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A step back: A DB2 optimization term, then and now

IT Toolbox

(Posted Friday, July 24, 2016) The terms ?sagable? and ?non-sagable? became common place in the very first releases of DB2. However, the terms most commonly used today are indexable, stage 1, and stage 2. Since I have been dying to write about something (anything) since retiring, this seemed like a fun subject to attack.

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German shooter hacked Facebook account to lure victims, bought gun on dark net

Network World

The media is delving into the digital life of the teenage shooter who opened fire at McDonald’s in Munich Germany’s Olympia Mall. Nine people were killed and 27 others were injured in the tragic rampage. In the end, he killed himself. So far, it’s been reported that he hacked Facebook to lure victims, bought a gun on the ‘dark net’ and played the ‘violent’ video game Counter-Strike.

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What is the Design Thinking relation to Enterprise Architecture

IT Toolbox

There is plenty of talk of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Design Thinking (DT), but how do they relate? Since Design Thinking is defined in the enterprise context and hence in the scope of Enterprise Architecture, to avoid specularion, we'd better clarify their relation to each other. DT is the design of an optimised human interaction with the enterprise.

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Why I’m Joining FirstNet

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

On August 8, 2016, I’ll become an employee of the First Responder Network Authority – FirstNet. FirstNet is the federal government agency charged by Congress in 2012 to build a 4 th Generation LTE wireless network nationwide with priority for those who respond to public safety incidents and disasters. I’ve sometimes called this mission “smart phones and tablet computers for cops and firefighters”.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Programming for the future

IT Toolbox

The future, that unknown up and coming part of our life which we can try and plan for but will always, always, find a way to put the best made plans of mice and men on the scrap heap. One thing which we can be sure of however is that the future will change and that in order for us to survive we need to be able to change with it. The same goes for any programs we write.

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CIOs as Talent Master: How to Mind Gaps and Measure Human Capital Effectively

Future of CIO

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run. People are always the most invaluable asset to the organization but often turn to be the weakest link in strategy execution. Unlike the other tangible value of business assets which are more easily measured in a quantitative way. The true value of people, especially today’s high professional knowledge workforces include many tangible and intangible factors because people are not jus

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Managing Innovation in a Structural Way

Future of CIO

The best point of view is to see innovation as a system, capable of taking a stepwise path in scaling up and delivering organization-wide capability. Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. For many organizations getting stuck at the lower level of maturity, innovation is still a serendipity, with a very low success rate, often the ROI is not proportional to t

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6 Ways LiquidPlanner Is Your Business Collaboration Swiss Army Knife

IT Toolbox

How to employ app's filters, dashboard widgets, comments, and time-tracking, reporting, and budgeting tools for the right situation.

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Maritime Information Technology: Must Have Apps for People at Sea.

Galido

Mobile devices have become an integral part of seafarers’ lives, both at land and sea; after all they are always mobile. Mobile apps are especially convenient for seafarers because they enable data sharing and storage, to help the interact with land and stay safe at sea. With the improvement of communications, Information Technology is evolving for seafarers.

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Review - Nuance's Power PDF 2 Advanced

IT Toolbox

The latest PDF-editing software from Nuance is now available, and has a different look-and-feel. It?s had its interface redesigned so that it?s more like the familiar Microsoft Office products with a ?ribbon? interface, which many people now prefer to having to work down through a number of menu levels.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?