CIO

JULY 8, 2022

To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. IFS, which is based in Sweden and has customers globally, says that it is acquiring Ultimo because it believes that the company’s SaaS offering can provide high levels of flexibility and configurability for customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Coalition, a San Francisco-based startup that combines cyber insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools, is preparing to expand outside of the U.S. for the first time following a mega $250 million Series F investment that takes its valuation to $5 billion. The investment, backed by Allianz X , Valor Equity Partners and Kinetic Partners, comes less than a year after the company’s $205 million Series E raise in September , which valued the company at $3.5 billion.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Leaders are working on efficiencies to offset these challenges. This article will examine how new technologies, consumer habits, and the pandemic have influenced consumer expectations, how companies are working to meet changing consumer expectati

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Moving Analytics (Movn), a virtual at-home intervention program for high-risk cardiac patients, claims to be “the most clinically validated” cardiac rehabilitation program on the market. Though other online-based programs exist, others either address other international markets, like Heart2Heart, or work only with very specific current insurance partners, like Henry Ford Health.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2022

The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such as frontend or backend. These same fractures seem to be occurring within DevOps, too. Nowadays, large companies no longer have one strain of […].

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Dataiku

JULY 8, 2022

In a recent Dataiku Product Days session, Krishna Vadakattu, Senior Product Manager at Dataiku, interviewed Sulabh Soral, Chief AI Officer Deloitte Consulting, U.K. This blog summarizes and shares Soral’s perspective on the risk, roles, and realities of AI Governance from the session.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The first two years of the pandemic boosted e-commerce, but Simon Wu, a partner at Cathay Innovation, has identified three factors that are now creating strong headwinds for online retailers: Increasing economic uncertainty. iOS social media privacy updates. “A potential drop in discretionary spending.” Even if one could set aside a looming recession, the fact that consumers have decided to share less personal information is eating into sales and raising customer acquisition costs.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2022

In this post-pandemic world, large enterprises are looking to streamline and improve business processes within a storm of marketplace constraints. Companies in asset-heavy industries such as oil and gas, energy, retail, or distribution and logistics have especially been working to reconfigure their supply chain processes to better manage inventory and operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Roger Hurwitz is a founding partner at Volition Capital. He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. More posts by this contributor. How should SaaS companies deliver and price professional services? Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? It feels like almost any company is a tech company in one way or another these days.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2022

Planview this week announced it completed its acquisition of Tasktop, a provider of a value stream management (VSM) platform that enables DevOps teams to align their efforts more closely with strategic business goals. Louise Allen, chief product officer for Planview, said the goal is to tighten integration between the Tasktop VSM platform and the project […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

One of the stunning facts that’s emerged over the last few years — especially as VCs and startups have turned their attention toward the climate crisis — is that our cities produce an enormous amount of CO 2 : In fact, buildings are responsible for around 40% of global CO 2 emissions. But of course, the problem is that cities are unlikely to stop building, and growiing.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 8, 2022

Imagine a microservice application consisting of dozens of continuously-deployed autonomous services. Each of the application’s constellation of services has its own repository, with a different versioning scheme and a different team continually shipping new versions. Riddle me this: How can I tell the (whole) application’s version? Being that the change history is scattered among dozens of repositories, what’s the most efficient approach to keeping track of changes?

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It doesn’t feel like a short week, does it? Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann got on the mic to bring an especially packed episode full of big news, fire transitions and even a pun or three. Deals of the week: Maolac raises $3.2 million to bring breast milk nutrition to adults, Peakflo raises a few million to scale its billpay tech in South East Asia and Cau

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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.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2022

Whether you made it to San Francisco, California last month for RSA Conference or not, you don’t want to miss Tuesday’s DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit. On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, we are presenting a virtual broadcast of the sessions from our recent DevOps Connect: DevSecOps event at RSA Conference in June 2022. All of […]. The post This DevSecOps Thing Is Real After All appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

On May 16, Butler Hospitality , an on-demand platform for room service and amenities, sent an email to vendors that might have been considered reassuring under other circumstances. “We are writing to inform you [that] room service and catering services will continue as is. All collateral is still functional,” the email read. “We appreciate your loyalty to sticking with us through these times.” The trouble was, Butler’s roughly 1,000-person workforce had been laid of

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CloudZero

JULY 8, 2022

Database costs are a fact of doing business for most cloud-based companies. But unlike a traditional database, which runs all the time and therefore charges you a fairly flat rate for continuous service, Snowflake operates on a different pricing model.

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PowerSchool

JULY 8, 2022

Access back-to-school resources for K-12 tech leaders on the benefits of a unified, interoperable edtech system. The post Back-to-School Toolkit for K-12 Tech Leaders appeared first on PowerSchool.

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TechBeacon

JULY 8, 2022

When you declare an event to be an incident, you’re making a judgment that has some pros and cons. Declaring an incident starts your organization’s incident response processes, which will help restore your services effectively and ensure learning and systemic change. At the same time, these response processes commit time, effort, and resources, which may or may not be necessary.

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Synopsys

JULY 8, 2022

Find out what our audit services team unearthed in the 2,400+ codebases we reviewed in 2021. The post The M&A Open Source Risk Number appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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d2iq

JULY 8, 2022

We are excited to be participating in DevOpsDays LA 2002 as a sponsor. This year’s conference comes at a disruptive time in which the data center is moving to the cloud and DevOps is being transformed into GitOps.As Gartner reports , “The cloud will be the centerpiece of new digital experiences. For businesses that means it’s time to adopt a cloud-first approach, or risk languishing in an on-premise data center.

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Toptal

JULY 8, 2022

Discover Microsoft.NET's cross-platform development capabilities by building a Dockerized ASP.NET and Entity Framework application on Linux.

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Robots and Pencils

JULY 8, 2022

Robots & Pencils President & CEO Tracey Zimmerman hosted our sixth Women in Innovation event this June in New York City. Started in 2019, this series celebrates how women, their teams and their companies are shaping the world. These women-focused events bring together senior leaders and innovators to network and discuss their strategies and lessons learned from driving change across their organizations and industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2022

What to do before, during, and after the meeting.

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DevOps.com

JULY 8, 2022

BMC this week announced it has added support for DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics within its portfolio of DevOps tools for mainframe environments. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the latest edition of BMC Compuware zAdviser now includes a DORA KPI Dashboard that […].

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Habitable Code

JULY 8, 2022

I’m really enjoying answering your questions and comments, because it’s making me thing about things I had clearly taken for granted! This week, a question I received via email… In response to Thinking about APIs reader Richard made this comment directly to me via email: Have you thought about integration tests? That could solve some of the issues about the changing contracts.

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Coding Dojo

JULY 8, 2022

Looking for a well-paying job that doesn’t require a college degree? Well that might sound impractical or even impossible, but … Read more >>. The post Entry-Level Cybersecurity Engineer Salary: What to Expect appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Newgen Software

JULY 8, 2022

The holy grail of an insurance business is the ability to efficiently and accurately process claims. In this customer experience era, reaching that ‘Promised Land’ of customer loyalty and customer delight for insurers, like you, ultimately boils down to how swiftly and accurately you achieve claims settlement. To reach there, you must bid adieu to […].

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Gitprime

JULY 8, 2022

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