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Make Your Finance Function the Backbone of Success in the Digital-first Retail & CPG Environment

Teradata

A strong finance backbone is critical for any retail or CPG business. To compete in today’s digital world, even greater flexibility is needed. Find out more.

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Walmart is acquiring Memomi, an AR startup powering virtual try-on for eyewear

TechCrunch

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Memomi has enabled digital measurements for all Walmart and Sam’s Club customers since 2019, the retailer said.

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Uncover the unknown with Gemba Troika Consulting

Agile Alliance

Knowledge sharing in large groups of Scrum Masters is a challenge. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak it was an issue in SimCorp, and the pandemic did not improve this situation at all. All collaboration happened online, and the challenge for SimCorp’s 40 Scrum masters grew. The post Uncover the unknown with Gemba Troika Consulting first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. While there are many data analysis tools available, including the sophisticated data science variety, and more line of business-focused BI tools, it hasn’t been easy for a person with little experience to work with data without going to one of these experts for help.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Agile from the Frontlines: Overcoming Inertia in the Federal Government

Agile Alliance

Agile Transformation initiatives need not originate at the senior management level. By examining the successes and failures along the journey of a mission-critical system for the United States Federal Government, this experience report discusses how the business and IT established a true partnership to effect organizational change from the grassroots level.

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Agile Approaches to Policy Development

Agile Alliance

To both understand the implications of EU’s proposed AI Act and involve relevant stakeholders in the process we have adopted an agile approach to policy development. The post Agile Approaches to Policy Development first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Kukua, creators of “Super Sema,” raises $6 million, led by Alchimia and Tencent

TechCrunch

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia.

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Towards a sustainable remote-first team environment: one pairing session at a time

Agile Alliance

Everyone wants to work in a healthy and safe environment, where you’re free and comfortable to share your ideas and feel valued and heard. We found pair programming as the glue to build a culture of trust within a remote environment. The post Towards a sustainable remote-first team environment: one pairing session at a time first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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GetVantage offers revenue-based financing to India’s founders

TechCrunch

Some SMEs don’t want to get (or have access to) equity funding, but also want to stay away from high-interest bank loans. That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization

DevOps.com

A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […].

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Y Combinator announces Launch YC, a way for its portfolio to shout to the public

TechCrunch

Y Combinator has announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos, and learn about the founding team.”.

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CodeSOD: Fizzy

The Daily WTF

Suri was about to add some new functionality to an existing application, and since it was a relatively big change, she spent a few hours tidying up the codebase. Sitting in there, in the code actually running in production, she found this: /** * The VehicleConfigurationModel class. */. public class VehicleConfigurationModel { public static void main (String[] args) { for ( int counter = 0 ; counter <= 20 ; counter++) { if (counter % 3 == 0 ){ System.out.print( "Fizz" ); } if (counter

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Helios wants to tame the microservices development chaos

TechCrunch

Helios , a Tel Aviv–based startup that wants to make it easier for developers to understand, troubleshoot and test their distributed systems during the development phase, today announced its general availability and that it has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC. A number of angel investors, including Benny Schnaider, Guy Podjarny (co-founder of Snyk), Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit (co-founders of Skycure) and Guy Fighel (GM at New Relic), also participated in thi

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Reflections on Authenticity This Pride Month at Dataiku

Dataiku

What is a queer, woman of color to speak about when given a platform to make an impact at Dataiku? When approached by the Dataiku Queer Employee Resource Group (ERG) to write this blog post, the opportunity left me personally excited and a little overwhelmed to achieve. Do I speak about identity, intersectionality, community, or acceptance? Those are a few important topics that come to mind.

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Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What are my F-1 OPT options if my crypto job is no longer available?

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Article: Smashing Silos: Scaling up an Energy Tech Disrupter Remotely

InfoQ Culture Methods

Being a small EnTech disruptor in a rapidly evolving market can feel a bit daunting; add in an acquisition, a rebrand and twice the team members that you had a year ago and you have a recipe for growing pains. Here is how we leaned on our strengths and pulled experience from all directions to allow for team member fulfilment during a breakneck growth spurt.

