Forrester IT
APRIL 8, 2019
Amazon has announced that Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant. This is a long-awaited announcement and a big move for Amazon as it expands its footprint in the $3.65 trillion US healthcare industry. Voice presents an opportunity for healthcare organizations (HCOs) to gain access to new consumer data and for consumers to have a convenient way to […].
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Read why Aviva Leebow Wolmer says that adopting the Internet of Things is must for businesses on Entrepreneur : Ten years ago, it would have been strange to stand alone in a room and tell that someone named “Alexa” to order pizza — but today, most of us take in stride the virtual assistance that […].
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Forrester IT
APRIL 8, 2019
In late March, Marsh announced the launch of a program with a number of leading cyberinsurance firms including Allianz, AXA, Beazley, XL, and Zurich to evaluate cybersecurity products and services. Products that meet a minimum standard of criteria receive the designation of “Cyber Catalyst” for their effectiveness in reducing cyber risk. The intent is for […].
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn’t be alone. The tech giants are invading our privacy, misusing our data, strangling economic growth and helping governments spy on us. Yet because these few companies own so many of the internet’s key services, it […].
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.
Forrester IT
APRIL 8, 2019
As you have heard from me before, in today’s age of the customer that is driven by digital transformations, to position your company for future market leadership you must prioritize tech-driven innovations that delivery net-new values to your customers. To best achieve this aim you must start with company-wide mission and CX-driven ideation efforts that […].
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 8, 2019
37% of organizations have implemented artificial intelligence in some form according to Gartner. Since AI is a a broad category of algorithms covering cognitive, natural language, pattern recognition and other areas, I suspect the number of organizations experimenting with machine learning or deep learning is a lot smaller. Yet there are daily stories of different organizations benefiting.
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CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Ready or not, 5G data is at your doorstep. Samsung and Verizon made that fact crystal clear. Last Wednesday, Verizon lit up its 5G network, claiming it to be the world’s first. Two days later, the largest phone maker on the planet began selling its first 5G device, the Galaxy S10 5G, in its home […].
Forrester IT
APRIL 8, 2019
In “Star Wars,” Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi uses a mind trick to convince the dreaded stormtroopers that the droids in his company are not the ones they are looking for, enabling him and his friends to safely move along. In our galaxy, there are no Jedi Masters to guide financial institutions as they choose from an […].
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Apple may be killing 3D Touch but, according to the latest developer documentation for Google’s new Android Q operating system, it seems that the Mountain View company may be re-implementing the feature as something called “Deep Press”. 3D Touch and Deep Press refer to the user ability to press harder on a user interface element — […].
Anoop
APRIL 8, 2019
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. The application packaging team is a closed technical community. There are not many contributors in application packaging community. In this post, you will learn to get more Smart package studio training to make you as packagers life easier. [Related Post – Learn How to Make Application Packagers Life Easier – Part 1 & How to […].
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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.
Information Week
APRIL 8, 2019
Data is important, yet processing data sometimes can make teams feel like they're chasing their own tails to unlock its value.
Scott Lowe
APRIL 8, 2019
I’m thankful to have the opportunity to work with an amazing team. Many of my teammates also produce some very useful content via their own sites, and so I thought it might be useful to my readers to share a list of links to my teammates’ blogs. Without further ado, here is a list of my teammates who have a blog; each entry is a link to the respective site (these are presented in no particular order): John Harris.
Information Week
APRIL 8, 2019
Gartner's Technology Roadmap Survey reveals tech areas in which service and support leaders are exploring, abandoning and investing in for the future.
Linux Academy
APRIL 8, 2019
This week is all about Google. But first, a couple of announcements. The first is a reminder about the Certified Solutions Architect Professional level course that was released last week. We’ve been getting multiple rave reviews over it, and we can’t wait for you to try it and let us know what you think. I also want to announce our special $299 a year promotion that will be launching sometime in the next few weeks!
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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.
Information Week
APRIL 8, 2019
New cloud infrastructure and connected data are changing how collaboration and data management are handled.
Flexagon
APRIL 8, 2019
Flexagon has released FlexDeploy 5.1 which includes a wealth of new features, enhancements, and usability improvements to help teams deliver high-quality software faster and with less cost and risk. FlexDeploy is our DevOps platform for continuous delivery and release automation which provides a comprehensive and integrated platform for orchestrating the entire build, deploy, and release lifecycle.
Future of CIO
APRIL 8, 2019
The digital era upon us means fast-paced changes, continuous disruptions, the exponential growth of information, the emerging lightweight digital technologies, and shortened knowledge life cycle. Clearly, the IT organization needs to reinvent itself from a monolithic back-office function to a mosaic style business growth engine. The role of CIO needs to go through significant changes as well.
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Point and shoot? No, point and interact. Snapchat can now help with your homework. The app’s camera is becoming the foundation of an augmented reality developer platform known as “Scan.” Snap today announced partnerships with Photomath to add the ability to solve math problems, and Giphy for detecting objects, which then spawn related GIFs onscreen. […].
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Future of CIO
APRIL 8, 2019
" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.
Linux Academy
APRIL 8, 2019
When you sign up for a new account somewhere, what’s the hardest part in choosing a good password? For me, it’s coming up with a passphrase, which is what I use. I’m sure most everyone is familiar with the concept of passphrases, which is the use of a phrase instead of a single password — for example, “The moon is made of ch33se!” That passphrase is both long and complex.
Future of CIO
APRIL 8, 2019
Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It is like the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the real meaning and unleash its full potential.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 8, 2019
My latest vlog was made at the EU Cloud Stakeholder Summit in Vienna, where I gave a keynote on Platform Strategy. In the vlog I discuss the idea of platforms as trust-enabled ecosystems, which I believe is an important frame for how we think strategically about the power of platforms. See here for more on platform strategy and the framework I released at the summit.
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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.
Network World
APRIL 8, 2019
Building and deploying lightweight apps is becoming an easier and more reliable process with the emergence of unikernels. While limited in functionality, unikernals offer many advantages in terms of speed and security. What are unikernels? A unikernel is a very specialized single-address-space machine image that is similar to the kind of cloud applications that have come to dominate so much of the internet, but they are considerably smaller and are single-purpose.
CTOvision
APRIL 8, 2019
Customer service is an important part to any organization and ensuring that customers get the best experience is paramount. AI technologies have been able to transform customer service in many positive ways for most organizations. AI systems are helping create robust customer profiles, taking into account customer’s personal preferences, search history, geographical location, and other […].
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