Thu.Oct 12, 2017

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The Impact of IT on Education: 5 Great Elearning Platforms

IT Toolbox

Businesses have flourished due to lower expenses for numerous in-house processes, people have started communicating more easily, but education has also greatly changed.

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Apple wins Irish court backing for €850m datacentre in Athenry

Computer Weekly

After more than two years of planning delays and appeals, the Irish court has quashed two legal challenges to Apple’s plan to build a datacentre in the west Ireland town of Athenry

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How the SEC breach resembles immature teenage behavior

IT Toolbox

If you were like me growing up, you had some temper tantrums where you expressed your emotions perhaps a little too much. As I got into my mid-to-late teens, I remember it happening quite often. In one particular situation, I got into a pretty heated fight with my older sister and, thanks to my sister wearing a cast on her foot, my bedroom door ended up with a hole in it.

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Syneto aims Hyperseries 2100 at hyper-converged for SMEs

Computer Weekly

European startup targets customers with two-node hyper-converged appliance, with built-in disaster recovery and capacity for up to 15 VMware virtual machines

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How one CRM support platform is creating flexibility for employees and clients

IT Toolbox

One of the most modern solutions for empowering the workforce and enhancing performance went live this week as Verint Systems unveiled its new Verint Workforce Optimization (WFO) suite of applications. WFO is designed to integrate secure mobile access, enabling managers and employees to get work done from anywhere, at anytime.

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Government announces digital 'T-level' to encourage technical skills

Computer Weekly

A digital T-level has been announced among the first of the new technical qualifications the UK is introducing to tackle technical skills gaps

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Data and Culture go hand in hand

Eric D. Brown

A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon talking to the CEO of a mid-sized services company. He’s interested in ‘big data’ and is interviewing consultants / companies to help his organization ‘take advantage of their data’ In preparation for this meeting, I had spent the previous weeks talking to various managers throughout the company to get a good sense of how the organization uses and embraces data.

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Understanding When to Upgrade Business Technology

IT Toolbox

Running a competitive business in today’s marketplace usually requires a healthy investment in IT hardware and software. The trouble is that technology advances at a very rapid pace and it’s often difficult to know when and how to upgrade. Getting some clarity on this issue could prove invaluable for IT leaders. Knowing When to Upgrade.

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Australian defence contractor hacked for fighter jet data

Computer Weekly

The hacking of an Australian defence sub-contractor has once again highlighted the importance of supply chain cyber security

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Driving the Adoption of CRM

IT Toolbox

The major problem with CRM isn’t features, it’s adoption. Most CRM installations that underperform or outright fail do so because users don’t use them. Although technology plays a role in lack of use, mostly it is a people problem. If your people aren’t CRM-ready and committed to the software you’re probably going to fail.

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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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IT industry more reliant on non-UK workers than economy as a whole

Computer Weekly

The UK IT sector is more reliant on workers from other countries than the average for other sectors.

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Calling all VoIP companies: North Carolina county looking for courthouse upgrade

IT Toolbox

Halifax County in North Carolina is seeking a turnkey VoIP system for its historic court house as well as its planning department and public utilities and operations building. The collective site is called the Halifax County Historic Courthouse Complex.

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Finland bears brunt of latest Nokia job cuts

Computer Weekly

Nokia is cutting jobs and pulling back on developing further versions of its virtual reality camera

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The benefits and drawbacks of cloud versus on-premise ERP implementations

IT Toolbox

Despite the increasing popularity of cloud ERP solutions, the choice between cloud and on-premise installations can be fraught. ERP consultancy Terillium, an Oracle partner, has released a white paper to help sort out some of the difficulties involved.

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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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How to speed up IoT deployment: Give each device an identity

Network World

Most enterprises are in the process of evaluating how the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect their organization, especially how devices targeted at the Enterprise of Things (EoT) will be deployed. Indeed, companies that deploy “things” need to worry about security, manageability, longevity/availability and robustness — unlike consumers who generally don’t concern themselves with such things.

