Mon.Sep 17, 2018

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Four Things You Must Do Right Now To Rock Your 2018 Holiday

Forrester IT

Over $1 trillion (no typo) — that’s how big 2017 holiday topline sales were in the US and Europe combined. As for online sales specifically last year, Forrester projected $129 billion in the US and €54 billion in Europe. As a retailer with substantial revenue at stake, you’ve made your merchandise buys, allocated your marketing dollars, and feverishly analyzed […].

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These Jaw-Dropping Facts Will Change Your Mind About the Internet of Things (IoT)

CTOvision

Read Lee Samaha’s article giving an investor perspective about the Internet of Things on Motley Fool : It’s no secret that the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to be a growth investor’s dream in the coming years. However, while IoT devices for consumers grab most of the media attention — think wearable technology, connected vehicles, […].

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Stay Ahead Of Your Customers With Continuous Delivery

Forrester IT

If you regularly follow the financial markets, it’s hard to ignore the growth generated by the FAANG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google). When you look more closely at the “ANG” part of this quintet, it’s not hard to see how continuous delivery and rapid creation of customer value and corporate growth go hand in […].

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Internet of Things (IoT) disrupts multiple industries

CTOvision

Read Kim Souza explain how the Internet of Things connected devices is disrupting multiple sectors on Talk Business : The world has never been smaller thanks to emerging technologies creating the Internet of Things (IoT) which connects people and devices to the internet through cloud computing. The tech industry estimates by 2020 there will be more […].

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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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And now… presenting the 2018 ESM Wave!

Forrester IT

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q3 2018, is live! Take IT service management, add the age of the customer, stir in some employee experience (EX) and a healthy dose of low/no-code platform, and voilà! Enterprise service management (ESM)! Or if you prefer a more traditional description, we define ESM as: Extending IT service management […].

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Amazon Storefronts is a new retail hub exclusively for US small businesses

CTOvision

Amazon is doing something which should be positive for mom and pop stores in the US. It has launched a whole new section called Amazon Storefronts that will feature products only from small and medium enterprises. Amazon said that Amazon Storefronts will be featuring around 1 million plus products from more than 20,000 SMEs. along with […].

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Cutting through the blockchain hype

CTOvision

As technologists we know there is something very unique about blockchain and have seen first-hand some of the promise of use cases being explored. Blockchain and cryptocurrency related technologies will provide positive capabilities to both individuals and enterprises, we are sure. But we are also sure that there is a great deal of hype out […].

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Video: Boost Customer Engagement With Personalized Video

Forrester IT

When a car insurance company wanted to boost customer engagement during the onboarding process, it turned to personalized video. No longer a gimmick, brands across verticals use the technology to create unique customer experiences at scale. And the videos resonated with the customers of Geoffrey Insurance: An overwhelming majority of them watched the entire video. […].

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Tech expansion: Up and out of SF

CTOvision

Salesforce is now San Francisco’s largest private employer with more than 8,400 employees in the city but now it is thinking of expanding elsewhere. Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city’s limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere. The unemployment and office vacancy rates in San […].

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Stripe Moving into Point of Sale Transaction Processing

Forrester IT

Stripe, one of the leading payment providers for online and platform businesses announced today “Stripe Terminal” to tackle the merchant challenges around in-person payments. Stripe’s solution combines several of the technology components that go into in-person payments and works to abstract the complexity away for merchants and developers.

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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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[Fix] List of SCCM 1806 Known Issues – Documented

Anoop

Microsoft released a couple of update rollups (hotfixes) for the latest production version of SCCM 1806. In this post, we will see the SCCM 1806 known issues and how to fix those known issues. The Video tutorial will help you to understand how to install SCCM 1806 hotfix. SCCM 1806 known issues are already fixed by Microsoft […]. The post [Fix] List of SCCM 1806 Known Issues – Documented appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Who Is Winning the Race for Tech Talent?

Information Week

Ever wonder how Google, Microsoft, and IBM are winning the race for tech talent? It just might boil down to the ability to weave relevant learning and development opportunities into every stage of employee life cycles.

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Data, analytics, and AI solutions showcased at the Strata Data Conference

Social, Agile and Transformation

Two years ago when I reported from Strata NYC I shared how new data prep technologies were bringing data integration and data quality capabilities to business users. Instead of waiting for IT to ETL experimental data into the data warehouse or data lake, business users apply tools like Tableau Prep, Trifacta Wrangler, or Talend Data Preparation, to perform profiling, cleansing, and.

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Hire the Right Machine Learning Talent

Information Week

Decision intelligence engineering applies the technology already available to solve the business problems that you have today.

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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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Launch of my new vlog: Experiments will be at the heart of the future

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years I have been wanting to do a vlog – a video blog – partly to make it quicker and easier to share thoughts and ideas. I have had a blog for 16 years now, but find it hard to find the time to blog as much as I’d like. So here is Episode 1 of my new vlog: Exploring the Future! Please have a watch, share if you feel so inclined, and if you like it please subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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Risk Management Is Evolving: Are You On Board?

Information Week

IT risk management is a mature topic, but it continues to evolve with technology. As rules-based systems are supplemented with self-learning systems, IT departments, risks managers and business leaders need to update their thinking.

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Digital IT as The Engineering Discipline with Both Art and Scientific Touch

Future of CIO

Running the digital IT organization is the engineering discipline as the practical application of principles and practices constrained by the laws of the science domain. It is about how to apply scientific logic and engineering discipline to break big business problems down into deliverable chunks for presenting value to the business at regular intervals by taking a structural approach.

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Indiana University modernizes BI strategy to drive better decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Like many institutions of higher learning, Indiana University (IU) has been making use of business intelligence (BI) for years. But even with a wealth of data at its disposal, the university's business units struggled to transform that data into insights that could drive meaningful decisions. Its multi-year Decision Support Initiative (DSI) changed all that.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Multitude of Digital Hybridity Sep. 2018

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It is like the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the real meaning and unleash its full potential.