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Robotic Process Automation: Implementing Traditional and Cognitive RPA Tools

Altexsoft

In 2018, RPA became one of the fastest growing segments in the enterprise software market, according to Gartner. RPA is a software solution for automating mundane business tasks nobody likes. By implementing a digital workforce, companies can become more efficient and cut costs. For instance, Infosys BPM case study shows that automation of loans and payments administrative tasks allowed them to decrease employee effort by 30 percent and save over $1.5 million in 18 months.

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Fintech companies must balance the pursuit of profit against ethical data usage

TechCrunch

Richard Steggall. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Australia native Richard Steggall is the CEO of Urban FT , a New York-based fintech company. He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. Financial institutions are falling behind the tech curve in delivering on the convenience consumers demand, leaving the door wide open for Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Google to become our bankers.

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LRU Cache – Design and Implementation in Java

The Crazy Programmer

In this article we will learn how to design a LRU Cache, understand it’s cache replacement algorithm. We also look at description of LRU Cache with some examples. Then, we look at the implementation of this design in code with their complexity analysis. Caching is a method of organizing data in a faster memory, usually RAM to serve future requests of same data in a efficient way.

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3 strategies for elevating brand authority in 2021

TechCrunch

Amanda Milligan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. More posts by this contributor. 6 reasons why reporters aren’t interested in your content marketing. 2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content.

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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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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

We all know that the hardening of a system or implementing 2FA does not magically improves the security of an organisation. For a successful implementation of IAM , PKI a holistic approach is needed. Also for the successful improvement of security in your organisation, a holistic approach is needed. Implementing and improving security demands your approach to cover both people, process and technology.

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

We all know that the hardening of a system does not magically improve the security of an organisation. For a successful implementation a holistic approach is needed. Implementing and improving security demands your approach to cover both people, process and technology. The post Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Meet the Female Founders Alliance startups from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

We’re less than two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long deep dive into the state of diversity, inclusion and equity in tech. March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all.

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Bitcoin now at $1 Trillion Dollar Market Cap

CTOvision

Just 6 days ago we were pointing out the rise of Bitcoin, which at the time was at number 9 on the list of top global assets. It has now […].

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A fraction of Robinhood’s users are driving its runaway growth

TechCrunch

Yesterday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing about GameStop and Robinhood wasn’t great. Reuters has a good summary of one its few interesting bits, a scrap between the elected inquisitors and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev regarding whether or not his firm had to raise additional capital to continue operations during the GameStop saga; TechCrunch has reported on the matter since its inception, though learning a little bit more was useful.

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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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How to make your cloud service cyber resilient

TechBeacon

If the pandemic has taught organizations anything, it's the value of resiliency in the face of sudden adversity. That's made migration to cloud operations more attractive than ever as a means of ensuring that critical functions are "always-on" and that customers are receiving great experiences anytime and anywhere, cost-effectively.

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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm which can also be described as a “company builder.” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies. Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent more than 70 nationalities.

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Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices

DevOps.com

Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many speed bumps in the DevOps process that threaten to derail progress and slow DevOps processes to a crawl. One of the biggest speed bumps arises when transforming legacy monolithic applications […].

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Podimo, the podcast and short form audio subscription service, picks up €11.2M in new funding

TechCrunch

Podimo , the Copenhagen-founded subscription service for short form audio stories and podcasts, has raised an additional €11.2 million in funding. The round is led by Chr. Augustinus investment fund, and comes just 8 months after announcing its €6 million Series A. Existing investors, and the Spanish VC Aldea Opportunity Fund also participated. Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a shar

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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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Inside 2021 ML Trends: Causality

Dataiku

In January, our Dataiku Lab team presented their annual findings for up-and-coming machine learning (ML) trends , based on the work they do in machine learning research. In this series, we're going to break up their key topics (trustworthy ML, human-in-the-loop ML, causality, and the connection between reinforcement learning and AutoML) so they're easy for you to digest as you aim to optimize your ML projects in 2021.

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Marlon Nichols will discuss how to secure seed funding at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021

TechCrunch

We’re excited to announce another terrific panel for our stacked TechCrunch Early Stage event on April 1 & 2. Marlon Nichols will be joining us to discuss securing seed funding. Nichols is intimately acquainted with the topic — as a founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital (nee Cross Culture Ventures), he has been involved in helping more than 100 early-stage startups receive seed funding.

