Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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Five AI Principles To Put In Practice

Forrester IT

From tech vendors to governments to industry consortia to the Vatican, it seems that every day a new entity is announcing its set of AI principles — broad guidelines for how AI systems should be responsibly developed, trained, tested, and deployed. On the surface, this is great news, as it demonstrates an awareness of the fact […].

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Tests Show That Voice Assistants Still Lack Critical Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article about the Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark and how far voice assistants need to go to become adequately intelligent. Increasingly, voice assistants from vendors such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others are starting to find their way into myriad of devices, products, and tools used on a daily basis. While once […].

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Zoom Forfeits Goodwill By Failing To Secure What It Sells COVID-19 has crippled many companies, but one that surged, at least at first, was Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom’s failure to secure what it sells, however, turns one of the few bright sides of physical distancing into a parable of product security: Releasing a product with shocking security flaws and privacy issues will come back to haunt a company at […].

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3 Virtual Meetings Hard to do with Zoom

Social, Agile and Transformation

I use Zoom synonymously for all other virtual meeting technologies, including Google Meet and Microsoft teams. Most of you are getting used to virtual meetings because of COVID-19, and the technology largely works well in many situations requiring teams and people to collaborate. In fact, some of you have gotten used to handling virtual meeting disruptions and issues. window.dojoRequire([".

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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If You Want To Deliver A Great Customer Experience, Start By Attracting The Right Customers

Forrester IT

The perfect experience for your customers is the one that fulfills your brand promise in a way that’s meaningful to them. That’s why simply copying experiences that work for other companies is worse than a dead end: It can lead to well-intentioned efforts that damage your brand. A former Forrester analyst used to illustrate this […].

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Configuration Manager Default Client Settings

Mick's IT Blog

I just started building a completely new configuration manager server. While setting it up, I remembered that I wished in the past that I had all of the original default client settings because some did get changed. If you have ever made changes directly to the default client settings and cannot remember what the original settings were, then here is a screenshot of each section.

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OSD Known Issues Troubleshooting Guide |SCCM |ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Well, you have seen many OSD troubleshooting steps in different posts. I’m sharing my experience here. Here you go with SCCM OSD Known Issues Troubleshooting Guide. Related Posts – Learn How to Troubleshoot SCCM Task Sequence Debugger & SCCM OSD Task Sequence Troubleshooting Steps by Step Ultimate Guide with SMSTS.log Introduction Hello World, I am […].

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How To Determine Your Company’s Strategy For Values-Based Consumers

Forrester IT

Brands’ moral, social, and political values are now a core issue for most customers and employees. Unfortunately, companies lack a systematic values strategy, leading to high-profile flubs. My new report, “Interactive Tool: Determine Your Company’s Strategy For Values-Based Customers,” features a Q&A tool that helps firms make conscious decisions about how much to bring moral, […].

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How to scale Kubernetes: 3 factors

Tech Republic Cloud

Kubernetes is becoming the container orchestrator of choice. It even holds the ability to scale applications up with demand--if you know how to configure it.

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IoT security, neglected infrastructure, and a crisis of trust deemed major threats for 2022

Tech Republic Security

The Internet Security Forum predicts the coming threats with a very good track record so far. Get your company ready for these threats.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Kubernetes problems? These container management tools might help

Tech Republic Cloud

Find out how the container management software Istio and Red Hat's OpenShift differ, and determine if the tools meet your organization's needs.

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Where to Find Cost Savings When Using the Cloud

Information Week

These management strategies can help enterprise organizations rein in costs for public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments.

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Remote working, now and forevermore?

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The Covid-19 outbreak has led to a worldwide experiment in remote working as employees across the world are forced to self-isolate. But will workers return to the office en masse once the disruption caused by the pandemic ends? Or will working from home become the new normal? Remote working, once quaintly known as telecommuting, has been on the rise for decades, thanks to the availability of digital communication and collaboration tools that enable staff to do their jobs outside of physical offi

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The end of passwords: Industry experts explore the possibilities and challenges

Tech Republic Security

Passwords have been an industry standard and industry headache for decades. Learn some best practice tips for password administration from tech security insiders.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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6 ways to reduce deployment risk without adding cost

Tech Republic Cloud

Anyone can push code to production more often, but doing it without impacting users or driving costs up, is the trick.

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IoT roundup: Tech companies step up to help fight against COVID-19

Network World

This month, we look at some of the ways the IoT sector is helping to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Apple and Google want to turn your phone into a Covid-tracking machine

Vox

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images. The new contact-tracing tool, explained. Just when you were wondering why the world’s biggest tech companies weren’t doing more to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Apple and Google made a big announcement: They are joining forces to build an opt-in contact-tracing tool using Bluetooth technology that could help public health officials track the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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COBOL, COVID-19, and Coping with Legacy Tech Debt

Information Week

Pressures from the pandemic expose risks of waiting too long to transform, get agile, and establish a path for scaling up.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Three Steps to Using Sensitive Data for Facilitating M&A Scenarios

Dataconomy

In 2020, companies face an operational environment that is unlike any seen before. Rapid globalization has created fierce competition, and digitalization is driving innovation in every direction. As a result, firms that fall behind are going out of business, and more than half of all Fortune 500 companies have left. The post Three Steps to Using Sensitive Data for Facilitating M&A Scenarios appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The “Nonlinear” Business Logic Behind Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Business logic is a blanket term that covers several very different types of components such as business rules, workflows, algorithms, and integration logic. The very natural attempt of humans to take powerful techniques such as linear mathematics or logic and apply it to the world very quickly comes up against insurmountable difficulties. Logic is often nonlinear and multidimensional in today’s “VUCA” world.

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Review: Tightening Your Team’s Cyber Defenses With Torii’s SaaS Management Solution

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Review: Tightening Your Team’s Cyber Defenses With Torii’s SaaS Management Solution - Information Technology Blog. While most managers enthusiastically believe that adopting SaaS tools paves the way for success, IT managers have a different stance – and rightly so. The widespread use of shadow IT in the organization emerging from unsanctioned SaaS usage is alarming, to say the least.

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The Best “Trustworthy” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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10 Quick Link Building Tactics For Beginners

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 10 Quick Link Building Tactics For Beginners - Information Technology Blog. The most useful link building policy is to build something impressive and let every person understand it! Are you new in link building? Okay! Then don’t take tension. We are always here for you. There are several methods to get links. The correct tactics for you mainly depend on the sources you have at your control, as well as the business that you are in.

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The Monthly “Performance Master” Summary: How to Measure Organizational Maturity Apr. 2020

Future of CIO

Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.

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