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Creating an Effective Multichannel Marketing Strategy Remains the Biggest Challenge for B2B Marketers

IT Toolbox

Only a quarter of B2B marketers say their multichannel marketing strategy is mostly or fully automated. The post Creating an Effective Multichannel Marketing Strategy Remains the Biggest Challenge for B2B Marketers appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Three Last Minute Tips To Make Retail Customer Service Merry And Bright

Forrester IT

During the holiday retail crunch and last-minute scramble, read Forrester's tips to ensure a merry customer service retail season.

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Could AI become conscious? Physicists and neuroscientists search for answers

GeekWire

Can artificial intelligence help humans unravel the mysteries of consciousness and quantum physics? That idea is explored in a newly published book. (Freshpixel Illustration via Bigstock) Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own agenda? It’s a question that has sparked scores of science-fiction plots, from “Colossus: The Forbin Project” in 1970, to “The Matrix” in 1999, to this year’s big-budget tale about AI vs. huma

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The Best Gaming Monitors - Holidays 2023

TechSpot

Our gaming monitor buying guide covers 1080p, 1440p, 4K, ultrawide and HDR models, with top recommendations in each category based on refresh rate, display size, and budget considerations.

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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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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a “reinvented” Amazon Fire TV Cube, will sell for $195, designed for enterprise customers to offer to their employees. (Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products.

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Intel sales and a new accounting scheme: Choose your own adventure

TechSpot

Intel put out some solid earnings results last month. We don't need to rehash those here; instead, instead want to focus on one particular aspect of their numbers – their long term gross margin guidance. In the latest quarter they reported 42.5% gross margins, but critically, they restated their goal.

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Best Places to Work in IT 2024

ComputerWorld IT Management

Creating a great place for IT professionals to work takes more than offering top salaries and benefits. It means making a commitment to employees’ well-being and career growth, providing challenging work, supporting a diverse workforce, and fostering a positive and inclusive culture. And lately it means making IT an integral part of the business itself.

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Cloud Data Warehouse Guide and Checklist

Tech Republic Data Center

Choosing a vendor to provide cloud-based data warehouse services requires a certain level of due diligence on the part of the purchaser. This cloud data warehouse guide and checklist from TechRepublic Premium will help businesses choose the vendor that best fits its data storage needs based on offered features and key elements.

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Alibaba shutters quantum computing efforts

Computerworld Vertical IT

Alibaba is shutting down its quantum computing research laboratory as part of the company’s ongoing restructuring efforts. The closure of the lab will result in about 30 job losses but the equipment will be donated to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, where the company is based, a company spokesperson reportedly told Bloomberg. According to reports from Chinese media and cited by Bloomberg, Alibaba has had an active presence in the quantum computing market since 2015, with its now shuttered Quan

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‘IT that just works’: A mantra for innovation at Kinaxis

ComputerWorld IT Management

“IT that just works” is the mantra of the IT organization at Kinaxis, a Canada-based maker of supply chain planning software. The slogan is written on T-shirts; promoted during meetings; dropped into casual conversation; and, perhaps most importantly, serves as the core design principle guiding all digital experiences. Whether a project involves equipment setup, employee onboarding, or finessing the user experience for its core software, Kinaxis’ IT organization goes the extra mile to simplify i

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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US, UK, Japan, and other major powers sign AI security accord

Computerworld Vertical IT

Twenty-two law enforcement and intelligence agencies from 18 different countries signed an international agreement on AI safety over the weekend , which is designed to make new versions of the technology “secure by design.” This agreement comes months after the European Union signed its EU AI Act in June , banning certain AI technologies including biometric surveillance and predictive policing, and classifying AI systems that could significantly impact health, safety, rights, or elections as hig

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At UKG, diversity is a linchpin of better IT and business outcomes

ComputerWorld IT Management

UKG was built on the melding of two distinct camps — Ultimate Software and Kronos Software — which merged in early 2020 to create a workforce management and HR software powerhouse. The merged company’s commitment to diversity, for both workforce representation and promoting different perspectives and ideas, is a hallmark of UKG’s IT organization, reflected in everything from its hiring choices and its hybrid work model to fostering collaboration and cross-pollination across teams.

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At BCU, IT is a core competency for business success

ComputerWorld IT Management

There’s a standing joke in the executive team at BCU that every strategy or initiative built to service the Credit Union’s 350,000-plus members runs through IT. Whether it’s maintaining uptime, rolling out digital banking and payment services, or delivering seamless customer experiences, the 77-person-and-growing IT organization is at the epicenter of BCU’s business strategy and innovation, making it a dynamic and rewarding place to pursue an IT career.

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