Fri.Mar 15, 2024

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3 Concrete Ways to Drive AI ROI

Dataiku

With Generative AI in the picture, there has never been more pressure (especially from the board room and business leaders) to invest in AI. But it’s not enough to implement data science and AI use cases. They also must bring real-world, tangible return on investment (ROI) for the business.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction wit

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Code samples for the opening chapter of Refactoring

Martin Fowler

From time to time people ask me for a copy of the code I used in the opening chapter of Refactoring , so they can follow along themselves. I had Reasons for not providing this code, specifically laziness. Fortunately Emily Bache is more dedicated, and she has set up a github repository - the Theatrical Players Refactoring Kata - with the code, and enough tests to make it reasonable to do the refactoring.

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Pentagon’s first chief AI officer leaves after two years

CIO

The first leader of the fledgling Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office [CDAO] in the US Department of Defense is leaving his post, but the Pentagon already has a successor lined up. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Craig Martell, the first head of the CDAO, was hired by the Pentagon in April 2022, just after the new office unofficially launched in January.

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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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More Funding Goes To Startups Fighting Disinformation 

Crunchbase News

Going online to find accurate information these days can seem like a futile effort. From inaccuracy-laden AI-generated verbiage to deliberate deepfakes and disinformation, conducting research isn’t what it used to be. Even keeping up with the news now usually entails wading through reams of misleading or outright false content. We’re fed up. And increasingly, our frustrations are inspiring startup investors to back businesses aimed at weeding out misinformation.

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A New Way to Compensate Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Although the business environment is completely different than it was 20 years ago, the way most companies structure sales quotas and compensation has not evolved to keep up. To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly. They should then identify what is actually driving growth.

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Canadian CIOs discuss driving digital transformation at a rapid pace

CIO

According to the State of the CIO, 2024 research “79% of heads of IT say that CIOs have a strong educational partnership with the CEO/board of directors “and “88% of CIOs say that their role is becoming more digital and innovation focused”. I moderated roundtables across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa in the fall of 2023 and early 2024 hosted by CIO and IDC and sponsored by IBM and TD SYNNEX.

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Making Sustainability More Tangible

Harvard Business Review

A persistent managerial challenge is how to account for the intangible value generated from sustainability initiatives. Executives recognize the impacts these efforts engender with key stakeholders, including employees, customers, investors, partners, politicians, and the like. The challenge is that these important stakeholder impacts are difficult to see or measure — for example, you can’t look at two eggs and identify which one was grown sustainably.

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Freeing up finance: how to control spend, without slowing down business

CIO

In the hustle of running a business, many companies overlook the hidden costs that can silently eat away at their bottom line. Take business expenses. You probably have systems set up to manage your strategic spending. But if you’re like many companies, a good chunk of your spending – perhaps as much as one-fifth – will be tactical and unforeseen. That could be unexpected travel expenses, unplanned inventory top-ups, or ad hoc expenditure on subscriptions or advertising.

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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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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions. Martin also suggests that as leaders, we should focus on re-recruiting our existing employees by answering four key questions: (1) why the world is better with our company in it, (2) how our company

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Hypersonic Vehicles are a Technological Tie that Binds U.S.-Sino Researchers

Ooda Loop

A report from the Frontier Assessments Unit is a deep dive into hypersonic vehicle research with a very specific framing: that of the collaborative efforts between U.S. universities and their research affiliations with universities and research organizations in China: "These vehicles hold the promise of revolutionizing rapid response capabilities, reconnaissance, and even commercial air travel.the landscape of hypersonic vehicle research is not confined within national borders.

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Navigating the Maze of SSDLC Models: A DevOps-Centric Analysis

DevOps.com

In the world of software development, the integration of security into the software development life cycle (SDLC) is no longer a luxury.

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Why public cloud providers are cutting egress fees

InfoWorld

Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or “egress fees” for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there’s a cost; for instance, you move inventory data from an inventory system residing in a public cloud provider to a supply chain system on premises or perhaps even on another public cloud provider.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes: Maximizing Benefits, Exploring Use Cases, and Adopting Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

In today's fast-paced world of technology, efficient application deployment and management are crucial. Kubernetes, a game-changing platform for container orchestration, is at the forefront of this evolution. At Atmosly, we leverage Kubernetes to empower organizations in navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape, offering solutions that intertwine with Kubernetes' strengths to enhance your technological capabilities.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Applied Intuition And Luminary Cloud Rise Above

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. This week was a story of the haves and have-nots.

