CIO

JULY 22, 2024

The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged. Microsoft said around 8.5

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. Some people invented a fun little game called “test driven development” (TDD).

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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CEO Tech Tips

JULY 25, 2021

Now a days it is quite common for companies to buy direct competitors or companies operating in adjacent industries, such that the target company would fit in nicely with the acquirer’s core business. What software is critical to the seller’s operations? What technology in-licenses does the seller have?

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Creating a robust AI policy is imperative for companies to address the ethical, legal and operational challenges that come with AI implementation. Companies must address these issues proactively through well-defined policies that guide AI development, deployment and usage. Providing such clarity builds confidence in AI decision-making.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 21, 2024

Customer reviews can reveal customer experiences with a product and serve as an invaluable source of information to the product teams. By continually monitoring these reviews over time, businesses can recognize changes in customer perceptions and uncover areas of improvement.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With less time lost due to confusion or misunderstandings, DevSecOps teams can devote more of their attention to strategic tasks such as vulnerability remediation. The technology can review code more thoroughly than humans can, identifying patterns that might not seem obvious. Incorporate genAI into existing workflows.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 16, 2022

Code reviews were introduced with the intention of improving code quality, developers review each other’s code during a code review to ensure software quality, usually prior to merging the code. The code review process should not be limited to receiving only one-sided feedback.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. It helps increase developer productivity and efficiency by helping developers shortcut building code.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

The reality is that risky code has a second insidious cost beyond the breaches themselves. Your infrastructure bills keep creeping higher, too, from bloated systems no one dares refactor. Insecure code acts like a silent tax siphoning away time, money, and morale across engineering organizations, big and small.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. Image Credits: Sweep.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code. Would the workers handling the value-add genAI code know the answers to those questions? This is largely in service of marketing, trying to help companies bridge the trust gap. They really need to bridge that trust gap.” Any AI model by design is not transparent.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. Two of which are 2D barcodes, similar to QR codes, and RAIN RFID. Brands and retailers have been working diligently to create and roll-out standardized 2D barcodes on product packaging that’ll work seamlessly at check-out registers.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LambdaTest mainly addresses this challenge by offering a strong and user-friendly platform that enables developers to test their web applications and websites on real browsers and operating systems, allowing them to deliver a smooth user experience to their audience. What is LambdaTest?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The promise the approach has for impacting business workflows has organizations such as Aflac, Atlantic Health System, Legendary Entertainment, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory already pursuing the technology. CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Health’s bet is when you look for a doctor, you’ll want to do the same thing — but you’ll find that existing reviews aren’t enough to go on. . The company contracts with employers who offer health plans to workers.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. The real goal here is to sap the company of its productivity slowly, while maintaining a façade of plausibility and normalcy. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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Netlify

MARCH 4, 2020

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder! The Problem.

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

Achieving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets can increase a company’s worth beyond the feel-good. When it’s done right, it can increase company valuation with investors, open windows to subsidies, gain favorable supplier ratings with customers, and make companies attract and retain talent.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. Coding can be a challenge, but I’ve never spent more than two weeks trying to figure out what is wrong with the code.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. AI governance is already a complex issue due to rapid innovation and the absence of universal templates, standards, or certifications.

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CIO

JULY 19, 2024

SAP has announced enhancements to Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, giving customers of both of its commercial tiers access to SAP’s artificial intelligence copilot, Joule, which the company has been working to embed across its portfolio. Via Business Network, customers can create a networked ERP with a supplier portal.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 21, 2021

Amongst the most pressing issues confronting IT departments, today is system connectivity. Particularly when the number of applications, data, and devices used by each company grows. Connecting apps with point-to-point code are unsustainable, time-consuming, and costly. The situation is escalating. Why MuleSoft? Flow Designer.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 22, 2024

Verisk’s Discovery Navigator product is a leading medical record review platform designed for property and casualty claims professionals, with applications to any industry that manages large volumes of medical records. This allows reviewers to access necessary information in minutes, compared to the hours spent doing this manually.

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CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report, “ How Generative AI Will Transform ERP.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Henrik Warne

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what I work on. For example: various shell commands, steps when creating a new release, how to install and configure tools, company procedures for time reporting etc. In the past few years, I have started at four different companies.

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CIO

MAY 10, 2024

The Colorado legislature passed this week AI regulations aimed at private companies, adding to the increasingly complex patchwork of AI statutes rising across the US and potentially giving the state’s Attorney General the authority to prosecute companies that use AI to discriminate against consumers.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Barely a year after the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, 75% of surveyed companies have already put them to work, according to a VentureBeat report. For engineers, AI-generated code used in software development may contain security vulnerabilities or intellectual property ingested during training.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. I was in contact with 30 companies, got a no from 8 companies, no reply from 6 companies, and offers from 3 companies. The times were getting tougher, and many companies had been laying off people during all of 2023.

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Tenable

AUGUST 30, 2024

And get the latest on AI-system inventories, the APT29 nation-state attacker and digital identity security! Most schools faced astronomical recovery costs as they tried to restore computers, recover data, and shore up their systems to prevent future attacks,” reads a Comparitech blog about the research published this week.

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