CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

Some researchers and tech leaders are using the strategy. In practice, I think leaders are too afraid to take that risk; it’s a change, and we’re inundated with change, and this is one more change they’re not willing to take on,” says Brittany Lutes, a research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. Others IT execs express reservations.

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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. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 20, 2023

Whether you’re a small enterprise with only a few assets or a large-scale corporation with offices spanning the globe, asset lifecycle management, or ALM, is a fundamental part of your operations. Here’s what you need to know in order to build a successful strategy. What is asset lifecycle management?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. There are other risks, too. Why are we really going to cloud?

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. A procurement strategy is not merely a series of steps for acquiring goods and services. What is a procurement strategy?

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There, I met with IT leaders across multiple lines of business and agencies in the US Federal government focused on optimizing the value of AI in the public sector. AI can optimize citizen-centric service delivery by predicting demand and customizing service delivery, resulting in reduced costs and improved outcomes.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 12, 2023

As public cloud technology and hybrid multicloud architectures are being adopted in financial institutions at an increasing rate, we’re observing that their counterparts in the public sector— central banks—are a long way behind, due at least in part to a profoundly risk-averse approach.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

This post explores the deployment of Apache Ranger for permission management within the Hadoop ecosystem on Amazon EKS. We show how Ranger integrates with Hadoop components like Apache Hive, Spark, Trino, Yarn, and HDFS, providing secure and efficient data management in a cloud environment.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Without an AI strategy, organizations risk missing out on the benefits AI can offer. An AI strategy helps organizations address the complex challenges associated with AI implementation and define its objectives. What is an AI strategy? A successful AI strategy should act as a roadmap for this plan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 12, 2024

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. The first post of this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

Metrics that create a narrative and show how the business compares to competitors, the wider industry, and globally against all businesses give a clear picture that allows board members to set strategy. The day continues with Doug Fisher, SVP and CSO at Lenovo , who will share his strategies for strong security leadership.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Yet, as organizations transform, CIOs and their teams are being asked to manage the optimal mix of infrastructure, platform, software, database, storage, and more to meet these new strategic objectives—while also creating sustained value and positioning the organization for the future. My advice: Be proactive.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

A growing number of businesses use big data technology to optimize efficiency. However, companies that have a formal data strategy are still in the minority. Only 32% of executives have officially laid out a data strategy to drive their organization. Keep reading to learn how to combine these two initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. Lacking a clear strategy determined by business objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

Despite headlines warning that artificial intelligence poses a profound risk to society , workers are curious, optimistic, and confident about the arrival of AI in the enterprise, and becoming more so with time, according to a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). For many, their feelings are based on sound experience.

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Decision Management Solutions

MARCH 4, 2020

Balancing key profit drivers such as revenue, risk, & costs is central to success in lending and many other high volume, transactional decisions targeted with Decision Management. The decision improvement lifecycle is central to delivering the full value of decision management.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Embracing responsible emissions management can transform how organizations impact the health and profitability of their assets. As leaders in asset management operations, you must help your company deliver on the bottom line. Emissions management is pivotal in enabling compliance, as it helps organizations trace and resolve issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 19, 2021

But in most instances, the real risk comes from within. For this reason, it’s highly important to implement the correct strategies to minimize any potential breaches. Management levels. Whilst this works to a certain extent, it also opens up the potential for leaks to stem from management itself. Potential consequences.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A cloud migration, however, is a huge undertaking that requires thorough planning and execution of a comprehensive strategy to successfully achieve business goals. Though it can deliver many benefits, a migration project poses some risks to an organization and presents a unique set of challenges.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2022

As companies lean into data-first modernization to deliver best-in-class experiences and drive innovation, protecting and managing data at scale become core challenges. This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

In some instances, organizations undertook a thoughtful and planned approach to their multicloud strategies. Many found these environments difficult to manage, govern and modernize, all while controlling costs. To truly take advantage of the promise of multicloud, organizations must adopt a multicloud-by-design strategy.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If a company fails to do so, customer satisfaction is put at risk. Information about the revenue will give managers valuable insights to aid decision-making. If errors like this happen often, your business’s reputation is put at risk. The data is essential for optimizing the business, thus, increasing the profits.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s get started with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy for your small business. The first step of a well-planned cybersecurity strategy is identifying the avenues of attack in your system. Keeping up-to-date with software patches is time and money-consuming but is extremely important to manage your security framework.

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CDW Research Hub

MAY 7, 2021

The cost of software licenses often represents a large part of a company’s budget and can be overwhelming to manage as your business grows. Tracking how much software you own and who is using it, your renewal schedules and pricing—along with the fine print that no one reads—is a lot to manage on your own.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 9, 2024

” Watsonx.data lets organizations optimize workloads for different uses. It would be a huge challenge for a human to manage these models, so we use the autoAI feature of watsonx to help us build the right model and pick the best projection.” Watsonx.governance makes it easy to manage and deploy all these models effectively.”

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Luckily, there are a few analytics optimization strategies you can use to make life easy on your end. Let’s dive right into how DirectX visualization can boost analytics and facilitate testing for you as an Algo-trader, quant fund manager, etc. For example, the trading duration, volatility and risk involved, among other things.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets. The Data Management Association (DAMA) International defines it as the “planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.’ “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To make real strides in each of these areas, Value Stream Management (VSM) has emerged as an urgent demand. The findings from this survey are now available in a report entitled “ 2023 Value Stream Management Trends.” With supply chain issues and the impending recession, digital transformation remains a pressing strategic imperative.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Unaligned checkpoints help, under specific conditions, to reduce checkpointing time for applications suffering temporary backpressure, and can be now enabled in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink applications running Apache Flink 1.15.2 This feature has been available since Apache Flink 1.11 and has received many improvements since then.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Of the nearly 6,000 CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who shared their insights for VMware’s Multi-Cloud Maturity Index , a global survey conducted by market-research firm Vanson Bourne, more than half believe the stakes are even higher: 53% say organizations that do not adopt a multi-cloud approach risk failure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. Asking the right questions to understand the business’ strategy and implementing architecture that supports the technology of the future is fundamental.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s similar to prices – price optimization through machine learning is a great tool to grow your revenue. By processing and analyzing big amounts of data, they can help you establish optimized pricing plans. Hire machine learning to make optimal pricing decisions. Price optimization without machine learning is incomplete.

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