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Salesforce-Informatica acquisition talks falls through: Report

CIO

Salesforce’s negotiations to acquire enterprise data management software provider Informatica have fallen through as both couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal. That the talks about the deal had come to a close was reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters , citing an anonymous source. The disagreement about the terms of the deal is more likely to be around the price of each share of Informatica, WSJ reported, adding that Salesforce was negotiating a mid-30s price per share with th

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Introducing Relational Fields

Honeycomb

We’re excited to bring you relational fields, a new feature that allows you to query spans based on their relationship to each other within a trace. Previously, queries considered spans in isolation: You could ask about field values on spans and aggregate them based on matching criteria, but you couldn’t use any qualifying relationships about where and how the spans appear in a trace.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. VMware customers were understandably concerned. Broadcom has made a series of acquisitions under CEO Hock Tan’s leadership, including CA Technologies and Symantec’s enterprise security division, and Tan has often cut marketing expenses and dumped parts of the acquired company t

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The Philosophers’ Code: Enhancing Cybersecurity Strategy with Timeless Wisdom

Ooda Loop

The teachings of ancient philosophers can provide actionable insights in the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity. It might seem surprising at first, but the wisdom of history's great thinkers offers perspectives that are profoundly relevant to today's digital security challenges.

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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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Time to digitize all landlines, once and for all (of us)

CIO

There has been a public challenge to the fact that AT&T is retiring its copper landlines in the state of California. This issue, however, is much bigger than the state of California and AT&T. It is not only national but global as well. In the US alone, there are estimates from 35 million to 100 million landlines still in operation (depending on how you count them), about 14 million of which are business lines.

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Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli

CIO

La cybersecurity toglie il sonno ai CIO? Sicuramente la grande maggioranza dei Chief Information Officer definisce “priorità numero uno” la sicurezza dei sistemi IT aziendali. Questa attenzione massima rispecchia la consapevolezza che le cyber-minacce sono sempre più numerose e preoccupanti. L’ultimo Rapporto Clusit ha contato 2.779 incidenti gravi a livello globale nel 2023 (+12% rispetto al 2022), di cui 310 in Italia, ovvero l’11% del totale mondiale e un incremento addirittura del 65% in un

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How to Choose the Right Communication Channel for Your Message

Let's Grow Leaders

The Communication Channel You Choose Matters: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It If you’re managing a team, you know how crucial your choice of communication can be. Let’s start with a timeless piece of advice from Marshall McLuhan, the renowned communication researcher. He famously said, “The medium is the message.” What does this mean for you as a manager?

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Presidential Leadership

CEO Insider

Being president of the United States is the most prestigious and the most challenging job in the world. We’ve now had 46 commanders-in-chief over the last 235 years and America’s leading historians have concluded that fewer than ten have done a stellar job in leading the country. For the esteemed few who succeeded in guiding […] The post Presidential Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Investors Re-Engage With Gaming Startups

Crunchbase News

It’s once again “game on” for gaming startups. After several slow quarters , funding to companies in the gaming space has picked up a bit this year, driven by a resurgence in early-stage dealmaking and optimism around the ability of small studios to churn out hits. In the first quarter of this year, investors put $265 million globally into early-stage rounds for gaming startups, per Crunchbase data.

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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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Research: More People Use Mental Health Benefits When They Hear That Colleagues Use Them Too

Harvard Business Review

Novartis has trained more than 1,000 employees as Mental Health First Aiders to offer peer-to-peer support for their colleagues. While employees were eager for the training, uptake of the program remains low. To understand why, a team of researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 Novartis employees who worked in the UK, Ireland, India, and Malaysia.

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Case Study: How to Increase Self-Organization in a Complex Environment

Agile42

The restructuring of an existing value stream represents the greatest possible tactical challenge that managers can face in the context of agile transformation. It directly impacts the organization’s ability to deliver and affects established social structures. It is also on the borderline between two domains: complicated and complex; some aspects of the target structure are known with a fair degree of certainty based on experience, but we cannot predict how the transformation process will

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Perficient Wins the Köerber OMS New Partner of the Year 2023 North America!

Perficient

We’re excited to share some wonderful news with you all! Perficient achieved the Köerber 2023 Evolve Partner Award for New OMS Partner of the Year North America. We see this as a shared achievement, one that wouldn’t be possible without the support of our incredible team and partner Köerber. Recognizing Excellence in the Supply Chain The Evolve Partner Awards have been established to recognize the efforts of Köerber’s partners in key Sales and Customer Success categories, which are related

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Focusing on the wrong open source issues

InfoWorld

If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning : “single vendor is the new proprietary.” Sounds terrible, right?

