Mon.Apr 19, 2021

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Time to Modernize Your Data Integration Framework

Information Week

Data is constantly making its way to new platforms, applications, algorithms, and users. The need for an effective data integration framework is at an all-time high. Are you ready?

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Are You Ready To Step Up To B2B Marketing’s New Destiny?

Forrester IT

As forces converge to drive B2B marketing to a higher purpose, marketing leaders must evolve from brand stewards, lead generation machines, and sales supporters in order to fulfill it.

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The Project Management Skills IT Pros Need: Learn the Basics with CompTIA Project+

Association of Information Technology Professional

Hiring managers believe that basic project management skills are necessary to participate on IT project teams and compliance activities.

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New Research: How To Establish, Scale, And Evolve Your Design Practice

Forrester IT

The design industry is booming. Our recent research The Design Industry 2021 estimates the size of the global design industry to be $162 billion and growing. But the increasing recognition of the importance of design creates a challenge for design leaders: How to effectively establish, scale, and evolve a high-performing design practice that reliably creates […].

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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 Hundred-Year-Old Enterprises Improve IT Ops using Data and AIOps

Social, Agile and Transformation

What do three multibillion-dollar companies that have been around for over one hundred years have in common? There might be straightforward answers if they were in the same industry, but what if one is in media, another in financial services, and a third a food service distributor? IT leaders from Wiley, OneMain Financial, and US Foods presented at the recent BigPanda’s Resolve.

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Product-Centricity Is Coming To Your Organization

Forrester IT

I talk to many Forrester customers every week who are transforming: digital, agile, DevOps, or some mix of the three. One common theme is an interest in product team organization. This has been a hot topic for some time and interest still seems to be increasing. To explain what a product team is, I use […].

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The Three Reasons Portfolio Marketers Must Enable All Buyer- And Customer-Facing Roles

Forrester IT

When considering portfolio marketing’s role in enablement, take a revenue enablement approach to ensure that knowledge is delivered to the various teams that require it in the way they want to receive it, and delivered when they need it.

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How to Troubleshoot ConfigMgr Task Sequence with Debug option | SCCM | Best Method

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post How to Troubleshoot ConfigMgr Task Sequence with Debug option | SCCM | Best Method appeared first on HTMD Blog by Debabrata Pati.

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Financial Services Firms Need A More Relevant Customer Segmentation Model: Introducing Forrester’s Financial Well-Being Segmentation

Forrester IT

Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers were already facing multiple financial challenges, and many were worried about their financial situation. The pandemic has impacted consumers’ finances further, with many lacking financial resilience and confidence in their financial future. Financial Services Firms Need A Framework To Better Understand Their Customers’ Financial Mindset And […].

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Water-authority network upgrade spots problems faster

Network World

The Albuquerque water authority says recent network upgrades give it greater visibility and control over its remote sites and makes for faster responses to leaks and other problems. The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority manages more than 3,000 miles of water-supply pipeline covering more than 650,000 users. The authority manages 135 remote locations, which include well sites, tanks, and pump stations, all of which have programmable logic controllers (PLC) connected to a dedic

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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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AWS Offers Course on Basics of Machine Learning

Information Week

A new course offered by AWS offers business leaders a foundational understanding of machine learning and its use cases without the need for a deep understanding of Python and coding.

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After Virginia passes new privacy law, states race to catch up to CCPA and GDPR

Tech Republic Security

Using Washington State's proposed law as a guide, New York, Texas and many other states are inching their way toward a data privacy law.

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Amy Klobuchar takes aim at 12 vaccine misinformation influencers

Vox

Sen. Amy Klobuchar has written to the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter to ask about vaccine misinformation superspreaders. | Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Senators have written to Facebook and Twitter to ask about vaccine misinformation superspreaders. As the Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues across the US, some lawmakers are concerned that ongoing misinformation and disinformation campaigns are exacerbating vaccine hesitancy.

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Sony admits it made ‘wrong decision’ and will keep PS3, Vita stores open

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Sony has announced that it’ll be keeping its PS3 and PlayStation Vita digital storefront open “for the foreseeable future.” The PSP’s store will still be shut down on July 2nd, 2021 , as originally planned. “Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here. So today I’m happy to say that we will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices.

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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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IT teams need to be coaches, not security guards, and shift to "self-service" for Microsoft 365

Tech Republic Security

A new study finds that 84% of IT admins think allowing users to set up groups and set governance rules will save time and money.

