Tue.Jan 22, 2019

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Retailers: Extend Omnichannel Capabilities To The Customer, Not Just Operations

Forrester IT

Omnichannel investments, including in-store pickup and endless aisle, continue to be top strategic investment for digital business professionals at retail organizations. Forrester predicts that digital touchpoints will influence 55% of total European retail sales by 2022, so a retailer’s digital presence continues to play a significant role in influencing consumer purchase decisions, both online and […].

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Artificial Intelligence: Separating the Hype from Reality

CTOvision

Read why Adam Lashinsky says that it is necessary to separate hype from reality in artificial intelligence on Fortune : Like bees to honey, tech trends generate hype. Merely appending the word “dotcom” to a company’s name drove up stock prices in the Internet’s salad days. Cloud computing, big data, and cryptocurrencies each have taken […].

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Cunning plans are in short supply in 2019 Brexit Britain

Forrester IT

I expected (naively some may think) by now that with a withdrawal deal secured by the UK and the EU that I would be able to update my earlier report published last summer. Sadly, it was not to be as it appears that like Blackadder’s famous character Baldrick, that the UK government thinks it has […].

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Gartner: Enterprise use of AI grew 270% over the past 4 years

CTOvision

Companies are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) like it’s going out of style, according to a new report by Gartner. The Stamford firm’s 2019 CIO Survey of more than 3,000 executives in 89 countries found that AI implementation grew a whopping 270 percent in the past four years, and 37 percent in the past year alone. That’s […].

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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 HPE Walked Away From Quantum Computing…And Where It Went Instead

Forrester IT

I’ve dedicated a fair number of research cycles to understanding quantum computers over the last 18 months because I believe they eventually will be revolutionary. That said I think they have a long way to go as I explain in my recent blog post about IBM’s quantum computing announcement at CES 2019. In this podcast, […].

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Why AI Hasn’t Lived Up To The Hype In The Workplace

CTOvision

Read why Dan Sonneborn says that artificial intelligence hasn’t lived up to the hype in the workplace on Forbes : You don’t have to look very far to see a world of optimism in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are investing millions in developing and marketing solutions […].

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How Google Cloud’s health care advisor thinks data and machine learning can transform health care, without privacy risks

CTOvision

Earlier this year, Toby Cosgrove became an executive advisor to the Google Cloud health care team after a long and distinguished tenure at the Cleveland Clinic. He’s taking some of the lessons learned at the latter to help his new employer affect big changes to health care. He explained to CNBC that there was a tremendous […].

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What You Need to Know About Augmented Analytics

Information Week

As enterprises travel on a digital transformation path, they need to stay current with analytics, but it's not a linear journey.

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What to Look for in Application Release Automation Software for Oracle EBS

Flexagon

Automation is a major theme in IT, especially when it comes to DevOps culture and CI/CD methodologies. Automation can greatly reduce the stress and manual tasks involved in enhancing software or developing new functionality. With application release automation tools, processes that previously required long hours, and resulted in ongoing frustrations with manual steps and scripts, Read more.

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Embrace Ambiguity, Agreeableness to Build an Agile Team

Information Week

Enterprises that want to form agile teams to explore new opportunities can build them from within. The key is to nurture the right personality traits.

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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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FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage Integrations with Connections

Flexagon

This is the first blog in the FlexDeploy Loves OIC blog series: FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage integrations with connections FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connection property replacement FlexDeploy Loves OIC: CI/CD with integrations FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connections, lookups and libraries FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Automated testing of integrations Oracle Integration Cloud.

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SIP pitfalls and how to avoid them - Call centre tech migrations part 2

Spearline Testing

The clock is counting down on the use of legacy global telephony infrastructure and according to research , 60% of businesses have switched to VoIP, or are planning to do so. Many people, like myself, have been using VoIP for years without realizing - take Skype & Webex as an example. Even teenagers (my own included) use VoIP to play Fortnite which I learned recently is powered by Vivox.

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Shaping Digital Business by Looking Back, Current, and Future

Future of CIO

As changes are expedited for both individual and business, neither business nor life is linear these days. The life cycle of business today grows shorter and shorter because of continuous digital disruptions and fierce competitions. It takes truly strategic thinking and foresight to run a high-performance digital business by learning from the past, achieving operational excellence today, making long term planning and building differentiated competency for the future.

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Stop being a bully, VMware!

Nutanix

As I write this blog on the eve of MLK Jr. Day, I am reminded of respect, fairness, and dignity, and how an absence of fundamental human values engenders movements.

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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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Creativity Flourishes in Solitude

Future of CIO

Creativity is everything that one has seen, felt, touched, dreamed. All our experiences are completely reconfigured in a way that mixes up all of those things. So, what you're creating is a new piece of thought that feels familiar but comes at us in a different unusual way. Generally speaking, whether you focus for a brief period to accomplish one thing or set aside specific times to do specific things, it's the key to success for innovators.

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Nutanix welcomes founders of Chromotif!

Nutanix

I’m excited to share the news that the founders of Chromotif — Param Desai (CEO), Shashi Uli (CTO), and Jonathan Arms (VP BD), are joining Nutanix today.

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The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: The “Hard & Soft” IT Management Disciplines Jan 2019

Future of CIO

Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here are a set of blogs to brainstorm on the CIO’s “Hard & Soft” IT management disciplines. The “Hard & Soft” IT Management Disciplines The Art and Science of IT Management With overwhelming growth of information, dynamic business conditions, and f

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Thinnest Laptops and Ultrabooks for 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Thinnest Laptops and Ultrabooks for 2019 - Information Technology Blog. If anything we have learned from 2019 is that laptops are becoming lighter, thinner and faster than ever. Proof of these is the best Ultrabooks available on the market. We have evaluated more than 50 models of 8 Ultrabook brands and we show you the ones that are really worth buying.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.