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Smart Press Shop, la ‘fábrica digital como servicio’ que lleva las operaciones de producción de Porsche y Schuler al siguiente nivel

CIO

Contar con una fábrica digitalizada es uno de los requisitos fundamentes para tener ventajas competitivas en el mercado. Y es que la tecnología en la nube pública, la automatización y la interconexión de los sistemas y procesos en la cadena de producción tienen un impacto más que comprobado en los resultados empresariales. No se trata de digitalizar por el mero hecho de digitalizar: la TI ya es una parte intrínseca del negocio.

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AI just gave us the Star Trek farewell we always wanted - watch it here

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a powerful short film using AI and deepfake technology to give fans the emotional farewell they deserve.

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. But Florida-based Brown & Brown Insurance put old-school conventions to the test when it joined a growing cadre of leading organizations remodeling IT to reflect the pervasive role of technology in business transformation. Under Executive Vice President and CIO Gray Nester, BBIN traded up the legacy IT moniker for the modern-day Technology Solutions Group brand.

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When Expressing Gratitude to Employees, Timing Matters

Harvard Business Review

Extensive research has indicated the benefits of showing gratitude to those around you, including your colleagues or employees. However, a new study suggests that the timing of these expressions can make a big difference. Through two experiments and an analysis of a top hospital’s intensive care units, researchers found that when you express gratitude to others before they engage in a distressing task it helps counteract some of the negative emotions associated with the task.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Security Concerns Loom as GenAI Adoption Grows in DevOps

DevOps.com

Most security and software development professionals are using GenAI-based solutions for building or delivering applications, but despite its widespread use, significant security challenges persist.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

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Meta has hired the former CEO of Salesforce AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new “Business AI” group. Salesforce has still not publicly acknowledged Shih’s departure , but it will be hard to ignore now that she’s announced her new role on her LinkedIn profile. Shih is now a vice president at Meta and the head of a new business AI group, she said in a post there.

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How to create a podcast with AI in seconds: Easy, step-by-step instructions

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Using PDFs, text files, or audio files, Google's NotebookLM tool can generate a podcast episode that sounds just like two real people discussing your topic. We'll walk you through exactly how it's done.

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Leaders Can’t Make Up for Bad Behavior by Being Nice Later

Harvard Business Review

Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.

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AI Agents: Pioneering Autonomy and Navigating Complex Challenges

Ooda Loop

AI agents, enabled by breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), are poised to transform industries and redefine human-computer interactions. Yet, their rapid advancement necessitates urgent action to manage risks, ensure accountability, and realize their potential. The post AI Agents: Pioneering Autonomy and Navigating Complex Challenges appeared first on OODAloop.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Streamline RAG applications with intelligent metadata filtering using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a crucial technique for improving the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated responses. The effectiveness of RAG heavily depends on the quality of context provided to the large language model (LLM), which is typically retrieved from vector stores based on user queries. The relevance of this context directly impacts the model’s ability to generate accurate and contextually appropriate responses.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO

Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. But the challenge many executives face is that they tend to focus on how their particular area aligns with overall goals, to the exclusion of other facets of the organization.

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AI transformation is the new digital transformation. Here's why that change matters

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Your boss has read about the power of generative AI and wants you to stop dithering about potential risks and start delivering results.

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ServiceTitan Files For IPO

Crunchbase News

ServiceTitan , a platform for building services professionals, is the latest heavily-funded software unicorn to file publicly for a U.S. IPO. The Glendale, California-based company, which provides cloud-based software for residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other field-service businesses, filed its S-1 Monday. Founded in 2012, the company had previously raised at least $1.5 billion from a long list of venture and private equity backers.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Emotional Conclusion : Project Estimating (Part 4)

Perficient

This post is the third in a series of four about estimating project hours. Part 1: Sandbagging & Lowballing Part 2: Dependencies & Creep Part 3: Assumptions & Uncertainty Part 4: The Emotional Conclusion The emotional finale is here! Don’t worry, this isn’t about curling up in a ball and crying – we’ve already done that. This final installment of my series on project estimating is all about navigating the emotions of everyone involved and trying to avoid frustration.

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Automate Q&A email responses with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Email remains a vital communication channel for business customers, especially in HR, where responding to inquiries can use up staff resources and cause delays. The extensive knowledge required can make it overwhelming to respond to email inquiries manually. In the future, high automation will play a crucial role in this domain. Using generative AI allows businesses to improve accuracy and efficiency in email management and automation.

