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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO

Now, as it conceptualized a new platform to effectively manage services spend, it was forced to change its deployment system. Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT. “We

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. Taleb stated that there are “systems” that break when exposed to a stressor. See figure 1.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1970, he joined Xerox PARC and worked on the development of Smalltalk with the research staff. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 2004, the Kyoto prize. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books.

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CVE-2021-34527: Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Patch for PrintNightmare Vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler

Tenable

CVE-2021-34527 is an RCE vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler Service , which is available across desktop and server versions of Windows operating systems. An authenticated, remote or local attacker, could exploit this flaw in order to gain arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges. for 32-bit systems Windows 8.1

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ROI of Executive Coaching 500% Return

CO2 Business Leadership

Fostering Systemic Transformation: The goal is to assist leaders in embodying the change they envision, ensuring that transformation is not just a personal journey but a systemic evolution. It was discovered that 77% of respondents experienced a significant impact on at least one of nine business measures due to executive coaching.