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4 imperatives for making business intelligence work

O'Reilly Media - Data

Create a coherent BI strategy that aligns data collection and analytics with the general business strategy. That’s why decision-makers consider business intelligence their top technology priority. Business intelligence is a business initiative, not a tech project. Step 2: Simplify.

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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

CIO

Maintaining legacy systems can consume a substantial share of IT budgets up to 70% according to some analyses diverting resources that could otherwise be invested in innovation and digital transformation. The financial and security implications are significant. In my view, the issue goes beyond merely being a legacy system.

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OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally

TechCrunch

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. And yet after they arrived they could see that a lot of hotels had spaces and were drastically dropping prices.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO

Recognize IT and business are inseparable IT and business strategies are now fully intertwined, observes Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at analytics vendor SAS. There’s no good business strategy without an IT strategy supporting it, and there’s no good IT strategy that isn’t aligned to business strategy,” he says.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.

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DataRails raises $50M to boost financial analytics and other tools for Excel spreadsheet acolytes

TechCrunch

It’s estimated that there are more than 1 billion people using Microsoft’s Excel in the world today, and a significant part of those are smaller-business people, and of those, 80% lean on the spreadsheet software to keep track of their finances. DataRails will continue to focus squarely on SMBs.

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The Reason Many AI and Analytics Projects Fail—and How to Make Sure Yours Doesn’t

CIO

Many companies have been experimenting with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to fill this need. Yet many are struggling to move into production because they don’t have the right foundational technologies to support AI and advanced analytics workloads. Some are relying on outmoded legacy hardware systems.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Understanding these trends is not only essential to staying ahead of the curve, but critical for those striving to remain competitive and innovative in an increasingly data-driven world.