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4 Things to Consider When Integrating Generative AI

DevOps.com

SaaS companies are integrating generative AI capabilities into their products and services. However, in the race to join the hype, many companies are building first and strategizing later.

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With generative AI, IT must deliver knowledge…not just technology

CIO

You don’t have to look further than recent headlines to know generative AI has garnered outsized attention in 2023. And for good reason. GenAI has been estimated to increase skilled worker performance by up to 40% with the potential to add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy. This is because GenAI brings accessibility to tasks that once required specialized skillsets—like coding or graphics—to more workers than ever thought possible.

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Dive into the Role of the Chief People Officer in Today’s Workplace

N2Growth Blog

The Evolving Landscape of Human Resources Leadership In this ever-changing business landscape, the role of human resources (HR) leadership continues to evolve and adapt to meet the demands of a dynamic workforce. Today, Chief People Officers and CHROs are not only responsible for the high-value functions of talent acquisition and employee engagement, but they play a crucial role in shaping organizational culture, driving diversity and inclusion, and ethically leveraging technology for effective

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5 key leadership skills an executive coach can help you master

CIO

When a civil engineering company went through layoffs during tough economic times, its 28-year-old project manager suddenly found himself promoted to the company’s top IT role. Just a few years after doing desktop support at the same firm, he was thrust into the position of IT manager, meeting with the CEO and running the show for everything tech. “At 28, there were a lot of things I didn’t have experience with,” says Chris Cantrell.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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What Top Nonprofit Executive Search Firms Have in Common

N2Growth Blog

Firms Have a Robust Network: Extensive Connections in the Nonprofit Sector A robust network is crucial for success in the nonprofit sector. Top executive search firms with experience in the non-profit industry understand the importance of establishing extensive connections within the industry. With their years of experience and deep-rooted relationships, these firms have cultivated a vast network of nonprofit professionals, including leaders, volunteers, and board members.

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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

Unveiling the Board’s Strategic Compass Towards Sustainable Growth Astute board governance is the linchpin for fostering an organization’s success and long-term viability. It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance.

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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. Through use of data analytics, data visualization, and data modeling techniques and technologies, BI analysts can identify trends that can help other departments, managers, and executives make business decisions to modernize and improve processes in the organization.

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Executive Evolution: How Performance Coaching Transforms Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Role of High-Impact Performance Coaching in Leadership Development of Executives Performance coaching is pivotal in developing executive leaders in today’s dynamic business environment. As an executive coaching professional who works with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of coaching in shaping effective leaders.

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COO Marina Bellini on leading IT talent for growth

CIO

Marina Bellini’s career journey has shaped her unique perspective and leadership playbook. She started out in Big 4 consulting and then spent several decades working across three global, big-brand CPG companies. Most recently, she made the shift from CI&DO to COO at Latin America’s largest bank, Banco Itaú, where she is leading a major operating model transformation.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Unlocking Digital Leadership: CIO Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount. Top leaders not only excel at understanding and leveraging digital tools, but they also possess the unique ability to navigate the complexities of the digital age and drive significant chang

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Tips & tricks: Git under WSL and windows

Xebia

Since the introduction of Windows Subsystem for Linus (WSL) I’ve started to rely on it more and more, but there are still a few quirks when dealing with multiple environments that access the same repo on disk. Some of the issues I’ve encountered are: Ensuring line-endings are properly handled on the mounted windows volumes Centralizing credential management Let’s tackle them one-by-one.

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How AI Can Help Leaders Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

Harvard Business Review

More and more businesses are turning to AI-powered technologies to help close the data-insight gap and improve their decision-making capabilities in time-critical, high-pressure situations. These technologies encompass a wide range of tools, including virtual assistants, virtual and augmented reality, process discovery, task mining, and an array of data analytics and business intelligence platforms.

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Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron

The Citus Data

pg_cron is an open source PostgreSQL extension that provides a cron-based scheduler to periodically run SQL commands. Almost every managed PostgreSQL service supports pg_cron and it has become a standard tool for many PostgreSQL users. Since Citus has been my full-time job, pg_cron has always been a side project for me, and so I tried to architect it for simplicity, reliability, and low maintenance.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Encourage Your Team to Escalate Issues on Technical Projects

Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of a very public system failure or a project going significantly over-budget, a key question that’s often asked is: “Why didn’t anyone bring this to our attention?” The root causes of why people fail to escalate issues (even when they know it’s the right thing to do) fall into both organizational and systemic categories. Among them are the lack of a culture of trust, poor communications, ineffective feedback, and valuing IQ over EQ.

