Thu.Aug 31, 2017

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Two-thirds of UK firms hiring for GDPR

Computer Weekly

Most UK firms are planning to hire extra staff to help them meet the requirements of the EU’s new data protection regulation

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5 Ways ERP Can Benefit Small Businesses

IT Toolbox

If you're a small business owner, you've likely been through your share of software headaches. The problem is that every business has its own needs, and there is no cookie-cutter solution. As they evolve, most small businesses end up cobbling together a variety of software services and apps to create a software potpourri that delivers most of what they want but is far from ideal.

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App-based challenger bank Starling enters next stage of its journey

Computer Weekly

Thousands of people are downloading Starling’s app every week as the bank builds its customer base

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Trends with Benefits: What ERP Can Do for You in 2017

IT Toolbox

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has myriad benefits - but understanding the full potential of them all can be overwhelming. Investing in ERP involves centralizing everything from human resources processes to accounting procedures and inventory management.

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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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Security Think Tank: Resilience means preparing for unpreventable cyber threats

Computer Weekly

What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?

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Why automate business processes with Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

IT Toolbox

In its latest BPM Industry Watch Report: Business Process Automation in 2017:Designing an Intelligence Workspace , AIIM found that while 96% of the respondents surveyed saw BPM as a systematic approach to improving processes, 73% also saw BPM as the automation of manual tasks.

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Integrating Products and Prices in Oracle Sales Cloud

IT Toolbox

Within the Oracle CX Cloud, the Oracle Sales Cloud includes product definition and product management features available at the administrator, end-user and API level through a products interface.

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Government consults on fibre broadband rate relief

Computer Weekly

The Department for Communities and Local Government has launched a consultation on the draft regulations covering business rate relief for new fibre broadband infrastructure

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August's IT Monthly News Digest

IT Toolbox

VMware, AWS, Launch Cloud Service Partnership. VMware and AWS have made their joint cloud service offering generally available to customers who want to run their workloads in the cloud without leaving behind the software they know.

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Government launches digital skills survey to find out more about UK’s needs

Computer Weekly

The government has launched a survey to find out what advanced and specialist digital skills are needed in the UK

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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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Integrating Households in Oracle Sales Cloud - Part One: Overview

IT Toolbox

Oracle Sales Cloud?s Household API resource is used to view, create, and update a household. In Oracle Sales Cloud, a Household is a group that has a relationship with either an account or a contact. As in similar systems, a household object includes attributes that are used to store values while creating or updating a household.

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30 ways to improve IoT privacy

Network World

Much work still must be done before the industrial and municipal Internet of Things (IoT) becomes widely adopted outside of the circle of innovators. One field, privacy, well understood by the public and private sector in the context of the cloud, PCs and mobile, is in the early stage of adaptation for the IoT. The sheer volume of data that will be collected and the new more granular architecture of the IoT present new privacy concerns that need to be resolved on an equal scale as the platform’s

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Big Data Can Make Thanksgiving More Manageable

IT Toolbox

The week of Thanksgiving is full of activity. Leading up are shoppers running to buy up their extravagant dinner ingredients and family members trying to get home for the holiday.

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ICO fines council £70,000 for exposing personal data online

Computer Weekly

The ICO has issued a monetary penalty to Nottinghamshire County Council for leaving personal information exposed online for five years

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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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Technology combined

IT Toolbox

Technology has been around for years, longer than anyone alive today. Although if there is someone alive today who has been alive since before technology I am willing to bet that their name is Lazarus Long and a redhead.

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How an idea built on web freebies and low-cost tools evolved into a virtual NHS clinic

Computer Weekly

We speak to an NHS trust about how readily available web software helped clinicians get a pioneering project off the ground

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The modern family

IT Toolbox

I am sure many of you will agree that family is important and as the saying goes, blood is thicker than water. After all, if it weren't for the love between your father and mother you wouldn't be here reading my blog right now. It used to be that families were very close and tight knit.

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Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana to offer integration

Computer Weekly

Amazon and Microsoft’s voice assistants will be able to integrate with each other to provide users with the best features from both

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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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How social networks helped me

IT Toolbox

Previously I ranted on about how social networking sites were contributing to reducing the family bonds and weakening personal relationships. However, social networking sites are not all doom and gloom. They have, in my case, provided a means of bringing me personally back into the family loop.

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IoT privacy: 30 ways to build a security culture

Network World

Much work still must be done before the industrial and municipal Internet of Things (IoT) becomes widely adopted outside of the circle of innovators. One field, privacy, well understood by the public and private sector in the context of the cloud, PCs and mobile, is in the early stage of adaptation for the IoT. The sheer volume of data that will be collected and the new more granular architecture of the IoT present new privacy concerns that need to be resolved on an equal scale as the platform’s

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Medical advancement

IT Toolbox

I think the greatest role technology has had in our lives is huge it has advanced the medical profession. From the time when doctors had no idea that bacteria caused infections, never washed their hands and where the most common treatment was almost bleeding people to death all the way up to modern day medicine the had been almost miraculous advances in medical technology.

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Suspected UK bank cyber attacker extradited from Germany

Computer Weekly

A British man suspected of cyber attacks on banks is back in the UK to face charges

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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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Integrating Opportunities in Oracle Sales Cloud - Part Three

IT Toolbox

Opportunities are among the most complex of all CRM concepts and therefore there are numerous data constructs relevant to their automation. Learning the importance of each method will allow you to coordinate business process automation around Opportunities in an optimal manner.

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In-house Vodafone MVNO pitches to youth market

Computer Weekly

Vodafone targets under-25s with a free social data MVNO concept called Voxi

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Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud Forecasts and Sales Orders - Part One: Overview

IT Toolbox

Forecasts are built from data by territory and are specific to a period of time such as a month, quarter or year. Similar to other CRM systems, a forecast is information related to the likelihood of an order and an order contains the detailed lines, prices (revenue items or items) and terms in the order itself.

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Three “D” Traits in Innovators

Future of CIO

The evolution of innovation only exists in the more open environments that create insights, take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way. Being innovative is a state of mind which is more important than doing any type of innovation. Being able to engage in the successful creation of innovations is a very hard work and does include a lot of deep thinking, observation, inquiries, unusual connections, experimenting, skills, abilities and hardworking.

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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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Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud Forecasts and Sales Orders - Part One: Methods

IT Toolbox

As discussed in our overview of forecasts and sales orders integration within Oracle Sales Cloud, the REST API provides a number of methods that can be used by your integration professionals to automate business processes. In this article, we look at the specific methods that support Forecasts and Sales Orders automation capabilities for Oracle Sales Cloud.

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Integrating Sale Territories Data and Processes within Oracle Sales Cloud

IT Toolbox

In Oracle Sales Cloud, a sales territories resource represents the relevant sales territory for a given user. A territory may be defined separately or in combination by geography, by vertical market, by products sold, by named accounts and any other criteria deemed relevant.

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Technology can be emotional

IT Toolbox

Technology workers are generally critical thinkers and problem solvers. In the crucible of bits and bytes, there isn't a lot of room for emotionalism. But at the end of the day, technology is a very emotional thing. Isn't this an oxy-moron? How can something made of electrons be emotional? Where is there room for that?

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Ranking the Most Technologically Advanced Cities in the US

IT Toolbox

America is home to pretty much everything. If you want open skies, imposing mountains, beautiful beaches or intense deserts, you can find them in spades.

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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.