Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

To help retailers and brands plan for 2019, Claudia Tajima and I are interviewing experts within Forrester for our series, “Applying 2019 Predictions To Retail.” Recently, we spoke to Michele Goetz about how artificial intelligence will affect retailers in 2019. This week, Claudia interviewed Emily Collins, principal analyst on Forrester’s B2C marketing team and an expert in loyalty, on her contributions to the 2019 B2C marketing predictions […].

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CTOvision

MAY 29, 2019

Data is critical to the success of digital transformation, so it should come as no surprise that information management is an essential element in its advancement to specific change goals along the journey. Digital transformation demands data. Digital management helps to connect up data silos, opening up data across organizations, improving efficiencies and creating a […].

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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

Close The Skills Transfer Gap To Enable Purpose Workers The employees that you want working for you want to grow. Engaged employees spend more time than their colleagues trying to improve their work performance through learning and deliberate development. We call these employees “purpose workers,” people who are satisfied and secure in their jobs, inspired […].

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Network World

MAY 29, 2019

It’s no secret that if you have a cloud-based e-mail service, fighting off the barrage of security issues has become a maddening daily routine. The leading e-mail service – in Microsoft’s Office 365 package – seems to be getting the most attention from those attackers hellbent on stealing enterprise data or your private information via phishing attacks.

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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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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

Buzzwords are the bane of my existence! As a former SaaS tech marketer, I’ve used my fair share. Since joining Forrester a month ago as an analyst on the Security and Risk team, one of the buzzwords I’m hearing most is RegTech. RegTech isn’t just hype. Forrester defines RegTech as the technology-enabled transformation of the […].

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Network World

MAY 29, 2019

This week SD-WAN vendor Cato Networks announced the results of its Telcos and the Future of the WAN in 2019 survey. The study was a mix of companies of all sizes, with 42% being enterprise-class (over 2,500 employees). More than 70% had a network with more than 10 locations, and almost a quarter (24%) had over 100 sites. All of the respondents have a cloud presence, and almost 80% have at least two data centers.

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Information Week

MAY 29, 2019

Organizations across industries are extending their infrastructures outward to enable IoT, but not all of them are able to use data as well as they'd hoped.

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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

We’ve got two new reports coming soon on video technology, which address challenges that organizations have both internally and externally with video content. Sam Stern and I worked on the employee experience Now Tech while Laura Ramos and I focused on video for B2B marketing and sales. Check out a sneak peek below of some […].

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Linux Academy

MAY 29, 2019

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called “ 116 Hands-On Labs and Counting ” and today we have over 750 Hands-On Labs across 10 content categories — Linux, AWS, Azure, Big Data, Cloud, Containers, DevOps, Google Cloud, OpenStack, and Security. Since then, we’ve also launched a Community Edition of Linux Academy which lets members take some content for free.

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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

Should all brand sell directly to customers online? How should brands work with marketplaces? What does all this mean for existing retail partner and distributor relationships? Branded manufacturers are facing a myriad of questions. The following video shares highlights from research by myself and fellow colleagues, evaluating how brand manufacturers digital commerce strategies must evolve. […].

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Information Week

MAY 29, 2019

Chief information officers and other IT leaders can reduce or amplify risks depending on how they answer these five questions.

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Forrester IT

MAY 29, 2019

Facebook’s Planned ‘Coin’ – Much Ado About We-Don’t-Know-What Given Facebook’s 2.4 billion monthly active users, any move the company makes is noteworthy. Put Facebook and cryptocurrency in the same sentence, and you’re guaranteed headlines. In reality, we still don’t know exactly what or when Facebook is planning to launch; possibly in early 2020 and possibly named […].

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Dataconomy

MAY 29, 2019

Chatbots help customers to resolve their issues at a blazing speed but the one of the main questions is whether the business should opt for a rule-based bot or an AI- based bot. Chatbots are not new in the technological arena. They are a lot smarter now than their predecessors. The post Rule-Based Bots or AI Bots? Which One Do You Prefer? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Galido

MAY 29, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Get Windows 10 for Free or Cheaper - Information Technology Blog. Windows software can be expensive. Microsoft had recently provided a free Windows 10 upgrade, but has since expired. Windows 7 and 8.1 have also reached end of sale and soon to be end of support. Customers can no longer buy these Windows versions or PCs with them pre-installed unless used or refurbished.

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Dataconomy

MAY 29, 2019

Was this a transition year for data protection? How much were the fines collected in the first year of GDPR? What regulations have been enforced so far? Here is all you want to know about GDPR, after a year of its implementation. The European Commission started in January 2012. The post One year of GDPR: What has changed or what hasn’t? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Future of CIO

MAY 29, 2019

Digital transformation is an arduous journey with the long jump and it takes time and commitment to reach a higher level of digital maturity. IT plays a crucial role in the digital paradigm shift because IT can enable and orchestrate transformative changes by integrating to and knowledgeable of the business as well as weaving all important business factors into differentiated organizational competency.

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Hacker Earth

MAY 29, 2019

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Future of CIO

MAY 29, 2019

The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and control the organization to accomplish its judiciary duty -corporate governance and steer the business in the right direction. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and velocity of the digital era, the directorship in any organization becomes more critical and challenging.

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Future of CIO

MAY 29, 2019

From one generation to the next, the substance of leadership does not change, it’s about future, change, and influence. However, digital leadership trends will continue to emerge. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into the “keywords” of the 21st century to brainstorming the future of digital leadership and business transformation. Holism Digital Holism Digital disruptions are inevitable, and digital transformation is unstoppable.

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