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How Much Does AI Cost?

Dataiku

Staring down the barrel at times of economic uncertainty, keeping financial strategies clean and cutting away unnecessary costs is a must-do for organizations. However, the headache starts as organizations’ leaders attempt to determine where exactly these cost reductions are feasible. New AI efforts and initiatives often draw attention when the time comes to cut costs, even though those very programs can help optimize P&L strategies.

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Government tech procurement takes three times longer than average

CIO

Government organizations have the longest average buying cycle for technology when compared to other sectors, with procurement laws injecting complexity into the procurement process, according to a Gartner report. The report, which is based on a survey of 1,120 executives with the inclusion of 79 public sector employees across the US, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, Australia and Singapore, showed that the average buying cycle for government entities is 22 months.

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7 conversations with YC founders about their entrepreneurial journeys

TechCrunch

It’s YC Demo Day week, which has us nostalgic for the conversations Found hosts have had with founders who have been through the famed accelerator program. In every episode of Found, hosts Darrell Etherington and Jordan Crook dig into a founder’s background, the peaks and pits of starting and running a company, and relationships and mentors who have helped along the way.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

CIO

Most organizations understand the profound impact that data is having on modern business. In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data.

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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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5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups

TechCrunch

Rak Garg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rak Garg is a principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software. A year ago, developer-focused software companies were being funded at huge valuations, buoyed by the prospect of blockbuster IPOs like those from Snowflake, HashiCorp and Confluent.

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Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022?

TechCrunch

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Techstars has expanded to a network of programs, to pick one example. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. It now offers more capital to chosen companies than ever and is in the process of working out how its program will operate in a post-COVID world.

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Accenture buys supply chain firm to expand Oracle business

CIO

Accenture on Wednesday said that it was acquiring US-based supply chain management (SCM) software provider Inspirage for an undisclosed amount to expand its Oracle-focused business. Inspirage will move its 710 employees to the Accenture Oracle Business Group in order to bolster its supply chain management skills and expand its ability to help product-centric clients create interconnected, intelligent and innovative supply chain networks, the companies said in a joint statement.

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Edupia raises Series A to close the education gap in Vietnam

TechCrunch

There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. Edupia , an online learning platform, is bridging that divide with its live classes and private tutoring. The startup announced today it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Jungle Ventures with participation from eWTP Capital (a venture fund under Alibaba and Ant Financial) and ThinkZone Ventures.

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Agile Alliance

In the years since the Agile Manifesto was written, there have been numerous Frameworks and other tools that have been created to support companies who are attempting to leverage Agile mindset and methodologies to provide value to customers. There is great value in these tools, but they are not one-size-fits-all. One of the most common … Continued.

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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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Daily Crunch: Tim Cook weighs in on standardized messaging features: ‘Buy your mom an iPhone’

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Helloooo! Since our last Daily Crunch, our adrenaline-fueled TechCrunch team has added more than 70 stories to the site. We’re picking out some of the best below, but we’ll almost certainly miss a story you wish you’d read.

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Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras

Agile Alliance

No one is immune from the impact of Global Inequality. Whether it’s hiring diverse talent, retaining diverse talent or creating an environment that fosters innovation, creativity and belonging. The post Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Daily Crunch: Apple launches new iPhone 14, a rugged Apple Watch, and more

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Wednesday, which today is known as Apple iPhone 14 (here’s all our stories from the Apple event ) and Y Combinator Demo Day…day. As you can see, our team was at one or the other, and some decided to split themselves in half and do both, to bring you the latest and greatest.

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Quickly Creating Psychological Safety During Change

Agile Alliance

What if your team blazed past the stress of the pandemic, complexities of remote work, and the great resignation without missing a beat? The post Quickly Creating Psychological Safety During Change first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Want to survive the crypto winter? Start by inspiring regulatory confidence

TechCrunch

Stephen Aschettino. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stephen Aschettino is head of fintech, United States, at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. Only the strong will survive the avalanche of bankruptcies, layoffs and volatility now cascading through the crypto sector. Investors burned by flimsy promises or forced to panic-sell digital assets will want evidence that companies have undergone proper licensing and due diligence.

