Thu.Jan 24, 2019

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China’s Tech Market Will Grow by 4% in 2019 and 7% in 2020

Forrester IT

Growth in China’s technology market will slow in 2019 due to geopolitical tensions and economic pressures but will rebound in 2020. Our just-published China Tech Market Outlook, 2019 To 2020 report forecasts that business and government purchases of technology goods and services will grow by 4% in 2019 and 7% in 2020 in US dollar […].

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How Using Big Data Can Be Beneficial For Your Business

Social, Agile and Transformation

By Ashley Lipman In a recent study, marketing professionals claimed that understanding the interactions their customers had across all of their touchpoints was their biggest challenge. For years, business owners have relied on customer data to help them with things like setting a course for things like marketing and even product development. While most business owners understand how.

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Retailers: Use In-Store Sensor Tech To Understand And Enhance Customer Experiences

Forrester IT

Sensor-based technologies have been around for a while now — remember all the beacon hype? — and are now rapidly gaining traction. In-store sensor technology, and more importantly their contribution to understanding our in-store customers and businesses, are at a point where it is now truly digitally transforming physical stores and the experiences delivered to […].

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Training AI to Save Lives

Information Week

If some forms of artificial intelligence may put lives at risk, what are some of the options for safer deployment of the technology.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Video: How AI is Transforming Advertising and What You Should Do About it.

Forrester IT

Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) has infiltrated all parts of the advertising process? My guess is, probably not. But chances are, in an era of programmatic advertising where machines are making millions of decisions on billions of ad impressions every day, your advertising is being touched by AI. Awesome, right? But also risky: to your […].

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The First Steps After Signing a New SEO Client

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - The First Steps After Signing a New SEO Client - Information Technology Blog. When you’ve just signed a new client, whether it be your first client ever or you’re working for a long list of companies, you should have an actionable list to go through as an “inspection” checklist. You’ll tailor your list to your local market after you’ve gone through it a few times, but this is a good starting list.

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FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage Connection Property Replacement

Flexagon

This blog is the second 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 (OIC).

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A (Relative) Newbie’s Impressions of NRF 2019

Forrester IT

2019 marks my third year attending the NRF Big Show. I’ve been to enough shows to have an informed opinion, but few enough that it still feels new. Goldilocks approved! A few quick impressions: China and Brazil are making headlines. NRF says 99 countries were represented in its 37,000 attendees this year. While it’s been […].

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AI and the Next Recession

Information Week

The US may be at peak employment now, but there's an uncertain future for jobs.

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Gillette’s Latest “We Believe” Response Earns a C- Grade

Forrester IT

After I lambasted Gillette for their initial response to the blowback to the “We Believe” campaign, it is only fair that I acknowledge they have continued to engage with the controversy. Duncan Jones, P&G VP of Global Communications and Advocacy, spoke to Forbes journalist Michelle King. The interview was published on January 20. While Mr.

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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 predictive analytics can shift us from ‘sick-care’ to true preventative healthcare

Trends in the Living Networks

If we look at extraordinary world of the future of healthcare, one of the most important developments is predictive analytics based on the profusion of data we are now able to capture and feed into machine learning algorithms. An article in BBC titled The invisible warning signs that predict your future health provides some great insights into this space.

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CIO Leadership Live with Shannon Gath, VP, Head of Technology at AMAG Pharmaceuticals | Ep 20

ComputerWorld IT Management

Shannon Gath, Head of Technology at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, joins host Maryfran Johnson to talk about gender diversity in IT, her approach to digital transformation, and the role of technology in telemedicine.

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Exploring the Future Ep6: Food will be at the center of our future

Trends in the Living Networks

When I was in Lisbon, Portugal recently to do the keynote at the Food of the Future conference, I recorded a vlog reflecting about how food is central to our future as humans, and what that means today… TRANSCRIPT. I am here in Lisbon, Portugal where yesterday I gave the opening keynote at the Food of the Future Conference and Food and Nutrition Awards.

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Take a Holistic, Integral, and Iterative Approach to Go Digital

Future of CIO

We are living in a complex world where inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues facing the business today. The traditional management which is based on a tacit assumption that organizations can be compared to machines as a mechanical system with efficiency driven, inside out process perhaps work in the considerably static business environment, but may not fit for the dynamic digital

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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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What I Learned From Retailers at NRF 2019

Nutanix

We recently concluded a whirlwind three days at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York, where we had great conversations with retailers and suppliers of all types.

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Creativity and Humility

Future of CIO

All humans have a creative/artistic side while also have a curious/scientific side, bestowed with three basic instincts which are humility (egoless awareness and acceptance), curiosity (restlessness with the status quo), and creativity (urge to change or improve the status quo). Amazingly, these three basic instincts are intertwined. Humility energizes curiosity and curiosity ignites creativity.

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Unveiling Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection from Xi Beam

Nutanix

Cloud cost anomaly detection is a vital tool in keeping your cloud costs under control. To put it in perspective, balancing your own budget isn’t always easy – even if you’re the most frugal person you know.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 1/25/2019

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 27 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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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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Snapshot: Data Scientist Salaries and Jobs in Europe

Dataconomy

Here is what a recent report says about job opportunities for Data Scientists across Europe including salaries and benefits, job motivations, programming languages used, tech skills and what people want most from their work. Glassdoor names “Data Scientist” as the best job in the United States for 2019 and LinkedIn. The post Snapshot: Data Scientist Salaries and Jobs in Europe appeared first on Dataconomy.

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