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Amplify Intelligence With AI And Analytics — Forrester’s Virtual Data & Insights Forum, October 13–15

Forrester IT

They say data is the new oil. They say data is the new currency. They say data is the key competitive differentiator. All true. But reality is sobering: Only 7% of firms report advanced, insights-driven practices. Respondents to the same survey claimed that less than half (49%) of all business decisions in their enterprise are […].

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How to improve cybersecurity for the workforce of the future

CTOvision

Read Vishal Salvi’s advice for organizations continuing to allow employees to work remotely that will help them figure out how best to improve their cybersecurity on Tech Target: Cybercriminals love […].

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Six Opportunities For Demand And Account-Based Marketing Leaders In 2021

Forrester IT

This year saw a significant increase in digital activity by B2B buyers. Account-based marketing and demand marketing leaders starting to plan for 2021 have a unique opportunity as a result. Seize the moment by focusing on these six areas.

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There’s No Such Thing As The Machine Learning Platform

CTOvision

Vendors are racing to create the dominant machine learning platform. But the concept of the machine learning platform doesn’t really exist. Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes discussing the four […].

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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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Brands In Singapore Are Getting Better At Customer Experience

Forrester IT

Since 2018 Forrester tracks how customers rate their experience with some of the biggest brands in banking and insurance. This year’s Singapore Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) study reveals several important findings which can be summarized as follows: Customer Experience Quality In Financial Services In Singapore Has Improved The overall quality of CX in Singapore […].

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What CIOs can Learn from Low-Code Platform CTOs

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week, I published an article at InfoWorld on 7 low-code platforms developers should know. I find low-code a controversial discussion with some developers who love coding, prefer developing applications from scratch, and view low-code platforms as either a compromise, threat, or yet-another-tool to learn. . Low-code platforms are not designed for every business need and.

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Cybersecurity lessons learned from data breaches and brand trust matters

CTOvision

Read why Bindu Sundaresan says that data breaches can be debilitating for your brand value on Helpnet Security: Your brand is a valuable asset, but it’s also a great attack […].

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With Data Sharing, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

Forrester IT

Mine! Mine! Mine! Remember the seagulls in the movie “Finding Nemo?” Each one was claiming ownership. Isn’t that so last decade? Regarding data, it fortunately is. There remain some holdouts, of course. But we’re seeing a growing number of firms share their data with partners and customers. And we expect to see the trend accelerate. […].

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Is Your Organization Ready to Defend Insider Threats?

CTOvision

Read Henry Hon take a look at your organization’s preparedness against insider threats on Infosec Magazine: Insider threat is not a new topic, as many technical and non-technical people talk […].

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Predicting Six More Weeks Of Winter For B2B CMOs

Forrester IT

B2B marketing leaders are experiencing their own version of Groundhog Day when planning their budgets. They need better planning information and better insights to avoid the tragic cycle of repeating past budget planning mistakes.

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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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How Help Desk Technicians Offer Empathetic Support During the Pandemic

Association of Information Technology Professional

Hear from a help desk supervisor about the skills she looks for in help desk technicians and how tech skills and people skills work in tandem on her team.

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Pandemic CX: How Indian Brands Performed In 2020

Forrester IT

If you follow cricket and the ongoing Indian Premier League you know one thing for certain: in any given game, a team’s past performance is no indicator of future results. No team and no player can rest on their laurels. You’d say this is true of any sport, but this is truer of the compressed […].

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Implications of Internet of Things for Intellectual Property

CTOvision

Read Christopher Heer and Sarah Halkyard explain how intellectual property works for Internet of Things connected projects on IoT Business News: The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more common […].

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Beware False Precision In Your Analytics

Forrester IT

When using data to understand our world, we’re often comforted by exactness in measurement. But end users can rarely see the formulas behind our dashboards, so we need to ensure they don’t make decisions with false confidence.

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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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Attacker Dwell Time: Ransomware’s Most Important Metric

CTOvision

Read why Ricardo Villadiego says that attacker dwell time or the length of time an interloper remains undetected inside the network in case of a ransomware attack is the most […].

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Top CRM software services for small businesses

Tech Republic Cloud

Attracting new customers while satisfying and retaining current customers requires a personal connection. CRM services tap into the power of the cloud to give SMBs a competitive edge.

