Tue.May 07, 2019

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A global point of view: online luxury retail

Forrester IT

How digital will change luxury retail? What are the key online luxury retail trends in the West and Asia Pacific? My colleague Michelle Beeson and I shared our point of views.

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How To Reskill Your Workforce For AI (Artificial Intelligence)

CTOvision

Read Tom Taulli explain how you can reskill your employees to work with artificial intelligence on Forbes : AI is considered the most disruptive technology, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey (it includes over 3,000 CIOs from 89 countries). So yes, this is big reason why there has been a major increase in adoption and […].

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Research Announcement Forrester Wave Q4 2019: European Cybersecurity Consulting Service Providers

Forrester IT

We are currently considering the list of vendor participants we are planning to invite to a pre-screener for the Q4 European Cybersecurity Consulting Service Provider Wave. If you provide cybersecurity consulting services to customers headquartered in Europe and you operate in more than one key European market, with offices and substantial consulting practices based in […].

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Throws the Doors Open Ahead of Build

CTOvision

Microsoft hasn’t always had a reputation for being “open,” but CEO Satya Nadella and the rest of his executive team would like you to think that its approach to software has changed. Not only that it has changed, but that Microsoft has evolved its strategy during a time when some of its top competitors are […].

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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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CMOs Take Public Stances On Societal Issues To Tap Into Consumer Energy — Just As We Said They Would

Forrester IT

In November 2018, we predicted that CMOs would target societal tensions to gain an advantage in competitive markets. Nike’s 30th-anniversary campaign featuring controversial activist Colin Kaepernick would serve as an opening salvo for other brands to just do it. And so they did. AdAge’s “Campaign of the Year” is producing a tapestry of evidence that CMOs […].

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Eye on A.I.— Facebook and Google’s Fierce and Nerdy Rivalry Over A.I. Software

CTOvision

Read Jonathan Vanian take a look at the healthy rivalry between Facebook and Google in the field of artificial intelligence on Fortune : Facebook and Google aren’t merely competing for dominance in online advertising. They’re also battling over artificial intelligence. At the core of their fight is the underlying software for creating neural networks, the software […].

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Word’s new AI editor will improve your writing

CTOvision

If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you’ll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company announced today, Word will soon get a new feature called “Ideas” that will offer writers all kinds of help with their documents. If writing is a struggle for you, the most important feature of Ideas is surely […].

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The Role of Technology in the Workplace

Kitaboo

As we continue into the 21st century, it seems like there are new technological advances on a daily basis, and those advances are beginning to embed themselves into the workplace. Technology in the Workplace is truly changing the way we work — we are no longer chained to our desks, but rather always have a laptop, a tablet or a smartphone in hand. There are a few cons to having technology fill a prominent role in your business, but the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

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Mozilla highlights AI bias and ‘addiction by design’ tech in internet health report

CTOvision

Mozilla today released the 2019 Internet Health Report, an analysis that brings together insights from 200 experts to examine issues central to the future of the internet. This year’s report chose to focus primarily on injustice perpetuated by artificial intelligence; what NYU’s Natasha Dow Schu?ll calls “addiction by design” tech, like social media apps and […].

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E-Business Suite Post Clone Refresh – It’s Magic with FlexDeploy!

Flexagon

Cloning is an important part of managing an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation. It allows the syncing of recent and relevant data into the non-production environments. The cloning process isn’t without its drawbacks however. In its purest form, the clone takes an exact copy of the Production database and overlays a non-prod environment. With this process, Read more.

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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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CISO-as-a-Service: When your enterprise needs cybersecurity expertise on demand

CTOvision

Your business operates in a world where there is an incredibly high demand for cybersecurity talent. Now with unemployment at a 50 year low there are no indications that anything can be done to dramatically increase the pool of cybersecurity talent. Enterprise grade cybersecurity requires enterprise grade experience. How do you get that in today’s […].

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5 Ways Information Technology in Construction is More Important Than Ever

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Ways Information Technology in Construction is More Important Than Ever - Information Technology Blog. There was once a time when IT and construction didn’t mix. Now, information technology in construction is absolutely vital. Here’s why. The construction industry in the United States is a 1.73 trillion dollar industry.

