Forrester IT

JUNE 1, 2016

Customers today are hyper-connected and their connectivity is rewriting the rules of business. Access to mobility, social networks, wearable devices, connected cars and hotels managed by robots are rapidly changing the behaviors of how customers engage and purchase. Think how you watch a film, shop or order a taxi. The disruptive power in the hands of newly tech-savvy customers is forcing every business to evolve into a digital business or perish.

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CTOvision

JUNE 1, 2016

Amy Medeiros. Google Fiber seemingly started as an experiment - but it’s become clear it’s not going anywhere. Move over, Comcast and Time Warner. Google’s here to stay. It’s really no secret that the two biggest ISPs in the United States aren’t exactly well-liked by their customers. Comcast has repeatedly been labeled the most hated organization in the country , and Time Warner Cable gets just about as much flak.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 31, 2016

In a highly competitive market, small businesses need any leg-up they can find. It's not enough to offer a unique product or better customer service - sometimes it all comes down to dollars. If small businesses and startups were able to significantly reduce their overhead costs, they could effectively expand their reach and have a greater impact on their market.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 1, 2016

We’ve all had a good giggle about having our fridges hacked – but now it’s time to get real. What are the first steps enterprises should take when implementing their first internet of things project?

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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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Forrester IT

JUNE 1, 2016

I attended a software-related conference recently; I'm not going to say which one as this is about something I observed at the conference, not about the conference itself. Being a software conference, the conference organizers did a lot of the expected digital stuff: registration, reminder emails and conference check-in. Up to the end of the registration process, everything I did with respect to the conference was handled electronically.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2016

Bob Gourley. The Global Connected Aircraft Summit will be held 6-8 June 2016 in Hollywood California. The mission of this summit is to provide airlines, operators, integrators and technology vendors with a means to continuously enhance the benefits of connected solutions, from ground to air and from nose to tail. The event works a wide range of topics including operations, communications, design and optimization.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 31, 2016

The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain

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Forrester IT

JUNE 2, 2016

In my earlier blog post , I talked about why you should attend this year's Digital Transformation Mumbai 2016 Forum. With the event just around the corner, I'm very much looking forward to the various sessions that we have in store that will help India's most senior business leaders understand Forrester's research on the customer-obsessed operating model , which will provide a blueprint for organizations on their digital transformation journey.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2016

Cesare Garlati. Consumers need to understand that security problems don’t end with their laptops and phones, the same concerns are valid for any connected device in the home and the same security rationale must be applied, especially for routers where it is the first, last and only line of defense to every device in the home. Not attending to wireless network security is like leaving a door unlocked to your house, inviting cybercriminals in to access information on your life, family and finance

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IT Toolbox

MAY 31, 2016

In his article Big data analytics architecture requires integration push , Ed Burns writes “For most businesses that have embraced big data analytics, the IT world in which the enterprise data warehouse was the

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 2, 2016

Big data engine that performs sentiment analysis on both Arabic and English textual data helps airline to understand and react rapidly to customer preferences

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Forrester IT

JUNE 2, 2016

Salesforce made its largest acquisition ever yesterday, acquiring Demandware for $2.8B. Reaction: At first glance these two software vendors compliment each other well because there is so little redundancy -- Demandware filling a commerce gap in the Salesforce portfolio. However, it's more complicated than that. From the DX platform angle, Salesforce is acquiring a competitor.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2016

Michael Johnson. The video here examines how Toyota Motor Europe is using Tamr for enterprise data preparation. It is a fantastic use case for any firm or government agency that needs to optimize their supply chain. It is especially worth considering for those in the military logistics and transportation area.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 1, 2016

Target Canada had trouble moving products onto store shelves leaving Target outlets poorly stocked. The checkout system was glitchy and didn?t process transactions properly. The Inventory and sales systems were new and few seemed to fully understand how it all worked.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 31, 2016

It’s now a year since Microsoft transitioned the Lync unified communications suite into Skype for Business, but has the enterprise embraced or shunned it?

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Forrester IT

JUNE 1, 2016

Salesforce announced today their intent to acquire Demandware for $2.8 billion - its largest acquisition to date. This move adds a commerce to its CRM portfolio. It's an acquisition long due, with the question of why it took Salesforce so long to fill their gaping hole in CRM functionality - commerce functionality that its formidable competitors such as Oracle and SAP already have.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2016

Michael Johnson. The video below features two of the most highly regarded people in the Cybersecurity community, Richard Stiennon and J Paul Haynes. Watch for good content on the approach of eSentire. Their approach leverages three of the most positive trends in the tech world to mitigate weaknesses in the cyber defense of most organizations. The positive trends leveraged are of cloud computing, the development of disciplined professionals in Cybersecurity and the new operational concept of hunt

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IT Toolbox

MAY 29, 2016

Given the digital transmission nature of baseband LANs, one might easily overlook the need for analog test equipment. Three devices are valuable additions to the tool kit: the volt-ohm-milliameter (VOM), the oscilloscope, and the transmission impairment measurement system (TIMS).

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 1, 2016

Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

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Forrester IT

JUNE 1, 2016

When we think about the public cloud, the list of credible providers can sometimes seem rather short. (The Great Wall of China. Source: Paul Miller). In North America, Europe, and elsewhere, the same few names tend to dominate. But not in China. There, big local brands continue to command impressive market share. And now they're looking to expand into new territories, including Europe.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2016

Charles Hall. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): BMW revamps R&D for new era of self-driving cars. Colossal golf-course alligator gets brilliant 'Jurassic Park' remix - CNET. Hands-on: Samsung's $179 Gear Fit2 band and $199 Gear IconX wireless earbuds have heart-rate tracking, 4GB storage; Gear Fit2 has GPS and arrives June 10 (Timothy Torres/PC Magazine).

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 31, 2016

The emergence of cloud solutions is fraught with misconception. Here are some cloud-related considerations you should be thinking about instead. Read More.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 31, 2016

The Welsh government’s environmental protection body is using Unit4 enterprise resource planning, from Trustmarque, as part of a digital transformation programme

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Forrester IT

MAY 31, 2016

It seems like nearly everyone is ready (or at least willing) to add intelligence to their applications. Despite the enthusiasm, developers building cognitive applications have encountered some real growing pains. The way we're going about things, it's almost begun to feel like the promise of cognitive computing would collapse like the AI hype in the 1980s or the first robotics hype in the 1960s and 70s.

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CTOvision

JUNE 2, 2016

Bob Gourley. Cognitio is featured in this piece from CIO Magazine: Former CIA tech chiefs to drive cyber intelligence in Australia. Australia's cyber security is only as good as its organisations', says former CIA tech chiefs and Cognitio founders. The overarching message to organisations from the federal government’s cyber security strategy is – “you’re on your own, we wish you the best luck.”.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 31, 2016

Unfortunately, the biometric systems previously deployed are not meeting the evolving demands placed on colocation data centers by their customers or their security teams. Read More.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 2, 2016

CIO of Swedish fuel company tells Computer Weekly about the firm’s digital journey and how IT has made sure it is part of the business

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IT Toolbox

MAY 31, 2016

San Francisco-based customer engagement specialist Sparkcentral has released an Open CRM API designed to connect and synchronize customer records between social platforms and existing CRM systems. Sparkcentral specializes in unifying social, mobile, cloud and contextual data to improve and personalize customer engagement.

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CTOvision

MAY 31, 2016

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Mobility. This is the greatest leap in humanity's ability to stay connected since the advent of spoken word.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 2, 2016

Triton system developed specifically for customized high-power Intel chips Read More.

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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.