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Streamlining AI-Driven Digital Transformation with GitHub Copilot

Xebia

As global enterprises grapple with the challenges of expediting software development cycles, fostering innovation, boosting developer efficiency, and incorporating advanced AI capabilities, the need for a robust solution is more pressing than ever. GitHub Copilot emerges as a pivotal tool in this landscape, offering a seamless integration that aligns with these organizational imperatives.

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A “Growth-at-All-Costs” Mindset Can Stall Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.

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Revolutionizing Accounts Payable Excellence: Cherrywork’s SAP ICC-Certified AI Automation Solution 

Cherry Work

In today’s fast-paced business environment, optimizing accounts payable (AP) processes is crucial for driving efficiency and cost savings. At Cherrywork , we are proud to announce our SAP ICC-certified AP automation solution, empowering organizations to revolutionize their AP operations and achieve unparalleled excellence. Let’s embark on a journey to explore how Cherrywork’s cutting-edge technology, coupled with SAP ICC certification, is reshaping the future of AP.

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How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

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Dell Technologies Powering Creativity from Studio to Screen

Dell EMC

Revolutionizing media and entertainment technology and enabling creative professionals to conquer their most demanding applications.

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Bringing DevOps Automation to Legacy Systems

DevOps.com

Most organizations that adopt DevOps for conventional applications use automation tools and techniques, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Configuration-as-Code (CaC), automated testing, release automation and application orchestration. Applying automation to operations isn’t always straightforward, especially with older systems that don’t easily fit into typical DevOps automation tools and strategies.

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How Gig Work Pits Customers Against Workers

Harvard Business Review

While gig work has offered workers benefits like flexibility, it has also come at the expense of lower pay, limited protections, surveillance, and limited privacy. Tactics such as petitions and boycotts have been used to effect change for workers in the traditional economy, but these have proven far less effective in the gig economy. To explore why, the authors use sociologist Robin Leidner’s concept of the customer service triangle to illustrate the ways that workers, companies, and customers a

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Build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The rise of contextual and semantic search has made ecommerce and retail businesses search straightforward for its consumers. Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. This enhances the overall user experience, helping customers find exactly what they’re looking for.

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Google rolls out a new JPEG coding library

InfoWorld

Google has introduced Jpegli , a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful. Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub , Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio at high-quality compression settings, Google said.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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Focusing and Eliminating Distractions

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn how to identify distractions and focus your team on the most strategically important initiatives for your organization. In a fast paced world, there is no shortage of distractions. Side projects, interesting new ideas, and the crisis of the day can divert resources from key strategic initiatives. In isolation, pursuing these small ideas make sense, but when you put them in the broader context of your strategic initiatives, you get to see exactly how nonstrategic these distractions are.

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Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse

Ooda Loop

Regular readers of the OODA Loop know that we cover exponential technologies daily and we expect disproportionate disruption when these technologies start to converge. In this post, we explore AI + an expanded working definition (with subcategories) of what is broadly considered "the metaverse" + blockchain technology as an example of the exponential tech stack starting to converge (a subtheme of the OODA Almanac 2024).

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OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork

InfoWorld

OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and backward-compatible.” Hugely promising, but extraordinarily difficult to pull off.

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Making the AI Breakthrough in Life Sciences R&D

Dataiku

In the quest to combat diseases that afflict humanity, the biopharmaceutical industry has long faced significant challenges, not the least of which is the arduous process of drug discovery and the time-consuming and costly methodologies of traditional scientific experimentation. However, a new era is emerging as AI promises to be a transformative force that could revolutionize all aspects of medicine, from diagnosis to treatment.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop

InfoWorld

Apache Spark defined Apache Spark is a data processing framework that can quickly perform processing tasks on very large data sets, and can also distribute data processing tasks across multiple computers, either on its own or in tandem with other distributed computing tools. These two qualities are key to the worlds of big data and machine learning , which require the marshalling of massive computing power to crunch through large data stores.

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Recover from a Cyberattack

Dell EMC

Effective recovery from a cyberattack is crucial for advancing cybersecurity maturity and restoring business operations.

