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eCommerce Will Account for 36% of Global Fashion Retail Sales by 2022

Forrester IT

Fashion is the second largest retail category after grocery. The eCommerce shift is a significant, palpable movement in most economies. A quarter of clothing, accessories, and footwear (fashion) spending already occurs online and is still rapidly growing. Brick-and-mortar and eCommerce retailers are vying for shoppers’ attention and dollars. In our recently published Online Fashion Retail […].

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Repurpose Existing Devices to Windows Autopilot – SCCM or MDT?

Anoop

Repurposing of existing devices is one of the decisions that you want to make while you are getting ready with Windows Autopilot. I’m trying to help you to decide how to repurpose devices to Windows Autopilot? Is it best use MDT or SCCM? [Related Posts – Step by Step Guide Windows AutoPilot Process with Intune & Beginners Guide Setup […].

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Ghost In The Machine? No, It’s A Robot, And It Is Here To Help

Forrester IT

Just a few years ago, conversations about robotic process automation (RPA) were scattered and far between. Those familiar with RPA had a limited understanding of its potential and at best had carried out?only?a few isolated “proof of concept” experiments. Today, the RPA market is estimated to?reach $2.9 billion by 2021, and conversations are becoming more frequent.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is our second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, joining AWS GovCloud (US-West) to further help US government agencies, the contract

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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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AI Tech Shines A Path To Empathetic Triggers

Forrester IT

I’ve always been attracted to the power of empathy. That being said, I’m a longtime fan of “soft” skills — skills that are helpful in relationship-building, making me a better friend and (presumably) a more tolerable colleague. Empathy clearly fits squarely there. But a more savvy marketer? A more insightful executive? A veritable customer whisperer?

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How IBM and Red Hat Will Impact Your Cloud Strategy

Information Week

Barring a heavy-handed approach to the recent acquisition, IBM and Red Hat can do some amazing things in the market.

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What Special Ops Taught Me About TechOps

Information Week

A look at how a day of special forces-style training delivered benefits in the technology realm.

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New Look’s CVA is bearing fruit

Forrester IT

Earlier last week, UK high street apparel retailer New Look announced plans to close 85 stores, up from the 60 it announced in March. These closures are happening under the auspices of a restructuring deal (CVA first introduced as a “Creditors Voluntary Arrangement” in the 1980 Companies’ Act). Simultaneously, it unveiled a return to profitability […].

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The importance of audio quality for contact centres

Spearline Testing

Imagine having frequent flyer membership of an airline and calling their premium club line only to be met with poor audio quality. You may be on a business trip and want to quickly make a last minute change to your return flight. But your conversation with the agent takes twice as long as it should because the audio quality means you’re constantly repeating yourself.

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Highlights Of Another Record-Smashing Singles’ Day

Forrester IT

I was in Shanghai last weekend to witness the largest 11.11 ever in history. Alibaba breaks another record with 2018 GMV reaching RMB213.5 billion ($30.8 billion), 27% higher than last year’s RMB168.3 billion ($25.3 billion). I’m excited to share some of the event highlights here: Stay tuned for the post-event report on Singles’ Day 2018.

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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?

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Exploring the Future Ep 4: Six facets of strategy for emerging technologies

Trends in the Living Networks

In a short segment I recorded in Bangkok at the Oracle Impact Summit recently, I discuss the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies with some simple visual illustrations. You can read more about the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies here. The transcript is below. To subscribe to my future vlog episodes click here ! I’m at the Oracle Impact event in Bangkok, Thailand which looks at how emerging technology such as AI, IoT and Blockchain can transform your organizatio

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: The Unconventional CIO’s Inquiries Nov. 2018

Future of CIO

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency.

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What’s Unique with Instagram

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What’s Unique with Instagram - Information Technology Blog. When Instagram was launched in 2010 it did not seem to offer anything new or unique compared to existing social networking sites. Instagram offered already known features like; instant sharing, picture editing tools and combining a picture with a location. So why did Instagram became so wildly known and used?

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Fine-Tune a Vital Digital Organization

Future of CIO

The digital transformation means that companies need to infuse digital into every aspect of the business, expand to every dimension of the organization. Forward-thinking organizations today aim to move into a more advanced stage of digital deployment by tailoring their own unique strength and business maturity. They need to have the interdisciplinary knowledge and in-depth understanding of the organizational hyperconnectivity and interdependence in order to optimize organizational structure, imp

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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.