Next Level Blog
APRIL 12, 2022
Lead long enough and, at some point, you’ll face the challenge of leading a turnaround. It could be about getting a team back on track, putting a key initiative back on the rails or reviving a business or line of business that has lost its momentum. It could easily be all three of those at once. So, what should you focus on first when your job is to lead a turnaround?
CIO
APRIL 12, 2022
Everest Group’s annual ranking of the top IT service providers saw some movement this year compared to last, but one thing that remained unchanged was Accenture’s place at the top of the list. In fact, it was the sixth year in a row that the $50.5 billion firm was recognized as the overall leading service provider of the year. “Knocking Accenture down a peg or two is easily the biggest challenge for other players in the industry,” says Abhishek Singh, partner with Everest Group.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation. Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in funding from Silver Lake, with participation from Bond, NEA and Tamarack Global. The round was first reported by DealBook.
Agile Alliance
APRIL 12, 2022
Commencing their Agile journey in 2015, Company X enlisted myself and 2 other coaches in 2018 to provide more insight as to how teams were progressing, as they had not seen any tangible improvements in their transformation overall. The post Tips and traps for using assessments well first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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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
APRIL 12, 2022
Meet Montonio , an e-commerce checkout solution created by a small startup based in Tallinn, Estonia. The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. It wants to become the only tech partner you need to run a small and medium e-commerce shop. Montonio is a multi-faceted product that has been specifically designed for its home market and its neighbor countries — but the startup thinks it could work all around Europe.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. As the space becomes increasingly crowded, individual NFT projects must find ways to stand out in order to succeed.
DevOps.com
APRIL 12, 2022
For those who doubted the digital transformation trend, it’s become clear that it’s not a marketing fad or a buzzword but is now standard operating protocol for businesses. A forecast released this week from market research firm Gartner confirms this, as the projected increase in application software, infrastructure software and managed services spending highlights that […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Consolidation is moving ahead in the world of autonomous driving, with the latest development coming out of Europe. Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play.
DevOps.com
APRIL 12, 2022
In the past few years, organizations have seen a constant increase in cyberattacks targeting business-critical applications and the data within because that data is particularly lucrative to sell or trade. Organizations running SAP software, especially, are struggling, as SAP systems are complex and hard to patch—even worse, information security and cybersecurity teams often don’t understand […].
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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
APRIL 12, 2022
Hookdeck founders Alexandre Bouchard and Eric Tran were working on a product to help manage webhooks in 2020 when they became discouraged and decided to step away to gain some perspective. The founders went rock climbing for a few months, and while they were away, people discovered their solution and began using it. The hiatus ended as the founders went back to work on the product with feedback from those early users.
DevOps.com
APRIL 12, 2022
A survey of 1,750 IT security decision-makers published today found that, despite a series of high-profile cybersecurity breaches, nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents have done nothing to secure their software supply chain. A full 64% conceded that an attack against their software development environment could not be stopped. And nearly three-fourths (71%) of respondents admitted […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Pylon , an Egyptian infrastructure management platform for water and electricity companies in emerging markets, has raised a $19 million seed round. The round, a combination of debt and equity, was led by U.S.-based Endure Capital, which is backed by British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), the development finance institution of the U.K. government.
TechBeacon
APRIL 12, 2022
A pandemic-driven surge in cloud adoption is driving global business and technology. Cloud-native startups and legacy companies alike are investing and scaling to leverage the cloud’s agility, reach, and customer-focused capabilities.
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
The global pandemic shifted many home service employees from W2 to 1099 status, which is giving Jobox.ai a lot more business. The Florida and Bay Area-based company is going after the $595 billion home services industry, where skilled labor is facing a shortage, by connecting companies with over 5,000 vetted home service professionals via a marketplace leveraging an artificial intelligence-based infrastructure — thus eliminating the need for customers to vet professionals themselves.
