Tue.Sep 19, 2017

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Seven Ways ERP Can Improve Risk Mitigation

IT Toolbox

Business is no friend of risk. While fortunes are won and new markets are conquered through calculated risk, firms nonetheless try to avoid it whenever possible. Risk represents lost revenue, disrupted partnerships, idle equipment, brand damage and a host of other effects that aren’t typically advantageous to corporations.

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Public sector cloud use still too focused on ‘low-hanging fruit’ IT projects, finds research

Computer Weekly

Public sector cloud adoption continues to rise, but wide-scale digital transformation success remains elusive, claims Cloud Industry Forum research

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Add This Projector to Your Network Toolkit

IT Toolbox

In a realm where the coveted tools of the job include network analyzers and high-price software suites on beefy laptops, it might sound odd to have someone suggest that a projector might be worth having on hand for your daily work.

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Outlook outage: Microsoft blames European Hotmail downtime on load-balancing fault

Computer Weekly

Microsoft claims connectivity issues that blighted Outlook and Hotmail users for much of Monday 18 September have now been largely resolved

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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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How Device as a Service Makes It Easier to Have the Latest IP Phones

IT Toolbox

Here’s an acronym that’s probably new to you – DaaS – Device as a Service. When it comes to phone systems, that’s not something you’d expect to hear, and this is yet another sign of how times are changing. As with my last series, this is based on a recent announcement by a well-known vendor, but as always, the vendor isn’t my focus.

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UK education system exacerbates cyber skills gap

Computer Weekly

Security industry needs to get involved to raise awareness of cyber security career opportunities, say commentators

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Security Think Tank: Cyber resilience cheaper than attack recovery

Computer Weekly

What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?

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All-in-one ERP solution powers adhesives manufacturer's growth

IT Toolbox

A growing company needs to know its existing resources before it continues to build out new initiatives. So managers at Watson Standard Adhesives Company recognized that an effective enterprise resource planning system would be crucial to expanding their privately-held, 115-year-old business.

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Middle East firms must focus on IT training and employing more women to stay competitive

Computer Weekly

Organisations in the Middle East face IT recruitment challenges unless they offer more training and employ more women

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CRM delivering a competitive edge for insurance agencies

IT Toolbox

For small, independent insurance agencies, staying competitive means investing in technology, including CRM systems.

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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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AWS to adopt per-second billing for select cloud services from October 2017

Computer Weekly

Cloud giant claims the world of tech is a very different place than it was in 2006 when it debuted its per-hour billing model

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Personalized Technology: Everything You Need to Know About Custom Automations

IT Toolbox

An intelligent security product makes life easier, allows you to control security remotely and gives you a detailed view of your security equipment.

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Poor passwords still putting UK firms at risk

Computer Weekly

Poor password practices are still putting UK citizens and the companies they work for at risk, a survey reveals

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Customization key for next generation VoIP

IT Toolbox

As the range of services available to users of VoIP communications widens, new companies are emerging that are able to deliver a high degree of customization to providers. Their emphasis here is on making it easier for developers and business owners to create new services based on VoIP, in large part by using real time communications.

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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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John Chambers to step down as Cisco executive chairman

Computer Weekly

Former CEO John Chambers will leave the networking sector kingpin after 27 years, supplier reveals

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Who do you trust?

IT Toolbox

The US Government has finally taken the plunge and banned the use of all Kaspersky products by government agencies

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Microsoft launches data security technology for Windows Server, Azure

Network World

Data is at its greatest risk of being compromised when it is being used, when moving from a secure database around the servers or apps in memory. So, Microsoft is launching a new technology for Windows Server and Azure that protects the data while it’s being processed. Microsoft claims the service, called Azure confidential computing, makes it the first public cloud provider to offer encryption of data while in use.

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How to Fix Errors on Your Background Report

IT Toolbox

This post looks at how to fix errors on a background report

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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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Liveblog: Journey to the Cloud with Packer and Terraform

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the HashiConf 2017 breakout session titled “Journey to the Cloud with Packer and Terraform,” presented by Nadeem Ahmad, a senior software developer at Box. Ahmad starts with a quick review of Box, but (thankfully) transitions quickly to his particular team at Box (the Productivity Engineering team). His team’s customers are the software developers at Box, and it’s his team’s job to help make them more productive and efficient.

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Big Data Comes of Age: What's Next? - Part 5

IT Toolbox

Part 5: Handling Unstructured Data

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Liveblog: Terraform Abstractions for Safety and Power

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the HashiConf 2017 session titled “Terraform Abstractions for Safety and Power.” The speaker is Calvin French-Owen, Founder and co-CTO at Segment. French-Owen starts by describing Segment, and providing a quick overview of Segment’s use of Terraform. Segment is all on AWS, and is leveraging ECS (Elastic Container Service) to schedule containers.

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The New Book “Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit” Chapter 2 Introduction: Organizational Structure Fit

Future of CIO

The digital dimension of organizational structure is enjoying a powerful tailwind. Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. From an organizational structure perspective, what is it comprised of, and what is the future of the organizational structure?

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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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New Website Features

Scott Lowe

One of the reasons I migrated this site to Hugo a little over a month ago was that Hugo offered the ability to do things with the site that I couldn’t (easily) do with Jekyll (via GitHub Pages). Over the last few days, I’ve taken advantage of Hugo’s flexibility to add a couple new features to the site. New functionality that I’ve added includes: Category- and tag-specific RSS feeds: Hugo can easily generate category- and tag-specific RSS feeds, enabling readers to subscri

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Running a Real Time Digital Organization

Future of CIO

To survive the fierce competition and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve more real-time planning, adjustment, and speed. Digital means the fast pace of changes, overwhelming growth of information, and fierce competitions. In the digital dynamic where innovation threatens to tear down legacy systems and practices just as it generates new opportunities, it's natural to fear the unknown, question the unproven, be skeptical of the latest digital trends, and be hesitant to take acti

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The 10-Year Platform: Shutting Down KRE

Phil Windley

Summary: The original pico engine, KRE, is no more. But the ideas and capabilities of the platform live on in the new pico engine. A few years ago, I announced on this blog that Kynetx was done. But the platform we'd created, the Kynetx Rules Engine, or KRE, lived on. Today I am annoucing that KRE is dead too. We shut it down last week. Despite the demise of Kynetx, the platform continued to be open and available.

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HashiConf 2017 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog from the day 1 keynote (general session) at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. I’m attending HashiConf this year as an “ordinary attendee” (not working or speaking), and so I’m looking forward to being able to actually sit in on sessions for a change. At 9:43am, the keynote kicks off with someone (I don’t know who, he doesn’t identify himself) who provides some logistics about the event, the Wi-Fi, asking attendees to tweet, etc.

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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.