Tag: data

  • Lack of AI-Ready Data Puts AI Projects at Risk – If you’ve let your data lakes turn into data swamps your AI projects are going to go poorly. // “Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data.”

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  • Data is very valuable, just don’t ask leaders to measure it – ”in a survey of chief data and analytics (D&A) officers, only 22 percent had defined, tracked, and communicated business impact metrics for the bulk of their data and analytics use cases… It is difficult, though: 30 percent of respondents say their top challenge…

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  • Enterprise AI needs data, the 3 B’s, have you tried using a to do list?

    Enterprise AI needs data, the 3 B’s, have you tried using a to do list?

    “1978 Chrysler New Yorker.” Monolithic Transformation revisited Ryan re-read my 2019 book on improving your application strategy, mostly at large organizations: The message is as relevant now as it was in 2019: success comes down to nailing the basics – ship fast, iterate faster, and keep the user front and center. Coté’s framework of small-batch…

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  • How Do You Create AI Advantage? – You’re going to need access to all that data you have. Historically, this is a very difficult problem in large enterprises and is rarely solved well. For example, are you satisfied with your CRM? For all your enterprise AI hopes and dreams, focus on that first. // “Develop…

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  • Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025 – They’re probably waiting for that CSV file they requested weeks ago: “In a survey of over 6,000 U.S. consumers conducted in July and August 2024, 58% reported that the companies trying to sell them something don’t have a good understanding of…

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  • Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations – These look cool, but I had to spend a lot of time figuring them out. Bar charts are boring, but they’re efficient. Still, I want to try some of these.

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  • Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings – ”We found that even the best product teams are focusing on features that aren’t being used by their end users. While 6.4% of features are driving 80% of clicks, almost 94% of features are untouched and ignored.”

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  • Why So Few Matt Levines? – There’s not enough news with the same types of events that happen over and over with clear, public records.

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  • What people buy for Kubernetes

    What people buy for Kubernetes

    Where the Kubernetes spend is Here’s a presentation recording going over our recent Kubernetes survey. I’ve mentioned it several times here, but there’s some new charts (like the above) and commentary in this talk I did with Rita and Danielle. Check out it for free in LinkedIn. Wastebook 1 cup toilet chemical solution, three cups…

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  • Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web

    Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web

    Hello there! Wastebook “I spent my early childhood in a 15-minute city. It was called the 1950s.” Here. “a cybercriminal selling data from these breaches told its researchers that they had been able to compromise a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using credentials stolen via infostealer malware, bypassing SSO provider OKTA.” // Security in 2024. What…

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  • Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study – “The study analysed data from two million individuals aged 15 to 99 in 168 countries, including Latin America, Asia, and Africa and found internet access and use was consistently associated with positive wellbeing.” // At this point, who knows? Like everything else…

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  • 🗂 Link:

    Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in the U.S. and Japan. Automakers are already using the cloud to generate revenue through telematics insurance and car-sharing services. Toyota also has talked about using data to alert dealers when cars need servicing, provide information about…

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  • Link: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business

    Source: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business

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  • Link: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA

    This week in data lakes… Source: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA

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  • 🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data

    > There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different…

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  • Link: A useful big data story

    In 2011 Friedberg decided to sell exclusively to farmers, and WeatherBill changed its name to The Climate Corporation. “We needed to feel a little less Silicon Valley and less whimsical,” said Friedberg. For the next few years he would spend half his time on the road, explaining himself to people whose first step was toward…

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  • Link: With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems

    “Enterprises need to think about data traffic patterns in their organizations, Vincent said, and recognize when the traffic no longer flows through a central point (whether public cloud or private cloud) and ready their corporate networks for a whole new traffic flow as part of their digital transformation.” Original source: With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging…

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  • Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization

    Some points: focus on using existing data more, in new ways. usually, it’s jus optimization good chart of types of projects. Original source: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization

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  • Link: Without a formal mandate

    “In almost every case there are stakeholders who are moved by quantitative data (say the percentage of phone calls that could be avoided.) There are also other stakeholders who connect with qualitative human stories. The magic really happens when you offer both types of evidence. Telling the stories, and backing them up with data points…

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  • Link: Datical automates database deployments; it’s DevOps for data

    “The vendor has been adding to its stable of paying customers and now has more than 40, many of which are Fortune 500 enterprises. It did not report annual revenue, but we estimate it to be under but nearing $10m.” Original source: Datical automates database deployments; it’s DevOps for data

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