everyday products. You may be closer to it than you think. Globally, human trafficking generates an estimated $498 billion in annual profits and affects more than 50 million people trapped in modern slavery.

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Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 15, 2025

Large language models are a treasure trove of data, but until last year, their use was limited to basic Q/A based on their training data. Then came the concept of RAG, a breakthrough that helped us connect our data sources with LLMs to create personalized, credible systems. Now with MCP, we are taking the way […] The post MCP vs RAG: Competitors or Complements?

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AWS Big Data

MAY 15, 2025

Data environments in data-driven organizations are changing to meet the growing demands for analytics , including business intelligence (BI) dashboarding, one-time querying, data science , machine learning (ML), and generative AI. These organizations have a huge demand for lakehouse solutions that combine the best of data warehouses and data lakes to simplify data management with easy access to all data from their preferred engines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

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MAY 15, 2025

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MAY 15, 2025

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2025

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