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Energy leader Petrobras sails toward sustainability with new supply chain solution

CIO

A battle against complexity > The use of spreadsheets and other antiquated methods had given way to a slow, inconsistent, and difficult-to-map-and-analyze approval system.​Without But that wasn’t all. Without the real-time data visibility necessary to make informed decisions, Petrobras was facing an upsurge in risks and disruptions.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. So congratulations!

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

TechCrunch

One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. “That’s where we like to look,” Smith said.

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In a changing world, LEOCH sets enterprise automation standard

CIO

Material requirements planning (MRP), the system that calculates the components required to make an effective product, often lacked reliability, requiring planners to communicate offline and use manual scheduling methods. Even the software used to alleviate these issues had become antiquated.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. Zillow wrote down millions of dollars, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster. In 2014, Amazon started working on AI-powered recruiting software to do just that.

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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

TechCrunch

Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. However, dispatch was one of Uber’s most critical systems, and it had a much bigger scale than previous use cases while having a very stringent latency requirement. .

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BitBucket vs GitHub?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

The Complete Review [2020] I’ve created this “BitBucket vs GitHub” content piece to help you make a better decision when picking between the two. billion at the beginning of June 2018, a lot of software developers criticized the upcoming acquisition. Microsoft, in the early 2000s, was known as not a big fan of open source software.