Tue.Aug 13, 2019

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Embed AI in your digital supply chain to win, serve, and retain customers

Forrester IT

It’s now just over 12 months since we first published research on Digital Supply Chain. Some Forrester clients have made progress with Integrated Business Planning and with Control Towers. And they are on the lookout for Blockchain opportunities. But the most common question we hear, is about the role of AI in Supply Chain. The […].

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Learn about SCCM Status Message Viewer Tool

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, you will learn about the tool which can help you to read the status messages. The status messages are convenient in SCCM troubleshooting scenarios. I’m going to introduce the SCCM status message viewer tool. Are status messages still a thing? [Related Post] CMTrace Log File replacement Tool SCCM OneTrace Introduction SCCM evolved […].

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Data Science And Design Collide — There’s A Better Way

Forrester IT

Last August, a tweet from a data scientist reminding colleagues to get out of tables of data and talk to real people — you know, do qualitative research — went viral among these two constituencies. The resulting debate reflected the state of the relationship between data science and design: They’re not on the same page. One participant even deleted one of his tweets, overwhelmed by the volume and combative tone of the feedback. […].

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Enterprise Guide to Digital Transformation

Information Week

Don't let IT modernization be the bane of your existence. This curated collection of articles will give you more clarity and help you get started.

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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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Headless Commerce And The Horseless Carriage

Forrester IT

As with any high-consideration purchase, there’s an expectation of a bedside manner. Buying an eCommerce platform is no exception. But all too often, I hear it feels a lot like this doctor’s visit. Nurse tells me you’re losing sleep. The pain in your shoulder is a case of a brachial plexus avulsion. […].

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Three Things I Learned at ChannelCon: A Member's Perspective

Association of Information Technology Professional

ChannelCon 2019 is in the books and Eric Pinto of SOCSoter shares three things he took home from CompTIA’s big event in Las Vegas, including the value of open doors, insight from Shaquille O’Neal, and the always-important opportunity to network.

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Should You Send Your Security Staff to a Hacker Conference?

Information Week

IT managers once and for all should recognize that hacker conferences can be highly educational and beneficial from a corporate IT perspective.

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Rated H For Headless (Is Headless CMS For Mature Audiences Only?)

Forrester IT

My colleague Joe Cicman just published a new report (“The New Commerce Revolution: Off With Their Heads (Or Not!“) to help de-hype headless commerce. Much of that work is also very relevant to headless content management systems (CMSes), which we started covering over three years ago (“The Rise Of The Headless Content Management System“).

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How to Grow Your Small Business by Investing in Tech

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Grow Your Small Business by Investing in Tech - Information Technology Blog. Many small business owners are hesitant to put money into technology. After all, some improvements are expensive, and you want every dollar you spend to be fruitful. . However, there are ways tech can help your company to grow, providing a terrific return on your investment.

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Digital Business: Bosch Connected World 2019 Analysis

Forrester IT

Bosch Connected World – Bosch’s premier customer and partner event held annually in Berlin – has become a destination event for European IoT professionals. What started several years ago as a hands-on-type of event where lots of practitioners demonstrated Bosch’s most innovative solutions, has now become a more typical conference, with polished marketing messages from […].

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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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Understanding Spearline PDD

Spearline Testing

Nobody likes delays. In the modern world of instant messaging, fast broadband speeds, and direct video conferencing, the last thing anyone wants is to wait. So what happens when a customer is waiting to contact a business via phone, and they don't hear that ring until ten or twenty seconds after dialing? Well, for one thing, they can get extremely confused listening to that awkward silence.

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Be Alert of the Three Opposites of “Digital Mentality”

Future of CIO

Many organizations are doing digital - applying some fancy gadgets or taking a few business initiatives. But very few are taking a holistic approach to go digital and be digital. The fundamental difference is the digital mind shift. One of the most important perspectives of Change Management is to understand the psychology behind change and how to keep digital fit.

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Innovating in Complexity (Part I): Why Most Roadmaps Lead Straight to the Graveyard

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Roadmaps for change are thus mere hypotheses, in both journey and destination. They represent the aspirations, desires, and hopes of their creators while putting forward a step-by-step action plan for how these objectives might be achieved. Herein lies the essence of the Roadmap Fallacy : a tool originally developed to represent existing realities doesn’t work well as a mental model for creating new realities.

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The BoD’s Problem-Solving Competency

Future of CIO

Problem-solving is a mindset with curiosity, self-inclusiveness, creativity, and progression, which directly impacts the intellectual sophistication of problem-solving capability. Fundamentally, every job is to deal with problems big or small both from the long-term perspective or on a daily basis. We all develop reputations - for being problem creators, problem definers or problem solvers.

