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Global Marketing Automation Spending Will Reach $25 Billion By 2023

Forrester IT

Marketers today are managing more channels, more content, and more data, while delivering vast quantities of personalized content quickly around the globe. As digital marketing complexity increases, more marketers are embracing automation tools to improve efficiency and speed to market. In our first Marketing Automation Technology Forecast, 2017 To 2023, we expect global spending on […].

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Cyberwar Is Now A 3-Way Cage Fight

CTOvision

The past few weeks has seen aggressive action by the White House against Russia and China. Cyberwar has become a 3-way cage fight. Here's a quick review of the fight and tactics to improve. US Strategy Not Working: Hit Me, I Can Take It Data exfiltration by Kaspersky and Huawei have been known for years […].

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Three Takeaways On eCommerce From My Trip To China

Forrester IT

I recently spent two weeks in China to attend an event hosted by eCommerce company JD.com for analysts and retail thought leaders. Here are my takeaways on the state of eCommerce in the world’s largest eCommerce market: Customers in China seek novelty and individuality. Nearly 60% of metropolitan Chinese consumers are Progressive Pioneers – the most […].

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Napoleon: War Is Ninety Percent Information (which means all war Is cyberwar)

CTOvision

Napoleon was right when he observed that "War is ninety percent information." Since his time the nature of war has become even more information intensive. In the information age, all war is now cyber war. In the past I have really shunned the use of the term "cyber war." In 2003 several professional colleagues I […].

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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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Radius And Leadspace Join Forces: What’s It Mean For Predictive Marketing Analytics?

Forrester IT

The executive summary here is simple: We think this is a harmonious merger. Not quite one year ago, Forrester published the The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Marketing Analytics For B2B Marketers, which evaluated 11 firms – Radius and Leadspace among them – against 28 criteria, as well as an accompanying blog post that summed it up. […].

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Practical CIO Advice for Managing Change on CXO Talk [Video]

Social, Agile and Transformation

My second appearance on CXO Talk may be better than my first show! Thanks to Michael Krigsman for having me on again! Some of what we covered - Technology has a huge impact on how we service customers How are organizations become more competitive with data and analytics Transformation is a "people conversation" first. Rely on people to use their innovation and expertise to collaborate on.

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Group Policy Vs Intune Policy after Intune unenrollement

Anoop

In my previous post (Group policy Vs Intune Policy), we discussed Intune policy wins over GP when there is a policy conflict. We covered the workflow with example setting (IE Home Page). In this post, we will see how Windows 10 handles conflicting GP settings if Intune is un-enrollment from the Windows 10 computer. Workflow – Group […]. The post Group Policy Vs Intune Policy after Intune unenrollement appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Vimal Das.

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Will your company’s digital transformation end up as a bold decision or a bust?

Forrester IT

In digital transformation, there’s a fine line between fearlessness and foolishness. Bad decisions can have all the trappings of a bold new strategy: A costly acquisition, suddenly pivoting to an unexpected new product offering, an ambitious new vision for the future. Similarly, when consumer media hypes a new business model that will “disrupt” an industry, […].

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The Monthly “Leadership Master” Book Tuning: Innovative Leadership Apr. 2018

Future of CIO

Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation. The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergen

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Putting Emerging Technologies Like AI To Work

Forrester IT

In the age of the customer, technology and business leaders must start with an understanding of customer needs, then choose appropriate technologies to address those needs. But complex emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, and the Internet of Things can be challenging to harness in service of customer need. These critical CIO targets often […].

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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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How Semantics Technology Is Taking the Risk Out of Hiring

Dataconomy

Big data these days is a lot like the Wild West – an untamed, vast vista with untold resources ripe for the plucking. More of it keeps coming; this year, more data will be created than has ever existed before – much of it unstructured. By 2020, forty-four times more. The post How Semantics Technology Is Taking the Risk Out of Hiring appeared first on Dataconomy.

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What Brought Me Back To Forrester: Our Market-Leading Engagement Around Emerging Technologies

Forrester IT

It is such a pleasure to be back at Forrester, especially now when our firm is actively embracing and helping you, our customers, leverage new technologies to innovate and differentiate your business. After three years leading technology strategy and market development for Microsoft Azure and Equinix, what brought me back were three things: The value […].

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The Digital Fitness of IT

Future of CIO

Information and technology nowadays make the impact on every aspect of the business, IT can no longer just be about numbers and algorithms; it has an opportunity to be a significant catalyst for business growth and a tool for encouraging questing and connecting the innovation dots. In the face of vast areas of uncertainty and unprecedented complexity, it is important for IT leaders to address both the tactical practices of getting the work done and the soft business factors associated with the d

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Competing In Smartphones Demands More Than Great Hardware — You Need A Strong Ecosystem

Forrester IT

The smartphone market is on the verge of disruption again and not for the first time in recent history. What’s different is that today’s leaders are better positioned to take advantage of their momentum to strengthen their position in the market. Not unlike 10 years ago, what it will take to compete will shift dramatically […].

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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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The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries

Future of CIO

Digital era is hyperconnected, volatile, complex, uncertain and ambiguous. Adopting a different paradigm is like changing the glasses and new possibilities might emerge. It is the digital paradigm shift. The corporate board plays an important role in overseeing digital strategy, advising executive teams and monitoring performance. To run a high performance and high mature digital organization, it is important to bridge the multitude of gaps for speeding up changes and creating the momentum of th

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April 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

April 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 4 (April 2018) Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter. In cased you missed it, the March 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter can be viewed here (HTML and PDF).

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Staying Hungry and Exceeding Customer Expectations

Nutanix

At Nutanix, we are what some may say obsessed about our customer and their success. Our EVP of Engineering and Operations recently blogged how we have built customer trust and a reputation for customer satisfaction, a sustained effort that goes back years.

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An Updated Look at My Multi-Platform Toolbelt

Scott Lowe

In early 2017 I posted about my (evolving) multi-platform toolbelt , describing some of the applications, standards, and services that I use across my Linux and macOS systems. In this post, I’d like to provide an updated review of that toolbelt. Visual Studio Code: I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code during my latest migration to Fedora 27 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon.

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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.