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4 Salesforce DevOps Adoption Challenges

DevOps.com

To overcome the challenge of siloed development and operations teams in Salesforce DevOps, organizations must foster a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility.

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From Rule-based to Gemini AI - A New Era in Chatbot Evolution

Daffodil Software

The way businesses interact with their customers has drastically changed in recent years, thanks to the rise of chatbots. Once considered a novelty, chatbots have become a crucial part of the digital landscape, changing how companies provide customer service, sales support, and more.

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What’s New in AI: ChatGPT Plugins and Internet Access

Apiumhub

Introduction to ChatGPT Plugins Today we bring you a new update on one of the most famous AIs of the moment, ChatGPT. In recent years, AIs have experienced advances that have radically transformed the way we interact with technology. From personalized recommendation systems to intelligent chatbots, AI has ceased to be mere science fiction speculation and has become a reality.

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What is an Apache Kafka Cluster? (And Why You Should Care)

Confluent

Learn what an Apache Kafka cluster is, and what makes a cluster special.

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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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Data Management: Cloud Technology or Data Centers?

DevOps.com

Cloud technology and data center services help business leaders with data management. But which is right for you?

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO

Natural language processing definition Natural language processing (NLP) is the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with training computers to understand, process, and generate language. Search engines, machine translation services, and voice assistants are all powered by the technology. While the term originally referred to a system’s ability to read, it’s since become a colloquialism for all computational linguistics.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: ANYbotics’ $50M Series B deck

TechCrunch

Earlier this year, Brian wrote about ANYbotics’ $50 million Series B fundraise , which made me realize it’s been a hot minute since I’ve done a robotics teardown. That changes today, since ANYbotics was kind enough to share its pitch deck so we could take a closer look at the highs and lows of four-legged ‘bots. Since the startup claims it has $150 million in preorders/reservations from gas, oil and chemical companies, and the fact that this is a growth round, I know this

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First stage of reducing costs for a scaleup

Martin Fowler

When scaleups need to start working on cost efficiency, our experience is that they need to form a cost optimization team to work on the immediate steps that are needed. In this installment   Sofia and Stefania describe how to understand the primary cost drivers, together with the levers to get them under control.

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User Story Magic Formula: A Recipe for Product Success and Raving Fans

Agile Alliance

This talk delves into the intricate world of quality Agile requirements. It isn't solely centered on user stories; instead, we navigate the landscape of visual models, testable acceptance criteria, and collaborative stakeholder interactions. A significant focus is on the power of the Given-When-Then format, commonly known as the Gherkin language. This approach emerges as a … Continued The post User Story Magic Formula: A Recipe for Product Success and Raving Fans first appeared on Agile Al

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth. Executives know that if their businesses don’t continually evolve through digital transformation they risk being overtaken by competitors or shut down by startups th

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Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight

TechCrunch

Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated workers across his companies, and he has permanently ruined the enduring comedy of 420 and 69 jokes. And today, he got my hopes up that he was actually going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg. I know better than to take anything Elon says at face value.

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Coding assistants do not replace pair programming

Martin Fowler

In her 5th memo about exploring GenAI for software development, Birgitta Böckeler answers the frequently asked question if coding assistants are making the practice of Pair Programming obsolete. Spoiler alert: They don't.

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Let’s Talk About It: How to Have the Courageous Conversation You Would Rather Avoid

Let's Grow Leaders

“As a young manager, having not done well at leading, my team approached me and addressed what they saw needed to change. We had a respectful and open conversation about our needs and agreed on what each party needed to change. From there on the collaboration changed completely – not to perfect – but to very good. I am still grateful that they decided to trust me and be open about how they saw the situation!

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Shadow AI will be much worse than Shadow IT

CIO

Ok, real talk, who always drives the speed limit? I’ll admit to being hasty at times and failing in this regard. There’s a saying that rules were meant to be broken, but I don’t really think that is true. They’re meant to be followed but often aren’t. It’s just that when we need to get somewhere fast and shortcuts are presented, sometimes we take them.

