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Define Your Payment Strategy For B2B eCommerce In China

Forrester IT

As the world’s largest eCommerce market, China appeals to global B2C and B2B brands alike. But China’s B2B eCommerce market is not as mature as the consumer space, and neither is its B2B payment. Multinationals that want to develop their B2B online commerce business in China will need to clearly define their strategy, including what payment solutions […].

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Why IoT Development is Heading to Agile

Information Week

Applying legacy software development approaches to IoT projects is inefficient and counterproductive. For a growing number of organizations, Agile is the answer.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

A Better Mousetrap Is Always Around The Corner The world saw cracks in the armor of Google this week when Alphabet’s earnings reported below analyst estimates. It looks like Amazon and others have found weaknesses in the search-based advertising model — golden geese are mortal after all. So, if Google is vulnerable to disruption, then we […].

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Cisco adds AMP to SD-WAN for ISR/ASR routers

Network World

Cisco has added support for Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) to its million-plus ISR/ASR edge routers, in an effort to reinforce branch and core network malware protection at across the SD-WAN. Cisco last year added its Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE version 16.9.1 software that runs its core ISR/ASR routers such as the ISR models 1000, 4000 and ASR 5000, in use by organizations worldwide.

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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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Future Of Retail: How Brands Will Address Employee Experience In 2019

Forrester IT

To help retailers and brands, I’m delighted to continue our series, “Applying 2019 Predictions To Retail.” Last week, my colleague Claudia Tajima spoke with Harley Manning about how customer experience (CX) is affecting retailers in 2019. I interviewed Sam Stern, principal analyst, part of Forrester’s employee experience (EX) team, and also an expert on customer-centric culture.

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Windows Admin Center Ultimate Guide

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows Admin center is one of my favorite free tool from Microsoft. I’m happy to see that Microsoft is putting time and efforts add new capabilities to the Windows Admin Center. From this post, you will get option to download free Windows Admin Center eBook. What’s New in Windows Admin Center The Windows admin center […].

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AI is being held back: Here's how to fix it

Information Week

To liberate the full potential of machine learning as fast as possible, CIOs, CEOs, and society in general, must first get over fears of losing control.

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Is It a Good Idea for an Ecommerce Business to Invest in SEO?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Is It a Good Idea for an Ecommerce Business to Invest in SEO? - Information Technology Blog. Forty-four percent of all shopping experiences begin with Google searches. Thirty-nine percent of global Ecommerce users arrive at any online store through searches. While 35 percent of this is an organic reach, 4 percent is delivered through paid reach.

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How to Gain Business-Changing IoT Insights

Information Week

Implementing industrial IoT means adding new types of data and gaining a host of new and unexpected insights.

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What’s New With CloudFormation?

Linux Academy

CloudFormation Is Everywhere. So although I had some good experience with CloudFormation before arriving at Linux Academy, there’s nothing like troubleshooting and validating labs as a learning experience. And becoming adept with CloudFormation can go a long way in ramping up your overall AWS skillset. CloudFormation is everywhere! Elastic Beanstalk.

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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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C-Suite Whispers: Considering an event-centric data strategy? Here’s what you need to know

Dataconomy

Digital transformation dominates most CIO priority lists pertaining to questions such as: How will digital transformation affect IT infrastructure? Will technology live on-premise or in the cloud? Depending on where that data lives, an organization requires different skill sets. If you’re building these resources in-house, then you need an infrastructure.

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What’s New With CloudFormation?

Linux Academy

CloudFormation Is Everywhere. So although I had some good experience with CloudFormation before arriving at Linux Academy, there’s nothing like troubleshooting and validating labs as a learning experience. And becoming adept with CloudFormation can go a long way in ramping up your overall AWS skillset. CloudFormation is everywhere! Elastic Beanstalk.

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Three Aspects of Designing a Viable Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Digital organizations are the complex ecosystem with the blurring line between functions and geographic locations. Going digital is a long journey with all sorts of barriers and pitfalls on the way, you have to strike the right balance between order and chaos, change and stability, innovation and standardization. Viability is the very characteristics of the digital organization, you may leverage design thinking to reinvent an organization which can enforce collaboration and harness innovation by

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WHAT’S THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE XaaS ERA?

Dataconomy

The era of everything-as-a-service (XaaS) has provided both an opportunity and a challenge for companies across industries. The XaaS model, a subscription-based solution that makes cloud-based applications available on demand unlike the traditional license-based platforms of the past, delivers several noteworthy advantages over its predecessors. Between cost reductions and easier.

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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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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/10/2019

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5500+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 27 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society.

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Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks

Kitaboo

In this age of digitization, where everything from shopping to banking is available at the click of a button, why not access study materials? eBooks or etextbooks are not a new concept anymore. Kindle has ensured that the whole world has access to digital books. The change in reading habits or rather reading platforms, compelled print publishers to move into the digital space.

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Legacy Application Modernization Best Practices

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Many companies around the globe still run on legacy enterprise applications and systems. They may understand the value of modernization, but view it as a costly/risky project. In this article, we explore a few best practices to follow that will reduce the risk and expense of application modernization. photo credit: MustangJoe via pixabay cc Legacy application modernization is a common, yet tricky topic.

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The Best “Inquisitiveness” 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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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.