June, 2024

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure?

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AI Can Do Wonders to Improve Internal Communication

Smart Data Collective

AI has helped companies improve their internal communications significantly, which is encouraging for many businesses in 2024.

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Tech Hobbies Can Help Future Data Scientists Excel

Smart Data Collective

There are a lot of great things that you can do to become a more successful data scientist, which includes engaging in certain hobbies.

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Calculate(), Filter() And DAX Memory Usage

Chris Webb BI

Following on from my last post on the Query Memory Limit in Power BI, in this post I want to look at one of the most common DAX antipatterns and its effect on query memory usage: filtering on a whole table, rather than an individual column, in the filter parameters of the Calculate() function. A lot has already been written on this particular antipattern from the point of view of query performance – for example see here and here – but it’s only with the recent addition of the E

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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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The Future of Insurance: A Business Analyst’s Insight into Emerging Trends and Technologies

Dataversity

The insurance industry is undergoing a revolution, mainly driven by the application of advanced emerging technologies. The application and installation of new technologies enable a better future for our industry, where customers will receive maximum efficiency, security, and flexibility. Here, we address the major technologies and trends that influence this transition, shedding light on their […] The post The Future of Insurance: A Business Analyst’s Insight into Emerging Trends and Techno

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European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails

CIO

Artificial intelligence, it is widely assumed, will soon unleash the biggest transformation in health care provision since the medical sector started its journey to professionalization after the flu pandemic of 1918. The catch is that bringing this about will require new institutional channels for knowledge, engineering, and ethical collaboration that don’t yet exist.

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HubSpot Reporting Dashboards How-To | Weidert Group

Weidert Group

Data is king when assessing your sales funnel and progress toward achieving your business growth goals. And with tools like HubSpot reporting dashboards, marketers and sales managers can have all the data your heart desires. Unlimited data access is great. But it can also be overwhelming. Marketing and sales managers often need to apply multiple filters across different reports , which can be time-consuming.

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Harnessing the Power of Data in Healthcare, Retail, and Energy Industries

Smart Data Collective

Data mining offers a number of important benefits for companies in the healthcare, energy and retail sectors.

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Power BI Semantic Model Memory Errors, Part 4: The Query Memory Limit

Chris Webb BI

Continuing my series on Power BI memory errors (see part 1 , part 2 and part 3 ), in this post I’ll look at the query memory limit which controls the amount of memory that an individual query can consume. This is a subject which I’ve talked about in a few blog posts in the past: hitting this limit is one of the reasons you’ll see the “This visual has exceeded the available resources ” error which I blogged about here and and here.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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The Cool Kids Corner: Lifelong Learning 

Dataversity

Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. (Last month, we discussed data leadership.) This month, we’re talking about lifelong learning. In the Data Management space, what drives us to learn […] The post The Cool Kids Corner: Lifelong Learning appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Using social listening for competitive analysis in pharmaceuticals

Infegy

Understanding your competitors' strategies in today’s highly competitive pharmaceutical industry can give your brand a crucial edge. With the pharmaceutical and healthcare advertising market booming in the United States, leveraging competitive intelligence has never been more essential. In this blog, we’ll explore how you can use social listening tools like Infegy’s product suite to gather and act on competitive intelligence, driving your pharmaceutical marketing efforts to success.

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Unauthorized AI is eating your company data, thanks to your employees

CIO

Legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information is being fed into unlicensed, publicly available AIs at a swift rate, leaving IT leaders with a mounting shadow AI mess.

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[Review] Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

Weidert Group

A jagged frontier. An invisible wall. A helpful alien that wants to make you happy. Professor Mollick’s metaphors, real-world use cases, and foreseeable scenarios do the world-building work of a storyteller, but this isn’t science fiction. It’s artificial intelligence, and it’s accessible to billions of people through large language models (LLMs) like those used by ChatGPT , Claude , and Meta AI.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Ways Data-Driven Businesses Can Prevent Data Overload

Smart Data Collective

Managing digital records is important for any business that wants to try to avoid data overload.

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Get Better Results From Power BI Copilot With Linguistic Modelling

Chris Webb BI

Everyone is excited about Power BI Copilot, and the newly-announced preview of being able to use Copilot to ask questions about all the data in your semantic model rather than just what is shown in a report is a massive step forward. However amazing the LLMs used behind the scenes are, though, the quality of the results your users get from this new Copilot preview depends on a number of factors that you as a developer control.

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Domo Named to the 2024 ParityLIST, a Parity.Org Program Recognizing the Best Companies for Equal Advancement Opportunity

Domo

SILICON SLOPES, Utah – Domo (Nasdaq: DOMO) today announced it has been named to Parity.Org’s 2024 ParityLIST for the fifth consecutive year. The ParityLIST is a program recognizing organizations that are creating the culture and conditions in which all employees have an equal opportunity to compete and advance. Companies are rated across a comprehensive rubric covering recruitment, promotion and compensation practices, as well as specific employee benefits and policies that help to create a lev

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Key Considerations for C-Suite Leaders Involved in Digital Transformation Initiatives

Dataversity

With spending on digital transformation initiatives worldwide projected to hit $3.9 trillion by 2027, the pressure is on organizations – and specifically the C-suite – to ensure that not only are they best positioned to tackle the digital challenges of today but that they can quickly adapt to those of tomorrow as well. C-suite leaders find themselves […] The post Key Considerations for C-Suite Leaders Involved in Digital Transformation Initiatives appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO

Facts, it has been said, are stubborn things. For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably hi

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21 Customer Service KPIs You Need to Track

GoodData

Optimizing your customer service can increase customer loyalty, reduce costs, and increase revenue. Read this article for the top 21 KPI's for customer service.

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Deepfakes: Coming soon to a company near you

CIO

AI-powered deepfake technology is rapidly advancing, and it’s only a matter of time before cybercriminals find a business model they can use, some security experts say.

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Complaints in EU challenge Meta’s plans to utilize personal data for AI

CIO

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny over privacy concerns as the privacy advocacy group NOYB has lodged complaints in 11 countries against the company’s plans to use personal data for training its AI models. NOYB has called on national regulators to take immediate action against Meta in 10 European Union member states and in Norway, arguing that changes to the company’s privacy policy due to enter effect on June 26 would permit the use of extensive personal data, including posts, private images, and

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Ethics of generative AI: To be innovative, you must first be trustworthy

CIO

Over the past year, generative AI – artificial intelligence that creates text, audio, and images – has moved from the “interesting concept” stage to the deployment stage for retail, healthcare, finance, and other industries. By generating new content in seconds, identifying patterns in large datasets, automating repetitive tasks, improving customer interactions, and reducing costs, GenAI can improve any company’s bottom line.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. Berke Menekli, VP of digital platform services, says it’s one of the best things he ever did. BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructur

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IT leaders rethink talent strategies to cope with AI skills crunch

CIO

As head of transformation, artificial intelligence, and delivery at Guardian Life, John Napoli is ramping up his company’s AI initiatives. And a big part of that is scaling up AI talent. But Napoli, like many CIOs, is facing a tough labor landscape for highly sought skills. By most accounts, enterprise CIOs are rushing to hire for AI-related roles, putting them into fierce competition with one another — and with big tech companies and CTOs everywhere.

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Rebranding IT for the modernized IT mission

CIO

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications. That definition was well ahead of its time and forecasted the current era’s machine learning and generative AI capabilities.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.