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Stop Trying To Replace Your Agents With Chatbots — No, Seriously!

Forrester IT

Customer service organizations have been looking for ways to cut costs for decades. Now that chatbot mania has taken over, many are jumping on the bandwagon and attempting to replace their human agents with chatbots. In theory, that makes sense – a chatbot costs less than a human over time, and most customer service organizations […].

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Infographic: AI powered Chatbots

CTOvision

Chatbots are rapidly becoming part of our every day lives and proving to be a very valuable tool for companies across a wide range of industries. As such, AI-enabled chatbots are increasingly being used on the front line of customer engagement. They can be integrated into customer support service teams to answer common or basic […].

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How Business Transformation is Fundamentally Different from Innovation

Social, Agile and Transformation

An interesting debate transpired during the last #CIOChat on Thursday at 2pm around Myles Suer's question, "How is #innovation fundamentally different from business transformation?" I had significant feedback to my tweets and decided to dedicate this week's blog post to detail my perspective. I provided a two-tweet answer require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl".

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SCCM Third-Party Software Updates Setup Step by Step Guide Post 1

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCUP helped many of us to deploy third-party software updates for many years. Now, SCCM doesn’t require SCUP to deploy Third-party updates. Let’s dive into the SCCM third-party software updates setup. Related Posts SCCM Third-Party Software Updates Setup Step by Step Guide Post Video Guide (Coming Soon)Free SCCM Catalog List – SCCM Third-Party Updates Post […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Want To Launch An Extended Reality (XR) Experience? Start With Employee Use Cases

Forrester IT

After returning from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last year, where I walked miles to test every virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experience, one thing was clear: They aren’t ready for mainstream consumer use. But what about for employees? I spoke with my colleague Sam Stern about the applications I’d seen at the […].

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IoT security market to reach $35.2 bn by 2023: Report

CTOvision

According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Internet of Things (IoT) Security Market size is expected to grow from USD 8.2 billion in 2018 to USD 35.2 billion by 2023, at CAGR of 33.7 percent during the forecast period. Major factors driving the growth of the market are the increasing number […].

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How to Change Office 365 Update Channel with SCCM Run Script

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. My name is Sharad Singh, and I have more 15 years of experience in IT and SCCM technologies, MS Intune. This post is my first one here in this blog! In this post, I will provide you a most straightforward way to Change Office 365 Update Channel for all your SCCM managed devices.

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Future of Retail: How Brands Should Handle Automation In 2019

Forrester IT

To help retailers and brands plan for 2019, Claudia Tajima and I are interviewing our Forrester peers to discover how their 2019 predictions will affect retail for our series: “Applying 2019 Predictions to Retail.” Recently, Claudia interviewed J.P. Gownder, VP and Principal Analyst on Forrester’s CIO team and an expert in automation technologies. Here’s what J.P. thinks retailers and brands should expect and focus on regarding automation in 2019.

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OODA Produces A Traveling Executive’s Guide to Cybersecurity

CTOvision

We have written before about the importance of all of us recognizing that we are in a cyber conflict. The fact is that we are all targets. We all have to keep our wits about us. This includes tracking the cyber threat and best practices to mitigate the threat. A period of significantly enhanced vulnerability […].

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BYOD and its Impact on Enterprise Content Delivery

Kitaboo

Over the last two decades, the way enterprises consume content has changed drastically. The changing business scenario and the emergence of new technologies have compelled organizations to adopt new methods to equip their staff with the necessary knowledge and skills, efficiently. Enterprise training is slowly coming out of the traditional classroom model into being a web-based and a mobile-driven training model, where employees can now be trained on any device at any time.

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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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Why AI Isn't Gaining Traction in Your Enterprise

Information Week

For all the buzz about artificial intelligence and machine learning, there has been surprisingly little real progress with adoption in the enterprise.

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Blockchain and Supply Chain

Forrester IT

Modern supply chains are faster, more dynamic, and more volatile than ever before. The digital economy thrives on scouring the globe for new markets and new sources of supply. Furthermore, agile supply networks outpace rigid supply chains, anticipating demand from empowered customers. But in contrast with rigid legacy supply chains, binding known and trusted vendors, […].

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Microsoft admits Outlook.com hackers were able to access emails

CTOvision

Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed. The software maker started notifying some Outlook.com users late on Friday night that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. Microsoft’s notification revealed that hackers could have viewed account email addresses, folder names, and subject […].

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How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning

Kitaboo

In this age of digital content consumption, students are likely to get easily distracted if they do not find their curriculum interesting enough. Educators have noticed that when technology is integrated into the curriculum, students tend to demonstrate an eagerness to learn. With the steady rise in digital learning materials, and the various interactive elements being incorporated into these digital resources, the teaching faculty is hoping to create an engaging learning environment and improve

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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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Cisco Talos details exceptionally dangerous DNS hijacking attack

Network World

Security experts at Cisco Talos have released a report detailing what it calls the “first known case of a domain name registry organization that was compromised for cyber espionage operations.” Talos calls ongoing cyber threat campaign “Sea Turtle” and said that state-sponsored attackers are abusing DNS to harvest credentials to gain access to sensitive networks and systems in a way that victims are unable to detect, which displays unique knowledge on how to manipulate DNS, Talos stated.