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Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco

InfoWorld

Falco , the open-source, cloud-native, runtime security tool, recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program. That means it’s considered stable and ready for use in production environments, including Azure. It joins many of the key components of a cloud-native platform including Helm, Envoy, etcd, KEDA, and Cloud Events.

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Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line

David Heinemeier Hansson

I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are: 1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone anywhere. If you don't have a clue where you're going, any road can take you there, and running in circles is as good as making progress.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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Mechanoid brings Wasm to embedded systems and IoT

InfoWorld

Mechanoid , an open-source framework for building WebAssembly applications on embedded systems and IoT (internet of things) devices, has been launched by software company The Hybrid Group. The Hybrid Group released Mechanoid 0.1.0 and Mechanoid 0.1.1 this week on GitHub. Developers can try it out now. Mechanoid is intended to ease the task of building applications that are extendable and secure and take advantage of the latest developments in both WebAssembly and embedded development.

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Monte Carlo Simulation for backlog prognosis - with one function in Google Sheets

Marcusoft

Ever since I first read When will it be done by Daniel Vacanti I have been fascinated with how much prognosis work that can be created using very little data. I have written extensively about these “kanban metrics” in other blog posts , should you want a deeper understanding. Dan and the Actionable Team have created a brilliant tool called Actionable which has many more capabilities than I will show here.

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Microsoft to Release Security AI Product to Help Clients Track Hackers

Ooda Loop

Microsoft Corp. plans to release artificial intelligence tools on April 1 that will help cybersecurity workers produce summaries of suspicious incidents and ferret out the devious methods hackers use to obscure their intentions.

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Hyper-Personalization in Banking: Principles, Applications, Benefits, and Best Practices

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the dynamic arena of banking, hyper-personalization emerges as a beacon of innovation, reshaping customer interactions in profound ways. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore this intriguing domain, unravelling its core principles, diverse applications, associated benefits, The post Hyper-Personalization in Banking: Principles, Applications, Benefits, and Best Practices appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture

Ooda Loop

A new Abu Dhabi investment company is in talks to back OpenAI’s ambitious chip venture, in the latest effort by the United Arab Emirates to become a global powerbroker in the development of artificial intelligence.

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How to Simplify Your Business Processes with Microsoft 365

Invid Group

How to Simplify Your Business Processes with Microsoft 365 By: INVID Formerly known as Office 365, Microsoft 365 is a feature-rich suite that goes beyond standard Microsoft Office programs. This cloud-based platform offers enterprises many benefits that promote expansion and cost reductions. Let’s look at the top 10 advantages that Microsoft 365 can provide your company if you are considering implementing it.

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NATO Allies Must do More as Ukraine Runs Out of Ammunition: Stoltenberg

Ooda Loop

Ukraine is running out of ammunition and NATO members are not doing enough to help Kyiv, said Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary-general, More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s military has recently been grappling with significantly reduced weapons supplies from the West.

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Perficient Included in Forrester Trends Report: Rethink Enterprise Applications Governance

Perficient

Perficient, a leader in digital transformation, has been included as a company interviewed in Forrester’s recent report, “ Rethink Enterprise Applications Governance : Refocus Applications Governance And High-Performance IT Exploiting New Technologies To Win, Serve, And Retain Customers.” This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of enterprise applications governance, shedding light on the transformative potential of new technologies such as AI and cloud computi

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Russia Strengthens Its Internet Controls in Critical Year for Putin

Ooda Loop

Russia is ratcheting up its internet censorship ahead of elections this weekend that are all but assured to give President Vladimir V. Putin another six years in power.

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Using Snowflake and Databricks Together

Perficient

This is not another comparison between Databricks and Snowflake ; they’re not hard to find. This is a practical guide about using Databricks and Snowflake together in your organization. Many companies have both products implemented. Sometimes, there is a discrepancy between the two as far as the data being stored, creating new data silos. The Databricks users would like to access data that is only in Snowflake and vice versa.

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Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features

Ooda Loop

Apple Inc. has acquired Canadian artificial intelligence startup DarwinAI, adding technology to its arsenal ahead of a big push into generative AI in 2024.