May, 2018

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Google We Have A Problem With Duplex: Cool tech, but needs bounding

CTOvision

Have you seen the really cool demo of Google Duplex? This is a fantastic demonstration that combines voice recognition, machine learning and very capable voice synthesis to show how AI can interact with people to get things done. Watch the video and you can see for yourself how very smooth this AI bot can be: […].

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What can you DO with Machine Learning?

Eric D. Brown

Everyone’s talking about machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days. If you are a CxO or work in IT or marketing, I’d bet that you hear these terms more than you probably want to. It feels an awful lot like the early data of Big Data or Business Intelligence or the days when the “Intranet” was first making waves within organizations.

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Why Looking For The Perfect CX Metric Is Futile — And How To Try Anyway

Forrester IT

What is the right top-line CX metric? I lead the CX measurement research at Forrester and get this question a lot. Usually clients ask whether Net Promoter Score (NPS)* is best, or whether customer satisfaction or effort make more sense, or whether there is something new and exciting coming up. So I thought I’d share […].

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10 ways Digital Organizations are Smarter Faster than their Peers

Social, Agile and Transformation

A quote from my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology Here's how digital organizations are smarter and faster - They change their culture by developing "bottoms up" practices like agile, ideation, relationship developing CRM, and citizen's development. They target their programs to early adopters, know how to scale their practices to.

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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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Beginners Guide Setup Windows AutoPilot Deployment

Anoop

I’m not expert in SCCM OSD and tried to spend time on OSD. So I never invested time to test Windows Autopilot deployment. Windows Autopilot is the buzzword, and most of the device management folks are talking about Windows AutoPilot. I don’t know whether AutoPilot is going to replace OSD or not. But, I can […]. The post Beginners Guide Setup Windows AutoPilot Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. Image Credit: Job Garcia. When we think about the person who has the CIO job, we think of someone who spends their time thinking about the importance of information technology including such things as cloud computing, building new data centers, and the arrival of the internet of things.

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What is the cost of bad data?

Eric D. Brown

How much is bad data costing you? It could be very little – or it could be a great deal. In this article I give an example of what the cost of bad data really is. A few days ago, I received a nice, well designed sales/marketing piece in the mail yesterday. In it, a local window company warned me of the dangers of old windows and the costs associated with them (higher energy costs, etc etc).

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Who Should Provide Your Public Cloud?

Forrester IT

To fuel digital transformations, enterprises are increasingly turning to public cloud services to improve their customer experience, operational excellence, and the broader ecosystem. CIOs have to select from a diverse and changing set of vendors that vary by size, functionality, geography, and vertical market focus. My recent report, Now Tech: Public Cloud Development Platforms In […].

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5 Recommendations on Implementing DevOps CI/CD Pipelines

Social, Agile and Transformation

CI/CD is one of the key devops practices because it enables teams to align on development practices and ensure there is a consistent, reliable, and automated way to deliver applications to multiple compute environment. If you're new to CI/CD, consider reading my InfoWorld posts on What is CI/CD and on getting started with CI/CD. What you'll see is that there are many steps to mature this.

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IT Career Options IT Pros Vs. DevOps Vs. Developers

Anoop

Choose a career which you love the most. I studied computer science and selected my job as IT Pro. I learned programming languages like Basic, Fortran, COBOL, and C. But, it was my choice to be an IT Pro and IT Admin. So, there is nothing wrong to be an IT Pro career. We will […]. The post IT Career Options IT Pros Vs. DevOps Vs. Developers appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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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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A New Era Of Technology Is Arriving: Will CIOs Be Ready?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Here comes the future, are you ready to meet it? Image Credit: Michael Coghlan. It can be all too easy for the person with the CIO job to spend their time sitting around thinking about the future. We all know about things like big data, cloud computing, etc. These are new and novel things now, we assume that in the future they will be more run-of-the-mill.

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Chinese Intelligence Operations In America

CTOvision

In part 2 of our Cyberwar series we’ll take a look at how the Chinese government utilizes the US’s open business environment to stage intelligence operations on American soil. Reconnaissance: While there has been a lot of recent press on Cambridge Analytica, the reality is there’s a giant industry that sells information on individuals who play […].

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10 competitors Cisco just can't kill off

Network World

10 competitors Cisco just can't kill off Image by IDG / jesadaphorn, Getty Images Creating a short list of key Cisco competitors is no easy task as the company now competes in multiple markets. In this case we tried to pick companies that have been around awhile or firms that have developed key technologies that directly impacted the networking giant.

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Back2Basics: Why B2B Marketers Should Differentiate On Customer Experience

Forrester IT

“To survive in a world of ‘killer competition,’ you can either distinguish yourself from your competitors or offer the lowest price.” That’s the opinion of Jack Trout, co-author of Positioning, late president of Trout & Partners, father of the positioning concept In this month’s conversation with Johannesburg-based author Mark Eardley, we discuss why differentiation seriously […].

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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 basics of Deep Learning and Bayesian Networks in under five minutes

Social, Agile and Transformation

Still confused about deep learning, how it works, what is its shortcomings, and what is its origins? Watch this 4.5 minute keynote snippet by Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist at Uber, at O'Reilly's Artificial Intelligence Conference going on in NYC this week. He nails it. Paraphrasing Zoubin: Deep learning is neural networks rebranded. Compute power enables us to run many layers of.

