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Time To Rethink Channel Incentives And Program Management (CIPM)?

Forrester IT

Channel incentives are used to improve indirect sales performance, orchestrate partners’ behavior, and engender channel loyalty. For decades channel professionals have used channel incentives to drive behavior; whether establishing new behaviors, suppressing old ones, or repositioning partners for a new opportunity. Incentives are also effective in masking deficiencies in business value propositions.

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Blockchain: Top 4 challenges CIOs face

CTOvision

Blockchain had been heralded as the next gen technology but its hype is fading. Alison DeNisco Rayome takes a look at the reasons why blockchain implementation presents a challege to the CIOs on Tech Republic : By 2023, blockchain technologies are poised to support the global movement of $2 trillion worth of goods and services […].

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Telcos must prioritize Innovations that extend beyond networking

Forrester IT

Since the birth of cloud computing in early 2000, telecommunications companies have seen business growth thanks to these IT transformational partners. But as we head into the next 20 years of this digital transformation decade no one in the networking space should keep their focus purely on their networking business. With the emerging technologies of […].

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Apple Arcade vs Google Stadia: Two game subscription services with nothing in common

CTOvision

Earlier this week, Apple announced a new game subscription service just a week after Google’s big Stadia cloud gaming announcement. While both services might feature a similar subscription model – that’s about all they have in common. In terms of ‘what they offer’ and ‘how they offer it’, they couldn’t be further apart. Google’s Stadia is […].

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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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Why Tech-Driven Innovation Is The New Imperative — Join Us At The DT&I Forum To Learn More

Forrester IT

In less than seven weeks, we will descend on Chicago for Forrester’s Digital Transformation & Innovation 2019 Forum. Your competitors are delivering new products and services that continually raise the bar, so your imperative to transform is stronger than ever. But getting transformation right is essentially just table stakes; innovation really is the new imperative. […].

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Samsung Confirms Galaxy S10 5G Specifications: Exynos Modem 5100

CTOvision

As highly suspected a little over a week ago in our reporting of the pricing of the new Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, the new 5G model in Korea will indeed come powered by Samsung’s own 5G modem chipset. This morning Samsung confirmed the hardware specifications of the model, along with announcing that the S10 5G […].

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6 Steps to a More Secure IoT

CTOvision

Read Vishal Salvi list six steps for businesses to implement the most secure Internet of Things platform on CIO : Concerns about securing the Internet of Things have not stopped firms from implementing IoT. Fueled by the potential of IoT to help reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide more visibility into all facets of operations, […].

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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em– Buy ‘Em

Forrester IT

The lines between agencies, consultancies, and tech services firms are continuing to blur. This convergence is driven in part by an acquisition-heavy strategy. Like in 2017, the last year of acquisitions saw cloud and agency capabilities as most in-demand. But what does this mean for buyers? Your go-to boutique agency may (soon) be part of a […].

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Beyond microservices; Software architecture driven by machine learning

Social, Agile and Transformation

It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and how AI and machine learning will change our programming and software development paradigms. Today's coding models are based on data storage, business logic, services, UX, and presentation. A full stack developer elects to build a three-tiered web architecture using an MVC framework. An IoT application calls for an event-driven.

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Forrester Future Fit: Next Steps

Forrester IT

Thank you for taking the quick Forrester Future Fit assessment. As you saw, the assessment returns a score of high, medium, or low future fitness. Behind the scenes what we did was statistically rigorous but fairly straightforward: Based on your answers to a handful of key questions, we score you on a scale from 1 […].

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Microsoft expands its Azure IP Advantage program to include IoT devices and donates 500 patents to the LOT Network

CTOvision

Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits. What’s maybe most interesting here, though, is […].

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Step by Step SCCM 1902 Upgrade Guide Production Version

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This post is to help to perform the SCCM 1902 upgrade. This post is a comprehensive step by step guide to upgrade SCCM infra. Microsoft released SCCM 1902 in the opt-in/slow ring. You will get more details about step by step SCCM 1902 upgrade process in this blog post.

