Wed.Aug 28, 2019

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How To Become Self-Aware of your B2B eCommerce Digital Maturity

Forrester IT

Nearly half of businesses are digital beginners. The other half are eating their lunch. Find out where you stand and what you need to do to defend yourself. The B2B C-suite is demanding you accelerate your digital transformation. This means you face more pressure to show progress and benchmark your maturity. My newly released […].

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Microsoft VDI Story WVD Concept Setup Guide Myths Known Issues

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I thought of sharing my experience with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) in the world of Citrix VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). I will also cover the WVD SCCM and Intune support, WVD Setup, WVD known issues, and WVD myths in this post. Introduction Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a new VDI offering from Microsoft.

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How To Guarantee A New Generation Of Failure

Forrester IT

It’s back-to-school time, hurray! After the crazy nonstop shenanigans of the summer and having kids at home all day, it’s a bit like being paroled and finally seeing the sun again to have some quiet and be able to actually think. With school kicking off, I was surprised, nay, enthused, to see a course for […].

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Windows Virtual Desktop Microsoft WVD FAQs from AMA

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Following is my quick notes from AMA organized by Microsoft WVD product team. It was super useful to me. I thought it would be helpful for you as well. Let’s have a quick walkthrough of the questions and answers which I wanted to highlight. You can go through all the WVD AMA discussion from the […].

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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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Anaplan Doubles Down On Predictive With Mintigo Acquisition

Forrester IT

On August 27, 2019, Anaplan, a San Francisco-based business performance management software company, announced its intention to acquire the Israeli-founded predictive marketing and sales analytics company Mintigo. Much like Salesforce’s Q3 2018 acquisition of Datorama and Dun & Bradstreet’s June 2019 acquisition of Lattice Engines, the Mintigo pickup will allow Anaplan to embed and deepen […].

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Modern applications at AWS

All Things Distributed

Innovation has always been part of the Amazon DNA, but about 20 years ago, we went through a radical transformation with the goal of making our iterative process—" invent, launch, reinvent, relaunch, start over, rinse, repeat, again and again "—even faster. The changes we made affected both how we built applications and how we organized our company.

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Get Certified and Get Promoted: How IT Certifications Can Propel Your Career

Association of Information Technology Professional

A recent IDC study shows that getting certified before starting work improves not just your job search, but your career moving forward. While not everyone necessarily has the chance to get certified before entering the job market – if you do, here are a few great reasons to go for it!

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What is phishing? Learn how this attack works

Network World

Phishing is a method of trying to gather personal information using deceptive e-mails and websites. Here's what you need to know about this increasingly sophisticated form of cyberattack.

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Do Self-Service and Low-Code Curb Shadow IT?

Information Week

Self-service may help reduce shadow IT, but it won't eliminate it. Business-IT relationships help.

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5 Reasons you need to proactively monitor and test your calls

Spearline Testing

Excellent customer experience. Nobody likes a bad phone call. Whether it be a delayed call, terrible quality or a jumbled up conversation, one bad phone call could easily ruin the rest of your day. And what does your customer think of your business if the phone call is of poor quality? Well, for one thing, they probably won’t ring again and move to your competitor.

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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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Integrated Cloud Architecture: What It Is and Why It Matters

Information Week

Before diving into the integrated cloud architecture deep end, you must first understand the challenges.

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Alternative Data Meets Fintech: Tweets, Parking Lot Pictures and Criminal Take-downs

Dataconomy

In an increasingly competitive market, how are fintech companies adapting to improve their decision making? In industries such as insurance, capital markets, cryptocurrency, wealth and asset management — alternative data is proving to be a valuable source of insight. Like a broken leaf to a hunter or a change of. The post Alternative Data Meets Fintech: Tweets, Parking Lot Pictures and Criminal Take-downs appeared first on Dataconomy.