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Salesforce cloud CRM launching to help retail banks keep their customers

IT Toolbox

Salesforce is rolling out a new CRM application for the retail banking industry as retail banks become increasingly concerned about their ability to compete against new fintech applications coming onto the market.

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Why agile teams prefer to bring their own development tools to projects

Computer Weekly

Why restrict a developer’s creativity and productivity with corporate standards?

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The Web: Too Much Information?

IT Toolbox

The sales process has undergone a sea change under the influence of the web and the flood of information available on it. Potential customers can easily research products and services before contacting a company. In fact given the ease of obtaining information, it is not uncommon for the customer to know more about competing products than the salesman.

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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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UK bank Standard Chartered opens IT service centre in Bangalore

Computer Weekly

Bank is expanding its operation in India, which provides business services to its operations globally

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Understanding Mobility's Impact on Collaboration

IT Toolbox

My last post addressed three factors that make messaging a driver for collaboration. This analysis helps set the foundation for an emerging opportunity that is not well understood, but reflects the convergence of several trends that are intersecting around the same time.

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Stuff Worth Reading – October 2017

The Investing Edge

Welcome to our third post highlighting articles relevant to entrepreneurs in New England and beyond. As you enjoy this gorgeous New England fall, please let us know if you find an article you would like to have us feature by sending it along to Baiyin at Ascent. And join us on Twitter at Baiyin Zhou ( @ BaiyinVC ) and Eric Schultz ( @ ericebs ). Industry Themes.

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5 Investment Tips for Evaluating an Initial Coin Offering

IT Toolbox

An ICO - initial coin offering - is a crowd-sourced method of raising funds to launch a new cryptocurrency. The future crypto coins are traded for cryptocurrencies that have an immediate monetary value. Most of the time, a certain percentage of the tokens gets sold to participants in the ICO while the remaining is reserved for the company.

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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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An Insightful CIO with “Digital Awareness”

Future of CIO

Leading businesses embark on the “Digital Era” of computing and managing, the digital has become ’normality.’ Digital transformation is a journey, the increasing pace of technological advances and exponential growth of information have clearly impacted the nature and scope of opportunity digital brings up and risks the business exposes to. Thus, an insightful CIO should practice self-awareness leadership, must gain the multitude of “digital awareness” as well, be able to look ahead and identify

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Dissecting the Subject Line

IT Toolbox

The study focused on more than 7 billion emails sent through Yes Lifecycle Marketing’s cross-channel platform Yesmail 360. The analysis confirmed the conventional wisdom about subject lines in some respects and greatly extended it in others. One finding was that personalization matters.

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Book Tuning: Innovative Inquiries in the Boardroom Oct. 2017

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses toward the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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Food businesses savor efficiency benefits of ERP adoption

IT Toolbox

Farming and food production are among some of humankind’s oldest activities. And now, companies in those sectors around the world are grasping the potential of ERP systems to make their processes more efficient and manage financial details that can make the difference between making profits or registering losses.

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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 Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/13/2017

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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Oracle rolls out "adaptive intelligence" for its enterprise offerings

IT Toolbox

After first dipping into artificial intelligence features with its customer experience apps last year, Oracle Corporation now is extending AI capabilities into its Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud as well as its other enterprise-wide offerings.

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Ease of Use and Messaging - 3 Value Drivers for Collaboration

IT Toolbox

This series on messaging isn’t quite following a linear path, and that’s partly by design. Over the course of these posts, I’m tying together two main topics – messaging and collaboration – with a sub-theme of mobility.

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Scarce collaboration between Industrial ERP, IoT hobbling digital transformation

IT Toolbox

Few industrial enterprises have hooked up their new Internet of Things technology with their legacy enterprise resource planning systems, a new study shows, impeding the success of broader digital transformation efforts.

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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.