Trending Articles

article thumbnail

Provider or partner? IT leaders rethink vendor relationships for value

CIO

Shane McDaniel was nearly a year into a modernization effort when he and his IT team for the City of Seguin, Texas, cut over from the city’s legacy network to the upgraded version. On hand for much of the work that Saturday in June 2019 was the rep from Extreme Networks, a Morrisville, N.C.-headquartered company that McDaniel had selected as the provider on the project.

article thumbnail

Things to Consider When Hiring React JS Consulting Services

The Crazy Programmer

Applications and websites are now an essential component of practically every company. They can draw in a wider audience and serve as a company’s online persona, after all. Experts even argue that a well-designed website or application can provide a business owner with the highest possible revenue and profit potential. Online companies are increasingly choosing the technology and developers for their initiatives with greater caution as a result.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Effective one-on-one coaching with the Clover Model

Agile Alliance

The Clover Model guides Agile Coaches in bi-weekly one-on-one sessions with Scrum Masters, addressing structured agendas, personalized challenges, role fulfillment, team metrics, and continuous growth and training. The post Effective one-on-one coaching with the Clover Model first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Coaching 180
article thumbnail

Progressive Pre-Employment Assessment – A Complete Guide

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The Progressive Pre-Employment Assessment is a crucial step in the hiring process, as it evaluates candidates through various dimensions including cognitive abilities, personality traits, and role-specific skills. While employers and recruiters have this in the palm of their hand, candidates who master it will successfully navigate the assessment and have a higher chance of landing that dream job.

article thumbnail

Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

article thumbnail

3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovator’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you need to do more than meet deadlines and produce strong results. Employees who quickly move up often have an innovator’s mindset. These people ultimately position themselves as valuable assets by questioning assumptions and pushing their organizations to stay competitive. By consistently bringing fresh ideas to the table and demonstrating a proactive approach to problem-solving, they naturally attract the attention of higher-ups.

Meeting 126

More Trending

article thumbnail

IBM Makes Generative AI Platform for DevOps Available

DevOps.com

IBM has made generally available a framework, dubbed IBM Concert, that leverages generative artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs to surface in real-time dependencies.

article thumbnail

Is the Kaspersky Ban in the United States Warranted?

Ooda Loop

Recently, the Biden Administration announced the ban of the sale of Kaspersky antivirus software in the United States, citing the company’s “ties” to the Russian government as a potential risk to U.S. national security.

article thumbnail

Supercharge Customer Journeys with Salesforce OmniStudio

Perficient

In today’s digital landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences is paramount. Salesforce OmniStudio empowers you to create engaging, personalized, and brand-consistent interactions across all touchpoints. This blog post delves into OmniStudio, exploring its capabilities, benefits, and how you can leverage it to elevate your customer journeys.

Insurance 103
article thumbnail

How AI Can Change the Way Your Company Gets Work Done

Harvard Business Review

AI offers many ways to enhance a company’s overall internal capabilities and skills. AI can be used to infer skills from employee profiles and their activity. AI can be used to classify learning content and make it more applicable and accessible for the whole workforce, as well as making learning more personalized to each individual. AI can be used to summarize, recommend, and augment learning content.

Company 114
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How smaller businesses can reimagine brand building with generative AI

CIO

Generating and maintaining awareness is notoriously challenging for small businesses, often working with limited in-house resources and without the budget for external marketing support. In fact, recent research found that 67% of small business founders considered marketing and sales support one of their biggest challenges, with marketing budgets one of the first to see cuts in difficult conditions. 1 But generative AI (genAI) could answer this challenge, unleashing a new wave of creativity for

article thumbnail

Survey Surfaces Lots of Software Supply Chain Insecurity

DevOps.com

A global survey of 900 application security professionals finds nearly two-thirds work for organizations that have had their software supply chains compromised in the past two years.

Survey 105
article thumbnail

Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Ooda Loop

Tech companies scouring the country for electricity supplies have zeroed in on a key target: America’s nuclear-power plants. The owners of roughly a third of U.S. nuclear-power plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity to new data centers needed to meet the demands of an artificial-intelligence boom.

article thumbnail

How to Configure ServiceNow Knowledge Articles for Microsoft Graph Connector

Perficient

If you use ServiceNow as your knowledge management platform, you might want to make your knowledge articles searchable and accessible from Microsoft Search. Microsoft Search is a unified search experience that helps you find what you need across your organization, including files, sites, people, and more. By connecting your ServiceNow knowledge articles to Microsoft Search, you can enable your users to find and request them directly from the Microsoft 365 apps.

How To 101
article thumbnail

12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.

article thumbnail

How Part-Time Senior Leaders Can Help Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Bringing on seasoned leaders in “fractional” roles can help companies gain expertise without the expense and commitment of a full-time hire.

