CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

ZB of data in novelized form would create nearly 400,000 stacks of books, with each stack rising all the way to the moon. Accessing this data and keeping it available for end-users is a critical capability for a modern business. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 ZB by 2026.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

But this glittering prize might cause some organizations to overlook something significantly more important: constructing the kind of event-driven data architecture that supports robust real-time analytics. In a business context, this is defined as an interaction. How do businesses manage and take advantage of real-time events?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Their architecture, built upon decades of rigorous refinement and advancement, has robust encryption, access controls, and audit capabilities. Whether you’re withdrawing money from an ATM or booking a flight, the reliable pulse of a mainframe is often working behind the scenes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Here is the main the question we posed: If you were writing your own book on how to lead, what advice would you impart to other technology executives? The most important thing a tech leader can do is create the architecture that staff work with,” Riley says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

While new features that accelerate business agility are highly attractive, our experience suggests that the decision to refresh a network often has more to do with a customer’s desire to transition depreciated assets off their books rather than to replace products that are no longer usable.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Penguin Random House publishers set an example of leveraging a combination of analytics and machine learning on their Big Data to determine the selling price of their printed books for the starting run. KITABOO is a digital publishing platform architectured for performance, especially for the K12 education industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An API-first approach enables organizations to take full advantage of microservices architecture, a variant of service-oriented architecture (SOA), in which applications are structured as collections of loosely coupled services. It communicates HTML, which makes it difficult to use in other environments.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

to ask questions against the 2,000-plus articles, 100-plus videos, and three books (and more) that he’s produced in his career. Now’s the time to back them up with the permission to experiment and an architecture that’s ready and able to take all their good ideas into production without skipping a beat. Learn more about DataStax.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

You’ve created the right architecture to collect and store your data and the best way to keep costs low is to leverage what you have. Many companies, like those mentioned above, have transformed their businesses and led their industries thanks to real-time AI built on Cassandra. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In short, Jain says, “FinOps will help you focus on the right cloud architecture and design.” Create innovation teams IT departments have moved beyond their old shared services model and are now working closely with business lines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

But many CIOs, worried about going over budget, pre-book too much capacity. While having that cushion avoids unplanned budget issues down the road, many CIOs waste money on substantial amounts of pre-booked capacity they never use, McKee says. Usage estimates need to be more accurate, and cushions should be smaller, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Nearly 40% of the company’s business processes have now been digitized, and filing claim time — a key measure of customer satisfaction — has been reduced from four minutes to 43 seconds, according to the company. It wasn’t built to run on premise.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The LiveRamp report also shares the experience of Boots, which went from 7 percent of media being booked using first-party data, to over 40 percent using data collaboration to unlock customer insights. By leveraging its wealth of first-party data assets to set up a retail media network, Amazon was able to generate $31.1 billion for its own.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

How can you change your decision architecture to become more proactive rather than reactive? Extending our credit increase example, imagine a consumer is browsing flights to Portugal in their credit card’s travel booking portal. The customer is frustrated, and the business loses revenue. Streaming decision automation.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. However, massively parallel processing (MPP) database architectures are one example of purpose-built technologies that have been developed to support both OLTP and OLAP data structures at enormous scales up into the petabytes (PB).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In this way, a simple app initially targeted for booking appointments can not only help retain patients through their pregnancy but also convert them to pediatrics’ patients, thereby opening a new line of business, Pramanik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

They manage networking with other professional development activities such as attending conferences, reading leadership books, and participating in social media. Other focus areas might include cloud architectures, devops, and data governance, depending on what is prominent in your target sector.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Ken Finnerty, vice president of information technology at overall winner UPS , will discuss how the shipping giant thinks about innovation and tools like artificial intelligence and data architecture with Chandana Gopal, IDC’s research director for Future of Intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Everything is for the business, the organization. I’m in charge of a large, centralized team, which includes the strategy, governance, architectures, policy, and so on. If somebody at the university is asking questions about the budget or capacity or anything like that, it’s open book. That’s what is expected of me.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Expecting IT leaders to know how to lead transformation initiatives In my recent book, Digital Trailblazer , I advise CIOs to train and mentor leaders to drive transformation initiatives. These leaders often come from IT backgrounds, such as product management, program management, application development, data science, and IT operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Tech leaders must focus on a business-aligned tech strategy to deliver on the competing mandates, Guarini says. “A A business-aligned technology strategy is built on architecture and agility, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of better alignment,’’ he explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2023

There are sales calls and workshops, and some book meetings right into the calendar. What is difficult is seeing what fits the specific logic of your particular industry, and what fits the architecture and what can scale.” In addition to many things being casually called AI, the sales pressure has also considerably increased.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For others such as Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer at loyalty, marketing, and data analytics consulting firm Loyalty NZ, leading IT abroad was about “gaining huge value in seeing different issues and learning different ways of approaching problems, something that can’t be learnt out of a book.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Layering technology on the overall data architecture introduces more complexity. Today, data architecture challenges and integration complexity impact the speed of innovation, data quality, data security, data governance, and just about anything important around generating value from data. Data and cloud strategy must align.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT For business intelligence jobs, the main skill is SQL. IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Organizations should discuss ways they can modernize their technology infrastructure to support architectures in which security is built in, not simply bolted on, says Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

From elaborate methodologies to emergent disciplines and philosophies, the rule books of software development help make it possible for everyone to collaborate and get to the finish line with something that works. Sometimes this architectural forethought means killing some great ideas. How can we plan ahead for those moments?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When a company wants to fine-tune a model or create a new one in a particular subject area, it requires data architecture, critical choices about which model or type of model to pursue, and more. “It What you have to do as a CIO is take an architectural approach and invest in a common platform.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“For example, this style makes it more feasible for data scientists to have the support of software engineering to provide what is needed when models are handed over to operations during deployment,” Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman write in their book, Machine Learning Logistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2022

billion, according to a report by MarketsAndMarkets.com, and the infrastructure and architectural engineering and construction (AEC) industries are integral to this growth. These new business models are disrupting the infrastructure industry and reconfiguring opportunities as the industry adjusts to new ways of working.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

As Southwest embarked on its cloud transformation, Woods was promoted to vice president of technology platforms and architecture, taking on larger digital transformation and modernization responsibilities along the way. And in September 2022, Woods was announced as incoming CIO, set to take over the IT mantle from Merrill in February 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Key features of Cassandra’s distributed architecture are specifically tailored for deployment across multiple data centers.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 26, 2008

Wave 1: Infrastructure and Architecture This wave of activity is the precursor to all other SharePoint-related effort. Enterprise 2.0 Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « Geek Reads 2008.2: Everything is Miscellaneous | Main | CIMS, Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. walk into certain Amazon meetings, and you may momentarily think youve stumbled into a computer science lecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

One of the applications of quantum computing that he discusses in that book is Shor’s Algorithm , which — if you have access to a working quantum computer — makes it possible to crack many of today’s encryption algorithms, finding private keys in seconds rather than (billions of) years. Is it just pixie dust we have to add to everything?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Because it’s partitioned over a distributed architecture, Cassandra is capable of handling various data types at petabyte scale. Online banking services, airline booking systems, and popular retail apps. Jeff is coauthor of the O’Reilly books Cassandra: The Definitive Guide and Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

We found that companies that treat data more as an asset have a market-to-book value ratio that’s nearly two times higher than the market average. And companies that sell data products or data derivatives of some kind have a 3x market-to-book value ratio,” he says.

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