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MAY 16, 2023

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. The software provider plans to do that by enhancing existing tools for estimating greenhouse gas emissions due to an enterprise’s activities, and adding capabilities for exchanging that data with partners, bringing it all together in a “green ledger” that will record the climate cost of doing business alongside the financ

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

When he was 10 years old, Patrick Gilligan’s childhood struggle with food began. Placed on a caloric-restrictive diet by a doctor, the regime left him feeling ashamed and alone and triggered what would become a more than decade-long eating disorder. “I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers. SAP is also looking to improve its customer experience tools in other ways, providing industry-specific accelerators to help some enterprises roll the software out faster, and he

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Owens Contributor Share on Twitter Christian Owens is executive chairman and co-founder of Paddle , a payments infrastructure provider for SaaS businesses. More posts by this contributor 3 growth levers every SaaS founder should know about Following the valuation collapse of the last 12 months, the phrase “efficient growth” is reverberating around SaaS boardrooms worldwide.

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MAY 16, 2023

In six short months, ChatGPT propelled artificial intelligence (AI) into the minds and imaginations of the masses more than any other development since the term “AI” was coined in 1956. According to research sponsored by techradar.pro, an astonishing 39% of U.S. and U.K. adult web users surveyed have used one or more generative AI tools. With media outlets racing to get exclusives out the door on the latest “big thing,” sifting through the excitement to find the bigger picture is challenging.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Piles upon piles of paper crowded the branch manager’s desk and cluttered the nearby credenza. Set amid an open floor plan, the stacks of files left sensitive customer information—business and personal, loans and deposits—available for all to see 1.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Wefox , the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. The funding amount isn’t going to impress anyone as the company managed to secure $55 million. This could be considered as an extension of the $400 million Series D round as Wefox managed to maintain the same valuation of $4.5 billion. The fact that Wefox is still valued at $4.5 billion is an interesting tidbit though.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

For companies looking for an edge in the tight talent market, a solid DEI strategy and employee engagement often go hand in hand, creating a balance that fosters an inclusive work environment. When employees feel they can bring their authentic selves to work, it can result in higher levels of employee productivity and satisfaction, improved retention rates, and more effective recruiting efforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Last year, Americans bought more heat pumps than gas furnaces, a striking split that’s likely to widen in the coming years as consumer awareness and climate regulations foster their uptake. Heat pumps are already widely used to cool homes across the Southeast, and they’re making inroads in the Northeast and Midwest, where consumers are warming to the concept of using one device for both heating and cooling.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

With the rise of cloud computing, many organizations rapidly adopted public cloud services alongside cloud principles in dedicated IT environments, or private clouds, to accelerate innovation and meet business requirements. This led to the rise of multicloud: today, almost nine out of 10 IT environments include a mix of public and private clouds 1. In some instances, organizations undertook a thoughtful and planned approach to their multicloud strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan , the co-founder and CEO at Samooha , a startup creating the infrastructure needed for data collaboration. Kamakshi talked about what it is like being a repeat founder in a male-dominated technical field. She talked about juggling being a parent and a company leader and how she thinks being a mother makes her a better entrepreneur.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Consumers love smart personalization. Developers get fired up about building AI-powered apps. And just two months after ChatGPT launched, 100 million people have added tapping into the power of AI to their toolbox. These signals point toward an “AI everywhere” future: one in which it’s a competency of every firm, and a sidekick (or “co-pilot,” in Microsoft’s lexicon ) to every worker.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Chances are you don’t like wasting time in useless meetings. People often say that this meeting should have been an email. But what about one-to-one calls? Could they be a series of voice messages and quick text replies? Meet Async , a new productivity startup based in New York that wants to replace quick calls with asynchronous audio messages. While voice messages are increasingly popular in consumer messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, this communication method hasn’t taken off in a

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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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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Shared Drives are a fantastic way to collaborate and manage governance at the same time. So you should always consider whether you use ‘My Drive’ or a Shared Drive. When transferring your work from one to another, in the past you could only transfer one or more separate files. But Google wouldn’t be Google if they did not find a better solution for you.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Historically, the Black community in the U.S. has been disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is nearly always at risk of facing the brunt of natural disasters, no matter where they occur. This issue has inspired many Black founders and investors to enter the climate space, given that the conversation of today’s current crisis is led by white people and is hence missing some key perspectives.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

