Wed.Apr 03, 2024

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Streamlining AI-Driven Digital Transformation with GitHub Copilot

Xebia

As global enterprises grapple with the challenges of expediting software development cycles, fostering innovation, boosting developer efficiency, and incorporating advanced AI capabilities, the need for a robust solution is more pressing than ever. GitHub Copilot emerges as a pivotal tool in this landscape, offering a seamless integration that aligns with these organizational imperatives.

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How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.

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Revolutionizing Accounts Payable Excellence: Cherrywork’s SAP ICC-Certified AI Automation Solution 

Cherry Work

In today’s fast-paced business environment, optimizing accounts payable (AP) processes is crucial for driving efficiency and cost savings. At Cherrywork , we are proud to announce our SAP ICC-certified AP automation solution, empowering organizations to revolutionize their AP operations and achieve unparalleled excellence. Let’s embark on a journey to explore how Cherrywork’s cutting-edge technology, coupled with SAP ICC certification, is reshaping the future of AP.

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A “Growth-at-All-Costs” Mindset Can Stall Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Bringing DevOps Automation to Legacy Systems

DevOps.com

Most organizations that adopt DevOps for conventional applications use automation tools and techniques, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Configuration-as-Code (CaC), automated testing, release automation and application orchestration. Applying automation to operations isn’t always straightforward, especially with older systems that don’t easily fit into typical DevOps automation tools and strategies.

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Dell Technologies Powering Creativity from Studio to Screen

Dell EMC

Revolutionizing media and entertainment technology and enabling creative professionals to conquer their most demanding applications.

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As Funding Fell, So Did The Number Of New Female-Founded Unicorn Startups

Crunchbase News

With venture investment levels falling over the past two years , fewer new companies are crossing the $1 billion “unicorn” valuation threshold. The number of new female-founded unicorns, in particular, has dwindled sharply. Per Crunchbase data, just seven U.S. companies with female founders joined the unicorn club in 2023 and 2024. That’s a precipitous decline from the peak year of 2021, when dozens of female-founded American companies met or exceeded the $1 billion level for the first time, ami

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Focusing and Eliminating Distractions

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn how to identify distractions and focus your team on the most strategically important initiatives for your organization. In a fast paced world, there is no shortage of distractions. Side projects, interesting new ideas, and the crisis of the day can divert resources from key strategic initiatives. In isolation, pursuing these small ideas make sense, but when you put them in the broader context of your strategic initiatives, you get to see exactly how nonstrategic these distractions are.

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Build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The rise of contextual and semantic search has made ecommerce and retail businesses search straightforward for its consumers. Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. This enhances the overall user experience, helping customers find exactly what they’re looking for.

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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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Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse

Ooda Loop

Regular readers of the OODA Loop know that we cover exponential technologies daily and we expect disproportionate disruption when these technologies start to converge. In this post, we explore AI + an expanded working definition (with subcategories) of what is broadly considered "the metaverse" + blockchain technology as an example of the exponential tech stack starting to converge (a subtheme of the OODA Almanac 2024).

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Google rolls out a new JPEG coding library

InfoWorld

Google has introduced Jpegli , a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful. Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub , Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio at high-quality compression settings, Google said.

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Aembit Selected as Finalist for RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox Contest

DevOps.com

Silver Spring, United States / Maryland, April 3rd, 2024, CyberNewsWire The Leading Company for Securing Access Between Workloads Recognized for the Aembit Workload IAM Platform Aembit, the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) Company, has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the RSA Conference™ 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest for its platform that […]

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CodeSOD: A Valid Applicant

The Daily WTF

In the late 90s into the early 2000s, there was an entire industry spun up to get businesses and governments off their mainframe systems from the 60s and onto something modern. "Modern", in that era, usually meant Java. I attended vendor presentations, for example, that promised that you could take your mainframe, slap a SOAP webservice on it, and then gradually migrate modules off the mainframe and into Java Enterprise Edition.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork

InfoWorld

OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and backward-compatible.” Hugely promising, but extraordinarily difficult to pull off.

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Confluent Named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape Reports

Confluent

Learn why Confluent was named a Leader in the analytic stream processing and event brokering software markets. We believe we innovate every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka®, and robust developer tooling.

