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Making public cloud ERP work for your business

Computer Weekly

If you work with specialists, migrating ERP to the public cloud can bring big business benefits – but it’s not for everyone

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WLA- A New WLAN Professionals Organization Takes Wing

IT Toolbox

You may have heard about the fledgling WLAN Advisory Board in the last couple of years, if you hit the right industry conference along the way. The WLANAB was borne out of frustration with widely varying approaches to WLAN design, and the resultant variance in quality of network performance.

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Max Schrems’s mass surveillance complaint knocked back another year or two by Irish judge

Computer Weekly

Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon has neatly avoided having to deal with the US surveillance of Facebook users in Europe by referring a complaint by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice

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ERP and the Adoption of Lean Production

IT Toolbox

Information technology is rapidly changing the production guidelines mapped out by decades of mass production. With the emergence of ERP, resource management and all assignments related to project management invariably fall under the purview of IT departments. This often creates a chasm between the actual requirements of the shop floor and IT department, resulting in waste of both time and resources.

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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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Ethical software development: Ask Uber and Volkswagen

Computer Weekly

Following TfL's decision against Uber, we investigate the role of professionalism and ethics in software development

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The Chatbot Hype of 2017:5 Reasons Bots are Crucial for SMBs

IT Toolbox

Twenty years ago it was all about chatting with people, today it is a brand new concept ? chatting with bots.

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Dubai’s integrated government on Gitex catwalk

Computer Weekly

At this year’s Gitex, Dubai's smart city project is showing off its successes in integrating government services

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4 Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

IT Toolbox

If we think about the elements that an online business absolutely needs in order to be successful, website traffic will certainly pop up as number one on that list. Visitors are the bread and butter of your business and keeping their number up should definitely be your top priority. A lack of traffic translates into a lack of sales, therefore, a lack of business.

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NCSC to host cyber practitioner summit

Computer Weekly

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is to host a summit for cyber security practitioners in February 2018

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11 years, 1400 blog posts…and a pretty graph

Eric D. Brown

As part of a tutorial on Text Analytics and Visualization I just finished over on technical blog called Python Data (where I blog about using python for data analysis), I took a look at all 1400 posts over the last 11 years (11 years!). The findings weren’t surprising but they are interesting (at least to me). First, a visualization. This is a network map of the top three keywords from each of my posts and their association with other keywords.

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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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Italian cloud provider banks on Brexit to fill country’s largest datacentre campus

Computer Weekly

Campus will be powered by on-site renewable energy sources as Aruba sets sights on securing tenants displaced by the UK’s EU departure

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To improve Company Boards' digital decision making, do (i)

IT Toolbox

continuing from. How to improve Company Boards' technology driven decision making.

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Security Think Tank: Security analytics helps find needles in haystacks

Computer Weekly

What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?

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Everything you need to Know about Apache Hadoop Application in Big Data

IT Toolbox

This post looks at Apache Hadoop's application in big data.

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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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TSB reschedules final roll-out of new banking platform because of expected interest rate rise

Computer Weekly

Bank decides to delay the full customer roll-out of its new banking platform until early next year

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The future of mobility: Are we asking the right questions?

ComputerWorld IT Management

In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories, science fiction author William Gibson remarks, “I think we live in an incomprehensible present.” An expert quoted in The New York Times insists that “we’ve reached a new level where nobody knows what’s going to happen.” I disagree. The present is understandable and it is possible to make foresight-rich preparations for the future if we ask the right questions.

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UAE’s Mashreq launches digital-only bank

Computer Weekly

The UAE’s oldest bank has launched a digital-only offering, designed to appeal to the tech-savvy generation

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Disambiguating the FIRST_VALUE of SQL

IT Toolbox

My favorite SQL analytic function, but bit better.

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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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How to best Leverage the Services of Hadoop Big Data

Dataconomy

Image: SAP Cloud Platform Hadoop is a Java-based, open source framework that supports companies in the storage and processing of massive data sets. Currently, many firms still struggle with interpreting Hadoop’s software and are doubtful about whether or not they can depend on it for delivering projects. Even so, it’s. The post How to best Leverage the Services of Hadoop Big Data appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Impact of GDPR on Tech Companies

IT Toolbox

This post looks at the impact of GDPR on tech.

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Inside the Mind of Digital CIOs

Future of CIO

If the digital business is the living entity which continues to grow and thrive, people are like the cells, and functions are like organ, Due to the complex nature of technology and shortened knowledge life cycle, CIOs as IT leaders need to be multidimensional thinkers for gaining an in-depth understanding of both technology and business via different lenses, practice engineering discipline to improve IT management maturity, reinvent IT as the digital “whole brain” of the business and run a high

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The New Way We'll Start our Digital Day

Fountainhead

This post originally published on Citrix Blogs The desktop-centric world is dead. Here’s why — and how — it will be replaced. When industries shift very slowly, sometimes the most significant changes go completely unnoticed. For example, consider how the notion of the “desktop is your workspace” is pretty much becoming irrelevant (if you disagree, read on).

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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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Digital Problem-Solving Manifesto

Future of CIO

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein Fundamentally, every job is to deal with problems big or small both from the long-term perspective or on the daily basis. You have to think in terms of both 'tangible' and 'intangible' for problem-solving. from questioning to Problem-framing to Problems Solving from analytics to synthesis to Holistic Problem-Solving ; From reactive to proactive to Creative Problem-Solving.

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Transforming CIOs into IT Supply Chain Managers

Fountainhead

A version of this post was originally published to Citrix Blogs How Citrix Cloud services are adding to IT’s business value The role of the CIO – indeed for of all of IT – is changing. Jobs that used to be tactical engineering and integration of technology are morphing into strategic positions that instead integrate external services. As I’ve observed in the past, CIOs are transforming IT supply chain managers , and it’s happening in the digital workspace market now more than ever.

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The Monthly Foresight: Tuning “Digital Fit” Organizational Structure Oct. 2017

Future of CIO

The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, creativity is the most wanted trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the light every organization is pursuing. Which themes shall you set to advocate digital transformation?

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