Sat.Dec 07, 2019 - Fri.Dec 13, 2019

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The CIO as a Master of Both IT Management and Governance

Future of CIO

Digital paradigm means hyperconnectivity, interdependence, integration, and diversity. Digital technology is often the disruptive force behind change and information is permeating into every core process in modern organizations. IT management and IT governance are interdependent disciplines.The purpose of IT management is to optimize IT resources and catalyze business growth, enable the business moving forward smoothly; while the goal of IT governance is to ensure the business making the right d

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20 Mobile Trends for 2020

Forrester IT

I have just published a post sharing some of our marketing predictions for 2020. It made me realize Forrester no longer publish dedicated “mobile” predictions. Why? Because, mobile has simply become a key driver and enabler of business transformation. Mobile is embedded everywhere. However, many brands wrongly think they have ticked the mobile box and […].

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The 10 Best Examples Of How Companies Use Artificial Intelligence In Practice

CTOvision

All the world’s tech giants from Alibaba to Amazon are in a race to become the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are AI trailblazers and embrace AI to provide next-level products and services. Chinese company Alibaba is the world’s largest e-commerce platform that sells more than Amazon and eBay combined. Artificial intelligence […].

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Microsoft Intune Vs Jamf macOS Device Management Enhancements

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s see what are the different macOS device management options with Jamf and Microsoft Intune. Andy Cerat & Neil Johnson had a great session in Ignite 2019 and they discussed following topics. Introduction Following are the key messages from Microsoft about macOS device management.

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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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The power of relationships in data

All Things Distributed

Have you ever received a call from your bank because they suspected fraudulent activity? Most banks can automatically identify when spending patterns or locations have deviated from the norm and then act immediately. Many times, this happens before victims even noticed that something was off. As a result, the impact of identity theft on a person's bank account and life can be managed before it's even an issue.

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The One-Sentence Business Case For Customer Experience

Forrester IT

Recently I wrote a post arguing that $ is the one CX metric that matters to executives. The obvious conclusion: You need to design your CX measurement program to track and report $. If you haven’t done that already you should jump on it today. As I write this post in December of 2019, corporate […].

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Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade

Tech Republic Cloud

Manufacturing IoT, video conferencing, and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advancements of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top enterprise technologies of the 2010s.

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Windows 7 Extended Security Update Step by Step Prerequisite Guide

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows 7 is going out of support on 14th January 2019. Hence Microsoft is putting loads of efforts to migrate all the Windows 7 devices to Windows 10 as the best practice. Also, we shall see more about Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU). Introduction Let’s see How to get Extended Security Updates for eligible […].

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Holiday Highlights From Cyber Week: What’s Happened Since 2014

Forrester IT

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2019 retail series. For several years, market research firm Bizrate Insights has surveyed US shoppers during Cyber Week. We looked back at the Bizrate data from five years ago and found several interesting changes in consumer behavior: The percentage of shoppers belonging to a shipping club appears to […].

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Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT)

CTOvision

Read Darren Anstee take a look at how the Internet of Things will fare in 2020 on Tech Radar : They are already here. And they might already have outnumbered us. Their proliferation is breath-taking, with an estimated population reaching 125 billion in the next 10 years. IoT devices are the poster boys of a […].

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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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Why SMBs Must Consider Upgrading their ERPs to Transform the Business

Social, Agile and Transformation

When your business is small or growing slowly, you can get away with a mix of disparate SaaS tools, spreadsheets, and collaboration over email to manage the business while leaders and employees focus on serving customers. One of those tools is likely an ERP, financial, or accounting system. The finance person or team is probably using it to manage basic accounting, financial, and business.

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Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade

Tech Republic Cloud

Manufacturing IoT, video conferencing, and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advancements of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top enterprise technologies of the 2010s.

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Do You Recruit Bad Employees As A Matter Of Policy?

Forrester IT

For better or for worse, my family is a customer of a large bank near my home. Once in a while I step in to the branch to update documents for my mother (she still likes to see her account balance in print), or some other such need. Here’s the kicker though: Every time I […].

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Cost of data breaches in 2019: The 4 worst hits on the corporate wallet

CTOvision

Read Taylor Armerding list four worst data breaches of 2019 on Security Boulevard : Corporations that don’t keep their data secure may soon long for the good old days when the “only” expenses they had to worry about from a data breach were recovery costs, brand damage, lawyers’ fees, and potential class-action lawsuits. Because soon […].