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CIOs Start To Become Leaders In Their Firms

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to get ready to be leaders when it comes to big challenges Image Credit: Rvs1966. The role of the CIO in the company has been an ever evolving position. The people with the CIO job first started out as simply being caretakers for the IT equipment that the company had purchased because of the importance of information technology. This role evolved into more of a strategic partner role for the person in the CIO position who was called on to help the company do a better job of being compe

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Unveil The Hong Kong Mobile Banking Landscape

Forrester IT

(Coauthored with Riccardo Pasto, senior analyst, Nancy Lin, senior research associate, and Han Bao, senior research associate) It is the first time that Forrester has evaluated banks in Hong Kong SAR, the famous world finance hub. We benchmarked the usability and functionalities of five mobile banking apps in Hong Kong: Bank of China (BoC), Bank […].

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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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Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Corporate Strategy?

CTOvision

Read Daniel Shapiro explain how you can automate your corporate strategy using artificial intelligence on Forbes : In this article, I’m going to tell you about automating corporate strategies using artificial intelligence, and look at some recent progress in automatically generating strategies in the face of uncertainty. Every day, progress in artificial intelligence is addressing tasks […].

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Five Characteristics of IT Maturity

Future of CIO

With rapid changes, exponential growth of information and often technology led disruptions, the role of IT in the current business environment should be able to enable business outcomes, catalyze business growth, and build organizational competency. Many companies are reaching the inflection point of digital transformation. IT plays a critical role in the digital paradigm shift.

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7 Differences between complex and complicated

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Many people believe that complexity is just higher order complicatedness i.e. that there is a continuum and that the difference is one of degree, not type. When one considers however how very different these states are from each other, I tend to agree with Dave Snowden when he says that there are in fact phase shifts between them i.e. they are fundamentally different types of systems.

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The Best “Stereotype” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

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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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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VMware adds AI assistant, other updates to Workspace One

CTOvision

VMware on Monday announced a slew of updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant and other “concierge services” designed to offer broad support across devices and platforms. The updates were announced at the VMworld conference in San Francisco. In addition to the concierge services, VMware announced expanded endpoint management […].

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How HackerEarth helped Siemens Technology evaluate candidates using cut off scores

Hacker Earth

One of our privileged customers, Siemens Technology, had a request for a feature to be implemented on HackerEarth. The team at Siemens Technology wanted a robust mechanism to quickly screen candidates based on assessments. This led to the creation of the recommended cut-off scores feature in HackerEarth Assessment. . The problem . In employment testing, cut-off scores are used to filter candidates who did not earn the required score on a specific test to be considered proficient.

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Chinese AI unicorn Megvii files for Hong Kong IPO

CTOvision

One of China’s largest artificial intelligence companies has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong. Megvii Technology was most recently valued at approximately $4 billion in its last funding round in May. Its proposed listing comes as the city’s financial market faces an escalating US-China trade war and mass protests in the city.

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How HackerEarth helped Siemens Technology evaluate candidates using cut off scores

Hacker Earth

One of our privileged customers, Siemens Technology, had a request for a feature to be implemented on HackerEarth. The team at Siemens Technology wanted a robust mechanism to quickly screen candidates based on assessments. This led to the creation of the recommended cut-off scores feature in HackerEarth Assessment. . The problem . In employment testing, cut-off scores are used to filter candidates who did not earn the required score on a specific test to be considered proficient.

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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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The risks of amoral AI

CTOvision

Read why Kyle Dent says that risks of amoral artificial intelligence are great on Techcrunch : Artificial intelligence is now being used to make decisions about lives, livelihoods and interactions in the real world in ways that pose real risks to people. We were all skeptics once. Not that long ago, conventional wisdom held that machine […].

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The Monthly “Dot Connections”: Strategic vs. Operational Management Dot Connection Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Organization of the Future is an organization designed openly for anyone with ideas on how human organizations ought to be contrived in the face of the strategic imperatives of the digital era. The work is not the place you go, but a live organization and an experiment lab you can connect the dots to explore the art of possibility.

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Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave From AI Lab

CTOvision

The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, has been placed on leave after controversy over some of the projects he led. Mustafa Suleyman runs DeepMind’s “applied” division, which seeks practical uses for the lab’s research in health, energy and other fields. Suleyman is also a key public face for DeepMind, speaking […].

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