Mon.Jul 29, 2019

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Are Outdated Core Applications Holding You Back?

Forrester IT

You’ve been building flashy mobile apps, creating wonderful systems of engagement to improve customer experience, but your digital program still has not delivered. Why? Because you’ve neglected the modernization of your core systems. Customer journeys rely on hundreds of processes supported by back-end core systems such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, revenue management, […].

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Dos and Don'ts: Robotic Process Automation

Information Week

RPA is the fastest growing category of software today, driven by enterprise digital transformation efforts. Here's how to make the most of it.

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Amazon Has “Destroyed the Retail Industry”: True or False?

Forrester IT

Last week, the DOJ announced an antitrust investigation of Big Tech. US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin followed up in a CNBC interview loudly endorsing the antitrust scrutiny: he said that Amazon has not only “destroyed the retail industry in the US” but that it has also hurt competition. (Mnuchin was on the board of Sears, […].

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Driving Digital 2025: Reaching Enterprise Agility [Video]

Social, Agile and Transformation

I've started sharing insights from my keynote, Driving Digital 2025. I am writing and speaking about what leaders have to do today to drive transformation over the next five years. In my book, Driving Digital, I covered the base platforms and practices that drive transformation. They include Driving agile transformation with continuous planning Establishing platform architectures and a.

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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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Gear Up Pragmatically For 5G

Forrester IT

5G Presents Immense Innovation Potential 5G promises to usher in not just new use cases in every industry but also new business models. Some of the most relevant use cases across industries, such as those enabled by AR/VR and massive IoT, fit right into improving customer experience and digital transformation. As a change agent, […].

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Go Q&A Session - Utah Go Users Group

SPF13

I was traveling with my son in Utah, visiting my old university and connected with our Go Users Group while I was there. They graciously invited me to speak at their next meeting and I was excited to be a part of the conversation. This was a great opportunity to learn more from our users and how we can improve Go. We also learned about the Go community in Utah and how best we can help support them in their Go journey.

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The Cloud Question: Native or Hosted?

Information Week

Before making the cloud decision, IT leaders need the facts and the criteria to choose the option that's best for their business, operational and financial goals.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Are Maps For Self-Driving Cars A Public Good? A public/private organization in the UK thinks so. Zenzic, a UK government and industry self-driving vehicle organization, believes that the country needs a standard map for all self-driving cars, not a different map encoded in each car manufacturer’s machine. The battle for “HD Maps,” which purport to […].

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5 Industries To Be Dramatically Impacted By 5G Technology

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Industries To Be Dramatically Impacted By 5G Technology - Information Technology Blog. Small changes pull big changes. It all started from the need to communicate with other people by phone more often than once a week and here we are: our messages and calls can get a recipient at the moment the button “Send” is pressed.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. As the BI market and the technology continue to evolve, so does our research. This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite.

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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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Three Pitfalls of Business Model Innovation

Future of CIO

The business Model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures the multidimensional value. Look at the business model as the “what” the business is all about or what it will do for customers.It’s an entire frame of elements that describe the intents and constraints of a business, The digital business world nowadays is so information oriented and change-intensive, Tuning business model is all about foreseeing and applying trends, that’s where you win the competi

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CXSF 2019: Do You Understand Your Customers’ Reality?

Forrester IT

Remember “the dress” — the photo that went viral a few years ago, reaching 840,000 views a minute? I mention it because Forrester defines customer experience (CX) as your customers’ perceptions of their interactions with your brand, and that photo drew widespread attention to the fact that perceptions can vary widely from one person to […].

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Refining Top Talent from Innovative and Progressive Lens

Future of CIO

As our society has continually taken an evolutionary journey from agricultural to industrial to digital-techno-logical era, the masses of workers have progressed from being farmers, then factory workers to being knowledge workers, where the primary skill needed to conduct work is their brain power. In fact, we are on the advancing journey moving from information scarcity to knowledge abundance to the creative economy.

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Cloudera Update: Open source route seeks to keep big data alive

CTOvision

Cloudera has had a busy 2019. The vendor started off the year by merging with its primary rival Hortonworks to create a new Hadoop big data juggernaut. However, in the ensuing months, the newly merged company has faced challenges as revenue has come under pressure and the Hadoop market overall has shown signs of weakness. […].

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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 “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Running IT as Digital Catalyst July 2019

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 life cycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and up-going change continuum.

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Join The Cloud Security Alliance DC Chapter for our Fall 2019 Cruise

CTOvision

Join us on Sept 26th to hear from an all-star security panel from Gartner, NIST, Capital One, and Freddie Mac for our inaugural fall boat cruise. The DC Metro Area Chapter (CSA-DC) of the Cloud Security Alliance is pleased to invite you to our meetup! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with DC Metro […].

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Instant Azure Sandbox Environments

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we’re huge advocates for hands-on training. We believe this is the best method for learning and doesn’t require extra time, money, or an additional subscription. We supply the security configurations to connect to real environments, you focus on the training. To us, providing a place where a learner can quickly and easily access the tools they need for learning is essential.

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For IoT, think about creating a minimum viable ecosystem

CTOvision

There is a ton of talk in the hardware world these days about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can show to customers or investors before investing big money — and time — into a final device. The idea is that you’ll learn a lot through the creation process and even more from […].

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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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Instant Azure Sandbox Environments

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we’re huge advocates for hands-on training. We believe this is the best method for learning and doesn’t require extra time, money, or an additional subscription. We supply the security configurations to connect to real environments, you focus on the training. To us, providing a place where a learner can quickly and easily access the tools they need for learning is essential.

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Blockchain is finally becoming the next-gen database of choice

CTOvision

Read why Will Martino says that blockchain is likely to become the most popular database on Venture Beat : When I think of why we need a blockchain, I think of one guy. There was a dev we had hired to build a few important parts of our product for us. A few years previously, […].

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Apple to buy majority of Intel’s modem chip business for $1 billion

CTOvision

Apple Inc said on Thursday it would buy the majority of Intel Corp’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion, months after the chipmaker announced plans to exit the 5G modem chip business. Apple will hold over 17,000 wireless technology patents and take on about 2,200 Intel employees after the completion of the deal, the iPhone maker […].

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T-Mobile and Sprint merger approved by Justice Department

CTOvision

The United States Justice Department has approved the $26 billion merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint. After over a year in regulatory limbo, the merger received the green light from the last federal agency to hold out, with the Federal Communications Commission already signaling that it will approve the deal. The Justice Department finally approved the […].

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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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Alibaba’s chip division releases first core processor IP

CTOvision

The semiconductor division of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd released its first core processor IP on Thursday, as the e-commerce giant continues its steady push into advanced technologies. The release also comes as China’s government urges the domestic tech industry to boost its prowess in the chip sector, which lags behind that of the […].