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Project to Product: Learn from Our Mistakes

Agile Alliance

Our modern development landscape demands organizations shift from a project-centric view of development to a product-centric view. The post Project to Product: Learn from Our Mistakes first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

TechCrunch

U.S.-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. that have invested in Pathstream, Udemy and Coursera. New Markets Venture Partners general partner Jason Palmer and Learn Capital managing partner Greg Mauro will join Nexford’s board. .

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Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

Agile Alliance

In a company, department, or team, we will often talk about “strategy”. This term is rarely well defined, or at least not defined in a way that is useful. The post Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Shipmates makes order fulfillment less tedious for the Philippines’ online sellers

TechCrunch

The Philippines’ e-commerce market now has a gross merchandise volume of $12 billion , a 132% increase from 2020, and is expected to reach $26 billion in GMV by 2025. This obviously good news for online sellers, but it also means more shipping headaches, especially for smaller sellers that need to drop off packages at couriers’ warehouses. Shipmates wants to save them time and money by consolidating several couriers into one platform.

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Smart home under fuzzing

Synopsys

Smart homes rely on secure devices. Fuzz testing identifies software vulnerabilities in smart devices by fuzzing wireless and IoT protocols. The post Smart home under fuzzing appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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7 AI startups that stood out in YC’s Summer ’22 batch

TechCrunch

It’s that time of year again. This morning, Y Combinator (YC) hosted a demo day for its 2022 Summer Cohort — the 35th demo day in the incubator’s history. Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. The competition was fiercer than usual, owing to YC’s decision in early August to cut the batch size by 40% to around 250 companies in light of economic headwinds.

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CodeSOD: Oh, Poop

The Daily WTF

Pearl was paying down some technical debt. She was trawling through their NodeJS application with a search for TODO and console.log. She was triaging the TODOs, and replacing the logs with a real logging framework. The application was old, had many complicated routes for requests to be handled, and buried deep in a file was this code, which was clearly testing code that was never meant to end up in production: var express = require ( "express" ); var router = express.Router(); /* GET hom

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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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Sequoia India and SEA taps international operators to help startups launch and expand overseas

TechCrunch

Sequoia India and Southeast Asia has launched a new program to help its portfolio’s early-stage founders connect with international operators who can help the startups expand to new markets, the venture firm said, as it aggressively scales its offerings in the key regions. In addition to providing founders with advice, connections and help, the operators will also invest in the startups as part of the program, called Pathfinders, the storied venture firm said.

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The Secret is Out: It’s Only Lonely at the Top if Your Choose it to Be So

Steve Farber

Loneliness is such a lonely word. It evokes images of sadness, silence, dark days and even darker nights. This directly conflicts with what we envision about our leaders. We generally imagine Extreme Leaders as always. Read more. The post The Secret is Out: It’s Only Lonely at the Top if Your Choose it to Be So first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Lucidity keeps cloud block storage neat, tidy and cost-efficient

TechCrunch

Cloud storage is expensive ( especially in this economy ), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools. The startup announced today that is has raised $5.3 million in seed funding. The round was led by AlphaWave Investments with participation from Beenext, Blume, Bold Capital and NuVentures.

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Git Session

InnovationM

“git add.” : is a command used to add a file that is in the working directory to the staging area. “git commit”: is a command used to add all files that are staged to the local repository. “git push”: is a command used to add all committed files in the local repository to the remote repository. So in the remote repository, all files and changes will be visible to anyone with access to the remote.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

Berlin-based agriTech startup Klim is in a hurry to get farmers adopting so-called ‘regenerative’ methods — which are touted as less harmful to soils and biodiversity than conventional farming — arguing this evolution offers the best chance to shrink the global carbon footprint of agriculture fast enough to tackle the climate crisis.

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Playwright: A Modern, Open Source Approach to End-To-End Testing

DevOps.com

I was excited when I started writing my first end-to-end tests years ago. The idea was promising; create an automated test suite that spins up a browser and mimics your user’s behavior. Test your website end-to-end. Frontend, backend, your database—you name it. All these automated tests would cover everything! Unfortunately, it wasn’t all roses and […].

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

TechCrunch

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. Catalog , a Boston-based startup, has come up with a novel way of solving the problem.

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