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Boost conversion rates and sales with behavior science

Agile Engine

Introduction: impulse shopping, binge-watching, social media rabbit holes Ever found yourself impulse-ordering on UberEats or binge-scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or Reddit? When it comes to online behaviors like these, the small choices that we make aren’t entirely our own. Internet companies pour millions of dollars into behavior research to design digital experiences that prompt users to purchase faster or spend more time in apps.

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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

CIO

With more than 1 billion users globally, LinkedIn is continuously bumping against the limits of what is technically feasible in the enterprise today. Few companies operate at the scale that LinkedIn does or have access to similar troves of data. For the business- and employment-focused social media platform, connecting qualified candidates with potential employers to help fill job openings is core business.

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The Myths and Realities of Being a Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

CIO

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion. HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Made in Tandem Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2024 American Business Awards

Tandem

Made in Tandem was named the Gold Stevie® Award winner in the Professional Services category in The 22nd Annual American Business Awards® today. The award recognizes Made in Tandem’s work to modernize San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)’s legacy Emergency Notification System (ENS). Used to notify customers when power lines will be shut off due to wildfire-prone conditions, the ENS had been in place for 10+ years and needed an overhaul.

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5 Thoughts on SUGCON Europe 2024 in Dublin, Ireland

Perficient

SUGCON (Sitecore User Group Conference) Europe 2024 was the second SUGCON I’ve attended, with the first just being six months ago in Minneapolis. There are few things that remind me how much I love my job more than being surrounded by the Sitecore Community. I’ve developed real friendships with folks from literally every corner of the world and it’s only once or twice a year we get the whole “Sitecore Family” together.

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Oracle adds AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX

CIO

Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. The new capabilities, based on the company’s OCI Generative AI service , include generative AI -assisted answer generation, assisted scheduling for field service, opportunity quality scoring, and seller engagement recommendations.

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Equal Opportunities: Moving Beyond Buzzwords to Real Impact in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the True Meaning of Equal Opportunities Before truly embracing equal opportunities, we must acknowledge that it goes beyond treating everyone the same way. The term is often thrown around to depict all-encompassing fairness, and yet, many fail to understand its rich and intricate layers. Equal opportunities do not simply involve providing individuals with the same resources or treating everyone identically.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The New Age of Operations: Modern COO Search Strategies by N2Growth

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Evolving Role of a Chief Operating Officer In the ever-evolving world of business, the role of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is undergoing numerous transformations. Distinct from the traditional approaches that circumscribe the COO’s responsibilities within the firm’s administrative and operational functions, the contemporary business landscape necessitates a more strategic involvement of the COO in a corporation’s key decision-making processes.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO

At Salesforce World Tour NYC today, Salesforce unveiled a new global ecosystem of technology and solution providers geared to help its customers leverage third-party data via secure, bidirectional zero-copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud. “The big thing we hear from many of our customers is, ‘I already have data in N number of XYZ data platforms.

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IPO Market Insiders ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ That Current Trickle Will Get Stronger

Crunchbase News

With Microsoft -backed data security firm Rubrik set to enter the public market this week, talk about the rejuvenated IPO market has returned as many wonder who may be next, and when. Rubrik is set to join the likes of chip startup Astera Labs , Walmart -backed Ibotta and online forum host Reddit as one of the bigger IPOs so far this year. Those IPOs came after last year’s second-half offerings by Arm Holdings , Instacart and Klaviyo helped thaw an IPO pipeline that had been frozen for nearly tw

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M&A action is gaining momentum, are your cloud security leaders prepared?

CIO

As we near the halfway point of the year, organizations are under tremendous pressure to grow businesses across all industries. It’s no secret: bottom lines must rise and 2024 has been earmarked as a pivotal year to revert to growth mode. Many organizations will find an uphill battle here; the previous few years have taken a significant toll. From supply chain issues, layoffs, delayed pipelines, and stalled progress due to pulled focus, we are due for a burst of innovation.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Rubrik Shares Rise In Debut After Pricing Above Projected Range

Crunchbase News

Shares of data security and management company Rubrik rose 21% in early trading Thursday, marking the latest large software debut in an IPO market that’s showing signs of resurgence after a long lull. Palo Alto, California-based Rubrik priced its initial public offering at $32 a share on Wednesday, above the projected range of $28 to $31. The offering raised around $752 million for the company, and set an initial valuation around $5.6 billion.

