Mon.Feb 03, 2020

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Why And How To Create A Design System And Get Help With It

Forrester IT

Fifty percent. That’s the percentage of design professionals who say their company now uses a design system according to our 2019 State Of Design Team’s survey. And a whopping 74% of those companies say they use a design system more than two years ago. Over a third even have dedicated roles or teams to support […].

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Migrating to cloud: solving the big data problem

CTOvision

Read Alberto Pan’s article about how to solve the big data problem by migrating to cloud on Information Age : For many organizations, cloud computing is now a fact of life. Over the years, it’s established a reputation as the key to achieving maximum agility, flexibility, and scalability. The benefits of cloud technologies like big […].

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New Forrester Forecast Shows Global Tech Market Growth Will Slip To 3% In 2020 and 2021

Forrester IT

Despite the excitement around leading-edge technologies like AI and big data, and the tremendous success of cloud vendors, Forrester’s latest forecast for the global tech market shows growth slowing to around 3% in 2020 and 2021. Economic growth is slowing, especially in the US, China, the UK (thanks to Brexit), and other major economies, as […].

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The Internet of Things in the Real World – 5 Recent Examples

CTOvision

Read Ronita Mohan list five real-life examples of uses of the Internet of Things on Business2Community : The Internet of Things (IoT) is fast becoming a necessary aspect of people’s daily lives. Slowly, but surely, our world has become better connected through the internet. The prevalence of IoT has come to such a point that physical items […].

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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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The Security Snapshot: Data Privacy, The Biggest Concern Of The New Decade

Forrester IT

At the end of 2019, Forbes identified data privacy and security as the most pressing issue in the upcoming decade. The issue is already prevalent: everyday a new story crops up about leaked, compromised, or misused data. While clicking through their often numerous social media accounts, consumers are providing these companies with more personal data. […].

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How AI Enhances Sales

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes about how AI is impacting the way organizations sell and manage their sales force: Sales is a primarily human-to-human activity. The very nature of sales is entirely built upon human communication. The core of sales as a process is focused on one human being’s ability to connect with another […].

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Where to Place Your Machine Learning and AI Bets

Social, Agile and Transformation

A few weeks ago, I published my 2020 predictions and stated explicitly that enterprises must demonstrate AI and Machine Learning wins. So, in this post, I survey several recent research surveys to determine where organizations should place their bets. I looked for three indicators: Is the timing right for medium and late adopters to get in the game, and how much must they wager?

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How Banks Still Make It Too Hard For People To Open An Account

Forrester IT

Here’s what real-world bank prospects told us about trying to open a checking account: “The website did not fully answer my question. ” “There were so many descriptive words that I had a hard time trying to decide. ” “The checking account page was sort of confusing. […].

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Windows 10 WMI Explorer Details for Configuration Manager|Intune

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this series of posts, we discuss about Windows 10, SCCM Server, and SCCM Client related WMI namespaces & classes. WMI Explorer is the community tool helps to search through WMI classes. What is WMI? WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation. The WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

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Welcome To A New Era Of Employee Enablement

Forrester IT

Happy New Year! As I reflect on all the research Forrester did in 2019 on employee experience, end user computing, and modern management, I couldn’t help but think how much the end user computing world has changed since I worked in end user support seven years ago. Back in 2013, making sure that new hires had what they needed on their first day of work was basically a full–time […].

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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 cloud software companies can cut costs – without impacting on quality

CTOvision

When evaluating the value of any business, one of the most important factors is the cost of goods sold (COGS). To put that another way, for every pound that a business makes, how much does it cost to deliver? For a traditional business, there are many ways to minimise costs. A company could optimise its supply […].

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Leadership Transition at IBM Means More Cloud, More Cloud Services, More Cloud Focus IBM is unlikely to ever have the economics of an Amazon, Azure, Google, or Alibaba. But it does have the largest footprint as a strategic partner of any vendor — 50% more customers than Accenture in our latest Technographics Services survey, for […].

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IBM blockchain automates contract labor processes

CTOvision

Processing payments for thousands of contractors is an onerous task large enterprises grapple with as they hire outsiders for technical and business services. IBM licked this challenge using blockchain software to curb the costs and time it takes to process invoices generated by contingent labor workers. IBM’s Contingent Labor on IBM Blockchain automatically tracks time sheets, […].

