Tag: business intelligence

July 26, 2024

In the evolving IT landscape, cloud deployments have become deeply entrenched in business operations, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. The widespread adoption of cloud technologies has created a complex and dynamic environment, often spanning multiple providers and geographical regions, […]

July 26, 2024

Embrace AI or die. That’s the modern mantra across global business, putting CIOs in the driver’s seat of the enterprise’s success — and in some cases pitting them against their CEOs. Not all IT chiefs take the expanded calling to […]

July 25, 2024

CIOs have a long history of managing incidents and disasters through established IT practices, guided by frameworks such as ITIL for incident management and disaster recovery. However, as ecommerce has proliferated, security threats have increased, elevating cybersecurity to a board-level […]

July 24, 2024

Data silos represent a major business challenge, as noted by 60.9% of organizations in a recent Trends in Data Management survey. Without shared information, companies risk duplication, poor data quality, and missed opportunities for innovation. Consequently, many companies turn to […]

July 23, 2024

The IT industry has a long history of vendors exaggerating the functionality of their products, and it’s certainly happening in the current AI hype cycle. Now, even user companies appear to be overstating their AI capabilities, potentially leading to major headaches. IT leaders at […]

July 23, 2024

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, […]

July 22, 2024

Discerning businesses are ensuring each area of their organizations has access to performance metrics. Armed with data, their teams can accelerate decision-making, respond to client and marketplace demands, and mitigate risks. The issue is many organizations have segregated data environments. […]

July 22, 2024

The increase in the prevalence and complexity of data breaches points to one conclusion – traditional cybersecurity measures are no longer enough to keep our valuable data safe. According to a recent report, data breaches exposed a staggering 35 billion records in the […]

July 19, 2024

The vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs), such as their ability to create hallucinations, their inherent biases, and their susceptibility to corruption, have led to hesitation among businesses in deploying AI applications for business advantage. This concern is compounded further […]

July 18, 2024

Developer productivity is neither well-understood nor enabled, according to Atlassian’s just-released State of Developer Experience Report 2024. The report also found that interest in the developer experience, or DX, is growing but efforts are lagging. Announced July 15 and accessible at atlassian.com, […]

July 18, 2024

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of the past 12 months, according to data obtained by a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The information, acquired and analysed […]

July 17, 2024

Businesses rely on accurate, synchronized information to make informed decisions. Because discordant data leads to operational inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and costly mistakes. Hence, a unified, reliable source of truth is key, which is possible through data synchronization. It helps maintain […]

July 16, 2024

Preparing your data for myriad AI applications is just as complicated as it sounds. Focusing on the wrong challenges will only make it more difficult. It’s become clear that generative AI will play an important role in your organization. And […]

July 16, 2024

Success with a multi-tenant architecture requires the close alignment of design, use case, and underlying technology. Let’s dive into the key design patterns, their benefits, and their challenges. Multi-tenant data management is an essential part of a systems architecture designed […]

July 15, 2024

From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection. Picking the “right” database can often be critical to the success of an application. Rather than taking the advice of […]

July 15, 2024

In the contemporary data-driven business landscape, the seamless integration of data architecture with business operations has become critical for success. There is a symbiosis between sophisticated data architectures and operational agility that demonstrates how this integration facilitates real-time decision-making, predictive analytics, […]

July 12, 2024

Farming is one of the oldest industries in the world, with evidence of agriculture being found as far back as 21,000 BC. However, with an increasing population and environmental disruption through climate change, farming needs to find new solutions to […]

July 11, 2024

CIO Hall of Famers Steve Randich and Neal Sample weigh in on what it takes to build and lead IT cultures that deliver transformative results. In a business environment defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), the most successful […]

July 10, 2024

Platform teams have emerged as critical enablers of innovation and efficiency because of their ability to provide a solid foundation for the development, deployment, and scaling of new technologies. Modernization has become table stakes for organizations, but transitioning to the […]

July 10, 2024

GenAI spending is exploding; does cybersecurity functionality deserve any of that budget? Businesses are investing great sums of money in generative AI – to the point that GenAI spending in 2025 will be nearly seven times greater than it was […]