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Making the AI Breakthrough in Life Sciences R&D

Dataiku

In the quest to combat diseases that afflict humanity, the biopharmaceutical industry has long faced significant challenges, not the least of which is the arduous process of drug discovery and the time-consuming and costly methodologies of traditional scientific experimentation. However, a new era is emerging as AI promises to be a transformative force that could revolutionize all aspects of medicine, from diagnosis to treatment.

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What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop

InfoWorld

Apache Spark defined Apache Spark is a data processing framework that can quickly perform processing tasks on very large data sets, and can also distribute data processing tasks across multiple computers, either on its own or in tandem with other distributed computing tools. These two qualities are key to the worlds of big data and machine learning , which require the marshalling of massive computing power to crunch through large data stores.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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Recover from a Cyberattack

Dell EMC

Effective recovery from a cyberattack is crucial for advancing cybersecurity maturity and restoring business operations.

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The Key to Consistent Growth Is Having the Right Incentives

Harvard Business Review

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.

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Le Mans 2024

David Heinemeier Hansson

This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't happen this year. See, motorsports relies on a curious mix of money and talent.

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Do You Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve?

Harvard Business Review

To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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Rust memory safety explained

InfoWorld

Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast, machine-native software that also has strong guarantees for memory safety. Other languages, like C, may run fast and close to the metal, but they lack the language features to ensure program memory is allocated and disposed of properly. As noted recently by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, these shortcomings enable software insecurities and exploits with costly real-world conse

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Find and Fix XZ Utils in Just a Few Clicks

Prisma Clud

Mitigating CVE-2024-3094 By now you’ve likely heard about the vulnerability in XZ Utils Data Compression Library that impacted multiple Linux distributions ( CVE-2024-3094 ) and read the threat brief Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 posted. I’m sure you understand all the recommended precautionary measures—downgrading vulnerable XZ Utils versions to 5.4.6 (the latest unaffected version), reverting affected Linux distributions to stable releases and treating any systems identified as vulnerable as pote

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9 Machine Learning Algorithms For Recommendation Engines

Daffodil Software

Recommendation engines stand as the backbone of personalized online experiences, guiding users to discover content, products, and services that meet their preferences. From driving online shoppers to their next favorite product, or suggesting the next binge-worthy movie according to the viewer’s genre history, recommendation engines are the hidden force behind driving user-preferred actions on digital platforms.

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[Podcast] What if You Ran Your Innovation Lab Like a Casino? An Interview With Eisaiah Engel

Perficient

In the latest episode of “What If, So What?” host Jim Hertzfeld invites Eisaiah Engel, author of “ Innovation Casino ,” to dive deep into the essence of innovation in today’s business landscape. Engel shares his unique perspective on tackling innovation challenges across the spectrum as he and Jim explore the critical role of innovation in achieving differentiated, premium branding and generating alpha returns.

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5 Key Reasons for Your Business to Embrace Nearshore Staff Augmentation

Nearshore staff augmentation allows businesses to access skilled talent quickly, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. It provides a wider pool of talent in similar time zones, facilitating seamless communication. This approach often leads to cost savings compared to local or distant offshore hires and promotes easy integration with existing teams, fostering cooperation and knowledge sharing.

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Full-stack web development with HTMX and Bun, Part 1: Elysia and MongoDB

InfoWorld

Bun and HTMX are two of the most interesting things happening in software right now. Bun is an incredibly fast, all-in-one server-side JavaScript platform, and HTMX is an HTML extension used to create simple, powerful interfaces. In this article, we'll use these two great tools together to develop a full-stack application that uses MongoDB for data storage and Elysia as its HTTP server.

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Two Perficient Colleagues Quoted in Forrester Report on Emerging Insurance Technologies

Perficient

Insurers are constantly striving to improve their operations, provide better experiences for customers, and minimize risks. Perficient insurance experts were interviewed for Forrester’s report, “ The Top Emerging Technologies In Insurance, 2024 ,” and discussed technologies expected to emerge in the insurance industry over the next five years, considering them now, and in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future.

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Life After Implementation of Data Analytics: Why Post Implementation Is Important?

Coforge

Elevate your data analytics post-implementation with our free health check and consultation, backed by successful projects for top global clients