Tue.Jan 29, 2019

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The Search For US Tech Talent Will Get Harder And More Costly In 2019

Forrester IT

Forrester has just published our forecast for US tech employment and compensation (see “US Tech Talent Market Outlook: Low Unemployment And Rising Wages Present New Challenges for CIOs“). It has some foreboding news for CIOs and for tech vendors: tech talent will be harder to find and more expensive over the next two years.

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Artificial Intelligence Has A Problem With Bias, Here’s How To Tackle It

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain how we can tackle the inherent bias that artificial intelligence has on Forbes : One of the problems in society that AI decision-making was meant to solve, was bias. After all, aren’t computers less likely to have inherent views on, for example, race, gender, and sexuality? Well, that was true back in the […].

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Align Martech Investments With Your Digital Transformation Strategy

Forrester IT

Customers demand that marketing coordinate with sales, service, and commerce to deliver better experiences. That’s why enterprise marketing technology (martech) is melding with customer experience (CX) to deliver consistency and relevance (see Forrester’s “Predictions 2019: B2C Marketing” report). Martech is a direct line to consumer touchpoints, and marketers should embrace and leverage it to drive […].

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The state of AI in 2019

CTOvision

Read the state of artificial intelligence in 2019 according to James Vincent of Verge : It’s a common psychological phenomenon: repeat any word enough times, and it eventually loses all meaning, disintegrating like soggy tissue into phonetic nothingness. For many of us, the phrase “artificial intelligence” fell apart in this way a long time ago. […].

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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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Why And How To Improve The Government Customer Experience

Forrester IT

CX Success Is Vital To Mission Success The need to upgrade the government customer experience (CX) has never been more urgent. Government departments around the world still struggle with substandard experiences — and their poor CX performance hampers mission success.

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Big Data 2019: Cloud redefines the database and Machine Learning runs it

CTOvision

Read why Tony Baer says that machine learning will redefine how companies use big data on ZDNet : In the predictions game, it’s time for us to bat clean-up once more. Following Big on Data bro Andrew Brust’s roundup of AI-related predictions from a cross section of industry executives, now it’s our turn. We’ll focus […].

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IT leaders grapple with workforce skills gap as they deploy AI and digital technology

CTOvision

CIOs and leaders in digital technology are predicting significant growth in their use of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and the internet of things (IoT) in their businesses over the next two years. But they face challenges scaling the technology across their organizations as they grapple with a workforce and university and school leavers who lack the […].

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Digital Snakes And Ladders

Forrester IT

Games are a great teaching aid. The digital snakes and ladders game from Forrester helps teams identify and focus on best practices of digital transformation. Learn about it in an upcoming webinar.

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Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project, as it continues to push back against critics who find its relationship with open-source software out of balance. SageMaker Neo, which lets customers run machine-learning training models across multiple operating environments, was introduced last November at […].

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Dropbox Says Hello To Digital Signatures, Workflow, And Document Automation; Acquires HelloSign For $230 Million In Cash

Forrester IT

On January 28, 2019, Dropbox announced its intention to acquire HelloSign, a platform used to manage business transactions including eSignature and document-centric workflows. HelloSign joined Dropbox’s Extensions partner program (launched in November of 2018), offering digital signature and electronic fax features from inside the Dropbox interface.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package instead you can use SCCM powershell script deployment method to remove 7Zip app. The post How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Kannan CS.

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Is Online Education Better than Traditional Education?

Kitaboo

Educational institutes have been practicing the traditional teaching method since ages. Most of us are familiar with the traditional model where one teacher is teaching fifty students at a time. No-one knows if those fifty students are able to understand what is being explained or if they are even paying attention to the lecture. This style of teaching is not considered very effective today.

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How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package instead you can use SCCM powershell script deployment method to remove 7Zip app. The post How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Kannan CS.

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10 Tech Startups to Watch for 2019

Information Week

These hot startups are finding innovative ways to use technologies such as AI and IoT to help businesses work better, and in addressing the problems of the world.

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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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The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44

Network World

Guest host Juliet Beauchamp and CSO senior writer J.M. Porup talk about the challenges around securing the systems and networks used to control industrial plants and infrastructures.

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What Kind of DevOps Software Does Your Business Need?

Flexagon

DevOps is a rapidly-growing approach to software management, development, and release. Adoption has nearly doubled year-over-year from 2017 to 2018 and Google searches for “DevOps” has more than quadrupled in the last five years. As more companies start researching and implementing DevOps, there’s an increasing focus on the software and tools needed to enable the.

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Containers Training Courses | New January Releases

Linux Academy

Containers allow you to package your code, helping you and your team move fast, deploy software efficiently, and operate at an unprecedented scale. Get your team on the path to faster cloud transformation through containers! Our courses come with engaging features like interactive diagrams, hands-on labs in live cloud environments, customizable flashcards, study groups, direct access to our expert Training Architects, downloadable course videos, and more.

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Series Overview

Flexagon

In 2019, DevOps is not just some passing trend. IT organizations are buying in because they are asked to manage an increasing number of business applications in complex heterogeneous environments. As the breadth and complexity rises, the demand for innovation and the ability to execute faster is escalating. DevOps provides a platform for IT staff.

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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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New Hands-On Training Content Releases | January 2019 Recap

Linux Academy

Thanks for starting off 2019 with us as we released so many new hands-on training content featuring high-quality Courses, Hands-On Labs, and Interactive Diagrams! We put our students’ futures first and create our training content based on what they want to learn. We’re proud to deliver training that’s focused on our students’ success. Check out what we launched in January and let us know which Course you’re taking first with #ReleaseTheTraining!

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10 Principles for Optimal Engineering Spend, from a CTO

Information Week

To set up your engineering team for success make sure you employ the fundamentals that companies too often neglect.

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What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019

Linux Academy

We support others in their mission to learn and grow and are adding new ways for our students to learn what they need to succeed. By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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10 Principles for Optimal Engineering Spend, from to a CTO

Information Week

To set up your engineering team for success make sure you employ the fundamentals that companies too often neglect.

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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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Leverage Systems Thinking to Understand Patterns and Drive Changes

Future of CIO

Uncertainty, ambiguity, unpredictability, velocity etc., are the digital new normal. To keep up with today's change and market disruptions requires the right people with a growth mindset and high changeability. Systems Thinking helps to understand patterns, interconnectivity between parts and the whole, the interrelationship of business in order to manage changes systematically and lead digital transformation seamlessly.

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Scaling Microservices with Kubernetes

Linux Academy

The rise of containerization technologies, like Docker, and systems for orchestrating and deploying these containers, like Kubernetes, have completely transformed the traditional application architecture. Traditionally, an application was more of a monolith. Sure, you might have dedicated storage and database servers, but the various components of the application itself were tied into a single deployable object.

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Build a Future-Oriented “Synthetic Board”

Future of CIO

The directorship in the modern organization plays a significant role in business advising, strategy oversight, and performance monitoring, etc. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, BoDs should also set tones for changes and digital transformation. An effective board needs to practice synthetic leadership, enables and directs management towards good outcomes, advocate synthetic problem-solving, and ensure the business is on the ri

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The Monthly “100 Digital Rules” Book Tuning: Problem-Solving Principle Jan. 2019

Future of CIO

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes and digital transformation. The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically.

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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.