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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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Inspired by her family’s business in India, Seattle founder leads AI startup that helps manufacturers

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Bagaria teamed up with Chief Product Officer Kevin Hannegan , who founded the automated business intelligence platform Presalytics.io , and Chief Data Officer Anirban Konar , who previously held AI leadership roles at IT giant Cognizant. She launched Loopr in the summer of 2021.

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Redefining the CIO role post-pandemic

CIO Business Intelligence

When Tate and Lyle announced its intention to split the company in two last summer, with its commodity ingredients business to be owned and controlled by an equity firm, group CIO Sanjay Patel found himself not only at the cut and thrust of business separation activity but reimagining the value of IT. “As

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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

CIO Business Intelligence

Air monitoring sensors Because of high population density, urban city centers are at a greater risk of targeted biological and chemical attacks.

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How IT does business at Eastman

CIO Business Intelligence

When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. Before Eastman, I worked for Monsanto, where I had a similar journey,” he says.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists. It’s an asset “that responds to dynamic business requirements.”