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CodeSOD: A Valid Applicant

The Daily WTF

In the late 90s into the early 2000s, there was an entire industry spun up to get businesses and governments off their mainframe systems from the 60s and onto something modern. "Modern", in that era, usually meant Java. I attended vendor presentations, for example, that promised that you could take your mainframe, slap a SOAP webservice on it, and then gradually migrate modules off the mainframe and into Java Enterprise Edition.

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Confluent Named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape Reports

Confluent

Learn why Confluent was named a Leader in the analytic stream processing and event brokering software markets. We believe we innovate every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka®, and robust developer tooling.

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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.

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Aembit Selected as Finalist for RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox Contest

DevOps.com

Silver Spring, United States / Maryland, April 3rd, 2024, CyberNewsWire The Leading Company for Securing Access Between Workloads Recognized for the Aembit Workload IAM Platform Aembit, the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) Company, has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the RSA Conference™ 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest for its platform that […]

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Rust memory safety explained

InfoWorld

Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast, machine-native software that also has strong guarantees for memory safety. Other languages, like C, may run fast and close to the metal, but they lack the language features to ensure program memory is allocated and disposed of properly. As noted recently by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, these shortcomings enable software insecurities and exploits with costly real-world conse

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The Key to Consistent Growth Is Having the Right Incentives

Harvard Business Review

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.

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Full-stack web development with HTMX and Bun, Part 1: Elysia and MongoDB

InfoWorld

Bun and HTMX are two of the most interesting things happening in software right now. Bun is an incredibly fast, all-in-one server-side JavaScript platform, and HTMX is an HTML extension used to create simple, powerful interfaces. In this article, we'll use these two great tools together to develop a full-stack application that uses MongoDB for data storage and Elysia as its HTTP server.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Find and Fix XZ Utils in Just a Few Clicks

Prisma Clud

Mitigating CVE-2024-3094 By now you’ve likely heard about the vulnerability in XZ Utils Data Compression Library that impacted multiple Linux distributions ( CVE-2024-3094 ) and read the threat brief Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 posted. I’m sure you understand all the recommended precautionary measures—downgrading vulnerable XZ Utils versions to 5.4.6 (the latest unaffected version), reverting affected Linux distributions to stable releases and treating any systems identified as vulnerable as pote

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9 Machine Learning Algorithms For Recommendation Engines

Daffodil Software

Recommendation engines stand as the backbone of personalized online experiences, guiding users to discover content, products, and services that meet their preferences. From driving online shoppers to their next favorite product, or suggesting the next binge-worthy movie according to the viewer’s genre history, recommendation engines are the hidden force behind driving user-preferred actions on digital platforms.

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[Podcast] What if You Ran Your Innovation Lab Like a Casino? An Interview With Eisaiah Engel

Perficient

In the latest episode of “What If, So What?” host Jim Hertzfeld invites Eisaiah Engel, author of “ Innovation Casino ,” to dive deep into the essence of innovation in today’s business landscape. Engel shares his unique perspective on tackling innovation challenges across the spectrum as he and Jim explore the critical role of innovation in achieving differentiated, premium branding and generating alpha returns.

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Do You Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve?

Harvard Business Review

To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Two Perficient Colleagues Quoted in Forrester Report on Emerging Insurance Technologies

Perficient

Insurers are constantly striving to improve their operations, provide better experiences for customers, and minimize risks. Perficient insurance experts were interviewed for Forrester’s report, “ The Top Emerging Technologies In Insurance, 2024 ,” and discussed technologies expected to emerge in the insurance industry over the next five years, considering them now, and in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future.

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GitHub Actions update tightens security

InfoWorld

GitHub Actions , an automated CI/CD platform for GitHub, has been enhanced for enterprise customers, with capabilities including stronger security and GPU-enhanced runners for machine learning. GitHub announced updates to its hosted runner fleet for Actions on April 2. To strengthen security, GitHub Actions now offers Azure private networking for GitHub-hosted runners.

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Life After Implementation of Data Analytics: Why Post Implementation Is Important?

Coforge

Elevate your data analytics post-implementation with our free health check and consultation, backed by successful projects for top global clients