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Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program

DevOps.com

GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […].

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Block Party’s Tracy Chou will join us at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice on March 3

TechCrunch

Tracy Chou’s resume is impressive. She interned at RocketFuel, Google and Facebook before becoming a software engineer at Quora and Pinterest. She is also a major advocate for diversity within the tech industry, launching Project Include in 2016. Now, she’s the founder and CEO of Block Party , a platform aimed at making people feel safer on social media platforms.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Rockset Sets Industry Standard in Real-Time Analytics Performance

DevOps.com

Rockset is up to 9.4x faster than the alternative when measured against the Star Schema Benchmark for query performance SAN MATEO, Calif., — Feb. 18, 2021 — Rockset, the real-time indexing database company, today announced it has published new benchmark results showing millisecond-latency query performance against the Star Schema Benchmark (SSB). When coupled with RockBench, a benchmark […].

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AccountsIQ scores €5.8M for its financial management software for multi-entity SMEs

TechCrunch

AccountsIQ , a financial management software (FMS) startup founded by a team of chartered accountants (when accountants want to be entrepreneurs, you know startups are a thing), has raised €5.8 million in funding. Backing the Dublin-based company, which targets mid-sized businesses that operate multi-entities, is Finch Capital, the fintech focussed VC that recently outed its third fund.

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5 things on our data and AI radar for 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here are some of the most significant themes we see as we look toward 2021. Some of these are emerging topics and others are developments on existing concepts, but all of them will inform our thinking in the coming year. MLOps FTW. MLOps attempts to bridge the gap between Machine Learning (ML) applications and the CI/CD pipelines that have become standard practice.

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Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig: The objective of pricing is to become less wrong over time

TechCrunch

In 2017, Ironclad founder and CEO Jason Boehmig was looking to raise a Series A. As a former lawyer, Boehmig had a specific process for fundraising and an ultimate goal of finding the right investors for his company. Part of Boehmig’s process was to ask people in the San Francisco Bay Area about their favorite place to work. Many praised RelateIQ, a company founded by Steve Loughlin who had sold it to Salesforce for $390 million and was brand new to venture at the time. “I wanted to

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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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Cloud Misconfigurations Threaten Cloud Migration

DevOps.com

If we’ve learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that digital-native business models are essential to survival. That means cloud adoption is more important than ever before. Research shows that the public cloud market is expected to grow to $308.5 billion in 2021, an increase of 16% from 2020. But while the cloud holds […].

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SailPoint is buying Saas management startup Intello

TechCrunch

SailPoint , an identity management company that went public in 2017 , announced it was going to be acquiring Intello today, an early stage SaaS management startup. The two companies did not share the purchase price. SailPoint believes that by helping its customers locate all of the SaaS tools being used inside a company, it can help IT make the company safer.

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A Tough Leadership Lesson

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’ve ever worried about losing someone from your team or organization because you reinforce expectations, this episode’s for you. Early in my career, I learned a tough leadership lesson from a retired English teacher named Joan. In a few succinct words, […]. The post A Tough Leadership Lesson appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

Since the pandemic began, have you been walking more, or do you know someone who bought a new car? Perhaps you ran your first errand on a rented e-bike or scooter? Over the last year, I’ve experimented with different mobility options to see which ones best suit my needs, as have most people I know. It can be challenging to maintain a recommended physical distance on a bus or subway.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Keys in ksqlDB, Unlocked

Confluent

One of the most highly requested enhancements to ksqlDB is here! Apache Kafka® messages may contain data in message keys as well as message values. Until now, ksqlDB could only […].

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Early-bird pricing increases next week for TC Early Stage Operations & Fundraising

TechCrunch

Just because there are no shortcuts to startup success doesn’t mean you have to reinvent the wheel. At TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , a virtual bootcamp experience in two distinct parts, you’ll learn from leading experts across the startup spectrum — including prominent founders ready to share their personal experiences and hard-won advice to help you avoid costly missteps.

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The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making

DevOps.com

The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […].

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