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Assessing Your Digital Maturity — What Does Excellence Look Like?

Forrester IT

Wall Street loves a digital business. These technology-driven innovators, which put customer acquisition, retention, and experience at the center, have a different way of looking at the world. They are rewarded with growth and investment. And it’s not just digital natives. Digitally advanced incumbents, firms such as Accenture, Capital One, Microsoft, and Philips, also see […].

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Don’t Acquire a Company Until You Evaluate Its Data Security

CTOvision

Read Chirantan Chatterjee and D. Daniel Sokol explain why you should not acquire a company until you have evaluated its data security on Harvard Business Review : When Marriott International acquired Starwood in 2016 for $13.6 billion, neither company was aware of a cyber-attack on Starwood’s reservation system that dated back to 2014. The breach, […].

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What the CIO's Role Says About Your Company

Information Week

The roles of chief information officers (CIOs) can vary significantly. Some are strategic business leaders, others are tactical implementers, some fall somewhere in between. What they do says a lot about your company.

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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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Cisco warns WLAN controller, 9000 series router and IOS/XE users to patch urgent security holes

Network World

Cisco this week issued 31 security advisories but direct customer attention to “critical” patches for its IOS and IOS XE Software Cluster Management and IOS software for Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers. A number of vulnerabilities also need attention if customers are running Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers. The first critical patch has to do with a vulnerability in the Cisco Cluster Management Protocol (CMP) processing code in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software that could allow an unauthenticated

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Digital Business Success Requires A Modern Core

Forrester IT

Years into the digital era, we see many companies that haven’t invested enough in modernizing their core. The so-called back office and other operational systems can seem disconnected from goals such as innovation and experience — but they are intricately linked. A legacy, monolithic core hinders innovation, growth, and employee and customer experience.

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Warning: Internet Explorer Just Became A Silent But Serious Threat To Every Windows User

CTOvision

Security researcher John Page warns that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has a critical security flaw that allows hackers to spy on you and steal personal data from your PC. That warning may seem irrelevant to you since Internet Explorer was officially discontinued in 2015. It’s now an archaic web browser, only in use by about 7% […].

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AI, Automation Job Trend to Reverse in 2020

Information Week

Artificial intelligence is adding value for many enterprise organizations, but getting it into production takes longer, costs more, and adds less value than many organizations are expecting.

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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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“George Jetson” Returns

Cloud Musings

Add description He grew up in Silicon Valley, landed his first job at Apple Computers, was introduced to Nobel Prize winners by his dad and today, he takes a self-driving car to work so that he can squeeze in a few morning conference calls with the US east coast Team. Is this George Jetson!? No. It’s just a normal day for Steve Wilson, VP of Products for Cloud at Citrix As a Silicon Valley native, Steve grew up around hi-tech.

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Digital Gets Real – A Look Back at Our 2019 Predictions

Forrester IT

After delivering talks at several recent industry events and having a wide range of discussions with digital leaders, it’s clear that organizations are becoming increasingly pragmatic when it comes to digital. They are getting back to basics, and looking to deliver small, manageable chunks of innovation. They are also tossing aside their digital roadmaps – […].

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Guidelines are a welcome step towards ethical AI

CTOvision

Read the editorial on Financial Times explain why the EU guidelines for use of ethical artificial intelligence are a good step : The EU’s guidelines on artificial intelligence have been praised for setting a global standard. They are also timely, given the revelation this week that Microsoft had worked with a Chinese military-affiliated university on […].

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Launch Your First Ansible Hands-On Lab For Free

Linux Academy

What are Hands-On Labs? Hands-On Labs is a key feature when it comes to learning practical skills. Instead of simply watching videos, Hands-On Labs deploy real environments with real-world scenarios for you to complete. By completing those scenarios, you are building skills that can be used directly on the job. If you have a paid membership at Linux Academy, you can launch any of the 700+ Hands-On Labs available on our platform for as many times as you want, at no additional cost.

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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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How to Solve the Talent Shortage in Data Science

Information Week

Data science is reshaping the job market through fierce competition between companies for top talent. Filling the positions will mean converting candidates from other fields.

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It’s Time For Shift-Left Performance Testing

Forrester IT

Developers: Performance Testing Deserves Your Attention! Developers, you have to stop treating performance testing as an afterthought. Our Forrester Analytics Global Business Technographics® Developer Survey data shows that over half of developers spend less than an hour a day performance-testing their code. When performance testing is done at the end, just before deployment, you’ll need […].

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Blockchain Set to Revolutionize Banking Sector

CTOvision

Read Pratip Biswas explain how blockchain technology can revolutionize the banking sector by using the Hyperledger on Dzone Blog : The banking sector forms the backbone of any economy. With the technology innovations making way into the arena, the banking sector has been moving away from traditional methods. It has shown steady acceptance of modern […].

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FlexDeploy Loves APEX : Continuous Integration for APEX

Flexagon

Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a popular application development tool and is also used to develop custom extensions for Oracle E-Business Suite. FlexDeploy is a DevOps platform for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Release Automation which supports Oracle APEX out of the box. FlexDeploy strives to eliminate scripting requirements and provide in-depth support for many open.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.