Forrester IT
JANUARY 24, 2017
Forrester just released our forecast for the Asia Pacific market for business and government purchases of technology goods and services. CIOs in the Asia Pacific (AP) region will continue to face a business environment of high uncertainty and modest economic growth in 2017, with 3% growth in tech spending. Better economies in 2018 will push growth closer to 6%.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
Government Digital Service’s Technology Leaders Network determines that the internet is an adequate solution to support the vast majority of public sector work
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Forrester IT
JANUARY 24, 2017
Oh, hello friends, it's been too long! But I couldn't let today's news stay this far under the radar. With a relatively small announcement on its blog, Google announced that the first Instant Apps have gone live! As a reminder, Instant Apps are Android apps that are internally compartmentalized into individual views (atoms) that your users can interact with from web search results.
CTOvision
JANUARY 24, 2017
Carol M. Evenson. Cloud computing provides businesses with quality solutions for their IT needs, as well as substantial cost savings over purchasing and maintaining their own hardware and software. Cloud services are generally pay-as-you-go solutions that offer flexibility and are scalable to business growth. With rising competition among cloud providers, customers benefit from falling prices and improving services.
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.
Forrester IT
JANUARY 24, 2017
We included 11 vendors in the CRM Forrester Wave™ for midsize organizations. These 11 vendors reported a total of about 200,000 midsize customers. Compared to CRM vendors tackling the enterprise space, these vendors typically offer more streamlined - and sometimes simpler - capabilities. We saw some similar - and some strikingly different trends in this market segment.
CTOvision
JANUARY 24, 2017
Dennis D. McDonald. In How to build a sustainable, value-focused data culture , Jodi Morton and Robert Parr discuss the role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) in financial services firms. They state that the push for improved data governance needs to evolve from being reactive and regulation-driven to becoming more integrated with both the firm’s operations and its strategic goals.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 24, 2017
Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Mobility. This is the greatest leap in humanity's ability to stay connected since the advent of spoken word.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
HPE has developed a concept computing architecture which it says will power future generations of applications.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
A key element of the client/server model was that any computer, however, large or small, may function at some point as either a client or a server. It is a matter of what is being accomplished by the software that implements the client/server model.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
Bromium evolves its micro-virtualisation security technology to gather threat intelligence from endpoints and automate checks and responses across an enterprise
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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?
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
Adherence to both international standards and the IAs provide a greater likelihood of multivendor interoperability. BBF efforts are divided among a number of committees, including the Technical Committee, the Inter-Carrier Committee, the Testing and Interoperability Committee, and the Marketing and Education Committee. Other smaller committees and sub-committees have formed also.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 24, 2017
String of hardware and software products seek to commercialize Facebook's open source networking tech Read More.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
By rolling all of these functions into the software layers of switches and routers, we were able to make this process a lot easier by modularizing the ports and allowing you to integrate and connect different cable media for different networks for bridging and then handle any protocol integrations within the routers as required.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
Sweden's capital city looks to capitalise on recent country-wide tax breaks for datacentre operators, to encourage cloud and colocation firms to set up shop in its new environmentally-friendly business parks
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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.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 24, 2017
New research from a group of universities found that specific video and computer vision algorithm software can unlock an Android Pattern Lock in five attempts.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
Mobile CRM packages are becoming increasingly important for sales people and senior management on the move. As a result, a number of CRM firms are focusing their efforts on this area in a drive to improve usability and deliver more features via mobile devices. Taking this into account, Denver-based Swiftpage, the maker of CRM platform Act!
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
Customers of all UK banks can receive branch services through the Post Office after a deal agreed last year takes effect
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
Following its acquisition by VTech in November, leading VoIP phone manufacturer Snom Technology has issued a statement to reassure clients that its business will continue as usual under the VTech banner, with upgrades on various fronts as well as new products on the horizon.
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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.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
IT industry body TechUK outlines what it believes are the Brexit negotiation priorities for the UK IT sector
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
The design requirements of an application usually determine the most effective database design and database administration support processes. If, however, the database administrator (DBA) is not present during the requirements definition process, sub-par performance can result. Essential DBA Choices and Processes.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
SAP declares full-year 2016 revenue of €22bn, of which nearly €3bn was cloud – almost 14%
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
The back end of this series is focused on strategies businesses can take to help Gen Z workers succeed as they enter the workforce. In many regards, their needs are no different than any other freshman class, and ultimately each new employee will go through their sink or swim phase.
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“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.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 24, 2017
Don't let your smart bulbs and thermostats fall prey to attack by bots. Use these five tactics to secure your IoT devices.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
Expense management software is a valuable resource for cost saving, auditing and financial analysis. It automates many of the tasks that are linked to expense management, such as payment processing and compliance. These programs are just as popular as manual expense reports, too.
Network World
JANUARY 24, 2017
The disk-wiping Shamoon malware, which was used in attacks that destroyed data on 35,000 computers at Saudi Aramco in 2012, is back; the Shamoon variant prompted Saudi Arabia to issue a warning on Monday. An alert from the telecoms authority, seen by Reuters, warned all organizations to be on the lookout for the variant Shamoon 2. CrowdStrike VP Adam Meyers told Reuters, “The Shamoon hackers were likely working on behalf of the Iranian government in the 2012 campaign and the more-recent attacks.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
When people talk about virtual reality it's usually related to gaming. It's also only a few years away too, so are you prepared for what is about to come? Let's focus on some of the big ways it's going to change everything.
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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.
Computer Weekly
JANUARY 24, 2017
When your parent is the internet phenomenon eBay, how do you make a difference?
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
After business expanded eight-fold over a decade, parts manufacturer Quatro Composites knew it had outgrown its antiquated, spreadsheet-based data management system. But which of the 40 ERP systems under consideration would best help the company move forward? A wholly-owned subsidiary of Tec Industries, Quatro’s needs were multiple.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 24, 2017
2016 may go down on record as one of the worst for cybersecurity. Hacks, breaches, and leaks were everywhere in the news. Forrester has a few things for us to remember going forward.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
The car insurance industry hasn't seen a huge amount of change in the last hundred years. Here are some of the big changes about to affect the industry, which will hopefully be good for everyone.
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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