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7 sins of software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.

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What’s the real story of Xbox in 2024? Latest financials from Microsoft reveal mixed signals

GeekWire

This is the second quarterly report from Microsoft that included the effects of its record-setting acquisition of the formerly independent game developer Activision Blizzard King. Without Activision’s software lineup on its side, the financial story might’ve been much worse for Xbox.

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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

CIO Business Intelligence

If there’s an industry steeped in computations, it’s the financial services sector. Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis.

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Tech Moves: Former Ada Developers Academy CEO joins venture studio; Riveter co-CEO steps down; and more

GeekWire

Conduit Venture Labs Photo) — Seattle tech leader Lauren Sato joined Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence. The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. “Prototyping alone sidelines most hardware founders.

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Why Financial Services Firms are Championing Natural Language Processing

CIO Business Intelligence

Chatbots are just one application of natural language processing (NLP), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that is already having a major impact in financial services, among other industries. . The Financial Services industry is projected to be a major source of this spending. by 2025, according to IDC. NLP will account for $35.1

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Why Financial Services Firms Need to Modernize Core Data Platforms

CIO Business Intelligence

By David Andrzejek, Head of Financial Services, DataStax. While enterprises in all sectors of the economy will compete with data, the effective capture and use of data in information-intensive sectors like online services, banking, and financial services is especially critical and will separate winners from losers.

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NLP Isn’t Enough. Leading Financial Services Companies Are Now Moving to Conversational AI.

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, most banks, insurance companies, and other kinds of financial services firms have deployed natural language processing (NLP) tools to address some of their customer service needs. Financial services firms all over the globe are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI). The rise of chatbots… and their weaknesses.