Thu.Oct 24, 2019

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UiPath Layoffs Have Little To Do With The RPA Market

Forrester IT

UiPath has reduced its workforce by several hundred employees.[i] The business has grown at an incredible pace, as have several other providers such as Automation Anywhere. Overall, there is nothing we see that indicates a flattening or slowing of robotic process automation (RPA’s) growth. The layoffs have more to do with the challenges of scaling […].

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Your Cloud and Data Management Strategies are About to Collide

Information Week

Companies are moving further into the cloud and undergoing data modernization. What some don't realize yet is that one strategy is better than two.

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Halloween Special Horror Stories eBook for IT Pros

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. With Halloween (31st Oct 2019 ) only a few days away, this year Altaro gathered SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories into one eBook, especially for you. Introduction We all know that a SysAdmin’s job is no easy task and apart from constantly having systems to update, bugs to fix and users to please, SysAdmins […].

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Top 5 ways organizations can secure their IoT devices

Tech Republic Security

Connected devices are increasingly being targeted by hackers and cybercriminals. Deloitte shares five tips on how companies can better protect their IoT devices.

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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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Beware the Pitfalls of Applying AI to Big Data

Information Week

Decision makers should consider whether conclusions are influenced by shortcomings in the observable data and whether the algorithms properly address biases.

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The importance of motivating your Call Center agents

Spearline Testing

A call center manager's role in a company is a difficult one. From analyzing the center's metrics, providing excellent support for their customers, and setting clear long-term goals and objectives for the company, they have a lot on their plate. But, one of the most important roles that a manager has is making sure the call center agents are trained, well looked after and motivated for their roles.

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Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2019: How Zoom promotes corporate culture change

Tech Republic Cloud

An ever-increasing mobile workforce means that video conferencing is more important than ever. Here's how it benefits Zoom's clients and its own employees.

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MWC19 Los Angeles: Syniverse's mission in the 5G revolution

Tech Republic Security

As 5G permeates the industry, Syniverse shows how major companies can prepare for the tech.

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How WeBank Became The World Largest Digital Bank

Forrester IT

Can you imagine a digital-only bank has served a hundred million customers within 4 years since its establishment? And the 100 million customers are all un/underserved by traditional banks. Tencent-backed WeBank has achieved this goal and became the largest digital bank in the world. The secret sauces of WeBank are the tech-driven innovations powered by […].

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MWC19 Los Angeles: The value of blockchain in the telecommunications sector

Tech Republic Security

Blockchain isn't reserved for bitcoin. Here's how the telecommunications sector can benefit.

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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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Adding satellite connectivity to Microsoft's Azure ExpressRoute

Tech Republic Cloud

Azure's private network now reaches to the very ends of the earth.

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Search vs. Discovery: How Are They Different?

Dataconomy

Google, Microsoft, et al continue to perfect their search engines – but too often search is not enough. The watchword today is “discovery” – where you don’t just search for information, but information finds you. Why is discovery better than search? One reason is because of the overload of data. The post Search vs. Discovery: How Are They Different?

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Improve User Experience via Empathic Design

Future of CIO

The digital era upon us is people-centric. Being customer-centric becomes the mantra for forward-thinking digital organization to out beat competitors. It’s very important to consider user experience (UX) in the designing process. Empathic design is a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the user's feelings toward a product or service, incorporate user experience at both strategic and design level to present great business value, delight customers and build the company brand cohe

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Reflections on Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific (ITAP) 2019, Singapore

Forrester IT

I am excited about the state of Industrial Transformation and Industry 4.0! We have come quite a way over the past few years – not just in technology but crucially in how we approach and leverage it in an industrial context. When I first talked to manufacturers of heavy machinery about preventive maintenance around 6 […].

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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 Best “Kindness” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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, provides advice 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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Maintaining Security Compliance in the Hybrid Cloud

Nutanix

Enterprises have identified the hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. Now, how do they keep their data safe across cloud borders? (Pssst: they use Xi Beam.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/25/2019

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Maste r ” book series includes 28 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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Maintaining Security Compliance in the Hybrid Cloud

Nutanix

Enterprises have identified the hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. Now, how do they keep their data safe across cloud borders? (Pssst: they use Xi Beam.

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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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How Can Associations Distribute e-Reports Effectively?

Kitaboo

Non-profit organizations and associations have to create quarterly or annual reports that tells the members about all the work that they have undertaken, the expenses incurred the funds as well received. These reports, which earlier used to be on a paper format, are now being digitized in the form of e-reports. A lot of organizations and societies have had to switch to digital reports due to the overall rise of digitization around them.

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A New Era for IT

Nutanix

Business users and their customers now demand to be delighted and hence the role of IT is changing dramatically.

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