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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 Toxicity of “Autism Parent” Memoirs

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

But most autism parenting stories are not positive, or about doing our best to understand what our autistic kids need and deserve. In recent “autism parent” memoirs like Judith Newman’s To Siri With Love and Whitney Ellenby’s Autism Uncensored , the authors hang their kids out to dry for being autistic and having intensely legitimate autistic needs, while centering the parent-narrators as victims of that disembodied demon, “autism.” That these stories keep get

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Running Evolving IT Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

IT is being elevated to the “light power” of the business for identifying business opportunities and obstacles, navigating changes, and climbing the learning curve ahead of the rest of the organization. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands.

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Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let’s rethink it

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

All models use a few simplifying assumptions, but those underpinning mainstream economics more often distort and detach from reality. Source: Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let’s rethink it | Andrew Simms | Opinion | The Guardian.

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Inside DeepMind’s epic mission to solve science’s trickiest problem

CTOvision

Demis Hassabis – former child chess prodigy, recipient of a double first at the University of Cambridge, five times World Mind Sports Olympiad champion, MIT and Harvard alumnus, games designer, teenage entrepreneur, and co-founder of the artificial intelligence startup DeepMind – is dressed in a yellow helmet, a hi-viz jacket and worker’s boots. Raising his […].

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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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Facing Complexity: Wicked Design Problems

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

In other words, wicked problems are real world problems that acknowledge the complex interdependence of diverse factors and stakeholders, rather than simplistic, linear cause and effect abstractions that isolate the product of design from its context. Source: Facing Complexity: Wicked Design Problems – Age of Awareness – Medium.

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Why Policymakers Need To See The Hope, Not The Fear Of AI

CTOvision

Read why Ulrik Juul Christensen says that policymakers need not fear artificial intelligence on Forbes : While fear can drive a desire among some policymakers to limit artificial intelligence (AI), the hope and promise of this advanced technology — including to create new jobs — cannot be overlooked. To capitalize on that potential, education must […].

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A New VMworld Perspective

Nutanix

There he was up on the big stage at VMworld 2006 general session: my creation, VirtualMan, animated by @JerryChen speaking live with VMware COO, Carl Eschenbach.

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Lucidworks raises $100M to expand in AI-powered search-as-a-service for organizations

CTOvision

If the sheer amount of information that we can tap into using the internet has made the world our oyster, then the huge success of Google is a testament to how lucrative search can be in helping to light the way through that data maze. Now, in a sign of the times, a startup called Lucidworks, […].

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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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A New VMworld Perspective

Nutanix

There he was up on the big stage at VMworld 2006 general session: my creation, VirtualMan, animated by @JerryChen speaking live with VMware COO, Carl Eschenbach.

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Cisco scoops up Voicea to infuse more AI into its collaboration products

CTOvision

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it’s bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant for business meetings. Voicea, incorporated as Rizio Inc., has raised $20 million in funding since hitting the scene three years ago. Cisco’s venture capital arm contributed to the startup’s Series A round […].

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How Automation Improves Multi-Cloud Security & Compliance

Nutanix

Automation allows for you to quickly assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in real-time. The best tools also provide remediation functions to resolve issues.

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IBM offers explainable AI toolkit, but it’s open to interpretation

CTOvision

Decades before today’s deep learning neural networks compiled imponderable layers of statistics into working machines, researchers were trying to figure out how one explains statistical findings to a human. IBM this week offered up the latest effort in that long quest to interpret, explain, and justify machine learning, a set of open-source programming resources it calls […].

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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.

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The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Certification

Linux Academy

Getting AWS certified can be a daunting task, but luckily we’re in your corner and we’re going to help you pass. We offer tons of AWS content for the different exams, but this month the Cloud Practitioner will be our focus. Read more to find out whether this certification is right for you, topics covered, and get study tips to increase your odds of passing.

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What’s Better for Your Employees – Digital Training or Instructor-Led Training

Kitaboo

You must be aware of this scenario where a new employee joins your organization and spends all the working hours for the next couple of weeks in the training room. True, this is an important phase to make the employee feel valued and upskill them to perform the task at hand efficiently. But think about it. Two weeks of training equates to around 90 hours!

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Practices Pro Designers Are Using to Improve Their Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Practices Pro Designers Are Using to Improve Their Business - Information Technology Blog. As a designer, you work with a wide range of clients and each project must meet their specific requirements, but also bear your professional signature. After all, the top projects you are working on today will be tomorrow’s calling card. .

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Nutanix Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company

Nutanix

In today’s competitive technology talent environment, culture is what makes a company stand out amongst the crowd. A strong culture helps us hire faster, bring more A-players on board and retain the team that has driven Nutanix’s past successes as a company.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.