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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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SCCM Admin Web Console SoftwareCentral Review Post 1

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, let’s learn some of the options to have the SCCM admin web console. I shall go-through the overview of SoftwareCentral SCCM admin web console features with a series of posts. This post is the first one in this series! Why SoftwareCenter? You know I’m a big fan of SCCM web consoles.

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Designing human-AI hybrids will be at the center of the future of work

Trends in the Living Networks

The future of work is not about AI replacing humans. It is about designing work so that machines and humans are complementary, not substitutes. As described in my Humans in the Future of Work framework, there are a number of uniquely human capabilities that can be brought together in a wealth of roles that transcend what machines can do on their own.

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Avoid Becoming Dumb Money

Forrester IT

The Dos And Don’ts Of Accelerating Innovation With Corporate Venture Capital One former VC partner I spoke with for my research on corporate venture capital (CVC) — “Accelerate Open Innovation Via Corporate Venture Capital” — said he believed there was a direct correlation between the number of CVCs formed in a year and a looming […].

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AWS Offers Help for Enterprise Machine Learning Efforts

CTOvision

The struggle is real, as they say, when it comes to getting machine learning into production. That was one of the big messages of 2019 as enterprises completed successful machine learning pilots but found it much more difficult to put their efforts into production let alone scale them across the whole organization. Even though everyone seems […].

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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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LinkedIn's Azure move is less about scale and more about the speed of innovation

Tech Republic Cloud

LinkedIn isn't moving to Azure because it needs to, or because it's owned by Microsoft: it's moving because Microsoft can invest in technologies that even a business as big as LinkedIn can't build for itself.

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6 Ways to Maximize Digital Transformation Success

Information Week

Enterprise organizations will shift from what is being used to how it is being used.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Shifting Gender Norms Threaten Brands With Cultural Irrelevance Gender is squarely in our cultural spotlight. As a culture, we are questioning long-held expectations attached to being a man or a woman, envisioning a spectrum between that binary, and even outright rejecting the cultural construct of gender. The force is strongest among younger consumers, and the […].

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Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity… Is The Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?

CTOvision

There’s a tremendous amount of buzz surrounding A.I. these days. Some believe it will present us with innovative solutions to a myriad of problems, others believe it will signal the demise of all mankind. In an effort to learn more about the current state of this exciting technology, and cut through the noise, I jumped […].

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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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3 Reasons Why Education Is The Key To Your Success

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 3 Reasons Why Education Is The Key To Your Success - Information Technology Blog. Education may not seem as though it is that important at the beginning of our school lives. However, as time goes on and the years pass, the work becomes not only harder but much more relevant to our interests and future goals. By the time we get to college, we are more focused and keener to study hard.

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How to protect your organization against the Snatch ransomware threat

Tech Republic Security

Discovered and analyzed by security provider Sophos, Snatch attempts to bypass traditional security software by rebooting your PC into Safe Mode.

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Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot' for the two technologies

Network World

IoT and blockchain may be a natural fit, but it will still take five to 10 years before kinks are worked out and the two technologies can reach their full potential, according to Gartner.

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Security 101: What Is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack?

CTOvision

Specific numbers are hard to pin down on man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, but according to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018, more than one-third of exploitation of inadvertent weaknesses involved MitM attacks. Exactly how do these hacks play out? How do criminals get in and steal information – and how are their techniques evolving?

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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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How to Compete with Industry Leaders

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Compete with Industry Leaders - Information Technology Blog. Something that every small business struggles with no matter what industry they are in is competing with industry leaders. Consumers tend to gravitate towards these larger companies because they are much easier to discover — and they will often have a positive reputation — so people believe that they will have a good experience with the company.

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63% of organizations face security breaches due to hardware vulnerabilities

Tech Republic Security

While hardware-level attacks are high, only 59% of companies have implemented a hardware security strategy, Dell and Forrester found.

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AWS Offers Help for Enterprise Machine Learning Efforts

Information Week

Enterprises have been slow to move their pilot machine learning and AI projects into production, but now Amazon AWS is offering a host of new services to help.

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Your Brand Is a Target: How to Protect Your Reputation With Security Intelligence

CTOvision

Read you can protect your brand reputation with security intelligence on Recorded Future : Your company’s reputation is everything. But as you grow your online presence to connect with new audiences, enhance your customers’ experiences, and extend your services and offerings, your brand can become vulnerable to cybercriminals of all sorts: financially motivated attackers, competitors […].

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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.