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Robotic Process Automation: Is RPA Ready for Big Business?

Information Week

Despite the positive market forecasts, a closer look at RPA brings to light challenges that indicate the technology is still in its infancy.

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How to find the best low-code development platform: Ask these 9 questions

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: A growing trend, low-code development claims to address many of the common challenges facing businesses today. But, how do you choose the best platform for your business? How can you avoid surprises or “gotchas” when selecting a tool? In this article, we explore 9 questions to ask before choosing a low-code tool. photo credit: BenjaminNelan via pixabay cc Low-code development is on the rise.

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The Vivid Shape, Texture, and Architecture of Digitally Mature Organization

Future of CIO

With rapid changes and frequent disruptions, organizations need to possess certain characteristics and capabilities such as responsiveness, speed, flexibility, and adaptability to survive. They have to develop and deliver products and services with consistent quality to their customers and stakeholders while maintaining or improving their competitive advantage.

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The Future Of Work Is An Adaptive Workforce

Forrester IT

To Build An Adaptive Enterprise, Build An Adaptive Workforce The future of work isn’t something that happens to you — it’s something you create for your company and your own career. Unfortunately, C-level technology and business leaders are often uncertain on how to do it. We’ve just released a major new report, “The Adaptive Workforce […].

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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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Ransomware: Why cities have become such a big target for cyberattacks – and why it’ll get worse

CTOvision

Read Danny Palmer’s article on why ransomware affects cities and why it will continue to be so on ZDNet : Ransomware once seemed to be on the decline, but it’s now gained a new lease of life — and additional notoriety — after crooks identified a lucrative new set of targets for their file-encrypting malware. Once […].

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What is New in SCCM 1906 New Features a Walkthrough

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s discuss and give you a walkthrough of new features of SCCM 1906 (SCCM 1906 New Features) production version. I have already explained and shown most of these new features in the video tutorial. Subscribe to this Blog via eMail Upgrade SCCM to 1906? I have discussed all the upgrade scenarios in the following blog […].

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IoT And Blockchain: Are We There Yet?

Forrester IT

The internet of things (IoT) and blockchain. They should go together like strawberries and cream, right? What could make more sense than a constant stream of data about devices, their state, and their use, combined with a distributed and trustworthy mechanism for anyone to read or say things about the data? And yet, almost three […].

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Data breach fallout haunts companies long after the fact

CTOvision

Read Cliff Stanton explain how data breaches continue to affect companies even after they happen on Helpnet Security : Data breaches have become a priority in most business’ cybersecurity agenda. The series of breaches that companies experienced in 2018 emphasized what security experts have warned about – that threats are ever-present and persistent.

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Learn How to Setup Azure AD Device Cleanup Rules

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In one of the recent blog posts, I shared step by step guide to Setup Automatic Intune Device Cleanup Rules. The Azure AD device cleanup options were bit sketchy when I wrote that post. In this post, you will learn options to Setup Azure AD Device Cleanup Rules. Introduction I stumbled across an Azure AD […].

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When it comes to the IoT, Wi-Fi has the best security

Network World

When it comes to connecting internet of things (IoT) devices, there is a wide variety of networks to choose from, each with its own set of capabilities, advantages and disadvantages, and ideal use cases. Good ol’ Wi-Fi is often seen as a default networking choice, available in many places, but of limited range and not particularly suited for IoT implementations.

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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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Making The Smart City Safe And Secure

Forrester IT

According to UN projections, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. As cities grow, municipal governments are investing in infrastructure and applications to improve operations, services for constituents, and the overall urban experience. Composed of the internet of things, “smart cities,” aimed to optimize operations, present new security and privacy […].

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How businesses can reduce the financial impact of data breaches

CTOvision

Read Lance Whitney explain how businesses can reduce the financial impact of data breaches on the Tech Republic : Data breaches can be costly for an organization in terms of lost or stolen data, customer mistrust, legal investigations, and recovery efforts. As a result, the sheer financial costs of a data breach can severely weaken […].

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9 Ways Content Analytics Can Help Publishers and Authors

Kitaboo

You must have seen a blogger or an influencer’s profile on Instagram with millions of followers. Their popularity has reached an extent where a lot of brands have associated with them and have grown and flourished. How do you think they attract such a large number of people to their page? Because these influencers create exactly what their target audience wants to see.

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Reports: As the IoT grows, so do its threats to DNS

Network World

The internet of things is shaping up to be a more significant threat to the Domain Name System through larger IoT botnets, unintentional adverse effects of IoT-software updates and the continuing development of bot-herding software. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and IBM’s X-Force security researchers have recently issued reports outlining the interplay between DNS and IoT that includes warnings about the pressure IoT botnets will put on the availability of DNS s

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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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Manufacturers’ Digital Transformation Will Fail Without Both IT And OT

Forrester IT

If you believe the stereotypes, then the worlds of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are very different. In one, ranks of commoditized beige boxes hold institutional memory, critical intellectual property, and the bosses’ email: The data center is everything. In the other, proprietary, expensive, and arcane electromechanical monsters lurk next to the production […].