CEO Insider
APRIL 12, 2022
“Transactional success” was one of the strategic goals for Mona Ataya when she founded and grew Mumzworld into the largest online baby shop in the Middle East. I heard Mona Ataya’s story as she was interviewed by HBS professor Ranjay Gulati for his What They Are Made Of series of podcasts. I thought about the […]. The post The Transaction: A Product Strategy Choice appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Nursing shortages were a problem well before our hospitals were rocked by a pandemic. Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not nursing — a field that will require one million new faces to keep up with demand in the U.S. alone?
DevOps.com
APRIL 12, 2022
A global survey of 1,500 IT decision-makers conducted by F5 found that, on average, organizations are managing more than 200 applications deployed across an extended enterprise as well as more than 20 different security and delivery technologies. Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist in the Office of the CTO for F5, said that level of complexity […].
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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
APRIL 12, 2022
Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. The startups will receive mentorship from Snap executives and will also get access to networking opportunities.
InfoQ Culture Methods
APRIL 12, 2022
This article provides the foundations of psychological safety and shows how it has been applied for team effectiveness. It explores how psychological safety supports learning and improvement and how we can foster a psychologically safe culture in tech teams. By Ben Linders.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Processing claims at scale presents a challenge for insurers, particularly where the claims entail factors like complex underlying health conditions. According to data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the second-most common complaint that insurance customers made in 2021 was claim delays, ranked second after unsatisfactory settlement offers.
Dataiku
APRIL 12, 2022
You may have read, heard, or experienced first hand the value of geospatial data for a variety of business and daily life applications. You might be also aware that this field of analytics is gaining more and more traction and can get quite complex and challenging in terms of talent and resources.
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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
APRIL 12, 2022
If you work at a company above a certain size, you’ll understand just how little patience we all feel for internal phishing awareness, even despite the fact that phishing remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. HacWare, a New York-based startup and TechCrunch Battlefield finalist , tries to help employees hate phishing simulations a little less , and it just landed $2.3 million in seed funding to expand its cybersecurity awareness and training offering.
Altexsoft
APRIL 12, 2022
“AI systems (will) take decisions that have ethical grounds and consequences.”. Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum from Umeå University. On March 23, 2016, Microsoft released its AI-based chatbot Tay via Twitter. The bot was trained to generate its responses based on interactions with users. But there was a catch. Various users started posting offensive tweets toward the bot, resulting in Tay making replies in the same language.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Back in March 2021, online payment processing giant Stripe announced that it had raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation. The numbers made a splash when they were made public months after the deal leaked. That Stripe raised in early 2021 is notable. Some private companies that raised large sums of capital last year have struggled to hold onto their valuation — or even their business — in the ensuing quarters.
Tenable
APRIL 12, 2022
Microsoft’s April 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 117 CVEs (CVE-2022-24521). Microsoft addresses 117 CVEs in its April 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild and reported to Microsoft by the National Security Agency. 9 Critical. 108 Important. 0 Moderate. 0 Low. Microsoft patched 117 CVEs in its April 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with 9 rated as critical and 108 rated as important.
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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
APRIL 12, 2022
With individuals and teams transitioning to a fully remote or hybrid working models, post-pandemic, there’s a theory that employees still desire the structure and accountability that working in an office used to provide. Not everyone likes working remotely full-time, right? There’s a lack of “community” Plus, sometimes it’s hard to get into state of “deep work” Born in the pandemic , FLOWN is a startup that tried to address these “deep work” and “flow st
Daffodil Software
APRIL 12, 2022
Containers have been solving real problems for IT operations teams. They are enabling faster deployment of applications, ease migration to the cloud, maximize scalability, reduce environment variables, improve code reusability, and a lot more.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2022
Just two days — with only a handful of tickets remaining — until TechCrunch Early Stage drops invaluable knowledge on the newest generation of startup founders in San Francisco on April 14. If you’ve been procrastinating, or if last-minute decision making is one of your core competencies, it is officially Now O’clock. Our Launch Special tickets sold out.
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