Thu.Oct 05, 2017

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HMRC accused of suppressing IR35 stakeholder views on public sector contractor walkouts

Computer Weekly

Stakeholders are accusing HMRC of trying to suppress their take on how the tax avoidance reforms are affecting contractors, following claims their views were omitted from the latest IR35 Forum minutes

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FBI Deputy Director On Russian Election Influence Ops: “We should have seen this coming”

CTOvision

The Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, has just said something we should all pay attention to regarding Russian election influence operations. “We sort of should have seen this coming.” No kidding! Many of us did (CTOvision readers had plenty of pontification on this including the sternly titled: Clear And Unambiguous Warning: Cyber Attacks […].

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Much GDPR prep is a waste of time, warns PwC

Computer Weekly

Many organisations are not paying enough attention to technology in their preparations for the General Data Protection Regulation and risk compliance failure

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Chatbots - 10 Risks you need to Consider

IT Toolbox

I’m going to close out this series on a note of caution that shouldn’t be unexpected. As an analyst, I strive for fairness and objectivity, and in this early phase of adoption, there’s a lot of hype to get past before you can make a confident decision around chatbots.

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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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UK at risk of AI skills crisis

Computer Weekly

The UK is at risk of being left behind when it comes to artificial intelligence advances, with the current shortage of AI skills likely to get a lot worse

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Integrating Payment Batches Using Oracle Sales Cloud API Resources

IT Toolbox

Integration of Payment Batches is accomplished through the use of the Oracle Sales Cloud API with your integration middleware.

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Context - the Secret Sauce for Chatbots

IT Toolbox

Over the course of this series , I’ve been outlining various examples that I see in my research for how chatbots can be used to bring new forms of automation into the business. The starting point is with simple, repeatable tasks that most of us would be happy passing off to a digital assistant.

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Executive interview: Karno Tenovuo, senior vice-president, ship intelligence, Rolls-Royce

Computer Weekly

Rolls-Royce is developing autonomous ships, and the company’s senior vice-president of ship intelligence discusses how shipping will change

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VoIP acquisition enhances office supplier's product offer

IT Toolbox

The purchase of Trans-West, a Phoenix-based VoIP and data solutions provider, by Pacific Office Automation (POA), is being hailed as a significant M&A play within the American VoIP market as it continues its trend of consolidation. Trans-West is no small fry, having operated in the market for more than three decades.

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Your Next Computer. in the Cloud ?

Fountainhead

For years, the “virtual PC” has been the dream of users and corporations alike. After all, why do millions of us lug around a laptop with our Windows desktop stuck to it? Why do we risk theft, loss or damage to valuable data when our entire workspace — and data – could instead live in the cloud and be accessed from anywhere by any of our devices…. [ This is a re-post of my Blog on Wired Innovation Insights.

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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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Technology Makes the Learning Experience Less Painful

IT Toolbox

Technology Makes the Learning Experience Less Painful. While many enjoy learning more about the wonderful world and expanding their minds, school is more of a painful experience than a learning experience.

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How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market - Part 2

Fountainhead

Originally published on Citrix Blogs As I mentioned in Part 1 of this Blog, “how big is the cloud-hosted desktop market?” is still the top inquiry I get from our Citrix Service Provider ( CSP ) partners looking to enter the market. In that first post I outlined some of the approaches I take to describe the growing size of this market. In this post, I want to offer additional data that Service Providers can use when justifying investments of IP and capital for ventures into cloud-hosted desktops.

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Z Launcher for Android Review

IT Toolbox

Today I would like to talk a bit about the Android Launcher that I have enjoyed using for the last year or so - the Z Launcher by Nokia.

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How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market - Part 1

Fountainhead

Originally published on Citrix Blogs Without question, “How big is the hosted desktop market” is the top inquiry I get from our Citrix Service Provider ( CSP ) partners. Our thousands of global partners are constantly making investments in infrastructure, marketing, business operations and sales. And frequently they are going to their board (and sometimes to external investors) for funding to chase the high-margin, high-value hosted desktop market.

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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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How to Optimize Your Marketing Campaigns with Advanced Call Tracking

IT Toolbox

Campaign optimizations is a broad topic to cover, but it all boils down to making data-driven decisions to increase your conversions.

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Security Think Tank: Security analytics augments human capabilities

Computer Weekly

What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?

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Philips teams with HPE on ecosystem approach to improve healthcare informatics-driven outcomes

IT Toolbox

Learn how companies tackle the complexity of solutions delivery in healthcare by using advanced big data and analytics

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Conditional Task Sequence Reboot in SCCM and MDT

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, I built and published the Dell driver update script that may or may not require a reboot. I instituted the script as a task sequence in MDT and then made the following task sequence a reboot. Thinking about it, the reboot may not be required and therefore that would be a waste of time. To get around this, I decided to investigate a conditional reboot.

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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 Preparation of the Enterprise for the Digital Transformation (i)

IT Toolbox

continuing from. The Preparation of the Enterprise for the Digital Transformation. 3).

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Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017

Dataconomy

It’s that time of year again. Data Natives is ramped up and ready to go for its most impressive lineup of speakers to date. Whether focused on the fastest growing developments in fields such as FinTech and AI or examining the many minute ways that data sets can affect individuals, The post Announcing confirmed speakers for Data Natives 2017 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/5/2017

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World?

Fountainhead

Originally published on Citrix Blogs. What makes your phone your phone? Or, for that matter, what makes your desktop, your laptop or your tablet yours ? After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. The answer lies in two defining aspects of each device: The user’s data that is locally-stored, and the user’s personalization information.

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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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Digital CIO’s “Balance” Practices: Step Back in Order to Lead Forward

Future of CIO

Step back, hand-off, bend over, fail fast, when necessary, in order to lead forward and catalyze digital transformation. There have been a lot of brainstorming and debates about "What makes a good CIO?” And how can CIOs lead effectively? There is a distinct difference between a great CIO and an average CIO in terms of identifying and implementing competitive business advantages and improving IT organizational maturity.