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Three PIM Trends To Watch In 2020

Forrester IT

With the first month of 2020 officially behind us, I’m continuing to explore the broadening role of product information management (PIM). Watch the video blog above to hear about three trends I’m watching this year and more about what research is underway! Forrester clients can schedule an inquiry with me here. Related research: Great Product Experiences […].

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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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Top 10 Strategic CIO Priorities For 2020

CTOvision

Read Rob Preston list 10 strategic priorities for CIOs for 2020 on Forbes : Speed. Security. Agility. Innovation. Automation. Insight. These are the words leading CIOs keep coming back to when explaining their technology, business, and organizational priorities. For example, listen to how Sally Gilligan, CIO of clothing retailer Gap Inc., thinks about how the company’s […].

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Answers To Common CX Questions 

Forrester IT

I recently took part in Forrester’s 2020 Predictions webinar. Attendees were able ask me their burning CX questions. There were a lot of CX questions this year (as you can see from the length of this post). So, I decided to round up a few of the questions and answers here. Q: How do you differentiate between CX and product […].

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Fighting the Coronavirus with Analytics and GIS

Information Week

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a global emergency. Here's how governments and the general public are using analytics to track the outbreak.

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SaaS, PaaS, IaaS: The differences between each and how to pick the right one

Tech Republic Cloud

When thinking about migrating to the cloud, these are three core models to choose from. Here's what each does and how to determine which model is right for your business.

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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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Exciting new developments from Spearline

Spearline Testing

We have a number of key developments happening in 2020 that we’re excited to share with you: Spearline SIP Route Tester. Spearline SMS Verifier. Spearline executive reports. Spearline Platform redesign. 'Patrick' AI Connection. Please read below to find out more. BE IN CONTROL. Spearline SIP Route Tester. From February 2020, Spearline customers will have the power to add new, and edit existing SIP trunks and carrier / prefix details directly from the numbers module on the Spearline

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Elevating the Human Enterprise with a Machine-First Mindset

Information Week

The purpose of adopting a machine-first approach is to bring together diverse technologies including automation, AI and analytics in a holistic way.

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The Future of Windows Server as a file server

Tech Republic Data Center

We still run our businesses on files. How is Microsoft upgrading Windows Server to use files in a hybrid world?

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IT Careers: 10 Job Skills in High Demand This Year

Information Week

If you're looking to add skills to your resume, experience with these technologies might help you land a new job or promotion.

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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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3D map shows how the coronavirus is spreading worldwide

Tech Republic Security

A UN aviation agency uses GIS software to track transmission lines while 20 US airports set up screening centers.

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Top Applications Businesses are Using

Information Week

A cloud data warehouse company came in first as the fastest growing application in a new report of the most popular business applications from Okta.

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5 Apps Every Entrepreneur Should Bookmark in 2020

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Apps Every Entrepreneur Should Bookmark in 2020 - Information Technology Blog. To be an entrepreneur in the digital era, you need to be connected on the go. That’s both the blessing of the curse of business ownership today— you can work from the beach, but you can never really unplug. Fortunately, apps will help keep you on top of your business no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

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CFOs say cloud migrations impacted by competing priorities and launch costs

Tech Republic Cloud

Finance leaders also worry that culture and training are not up to the digital transformation challenge, according to survey.

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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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Phishing tournament finds employees falling prey to malicious emails

Tech Republic Security

The Gone Phishing Tournament tested how susceptible people are to opening fraudulent emails and entering their login information.

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Tech spending slowing along with world economy

Tech Republic Cloud

A slowing global economy combined with political uncertainty and trade woes are driving down the growth in technology spending.

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Performance Glues and Management Continuum

Future of CIO

With the increasing pace of changes and dynamic planning, performance management is a multidisciplinary management system run number in context; it is important to define and prioritize your constellation of business goals, take into account both financial and non-financial measures, assessing internal improvements, past outcomes and ongoing requirements as indications of future performance.

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Take Nutanix Test Drive 2.0 for a Spin

Nutanix

Ever wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud with Nutanix? Well, now you can try it out with the all-new Nutanix Test Drive 2.0.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.