Data Matters

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  • Embracing AI: understand the end user first

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 07 Dec 2023
  • This is a guest blog post by Sara Portell, VP of User Experience and Rafael Artacho, Product Director, Unit4 How we interact with enterprise software, particularly enterprise resource planning ...

  • Teaching AI common sense an old problem ChatGPT foregrounds

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 08 Nov 2023
  • This is a guest blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist, Neo4j Is the best way to end the LLM hallucination problem to teach it some basic logic? Great as they are, we’re starting to have to deal ...

  • We need to give AI more time (series)

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 07 Nov 2023
  • This is a guest blogpost by, Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData. Two contrasting forces are driving the AI revolution: generative AI (GenAI), known for its creative prowess, and real-world applications ...

  • Generative AI, one year later: moving beyond the hype

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 16 Oct 2023
  • This is guest blog post by, James Fisher, Chief Strategy Officer, Qlik Almost one year ago, ChatGPT exploded on the scene and quickly took AI mainstream. Since then, an endless number of articles ...

  • Transforming industries with an AI-enabled data supply chain

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023
  • This is a guest blogpost by Vaibhav Vohra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at ERP provider Epicor Essential industries are going through a period of radical transformation, as businesses that ...

  • How should your SAP strategy evolve in line with SAP’s evolution?

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023
  • This is a guest blogpost by Luiz Mariotto, group vice president, SAP Product Management, Rimini Street. In it he suggests three questions IT leaders should ask about their SAP roadmaps to help ...

  • GenAI: Boffins in clover

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 27 Sep 2023
  • When Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas last week, it would not have been shocking if he had expressed some scepticism about the hype generated by Generative ...

  • The companies set to win using LLMs are the responsible ones

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 01 Sep 2023
  • This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT have seemingly moved from hype, to hot seat, to hazard. In the midst of the ...

  • Is the data guardian hinting that Palantir should be ousted from NHS IT?

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 29 Aug 2023
  • Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian, published a blogpost on the Gov.uk site on 24 August that seems to suggest Palantir should be excluded from the technology involved in the NHS Federated ...

  • Resisting AI

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 28 Jul 2023
  • Technology is not neutral. It is always embedded in social, economic, and political relations built on systematic, structural imbalances of power. Welcome to capitalism. Including the Xi Jinping ...

  • How the high street gains from advanced data analytics

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Jul 2023
  • This is a guest blog post by Phillip Sewell, CEO at Predyktable. The high street is finally back in business, with customers flocking back to stores, restaurants and pubs. To fuel and sustain this ...

  • Navigating application fragmentation

    Brian McKenna - Senior Analyst, Business Applications 13 Jul 2023
  • This is a guest blog post by Gert-Jan Wijman, VP of EMEA, Celigo. Computer applications have done wonders for bringing people together. From the early days of chatrooms to the rapid rise of social ...

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