CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Some time ago I wrote a post about how you can use the DISCOVER_CALC_DEPENDENCY DMV to get a list of all the tables, columns and relationships referenced by a DAX query. That’s really useful and indeed the new INFO.CALCDEPENDENCY DAX function allows you to do the same thing without all the complexity of calling a DMV. However this doesn’t quite give you everything you need to solve one important problem: which columns are touched when a DAX query runs?

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Mayfair, one of the oldest districts in London, has started showing the benefits of investing in big data for business.

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, a management consultant I met made an off-the-cuff remark that caught my attention. I was asking them about the ways in which generative AI might impact their business and they shared that clients might not want to pay $50,000 for a slide deck anymore if they disclosed that generative AI […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: Does Using Generative AI Devalue Professional Work?

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

Business Intelligence

GrowbyData

OCTOBER 22, 2024

You are annoyed by the resellers who are violating the MAP price policies they signed with you. You are shocked to see sellers you didn’t know with terrible customer reviews sell your products. You didn’t know your products were sold in digital channels like eBay you were not intending to sell or in countries you didn’t want to have a presence. To understand these violations in the US, Canada, and Mexico, you purchase a good Minimum Advertised Price Monitoring Solution.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024. The latest legal documents came from Automattic, which argued that its people did nothing wrong and that the blame lies solely with WP Engine.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If you have been using Power BI Copilot to ask questions about the data in your model you will probably know that you should tune your Linguistic Schema to get the best results (something I’ve blogged about, for example here and here ). Synonyms are one of the most important things you can add to your Linguistic Schema and in this post I will explain all the different ways synonyms can be created.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 20, 2024

AI can be great for creating powerful videos, so you should look for an agency that knows how to use it effectively.

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 2, 2024

CXOs this year have witnessed a rollercoaster economy amid plenty of turbulent events – from ongoing inflation affecting consumer spending to large stock market swings, major overseas conflicts, and the uncertainties of an election year. Not surprisingly, the economic forecast remains murky at best. According to a CNBC CFO survey, CFOs seem to agree that […] The post Chief Officers: Do You Know What Your Data is Costing You?

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Weidert Group

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Among marketers, B2Bs and industrials aren’t typically the earliest adopters of emerging trends and technologies. Conventional wisdom has often seen consumer marketing as the vanguard of innovation, with B2B eventually following suit — sometimes years later. For me, our team’s annual trip to INBOUND really challenged this notion, revealing a landscape where industrial marketers have an opportunity to do more than just keep pace.

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Paul Turnley

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I work with hundreds of consulting clients who go through the same cycles, having the same experiences, facing the same challenges, many making the same mistakes, and many learning some of the same lessons. The purpose of this series is to share those lessons with you. Universal Best Practices If we sum up Power BI best practices at the highest level, it is that all projects of any scale and size should adhere to the same general set of guidelines, categorically.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisor

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Infegy

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the competitive landscape of advertising and consulting, leveraging robust social listening APIs is essential for informed business decisions and crafting targeted strategies for high-value clients. Selecting the right social listening API for data innovation and analytics initiatives can significantly impact campaign effectiveness and client satisfaction.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Discover how striking a balance between AI and human collaboration shapes the future of trusted data management for enhanced security and efficiency.

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With the rise of technology, data centers – the foundation of our internet-powered lives – are under increasing scrutiny for their overall environmental impact. These massive facilities consume vast amounts of energy and water, contributing significantly to carbon emissions. However, the tide is turning. A growing trend toward sustainability is reshaping the way data centers operate, […] The post Sustainable Data Centers: The Green Revolution in Data Management appeared first on DATAVERSI

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Weidert Group

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Think back for a moment about the weeks and months after ChatGPT’s public launch on November 30, 2022. Within five days, the platform drew more than a million users—and faster than you could say “prompt engineer,” marketers had some thoughts. Doomsayers predicted the end of human content creation. Writers would be out of a job, followed by designers, developers, data analysts…you get the point.

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E2M

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Think you’re ready to launch your new WordPress website? Before you rush in to hit that ‘go live’ button, use this comprehensive WordPress website launch checklist to ensure you’re truly 100% good to go. This guide breaks down 31 things you need to check before you launch, why you need to check them, and, most importantly, how to do it. WordPress Website Launch Checklist A.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, and take actions much as a human worker would, without human intervention. It’s more than just a smarter RPA Agentic AI isn’t just a better version of robotic process automation (RPA) : It promises to take enterprises places RPA never could.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model has gained a new ability: operating a computer. The new ability, which the company is calling “computer use,” is currently in beta test. It enables developers to instruct Claude 3.5 Sonnet, through the Anthropic API , to read and interpret what’s on the display, type text, move the cursor, click buttons, and switch between windows or applications — much as today’s robotic process automation (RPA) tools can be instructed — much more laboriously

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver meaningful returns from generative AI initiatives, yet spiraling costs and complex governance challenges are undermining their efforts, according to Gartner. Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CIOs are under increasing pressure to generate business value from generative AI, but Salesforce CIO Juan Perez is among those IT leaders who believe such impatience from the C-suite could doom many projects. “The explosion of AI has really put CIOs in the spotlight and placed the CIOs in the hot seat like never before,” says Perez, fresh off two industry events in which many of his CIO colleagues say they feel they are between a rock and a hard place.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As organizations rush to spin up AI projects, many IT professionals aren’t sold on the value of these early efforts. A substantial 36% of IT professionals surveyed by Dice.com believe that the primary purpose of many AI projects they’ve worked on is to show investors, board members, or outside stakeholders that the company is doing something with AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades. Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. Unprecedented growth in AWS during this period also compelled CIOs to learn more about how startups were innovating and operating efficiently on the cloud.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Now, however, organizations are laying off Agile teams en masse, disillusioned by the lack of tangible results.

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