This post was originally published at 47deg.com on June 21, 2022. Why should you think once again about testing Spark? Sometimes it’s good to look back at how things were supposed to be done, what went wrong along the way, and how to make amends. Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. Here are the reasons: Launching the Spark job on premise was very cheap.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

According to the founder of Singapore-based telehealth platform Ora, 90% of its patients are less than 39 years old and have not been treated for their conditions offline. That puts the onus on Ora to make sure its patients, mostly millennials who live in cities, have a good experience. Ora wants to perform with verticals focused on specific health issues, like women’s and men’s health and skincare.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Dbt streamlines the analytics engineering workflow, covering all steps from development and testing to documentation and deployment, all in a non-intrusive way. This means that you can create documentation, tests, and deploy changes with minimal effort and maintain them easily. In my previous blog post, I discussed how to manage multiple BigQuery projects with one dbt Cloud project , but left the setup of the deployment pipeline for a later moment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Normally in the music industry, it’s more or less impossible for ordinary investors to buy music rights. Thus, Web3 startups saw an opportunity to tokenise music assets, allowing fans access to music rights in a wholly new fashion. Of course, this garnered a lot of interest during the Crypto boom a couple of years ago. For example, Royal launched an NFT-based music platform which allowed fans to buy and sell tokenised ownership of songs.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Before you invest in hiring an employee, you need to ask yourself this one question: “What is the cost of hiring a new employee?” The costs involved in every organization are different. For some, the costs are lower and for some, they are higher. If the cost per hire for your new hires is lower, you’re doing it right. But if it’s the latter, you need to revisit your recruitment costs and optimize them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Okay, so you’ve created a comprehensive list of investors you want to talk to. Now how the hell do you meet them? A vanishingly small number of investors will look at any pitch — GoAhead ventures is one such firm. For most VCs, though, you’ll need to get your foot in the door to be heard. Many investors prefer, and insist on, warm introductions.

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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.

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DevOps.com

MAY 16, 2023

SapientAI emerged from stealth today to automate the writing of test code using a combination of generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning algorithms and data science. Fresh from raising $5 million in seed funding, SapientAI CEO Rishi Singh said the goal is to leverage AI to push application testing further left using an AI Test […] The post SapientAI Emerges From Stealth to Apply AI to App Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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MAY 16, 2023

A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you! You procrastinators can thank your lucky stars, we’re giving you (a little) more time to get your application together. Pro tip: Applying to and participating in SB 200 is 100% free.

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DevOps.com

MAY 16, 2023

Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage service from Microsoft Azure. It provides a scalable, secure and highly available data storage solution for businesses of any size. The platform includes various services such as Azure Blob, which is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data such as documents, images, videos and backups. Azure Files […] The post Quick Guide to Azure Storage Pricing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The business of platforms for purchasing goods and services — in other words, procurement — is alive and well. Case in point, Zip , a startup developing procurement software, yesterday announced its $100 million Series C funding led by Y Combinator with participation from CRV and Tiger Global. Zip CEO Rujul Zaparde says that the financing, which values Zip at $1.5 billion, will be put toward “new applications of generative AI” and “encouraging adoption” across

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MAY 16, 2023

While digitization has simplified many organizational tasks, it has simultaneously made other facets of business more complex, including an ever-growing attack surface. As the number of connected devices and online services continues to grow, identifying all of these assets and potential vulnerabilities is a challenge. Implementing effective security measures becomes more difficult, especially if you are relying on manual inventory processes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Spiff , providing sales commission software, secured $50 million in Series C capital and the launch of Spiff Designer, its newest model builder for finance and revenue teams. Salesforce Ventures led the round and was joined by a group of investors that included Lightspeed, Norwest, Kickstart Fund and Album. With the new investment, Spiff raised $117 million in total funding to date.

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DevOps.com

MAY 16, 2023

Every year, the amount of data that needs to be backed up increases. There are two ways to store backups – using on-premises facilities or trusting cloud-based solutions. Having an on-premises storage infrastructure can be costly for a company. This is because of the high prices for storage equipment and the expenses to maintain this […] The post Using Microsoft Azure as a Backup Repository appeared first on DevOps.com.

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