Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Decision-making is becoming more critical than ever. Organizational performance depends heavily on the timing and quality of decisions. We live in a time when everything is questioned — products, ideas, images, old information, prejudices, even people. This makes decision-making harder. To make easier and faster decisions with fewer resources, leaders need the support of decision-makingtechnology.
CIO
JANUARY 11, 2024
2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Add the rapid rise of generative AI, and the past year was one in which CIOs often found themselves on the back foot, reacting to disruptions and shifting strategies in real-time.
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OTS Solutions
JANUARY 11, 2024
Introduction to Digital Technologies in Mental Health Therapy Digital technologies have rapidly transformed mental health therapy practices. With the emergence of AI, ML, DevOps, AR VR cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, digital transformation, application modernization, and other digital technologies, IT practice in mental health therapy is undergoing significant changes.
CIO
JANUARY 11, 2024
When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly. Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends,
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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.
Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Don’t wait to develop your documents until you have all the details: with the help of placeholder chips in Google Docs you can get started and simply fill in the rest later. Google continues to develop their smart canvas options in Docs by helping you simplify workflows and complete common tasks with easy-to-use prompts in Google Docs. And now they’re introducing placeholder chips.
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Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. As one of the most reused concepts of the past decade, it demonstrates how teams need autonomy to be efficient, but must be aligned with the organization’s goals and roadmap. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment.
CIO
JANUARY 11, 2024
Accenture on Wednesday said it is acquiring digital transformation services provider Navisite in an effort to boost its cloud transformation business. While the terms of the acquisition from private equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners were not disclosed, the Massachusetts-based firm is expected to bolster Accenture’s application and infrastructure-managed services capabilities in North America.
Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Stop Testing Implementations One class, one test. Some of you might agree with this statement, and I used to as well. I no longer do, and have been flagellated for breaking this “rule”. We should stop fixating on a test per class, method, function, or whatever technical construct of your choosing – to make a goal or necessity to have a one to one relation between tests and technical construct.
CIO
JANUARY 11, 2024
SAP is paying a total of over $220 million to settle investigations by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This is according to a statement from the US Department of Justice. The German software company is alleged to have bribed officials in various countries in order to secure contracts from authorities and governments.
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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
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2024
Demographic change, driven by decades of low birth rates and increased longevity, is remaking labor markets and economies worldwide at an astonishing pace. That means that organizations need to quickly shift how they recruit and retain employees of all ages, including by developing new policies and benefits. Organizations that take employee well-being seriously realize early on that getting ahead of conditions like menopause reduces an incredible burden on their workforce and can improve the bot
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 11, 2024
The fact that attribution -especially against states – is even done with any confidence is surprising given that those that attributing both herald the sophistication associated with state actors while at the same time citing their carelessness as one of the reasons that they were able to be identified in the first place. Read more here.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2024
Many leaders learned how to navigate vertical hierarchies — but not how to collaborate with peers who have different agendas, motivations, and priorities.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
In today’s interconnected and fast-paced business world, the lines between cooperation and competition are becoming increasingly blurred. More companies are realizing they can achieve greater success by combining collaborative efforts with competitive actions, giving rise to the term “coopetition.” This dynamic approach has numerous benefits and challenges, and savvy organizations can leverage it to foster growth and gain a competitive edge.
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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 11, 2024
Harness has acquired the assets of Armory, a provider of CD platforms based on the open source Spinnaker platform and a cloud service based on a proprietary platform.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. However, recent technological advancements and industry shifts have expanded and evolved this role significantly. As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 11, 2024
In the rapidly evolving world of digital commerce, the way we approach online shopping is transforming. E-commerce has come a long way from the early days of simple online storefronts to today's dynamic, multi-faceted shopping experiences. This evolution is not just about technological advancements; it's a response to changing consumer behaviors and expectations.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 11, 2024
2023 was very much the year of the large language model. OpenAI’s GPT models , Meta’s Llama , Google’s PaLM , and Anthropic’s Claude 2 are all large language models, or LLMs, with many billions of parameters, trained on content from the internet, and used to generate text and code.
