Tue.Feb 19, 2019

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The Use of Behavioral Science Has Moved Beyond Marketing

Forrester IT

Marketers have been using behavioral economics to understand and exploit the irrationality of consumers long before the Golden Age of Advertising. By employing simple marketing tactics such as “buy now, pay later,” inflated value pricing, or decoy alternatives, marketers have been able to effectively steer or in some cases, manipulate customers to buy products or […].

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How Internet of Things will power business processes in 2019

CTOvision

Read why Virendra Chaudhari says centralized IoT systems will become a vital force to drive businesses on Financial Express : As advancing technologies integrate deeper into the everyday functions of businesses, companies are finding themselves faced with a paradigm shift towards a more intelligent and connected world. Amidst the maturing technologies leading this revolution is […].

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Small Business Banking Has Been Disrupted (And There’s No Going Back)

Forrester IT

Bankers around the world are rightly worried about the threats posed by digital disruptors getting in between them and their retail banking customers. But Forrester’s newest research reveals that executives should be just as worried — perhaps even more worried — about another market that is being upended: Small business banking. Small and medium-sized businesses […].

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How Blockchain Can Drive Finance And Audit Performance

CTOvision

In 2017, bitcoin, a cryptocurrency based on the blockchain, skyrocketed in value and caught the eye of executives around the globe. While most of us have focused on the currency aspect, it’s no secret that blockchain, a distributed ledger technology, could see its most effective and widespread application in the corporate world, specifically in finance.

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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 To Build A VoC Program In Healthcare

Forrester IT

There is a customer experience (CX) imperative taking over in healthcare. To drive success, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must be able to understand how good — or bad — experiences are and where to focus improvement efforts. Watch the video below to understand the role voice of the customer (VoC) programs play to effectively drive CX improvements.

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ARCore 1.7 with a new Augmented Faces API

CTOvision

ARCore is Google’s platform for mobile augmented reality which does not require specialized hardware. As of December, it’s available on 250 million devices and powers features like Playmoji on the Pixel 3. The latest developer release today introduces a new Augmented Faces API and an ARCore Elements app for learning about basic principles. ARCore 1.7 features […].

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Huawei’s 5G equipment is a manageable risk, British intelligence claims

CTOvision

The cybersecurity risks of using Huawei’s equipment in 5G networks are manageable, according to an unpublished report from British intelligence. The Financial Times says two sources familiar with the contents of the report, authored by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), say it concludes that there are ways to mitigate security threats posed by […].

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Edge security: There’s lots of attack surfaces to worry about

Network World

The problem of edge security isn’t unique – many of the issues being dealt with are the same ones that have been facing the general IT sector for decades. But the edge adds its own wrinkles to those problems, making them, in many cases, more difficult to address. Yet, by applying basic information security precautions, most edge deployments can be substantially safer.

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CIOs, you’re doing blockchain wrong

CTOvision

Read why Lucas Mearian says that companies and their executives are not taking advantage of the distributed ledger’s most innovative features on Computer World : IT leaders who’ve taken the plunge into blockchain are mainly deploying it in proofs-of-concept tests to address the same problems a conventional database could handle, according to research firm Gartner.

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Edge security: There’s lots of attack surfaces to worry about

Network World

The problem of edge security isn’t unique – many of the issues being dealt with are the same ones that have been facing the general IT sector for decades. But the edge adds its own wrinkles to those problems, making them, in many cases, more difficult to address. Yet, by applying basic information security precautions, most edge deployments can be substantially safer.

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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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Is Kubernetes Serverless?

Linux Academy

The Kubernetes Trend. If you take a look at where the IT industry is going, you will start to see a trend: a layer of complexity added to the relationship between applications and infrastructure. No longer can you draw a straight line from the application to the machine it runs on. Developers have been trying to get away from having to manage infrastructure for years.

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Searching For a Cloud-Native App Strategy Amid the Chaos

Information Week

As it gets easier and easier to deploy cloud-native apps, maintaining order increasingly becomes a challenge.

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FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Continuous Delivery with Pipelines and Releases

Flexagon

This blog is the fifth in the FlexDeploy Loves OIC blog series, stay tuned for subsequent entries in the series. FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Series Overview FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage integrations with connections FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Manage connection property replacement FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Continuous Integration FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Automated testing FlexDeploy Loves OIC: Continuous Delivery with.

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Is My SEO Consultant a Certified Google SEO Specialist?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Is My SEO Consultant a Certified Google SEO Specialist? - Information Technology Blog. There are many digital marketing agencies out there, and they all promise the same thing. Top results on Google, Google AdWords, Google Rankings, Google MyBusiness, Google Analytics, and more. But the question is, are they really Google certified?

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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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AWS Sandbox Environments On Demand with Playground

Linux Academy

Our Playground announcement mentioned the ability to launch AWS sandbox environments on demand. This feature was requested by multiple of our enterprise and individual customers, and within 3 months of the request, we launched the first beta version. Now, our Playground Cloud Sandboxes environments are out of beta and available for all of our individual and enterprise accounts!

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What Might Be Missing from Your Open Source Evaluation

Information Week

When implementing open source software, look beyond the license terms to understand who is driving change on the software.

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Apple’s privacy play keeps internet regulators at bay

Dataconomy

In 2018, the GDPR changed how tech companies handle data privacy. In 2019, it’s influencing the public’s perception of internet privacy and changing how tech companies treat violations—and one another. Last month, I wrote about the state of internet privacy in the context of the GDPR and other regulations that. The post Apple’s privacy play keeps internet regulators at bay appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Running Indispensable IT: How to Scrutinize IT Effort via the Business Lens?

Future of CIO

IT is one of the most invaluable assets of the business besides people, IT is also perhaps one of the most expensive investments in modern organizations today. Many IT organizations are at the cross-road, either keep providing IT service as a business support center - becoming irrelevant, or contribute to the top line business growth by leveraging technology as a means to an end and make the IT indispensable.

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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.

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Complete a week-long development project in 2 hours

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: We’ve started a new video series in which we walk you through full development projects from start-to-finish using the m-Power Development Platform. Each project would easily take weeks of manual coding, but we complete them in under 2 hours. Check out the videos below to learn more. If you could take a week-long development project and complete it in 2 hours, would you like to know how?

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Shape a Strategic Boardroom by leveraging Balanced Scorecard and Developing Digital Practices

Future of CIO

The corporate board is one of the most critical leadership pillars in modern businesses. The level of the board accomplishment may vary but the essential competencies will remain the same, BoDs need to be insightful, strategic, effective, and influential. In reality, the time of board members is stretched too thin so they do not allocate enough time to understand strategic issues and many boards aren't active enough to catch the derailment of strategies.

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vTax-Free Operations

Nutanix

In case you missed it (wink), we launched our global You Decide campaign last month. Over the course of 3 blogs, I’ll dive in deeper to what it means to say goodbye to painful upgrades, true up surprises, vendor lock in and fire drills.

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The Monthly Digital Principles/Practices Summary: A Set of Digital Practices to Improve Business Maturity Feb. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. A Set of Digital Practices to Improve Business Maturity Three Digital Balance Practices for Leading to the Future ?

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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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Top 10 Features of the Best Digital Publishing Software

Kitaboo

Finding the best digital publishing software isn’t easy. You have to browse through various websites and compare features of different publishing tools. This is a necessary step as you are investing in something which will determine the final output of your eBook. Your initial excitement to bring forth a compelling eBook could be marred by disappointment if the software you chose does not provide the desired output.