Mon.Jul 09, 2018

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Evolution’s Master Technology Enabler: Conversation

Forrester IT

Welcome to the final post in a four-part series I have been working on for the past few months. This series summarizes something I call the four basic forces of consumer behavior: emotion, tools, coordination, and conversation. These forces have compelled consumers to build their consumer tech stacks, the devices and software services that they […].

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Moving Your Decision Science Team from Reactive to Proactive

CTOvision

As decision science carves a larger niche for itself within the field of data science—which has seen vast growth as a discipline—we’re seeing a shift in the way teams use the wealth of data available to them. Data analysts and reporters have been acquiring, organizing, and cleaning data for years. Now, with better reporting and [.].

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Organizational Design Needs Deep-Rooted Change

Forrester IT

Every day, executives lean in and light up when we describe the virtues of operating with true customer obsession, vowing to make a change. and then they return to their reality. The entrenched design of their companies’ organization holds them back. Our research asserts that any modern organization needs […].

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On Frankenarchitecture, DevOps, Strategic IT, and the Culture of Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

I've received some smart and interesting feedback on my blog posts via LinkedIn. So this week, I'd like to share some of that feedback. On Frankenarchitecture I posted on 12 warning signs of bad application architecture and received some good suggestions to add to this list: Yes, spot on and there are certainly more. Some of my favorite are: - Customize COTS so much that upgrades.

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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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Welcome Rain Capital

Forrester IT

Rain Capital is shaking up the investment side of cybersecurity. Apart from only 11% of cybersecurity professionals being women, venture capital (VC) firms also suffer from a gender disparity with limited diversity. According to TechCrunch, only 8% of partners from the top 100 venture firms were women in 2017, and eight of these top 100 […].

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What is SysAdmin Day for Proud IT Pros

Anoop

It’s that time of the year to say Thank you, SysAdmin. Here’s to hope SCCM, Intune, Hyper-V, ESX, etc. servers don’t go down on our big day! SysAdmin day 2018 is on Friday 27th July. SysAdmins are System Administrators, and in other words, they are IT Pros. SysAdmin = IT Pro Content Who are System […]. The post What is SysAdmin Day for Proud IT Pros appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Why You Should Use Email Validation Services

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why You Should Use Email Validation Services - Information Technology Blog. In the past, companies would run extensive background checks to validate a customer’s personal details, such as their telephone number and home address. But with the increased dependence of businesses in e-commerce, email verification has become an essential aspect of customer data management.

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The top 3 disruptive FinTech technologies to watch in 2018

Computerworld Vertical IT

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely expected to limit the amount of data companies can use for data mining, but new research suggests that it will actually be a boon for the FinTech industry. One result of the GDPR is that businesses will have access to honestly sourced data from consumers using a transparent opt-in model, which will be a rich source of information for discovering user patterns in large datasets, according to the report from Juniper Research.

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Who’s Really Responsible for 3rd Party Vendor Breaches?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Who’s Really Responsible for 3rd Party Vendor Breaches? - Information Technology Blog. Working with suppliers, partners, and third-party vendors has never been riskier to your bottom line. Approximately 63 percent of data breaches come from access outside a company, according to a recent survey. Some of the most devastating cyber hacks in recent years have occurred because of vendors working with big companies.

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Introducing the Forrester Automation Framework

Forrester IT

It is impossible to overstate the impact automation has on digital transformation. Automation directly impacts customer experience (CX). Software like Reflexis can automate price checks and cut customer wait times by 80%. Robots like Lowesbot can guide customers to the proper aisle to pick up home goods. Automation contributes directly to your bottom line.

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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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Some Quick Facts about Type C USB you should know

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Some Quick Facts about Type C USB you should know - Information Technology Blog. It would not be an exaggeration to call this era as the era of digitalization. We are surrounded by many kinds of digital devices as well as gadgets. Each gadget comes with some specific accessories. Some devices cannot even be operated without these accessories.

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The top 3 disruptive FinTech technologies to watch in 2018

Computerworld Vertical IT

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely expected to limit the amount of data companies can use for data mining, but new research suggests that it will actually be a boon for the FinTech industry. One result of the GDPR is that businesses will have access to honestly sourced data from consumers using a transparent opt-in model, which will be a rich source of information for discovering user patterns in large datasets, according to the report from Juniper Research.

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Three Digital Accelerators

Future of CIO

Organizations large or small are on the journey of digital transformation, which is the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the true meaning and unleash its full potential. It implies the full-scale changes in the way businesses are conducted. Speed matters because it reflects the organizational change capability and directly impacts the responsiveness of the business - always “on,” hyperconnected, and super competitive.

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The Digital Communication Framework with Three Vertices

Future of CIO

Communication is key to improve leadership effectiveness and modern management effectiveness. Great communicators are working to spread their messages throughout the organization in a diverse set of activities with mixed communication styles, and sometimes, they have to be fluent in multiple business dialects, with contextual intelligence; and keep communication flow with clarity and verification.

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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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The Monthly “100 Digital Pitfalls” Book Tuning: The New Book Introduction and Summary July 2018

Future of CIO

Digital makes the significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is the mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to mak