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CIOs Are Discovering That Humans Are Important Too

The Accidental Successful CIO

It turns out that humans are an important part of every IT department Image Credit: Black Knights. As the person with the CIO job, you have a very important question that you have to find the answer to. What is more important to your IT department: people or technology. We spend a great deal of time thinking and learning about technology because we understand the importance of information technology.

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The Future Of Mobility Is Data, Not Cars

Forrester IT

Having worked in and with the automotive industry for around 25 years, the challenges that OEMs face given their size and structures often inhibit the business agility needed to provide lasting customer value in an age of digital disruption. The focus has always been more skewed toward the product experience and product features and defining […].

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Indicators To Watch: 7 warning signs of an insider threat

CTOvision

Read Dan Swinhoe list seven signs which should warn you about an insider threat to your organization on CSO Online : Employees conducting attacks on their own employees – known as insider threats – are becoming increasingly common and costly. According to a CA report, over 50 percent of organizations suffered an insider threat-based attack […].

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How BigPanda’s “Open Box Machine Learning” enables Autonomous Digital Operations

Social, Agile and Transformation

Are you tired of all the bridge calls, all-hands-on-deck meetings, and operational “war rooms” to manage and resolve the latest outage that’s impacting customers and business users? Are you frustrated by the endless list of tickets that were generated from different monitoring tools like Nagios, CloudFront, Splunk, Datadog, and others around the same incident?

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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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List of Improvements – Business Case for SCCM 1810 Upgrade

Anoop

I have explained about the upgrade of SCCM 1810 in the previous post and video. In this post, you will learn the SCCM 1810 improvement and new features. I will explain each improvements of SCCM 1810 with screenshots of settings so that it will be useful for you to understand. High Availability – SCCM 1810 […]. The post List of Improvements – Business Case for SCCM 1810 Upgrade appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Do cities need a “smart city platform?”

Forrester IT

Do cities need a “smart city platform?” It depends. Clients have been asking Forrester our thoughts on new IoT-enabled smart city platforms launched by vendors focused on transforming city government infrastructure and applications.

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On Sale: AI Lessons from the Retail Industry

Information Week

All industries can learn from the retail sector's work with artificial intelligence, and explore how AI can define product and service offerings while also improving the customer experience.

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Intune Win32 App Troubleshooting Client Side Process Flow

Anoop

In my previous post part 1, we the created Intune Win32 app and deployed as “available” for users. In this post, we will Deep dive intune client-side events. Intune Win32 app troubleshooting details are explained in this post. Do you see any similarities between the Intune Win32 app troubleshooting and SCCM troubleshooting? If so, that is not […].

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There’s No “Data Strategy” — Align Insights Priorities To Your Business Strategy

Forrester IT

Greetings from sunny but cold Orlando, where the inaugural Forrester Data Strategy & Insights Forum just wrapped up. During the event, I spent time with a seasoned data professional who joined me as a panelist in my session and who took advantage of the wealth of wisdom dispensed in keynotes and deep dives throughout the event.

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Join (in person or online) The People Centered Internet 10 December 2018 To Help Shape The Future of Humanity

CTOvision

Thanks to Constellation Research and the People-Centered Internet coalition, a historic meeting is being convened 10 December 2018 to help ensure humanity is in charge of our own destiny. This event includes key Internet pioneers and next generation change agents coming together to share lessons learned and chart a course for the future. CTOvision will […].

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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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AWS Aims to Speed and Simplify Robot Development

Information Week

Robotics use cases are endless, but the overhead of developing them is stymying progress. AWS Robomaker, announced at AWS re:Invent, with lowers the barriers so developers can spend more time innovating.

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Four Benefits of Automation with MuleSoft

Flexagon

The benefits of bringing DevOps tools into your IT Organization are many and well documented. Regardless of the technologies in play, continuous delivery and release automation help teams deliver higher quality software faster, and with less cost and risk by reducing or eliminating manual and scripted processes, and adding repeatability and consistency.

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Trends In Marketing Measurement You Need To Follow In 2019

Forrester IT

Marketers are held to an ever-higher standard of accountability to ROI and business impact. But many marketers struggle to meet these expectations, hampered by long-established habits and lack of knowledge about new data- and analytics-enabled measurement approaches. In this short video, I take apart these misperceptions, describe trends that leading marketers have pioneered, and point […].

