Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2024

The venture capital ecosystem faces a severe liquidity crunch. But although the IPO market shows new signs of life , startup investors should be looking to M&A this year to bring more capital back into the system. That’s the view from Ryan Hinkle , managing director at New York-based startup investor Insight Partners , one of the most active investment firms in the bull run in private tech companies in 2021 and into the first half of 2022, when the firm announced its $20 billion fund,

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

The threat of cyberattack has never been higher, and nearly nine in 10 (88%) of security leaders believe their organization is not meeting the challenge of addressing security risks, according to the Foundry Security Priorities Study 2023. Manufacturing, in particular, is facing significant threats, with ransomware accounting for almost one-quarter of attacks (24%), according to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report – Manufacturing Snapshot.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning Succession planning is crucial to any organization’s growth strategy, and its importance cannot be overstated. This process helps organizations align their current and future business goals, promotes employee career development, and ensures smooth leadership transitions. A well-executed plan can minimize the risks of abrupt departures or retirements, thereby maintaining business continuity and preserving institutional knowledge.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

The adoption of AI is creating a tectonic shift in the skills requirement and thereby the hiring needs for companies, according to a report by EY. According to a poll conducted by EY in March with over 250 industry leaders, half of the participants expect a trend of simultaneous layoffs and hiring as companies grapple with the evolving skillsets required in the AI era.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding Emotional Intelligence: An Overview Emotional Intelligence, often referred to as EQ , signifies an individual’s ability to perceive, assess, and govern their own emotions while also empathetically engaging with the emotions of others. It involves self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, social skills, and empathy. These different components create a set of abilities that help individuals effectively navigate social complexities, cultivate meaningful relationships, and le

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 30, 2024

A few decades from now, historians might conclude we are living in a Second Gilded Age. In a bit of a repeat of the 1890s, our mid-2020s seems to be an era where technological advancements have triggered fear and uncertainty about what the application of those technologies means for workers, industries, and nations.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

The European Parliament voted in mid-March to approve the EU AI Act , the world’s first major piece of legislation that would regulate the use and deployment of artificial intelligence applications. The vote isn’t the final passage, but it indicates that many CIOs at organizations using AI tools will have new regulations to comply with, as the law will apply both to organizations developing AIs and those simply deploying them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2024

Whenever a new technology comes along, large companies think you need to appoint a designated senior leader — a “czar,” in popular parlance — and it will get taken care of. This, however, is a mistake. The process usually starts when teams are pitching leadership on wildly optimistic and conflicting use cases, and the board, excited but unsure how to proceed, puts some poor, unsuspecting soul in charge of the whole thing.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

Enterprises are moving computing resources closer to where data is created, making edge locations ideal for not only collecting and aggregating local data but also for consuming it as input for generative processes. AI, including Generative AI (GenAI), has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing how machines learn, create, and adapt.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

The Role of an Executive Coach in Your Development In today’s dynamic business environment, executive coaching’s role in leadership development has become more critical than ever. As a trusted advisor and coach to top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed the transformative power of coaching firsthand and its impact on organizations.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up. While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event. Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Lead long enough and it’s eventually going to happen. Your team is going to come up against a tough run. Things were going great and then, suddenly, they’re not. The tough times could last for weeks, months, or even a year or more. The causes can be varied – competitive pressures, customer service challenges, a financial squeeze, uncontrollable externalities – and aren’t mutually exclusive.

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Daffodil Software

APRIL 30, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming organizations by offering more efficiency and problem-solving skills. However, AI development can be costly due to the high computation demands and enormous data processing requirements. When using cloud environments, these costs may escalate rapidly if not adequately managed.

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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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Netlify

APRIL 30, 2024

Netlify Image CDN effortlessly resizes, crops, and reformats images to deliver globally optimized media—selecting the best file type based on the user’s browser.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2024

How can you decline a promotion without making things awkward? In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on how to navigate this complicated situation. First, explore the underlying reasons behind your hesitation. If you are 100% sure you don’t want the promotion, decline as swiftly as possible. Be tactful and tactical. While there’s no need to provide an exhaustive account of your decision, framing it strategically is important.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Board’s Responsibility in Promoting Sustainable Ethics & Practices Board members are crucial in guiding corporate entities toward adopting ethics and sustainable practices. By setting clear policies, earmarking resources for green initiatives, and meticulously monitoring their execution, they carve out a path for the organization’s impact.

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 30, 2024

Backstage helps large teams document their infrastructure and services. This extends the open source version.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Embracing the Age of Automation The dawn of automation is upon us. This shift is bringing forth benefits and challenges and drastically transforming the way companies operate, as well as people working together. As this digital revolution unfolds, it is essential for leaders to adopt the advanced tools at their fingertips and encourage and embrace the automation age with open arms.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2024

Cybersecurity venture funding saw a small bounce back in the first quarter of the year and a couple of large raises Tuesday may indicate that trend continuing. Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $175 million Series D at a $3 billion valuation — doubling its last valuation from less than a year ago. The round was led by new investor Coatue and existing investor Sequoia Capital.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning The importance of succession planning cannot be overstated in ensuring an organization’s longevity and growth. It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Unforeseen departures in key leadership roles can disrupt a company’s ecosystem, the shockwaves of which can be detrimental, even catastrophic if th

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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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Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2024

A few months ago, we wrote about an uptick in accounting-related startup investment , much of it driven by AI-enabled applications. As it turns out, that investment theme continues to resonate, with more large financings in the past few weeks. Most recently, Ageras , a Copenhagen-based accounting platform provider, picked up $88 million Tuesday in a growth round led by Investcorp.

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Dell EMC

APRIL 30, 2024

Learn about the newest Dell data protection portfolio innovations, including a refresh of high-end PowerProtect Data Domain appliances.

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QBurst

APRIL 30, 2024

Managing tenant complaints is tricky. Tenants want quick resolution for issues with their living spaces, and rightly so; a leaky roof or a clogged sink are not issues patience can solve. But attending to them at warp speed is by no means easy. Property managers are overextended for one. Between marketing and maintenance, they have […] The post Fast-Track Tenant Complaint Resolution with AI Chatbot appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 30, 2024

In its latest The State of Cloud Cost in 2024 report, CloudZero illuminates the serious implications of cloud cost management and its effect on business stability and job security. The conclusions are interesting. CloudZero’s survey, which drew insights from 1,000 finance and engineering professionals, underscored a crucial element in cloud cost management: the pivotal role of engineering teams.

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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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CableLabs

APRIL 30, 2024

We hear a lot about 5G/6G mobile and 10G cable these days, but another technology is also helping lead the pack to much less fanfare. It’s a technology that’s as essential as the public utilities you rely on every day. In fact, you’re most likely using it to read this blog post. Just as you expect your electric, water, sewer or natural gas services to be available without interruption, you likely also depend on your Wi-Fi to be working all the time.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2024

By Renee Sieli One of the most effective ways to generate brand awareness is for an organization’s executive team, particularly the CEO or founder, to establish a thought leadership profile. A thought leader is someone who has established a profile for offering industry insight, unique perspectives and advice. Thought leaders cement expertise in the public domain, which positively reflects on the individual and the brand they represent.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 30, 2024

Teradata is adding support for two open table formats, Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation’s Delta Lake , to its multi-cloud analytics platform VantageCloud Lake and its AI and machine learning engine Unlimited AI. Typically, open table formats are architected to generate performance for data lakes using cloud-based object storage. The performance is achieved by creating a layer of abstraction atop a data lake via the use of columnar storage and metadata management that allows enterprises to man

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