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Running an SCCM Package via PowerShell and Command Line

Mick's IT Blog

While working on a new compliance policy, I ran into a lot of hurdles that needed to be resolved. One of those hurdles was executing an SCCM package via PowerShell. Using the WMIExplorer, I was able to locate a method that allows you to execute an SCCM package as shown below. Once I located the namespace, class, and method, I needed to find out the name of the package in SCCM that I wanted to execute.

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Meta Networks builds user security into its Network-as-a-Service

Network World

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is growing in popularity and availability for those organizations that don’t want to host their own LAN or WAN, or that want to complement or replace their traditional network with something far easier to manage. With NaaS, a service provider creates a multi-tenant wide area network comprised of geographically dispersed points of presence (PoPs) connected via high-speed Tier 1 carrier links that create the network backbone.

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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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Machine Learning, Natural Language Meet to Understand Intent

Information Week

Machine learning and natural language capabilities will bring the power of analytics to more people through semantics.

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Employee Spotlight – Tia Williams, AWS Training Architect

Linux Academy

Our Training Architects are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of online learning and helping professionals become cloud and Linux experts! Hear from one of our AWS Training Architects, Tia Williams, below and see why she loves working at Linux Academy. Make sure to check out her new AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Course that is launching in April!

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10 Fixes for When Change Brings Your Systems to Their Knees

Information Week

When your systems slow to a crawl the causes may go beyond your technology.

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Weekly Update 4-01-19

Linux Academy

We’ve teased you for the past couple of months about new courses releasing this April, and while it is the first of the month, these courses are no joke. Before we jump into all the new content, a quick reminder of some releases from last month. First, Windows Server for the Linux Academy Playground is waiting for you to jump in and spin up your own Windows Server to learn with.

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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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Q&A: Nancy Harris of Sage Talks Financial Data and the Cloud

Information Week

Machine learning and AI may create more ways for companies with legacy financial data to leverage the cloud.

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SQL CTE (WITH Clause): The Ultimate Guide

Database Star

A Common Table Expression (or CTE) is a feature in several SQL versions to improve the maintainability and readability of an SQL query. It goes by a few names: Common Table Expression Subquery Factoring SQL WITH Clause In this article, you’ll learn all about the Common Table Expression, what it’s good for, and how to […].

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Three Aspects of Change Management

Future of CIO

Closer to reality is that 'change' is continuously happening in the environment of a company. It is nevertheless true that the change itself has become unpredictable and evolutionary. Change cannot be just another thing that needs to be accomplished, it’s the common practice within the organization. It is a multidimensional management discipline and an ongoing business competency.

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9 Ways In Which AI Is Transforming Healthcare

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming many areas of the healthcare industry. A lot of this has been made possible in recent years because of the sheer quantity of data produced by healthcare providers and the opportunity to identify patterns and augment the capabilities of existing physicians, clinicians and staff. From robot-assisted surgeries to […].

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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 “Vision” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 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 IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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9 creative recruitment strategies to hire developer on a budget

Hacker Earth

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: Running IT as Innovation Threshold Apr 2019

Future of CIO

Within abundant information and emergent digital technologies, IT is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The art of possible to reinvent IT in the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and doing more with innovation.

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Getting Started with Testing in Python

Linux Academy

Python is an amazing programing language that can be used for almost anything. Once you’ve learned the basics of writing Python code, a great next step to improve the code that you’re writing is to introduce automated tests. Let’s take a look at how you can get started with testing in Python, what automated tests are, the various kinds of test, testing tools that we can use in Python, and finally writing a few example tests.

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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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4 Common Mobile App Budgeting Blunders and How to Avoid Them

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 4 Common Mobile App Budgeting Blunders and How to Avoid Them - Information Technology Blog. Companies are now focusing on expanding the horizons for their customers. Previously, websites used to be the talk of the town, but with the arrival of smartphones, the world has experienced an unprecedented shift towards the apps.

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April Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Welcome to April! I bet you didn’t know April is “ National Car Care Awareness Month.” Yep, it sure is. Why do I bring up car care when this is an information security blog? I do this because it’s all relative. Why do you perform maintenance on your car? We do this so our cars will perform optimally, continue to be reliable, and last as long as we need them to.