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April taps AI to help personalize and autofill tax filings

TechCrunch

Most Americans dread doing their taxes. Surveys show as much. But as many as 40% rely on money from tax refunds to satisfy some financial obligation. Ben Borodach, a former Deloitte fintech strategist and the CEO of tax service provider April , believes this points to the need for taxpayers to change their behavior from thinking about taxes as a once-a-year obligation to a “continual,” yearlong assessment. “Understandably, the complexity of the tax code is a turnoff for many Am

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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CodeSee Unveils Open Source Development Hub

DevOps.com

CodeSee today launched a free Open Source Hub (OSH) service through which developers can more easily analyze the codebase that makes up an open source software project. Shanea Leven, CodeSee CEO, said that capability is crucial because making it easier to explore open source codebases reduces the level of effort required for developers to understand […].

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Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction

TechCrunch

New data indicates that startups are laying off more staff. That said, the pace of layoffs is modest compared with the early-2020 economic correction. As COVID locked down many nations for the first time, the global economy shuddered and startups were left to deal with an immensely changed world effectively overnight. Layoffs at companies like Toast, Airbnb, TripActions and others were symbolic of how some still-private companies found their markets effectively shuttered overnight.

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GitLab Embeds Observability in CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

The latest version of the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform added a range of monitoring and visualization capabilities as part of an effort to embed a full set of observability capabilities in the core platform within the coming year. As part of that effort, the latest version of GitLab, 15.1, has now added support […].

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5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech

TechCrunch

Alex Song. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Song is the CEO and founder of Proxima , a data science company that helps brands better reach consumers across all major platforms. More posts by this contributor. Why D2C holding companies are here to stay. Every day, the advertising world faces new challenges and opportunities. New platforms, mediums, M&A activity, privacy rules and ever-changing consumer behavior can all wreak havoc on the digital landscape.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Quick! Define DevSecOps: Let’s Call it Development Security

DevOps.com

For a good long while, DevSecOps referred specifically to vendors like Veracode that did static application security scanning, dynamic application security scanning, software composition analysis and some form of runtime monitoring (usually interactive scanning). Then we realized that DevSecOps was potentially a lot more than that and, like DevOps, we drove the word to encompass […].

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Audience Choice: Vote for the roundtable sessions you want to see most at Disrupt

TechCrunch

Ever hear a great idea that’s so obvious — like wheels on luggage, for example — that you can’t help but wonder why someone didn’t think of it sooner? Welcome to Audience Choice at TechCrunch Disrupt. Today, we’re launching Audience Choice voting and inviting you — our TechCrunch readers — to vote for the roundtable sessions you would most like to see at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco.

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CIOs Start To Deal With The Loss Of Encryption

The Accidental Successful CIO

The arrival of quantum computing will result in the loss of encryption Image Credit: Trending Topics 2019. CIOs who are following what is going on in the world of security and encryption know that things are about to dramatically change. A new type of computing, quantum computing , is being developed. This new type of computing is going to be perfectly suited to breaking the types of encryption that we are using to secure our networks and our corporate data today.

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Regard serves as a ‘medical co-pilot’ for busy physicians

TechCrunch

Legacy healthcare software systems are often complicated and cumbersome for providers to use, leading to less time with patients. That’s why Regard (formerly HealthTensor) developed a platform to help diagnose common medical conditions, like heart failure, COVID-19 and anxiety and depression. The Los Angeles-based startup announced today it has raised $15.3 million in Series A funding led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Common RDS Misconfigurations DevSecOps Teams Should Know

DevOps.com

Relational databases have become the option of choice for organizations wishing to streamline and scale the use, storage and retrieval of data. Many organizations choose AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) to forego the resource-intensive tasks related to database administration including management and continuous oversight. RDS is a fully managed service that simplifies and automates these […].

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AlgiKnit’s seaweed-sourced materials could mend the textile industry’s toxic habits

TechCrunch

AlgiKnit is on a mission to offer more environmentally conscious materials for the heavily polluting fashion and textile industries. The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, creating yarns and fibers that don’t rely on petroleum or toxic chemicals.

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Salesforce Adds RPA Bots to MuleSoft Integration Platform

DevOps.com

Salesforce today announced that it is now using robotic process automation (RPA) to connect disparate data via a no-code tool developed by its MuleSoft unit. Shaun Clowes, chief product officer for MuleSoft, said bots created using an RPA-infused integration platform can now automate much of the effort previously required to integrate data residing in different […].

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