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Use GDPR to future-proof business models

Computer Weekly

Businesses should look beyond compliance with new data regulations to ensure that their business processes and models are in line with future requirements, advises a privacy innovation expert

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Deep learning – when should it be used?

Eric D. Brown

“When should I use deep learning?” I get asked that question constantly. The answer to this question is both complicated and simplistic at the same time. The answer I usually give us something along the lines of ‘if you a lot of data and an interesting / challenging problem, then you should try out deep learning’ How a much is ‘a lot of data’?

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MPs press Theresa May to explain why alleged hacker Lauri Love is being extradited to US

Computer Weekly

MPs question the attorney general and prime minister about why alleged hacker Lauri Love is to be extradited to the US, when at least 13 other hackers have been tried for US hacking offences in the UK

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Three Factors to Better Understand Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Digital transformation is not just about applying cloud, mobile, and social technologies or experimenting with emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, or IoT. In my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology I begin the discussion on digital transformation by sharing expert opinions on what is digital business.

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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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Tech industry demands clarity on Brexit ahead of key budget

Computer Weekly

TechUK warns government that this week's budget could be its last chance to give tech firms confidence in the post-Brexit UK economy

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5 Little-Known Benefits of ERP You May Have Missed

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) was once thought to be too complicated, too unreliable, and too expensive. However, ERP software systems are now used in businesses of all sizes, aiding business practices and procedures in every department. An ERP system offers benefits for revenue, profitability, workforce, and productivity, but there are other benefits that are just as important.

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UDP: Output Processing

IT Toolbox

When an application program generates UDP output, it transfers control to the operating system and eventually calls procedure udpsend to send the UDP datagram.

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CA World 2017: Shifting robotics from transactional to social

Computer Weekly

Cynthia Breazeal, founder and chief scientist of Jibo, describes how artificial intelligence and robotics is gradually transitioning away from transactional to social

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4 Reasons Why the Future of CRM is Multichannel

IT Toolbox

Businesses are in a race to maximize data insights into their customers as they look for opportunities to drive growth. In doing so, they are increasingly turning to a multichannel approach with their customer relationship management (CRM) software, using wider and more diverse data sources in an attempt to form a single view of the customer.

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Build IoT apps the easy way

Computer Weekly

CIOs may find themselves spoilt for choice when assessing digital platforms for IoT.

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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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Novell Netware - A history Part 8

IT Toolbox

A standard feature of NetWare 4.x was the support for many different workstation platforms. It contains all the software necessary to install and operate the network server and to connect as many as 1,000 DOS, OS/2 UnixWare, or MS Windows workstations, depending on the configuration purchased.

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African countries have world’s most expensive broadband

Computer Weekly

A survey of 196 countries has found many of the world’s poorest consumers are being forced to pay sky-high costs for fixed broadband services

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How to Get Your Sales Team to Use Your CRM System

IT Toolbox

Relationships boost sales. Customer relationship management (CRM) software is an essential tool that can help you harness the power of relationships to promote sales, increase productivity, and make it simpler to engage with prospects. Getting every associate on the sales team to use the software is often a challenge, however.

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Universal Credit moves into Amazon Web Services cloud

Computer Weekly

Parts of the digital system underpinning the controversial welfare reform programme are now running on AWS under DWP’s hybrid cloud strategy

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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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Creating successful sales engagement via intelligent content management

IT Toolbox

Content is becoming a critical part of the entire CRM process, but are salespeople actually able to use this content efficiently? And in larger companies which produce a broad range of customer-facing content how can they make the decisions on which material to use?

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Video Tutorial How to Setup SCCM Azure AD User Discovery

Anoop

SCCM 1706 and later versions allowed us to discover Azure Active Directory users. Azure AD user discovery helps to deploy applications to Azure AD users. Azure AD user discovery helps to deploy apps to AAD users in a co-management scenario. Azure AD User Discovery can be configured from Administration workspace – Cloud Management. In this post, […].

