CIO

MAY 8, 2024

Alex Gay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Adobe Document Cloud Most business today can be described as MORE—more technology, more meetings, more projects, more data, and more documents. Coupled with the increasing expectations to do more with less, it’s a lot for knowledge workers to handle. In fact, according to MIT Sloan , 80 percent of knowledge workers experience information overload and it’s impacting productivity.

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Agile Alliance

MAY 8, 2024

The Agile2024 conference brings Agile communities together annually to share experiences and make new connections. We've put together a list of some of the many reasons to get together in person again in Dallas this year! The post Ten Reasons for Joining Us at Agile2024 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CIO

MAY 3, 2024

United Parcel Service last year turned to generative AI to help streamline its customer service operations. The in-house developed project, Message Response Automation (MeRA), is already delivering. MeRA, which was initiated last July and went into beta testing in October, leverages publicly available large language models (LLMs) to automate the handling of some customer issues, providing consistent messaging and significant improvement of agent efficiency, aka handle time, according to the mult

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Xebia

MAY 8, 2024

DIY LLM Evaluation, a Case Study of Rhyming in ABBA Schema It’s becoming common knowledge: You should not choose your LLMs based on static benchmarks. As Andrej Karpathy, former CTO of OpenAI, once said on Twitter: “I pretty much only trust two LLM evals right now: Chatbot Arena and the r/LocalLlama comments section” Chatbot Arena is a website where you can submit a prompt, see two results, and then choose the best result.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

Leaving a company that’s been your professional home for years, or decades, is a major shift that can feel both thrilling and perilous. In this article, the authors outline six challenges that often come up when making this transition: 1) Ruminating and second-guessing; 2) Feeling guilty; 3) Being afraid of losing status; 4) Needing to adapt; 5) Managing the perceptions of your new colleagues; and 6) Balancing opposing emotions.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Martin Bayer: At the moment, user companies are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing, but also SAP’s RISE and GROW programs, especially in Germany. Last year’s message that certain core innovations would only be offered in the cloud has also caused some resentment among users. How do you want to take your customers with you on their journey? Christian Klein: I understand there’s some reluctance among [German-speaking SAP user group] DSAG and some other customers to embrace the cloud.

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Agile Alliance

MAY 3, 2024

Ines Garcia, a leader of the Agile Sustainability Initiative, blends Agile practices with sustainability to address global challenges and promote sustainable business practices. The post Agile sustainability: Cultivating a sustainable future with Ines Garcia first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Xebia

MAY 7, 2024

If you work in the Tech industry, whether you provide a service or deliver a product, you have probably heard of the new Internal Developer Platform or Platform Engineering trend. Platform Engineering revolves around enabling self-service for developers by providing tools and workflows and integrating them into an IDP. You might be one of the lucky ones who is adopting the trend in your organisation and seeing first-hand the results of that adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

The FTC’s new noncompete rule adopts a comprehensive prohibition on the use of noncompete clauses in any U.S. industry with any worker, including those at senior executive levels. The rule is promulgated using the FTC’s authority to determine practices that are unfair methods of competition. For those who have long argued against the use of noncompetes, this moment has been a long time coming.

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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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Ooda Loop

MAY 2, 2024

In his annual letter to shareholders CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon extolled the virtues of the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) Loop decision-making model developed by military strategist John Boyd.

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Agile Alliance

MAY 3, 2024

The Agile Alliance board uses its established vision, mission, and "Value Dials" framework to guide its ongoing relevance and commitment to supporting a global community dedicated to Agile practices. The post How the Agile Alliance board makes decisions first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here. Another big month of big rounds. A startup needed to raise $200 million or more to break into this list for the April edition. April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2024

When you’re working with new people, spending time upfront to have an explicit and open conversation about each other’s work styles and preferences can prove to be one of the best time investments. This “style alignment” conversation can lay a foundation for trust and understanding and help you set agreements for how to successfully work together. Yet, many people shy away from having these conversations for two reasons.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 3, 2024

Four Chinese generative artificial intelligence start-ups have been valued at between $1.2bn and $2.5bn in the past three months, leading a pack of more than 260 companies vying to emulate the success of US rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Fail fast is a frequent maxim in business, but what about reverse engineering that concept? We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Here is the main the question we posed: If you were writing your own book on how to lead, what advice would you impart to other technology executives?

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DevOps.com

MAY 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week make generally available an instance of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant capable of executing complex workflows on behalf of application developers.

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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language popularity is being attributed to the growing importance of numerical or mathematical computing. Fortran returned to the top 10 in the index for April 2024 and retains the 10th place in the index for May 2024. The rating for Fortran did slip a bit, from 1.47% last month to 1.24% this month.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2024

Identifying as an organizational member — or feeling a strong sense of attachment to the organization — is generally a positive thing for employees and employers. But our research on workplace incivility and mistreatment shows that it can also shape when — and if — employees recognize and respond to subtle forms of discrimination against women at work.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 7, 2024

New capabilities enable customers to counter AI with AI, secure AI by design and simplify security. AI Is already transforming every enterprise. AI has been driving productivity for over a decade, but over the past 18 months, it has hyper accelerated with broad adoption of generative AI. This has fueled AI adoption across the entire enterprise with employees finding uses for GenAI in every department.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). By infusing gen AI functionality across its portfolio, Red Hat aims to reduce the complexity of enterprise IT and help platform engineers and developers be more accurate a

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Crunchbase News

MAY 3, 2024

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. What a week it’s been if you were a startup looking to raise big.

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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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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather than human operators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2024

As AI becomes more powerful, it faces a major trust problem. Consider 12 leading concerns: disinformation, safety and security, the black box problem, ethical concerns, bias, instability, hallucinations in LLMs, unknown unknowns, potential job losses and social inequalities, environmental impact, industry concentration, and state overreach. Each of these issues is complex — and not easy to solve.

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CEO Insider

MAY 6, 2024

Last week, in my CEOWORLD Magazine piece, The Best CEO Forum Hack? Preparation., I shared that most CEOs participating in forums or peer advisory groups admit to being woefully unprepared for their forum meetings. I stated that preparation is the number 1 hack because it not only helps CEOs bring their best selves to the […] The post Best CEO Forum Companion Hack?

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

When a necessary change hits your IT team, getting everyone to buy in and adapt is key — and challenging. Some team members will, by nature, fight any change. Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

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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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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Global venture capital funding reached just over $22 billion in April 2024 — flat month over month and up a few percentage points year over year — Crunchbase data shows. The slowdown in venture funding has continued despite the AI technology wave that has washed over startups in the past few years. Of the $22 billion invested in startups globally last month, around $2.4 billion, or 11%, went to about 1,000 seed-stage companies.

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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

No one thinks software development is easy, but who would have thought it could be hard in so many different ways? Evans Data estimates there are 26.9 million software developers globally. Recently more than 100 of those developers weighed in on Ali Spittel’s question , “What’s the most difficult part of your job as a developer?” I expected the answers to mostly coalesce around a few key themes, but the responses were highly varied.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

While there’s been a recent string of disappointing macroeconomic data, in reality, these developments are signs of the U.S. economy’s strengths, not weaknesses. The economic pessimism of the last few years has often been rooted in a misreading of the U.S. consumer. Too often, they are cast as financially squeezed, burning through their pandemic-era savings, and reeling from the real income cut that inflation has inflicted on them.

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