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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

The dynamic nature of the cloud — and the need for continually optimize operations — often drives requirements unique to a CIO’s enterprise, meaning that even some popular third-party cloud cost optimization tools may no longer fit an enterprise’s specific requirements.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

TechCrunch

If you’re the founder of an e-commerce startup, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using a platform like Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce, and one of the dozens of analytics extensions like RetentionX, Sensai metrics or ProfitWell that provide off-the-shelf reporting. Don’t rely on them after you’ve outgrown them.

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TIAA modernizes the customer journey with AI

CIO

Sastry Durvasula, chief information and client services officer at TIAA, says the multilayered platform’s extensive use of machine learning as part of its customer service line partnership with Google AI makes JSOC a formidable tool for financial and retirement planning and guiding customers through complex financial journeys.

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Impact of Custom Medical Software on Healthcare

The Crazy Programmer

Investing in tailored clinical, administrative, and analytics solutions can drive efficiency, productivity, and patient care to new levels. Investing in tailored clinical, administrative, and analytics solutions can drive efficiency, productivity, and patient care to new levels. Let’s explore it.

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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales

CIO

One tracks shoppers and objects across multiple camera views as a building block for cashierless store systems; one aims to prevent ticket-switching fraud at self-service checkouts; and one is for building analytics dashboards from surveillance camera video. Nvidia isn’t packaging these workflows as off-the-shelf applications, however.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We