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Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence Startup OpenAI

CTOvision

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research lab founded by Silicon Valley luminaries, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, that’s dedicated to creating artificial general intelligence (AGI). The investment will make Microsoft the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to OpenAI, and the two companies will work together to develop new technologies. […].

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Digital Transformation Challenges IT Leaders

Information Week

Tech disruption is uprooting traditional business practices while creating new responsibilities -- and opportunities -- for IT.

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Techniques and Tools of Link Building that Work!

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Techniques and Tools of Link Building that Work! - Information Technology Blog. In current times, link building campaigns have become more of a norm rather than an exception. Given their numerous benefits, it is imperative that you have appropriate links in place to gain good search engine rankings. Links continue to be the primary factor for Google rankings in 2019.

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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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CX SF 2019: The Way To Innovate

Forrester IT

Companies commonly ask me these innovation questions: What emerging technology should I invest in this year? We’re piloting [new technology] — where do we start? How do we manage innovation when we’re busy with incremental improvements? What this shows is that many companies know that innovation is important — and they’re right. Innovation is crucial […].

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Mastering Cloud Management – Get Connected

CTOvision

Read Chris Hill’s article about cloud management on Infosec Magazine : One of the biggest lessons learnt throughout the cloud management journey is that the cloud doesn’t simply recreate a customer’s environment up there in the ether. It’s different, and with the Cloud Industry Forum suggesting that almost nine in ten (89%) UK businesses are […].

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Reap the Benefits of IT Automation

Information Week

Among the keys to successful IT automation is the need to ensure that senior management understands the importance of IT infrastructure, and then to show them the real business benefits.

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How to Build a Mobile-Ready Training Program for Pharmaceutical Industry

Kitaboo

Ever wondered how healthcare practitioners and pharmacists remember the names of all the different drugs available? No, they do not have a super memory. Their super-power is derived from the training that is imparted to them. Pharma is an ever-growing industry. Every year there are drugs that are newly launched, some that are banned. Drugs with similar composition which perform the same function but are packaged differently by different brands, in addition to the new drugs approved by the FDA ev

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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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A Pragmatic Guide To Brand Value

Forrester IT

The Value Of Brand Valuing a brand can be a deeply divisive exercise. To most marketers, there is an axiomatic simplicity to brand value. Questioning it, or attempting to validate it, can well be an exercise in futility and mathematical mumbo jumbo. Wally Olins (of Wolff Olins fame) once characterized the attempt to “chew [brand] […].

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Why data breaches keep happening

CTOvision

In my 26 years working as an IT professional I’ve been fortunate to steer clear of a major data breach, which has adversely impacted my workplace either from a financial or reputational standpoint. I’ve had some close calls: One organization had a proxy server hacked and used to send spam emails and another had an […].

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Going Up? Otis Elevator Hits Digital Transformation Button

Information Week

Otis pioneered predictive maintenance before most heard the phrase Internet of Things. Now the 166-year-old company is prepping the elevator of the future.

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Don’t Use Kubernetes Until You’ve Asked This Question

Linux Academy

If you run Kubernetes in production, you must be incredibly intelligent. That’s not a compliment; it’s a requirement. — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 25, 2019. Kubernetes technology has skyrocketed in popularity for the last few years. More and more organizations are using it to power their infrastructure, and as a result, there’s an influx of individuals learning how to use the technology in order to get a new job, upskill for an existing job, or simply to stay up-to-date with the latest tech.

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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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Business Intelligence (BI) market consolidation – what to expect next?

Forrester IT

The past two years have seen a significant divergence in the maturity of the supply and the demand sides of the BI market. This divergence will influence market dynamics for the next two years and affect enterprise insights leaders making strategic vendor and platform decisions. Specifically, the: Supply side is very mature. BI technology has […].

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Uber open-sources Plato for developing and testing conversational AI

CTOvision

Designing conversational AI isn’t as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google’s Dialogflow, Microsoft’s Bot Framework, and Amazon’s Lex make it easier than it used to be, and the folks at Uber hope to eliminate any remaining barriers with a development platform all their own. It’s called Plato Research Dialog System, and it was released […].

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Robotic Process Automation: Is It Ready for Big Business?

Information Week

Despite the positive market forecasts, a closer look at RPA brings to light challenges that indicate the technology is still in its infancy.

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How are Chatbots Used

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How are Chatbots Used - Information Technology Blog. When you talk to a company’s Facebook Messenger, have you ever noticed that you may not be talking to a person at all? Sometimes you haven’t, and sometimes you have. That’s one of the advantages of talking to a chatbot and using them with your company’s business. There are many chatbots out there, and one of the best one is ManyChat, a fully customizable chatbot that you can use for a variety of reasons.

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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.