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Maryfran Johnson, Host of the CIO Leadership Live video podcast, CEO Maryfran Johnson Media

CIO

It’s a wrap. Lee interviews Maryfran Johnson about 2022 trending themes in technology as discussed with CIOs on CIO Leadership Live. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: CIO Leadership Live.

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Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation

TechCrunch

In countries where English is not a main language, listed companies not only have to deal with financial disclosure regulations, but make sure their investor materials are available in English for global backers. WritePath make the process faster and scalable by combining its AI tech with human translators. The Taipei-based startup’s clients include Foxconn, ASUS, China Airline, the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taiwan Mobile.

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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA

CIO

Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. Adopters are being drawn by advanced capabilities in the new software, and driven by concerns about maintenance of older systems. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).

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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

TechCrunch

Businesses often encounter challenges in configuring their customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, whether because of requirements specific to their organization or industry or a lack of institutional technical knowledge. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe. A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of

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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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Secret Management Triad – VM, Vault, Artifactory

Xebia

Secret management is something that often is difficult to implement within your infrastructure. It’s becoming even more difficult when you need to work with artifacts that are confidential or private. This article will provide some information on how to tackle this problem and a way to fix it. The challenge. The challenge is to retrieve artifacts from JFrog Artifactory by a Virtual Machine (VM) in Google Cloud (GCP), whilst using some sort of authentication and authorization mechanism (IAM).

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Salesforce Launches Low-Code DevOps Platform

DevOps.com

Salesforce made generally available today a low-code DevOps Center service on its infrastructure through which developers are provided an opinionated platform for building custom applications. The Salesforce DevOps Center service is based on the same object model Salesforce uses to construct its own applications. Karen Fidelak, senior director of product management at Salesforce, said after […].

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Which Instagram ad placement is more cost-effective: Reels, Feed Posts or Stories?

TechCrunch

Angelina Liparteliani. Contributor. Angelina Liparteliani is a digital marketing expert for Johnson & Johnson. She is also developing GLAMLAB London , a service for beauty freelancers to list and sell their beauty services to clients in the U.K. It’s time to reconsider how you use Instagram’s advertising tools for your business. With the platform’s continuing development, new ad placements and algorithm changes, the creatives, captions and CTA that worked in the past might not deliver

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12 Lessons Learned while Managing Corporate Innovation

Perficient

The Road to Managing Corporate Innovation. I started out at an ad agency in southern Indiana in 2002. Our clients were interested in technology and our agency helped them find their way. At the same time, I was building the web development and digital strategy team within the agency. We began doing things intentionally with our clients, and it paid off.

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6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech

TechCrunch

As ChatGPT has so aptly demonstrated, AI is now truly entering the mainstream consciousness. That’s why we weren’t very surprised when a slew of investors told us they rarely see a biotech startup that doesn’t incorporate AI in some form or other these days. “Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently.

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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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Is Your Healthcare System Focused on the Caregiver Experience?

Perficient

“Patient experience” has become a buzzword in healthcare circles over the past few years. In fact, a quick Google search brings up over 40 million results so it’s safe to say it’s a major focus for the industry. But what about caregivers — those folks who are caring for sick children, partners, friends, and family members? A similarly quick Google search for “Caregiver Experience” brings up just under 160,000 results , which might make you think that the caregiver population is relatively small.

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Aztec Network takes on encrypted blockchains with $100M round led by a16z

TechCrunch

Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the startup’s co-founders Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews exclusively told TechCrunch. “At a high level, Aztec is an encrypted version of Ethereum,” Andrews said. “Normally on Ethereum everything is public, but we are making it encrypted.

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EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work. The post EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Can China’s venture capital market help it reignite growth?

TechCrunch

As China looks to reignite growth, what role will its technology industry play? Is there enough capital flowing to support a new generation of tech startups that could keep China competitive? It’s not a secret that the Chinese economy slowed in recent quarters , thanks to global macroeconomic turbulence, geopolitical matters and the country’s now-fading zero-COVID policies.

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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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Safety First: Using vehicle data to make us all better drivers

Teradata

Vehicle data is invaluable in improving the safety & safe operation of vehicles for their occupants & other drivers. The next gen of vehicles will use real-time analysis to make driving even safer.