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The next frontier for risk tech should be in the cloud

CTOvision

Legacy tech and in-house spreadsheet-based governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions should be a thing of the past — the future of risk tech is risk cloud. Current systems don’t […].

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New SCCM 2006 Hotfix KB4584759 to Fix Desktop Analytics Error

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft released the new SCCM 2006 Hotfix KB4584759 to Fix Desktop Analytics Error. This hotfix applicable to all the environments that are using Desktop Analytics, and was installed by using early update ring or globally available builds of version 2006. More Details about SCCM Primary Server Upgrade to 2006 | ConfigMgr | Guide | Step by […].

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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 To Determine Whether You Need A Blockchain

CTOvision

Read Hoang-Giang Tran help you find out whether your organization needs blockchain technology on Forbes: In a recent forecast, Gartner pointed out that blockchain would create $3.1 trillion in business […].

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Top 5 things to know about Confidential Computing

Tech Republic Security

The Confidential Computing Consortium, formed under The Linux Foundation, could revolutionize the way companies share data. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about Confidential Computing.

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IoT Security and Physical Safety

CTOvision

Read take a look at the Internet of Things security and physical security and how they are interconnected on IoT For All: Today, we rely on IoT devices more than […].

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Is Cloud Migration a Path to Carbon Footprint Reduction?

Information Week

Report from Accenture examines ways transformation might cut down energy consumption and possibly give CIOs and CTOs more to contribute to the enterprise.

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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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Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand

The Verge

Microsoft’s new Bing logo. | Microsoft. Microsoft is rebranding its Bing search engine to Microsoft Bing today as part of a rebranding effort. While the vast majority of people are likely to still just call it Bing, Microsoft unveiled its shift toward Microsoft Bing in a blog post today. Microsoft doesn’t go into detail about why it added the company’s name to the Bing brand, other than it reflecting “the continued integration of our search experiences across the Microsoft family.”.

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Future of Analytics: How to Decide Which Avenue to Take

Information Week

Maximize the value of data analytics in your business strategy by first identifying current problems and potential solutions. Here's some advice to get you on track.

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Real estate brokerage Compass to acquire Seattle-based home closing startup Modus

GeekWire

Modus CEO Alexander Day; co-founder Jai Sim; and Abbas Guvenilir. (Modus Photo). New York-based real estate brokerage and tech company Compass will acquire Modus , a Seattle startup that automates the title and escrow phase of closing on a home. Compass plans to integrate Modus’ software into its tech-fueled platform used by more than 18,000 real estate agents across 165-plus U.S. cities.

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Tasmanian Devils Are Back in Australia for the First Time in 3,000 Years

Gizmodo

On Monday, wildlife managers announced that they had brought Tasmanian devils back into the (relative) wilds of the Australian mainland, the first time these creatures will be living there in 3,000 years. It’s an attempt at a two-for-one bank shot to save the ferocious marsupials as well as creatures under assault from… 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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Fred Hutch opens dedicated research center in Seattle to test treatments for COVID-19 patients

GeekWire

The COVID-19 Clinical Research Center, foreground, in the Minor Building on Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Seattle campus. (Fred Hutch Photo). Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is opening a new facility dedicated to testing treatments for people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Center , or CCRC is one of the first stand-alone facilities in the country designed for such work, according to Fred Hutch announcement on Monday.

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California Has Its First 'Gigafire' in Modern History

Gizmodo

In August, researchers warned we would have to add “gigafire” to the lexicon to describe wildfires in California. Now, it’s become a part of the history books. Read more.

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Spotify will now let you search using lyrics so you can find that one song stuck in your head

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. For those times when you’re constantly singing a line of a song but just can’t remember what song those lyrics came from, Spotify can now help you with that. You can now search for songs by their lyrics on iOS and Android ( via 9to5Mac ). The feature looks to be pretty straightforward — type in some lyrics into Spotify’s search bar and the app will surface songs that match.

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40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna

Gizmodo

Huge swaths of the Amazon have gotten so dry that they may be on the brink of transitioning into an entirely different kind of ecosystem, new research published in Nature Communications warns. Read more.

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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.