GDS is ‘sidelined’ and government as a platform ‘is dead’, says Francis Maude
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Former Cabinet Office minister cites diminishing of Government Digital Service role as he criticises civil service resistance to change
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Making Marketing Automation Work for You
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Marketing automation is more than software with a bunch of nifty features. It represents an entire approach to the marketing process that is designed to make it faster, smoother and more profitable. A successful marketing automation project starts with a re-think of your entire marketing processes and continues through an effort to simplify everything about the processes.
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HMRC confirms Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright as new CDIO
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
HMRC has tasked Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright with helping the department achieve its goal of becoming one of the world's most digitally advanced tax authorities
How IT can Drive Your Business into The Fast Lane
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
No business that wants to be as competitive as possible today can afford to overlook the quality of its IT. The following are some of the biggest reasons why IT is a crucial key for driving your business into the fast lane and ahead of increasing levels of competition.
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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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.
Digital Catapult invites regional bids for IoT network expansion
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Digital Catapult is planning a major expansion of its Things Connected IoT network across the UK and has invited bids from regional bodies
CRM platforms are core of US healthcare marketing
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The US private healthcare industry represents one of the most diverse and sophisticated healthcare programs in the world. The sheer volume of information that providers must manage on a day to day business can fall outside the scope of many CRM platforms.
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Case study: How brewing an ERP system can turbocharge your business
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Since its founding as a brew pub in 1988, Deschutes Brewing Co. of Bend, Oregon, has grown to become America’s eighth-largest craft brewery and its 15th largest brewer overall. But business processes have not kept pace with that growth: Deschutes still relies on Excel spreadsheets and manual entry for its enterprise resource planning.
Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
VoIP's future at stake in the net neutrality debate
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Can and/or should incumbent telecoms providers have the freedom to censor or throttle services provided by third parties using their infrastructure? VoIP remains at the forefront of the fierce debate over this issue – known as net neutrality -- following a filing by AT&T with the FCC in which the telecoms firm maintains its stance on the answer to that question: Yes.
Europe’s data regulators head to US to discuss Privacy Shield
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
A delegation from Europe's data protection regulators will meet with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees US intelligence gathering
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.
Is It Worth It? Selecting the Right Projects
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
You can do a lot of things with CRM, but that doesn’t mean that all of them are worth doing. In selecting projects for CRM it’s important that you pick projects that have a positive return on your investment. Many of the things CRM will let you do won’t show a positive payoff, or only a very small payoff, in return for your efforts.
£30m National Innovation Centre for Data launched
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The government and Newcastle University have teamed up to launch a £30m National Innovation Centre for Data, as part of the Northern Powerhouse
Smaller firms may struggle with FCC call-blocking proposals
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Smaller VoIP providers may have an extremely hard time meeting the technology demands of the FCC’s proposed robo call-blocking plans, according to the American Cable Association. The group represents some 750 of the smaller and mid-sized providers scattered around the US market.
Mobile networks restored to hurricane-hit Caribbean islands
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Emergency networking teams from the Vodafone Foundation and Télécoms Sans Frontières are working to restore mobile connectivity after the Caribbean was ravaged by Hurricane Irma
7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production
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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.
Banks struggling to adapt to responsive CRM
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
While a new study of financial marketing within the retail banking industry has found a far higher recognition of the importance of leveraging customer data, the banking industry remains far and away behind the curve when it comes to embracing proactive Customer Relations Management systems.
Trust could be last hurdle for insurtech dominance
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Insurance startups that use the latest IT are gaining customers but still face challenges around trust, security and consumer awareness
Baking ERP into the cloud eases transition for baklava producer
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
When Kronos Foods sold its Rain Creek Baking Company division in the spring, managers of the newly renamed Sinbad Foods wanted to get a solid ERP solution up and running as fast as they could. Of course, rushing an ERP implementation can court disaster. But before equity firm Evanston Partners bought the bakery based in Madera, Calif.
Equifax confirms massive data breach was result of missed patch
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Equifax appears to have failed to roll out a patch that might have stopped the massive breach of its systems
20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers
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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.
7 Effective Employee-Retention Strategies
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Once the best employees have been hired, retaining them requires a focused and ongoing strategy. There are several steps human resources can take to more effectively retain employees. 1. Promote a Positive Culture.
HMRC reaches halfway point on project to develop new UK customs IT system
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The new system for handling customs at UK borders is 50% complete, says HMRC - but CEO warns he cannot give guarantees over Brexit deadline
Open Workspaces - How Habitat Soundscaping Makes Collaboration Better
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Over the past two posts , I’ve covered the basics of Habitat Soundscaping, a new offering from Plantronics.
Enterprise appetites for cloud-based financial apps on the rise, Gartner research suggests
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Research into corporate appetites for cloud-based financial apps suggest demand is growing faster than expected, claims Gartner
How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra
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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.
The Digital Directorship Manifesto
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The board of directors as the de facto guardian of modern organizations has an important role to play in steering the organization toward the uncharted water and blurring business territories. The best-in-class board practices scientific governance disciplines based on logic and rationalization with inquisitive attitude and inspirational leadership style, to steer the enterprise ship in the complex and ambiguous digital business dynamic, to expedite changes and accelerate digital transformation.
The digital economy is making us poorer - but that can't be right
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Use of WhatsApp as an example of productivity growth and economic measures tells us we're worse off. Are we therefore measuring the numbers wrongly?
The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/15/2017
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 3900+ 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.
Government aligns data laws with GDPR
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR
Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI
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“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.
Stretch Out to Reach the Stage of Digital Renaissance
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
To reach this stage of the digital renaissance, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension, strengthen organizational capacity and build business competency. Organizations large or small are on the journey of digital transformation. Digital is not a single dimensional technology adoption, but a multi-dimensional business expansion and optimization.
Finnish energy company Helen outsources its basic IT services
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The energy company is the latest Nordic organisation to outsource IT services to enable it to focus on the business
BT offers enterprise customers flexible bandwidth for peak usage
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
New element of BT IP Connect Global WAN service will enable businesses to dial their network capacity up and down at will
Enterprise datacentre operators share staff recruitment challenges in 451 Research report
Computer Weekly
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff
Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options
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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.
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