Fri.Nov 03, 2017

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Hard work, big prize: Bristol is shaping what it means to be a smart city

Computer Weekly

Two and a half years after the ambitious Bristol is Open smart city project launched, we return to the West Country to explore how things are progressing, and find out what has been learned

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Simple Ways to Boost Productivity in Your IT Department

IT Toolbox

Since the IT teams have such a massive influence and responsibility to bring innovations, they could use a bit of motivation to boost their productivity.

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Go beyond GDPR for a competitive edge

Computer Weekly

By exceeding the bare minimum requirements set by privacy regulations, businesses can win customers by offering greater assurances, says a business adviser

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Drip Marketing for CRM

IT Toolbox

Drip marketing is an important tactic for modern marketing campaigns. It aims to apply a slow-but-steady approach to winning and keeping customers through a carefully tailored series of messages. Although drip marketing is usually applied to email campaigns it is applicable to direct mail and phone campaigns as well.

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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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How gamification is used to motivate workers

Computer Weekly

A variety of UK, European and US companies are turning to gamification to motivate workers to complete and repeat business processes more efficiently, including by competing against each other

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Significant Hiring Trends Coming in 2017

IT Toolbox

2017 is going to be a big year for folks looking for jobs. A large portion of businesses are looking to hire permanent employees over the coming months and they are scrutinizing this workforce more aggressively than they have before.

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Salesforce sees AppExchange as key to global CRM domination

IT Toolbox

Salesforce is updating AppExchange, its online market for apps that can help companies extend the capabilities of its core CRM platform. The AppExchange has been growing to become a central part of the Salesforce offering with 87% of Salesforce customers now making use of AppExchange products. These extend to industry-specific tools and data sources.

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Collaboration is critical to the modern workplace, says Microsoft

Computer Weekly

Digital collaboration on a global basis is a vital aspect of the changing work environment, delegates at Microsoft’s Future Decoded event were told

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Is the Cybersecurity Industry facing a Recruitment Crisis?

IT Toolbox

The threat posed by cybercrime has been likened to a new type of warfare that threatens, not only the revenue streams of businesses large and small, but the critical infrastructure of nation states.

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Security Think Tank: Risk assess all web connections to shore up security

Computer Weekly

What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?

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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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Artificial intelligence optimizes and transforms ERP solutions

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning systems are being wholly transformed as suppliers integrate artificial intelligence technology into their operations. From taking over routine tasks to predicting when machines are going to fail, AI is using ERP’s wealth of data in previously unimaginable ways.

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Over 90% of CIOs say IT education does not match employers’ needs

Computer Weekly

CIOs think current IT recruitment needs are not being met by schools, colleges, universities and technical schools

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Buster & Punch moves to NetSuite cloud ERP in whirlwind 15 weeks

IT Toolbox

Although design-conscious home fashion label Buster & Punch already was using Brightpearl cloud ERP in the UK, the company decided to replace it with NetSuite so that all its locations across the US, Europe and Asia could use the same system.

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UK supercomputer is now world’s biggest Panasas scale-out NAS cluster

Computer Weekly

Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours

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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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Going Outside Your Comfort Zone for Collaboration, Part 2

IT Toolbox

Earlier in this series , I raised the issue that to make good decisions around collaboration, IT would need to go outside its comfort zone.

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How soon will we be driving fully autonomous cars?

Computer Weekly

Nvidia sets out vision for driverless cars as its new Pegasus processor promises to support “level 5” autonomy

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Enterprise Modelling in a few posters (iv)

IT Toolbox

The FFLV Enterprise Architecture Framework

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Data Science is Helping Zalando Learn Languages

Dataconomy

As a research scientist at the German online retail giant Zalando, Dr. Alan Akbik is an expert in Natural Language Processing and Data Extraction. In his work for the company, which at any given moment is handling massive numbers of online transactions in multiple languages, Akbik helps unveil unique insights. The post Data Science is Helping Zalando Learn Languages appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Db2 V12 on z/OS: New Features Support Big Data - Part 1

IT Toolbox

Part 1: ETL Enhancements

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How 3 Brands Are Using AI For Enhanced Creativity

Dataconomy

This article was originally published on cmo.com Every decade or so, a new, game-changing technology platform changes the way the world works. From the desktop, to mobile, and to the cloud, the landscape continues to advance. And now? We are knee-deep in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution—one so big that. The post How 3 Brands Are Using AI For Enhanced Creativity appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Change as a Problem-Solving Scenario

Future of CIO

With today’s “VUCA” new normal, to survive the fierce competitions and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve more planning, adjustment, problem-solving, and speed. The digital business dynamic allows the organization to morph as the business conditions and organizational capacities change to allow a better fit. But change is never for its own sake, one of the great reasons for the change is to solve large or small problems either at daily basis or the long-term perspective, to pus

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The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: How to Unleash IT-Enabled Digital Potential Nov. 2017

Future of CIO

Within abundant information and emergent digital technologies, IT is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The art of possible to reinvent IT for the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and doing more with innovation.

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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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How Can Digital CIOs Amplify Their Contemporary Leadership Voice?

Future of CIO

Due to the speed of changes and overwhelming growth of information, especially at technology arena, a CIO needs to be a dynamic person with growth mind, business acumen, profound IT understanding, with high ability to convey leadership message, manage impressions, manage communications to suit situations so as to make things happen. To reinvent IT from a support function to an innovation hub and digital engine of digital organization, how can digital CIOs amplify their contemporary leadership vo

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