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Do you need to repatriate from the cloud?

InfoWorld

Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. And the primary justification for this movement is straightforward, especially in a time of economic downturn. Save money by not using AWS, Azure, or the other cloud hosting services.

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A Wake-Up Call For Sustainable AI Data Centers

Crunchbase News

By Josh Claman The AI revolution is here, with the promise to produce breakthroughs that can save and enhance billions of lives. But the brilliant gleam of that potential is preventing us from clearly seeing a huge concern — we may not have enough electricity to power the growing number of AI-focused data centers. AI’s voracious appetite for power is driving an unprecedented demand for electricity.

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Ubuntu Linux update brings performance boosts, tool updates

InfoWorld

Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers. Announced April 25 and downloadable from ubuntu.com , Ubuntu 24.04 LTS offers Linux 6.8 kernel capabilities with improved syscall performance, nested KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support on ppc64el (IBM PowerPC), and access to the new beachefs file system.

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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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Copado Applies Generative AI to Salesforce Application Testing

DevOps.com

Copado's genAI tool automates testing in Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) application environments.

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A Proven Model to Combat U.S. Drug Shortages

Harvard Business Review

By leaning into transparency, eschewing rebate schemes, and cutting out middlemen, this nonprofit is able to significantly lower the market price of insulin.

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How to Set a Stretch Goal

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Once you’ve established your commit goals, you should also set stretch goals. Learn how to use the one-third, two-third method to set a stretch goal. In addition to setting a commit goal, you should also set a stretch. A stretch goal is what’s going to push people to achieve more. It still needs to be achievable when you go back and look at SMART goals, but it won’t have a guarantee of success.

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NET MAUI Community Toolkit adds TouchBehavior support

InfoWorld

Microsoft has introduced version 8 of the.NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) Community Toolkit, featuring TouchBehavior, for interacting with visual elements in an application based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events. The update was introduced April 24. Instructions for getting started with the toolkit are available on GitHub. With the new release, the TouchBehavior implementation enables customization of different visual properties on the VisualElement it is attached to, such as the backgro

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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The gift of ambition

David Heinemeier Hansson

The Babylon Bee ran this amazing bit last year: "Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Immediately Leave Their Desk Job If Asked To Embark Upon A Trans-Antarctic Expedition On A Big Wooden Ship" Yes. Exactly. Modern office workers are often starved for ambition, adventure, and even discomfort. This is why there's an endless line of recruits willing to sign up to work for leaders like Musk, despite his reputation for being an erratic hard ass.

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CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359: Frequently Asked Questions About ArcaneDoor

Tenable

Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-20353 and CVE-2024-20359, two vulnerabilities associated with “ArcaneDoor,” the espionage-related campaign targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances. Background The Tenable Security Response Team has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding an espionage campaign called ArcaneDoor.

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How to Build Tailored Enterprise Chatbots at Scale

Dataiku

Today, every company should be using Generative AI capabilities to complement machine learning techniques, streamline operations, and ultimately work smarter. Chat-based use cases will quickly become the new normal. That means increasingly more demand from the business to develop and deploy these use cases enterprise-wide.

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Embracing the Chaos: Database Resiliency Engineering

Dell EMC

Utilizing chaos as a method to proactively fortify our database servers against the unpredictability of real-world scenarios.

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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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Error'd: Enterprising Michael

The Daily WTF

Faithful Michael R. is good for a chuckle today. "I am using the free tier Infura right now but think I will go enterprisey straight away." Can't turn down a deal like that, eh? Chris M. sent in a captcha that is neither an error nor a wtf, but it's kind of funny so here you go: "Microsoft obviously doesn't use Google's CAPTCHA service, but whatever system they've got is hinting at a competitor to Xbox and a certain fruity laptop manufacturer's new in-house

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Special Series: Tech at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’re managing technology for your team or organization, this special series is for you.

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#777 Developing a Sense of Belonging as a Leader with Tony Martignetti, Founder at Inspired Purpose Partners

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Tony Martignetti, Founder at Inspired Purpose Partners. We discuss how Tony came to realize that he was inauthentic in the workplace, how he overcame these challenges and what he’s doing now to help leaders achieve the same transformation in their lives. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Inspired Purpose Partners, check out their website here.