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The Downside Of digital Labs For Financial Innovation

Forrester IT

The race to digital is heating up in financial services (FS) organizations; increasingly, the engine making this happen is Agile. Why? Quite simply, it is software that makes any financial business truly digital. Organizations are therefore in a rush to become great at rapidly innovating, developing, and delivering new software products to win new clients and retain and serve existing ones.

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Why every organization needs Business Process Management

CTOvision

Bob Larrivee. AIIM ’s Chief Analyst Bob Larrivee believes that Business Process Management has become an important tool for business, but maintains that organizations could still get more out of their BPM systems to make sure all aspects of operations are running at their optimum level. Business Process Management (BPM) is a very powerful tool, which Gartner sums up neatly when it describes it as ‘a discipline that improves enterprise performance by driving operational excellence and agility’.

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Philippines government data breach is a warning to Asean region

Computer Weekly

Security is a rising concern in the Asean region, with fears fuelled by incidents such as the recent data hacking incident in Manila

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Four Trends in IoT Big Data Usage

IT Toolbox

Data from connected devices is ramping up, but are businesses ready? There will be more than 28 billion connected devices by 2020 , according to research firm, IDC.

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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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Will Microsoft and LinkedIn Deliver on the Promise of Social CRM

Social, Agile and Transformation

If you were an early adopter on LinkedIn, you probably got an invite from a colleague that wanted you to "join their network" without any significant justification as to what services that network provided. Early adopters like myself joined and allowed LinkedIn to access our email contacts so that they could help us grow our network. I followed these steps about 10 years ago and didn't find.

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An Update on the Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already operating in our world.

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Five Forces Driving Collaboration

IT Toolbox

When businesses begin considering Unified Communications, decision-makers quickly discover how difficult UC is to define. This is actually both a strength and a weakness, and the process of developing a working understanding of UC usually gives rise to new questions that place this decision in a more strategic light.

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Impact of Cooling and Efficiency in Modern Data Center Design

Data Center Knowledge

The decision to invest in cooling infrastructure is easy, however, choosing the method with which you regulate temperature within the data center can be more challenging. Read More.

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What Kind of Management Structure Is Needed to Govern a Data Analytics Program?

CTOvision

Dennis D. McDonald. Introduction. When thinking about developing a new data analytics program, two questions you need to address are: What services do you need to provide? To whom do you need to provide these services? I’m assuming here that your organization already provides products or services of some sort and that, through a new or enhanced data analytics program, you want to take advantage of the data associated with these products or services.

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Security Think Tank: Understanding compliance with the GDPR

Computer Weekly

What is the role of information security professionals in helping organisations to ensure they are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?

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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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What Can CRM Do for Small Business?

IT Toolbox

Many small businesses wonder whether they truly need to incorporate a customer relationship management (CRM) platform into their business processes. So many other options are out there—so many tools, programs, and applications. Is a CRM system necessary? The simple answer is yes.

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DriveScale Says Big Data Needs a New Kind of Data Center Infrastructure

Data Center Knowledge

Startup founded by Cisco and Sun veterans has built a rack-scale architecture specifically for scale-out Big Data environments Read More.

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Succinct Introduction To The Tamr Enterprise Data Unification Platform

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. This short video below captures the key differentiators and unique capabilities of Tamr. Businesses across every sector and all government agencies have mission-critical questions to ask and most all have the data assets they need to answer them. They’ve invested heavily in big data analytics — $44 billion in 2014 alone, according to Gartner.

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How MI5 and MI6 gather your personal data for surveillance

Computer Weekly

Publicly released documents shed light on the many databases and sources used by the intelligence services to gather bulk personal data about UK citizens

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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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4 Reasons to Standardize CRM Reporting in Your Company

IT Toolbox

The concept of everyone in the company getting all the information they need to do their job automatically is enticing to companies. Creating a framework and infrastructure in which typical businesspeople scattered throughout the company can create their own reports and views of historical data has been the stated goal of many generations of software products.

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Report: Data Center Provider Peak Hosting Files for Bankruptcy

Data Center Knowledge

Its biggest creditors are its own data center providers, including Digital Realty, CoreSite, Equinix, and Interxion Read More.

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Private Clouds eBook

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. Cloud computing has achieved mainstream acceptance as an IT service delivery platform. Within the cloud paradigm, private cloud is gaining momentum for reasons ranging from performance optimization and cost containment to privacy and security. In Bright Computing's most recent eBook , they take a brief look at private clouds and discuss: What a private cloud is.

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Brexit and broadband: Boom or bust for UK infrastructure?

Computer Weekly

As the campaigns to remain in and leave the European Union ramp up their rhetoric in the last days of the drawn-out campaign, what is the possible impact of a Brexit on the national broadband roll-out?

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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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How ERP Increases Profitability

IT Toolbox

Profit is the goal of being in business and ERP exists to increase profitability. That's an oft-repeated truism, but exactly how does ERP increase profits? It turns out there are a number of ways a well-functioning ERP system works to increase company profits. The first thing to understand about ERP is that is affects nearly every aspect of your operation.

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Federal Government Data Center Mandate Gets Ahead of the Public Sector

Data Center Knowledge

By 2018, all federal government data centers must achieve higher, specified levels of efficiency. One way to achieve this is to bring server utilization rates up to 65 percent, from the current 5 percent utilization rate. Read More.

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Senators Mark Warner and Cory Gardner announce creation of Senate Cybersecurity Caucus

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. On Tuesday at an American Enterprise Institute event today on Capitol Hill, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) announced the creation of the ‘Senate Cybersecurity Caucus’ to provide a platform for Senators and their staffs to stay informed on major policy issues and developments in cybersecurity. The announcement was captured in a release on Senator Warner's site , which said: “Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges w

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Isle of Man: From seaside getaway to tech startup hub

Computer Weekly

The Isle of Man government is stepping up efforts to position itself as the low-tax jurisdiction of choice for the startup community. But what's it like to do business there?

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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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5 Essential VoIP Features That Boost Efficiency

IT Toolbox

Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP as it is better known, is a technical piece of software that allows businesses to manage customers in a prompt, professional manner. It also enables colleagues to communicate to one another from different locations in real-time.

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How Much Water Do Apple Data Centers Use?

Data Center Knowledge

Water use by the company’s data centers is growing much faster than water use by its corporate facilities Read More.

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The biggest Google I/O 2016 news in 10 minutes

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. At this year’s Google I/O, Assistant got chattier and found its way into several new Google products: the messenger Allo and the Echo-like speaker Home. Android N also got some improvements and a mobile VR platform called Daydream.

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Bluetooth 5 standard brings range, speed and capacity boost for IoT

Computer Weekly

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced the forthcoming Bluetooth 5 standard, promising significant improvements to support an accessible and interoperable internet of things

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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.

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Get Your Business on Track with a Little ERP

IT Toolbox

Running a successful business is hard work because there are goals to reach and budgets to adhere to. If you and your team are feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all, or if you are simply looking to expand your company, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) could be just what you need to improve efficiency and attain your goals. What Is ERP?

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Inside Finger Lakes’ Nuclear Bunker Data Center (VIDEO)

Data Center Knowledge

FLTG is family-owned telco with a twist Read More.

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Bob Flores Providing Context on Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. This video features Cognitio Partner Bob Flores speaking about Cyber Security and the need to well implemented security on premise, in the cloud, and with consumers and their end user devices. Great context!

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Datacentre security: Why operators must give cyber and physical threats equal attention

Computer Weekly

Datacentre operators often talk up the physical security measures they have in place, but are they at risk of overlooking cyber threats?

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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.