Sat.Sep 07, 2024 - Fri.Sep 13, 2024

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The state of CIO salaries: Rising to meet the prominence of the role

Ooda Loop

Elevated in prominence over the past few years, CIOs are now an integral part of the C-suite, with salaries and compensation packages now commensurate with that stature. “As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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Content Hub: Data Model Simplified

Perficient

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.

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Ransomware: Attacks Once More Nearing Peak Levels

Symantec

Attacks surge again in second quarter of 2024 as attackers bounce back from disruption.

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How Apple just changed hearing aids forever - and the lives of those who need them

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Millions of people with hearing loss go without assistive devices for various reasons. However, many of those millions likely now possess AirPods Pro 2 earbuds that can soon function as clinical-grade hearing aids.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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A Lasting Strategy for Global Impact

TechSoup

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet. We're dedicated to delivering on this promise because we believe that building the digital capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) at scale can produce tremendously positive outcomes in the name of safeguarding democracy, preserving our planet, and serving the millions of people that rely on services provided by our sector each day.

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Using Speed, Agility, and Innovation to Beat Your Competition

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Innovation, speed, and agility can be a winning combination if they’re used appropriately. Those elements must be tied closely to your strategy if you really want to win. Today’s post is by Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky, authors of OUTMANEUVER: OutThink, don’t OutSpend. Every executive knows speed is important. Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard declared recently that “the future belongs to the fast.

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CodeSOD: Take a Line Break

The Daily WTF

The number of web applications which need to generate PDFs is too damn high, in my experience. But it's a requirement which continues to exist for a variety of reasons, so we just have to accept it. Derek was accepting of it, at least until he found this attempt to add ten lines of space between paragraphs. var pgText2N2 = section.AddParagraph(); pgText2N2.Format.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Right; pgText2N2.Format.RightIndent = rightMargin; var pgText2N3 = section.AddParagraph(); pgText2N

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Producing Messages With a Schema in Confluent Cloud Console

Confluent

To make application testing for topics with schemas easier, you can now produce messages that are serialized with schemas using the Confluent Cloud Console UI.

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#807 Free Speech vs. Technology: Where Should We Draw the Line? With Anders Indset, Philosopher & Bestselling Author

Modern CTO

Today, we’re talking to Anders Indset, Philosopher & Bestselling Author. We discuss the principles of Norwegian work ethic, the relationship between free speech and technology, and the philosophical challenges we face in our modern day. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Anders Indset, check out his website here: [link] Produced by ProSeries Media: [link] For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Anders Indset Recognized by T

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

CIO

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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How a CEO Can Make or Break Your Company

N2Growth Blog

The CEO defines an organization’s direction and culture, shaping a vision that motivates employees, engages customers, and builds confidence with investors. The CEO also balances immediate needs with long-term goals, transforming strategic ideas into actions everyone can support. Every CEO’s impact is most visible in company decision-making.

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Confluent + WarpStream = Large-Scale Streaming in your Cloud

Confluent

Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.

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Optimizing Cloud Networks: The Strategic Approach to Eliminating Suboptimal Routing

Kentik

Cloud networking has become a foundational element of modern IT infrastructure, so the need for efficient, reliable, optimal, and cost-effective routing is more critical than ever. The thing is, words like “efficient” and “optimal” can mean very different things depending on who you talk to. Routing algorithms usually try to figure out the best path according to some type of cost.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

CIO

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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Finding the Right Chief Experience Officer

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Experience Officer The Chief Experience Officer (CXO) might not have the same name recognition as a CEO or CFO, but their influence is felt across every aspect of a company’s strategy and operations. Tasked with championing customer-driven strategies, the CXO ensures that every decision and initiative is grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs.

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Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations generate vast amounts of data that is proprietary to them, and it’s critical to get insights out of the data for better business outcomes. Generative AI and foundation models (FMs) play an important role in creating applications using an organization’s data that improve customer experiences and employee productivity. The FMs are typically pretrained on a large corpus of data that’s openly available on the internet.

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The Unicorn Board Adds 8 New Companies, With One Newly Minted Entry Valued At $16B 

Crunchbase News

Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively. Among them was Huawei Technologies’ smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology , valued at $16 billion. That dollar amount represents the second-largest value for a newly minted unicorn this year — trailing only xAI , which was valued at $24 billion in May when it joined the board.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

CIO

In continuation of its efforts to help enterprises migrate to the cloud, Oracle said it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer database services on the latter’s infrastructure. This is Oracle’s third partnership with a hyperscaler to offer its database services on the hyperscaler’s infrastructure. In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers , giving customers direct acc

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Navigating Agile Waters: Why Integrating Copilot Demands Methodological Adjustments

DevOps.com

Changes to agile methodology are inevitable because GenAI and Agile are providing real competitive advantages.

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Integrating Succession Planning with Organizational Strategy for Maximum Impact

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning in Business Succession planning is a strategic commitment to future-proofing an organization. Instead of merely reacting when key roles become vacant, it cultivates a steady flow of prepared leaders, ensuring the business remains strong and adaptable. This kind of foresight fosters an environment where leadership changes aren’t disruptions—they’re opportunities for renewal and growth.

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How healthcare payers and plans can empower members with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help health insurance plan members get the information they need. Many health insurance plan beneficiaries find it challenging to navigate through the complex member portals provided by their insurance plans. These portals often require multiple clicks, filters, and searches to find specific information about their benefits, deductibles, claim history, and other important details.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

CIO

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development

DevOps.com

A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.

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Can The Perks Of Early-Stage VC Make A Difference To Founders?

Crunchbase News

It is widely known that getting the right investors at the right time can be vital to a startup’s success. This truth is always top of mind for founders who are raising venture capital. While it’s somewhat standard practice to get an idea off the ground with friends and family, then angel investors, things get more complex as startups approach their early stages and begin raising successive rounds.

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Security by Default: The Crucial Complement to Secure by Design

Ivanti

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. This new reality is being answered with the software development concept called security by default, a necessary complement to the principles of Secure by Design set forth by the U.S.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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Cribl Extends Reach of Platform for Routing DevOps Telemetry Data

DevOps.com

Cribl this week added support for multiple additional platforms to its cloud service for collecting and routing telemetry data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms.

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AI-Powered Work Assistant Glean Doubles Valuation To $4.6B In Less Than Seven Months

Crunchbase News

That didn’t take long. Less than seven months after raising a more than $200 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation, AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup Glean raised more than $260 million in a Series E funding at a $4.6 billion valuation co-led by Altimeter Capital and DST Global. The Palo Alto, California-based startup hit unicorn status in May 2023 after raising a $100 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital.