Thu.Nov 08, 2018

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Predictions 2019: Transformation Goes Pragmatic

Forrester IT

Our Predictions 2019 guide, “Transformation Goes Pragmatic,” is live. What do we mean by pragmatism? A sense of realism, practical steps, a desire for tangible outcomes. It’s a good description for what we are seeing in a market that carried ambitious strategies into 2018 but ran afoul of internal headwinds. Don’t get me wrong, the […].

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AI in the Context of Digital Transformation

CTOvision

In the enterprise, no buzzword is as buzzy as the term “digital transformation”. If you spend any amount of time reading whitepapers, analyst research, or attending webinars you’ll see the term digital transformation used in conjunction with a wide range of enterprise-focused technologies ranging from data centers to application development, to enterprise architecture and AI […].

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Predictions 2019: Cloud Computing Comes Of Age As The Foundation For Enterprise Digital Transformation

Forrester IT

Last year, Forrester predicted that cloud computing would radically accelerate enterprise transformation everywhere. After a decade of powering small and medium business success — and giving disruptive companies the tools and technologies they needed to compete head on with the world’s largest firms — cloud was poised to drive significant enterprise change in the very firms being […].

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CIO Strategies for AI Business Success

Information Week

Your AI program should have short-term and long-term goals and milestones. Here's how CIOs can reset executive expectations and deliver results with their artificial intelligence programs.

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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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Predictions 2019: This Is The Year to Invest in Humans, As Backlash Against Chatbots and AI Begins

Forrester IT

For some time, the burning question has been: Will robots replace humans? While the proliferation of robotic process automation (RPA) has reduced headcount in the back office, it’s a different story for customer service and sales. In a Forrester survey, 46% of companies said sales and marketing are leading the investment in and adoption of […].

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The Deadly 7: Why So Many IT Transformations Fail

Information Week

Solid planning and effective execution of that plan can help an IT transformation set the stage for a new era of enterprise success.

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Essential Technology Ingredients Every Business Needs

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Essential Technology Ingredients Every Business Needs - Information Technology Blog. Your company isn’t going to survive too long without being willing to adopt a few different technology ingredients and solutions. Even though it can be confusing and challenging at times, there’s truly no way around it if you want to compete in your industry.

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Predictions 2019: B2B Marketing And Sales — Mission Possible

Forrester IT

Many attendees of our B2B Marketing 2018 Forum remarked how the energy was high and the focus was driven — the marketing and sales leaders who joined us in Austin were on a mission to overdeliver on business expectations for their practice and figure out how to manage the conflicting priorities that 31% of respondents to […].

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FlexDeploy for Continuous: Continuous Integration and Issue Tracking

Flexagon

Recently I started a blog series regarding FlexDeploy’s support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, specifically for SOA/MDS, OSB, WebLogic Resource Management, and Oracle Integration Cloud. The series kicked off with a WEBINAR covering the topic. This is the second article in the series on how FlexDeploy supports CI/CD for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle.

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The Content Localization Gap: Bridging the gulf between tech buyer expectations and vendor content

Forrester IT

B2B buyers increasingly expect contextual content tailored to their unique circumstances, which means an ongoing challenge for B2B technology marketers is crafting engaging content that appeals to customers across different touchpoints. However, most technology vendor content falls short of these expectations. In our recent study, 60% of buyers stated that vendors give them too much content, […].

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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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To Nurture IT Talent in a Tough Market, Think Differently

Information Week

Hiring IT pros these days calls for new approaches to get closer to candidates and to make your company stand out as the best option.

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Does Africa Present An Opportunity For The Chinese Clouds?

Forrester IT

Africa is home to 20% of our planet’s land and 16% of its people, but none of the hyperscale public clouds run from data centers there — yet. Microsoft will offer Azure from data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg later this year, and Amazon recently announced plans to follow suit with an Amazon Web Services […].

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How to Increase Website Conversion Rates – 5 Awesome Steps

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Increase Website Conversion Rates – 5 Awesome Steps - Information Technology Blog. Conversion rates are the percentage of prospective customers taking the specific actions you want. No matter how good your business conversion rates are, there is always room for improvement. Improving your conversion rates results in an improvement in profits.There are several ways for increasing conversion rates.

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Predictions 2019: Software Innovation Builds Upon Cloud, Collaboration, AI, And More

Forrester IT

As we move into 2019, Forrester sees digital transformation as a continued driving force for the software industry, pushing teams to accelerate their innovative efforts. Last year, Forrester predicted that a host of enabling technologies, such as serverless computing, integrated DevOps tools, AI+ML, and low-code platforms, would enable digital transformation efforts.

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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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Kubernetes Meets Big Data

Dataconomy

Organizations yearn order and simplicity over chaos and confusion, but the data-driven era we live in challenges these desires on a daily basis. Seemingly every day, massive amounts of transactional and streaming data is being introduced into enterprises. This data must be collected, deciphered, shared, and acted upon. Cloud-native technologies. The post Kubernetes Meets Big Data appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Predictions 2019: Consumer Power Pushes Marketers To Better Data And Experiences

Forrester IT

“I get knocked down, but I get up again.” — Chumbawamba Halfway through the 20-year-long age of the customer, empowered consumers are more informed about their purchases, demand data privacy, and dictate the experiences that they want. Brands have been beaten down with every misstep, many of which snowballed into broad PR crises: United Airlines, Wells Fargo, Starbucks, […].

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5 Startups & Scaleups To Watch Out For at DN18

Dataconomy

An insider tip: if you’re looking for the real inside track on tech innovation at a conference, look to the startups. Undoubtedly the larger companies have the resources and brainpower to fuel the innovations of tomorrow, but many of the nascent ideas which will revolutionise the ways we live and. The post 5 Startups & Scaleups To Watch Out For at DN18 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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This Is A Story All About. Stories: One Takeaway From The #DMWF

Forrester IT

Like the opening sequence of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the social media landscape is getting “flipped-turned upside down” by the ascendance of stories. Well, that may be a bit dramatic, but they are certainly starting to make waves. Stories are growing in popularity as a mode of sharing and consuming content on social media. […].

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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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Does Passion Fuel Creativity?

Future of CIO

Passion is an emotion, which is something that comes from within, the bottom of your heart, with the strong sense of connection with "self," not only the reasoning of your mind. What fuels passion? It is a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. It comes both from heart and mind. Does passion fuel creativity? How to discover your creative passion?

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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions In Asia Pacific, Q4 2018

Forrester IT

I am excited to announce the publication of The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions In Asia Pacific, Q4 2018. In our first 36-criteria evaluation of marketing measurement and optimization solutions in Asia Pacific (AP), we identified the seven most significant vendors — Analytic Partners, Data2Decisions, Datalicious, Fractal Analytics, Impact, Neustar, and Nielsen […].

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10 signs you may not be cut out for a systems analyst position

Tech Republic

The need for systems analysts is increasing, but not everyone is suited for the job. Check out this list of possible indications that you'd be happier pursuing a different career path.

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Running Digital Organization by Following Dynamism, Holism, and Taoism as Principles

Future of CIO

With hyperconnectivity and interdependence as the digital characteristics, digital leaders need to determine what the future needs to look like, what the digitalization must look like, and how they can navigate through digital new normal and thrive in the exponential digital era. The high mature digital organization should be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to changes promptly.

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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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Xi Leap – The First No-Install DR

Nutanix

Today we proudly announced the availability of Xi Leap, a Disaster Recovery (DR) service delivered from Xi Cloud.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 11/8/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 5100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society.

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B2B Lead Generation Trends for 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - B2B Lead Generation Trends for 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Applying B2B lead generation strategies help your business increase leads, maximize ROI, and most importantly grow your sales. “ The best advertising is what satisfied customers do ” Philip Kotler. Definition of Lead. In B2B marketing, “lead” is defined as the record of a person who shows interest in purchasing a product or acquiring a service.

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