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Announcing Apache Flink 1.18

Confluent

Read updates and improvements in Apache Flink 1.18, including dynamic fine-grained rescaling via REST API, Java 17 support, and faster rescaling & batch performance improvements.

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How to Connect Employees to Your Company’s Purpose

Harvard Business Review

We know making a noble corporate purpose — that is, one aimed at doing something good in the world — come to life is both important and hard. Emerging practices from leading companies show that the journey is not about top-down messaging. If anything, it’s about inside-out and bottom-up dialogue, as this is how we human beings can ultimately connect with a broader mission.

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Effortless Engineering: Quick Tips for Crafting Prompts

Honeycomb

Large Language Models (LLMs) are all the rage in software development, and for good reason: they provide crucial opportunities to positively enhance our software. At Honeycomb, we saw an opportunity in the form of Query Assistant , a feature that can help engineers ask questions of their systems in plain English. But we certainly encountered issues while building it—issues you’ll most likely face too if you’re building a product with LLMs—with the main one being, how do we get the model to retur

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift Arrives

Dell EMC

Introducing Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, a fully integrated, purpose built, application delivery platform.

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Are We Witnessing the End of Open Source?

DevOps.com

There's some speculation that we're seeing a decline in the open source space. But that's not necessarily true.

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Customizing Axes in Syncfusion Flutter Charts

InnovationM

Syncfusion is a software company that provides a wide range of components and tools for building cross-platform applications, including Flutter. They offer a set of Flutter widgets, including charts, to help developers create interactive and visually appealing data visualizations in their Flutter applications. Syncfusion’s Flutter charts also provide a wide range of customization options, interactivity features like tooltips and selection, and support for real-time updates, making them a p

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LaunchDarkly Extends Scope and Reach of Feature Management Platform

DevOps.com

LaunchDarkly added a range of tools to address delivery of specific capabilities to end users after deployment and increased workflow observability.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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10 Ways to Get Prepared for End-of-Year Giving

TechSoup

Did you know that about 30 percent of all annual donations to nonprofits occur in the month of December? Not only that, but according to Nonprofits Source , the last three days of the year alone account for 10 percent of all annual charitable giving.

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Monetization of Partner Led Managed Services Model

Palo Alto Networks

Importance of Support In Offering Profitability NextWave free Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) make substantial investments in building out their practices. MSSPs don’t just deliver products and features, they deliver business outcomes to their customers that enable them to drive consumption of the underlying technology. To deliver these outcomes profitably, they must create a standard offer that has a defined cost.

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Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Application Integration Testing: A Different Perspective

Dzone - DevOps

When it comes to software development, application integration testing often finds itself in a somewhat nebulous space. While most are familiar with the processes of the unit and functional testing, integration testing remains an elusive subject for some. We often ask ourselves, "Why is it important?" or "How can it help me in my overall development workflow?

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Holiday hacking: Cyber-attacks on Cyber Monday

Darktrace

Every year, on the first Monday after Thanksgiving, two things happen. First, online retailers slash prices and the internet goes on its annual shopping spree. And second, criminals swarm on unwitting businesses, launching large-scale hacks and clever scams.

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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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How well do you stay in touch with friends from your younger academic years (high school, college, advanced degree programs)?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How well do you stay in touch with friends from your younger academic years (high school, college, advanced degree programs)? Extremely well: we’re in constant contact 6.85% Very well: we connect multiple times a year 20.09% Well: we’ll connect every few years 16.12% Not well: I may see them at a class reunion 22.73% Not at all: I’ve lost touch with all of them 34.21% Missed connections and missed opportunities.

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Atomic Design: Benefits and Implementation

Apiumhub

Based on the book Atomic Design by Brad Frost. What is Atomic Design? Atomic Design is a methodology for designing and developing user interfaces that has gained popularity in recent times. It was proposed by Brad Frost as a systematic approach to creating reusable and consistent components in web applications, following an analogy with the structure of atoms and molecules in chemistry.

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Expediting the investigation of widespread Trojan infections with Darktrace

Darktrace

Darktrace helps security operations centre (SOC) teams become more efficient by drastically cutting down the time needed to investigate incidents.

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