Company 123
article thumbnail

Morgan Stanley’s gen AI launch is about global analysis

CIO

When Morgan Stanley announced its new generative AI support tools for financial advisors last week, it talked about gaining efficiencies from its notetaking abilities. But those who track the $54 billion financial firm said that its goal is much larger. The announced intent of AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief, one of a suite of generative AI tools the company is developing for its financial advisors, is to record, transcribe and then summarize key points from the more than 1 million conference calls

Analysis 279
article thumbnail

Robotics Startups On The Rise In 2024

Crunchbase News

So far, 2024 is shaping up as a not-so-shabby year for robotics startup funding. Developers of workplace robots, robotic surgery technologies, and even humanoid models have all raised large rounds in the past six months. The artificial intelligence funding boom has also helped boost the space, with investors backing big deals at the intersection of AI and robotics.

article thumbnail

What is Incident Response?

xmatters

Incident response is a crucial process for any organization, addressing situations where services are disrupted, systems fail, or security incidents occur. This process ensures that organizations can quickly recover and resume normal operations. However, incident response is not limited to major incidents—even routine actions such as rebooting a computer to fix a problem qualify as incident response.

article thumbnail

Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

article thumbnail

Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not

IDC

Supercloud enables seamless app migration and multi-cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP without reconfiguration. Collaboration among providers is key but challenging.

Cloud 109
article thumbnail

How to Structure Customer Service Calls to Boost Satisfaction and Sales

Harvard Business Review

Researchers found that service agents yield better results when they use warm language to start and end conversations, focusing on problem-solving in the middle.

How To 124
article thumbnail

The importance of integrating security in planning and implementing SD-WAN

CIO

The global cyber threat landscape continues to become a concern for organizations, with the number of reported attacks growing consistently. Last year saw a 90% increase in ransomware cases, wherein the victims were publicly extorted. Around 5,000 organizations were affected, twice the number of victims recorded in the previous year. Also, ransomware-as-a-service is a growing problem as cybercriminals use generative AI to aid their attacks.

WAN 274
article thumbnail

Access control for vector stores using metadata filtering with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In November 2023, we announced Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock as generally available. Knowledge bases allow Amazon Bedrock users to unlock the full potential of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by seamlessly integrating their company data into the language model’s generation process. This feature allows organizations to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) while making sure that the generated responses are tailored to their specific domain knowledge, regulations, and busines

article thumbnail

Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

article thumbnail

Mastering Distributed Caching on AWS: Strategies, Services, and Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

Distributed caching is a method for storing and managing data across multiple servers, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and improved read/write performance. In cloud environments like AWS (Amazon Web Services), distributed caching is pivotal in enhancing application performance by reducing database load, decreasing latency, and providing scalable data storage solutions.

AWS 88
article thumbnail

Cost Reduction Strategies Without Sacrificing Quality For Tech Companies

Crunchbase News

For growing tech companies aiming to reach profitability, balancing cost reduction with maintaining high-quality products and services is crucial, especially when most expenses are tied up in manpower, marketing, sales and R&D. Here’s how you can trim the fat without losing your edge. Streamline operational efficiency I have mentioned it before: I don’t think AI will replace people, but people who don’t use AI will be replaced by those who do.

article thumbnail

The New Rules of Marketing Across Channels

Harvard Business Review

The Internet and AI tools are transforming marketing communications within a complex, interactive landscape called the echoverse. While marketing has evolved since the proliferation of the Internet, in the echoverse, a diverse network of human and nonhuman actors — consumers, brands, AI agents, and more — continuously interact, influence, and reshape messages across digital platforms.

Marketing 124
article thumbnail

How small businesses can develop a technology strategy that leverages AI

CIO

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. What’s clear though, is that these organisations risk being left behind if they aren’t maximising the potential of AI. Analysts expect small businesses to quickly grasp the nettle.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Building Resilient Software Systems: The Power of Clean Architecture

DevOps.com

Clean architecture is a software design philosophy that prioritizes the separation of concerns within a software system. Its primary aim is to develop systems that are simple to comprehend, maintain and extend.

article thumbnail

Build your multilingual personal calendar assistant with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Foreigners and expats living outside of their home country deal with a large number of emails in various languages daily. They often find themselves struggling with language barriers when it comes to setting up reminders for events like business gatherings and customer meetings. To solve this problem, this post shows you how to apply AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock , AWS Step Functions , and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to build a fully-automated multilingual calendar artificial

85
article thumbnail

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In June: AI Eye Checks, Voice Diagnoses And New Social Media ‘Friends’

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. Summer is here and the time is right to maybe read a little less tech news and have some fun. If that’s the case, you may have missed some intriguing capital raises this month. No worries, we have you covered with what caught our eye — starting with an eye-related startup.

Media 102