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How to Setup Co-Management – Firewall Ports Proxy Requirements

Anoop

Firewall ports and proxy exception requirements are not something you can remove from your checklist while you are implementing any new infra component. Co-management is not different over here. SCCM Co-management related components from your on-prem infra need to communicate with the cloud components. Hence Firewall ports are proxy exception planning & documentation are essential. […].

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Why CIOs Should Stop Putting Employees In Boxes

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to stop classifying their employees by placing them in a box Image Credit: jon jordan. As the person with the CIO job, you by necessity meet a lot of people. Many of these people work for you and so it’s important that you remember who they are. Just because it’s important does not make this any easier to do. We have all developed a coping mechanism for dealing with this challenge: when we meet someone, we put them in a box.

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Everyday Threats That Can Fool Even The Savviest Of Techies

CTOvision

If you consider yourself an expert in cybersecurity - or even if you’re somewhat knowledgeable about how to protect yourself online, you probably won’t fall for the standard Nigerian prince email scam. Enter your bank account information below, and we’ll send you a whole bunch of money. Those kinds of tricks are old news, and [.].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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22 essential security commands for Linux

Network World

There are many aspects to security on Linux systems – from setting up accounts to ensuring that legitimate users have no more privilege than they need to do their jobs. This is look at some of the most essential security commands for day-to-day work on Linux systems. sudo. Running privileged commands with sudo – instead of switching user to root – is one essential good practice as it helps to ensure that you only use root privilege when needed and limits the impact of mistakes.

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Marketing Innovation Starts And Ends With Customer Obsession

Forrester IT

Despite all the monumental changes to technology and media which afford marketers the capabilities to build emotion-rich customer relationships, they frequently struggle to rise above roles as brand despots or sales vassals. But don’t blame the tools. It’s because marketing functions are mired in minutia while prioritizing internal tasks and artificial organizational constraints over solving […].

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What is AIops? Collaboration, Practices, and Principles for Delivering AI Solutions

Social, Agile and Transformation

I heard about the term AIops term last week at The AI Conference, presented by O'Reilly and Intel AI. Is this a real practice? My answer is yes and here's why. Consider that DevOps is the practice to align developers and operations on the agility, speed, and stability of making software releases. DevOps aims to align a multidisciplinary team on conflicting missions and priorities by.

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CMPivot Tool SCCM Subset of the Azure Log Analytics

Anoop

Who said SMS (slow moving software)? SCCM is anymore a slow moving software. SCCM moves as fast as Azure. Now, SCCM has better speed than Microsoft Intune (my SCCM love takes precedence here). Reporting and live status of managed machines. Most of these fast moving parts of SCCM are using “Fast Channel” architecture. In this post, […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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4 Warning Signs an Integration Wall is Approaching

Fountainhead

The Integration and API Management markets are growing, expanding in both popularity and use. Enterprise App integration will surpass $33b by 2020, and other markets like iPaaS and Data Integration are growing at double-digit CAGRs. Enablers, such as containers and serverless technologies are only accelerating the move toward increased disaggregation of applications.

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Intelligent Process Automation: The 4 Levels of AI-Enablement

CTOvision

Today’s knowledge workers are like the office workers of yesterday. They spend their time in email, on the phone, in various desktop and online apps and websites dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, partners, and internal stakeholders. Much of the time is spent dealing with various systems to shuffle information from one place to another, or [.].

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Getting grounded in IoT networking and security

Network World

download. Getting grounded in IoT networking and security. The internet of things already consists of nearly triple the number of devices as there are people in the world, and as more and more of these devices creep into enterprise networks it’s important to understand their requirements and how they differ from other IT gear.

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TD Ameritrade’s “Accountable CMO” Makes Marketing a Business Engine

Forrester IT

I have a new work crush. It happened, of all places, at the ANA’s Advertising Financial Management conference earlier this week in Hollywood, FL. My new marketer inspiration? Denise Karkos, CMO of TD Ameritrade, who talked us through what it means – and why it’s so CRITICAL – to be an accountable CMO. Here’s a […].

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Leading Digital Transformation: Finding the right velocity in driving organizational change

Social, Agile and Transformation

I was recently asked, "Isaac, what keeps you up at night?" My answer is simple. In transformation programs, going too slow can lead to your business being disrupted. If your competitors are putting out great experiences, are more competitive winning business by leveraging data, or are demonstrating strategic business impacts with AI, blockchain, or IoT then your business is at risk.

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Setup Co-Management CA PKI Request Export Certificates

Anoop

I struggled to setup the PKI infrastructure in my lab environment. Setting up PKI infra is not a very easy task for SCCM admins. But, I felt that it’s straightforward when I tried the method explained in this post. In this post, we will see how to setup lab PKI (Certificate Authority) infra for co-management. […]. The post Setup Co-Management CA PKI Request Export Certificates appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Fix for FAILURE (9705): Unable to find USMT file, cannot capture/restore user state

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, I upgraded to the new MDT 6.3.8450.1000. It was a fresh install of the new MDT product in which I created an entirely new MDT share for our Windows 10 build. I had done an upgrade to the other MDT share that contains the Windows 7 builds, and it busted all of them at which point I had to do a restore. After creating the new task sequences, applications, drivers, OS, and packages, I went to capture my first Windows 10 image and got the error below.

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting… Delivery of Your Outsourced Software

CTOvision

As a consulting CTO I work with companies at all stages of software product development. Startups with scarcely more than a PDF mock-up. Multi-million dollar businesses refining their umpteenth software version. But there is one stage in the evolution of a software company at which they disproportionately reach out to somebody like me — when they’re […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.