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What is Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Software

Openxcell

COTS stands for Commercial-Off-the-Shelf, and it refers to software targeted to a certain, specially defined range of business based on predetermined specifications. It also alleviates concerns about the challenges of developing and sustaining private IT solutions compared to Commercial-Off-the-Shelf available IT applications.

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YouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm, views and answers other creator questions

TechCrunch

The Shorts video shelf where thumbnails would be viewed is just an entry point to the Shorts experience — but once you’re swiping through, you won’t see the other videos’ thumbnails. YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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Unlocking generative AI’s greatest growth opportunities

CIO

While off-the-shelf generative AI technology from the likes of OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and others is incredibly powerful, the key to successful commercial generative AI initiatives is having authoritative, comprehensive reference data to train the system for a specific use case. Where will the biggest transformation occur first?

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We For example, if production in one business unit is short on eight-inch steel rods needed to finish orders in assembly, and another area of the business has 10-inch rods on hand, the AI might suggest using the longer rods and cutting them down to make the delivery deadline.

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Growing Leaders Who are Confident, Skilled and Human-Centered (Mistakes to Avoid)

Let's Grow Leaders

In the video I give an example of how this goes south — and I see it happen all the time. When you delegated the tasks out among the team the timing was off and important parts of the project weren’t done when they needed to be. This is no cookie-cutter, stale-off-the-shelf program.