Mon.Dec 03, 2018

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Do cities need a “smart city platform?”

Forrester IT

Do cities need a “smart city platform?” It depends. Clients have been asking Forrester our thoughts on new IoT-enabled smart city platforms launched by vendors focused on transforming city government infrastructure and applications.

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Highlights From Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2018

CTOvision

It is hard to digest all the innovations coming out of Amazon’s cloud computing business. There are 1000’s of capabilities already available and each continue to evolve, and major new capabilities are being announced at a rapid pace. The annual re:Invent is a great time to take stock of things, but even this is just […].

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Hello Indian Brands. Your CX Report Is Here.

Forrester IT

Dear Brand, It is that time of the year again. Like each year, we went out and asked *your* customers what they think about the experiences they had with you, and the results are in. Forrester’s Customer Experience IndexTM 2018 India Benchmark report is out!

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

CTOvision

No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. By signing on as employees, engineers demonstrate belief in the mission and commitment to the long-term success of the company. Often I can further align their interests with the company’s through equity as well as the opportunity to “grow […].

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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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How BigPanda’s “Open Box Machine Learning” enables Autonomous Digital Operations

Social, Agile and Transformation

Are you tired of all the bridge calls, all-hands-on-deck meetings, and operational “war rooms” to manage and resolve the latest outage that’s impacting customers and business users? Are you frustrated by the endless list of tickets that were generated from different monitoring tools like Nagios, CloudFront, Splunk, Datadog, and others around the same incident?

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Internet of Things Poised to Impact Manufacturing

CTOvision

By 2025, the Internet of Things, or IoT, is forecast to have an economic impact in the nation’s manufacturing sector of between $1.2 trillion and $3.7 trillion. While that sector is where most of the impact will be seen, IoT devices will also boost the retail ($0.4 trillion to $1.2 trillion), worksite ($0.2 trillion to […].

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Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

CTOvision

Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its market cap to $850 billion plus, and on Friday it replaced Apple as the world’s most valuable company on NYSE. Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had […].

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On Sale: AI Lessons from the Retail Industry

Information Week

All industries can learn from the retail sector's work with artificial intelligence, and explore how AI can define product and service offerings while also improving the customer experience.

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AWS introduces 4 new services for IoT applications

CTOvision

We recapped many other high priority announcements from re:invent here, but almost missed this one: U.S. e-commerce leader Amazon‘s Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday introduced four services and capabilities to make it easier to ingest data from edge devices and build the rich Internet of Things (IoT) applications. “Customers tell us they want to spend […].

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AWS Aims to Speed and Simplify Robot Development

Information Week

Robotics use cases are endless, but the overhead of developing them is stymying progress. AWS Robomaker, announced at AWS re:Invent, with lowers the barriers so developers can spend more time innovating.

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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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A Closer Look At Hybrid-Cloud And Multi-Cloud Approaches

CTOvision

Read Chaitanya Atreya explain the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud approach on Forbes : Hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud are quickly becoming the new norm for enterprises. While these approaches offer several advantages, de-risking business decisions and adopting best-of-breed services stand out as the overarching reasons enterprises are adopting these strategies.

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Data Privacy, Ethics: The Time Has Arrived

Information Week

Cloudera Chief Architect and Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says that the time has arrived for data privacy and ethics rules.

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ECB takes on PayPal with instant payment system

CTOvision

The European Central Bank launched on Friday a new system aimed at letting banks settle payments instantly across Europe, helping them to compete with PayPal and other global tech giants. Developed in just over a year, the ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system will let people and companies in Europe transfer euros to each other […].

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See How Timesheets Can Boost Your Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - See How Timesheets Can Boost Your Business - Information Technology Blog. Visibility doesn’t naturally manifest simply because you need it to. Visibility requires a conscientious approach that examines all available data and makes a conclusion. If you want to maximize your business, you need to find ways of making that which was invisible, visible.

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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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Release Digital IT Brilliance

Future of CIO

With “VUCA” digital new normal, to adapt to the increasing speed of changes, organizations have to be nimbler about updating technology and managing information. IT matters not only because it’s pervasive, but more about it continues to advance, and its nature of the "constructive disruption." At the highest level, IT becomes the game changer for the business.

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9 Ways to attract tech talent as a growing startup

Hacker Earth

Over 86% of recruiting agencies face shortages finding and recruiting tech talent. This is according to a survey by Indeed , the most trafficked job-recruitment website in the United States. Because the number of applicants exceeds the number of candidates, it’s an applicant’s market. Companies are competing for a limited talent pool, fighting for their very existence in a proxy war of finding the right people to put in the right job.

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Developing a Meta-Board: How to Practice Meta-Leadership at the Corporate Board Level?

Future of CIO

Meta-leadership is simply about the leadership of the leadership The board of directors is the senior leadership role in steering organizational towards the right directions and overseeing the business management effectiveness and maturity. Digital leadership is the adventure to explore unknown, and have confidence and insight for taking the right path of reaching the destination.

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Set a Viable Path to Go Digital 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. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital

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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.