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

CTOvision

No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. By signing on as employees, engineers demonstrate belief in the mission and commitment to the long-term success of the company. Often I can further align their interests with the company’s through equity as well as the opportunity to “grow […].

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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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Daimler Financial Services CIO Says: Don't Get Comfortable

Information Week

Daimler Financial Services CIO Udo Neumann says you may be successful today, but unless you transform and innovate, that success will be gone.

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Top 12 BI tools of 2019

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.

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Mapping: The Power Hidden in Plain Sight

Forrester IT

I’ll bet you know that Google is reinventing mapping from the ground up, swinging for the the stars with layers of data, intelligence, and real-time insight. But I bet you didn’t know there’s a US three-letter agency dedicated to maps? Or that we’ve already identified 109 mapmakers and vendors of one kind or another?

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Mind the gap: AI and machine learning lag in adoption

CTOvision

Despite acknowledging that AI and machine learning are the harbinger of future technology, most businesses are lagging in AI adoption. A report by RELX Group found that companies are not investing enough for AI and machine learning technologies. More than 91 percent of senior executives polled understood that AI and machine learning were important but […].

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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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Why Data Scientists Should Make a Commitment to Diversity

Information Week

A more fair and safe society, as well as better products and services, can be enabled if the data science industry makes a commitment to hiring and cultivating diverse talent.

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How to Choose a Data Backup Service

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Choose a Data Backup Service - Information Technology Blog. A business’s survival is etched to the protection of the data it generates on a daily basis. New clients, existing customers, employees, and other relevant public of the organization determine a huge chunk of data, some of which is invaluable, and that explains why data backup services are paramount for every company.

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Emphasize Emotion In Your Holiday Customer Service

Forrester IT

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. As the holidays approach and the post-holiday return rush quickly follows, a few things will occur simultaneously: hundreds of millions of customers will make purchases, total holiday retail sales will push the $720 billion mark, and millions more will send odd, ill-fitting, or unwanted gifts […].

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Internet of Things Poised to Impact Manufacturing

CTOvision

By 2025, the Internet of Things, or IoT, is forecast to have an economic impact in the nation’s manufacturing sector of between $1.2 trillion and $3.7 trillion. While that sector is where most of the impact will be seen, IoT devices will also boost the retail ($0.4 trillion to $1.2 trillion), worksite ($0.2 trillion to […].

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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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Build Reliability into Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

Information Week

When building and using autonomous and intelligent systems, it's important to know they're behaving reliably, because if things go wrong, they can do so at scale, fast.

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Benefits of Continuous Integration for Businesses and IT Teams

Flexagon

Software is a key competitive differentiator for companies across industries. The faster companies can get new enhancements and functionality to market, the wider their competitive edge. To achieve this lead, enterprise development teams need to optimize their workflow for efficiency, quality, and reliability. As such, development teams adopt continuous integration (CI) to speed up and.

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The TV Industry is Stumbling Toward Customer Centricity

Forrester IT

I’ve just returned from a few days in the sun, having once again participated in Beet.TV’s annual BeetRetreat. (Wonderfully, we returned to Puerto Rico this year*.) The theme was “It’s Consumer First in TV Land,” which I really hoped the conference would pay off. Why? Well, we know that consumer attitudes about advertising are not […].

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Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps — at their own expense

CTOvision

There are lessons here for all of us: Last Friday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott sent its notification email from “email-marriott.com,” […].

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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.

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What to Look for in a Data Protection Officer, and Do You Need One?

Information Week

The hiring of a data protection officer is a key element of compliance with GDPR, but it's also an opportunity to differentiate your company.

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The Unmissable Budget Friendly Tech Gadgets For Christmas 2018

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - The Unmissable Budget Friendly Tech Gadgets For Christmas 2018 - Information Technology Blog. Christmas has quickly become known as the time for splashing the cash for the best possible gifts for your friends and family, however some of the prices that you encounter for these must-have gifts can leave those of us on a tighter budget more than a little frustrated.

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Quantifying Vendor Efficacy Using The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation

Forrester IT

I’ve been extremely excited about the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation since it decided to open it up to vendors earlier this year. The endpoint detection and response (EDR) market represents the direction of endpoint security, yet the state of endpoint efficacy testing has been underwhelming. • Antimalware testing has become a standard part of the endpoint […].

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Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

CTOvision

Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its market cap to $850 billion plus, and on Friday it replaced Apple as the world’s most valuable company on NYSE. Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had […].

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.