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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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AIOps Success Requires Synthetic Internet Telemetry Data

DevOps.com

The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed.

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7 innovative ways to use low-code tools and platforms

InfoWorld

Some developers and business leaders believe that low-code is only for small, lightly used applications such as replacing spreadsheets and building dashboards. “These tools, in general, aren’t well suited to more advanced applications,” says Steve Jones, devops advocate at Red Gate Software. With heavier use and more complex data manipulation requirements, he says, “they often start to fail and cause workload and performance issues.

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Best and Worst Ways Companies Handled Crises in 2023

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Here’s a rundown of the businesses that flourished (and failed) in 2023 and how companies should plan to face crises in 2024. Today’s guest post is b y Thomas Mustac, Publicist — Otter PR The way a company handles a crisis can be a defining moment for the organization, either endearing them to their market or destroying the company altogether.

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President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, Gets $49,7 Million Compensation Noting 26,5% Rise While Company is in Cost-Cutting Mode

CEO Insider

Warner Bros. Discovery is under scrutiny for its executive compensation practices, with CEO David Zaslav’s 2023 pay package totaling $49.7 million, a significant increase of 26.5% from the previous year. While the company grappled with financial challenges and shrinking business segments, top executives enjoyed substantial pay hikes, raising questions about corporate priorities amidst cost-cutting efforts. […] The post President and CEO of Warner Bros.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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CodeSOD: An Obsolete Approach

The Daily WTF

Marcus 's team was restructuring the API, and the architect thus wanted a number of methods marked obsolete, to encourage developers to move to the new version of the API. So the architect created a Jira task, assigned it to a dev, and moved on. Somehow, this C# code got committed and merged, despite being code reviewed: public static void OBSOLETE_PopulateOfferNodes ( Ecometry.New.Model.CategoryHierarchyNode _mainNode, ref Ecometry.New.Model.CategoryHierarchyNode _defaultOffersNode, ref Eco

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How to Use Analytics to Better Understand Your Donors

TechSoup

In recent years, data has become an important asset, and it shapes the way organizations of all sizes make decisions. But there's a wide gap between possessing data and using it to its its full potential. This is particularly true for today’s nonprofits, which deal with siloed departments, evolving donor behaviors, and a competitive landscape.

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Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack

Ooda Loop

Cannes Hospital Centre – Simone Veil (CHC-SV) fell victim to a cyberattack last week. Due to this attack, the healthcare organization shut down its systems to contain the attack, which forced employees to turn to pen and paper to continue providing services to patients.

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Response to Cancer Treatment

John Snow Labs

Accurate Extraction of Response to Treatment Indications in Oncology Accurate assessment of patient response to cancer treatment is paramount in guiding clinical decision-making and optimizing therapeutic outcomes. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, their performance in this domain has been limited by the inherent complexities of medical language and the nuances involved in interpreting clinical narrati

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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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Rural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks that Caused One Water System to Overflow

Ooda Loop

A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks.

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Package Hallucination: The Latest, Greatest Software Supply Chain Security Threat?

IDC

AI's "package hallucination" suggests fake software packages, posing new risks for software security by enabling cyber attacks through code injection.

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Rocket Attack from Iraq Targets US Base in Syria

Ooda Loop

Several rockets have been fired from Iraq towards a US military base in northeastern Syria. The attack is the first since early February to target US troops, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq brought to an end a campaign that had seen regular strikes against the US-led international coalition.

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#776 Bridging the Gap Between Humans, Business Outcomes and AI with David DeWolf, Founder & CEO of Knownwell

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to David DeWolf, Founder & CEO of Knownwell. We discuss the impacts and takeaways of David’s silent retreat, the perils that business leaders are facing with AI, and how he’s helping to solve these problems with a human-centered vision. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Knownwell, check out their website here.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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AI is about to make the online child sex abuse problem much worse

Ooda Loop

The nation’s system for tracking down and prosecuting people who sexually exploit children online is overwhelmed and buckling, a new report finds — and artificial intelligence is about to make the problem much worse.

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I Have Databricks, Why Do I Need Dataiku?

Dataiku

In 2024, AI is no longer a niche technology reserved for a handful of experts; it touches every part of the business. However, it's impossible for everyone to become an expert data practitioner overnight. The key is to equip people with tools that empower them where they are — so they can bring immediate value to the organization.

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OpenAI or DIY? Unveiling the true cost of self-hosting LLMs

Ooda Loop

You’ve proudly labeled your services as “AI-powered” by integrating LLMs. The home page of your website proudly flaunts the revolutionary impact of your AI-powered services using interactive demos and case studies. This also makes your company’s first mark on the global generative AI landscape.