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Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M

TechCrunch

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment led by LeapFrog Investments. It’s an extension of the $260 million Series D round the solar company announced this April, which was led by BeyondNetZero, the climate investing venture of General Atlantic and M&G Investments’ Catalyst and Arch Emerging Markets Partners.

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New Relic Extends Observability Reach to More DevOps Platforms

DevOps.com

New Relic today expanded its ecosystem by adding integrations between its observability platform and a wide variety of DevOps and cybersecurity tools. The New Relic observability platform now integrates with offerings from Atlassian, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Confluent, GitHub, JFrog, Lacework and Snyk and the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.

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Cultivated beef companies tout sustainability. Will it lead to marketability?

TechCrunch

The market for lab-grown meat, also called cultivated or cell-cultured meat, is expected to reach $1.99 billion by 2035, growing at an annual rate of 21.4%. Beef is poised to be the dominant segment. The market got a boost last month when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave what amounts to a safety blessing to Upside Foods , a cultivated meat product startup, effectively setting in motion what many of these companies have been working toward: accelerated commercialization.

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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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Why Backups and Compliance Go Hand-in-Hand

DevOps.com

It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating smoothly. In order to mitigate information security risks that would affect companies and their users, a number of security regulations have been created, including a set […].

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MyHealth Africa, a startup connecting patients with health specialists across the globe, lands $1M funding

TechCrunch

Kenya-based MyHealth Africa , an integrated healthcare platform changing how people access medical services, by connecting patients with local and international health specialists and hospitals, is growing its reach in Africa, and plans to further expand in Middle East and South Asia next year. The growth plan comes against the backdrop of $1 million seed funding it has raised in round led by GIIG Africa Fund, with participation from Japanese-based Samurai VC, a family office, and existing inves

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Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency

DevOps.com

The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]. The post Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

TechCrunch

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 million in a seed-funding round co-led by Acrew Capital and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures and Aviso Ventures. Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as Protect AI emerges from stealth.

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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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Recent Verdict Against Uber CISO is a Game Changer

Aqua Security

In early October, the US Department of Justice announced that a verdict had been reached in the case against former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan, finding him guilty of two counts associated with covering up a data breach at the company. What made the Uber data breach case particularly noteworthy was that it was not seeking to recover costs or damages for those affected by the breach, which would typically be civil charges, but was filed as a criminal charge for obstruction of the proceedings of the Fe

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Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

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. The TC crew are a bunch of bookworms. Alex collected the top reads from 2022. Haje’s favorite was “A Deadly Education” (Naomi Novik’s first book in the Scholomance trilogy), which incidentally was recommended by both Alex and Amanda, which was how he found out about the books in the first place.

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Databricks Cost Optimization: Manage Spend With CloudZero

CloudZero

Databricks has emerged as one of the most powerful solutions for organizations to sort and normalize the data they ingest. But like all cloud providers — from the big three to more specialized infrastructure vendors — it adds complexity to customers’ IT spend.

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Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem

TechCrunch

Even after billions of venture capital raised and invested into the digital health space, it’s still difficult to access quality healthcare. And while that may raise questions on if a scrappy startup has a fighting chance at fixing things, to entrepreneur Akili Hinson , it just means that Juno needs to be even smarter about the neighborhoods it targets.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Bridging the Development-Security Divide

TechBeacon

The good news: GitLab's 2022 DevSecOps survey found that 70% of DevOps teams surveyed release code continuously, once a day, or every few days, a figure that is up about 11 percentage points from last year.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck

TechCrunch

In September, the FBI warned that more than half of connected medical devices in hospitals had known critical security vulnerabilities, and these flaws are leading to a surge in attacks on the healthcare industry. As Carly Page reported, MedCrypt raised a $25 million round to help device manufacturers think security-by-design when creating the next generation of medical devices.

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Cut IT Costs by Optimizing Software Licenses

Datavail

With most companies running tens and even hundreds of databases, applications, and tools, it’s difficult to keep an IT department running lean. With the world facing a recession after a very shaky several years, managing costs to prepare for what’s ahead is a high priority for many organizations. So where is a good place to start? You might find that you have a lot of potential for savings when it comes to managing software licenses and permissions.