Tue.Dec 04, 2018

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Mapping: The Power Hidden in Plain Sight

Forrester IT

I’ll bet you know that Google is reinventing mapping from the ground up, swinging for the the stars with layers of data, intelligence, and real-time insight. But I bet you didn’t know there’s a US three-letter agency dedicated to maps? Or that we’ve already identified 109 mapmakers and vendors of one kind or another?

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Mind the gap: AI and machine learning lag in adoption

CTOvision

Despite acknowledging that AI and machine learning are the harbinger of future technology, most businesses are lagging in AI adoption. A report by RELX Group found that companies are not investing enough for AI and machine learning technologies. More than 91 percent of senior executives polled understood that AI and machine learning were important but […].

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Emphasize Emotion In Your Holiday Customer Service

Forrester IT

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. As the holidays approach and the post-holiday return rush quickly follows, a few things will occur simultaneously: hundreds of millions of customers will make purchases, total holiday retail sales will push the $720 billion mark, and millions more will send odd, ill-fitting, or unwanted gifts […].

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Even The Hype about artificial intelligence can bring policy benefits

CTOvision

Read why John Thornhill says AI and machine learning are overhyped but that is actually good for the technology such bubbles often the prelude to the deployment of disruptive technologies on Financial Times. Here are two seemingly contradictory but surprisingly consistent statements about artificial intelligence. First, AI is massively over-hyped. Second, this is a good thing.

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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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Competition Heats Up In Banking Transformation Services

Forrester IT

After a few quiet years, Thought Machine, the fintech behind a new core banking platform called Vault, is stealing the limelight, first with its announcement of a strategic partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, then with a similar partnership with the digital bank Atom. And today we’ve learned about another partnership, this time with IBM. We […].

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Baidu Leads AI Patent Applications In China With 2,368 Filings

CTOvision

Baidu, sometimes referred to as the Chinese equivalent of Google, has filed more artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications than any other company in China, according to a report by Patent Protection Association of China. The search engine company, which is valued at $191 billion, has filed 2,368 AI patent applications, according to the “Analysis on Artificial […].

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NVIDIA’s new AI turns videos of the real world into virtual landscapes

CTOvision

New Nvidia AI research project uses objects and scenery from within existing videos to build new interactive environments in realistic city landscapes. With the help of some clever machine learning techniques and a handy supercomputer, NVIDIA has used AI to chew on existing videos and use the objects. Neural networks — specifically generative models — will change […].

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What to Look for in a Data Protection Officer, and Do You Need One?

Information Week

The hiring of a data protection officer is a key element of compliance with GDPR, but it's also an opportunity to differentiate your company.

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One Of The re:Invent Topics We Almost Missed: New Inferentia machine learning chip

CTOvision

There were an overwhelming number of announcements coming out of AWS re:invent this year. If you haven’t seen our summary list yet, see: Highlights From AWS re:Invent In hindsight we did not give enough attention to the very important announcement of Inferentia. Here is what Tech Crunch said about that: The machine learning chip market […].

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Top 12 BI tools of 2019

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.

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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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Benefits of Continuous Integration for Businesses and IT Teams

Flexagon

Software is a key competitive differentiator for companies across industries. The faster companies can get new enhancements and functionality to market, the wider their competitive edge. To achieve this lead, enterprise development teams need to optimize their workflow for efficiency, quality, and reliability. As such, development teams adopt continuous integration (CI) to speed up and.

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Katrina Roberts, a CIO at American Express, Shares Hiring Strategy

Information Week

Strategies for recruiting IT talent are changing rapidly, and it's not just about challenges. There are opportunities and benefits as well.

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So you want to measure audio quality… Is network monitoring the answer?

Spearline Testing

In this series on audio quality we’ve explored how much of an impact audio quality can have on customer experience and the performance of your contact centre, and also looked at the best measures of audio quality. But what kind of monitoring tools can be used to take these measures? Most large organisations have some kind of network monitoring in place to maintain the performance of their telecoms network.

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It’s a Wrap: Highlights from Data Natives 2018

Dataconomy

How do you merge the perspectives of the data scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, student and CTO’s under one roof when it comes to data-driven decisions? How do you bring together the likes of Google and IBM with academics and universities to find answers to the most relevant questions in the world. The post It’s a Wrap: Highlights from Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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The CIO as “Chief Influence Officer”: How to Calibrate Your Impact

Future of CIO

Organizations of the future are increasingly exhibiting digital characteristics in various shades, colors, extensiveness, and intensity. The modern CIOs play the crucial role in driving changes and leading digitalization. The degree of leadership influence is much more complex than the leader’s title or personality. They need to have the ability to “calibrate their impact,” being able to lead through influence, not by brute forces.

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Intune Win32 App Deployment using Modern Management – Part 1

Anoop

One year back, I worked for a customer to deploy Windows 10 with modern management tools like Intune. The major limitation we faced is Intune Win32 App Deployment. Intune supported only single Msi file. Because of this limitation, we were unable to deploy applications with EXE, multiple MSIs, MST, batch files, etc. These application deployment […].

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Playing Innovation Oddball: Expand Boundary

Future of CIO

In the industrial age, the overly rigid hierarchy is often the cause of bureaucracy and leads to the business stagnation. With overwhelming growth of information and emerging digital technology, the black and white boundaries continue to diminish in the 21st century due to the occurrence of increased economic integration, characterized by the movement of people with diverse background across geographical borders and the advanced technologies.

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Intune Win32 App Deployment using Modern Management

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. One year back, I worked for a customer to deploy Windows 10 with modern management tools like Intune. The major limitation we faced is Intune Win32 App Deployment. Intune supported only single Msi file. Because of this limitation, we were unable to deploy applications with EXE, multiple MSIs, MST, batch files, etc.

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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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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: The Multi-Dimensional Digital Fit Dec. 2018

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. But what are digital organizational traits, how to define digital fit and take a structural approach for digitalization?