Wed.Sep 30, 2020

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Sales Operations Leaders: Set Realistic Sales Goals For 2021

Forrester IT

The uncertainty around the length and extent of COVID-19 makes the expected impact for 2021 unclear. One of the most important things you can do as a revenue or sales operations leader is ensure that the annual sales goals set across the business are realistic and in line with the business assumptions.

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9 Soft Skills Every Employee Will Need In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain the nine soft skills every employee should have in the age of artificial intelligence on Forbes: Technical skills and data literacy are obviously important in this […].

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Real-Time, Contactless Feedback During The Pandemic

Forrester IT

FeedbackNow by Forrester has launched new contactless feedback solutions so companies can measure and adjust their customer experiences in real-time throughout the pandemic.

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Artificial intelligence: threats and opportunities

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence (AI) affects our lives more and more. Learn about the opportunities and threats for security, democracy, businesses and jobs. Europe’s growth and wealth are closely connected to how it […].

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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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Dialogue In Demand: Enabling Buyers Through Conversational Interactions

Forrester IT

Connecting conversational interactions across channels helps organizations deliver frictionless engagement and experiences with value to the buyer.

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OODAcast: Kevin Roberts Discusses Leadership, Decision-making, and Focused Action

CTOvision

In this OODAcast Matt Devost interviews Kevin Roberts, noted CEO, creative thinker and author. Kevin Roberts has had an illustrious career spanning many industries over numerous continents including serving […].

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How AI Is Used in Data Center Physical Security Today

CTOvision

Read Maria Korolov explain how artificial intelligence and machine learning are used by data centers for physical security on Data Center Knowledge: Machine learning and artificial intelligence are touted as […].

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Account takeover fraud rates skyrocketed 282% over last year

Tech Republic Security

ATO is the weapon of choice for fraudsters leading up to the holiday shopping season, new data from Sift shows, and consumers place account security burden on businesses.

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Are Smart Speakers Really Smart?

CTOvision

The term “smart speaker” is really a misnomer. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes for more insight into virtual assistants and their real strengths: The popular media calls them “smart […].

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How to handle cybersecurity amid a tight IT budget

Tech Republic Security

There are ways to maintain and even enhance your security posture even when your tech budget is under stress, according to Kaspersky.

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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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14 open source tools to make the most of machine learning

CTOvision

Read Serdar Yegulalp list open-source tools to take advantage of machine learning and predictive analysis on Info World: Spam filtering, face recognition, recommendation engines — when you have a large […].

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Deploy Proactive Remediation Script Packages | Built-in | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s how to deploy Deploy Proactive Remediation Script Packages. First of all, you need to make sure that Tenant Attach and Endpoint Analytics are enabled for the SCCM environment. There are built-in script packages you can use to get started with Proactive remediations.

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5 Things CHROs Should Know About Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Sandesh Goel explain the five things every Chief Human Resource Officer should know about artificial intelligence on CXO Today: Artificial Intelligence is becoming sharper and its ability to analyze, […].

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Tips to Help IT Leaders Navigate Organizational Change

Information Week

IT leaders must move from defense to offense and motivate their teams by establishing a clear mission and a path to 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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CIOs Learn From A Pandemic What It Means To Be Ready

The Accidental Successful CIO

Kroger thought that they were ready, but they were wrong Image Credit: Kipp Teague. There is no way that any of us could have seen the Covid-19 pandemic coming our way. This is something that none of us have ever experienced before and in fact the people who taught us how to do our job had never had to deal with anything like this either. Yes, there are things that we could have done that would have allowed us to be better prepared, but there was nothing that we could have done to be completely

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How does your company manage a multicloud environment?

Tech Republic Cloud

Take this quick, multiple choice survey and tell us what multicloud deployment looks like at your business.

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Microsoft releases Digital Defense Report detailing increasingly advanced cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

There's been a surge in cybersecurity activity as companies continue to operate remotely and cybercriminals look to exploit the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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How to add a social component to your Nextcloud instance

Tech Republic Cloud

If Nextcloud has become your on-premise cloud solution, you might be interested to know there's a social component you can add. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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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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UW researchers driving around Seattle using Street View-style camera to study response to pandemic

GeekWire

In images of of the streets of Seattle, University of Washington researchers are using algorithms to help identify things such as cars, people and whether they are physically distancing in each frame of (University of Washington Photo). The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life as we know it in Seattle, and a team from the University of Washington is conducting research using images from around the city to better understand just how much.

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Salesforce announces Work.com for Vaccines to help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Tech Republic Cloud

Salesforce Work.com for Vaccines will includes new capabilities to help governments and healthcare organizations manage their COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

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Watch this jetpack-wearing paramedic fly up a mountain

TechSpot

The suit is the work of Gravity Industries, a UK-based firm founded by Richard Browning. They do have a strong Iron Man vibe, with propulsion provided by two micro jet engines on each arm and one on the back.

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Accenture: Tech companies’ disregard for inclusion drives women away

Venture Beast

50% of women drop out of tech by the age of 35. A joint report from Accenture and Girls Who Code explains how company leaders can support and retain them. Read More.

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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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Our first-hand experience with Amazon’s new palm reader, and what it says about the future of retail

GeekWire

Entering the Amazon Go store by scanning my palm. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). What if grabbing a drink from the store was as easy as getting one from your fridge? Amazon is approaching that level of frictionless commerce with its new Amazon One palm-reading biometric identification system, especially when combined with its existing checkout-free retail infrastructure.

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HP’s Reverb G2 Omnicept VR headset adds heart, eye, and face tracking

Venture Beast

An already impressive consumer/business VR headset is about to gain a collection of biometric sensors that are intended for use by enterprises and trainers. Read More.

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From cybersecurity to social justice, Rubica CEO Frances Dewing is an agent of unexpected change

GeekWire

Frances Dewing, right, with her sister at a carnival-themed birthday bash. (Photo courtesy of Frances Dewing). As CEO of a cybersecurity company that’s raised nearly $15 million in funding, Frances Dewing has a surprising confession to make. “I felt very guilty about liking business,” said the co-founder of Seattle-based Rubica. “I’ve always had a social justice kind of pull.”.

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Microsoft is bringing x64 emulation to Windows 10 on Arm

TechSpot

One of the main blocking issues in Microsoft's efforts to make Windows run great on Arm devices has to do with the lack of native desktop software that runs on Arm-based laptops and tablets. Earlier this year, the Redmond giant released its Chromium-based Edge browser for Arm-based Windows PCs, but.

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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.

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GeekWire Summit: Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer, to join our signature tech event

GeekWire

Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer. Panos Panay rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, most recently overseeing the development and launch of the dual-screen Surface Duo , and engineering the company’s unlikely partnership with Google on the device. But in his larger role as the tech giant’s chief product officer, Panay is now leading the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams just as the pandemic renews th

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Siren’s smart socks remotely monitor foot health for diabetics

Venture Beast

Siren, a startup developing socks that monitor key aspects of wearers' foot health, has raised $9 million more in venture capital. Read More.

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Disney+ Has Cast Its Ms. Marvel

Gizmodo

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has its Kamala Khan. Deadline reports the studio has cast actress Iman Vellani in the title role of the upcoming Disney+ series, Ms. Marvel. Read more.

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GitHub launches code scanning to unearth vulnerabilities early

Venture Beast

GitHub is launching a new code-scanning feature that helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their code before it's deployed to the public. Read More.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.