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Contentsquare closes a mammoth $600M round as customers clamor for digital analytics

TechCrunch

The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. Contentsquare remains focused on its original bread and butter, which is to say web and app analytics. In some cases, it cost them dearly. In the U.S.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

CIOs — and the rest of the C-suite — are finding that they can’t harness the full potential of analytics, automation, robotics, and AI if their organization’s data isn’t well managed, Taglienti explains. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% Last year saw a 1.2%

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Fresh from controversy, call center analytics firm Loris raises $12M

TechCrunch

While some surveys show that people prefer to talk to a human as opposed to a chatbot, whether they’re shopping online or dealing with a customer service issue, that hasn’t dissuaded companies from adopting them. A 2019 Salesforce report found that 53% of service organizations expected to use chatbots within 18 months.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. The average salary for data and AI professionals who responded to the survey was $146,000. To nobody’s surprise, our survey showed that data science and AI professionals are mostly male. Executive Summary.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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Filevine raises $108 million for tools that streamline legal workflows

TechCrunch

CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.”

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO

Luke’s Health Network, for example, opted to use Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare for its integration, given the nonprofit network’s existing use of several Microsoft products at its 300 locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Other challenges remain, such as finding talent with an understanding of AI and advanced analytics. “We