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CX Execs Rise To Power Across B2C And B2B Industries

Forrester IT

Unprecedented Growth Chief customer officers and chief experience officers were once a small community of visionaries and practitioners pioneering customer experience (CX) across industries. But we’ve seen more than 1,000% growth in the CX executive role in just five years, and in that time, many have turned that new frontier into an established practice and […].

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Facebook Takes on Epidemics With New Disease Prevention Maps

CTOvision

Facebook wants to help fight infectious diseases like measles by introducing maps that health organizations can use to prevent and respond to outbreaks. The disease prevention maps, which debuted Monday, provide detailed information such as population density, the movement of people in real time, and network connectivity across regions. The point is to give researchers and […].

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Harry’s Acquisition Reaffirms It: Brand-Building’s In A Generational Shift

Forrester IT

Like fading celebrities, brand owners fear one thing most of all: irrelevance. “I think my mom/dad/grandma/grandpa uses them.” The horror. Edgewell Personal Care’s most recent annual report is all about that horror. In so many words, it acknowledges that its primary men’s grooming brands — Schick and Wilkinson Sword razors, among others — are grandpa […].

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Microsoft open sources algorithm that gives Bing some of its smarts

CTOvision

Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they’ll tell you that the Eiffel Tower is 324 meters (1,063 feet) tall, about the same as an 81-story building. They can do this even though the question […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Even Big Digital Companies Need Little Humans. Lots Of Them Amazon offered $10,000 of startup capital and up to three months of pay to qualifying employees who quit. and go start a local last-mile delivery business. The eCommerce giant had previously invested in local delivery companies, seeding the creation […].

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Introducing Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

CTOvision

Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades with the goal of helping people who speak different languages to communicate with each other. Such systems have usually been broken into three separate components: automatic speech recognition to transcribe the source speech as text, machine translation to translate the transcribed text into the […].

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Spotify begins testing its first hardware: a car smart assistant

CTOvision

Spotify is about to begin publicly testing its first hardware: a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars, meant to help Spotify learn how people consume audio while they’re driving. As part of the test, some Premium users will receive the device for free. The device, called Car Thing, plugs into a vehicle’s 12-volt outlet (aka a cigarette […].

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5 Principles Full Stack Developers and Solutions Architects Must Understand About Machine Learning

Social, Agile and Transformation

According to recent and separate studies from Gartner, Harvey Nash/KPMG, and O'Reilly, somewhere between 24% and 37% of organizations are at least moderately investing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Much of this will be AI/ML embedded in applications like chatbots, recommendation engines, and virtual assistants and some consider RPAs a form of AI/ML. require(["mojo/.

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AI World Gov: Come network with peers and share lessons learned in application of AI to real world challenges in government

CTOvision

AI World Gov is coming! Mark your calendars now for this 24-26 June 2019 conference and symposium at the Reagan Center in DC. OODA LLC and CTOvision are very proud to be sponsors and strong supporters of this virtuous forum. AI World Government provides a comprehensive three-day forum to educate and inform public sector agencies […].

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Six DevOps Misconceptions Debunked

Information Week

The road to DevOps success is littered with myths and misconceptions. Here are the largest potholes you need to avoid.

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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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Be your own futurist: imagine a new landscape and reinvent yourself

Trends in the Living Networks

The latest issue of Business View magazine, themed The Future of Business , includes a concluding article that distills key points from an interview with me. Click on the article image left to expand or read below. We all need to be futurists. Change is all around and it’s getting faster. The chairman of think-tank Future Exploration Network says the most successful businesses of the future will be those that embrace change and are genuinely excited about innovation.

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Will the Real AI Please Stand Up?

Information Week

Make sure that your use of machine learning has more substance than hype. Here's a framework you can use to help you cut through the noise.

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways

Flexagon

This blog is part of a series, check out other entries! FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Automating Gateway Downtimes Provisioning anything in this day and age just seems barbaric.

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Find Your New Job in IT Today

Information Week

InformationWeek has partnered with ZipRecruiter to host a job search tool on our pages.

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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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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs

Flexagon

This blog is part of a series, checkout other entries! FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Provisioning the Gateways FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Managing APIs FlexDeploy Loves Oracle API Platform: Automating Gateway Downtimes Oracle API Platform provides a centralized location to develop and manage your APIs.

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CX NYC 2019: Q&A With Rick Parrish On Values-Based Selling

Forrester IT

Consumers are paying close attention to brands’ moral, social, and political values. They’re making buying decisions based on the values a brand stands for. However, our research shows that companies lack a systematic approach to values. At CX NYC 2019, I’ll share findings from our values-based experience framework that will help customer experience professionals evolve their approach in this emerging area.

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Does Your IT Organization Lack of “Strategic Bone”

Future of CIO

There is no doubt IT plays a critical role in both improving business bottom line business efficiency and top-line growth. However, there is no one size fitting all magic formula on how to run the IT organization as a strategic partner and a revenue generator. Different IT organizations and enterprise as a whole are at a different stage of business maturity.

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Outbound Traffic Filtering | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

This week, we’re discussing outbound traffic filtering. This is filtering provided at the network edge by a firewall with rules (ACLs) restricting what internal users are allowed to access. Some firewalls have the ability to filter by an application (layer 7 firewalls), but we’re going to concentrate on standard packet-filtering firewalls and their capabilities.

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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 Best “Profundity” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises 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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Important Ranking Factors from the SEO Industry

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Important Ranking Factors from the SEO Industry - Information Technology Blog. When people want anything online — information, products, services or entertainment — they type (or speak) keywords related to their inquiry into search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. It’s the search engine’s job to show the most relevant results relating to their search terms.

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Minding Digital Maturity Gaps May 2019

Future of CIO

" "Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business ” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap

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Bitcoin, The Number One Cryptocurrency – Who Accepts It As A Form Of Currency?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Bitcoin, The Number One Cryptocurrency – Who Accepts It As A Form Of Currency? - Information Technology Blog. Fintech has developed greatly since the early 1900’s, and we have seen a range of important technologies emerge such as ATM’s, payment networks, and visa cards, to name a few. In the last decade, we have seen a new type of Fintech blossom – cryptocurrencies.

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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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Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist – source

CTOvision

Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world.

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