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With Good Foundations, Augmented Reality Offers A Great Way To Engage With IoT Data

Forrester IT

Augmented reality (AR) and the internet of things (IoT). In principle these two hot technologies are a great match, with data streaming from IoT-connected machines to be used by AR-wielding engineers on the factory floor. My latest report, “Combine Augmented And Mixed Reality With IoT To Deliver Insight At The Point Of Need,” began with […].

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What are Seven Types of Big Data Debt

Social, Agile and Transformation

As more organizations have embarked on agile software development over the last five years as part of digital transformation programs, the term technical debt is more widely understood. Teams that develop code leave artifacts behind that require improvements, reengineering, refactoring, or wholesale rewriting. Some technical debt is done purposefully to deliver applications faster, while.

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Great Product Experiences Start With Great Product Data

Forrester IT

Product information management tools help marketing and product teams ingest, enrich, and distribute product data—but the functional description sells the full value of PIM short. The mandate to support product experience continues to grow in prominence within the PIM world. By now, most people in the field nod along at variations of “great product data […].

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Windows 7 remains an albatross at many large organizations

Tech Republic Security

Among 60,000 large companies analyzed by security ratings company BitSight, almost 90% still have Windows 7 PCs in their environment.

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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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The F5 Acquisition Of Shape Security: An Insider’s View

Forrester IT

David Holmes formerly worked for both F5 Networks and Shape Security. The F5 Networks acquisition of Shape Security marked the third time in a year that a web application firewall (WAF) vendor purchased a bot management solution, as fellow Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli noted in her blog (The WAF-Bot Management Acquisition Waltz). The other two […].

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7 lessons learned from 20 years of professional speaking

Trends in the Living Networks

It is exactly two decades since I became a professional speaker. I had paid my dues over the previous four years speaking frequently for free at conferences. My breakthrough from ‘free to fee’ came from the publication of my first book, Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , which gave me the credibility and visibility to be invited for my first professional engagement in late January 2000.

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How to use a physical security key to sign into supported websites

Tech Republic Security

A security key is a good option to use for two-factor authentication when logging into certain websites.

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Use Our Latest Wave To Pick The Best Vendors For Marketing Measurement & Optimization

Forrester IT

Happy New Year! And what a great way to start the year: with the NEW publication of the Marketing Performance Measurement and Optimization Wave Q1 2020. Jim Nail, Joe Stanhope, and I evaluated the top nine marketing measurement vendors’ current offering, strategy, and market presence for solutions that evaluated both strategic and tactical impact of […].

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iOS-based devices: Zero-touch management essentials

Tech Republic Security

Managing multiple devices can be a full-time job. With a few tools in your arsenal, you can optimize mobile devices for zero-touch management.

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How to Manage the Human-Machine Workforce

Information Week

Today's managers and executives need to oversee humans and machines in this age of AI and RPA, but should machines be managed as humans in a way that some suggest?

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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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Modernizing your Contact Center for the Future

Spearline Testing

Contact centers are a fundamental aspect of modern business and have evolved to become the 'first line of defense' when it comes to customer complaints and enquiries. Ensuring that your contact center is prepared for the future of communication is imperative to remaining successful in today’s world, where consumers expect their problems to be dealt with promptly and efficiently in the first contact.

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IBM announces partnership with will.i.am's AI startup at Davos

Tech Republic Cloud

The collaboration supports the tech founder's push for artificial intelligence acceleration, with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM public cloud.

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Why corporate boards are unprepared to handle cybersecurity risks

Tech Republic Security

A new report recommends that corporate boards answer four key questions on a regular basis to guide cybersecurity governance.

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Top cloud computing trends impacting IT job market

Tech Republic Cloud

There's less competition for cloud migration engineers and other key positions according to a new report from Indeed.com.

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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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Bug bounties won't make you rich (but you should participate anyway)

Tech Republic Security

Commentary: There's a lot of hype about bug bounties, but here's some truth.

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How to restore a Nextcloud backup

Tech Republic Data Center

With a Nextcloud backup in place, it's time to learn how to restore those backups to a new instance of the on-premises cloud server.

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If you don't like your browser, why won't you change to a different one?

Tech Republic Security

Commentary: Users tend to stick with their preferred browser even when it works poorly for them.

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GIS Drives Superhighway to Analytics Future

Information Week

The Pennsylvania Turnpike may be 80 years old, but its GeoAnalytics program is leveraging geographic information to drive the future.

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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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Nextcloud evolves into Nextcloud Hub to better meet your company's needs

Tech Republic Data Center

Nextcloud Hub could be that open source alternative to Office 365 or Google Docs that you've been waiting for.

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Apply Multidimensional Thought Processes to Problem-Solving Scenario

Future of CIO

With the overwhelming growth of information and an unprecedented level of uncertainty, there is known unknown and unknown unknown. Many problems become so complex, fact-finding and prototyping are crucial steps in discovering premium solutions. Digital leaders and professionals must keep their minds open, enhance interdisciplinary understanding of the problem, and take the step-wise approach to solve them smoothly.

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How to manage users on NTOPNG

Tech Republic Data Center

Find out how to add your IT staff to NTPNG as users, so you can delegate the monitoring of your company networks.

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The Best “Brainstorming” Quotes of “Digital Master” Jan, 2020

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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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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50 years later: Humanity’s adaptation to Future Shock

Trends in the Living Networks

This year it is 50 years since Alvin Toffler published Future Shock. It was an immensely influential book in shaping how his generation thought about the future. In commemoration of the anniversary, a new book After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock?and Look Ahead to the Next 50 is coming out in early February, with contributions from a wide range of leading future thinkers, including Ray Kurzweil, Alan Kay, David Brin, Zoltan Istvan, Aubrey de Grey, mysel

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Gap-Minding Practices Jan. 2020

Future of CIO

"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business ” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of d

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A Comprehensive Guide To Creating And Delivering POSH Training At Workplaces

Kitaboo

The instances of sexual harassment has increased significantly over the years. Anyone from either gender can be a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, these incidences have also surfaced at workplaces in the past. To curb this severe threat to employees’ safety at workplaces, a large number of organizations are introducing POSH training (Prevention of sexual harassment) to create awareness among employees and build a safe workplace environment.

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Centralized Services Needn't be Evil to be a Problem

Phil Windley

Summary: Relying on a single actor to make things work for millions is no way to do something as fundamental to human autonomy and dignity as digital identity. I ran across this story today about Microsoft forgetting to renew the Passport.com domain and cutting off millions of users from service. It's no longer available at its original home, so the link it to the Wayback machine copy.

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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.

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A big bang of new features on HackerEarth Assessments

Hacker Earth

Over the past few months, our team has been working tirelessly on amazing features to optimize the user experience and make test creation more fun using HackerEarth. We’re now ready to unveil them. Everything in one place. Earlier, before publishing a test, users had to navigate to different tabs for adding questions, modifying test settings, adding admins, and more.

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A big bang of new features on HackerEarth Assessments

Hacker Earth

Over the past few months, our team has been working tirelessly on amazing features to optimize the user experience and make test creation more fun using HackerEarth. We’re now ready to unveil them. Everything in one place. Earlier, before publishing a test, users had to navigate to different tabs for adding questions, modifying test settings, adding admins, and more.

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