Tue.Jul 09, 2019

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Hot or Hype: The Top Retail Tech Investments For 2019

Forrester IT

In today’s increasingly competitive retail market, every technology initiative is pitched as do-or-die. So how do you make smart decisions about which technologies to invest in, to start testing, or to forego? For our annual Top Retail Technology Investments in 2019 research, we interviewed more than 40 retail industry professionals to segment the technologies into “hot,” […].

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Artificial Intelligence Is Improving How Companies Do Business

CTOvision

People communicate mostly through natural language—not equations or Excel spreadsheets or structured daily reports. This has historically posed a challenge for marketers because while the words we use are full of consumer insights, they have been generally inscrutable to analytical tools. This is, of course, changing. With natural language processing and machine-learning software, companies can […].

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Catch The 2019 Experience Platform Wave

Forrester IT

Mark Grannan and I just completed our fourth evaluation of the major software vendors focused on digital experiences: Acquia, Adobe, BloomReach, Episerver, Liferay, OpenText, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Sitecore. There are leaders, strong performers, and contenders among this group of important software suppliers. Forrester clients can get the full breakdown here.

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Facebook open-sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model

CTOvision

Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model for serving up personalized results in production environments. DLRM can be found on GitHub, and implementations of the model are available for Facebook’s PyTorch, Facebook’s distributed learning framework Caffe2, and Glow C++. Recommendation engines decide a lot of what […].

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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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DX Platform: Strategy, Software, or both?

Forrester IT

In the past two business days, my colleagues and I have published the Q3, 2019 iterations of our Digital Experience Platform NowTech and Wave (big sigh of relief, and huge thank you to everyone who supported this research!). Unfortunately, despite our consistent and transparent body of DX research dating back to 2013, there remains a […].

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Andrew Ng on Jumping Into Artificial Intelligence: Five Considerations For Creating An AI Company

CTOvision

The advice from Andrew Ng, former founder of Google Brain, former chief scientist at Baidu and founder and chief executive of Landing AI, on artificial intelligence (AI) is to just jump in. “It is a big journey, but jumping in is not hard,” says Ng. And indeed, in the past few years we’ve seen many […].

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The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs

CTOvision

AI is one of the most rapidly growing domains today. Keeping track and taking stock of AI requires not just constant attention, but also the ability to dissect and evaluate across a number of dimensions. This is exactly what Air Street Capital and RAAIS founder Nathan Benaich and AI angel investor, and UCL IIPP Visiting […].

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6 Reasons Why You Must opt for Online Leadership Training

Kitaboo

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other – John F. Kennedy. As Kennedy rightly points out, leadership and learning go hand in hand. Not everyone is a natural leader. Some need to hone and polish their skills and ability to work in a leadership position. With the right amount of training and industry experience, one can become an efficient leader, someone who can lead and inspire the team to work hard to achieve better outcomes.

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IDC: For 1 in 4 companies, half of all AI projects fail

CTOvision

Despite enterprises’ best efforts, painless AI deployments appear destined to remain elusive for all but the most dogged adopters. A recent study conducted by analysts at International Data Corporation (IDC) found that of the organizations already using AI, only 25% have developed an “enterprise-wide” AI strategy, and it found that among those in the process […].

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Tips For Running A Better Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Tips For Running A Better Business - Information Technology Blog. Your company may be getting by okay, but this type of mentality isn’t going to allow you to truly grow and expand over the years. There are a few specific tips you should know about that are going to help you run a better business so you can outshine your competitors.

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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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Chief Data Officers: Biggest Mistakes, Best Practices

Information Week

CDOs are everywhere today, but are they really doing an effective job? Here's how you and your organization can make the most of data and analytics investments.

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Real Hands-On Labs at Linux Academy

Linux Academy

Because we know that our learners appreciate every opportunity to prepare for their certification exams, as well as careers, we built a scenario-based resource we call Hands-On Labs. These live deployments are supplemental to the videos, and allow you to follow along with the material, building and creating as you go. If you’re looking to master your skills through practice and educate yourself beyond video content, our labs are for you.

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Transform your IT Help Desk

Information Week

CIOs: Now is the time to upgrade the level of professional management within your help desk function. Here's how.

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The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Corporate Board’s Best and Next Practices II July 2019

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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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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Have we lost the cancer battle? No! – say Big Data and Machine Learning

Dataconomy

Can you fight cancer with the help of Big Data and Machine Learning? How can these technologies help in the procedure of diagnosis, drug discovery and treating cancer? Cancer is an ailment with a long tail distribution. This implies there are different explanations for this condition to take place with. The post Have we lost the cancer battle? No! – say Big Data and Machine Learning appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Real Hands-On Labs at Linux Academy

Linux Academy

Because we know that our learners appreciate every opportunity to prepare for their certification exams, as well as careers, we built a scenario-based resource we call Hands-On Labs. These live deployments are supplemental to the videos, and allow you to follow along with the material, building and creating as you go. If you’re looking to master your skills through practice and educate yourself beyond video content, our labs are for you.

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Deal with Ambiguity to Thrive in the “VUCA” World

Future of CIO

We live in the “VUCA” new normal with characteristics such as high velocity, diversification, ambiguity, unpredictability, over-complexity, nonlinearity and increased flux. Ambiguity is a term used to describe a circumstance in which an investment is made, but the outcome is uncertain. Ambiguity can be understood as being similar to business ‘risk,’ Though risky events have a known probability distribution over outcomes while in ambiguous events the probability distribution is not known.

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Big Data Structures

Linux Academy

“Big data” has slowly transitioned from a buzzword to a part of everyday life, but it’s still somewhat mysterious. What exactly is big data? And what are relational and non-relational databases (buzzwords you may also know)? . Our new Big Data Fundamentals course offers a high-level overview of the types of big data, its architecture, and some main technologies that use it.

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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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The Best “Strength” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28+ 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, provides advice 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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I'm not lost, I'm wondering - Untitled Article

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Like all organizational models, waterfall is mainly a theory of collaboration. By putting the most serious planning at the beginning, with subsequent work derived from the plan, the waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. Instead, waterfall insists that the participants will understand best how things should work before accumulating any real-world experience, and that planners will always know more than workers.

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What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)?

Nutanix

In this blog, we’ll simplify what virtual desktop infrastructure is, how to deploy it, and how to learn more information about VDI.