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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

CIO

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

“To meet digital transformation goals, companies must build structural ambidexterity, focus on short-term efficiency opportunities that fit the current structure and model, but also pursue medium- to long-term discontinuous expansion opportunities in business that potentially would require structural and cultural changes,” Senan advises.

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CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor

CIO

In the rush to establish technical strategies for making good on the promise of generative AI, many CIOs find themselves running headlong into what may be their most challenging task yet: preparing their organization’s end-users — from knowledge workers and assembly line laborers to doctors, accountants, and lawyers — to co-exist with generative AI.

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pdflayer API Review – HTML to PDF Conversion API for Developers

The Crazy Programmer

pdflayer is an API used by developers for seamless automated conversion of high-quality HTML to PDF on any platform (websites, applications). The lightweight RESTful API enables developers to generate highly customizable PDFs from URLs and HTML. To fully customize and configure PDFs, developers can make use of optional parameters.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. You can find descriptions of each skill in the documentation.

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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO

The role of a business analyst is constantly evolving and changing — especially as companies rely more on data to advise business operations. These tools help BAs collect and sort data, create graphs, write documents, and design visualizations to explain the findings.