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                    By Ken Ammon
                    
                    
                    
                        How inserting people into workflows can reduce risk without slowing down operations.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        Further predictions for the coming year. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        Predictions for AI in the coming year. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Ben Bromhead
                    
                    
                    
                        Here’s why vector search is increasingly critical to AI success, and how open source can fit into that equation.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
            
    
    
    
 
    
    
    
                    
                
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                    By Pratik Jain
                    
                    
                    
                        Learn how a semantic layer serves as a bridge between natural language queries and actionable insights. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Ben Little
                    
                    
                    
                        
By fostering collaboration and ensuring data flows easily between tools, your organization can unlock the full potential of your technology investments.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Kaycee Lai
                    
                    
                    
                        A data fabric can help you access all your data and reach actionable insights. Here are three indicators that a data fabric may benefit your enterprise. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Michael Hay
                    
                    
                    
                        Data lakehouses provide new data storage possibilities, but implementing them can be challenging. These four tips will help you achieve long-lasting ROI from this architecture.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
            
    
    
    
 
    
    
    
                    
                
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                    By Udo Sglavo
                    
                    
                    
                        Is your organization ready to make the most use of AI in 2025?
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        Digital transformation efforts help strategic analytics teams at all types of businesses leverage the information generated to improve business results. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Upside Staff
                    
                    
                    
                        TDWI’s Fern Halper explains what enterprises need to do to prepare for AI and introduces initial results from TDWI’s AI Readiness Assessment.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        We need AI to help us make better decisions rather than speed up the impact of our bad ones.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
            
    
    
    
 
    
    
    
                    
                
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                    By Ed Thompson
                    
                    
                    
                        Does generative AI change the role of the data engineer? As the demand for AI skyrockets, so does the demand for data and data engineering. 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Derick Ohmar Adil
                    
                    
                    
                        Moving to the cloud brings numerous benefits, but there are challenges you must overcome.  Here is one company’s experience.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        AI implementations will be more successful if you follow these three tips.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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By Upside Staff
                    
                    
                    
                        David Langer discusses four easy-to-learn, state-of-the-art, real-world techniques that will help you get value from machine learning.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
            
    
    
    
 
    
    
    
                    
                
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                        Features new native integration with Python ecosystem and expanded cache management 
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        Leaders note lack of understanding, business strategy, sufficient data. and regulation preparedness as concerns; data privacy, security, and governance are primary challenges.
                        
                        
                        
                    
                    
                     
                     
                    
                    
                 
                
            
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                        New solution provides frontline workers with on-demand AI insights from within any application, eliminating need for complex, expensive, and slow application integration projects.