Insight Jam Newsletter for March 21, 2025
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Watch this space each week as our editors will share the best written and video resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review's enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
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AI Agents - Turning Science Fiction Into Reality by Solutions Review Expert Doug Shannon 🪢
AI Agents are not just tools, they are autonomous enablers that transform how businesses operate, scale, and innovate. They empower enterprises to reimagine workflows, solve challenges, and create entirely new possibilities. But moving from vision to reality requires a deliberate progression, in this case, guided by my 𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐎 model: “𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐃𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞.”
GLEWs Views: Will Baidu's ERNIE Challenge Global AI Leders? by Solutions Review Expert Gregory Lewandowski
Baidu's launch of ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 AI models marks a strategic advancement in AI capabilities, particularly in reasoning and multimodal tasks. Competing with Google's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and xAI's Grok 3, ERNIE X1 aims to deliver premium performance at significantly lower cost. This focus on affordability and accessibility represents a notable shift in the competitive AI landscape.
Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI by Solutions Review Expert Robert Eve
If you are among the four million people who ride London’s Tube daily, you are undoubtedly familiar with its ubiquitous warning: Mind The Gap. That warning came to mind recently when I read a thought-provoking article, "The Gorilla in the Quadrant: Why Your Data and AI Governance Strategy Needs More Than Gartner’s Report," by my friend and fellow Solutions Review Expert David Sweenor .
How to Be a Data Analyst in the Age of AI by Solutions Review Expert Monica Kay Royal
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought both excitement and confusion to the world of data analysis. If used appropriately, AI can be used as a superpower but it can only be as good as what you put into it. It’s important to understand how to use AI to your advantage, which requires you to explore where you should be leveraging AI to augment vs automate your work.
User Acceptance Testing: What it is and Why Your Organization Needs to Be Doing It by Solutions Review Expert Cher (The Datanista) Fox,💎CDMP
𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐔𝐀𝐓) is the final phase of the testing process, where the actual users of the product test it to ensure it meets their requirements and expectations. UAT is critical for validating that the product works in real-world scenarios and fulfills the business needs it was designed to address.
With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading enterprise data and cloud solution provider Infinidat. Discover how Infinidat overcomes the high latencies that are often a problem with RAG deployments, and radically reduces LLM and SLM response times.
What to Expect at Solutions Reviews Spotlight with Infinidat on March 25 by William Jepma 💻
For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with oil and gas sector experts from IBM to explore the difficulties facing asset lifecycle management (ALM) in the industry and how generative AI can help address them.
Security and Governance of Edge AI Devices by Aparna Achanta
Traditional cloud computation causes delay, thus making it unsuitable for real-time executing applications. Edge AI revolutionizes real-time analytics by shifting intelligence to edge devices. This eliminates the need for the cloud lag times, delivering real-time intelligence where needed.
Data Lake or Data Swamp? It's Probably Worse Than You Think! Get Data-Ready for GenAI by Karen Pfeifer
Many companies falter in the necessary work to progress through these stages. They often end up simply dumping their data with no strategy for design into a “Data Lake.” The result? They find no holistic way to extract business value from at least 80% of their data content.
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Synthetic Data: The Key to Unlocking Privacy and Sustainability in the Digital Age by Ivana Bartoletti
Data fuels the economy like oil once powered the Industrial Revolution. However, unlike oil, data can be reused endlessly. Yet, the current "data extractivism" model — where vast amounts of data are harvested, stored, and exploited — raises serious privacy, ethical, and environmental concerns.
Agentic AI is a Sea Change for Business - But Needs Event-Driven Thinking to Unlock its Full Potential by Edward Funnekotter
We’re moving fast up the AI transformational staircase, from entry-level applications directly using Large Language Models (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to the much-heralded Agentic AI – an AI system that doesn’t just follow pre-programmed instructions, but thinks on its feet, makes decisions, and adapts to new situations.
Rethinking Security in the Age of Agentic AI by James White
While agentic AI promises a major leap in efficiency – reducing the need for human involvement in certain tasks – it also presents significant new security risks. Crucially, those risks are either not very well understood or are being overlooked in the race for cost savings and productivity gains.
From Pilot to Production: The Hidden Scaling Costs Breaking AI Budgets by Sijie Guo
It's a familiar story - a computer vision system that brilliantly identifies manufacturing defects with 95% accuracy in pilot, or a customer service chatbot that masterfully handles industry-specific inquiries. The initial success triggers executive enthusiasm and ambitious rollout plans.
Unlocking AI's True Potential: Strategic Integration for Optimal Performance and Compliance by Dmitry P.
From revolutionizing customer experiences to improving operational efficiencies, AI holds the key to transforming modern businesses. However, true innovation powered by AI requires more than enthusiasm – it demands strategic integration that balances performance, cost, compliance, and alignment with core business objectives.
Beyond the Hype: Technology as a Catalyst for True Innovation by James Bergin
For many business leaders, the allure of new technology is undeniable. Being a modern business with all sorts of tools at your fingertips, including the latest and greatest in AI advancements, is certainly appealing! But just chasing the trends in the technology space won't guarantee business success.
Blurring the Lines Between Data Science and Optimization by Jerome Yurchisin
The more complex the question, the more factors may impact the final decision. When unchecked, these various moving parts can quickly gridlock your team’s capacity to make timely and effective choices. This is why as data sources, analytics tools, and business roles continue to evolve, the future of decision-making is becoming increasingly data driven.
The Universe is a Graph: It's Time for Our Data to Start Acting Like It by Christian Buckner
Generative AI models generate meaningful outputs by capturing patterns, learning from rich contextual data, and leveraging complex interdependencies. Unlike traditional analytics and machine learning, generative AI doesn't merely process datasets in isolation—it thrives on the relationships between ideas, concepts, and patterns.
Revolutionizing Higher Education: How Technology is Driving Student Success and Degree Completion by Adam Connor
Successful integration requires careful planning, commitment to addressing challenges, and a clear focus on student needs and faculty capabilities. Given the scale and complexity of higher education institutions, change can be challenging.