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ChatGPT vs. ChatGPT Plus: Is a paid subscription still worth it?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OpenAI's GPT-4o model makes it harder to determine who'll find free ChatGPT adequate and when ChatGPT Plus is worth it. We break down your options to help you decide.

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How to Use Games to Build Relationships with Your Customers

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are still learning how to think about games as media for marketing. Games aren’t typically covered in marketing classes in business schools, and they are often still seen as fundamentally different from other media. Modern-day games offer companies varied opportunities to connect with new and hard-to-reach customers, drive brand awareness and loyalty, and acquire and retain new customers.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia 

Ooda Loop

A new information-stealing campaign is targeting the government and education sectors in Europe and Asia. The campaign has not yet been associated with a specific actor, but the attacker is known to be Vietnamese-speaking. The threat group is using PXA Stealer, a new Python-based malware. It can decrypt a victim’s master password to steal other […] The post Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia appeared first on OODAloop.

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Startup Speed Is Sine Qua Non For Startup Success. Here’s How To Achieve It.

Crunchbase News

By Frank Rotman While many factors influence startup success, speed often emerges as a decisive element. Unlike established companies that can afford deliberate, hierarchical decision-making, startups operate in an environment where rapid execution is essential for survival. Frank Rotman of QED Investors People who have experienced “Startup Speed” intuitively know it when they see it, but speed is almost always tangible and can be observed in the wild with a little effort.

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CIOs view cost management as possible AI value killer

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CIOs feeling the pressure to deploy successful AI projects have a second concern: that they don’t have the money to pull it off. Ninety percent of CIOs recently surveyed by Gartner say that managing AI costs is limiting their ability to get value from AI. In addition, if CIOs don’t fully understand the cost of scaling generative AI, they could miscalculate by 500% to 1,000%, says Hung LeHong, an analyst focused on executive leadership for digital business at Gartner.

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This HP laptop is $900 off ahead of Black Friday

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Black Friday is a week away, and early deals are showing up. Over on B&H Photo Video, the HP Envy has received a big discount, dropping down to $1,100.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Green Innovation Shows New Markets Don’t Have to Be Disruptive

Harvard Business Review

Contrary to popular belief, companies can create innovative solutions that address environmental challenges for society while delivering immediate economic benefits for themselves — it doesn’t have to be either or. Nondisruptive creation, an approach to innovation that is comfortably familiar without being fully familiar, could open up a profitable path for industries while you address environmental concerns, allowing you to achieve positive-sum outcomes for your company, your industry, and soci

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Generate and evaluate images in Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 v2 and Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Recent enhancements in the field of generative AI , such as media generation technologies, are rapidly transforming the way businesses create and manipulate visual content. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, pr

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Want to Modernize Your Apps? Start By Modernizing Your Software Delivery Processes

DevOps.com

The success of any app modernization project hinges on which technologies you choose to implement and, more importantly, how you implement them.

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Los CIO consideran que la gestión de costes puede acabar con el valor de la IA

CIO

Los CIO que sienten la presión de implementar proyectos de inteligencia artificial (IA) exitosos tienen una segunda preocupación: no tienen el presupuesto para llevarlo a cabo. El 90% de los CIO encuestados recientemente por Gartner afirman que la gestión de los costes de la IA limita su capacidad para obtener valor de esta tecnología. Además, si los CIO no comprenden plenamente el coste de escalar la IA generativa, podrían cometer errores de cálculo de entre el 500% y el 1.000% , según Hung

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Kirk and Spock reunite: AI gives us the Star Trek farewell we always wanted

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a powerful short film using AI and deepfake technology to give fans the emotional farewell they deserve.

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Why Isn’t Healthcare More Personalized?

Harvard Business Review

Currently, inefficiencies in healthcare practices can frustrate patients and lead to unnecessary pre-surgical tests or boilerplate after-visit instructions, among other issues. Personalized health care is a promising fix, but needs smart processes using automation and AI tools to reach its potential. Steps toward this goal include ensuring that the right building blocks are in place, and then focusing on high-volume, high-impact processes and the gathering of quality data through consistent proc

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Data Security Startup Cyera More Than Doubles Value To $3B In Seven Months

Crunchbase News

After raising $300 million in April, data security startup Cyera closed another $300 million windfall at more than twice its previous valuation. The New York-based company announced a $300 million Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3 billion valuation. Just seven months ago, Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation.

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