Mon.Mar 20, 2017

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Cardiff man admits terrorist charges after posting encryption instructions on Islamic blog

Computer Weekly

Samata Ullah, a resident of Cardiff, pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges, including developing an encrypted version of an Islamic website and posting videos explaining how to use encryption

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3 Early Strategies for Defending Your Company Now from Future Cyber Attacks

CTOvision

Carol M. Evenson. Far too often, companies don’t start to worry about digital security until after they experience an attack. If they’re lucky, the first attack won’t cause too much damage, but an even better situation would be if the people responsible for the attack walked away from the encounter empty-handed. The best way to ensure that ‘s what happens is to start planning for such an event now, before it’s even an issue.

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3 Ways CRM Taps into the Growing Demand for Personalization

IT Toolbox

Consumers have made it clear: They want personalized shopping experiences that recognize their preferences across platforms and coordinates all their experiences with a given brand. That’s a challenge for most organizations, which are struggling to learn the best ways to personalize customers’ experiences.

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Self-Service Analytics are Not Sustainable

Data Center Knowledge

Business users don’t need access to more raw information; they need tools that take the leg work out of data analysis and automatically surface them the insights they need so they can focus on doing their jobs better. Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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5 Business Tech Trends Changing the Way Employees Collaborate

IT Toolbox

Technology has dramatically changed the way we do business over the past decade. The workplace dynamic has been enhanced through the introduction and evolution of team collaboration. Email and phone calls are now taking a backseat to unified communications.

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Many UK local councils still unprepared for GDPR, ICO survey shows

Computer Weekly

The ICO fines the Norfolk Council as it publishes GDPR guidelines for local councils after a survey revealed not all were up to speed in preparations to comply with the new data protection law

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SaaS Keeps SMBs and Solopreneurs from Falling Behind in Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Mom-and-pop shops and sole proprietors can use enterprise-grade SaaS to take on the big boys. Read More.

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Guide to Oracle Sales Cloud Integration

IT Toolbox

Unit One describes the building blocks of Oracle Sales Cloud integration. As a business analyst working on Oracle Sales Cloud integration, you need to learn these building blocks.

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How to handle detractors to digital transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

It takes a lot of effort to align an organization to a digital strategy and digital transformation program. They are disruptive programs that aim to drive growth through new products and customer experiences and not everyone in the front office is going to want a new direction.

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Historical IBM Microcomputer Hardware/Software LAN Products

IT Toolbox

The concept of an overarching connectivity architecture such as SAA was one approach to managing these compromises. One clearly evident (if not explicitly stated) IBM strategy in managing outside competition was to coopt popular technology.

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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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BASF to Collaborate With HPE on 1-Petaflop Supercomputer

Data Center Knowledge

System expected to significantly cut research time for world's largest chemical maker Read More.

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5 Ways to Save Money on Tech Investment

IT Toolbox

Here we will provide you with some great tips on how to save money on technology and still be satisfied with your purchase.

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How business analysts can bring a human touch to IT change programmes

Computer Weekly

Aviva business analyst David Beckham is keynoting at the Innovation, Business Change & Technology Forum on how his profession can help IT and other workers through trauma of change programmes

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3 Ways Instant Business Communications Can Drive Revenue

IT Toolbox

Instant messaging (IM) is ubiquitous today and a primary means of business communication. The younger members of today’s workforce grew up with IM, but even more experienced professionals use different types of IM constantly.

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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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IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

Computer Weekly

IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things

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How Management Uses Collaboration for Digital Transformation

IT Toolbox

Whatever way one defines “digital transformation”, it’s a meta-trend impacting every business and every sector of the economy. At this point, most businesses have become Web-centric, and in time, they will become cloud-centric as well.

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Dell joins HPE and Cisco at top of cloud infrastructure leader board

Computer Weekly

Cloud infrastructure is looking like a three-horse race between the big US suppliers, but the contract manufacturers are also in the running

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5 Advantages of Customized Cloud Solutions for SMBs

IT Toolbox

Businesses of various sizes are now opting for cloud computing services. New companies that move to the cloud will enjoy security, cost savings and agility. Since most cloud providers help businesses to reduce the cost of I.T.

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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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Global business leaders hail UK tech sector’s innovation potential

Computer Weekly

KPMG report reveals global confidence in UK tech sector’s ability to create innovative products and services that are keenly adopted across the world

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3 Reasons to Integrate ERP Systems into Marketing

IT Toolbox

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are a priority for every business. Too often, though, customers are lost because of breakdowns in communication within the organization. Delivery delays, miscalculated inventory levels, and errors in customer data may be common but can wreak havoc on customer service levels. As errors increase, customer loyalty drops—along with profits.

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Why Isn’t Hyperconvergence Converging?

Data Center Knowledge

There’s an intriguing new partnership between HPE and one of the pioneers in software-defined systems. No, not with SimpliVity. Read More.

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4 Ways to Benefit from Multilanguage ERP Systems

IT Toolbox

Thousands of new companies open their doors (real or virtual) every day—many that will conduct international business. Communication may play a significant role in how these companies are run as well as influence their potential for failure or success. Failure to communicate can lead to errors, lost profits, or dissatisfied customers.

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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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Storage fails the business as data balloons, survey finds

Computer Weekly

Lack of agility and failure of storage to keep pace with the business and data growth are major concerns to UK businesses that see data volumes increase by 27% a year

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Overcome the Barriers to Change in your workplace

IT Toolbox

Have you ever thought about bringing a change initiative to your organization? Did you try and get eaten up by the process? Did you think about it, but realize that it was a monumental task and didn't know if you could pull it off? Don't worry, you're not alone. And this doesn't have to be the end of your story.

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Half of banks think more payments will be via fintechs by 2020

Computer Weekly

Fintechs have gone from being an emerging threat to banks to an opportunity for collaboration, according to an EIU report

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8 Reasons ERP Is Essential in Higher Education in 2017

IT Toolbox

Large companies and manufacturers have long used enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to manage resources and control budgets. Now, ERP is moving beyond the walls of those traditional markets. Among the new verticals for ERP is higher education. Higher education may well be one of the final frontiers for ERP applications, and with good reason.

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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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Openreach trains apprentice engineers in virtual reality

Computer Weekly

Openreach inductees get to experience an immersive simulation of life as an engineer, taking them up telephone poles and into underground chambers

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A DBA's Big Data Wish List

IT Toolbox

Like management information systems, enterprise resource planning and relational database, big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. Common applications include storage and analysis of customer data, web interactions, machine sensor readings, and much more.

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Hybrid IT Startup MuleSoft Eyes Acquisitions IPO Success

Data Center Knowledge

MuleSoft's platform interconnects disparate enterprise IT systems, including on-premise and in the cloud. Read More.

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FOREX Translation in SAP ERP

IT Toolbox

If foreign currency translation is necessary between many different currencies the currency options in SAP simplify the maintenance of the exchange rates by specifying various currency attributes.

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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.