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Startup founders should care more about Serve Robotics’ listing

TechCrunch

We love mergers and acquisitions here at TechCrunch. We even kind of like reverse mergers. But this latest development in the robotics industry sure has us excited! Delivery robots maker Serve Robotics is going public via a reverse merger with a blank-check company , and it raised $30 million just before the deal. That could be great for the company, but we’re more interested in the visibility this deal grants us into the economics of building, deploying and running a fleet of delivery rob

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Tech strategy for new customer segments and inorganic growth

Martin Fowler

Sarah Taraporewalla moves on to the remaining two strategic directions that are part of growing the business. Expanding into new customer segments can introduce new operational processes or channels. Inorganic growth (eg acquisitions and mergers) needs an understanding of the drivers of increased value and the long term expectation (eg merge or keep separate and divest) for the business unit.

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Why Technology in Learning And Development Requires Heavy Investment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Business organizations are constantly trying to keep up-to-date with current trends, and this includes adopting the latest technology to assist with learning and development. After all, a well-trained workforce is great for business. L&D tools can be used to train employees, and support them as they learn and grow. It’s a key part of corporate talent management as it helps to keep employees performing to a high standard.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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How IT does business at Eastman

CIO

When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. “Before Eastman, I worked for Monsanto, where I had a similar journey,” he says. “Monsanto sold agriculture products and we started a digital division to sell advisory services to farmers.

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Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it

TechCrunch

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said today that the company had made an existential business decision in 2018 that few realized would redefine its future, and help redefine an evolving industry.

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Creating an integrated business and technology strategy

Martin Fowler

My colleague Sarah Taraporewalla describes an approach to building technology strategy that challenges the convention. It starts by identifying the overall strategic directions that the organization is considering, and using common aspects of these directions to indicate the investigations needed for the organization to understand the technology implications raised by that strategic change.

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10+ Biggest DevOps Mistakes You Must Need to Avoid in 2023

OTS Solutions

Most business owners talk about DevOps, but when it comes to implementing them, problems start. Having gone through the process with many companies, a DevOps engineer told me the five common DevOps mistakes organizations make when carrying out DevOps development for the first time. Adapting to change is not easy for any organization, but if you try hard enough and avoid these mistakes, your switch to DevOps will be smooth.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

CIO

Formula 1 (F1) drivers are some of the most elite athletes in the world. In other sports, such as basketball or soccer, there may be hundreds or thousands of players at the topmost levels. In F1 racing, drivers must excel to earn one of only 20 F1 seats. Further elevating this status, F1 reigns as the world’s most prominent racing event, spanning five continents during a year-long season.

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Singapore wealth management platform Endowus raises $35M

TechCrunch

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 million in follow-on funding. Now two years later, despite a much different funding environment, especially for fintech startups , Endowus is announcing another round.

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User Story Magic Formula: A Recipe for Product Success and Raving Fans

Agile Alliance

This talk delves into the intricate world of quality Agile requirements. It isn't solely centered on user stories; instead, we navigate the landscape of visual models, testable acceptance criteria, and collaborative stakeholder interactions. A significant focus is on the power of the Given-When-Then format, commonly known as the Gherkin language. This approach emerges as a … Continued The post User Story Magic Formula: A Recipe for Product Success and Raving Fans first appeared on Agile Al

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Seek and you shall find

Xebia

It can sometimes take a while to find the right tool for what you want to do in your Google Doc, Sheet or Slide. Especially if it’s a functionality you don’t use every day. However, finding a tool becomes a lot easier thanks to an improved search function. In this search function, you enter the name of the tool you are looking for. Or you just describe it in your own words.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Edge Computing: a powerful enabler for industrial frontline workers

CIO

For industrial sector organizations, frontline workers play a crucial role in achieving productivity, efficiency, and safety targets. To empower these workers and increase their influence, edge computing has become a critical enabler. By bringing compute power closer to the point of action, edge computing allows real-time data processing, analytics, and decision-making, thereby improving the well-being and efficiency of front-line workers.

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BlueJeans folds

TechCrunch

Verizon dropped hundreds of millions on BlueJeans at the height of the pandemic lockdowns. Three years and some change later, the lesser-known video-conferencing app is done for, the telecom giant told users today. In a mass email, Verizon wrote that it “made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of BlueJeans products.” 9to5Google first reported the news. ( Verizon is TechCrunch’s former parent company.

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Help for the Overwhelmed Working Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer.