Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Rick and Kennedy start their discussion of how to break through the product-V-engineering bottleneck by getting people to identify and focus on their "first team", and to develop a shared understanding of how a business creates value. more….
CIO
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Whenever CIOs talk about using low-code tools to enable citizen development, a recurring theme is how to ensure appropriate governance of the applications produced. Microsoft has heard them loud and clear, and at its Ignite 2022 show in Seattle this week, it introduced a range of new governance capabilities and other enhancements for its Power automation platform.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Spherics , a UK-based carbon accounting platform for SMEs to understand and reduce their environmental impact, has been acquired by accounting giant Sage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it’s understood Spherics had raised £1.25m in equity financing from angel investors and £300,000 in grants. Spherics was a smaller startup playing in a similar space to larger ones which include Normative, Plan A, Klimametrix.global, Persefoni and Planetly.com (other carbon accounting players, like Wate
CIO
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Fulton Hogan Group Chief Information Officer Brian Northern on how machine learning is helping detect road defects, taking on the role of ‘The Blocker’ to allow his team to do their jobs without interference, and how the company is embracing Te Ao M?ori.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Not every startup can reach its full potential — or survive — on its own. Venture capital puts a lot of emphasis on startups reaching unicorn status or exiting through an IPO, largely because such successes are crucial to making the venture model work. But this makes it easy to overlook the fact that many companies would see more success if they were acquired or combined with other startups.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5 billion. The funding is a $154 million equity round from investors including returning investors Andreessen Horowitz and Premji Invest, and a $150 million structured financing deal from Coatue.
CIO
OCTOBER 12, 2022
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. Not too long ago, many CIOs might have had to wrestle with a chief financial officer who viewed enterprise IT as a utility. To use a household metaphor, a CFO might be sorely tempted to save money if budgets were tight by lowering the thermostat on cold days. Now technology has become such an indispensable tool to drive revenue or remove costs that CIOs are just as likely to be asked to do more in the face of a downturn rather than less.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction. Syntex reads, tags and indexes document content — whether digital or physical — making it searchable and available within Microsoft 365 apps and hel
Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Whether you are a CEO or a student, this book will take you from Agile delivery to team topology and product-market fit. The post Agile Product and Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building the Right Products Right first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Katana , an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. ERP is a form of business management software that can serve any number of functions inside a company, from marketing and risk management, to supply chain management and beyond. Integrations are pivotal to any ERP software, as it typically involves taking data from different systems such as HR, CRM, accounting, and order managemen
Aqua Security
OCTOBER 12, 2022
We at Aqua Nautilus have discovered that npm’s API allows threat actors to execute a timing attack that can detect whether private packages exist on the package manager. By creating a list of possible package names, threat actors can detect organizations’ scoped private packages and then masquerade public packages, tricking employees and users into downloading them.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. Bank was previously cofounder and CEO at Timeful, a smart scheduling app that helped users make better use of their time through automatically prioritizing their various commitments.
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 12, 2022
As growing numbers of organizations have embraced the deployment of hybrid and multicloud architectures, the issue of complexity is presenting a dilemma. On the one hand the functions and technologies those deployments bring can be vital to support productivity and innovation. On the other hand, many enterprises quickly reach a "complexity wall," where the complication added with each new technology threatens to diminish the returns on those strategic investments.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Recent research suggests that the e-commerce market in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt account for a combined $21.4 billion and is projected to grow by more than 50% to $33.3 billion in the next three years. And as MENA shoppers increase their commerce spending, it is increasingly becoming imperative for online stores to position themselves to take full advantage of the growing phenomenon.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 12, 2022
We IT folks are pretty fearless. Because it is newer technology, and change in IT is easier than in areas like heavy manufacturing, we are regularly thrown new tools, products and methodologies and expected to be able to master them. And we do. And it works. If your career is more than a couple of […]. The post Fear of the Unknown appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Wolfgang Rückerl. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Wolfgang Rückerl is the co-founder and CEO of Istari Vision and Entity. These days, a blockchain startup founder should expect to navigate challenging waters. Even in the best of times, founders must both prepare for a bull market and be ready for possibly bearish territory. Having a solid roadmap, real-world use cases and a war chest are only a small part of a blockchain startup’s survival strategy.
Dell EMC
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Dell deepens customer relationships with a growing APEX portfolio and multicloud ecosystems linking core, cloud and edge environments.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Indian edtech giant Byju’s said on Wednesday it will eliminate 5% of its workforce, or about 2,500 roles, across multiple departments and is cutting its marketing budgets as it looks to improve its finances and achieve profitability by end of the current financial year. This the second significant layoff the startup, valued at $22 billion, is undertaking in recent months.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
OCTOBER 12, 2022
We want to congratulate Dylan Field on his startup Figma, which Adobe recently purchased for $20B. Dylan started his career with O’Reilly Media when he was in high school—not that long ago. With Figma, he’s made the big time. It’s worth thinking about why Figma has been so successful, and why Adobe was willing to pay so much for it.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Telda , an Egyptian consumer money app founded by ex-Swvl executive Ahmed Sabbah last April, has raised $20 million in seed funding. The fintech, in a statement, said it wants to “revolutionize finance for the MENAP region.” . Its first market, Egypt, is one of the highest consumer spending markets in Africa. The North African market’s private consumption accounts for nearly 85% of its nominal GDP, and only 4% of its overall GDP is cashless.
Dell EMC
OCTOBER 12, 2022
A new short-depth, edge server purpose-built for unpredictable and often challenging deployment environments.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
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: Any tips for negotiating visa and green card sponsorship?
Coding Dojo
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Guest post on clean code techniques by Mark Trego of Stone River eLearning. The saying “Presentation is as important as the quality of the content that you are presenting” is applicable to computer programming. Before you start scratching your head over how and why is presentation necessary in coding, I will save your hair the … How to Write Clean Code: 10 Techniques to Know Read More » The post How to Write Clean Code: 10 Techniques to Know appeared first on Coding Dojo B
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The venture capital industry doesn’t have the best track record when you’re talking about ethics. Like most professions involving power and wealth, venture capital also sometimes attracts people for whom doing the right thing isn’t a concern. Limited regulatory oversight and a lack of transparency mean that investors can often get off scot-free for not factoring ethics into their investment philosophy.
Dataiku
OCTOBER 12, 2022
This is a guest article from Lontia Nkhuwa. Nkhuwa is a product support lead and technical writer. She's the leader of PyLadies Lusaka — a support network for women in the world of Phyton. Lontia is passionate about creating content that educates, grows, and inspires leaders. In her spare time, Lontia enjoys thrifting and traveling.
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“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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Vanta , a security compliance automation startup, today announced that it raised $40 million in an extension of its Series B funding round that closed in June, which valued the company at $1.6 billion. Notably, CrowdStrike invested in the extension along with a number of individual investors. CEO Christina Cacioppo tells TechCrunch that the new cash will be used to support Vanta’s customer acquisition, product R&D and go-to-market efforts.
Teradata
OCTOBER 12, 2022
ClearScape Analytics provides robust functionality giving people across the organization the ability to efficiently execute their roles in the analytics process on a common platform.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2022
At its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft announced updates heading to Teams, its ever-evolving videoconferencing and workplace collaboration app. New avatars are available, and more details were announced around Teams Premium, a paid set of Teams features including AI-generated tasks and meeting guides, which is set to arrive in December in preview.
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