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Type of projects is top priority for female IT professionals looking for jobs

Computer Weekly

Survey reveals there are other important factors besides salaries and bonuses to attract IT talent

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Smart Homes at Risk

IT Toolbox

IoT Devices – A Backdoor for Hackers. Gartner, one of the leaders in technology research, estimates that nearly 8.4 billion Internet-enabled devices will be connected worldwide by the end of this year, and some 5.2 billion of those will be in people’s homes.

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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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Trying to Market a Horizontal Technology? Think Again.

Fountainhead

Why marketers fail to focus on industry-specific buyers I was recently speaking with 2 CEOs of leading-edge technology companies about how they go-to-market. One is a brilliant open-source software firm, the other a groundbreaking virtual networking startup. When I asked them what their industry marketing approach would be, each essentially said “I don't need that – we have a horizontal technology.

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Edge Cases in ERP Process Re-engineering

IT Toolbox

Re-engineering your business processes is a critical part of installing an ERP system. As part of the installation every process in the business needs to be examined, rationalized and streamlined. This includes not just documenting the normal flow of business but the edge cases as well – what happens when business doesn’t proceed normally.

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NatWest software robots to advise customers on investments

Computer Weekly

NatWest is offering customers automated investment advice through software robots

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5 Ways Cloud Analytics Improves On-Premises ERP

IT Toolbox

Decision making is always aided by good data. Companies collect data from an ever-expanding number of sources. Nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately for many companies, making sense of all those data and presenting them to business decision makers are much more difficult tasks than simply collecting and storing them.

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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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Dubai Health Authority completes final phase of Salama electronic medical records system roll-out

Computer Weekly

Dubai Health Authority completes medical records digitisation scheme, 21 months after the project was first unveiled

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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Transform CRM

IT Toolbox

Will artificial intelligence (AI) really eliminate the salesperson’s job by 2025? That’s the prediction LeadGenius co-founder Anand Kulkarni has made. Throughout history, the introduction of technology has created more jobs than it has eliminated.

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Matrix Banker malware spreads to multiple industries | Salted Hash Ep 7

Network World

The Matrix Banker malware, first found in Latin America, is now gaining a foothold in diversified targets. Steve Ragan breaks down the threat with Justin Fier, director for cyber intelligence and analysis at Darktrace.

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What's the Best Hadoop Solution for Your Business?

IT Toolbox

The IT Central Station community discusses Hadoop solutions in terms of the features that are most valuable to them, how easy they are to deploy, their speed and the responsiveness of their support teams.

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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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Can Blockchain Supercharge the Gig Economy?

Dataconomy

Countless words have been written in recent years about the rise of the ‘gig economy’. As the natural evolution of the freelance model, the gig economy is based on short-term and temporary jobs handled by contractors and other independent workers. Instead of hiring full-time staff, freelancers offer a concise way. The post Can Blockchain Supercharge the Gig Economy?

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3 Advantages of Integrating Cloud AI with On-Premises ERP

IT Toolbox

Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to all sorts of places in our lives and businesses. Right now, it may seem more hype than reality, but many focused products are being developed, tested, and sold with AI as an integral element. In industries such as medicine, there’s still a human in the decision-making and activity process before actions are taken.

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How to keep graph databases both flexible and secure

Dataconomy

Graph databases are now common within a range of industries such as life sciences, healthcare, financial services, government and intelligence. Graphs are particularly valuable in these sectors because of the complex nature of the data and need for powerful, yet flexible data analytics. In addition, graph databases allow visibility across. The post How to keep graph databases both flexible and secure appeared first on Dataconomy.

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5 Signs It's Time to Update Your CRM Software

IT Toolbox

For most businesses, customer relationship management (CRM) is a business-critical application. It streamlines workflow and enables your sales team to continually raise the bar on driving revenue. However, implementing a CRM solution isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it-affair.

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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.