Fri.Dec 01, 2017

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Businesses bracing for GDPR data deletion requests

Computer Weekly

Businesses are concerned that data deletion requests under the GDPR will have a significant or even crippling effect, with many unprepared to meet the expected demand

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Punch-Up Your Sales Process with CRM

IT Toolbox

CRM can do more than track sales calls. You can use the features in CRM to expand your sales efforts, increase the bottom line and improve morale among your employees. Automate Emails. Dealing with emails is one of the major tasks sales staffs have to perform.

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‘Sound policy’ to prosecute hackers in UK, says former DPP in Love case

Computer Weekly

The former director of public prosecutions (DPP), Ken Macdonald, said in written evidence in Lauri Love’s extradition case that it is normal practice to prosecute hackers accused of attacking US servers in the UK – rather than extradite them to the US

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Why You Need a Strategy to Drive UC Adoption

IT Toolbox

This is a topic I address often, as it’s easy to think of Unified Communications as a technology purchase. That may be true, but it only addresses one part of the UC story. There is a great deal to consider on both sides of the purchase – planning for UC and then living with UC once it’s deployed.

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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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Proposed snoopers’ charter changes inadequate, say rights groups

Computer Weekly

The government has proposed additional safeguards around the power granted to police by the Investigatory Powers Act, but the Open Rights Group and Liberty say they do not go far enough

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Five Ways ERP Can Improve Customer Service

IT Toolbox

ERP systems serve as the nerve center for business, sitting at the center of many silos of critical data and helping both managers and front-line employees make sense of the dynamics happening in and around their company. One of these areas that is critical for understanding business dynamics is customer interaction.

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November's Monthly News Digest

IT Toolbox

Gartner Forecasting AI Will Gain Significant Industry-wide Traction by 2020. The number of customer interactions based on AI-related technologies, such as machine-learning, chatbots and mobile messaging, will rise from 11 percent presently to 72 percent by 2022, Gartner is forecasting.

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Morrisons found liable for data leak in landmark ruling

Computer Weekly

Court finds supermarket chain liable for data leak by a former employee, which has been hailed as a landmark ruling, but Morrisons says it will appeal

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3 Intriguing Trends in Business Collaboration Today

IT Toolbox

Business collaboration has evolved by leaps and bounds in recent years, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Unified communications (UC) deployments, once considered with some skepticism by businesses that didn’t understand the value of the technology, have become mainstream.

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Openreach has incentive to stifle broadband competition, says Ofcom

Computer Weekly

Ofcom is proposing tighter regulation on the wholesale prices Openreach charges service providers, to avoid stifling competition

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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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A Happy Working Environment For High Productivity

IT Toolbox

Every investor looks forward to having a prospective business. The investors use various strategies such as the collar option strategy to manage various risks and get reduce losses through the strategy.It involves getting a right to purchase certain products at a specific price even when the prices of the products have changed thus making a gain on the investment.

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Alexa for Business: Amazon embarks on voice-activated workplace productivity push

Computer Weekly

The final day of Re:Invent 2017 sees Amazon set out plans to help enterprises automate problematic workplace tasks using its voice assistant, Alexa

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Good Reasons to Move Your Business to "the Cloud"

IT Toolbox

Many industries and businesses all over the world are moving to "the cloud." The service has brought tremendous benefits to the business world. Some people have, however, expressed concern over the issue of security. In response, the industry has come up with the idea of the private cloud. When a business migrates to the private cloud, dedicated servers are used to store their data.

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SAP and customers still in cockpit of debate about indirect licensing

Computer Weekly

SAP and the UK & Ireland SAP user group have been thrashing out the topic of indirect licensing in 2017. Is there an amicable settlement in sight?

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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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Personalization by Recommendation

IT Toolbox

Recommendation is one of the most basic forms of personalizing a web experience. It involves suggesting additional items to the customer based on his or her choices or other information. While it is both basic and limited, it is also highly successful.

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Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels urges enterprises to get their encryption act together

Computer Weekly

During the closing keynote of AWS Re:Invent 2017, Amazon.

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Class Room Vs. Online Learning

IT Toolbox

If you have never taken an online course, you may want to look at the pros and cons.

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Large UK enterprises urged to pay more attention to startups and digital disruption

Computer Weekly

Industry insiders have warned big UK organisations to recognise the growing threat posed by startups

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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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Estimates and Actuals: Oracle LiveSQL

IT Toolbox

Reality bites, but fantasy fails frequently.

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New Technology Has Changed The Face of Education

Dataconomy

With the advancement of technology over the past few years, we have seen a major change in the education sector. The way children are taught and the way the children are interacting with the teachers has changed a lot with the advancement of technology. Distance education has totally changed now; The post New Technology Has Changed The Face of Education appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Enhance Digital CIO Personas with Enriched Leadership Portfolio

Future of CIO

Digital CIOs should strengthen their leadership strength, apply their leadership philosophy, enforce their unique leadership styles in order to lead effortlessly. Overall speaking, CIO is the leadership role, how CIOs provide the appropriate leadership and how they convey to leverage IT for the business value depends on the CIOs' vision and leadership strength and style.

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The Software Path

Nutanix

In our Q1 FY18 earnings call, we formally announced that we would thoughtfully adopt a software-centric approach to our go-to-market and financial reporting.

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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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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: Change Habit - Do you Have One? Dec. 2017

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.

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Industry Verticals Tackle Unstructured Data

Cloud Musings

Organizations around the world are struggling to cope with the current data explosion. A vital characteristic of this data is that it is unstructured and represents things like email, images, and videos. Storage of this form of data is typically in an object format which differs significantly from the database norm. Databases housed data grows very slowly because most of it is structured.

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The New Book Preview "100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines To Explore Digital New Normal"

Future of CIO

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes and digital transformation. Digital businesses today are facing fierce competitions, unprecedented uncertainty, and velocity. There is a classic fable about a lion and a gazelle to analogize such a "surviving and thriving cycles.