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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.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Circle Internet Financial has circled back around on its hopes to be a public company. The company, which is behind the USDC stablecoin, said it has confidentially filed (although not all that confidentially since it issued a press release ) for a U.S. initial public offering. Circle said the number of shares it plans to sell has not been determined and no proposed price range was given for the offering.
InfoWorld
JANUARY 11, 2024
OpenAI finally launched the much-awaited GPT store, which allows users to purchase and sell different GPTs based on OpenAI’s large language models. The store serves as a marketplace for personalized AI applications, allowing users to access various AI applications. Some examples of customized applications, shared by OpenAI, include Khan Academy’s Code Tutor for learning coding skills and Canva to design presentations or social posts.
The Citus Data
JANUARY 11, 2024
The PgConf.Dev CFP closes on Monday, January 15 at 11:59pm PST , so if you want to speak at the inaugural PgConf.Dev, submit a proposal! PgConf.Dev is the new PostgreSQL Development Conference, the successor to PGCon, a Postgres contribution-focused conference that took place every year in Ottawa. Pronounced "Pee-gee-conf-dot-dev", the inaugural year of PgConf.Dev will take place in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, on May 28-31, 2024—with many of the same conference features that mad
InfoWorld
JANUARY 11, 2024
Most developers are optimistic that AI will reduce their workload and are eager to use it, but some don’t trust AI, according to a newly released report from technical hiring platform CoderPad. The report, State of Tech Hiring 2024 , published January 9, found that 70% of developers believe AI will help reduce their workload and 60% want to use AI more as part of their job.
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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.
Dell EMC
JANUARY 11, 2024
Explore mobile connectivity for informed PC choices—considering reliability, speed and ubiquity in 4G LTE, 5G and Wi-Fi options.
The Hustle
JANUARY 11, 2024
It’s not every day that an 111-year-old product suddenly shoots to internet fame. But for Stanley, that’s exactly what happened. After more than a century of selling reusable thermoses to pilots and workmen, the brand’s 40-ounce, $45 Quencher tumbler took off with a new group of fans: women on social media. And when we say “took off,” we mean it: Since 2020, the insulated Stanley Quencher has become one of the world’s most popular water bottles.
Dell EMC
JANUARY 11, 2024
Retailers can harness the power of technology to overcome the known and unknown challenges ahead.
The Hustle
JANUARY 11, 2024
Scientists have done something both fun and dystopian: They’ve created an AI death clock. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Northeastern University developed life2vec, an AI model trained on the health, education, employment, income, and other data of Danish citizens collected between 2016-2020, per USA Today. How it works The recently-published findings are a bit more scientific than the demonic app from the 2019 film Countdown , which has a 26% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens
JANUARY 11, 2024
I’m thrilled for this year because I am publishing my first book! This is the work of three (or twelve, depending on how you count it) years. The book, “ It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022 ,” includes content from this blog and articles originally published elsewhere. I took all those articles, cleaned up the grammar, edited for clarity, and organized them into themes and logical progression.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 11, 2024
We are in the midst of a Covid, RSV, and flu virus surge that both media and governmental outlets have not and are no doing any public messaging about (in some regions, the current surge is matches the metrics the first Omnicron surge in 2021). In this post, we take a look at various perspespectives on science and public health policy communication as one of the fundamental failings of both the recent pandemic experience and the ongoing climate crisis.
The Programmer's Paradox
JANUARY 11, 2024
You learn a lot during thirty years. I tried to write about most of it in this blog, at least from a higher level perspective bringing lots of different things that have happened together, but some things are smaller and just don’t fit. Each one of these is rooted in at least one epic failure. Doing the screens first and persistence last is a common top-down development approach, but it is a very bad mistake.
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