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Mastercard will pay $850M to acquire identification startup Ekata, which spun out of Whitepages

GeekWire

Rob Eleveld. (Whitepages Photo). The news: Financial giant Mastercard announced today that it will acquire Seattle startup Ekata for $850 million. Ekata’s background: The company sells identity verification products to help more than 2,000 businesses such as Postmates, Alaska Airlines, and Lyft discern between good and bad actors. It spun out of Whitepages in 2019 and has around 200 employees across offices in Seattle, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Budapest.

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Microsoft’s xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week

The Verge

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) will officially arrive on iOS and PC tomorrow, April 20th. The service will arrive on devices via browsers, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play Xbox games on iPhones, iPads, and PCs. Microsoft is keeping this beta rather limited, though, and requiring players to be invited to participate in the testing phase.

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Concerns grow over digital threats faced from former employees

Tech Republic Security

Security experts said the recent upheaval in the job market makes it imperative to bolster separation protocols further.

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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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In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future

Gizmodo

Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued. Read more.

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Health care API adoption is slowed by security concerns and skills gap

Venture Beast

Health care lags behind other industries in API adoption, but digital transformation projects and regulatory requirements will spur usage. Read More.

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Nonprofit provides help to hospitals battling ransomware

Tech Republic Security

The Center for Internet Security recently launched a free tool for private U.S. hospitals to block malicious activity.

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Video: Jeff Bezos gives Washington governor a tour of homeless shelter attached to Amazon HQ

GeekWire

Jeff Bezos, left, and Lauren Sanchez show off the Mary’s Place Family Center, located in an Amazon building in Seattle, to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. (Instagram screenshot via Jeff Bezos). Jeff Bezos played host to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in a recent tour of the Mary’s Place family shelter that is attached to Amazon’s corporate headquarters campus in Seattle.

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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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Sony say closing the PS3 and PS Vita stores was a 'wrong decision'

TechSpot

Last month, Sony confirmed that it was shuttering the PS3, PSP, and Vita stores this summer. The announcement came in response to rumors of the closures made the rounds after it took the online versions offline.

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Keep design in mind: Cast your vote for UX Design of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

A good user experience (UX) goes deeper than visuals and how applications look — it’s creating an entire experience that is meaningful, usable and delightful for the end users. Now in its second year, the UX Design of the Year category at the GeekWire Awards will recognize one startup for its well-designed user experience. This year’s five finalists are Boundless, Joon, Qumulo Core, Tagboard Producer, and Voodle.

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Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show to cost $465 million for one season

TechSpot

Amazon had already bet big on a Lord of the Rings series when it paid $250 million to secure the rights to the franchise in 2017. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the company would spend roughly NZ$650 million (~$465 million) on the first season—initial reports claimed Amazon would spend $500.

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Expedia launches brand refresh, new features and ad campaign in anticipation of travel surge

GeekWire

(Expedia Photo). Gearing up for a resurgence in travel, Seattle-based Expedia Group is refreshing its flagship Expedia brand with updated features across the company’s mobile app and more than 70 websites. As more people plan and book flights and hotel stays as COVID-19 vaccination rates increase, Expedia wants to be part of the trip, launching a new ad campaign that touts its planning expertise, with the tagline, “It matters who you travel with.” Expedia Group includes travel

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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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U.S. banks deploy visual AI tools to monitor customers and workers

Venture Beast

Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences and monitor workers. Read More.

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Seattle startup adyn raises $2.5M from 23andMe CEO and others for birth control prescription test

GeekWire

adyn CEO Elizabeth Ruzzo. (adyn Photos). Seattle startup adyn raised a $2.5 million seed round co-led by Lux Capital and M13. The company plans to launch its flagship birth control optimization test later this year and currently has a waitlist for early access. Adyn’s test analyzes hormone levels to identify potential side effects for women — from acne to blood clots — caused by different methods of birth control.

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Days Gone dev says to buy games at full price if you love them and want sequels

TechSpot

As reported by VGC, Days Gone creative director and writer John Garvin made the comments on God of War creator David Jaffe's YouTube show. He was asked if the game's arrival on Sony's PlayStation Plus service had resulted in a "meaningful uptick of engagement" for the post-apocalyptic action-adventure.

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Company targets ‘walkable’ Seattle with robot that carries your stuff – but is $3k price tag a heavy lift?

GeekWire

Tarik Abdullah, chef and owner of community kitchen Feed The People, is followed in Seattle by his Gita robot. (Piaggio Fast Forward Photo). Watch your back, Seattle. The robots are hoping to follow you. Boston-based Piaggio Fast Forward is targeting the Evergreen City as a particularly walkable and tech-savvy place where they hope residents will take to a rolling robot named Gita that’s kind of a like a shadow that carries your stuff.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.