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Stepping into the Cloud Requires New IT Security Tactics

Information Week

Adopting a strategy to embrace the cloud should include adequate plans to control and monitor the new environment.

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Learn Azure by Doing with New Azure Training!

Linux Academy

Ready to solidify your Azure skills by doing? We’re excited to announce our completely new Azure courses that meet 100% of exam objectives and include Hands-On Labs, Interactive Diagrams, flash cards, study groups, practice exams, downloadable course videos, and more! You’ll be tested in a hands-on way in the exams, so practicing in our Hands-On Labs is crucial to your success.

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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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Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Software Asset Management

Information Week

It may not be glamorous, but the practice of software asset management saves organizations money and protects them against financial and legal risks.

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Learn Azure by Doing with New Azure Training!

Linux Academy

Ready to solidify your Azure skills by doing? We’re excited to announce our completely new Azure courses that meet 100% of exam objectives and include Hands-On Labs, Interactive Diagrams, flash cards, study groups, practice exams, downloadable course videos, and more! You’ll be tested in a hands-on way in the exams, so practicing in our Hands-On Labs is crucial to your success.

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Shape a Design-driven and People-centric Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. In reality, different organizations are at different stages of the business maturity life cycle, strive to move up their maturity from functioning to firm to delight. The digital era upon us is about people. Therefore, organizations need to get deeply immersed in designing, developing and delivering great products or solutions to make their customers smarter, m

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Learn Azure by Doing with New Azure Training!

Linux Academy

Ready to solidify your Azure skills by doing? We’re excited to announce our completely new Azure courses that meet 100% of exam objectives and include Hands-On Labs, Interactive Diagrams, flash cards, study groups, practice exams, downloadable course videos, and more! You’ll be tested in a hands-on way in the exams, so practicing in our Hands-On Labs is crucial to your success.

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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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The Best “Hyperconnectivity” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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One-Click IoT and AI-based Application Environment

Nutanix

We are excited to announce a rapid development environment for creating IoT and AI apps in the cloud, that can be easily deployed in the cloud or at the edge. The environment is designed to alleviate pressures faced by many enterprise organizations around cumbersome, generic cloud environments, creating complex AI models, and generating meaningful IoT data.

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The Corporate Board Director’s Digital Profile IV

Future of CIO

Digital boards are like the steering wheel of the organization, leading the business toward the uncharted water and blurred territories for reaching the final destination. Board directors as the top business leadership and directorship role need to build the solid thinking blocks; have sufficient knowledge and unique insight to understand the business and its ecosystem via the multidimensional lens, technically, scientifically, holistically, and culturally.

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Azure Certifications and Roadmap

Linux Academy

** Updated May 6, 2019 **. Microsoft has restructured its Azure certifications into a role-based model that it states will more directly focus on the building of skills and knowledge aligned to job roles. This change was made after engaging their tech community and identifying what is required to support those job roles. The modifications to the certifications have been in beta since September 2018, with effective release dates for the exams between December 2018 and May 2019.

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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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AI Meets IoT: Nutanix and Deepomatic Join Forces to Democratize AI at the Edge

Nutanix

Many organizations are faced with digital transformation challenges especially when it comes to adopting new technologies. Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two concepts which will enable organizations to rethink traditional edge solutions and drive new revenue streams.

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Azure Certifications and Roadmap

Linux Academy

** Updated May 6, 2019 **. Microsoft has restructured its Azure certifications into a role-based model that it states will more directly focus on the building of skills and knowledge aligned to job roles. This change was made after engaging their tech community and identifying what is required to support those job roles. The modifications to the certifications have been in beta since September 2018, with effective release dates for the exams between December 2018 and May 2019.

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Azure Certifications and Roadmap

Linux Academy

** Updated May 6, 2019 **. Microsoft has restructured its Azure certifications into a role-based model that it states will more directly focus on the building of skills and knowledge aligned to job roles. This change was made after engaging their tech community and identifying what is required to support those job roles. The modifications to the certifications have been in beta since September 2018, with effective release dates for the exams between December 2018 and May 2019.

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