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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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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

CIO

Consider off-the-shelf AI After identifying roles that lend themselves to gen AI applications, consider whether the individual would benefit from having a “competent but naive gen AI assistant”—akin to a worker who excels at programming or writing but doesn’t know anything about the organization, McAfee says. By not entering.

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Taktile raises $20M to help fintech companies test and deploy decision-making models

TechCrunch

While there, they found that many automated decisions were poorly designed, hardly ever tested properly and required a lot of engineering capacity — ultimately leading to guesswork. Taktile would let the head of credit at the bank back-test the change and analyze its impact before actually implementing it.

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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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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. For the Head of IT Operations: A full-tilt automated, accurate, and correct regression and integration test suite.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. For the Head of IT Operations: A full-tilt automated, accurate, and correct regression and integration test suite.

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Understanding the Dynamics of Custom Software Development

The Crazy Programmer

Compared to commercial off-the-shelf software products (COTS), custom-developed software is built to meet a narrow, specific set of requirements. Commercial off-the-shelf products are obviously designed to appeal to the masses as they are commercially marketed and distributed. Why Choose Custom Software Development?