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3 things CIOs can do to make gen AI synch with sustainability

CIO

Last year, as many CIOs ramped up for their first round of Scope 3 reporting, gen AI found its way into virtually every office. Sometimes it came in through the front door, but in most cases, it seeped in quietly, as knowledge workers experimented with it to write documents and email without necessarily admitting they were doing so. In many organizations, the use cases have stopped there, but some IT departments are now sanctioning — and even encouraging — the use of gen AI for things like codin

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Parameterizing HTML template tests

Martin Fowler

Testing templates for generating HTML leads to tests that are very similar. Matteo Vaccari wisely likes to separate the common elements of tests from those that vary. He continues his article to show how he does this by parameterizing the tests. The resulting tests are easier to write, and more importantly, faster to understand and modify.

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AI, cybersecurity investments and identity take center stage at RSA 2024

CIO

It was truly a good use of time attending the 33rd RSA Conference in San Francisco, along with over 40,000 attendees, networking with the leading minds in the cybersecurity industry. For many, this spring’s RSA show was an energized, optimistic experience, similar to the pre-pandemic years of 2017-2019. There was a definite buzz about cybersecurity investments and M&A picking up steam, AI-based defense and AI-delivered industry models, and overall product innovation.

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Prefetching in Single-Page Applications

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu's completes his set of data fetching patterns for single-page applications. Prefetching involves fetching data before it's called for in the application flow. Although this can mean data is fetched unnecessarily, it reduces latency should the data be needed.

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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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Accenture’s cloud migration sets standard for other large businesses

CIO

Accenture was going through a period most companies would envy. The Dublin-based, global professional services leader had grown significantly organically and inorganically, including expanding into diverse businesses, propelled by $14 billion invested in more than 177 acquisitions in the last five years. As the company grew and expanded into new markets and services, its legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system became increasingly complex, costly, and inflexible.

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PwC integrates ChatGPT Enterprise into its practice, becomes a reseller

CIO

Consulting firm PwC announced Wednesday that it is accelerating its adoption of generative AI in the US and UK through an agreement with OpenAI that it said makes it both the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and the product’s largest user. “PwC consultants are leveraging the capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise as a valuable tool in their work,” said partner and GenAI leader at PwC, Bret Greenstein.

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What to Know About Starting Your Career Remotely

Harvard Business Review

Remote work can be a blessing and curse for those just starting their careers. While it has clear benefits (improved work-life balance, geographic flexibility, and eliminating commutes), it’s not without drawbacks. There are unique challenges that come with starting your career remotely: isolation, distractions, and communication gaps. Fortunately, you can overcome these obstacle.

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SAP AI pact with AWS offers customers more gen AI options

CIO

SAP is expanding its AI ecosystem with a partnership with AWS. Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In addition, SAP is also working closely with Microsoft and Google on AI. The cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google and Microsoft are also important platform partners to operate SAP’s cloud applications.

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Rails 7.2 Beta 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!

Ruby on Rails

The train for the Rails 7.2 release is leaving the station and we’re excited to announce the first beta release of Rails 7.2! There has been close to 2,500 commits made by over 400 contributors since Rails 7.1, so this release is packed with new features and improvements. Please help us test all this new stuff, so we can ensure a solid final release of Rails 7.2.

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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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Download our data management platform (DMP) enterprise buyer’s guide

CIO

Data management platforms (DMPs) help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources — and they are increasingly important for customer-centric sales and marketing campaigns.

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Why You Should Be Tracking Customer Surplus Value

Harvard Business Review

How much value are your customers getting from your products? Net Promoter Scores are one tool to answer that question but the authors offer another: Customer Surplus Value. The idea, drawn from economics, is to ask customers how much money they’d need to be given to give up your product for a period of time. The more money it would take for them to accept, the more valuable the product.

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A major tech tune-up at Camping World gives customers a smooth ride

CIO

Camping World, a $6 billion RV business headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, sells, services, and furnishes RVs to provide customers with comfortable and dependable journeys. And internally, the corporate journey for Sruti Patnaik came in early 2023 when she became the company’s CIO following a significant spike in sales resulting from the 2020 pandemic.

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CVE-2024-24919: Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Amid warnings of threat actors targeting VPN devices, Check Point has identified a zero-day information disclosure vulnerability impacting Check Point Network Security gateways which has been exploited by malicious actors. Background On May 27, Check Point released a blog post with recommendations on security best practices. According to the original post, Check Point has been monitoring exploitation attempts in the wake of several attacks involving compromised VPN solutions from multiple vendor

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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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Altia, adjudicataria del contrato para implementar metodologías ágiles en la CERN

CIO

La Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear (CERN) ha adjudicado a la compañía tecnológica Altia el contrato para capitanear la evolución y el mantenimiento de sus aplicaciones en el área de Business Computing. El proyecto, que contempla una duración inicial de cinco años, subraya el compromiso de la firma de soluciones digitales con la innovación y el desarrollo ágil empleando metodologías Scrum y SAFe en uno de los entornos de investigación más avanzados y complejos del mundo.

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Global Turbulence: Rethinking Business Strategies in an Era of Unrest

Ooda Loop

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La innovación tecnológica avala la ‘pole position’ de McLaren en la parrilla de salida

CIO

Sobre el asfalto de los circuitos de Fórmula 1, tecnología, innovación e ingeniería confluyen en armonía, desde el pit lane hasta el interior de sofisticados automóviles que compiten por llegar a la línea de meta llevando al podio a la escudería que representan. No sorprende, por tanto, que la industria automovilística haya optado por abrazar desde tiempos inmemoriales la transformación digital.

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How to Celebrate Your Team Members’ Successes

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Improve your team’s culture by celebrating your team members’ successes. Be careful, though…one person’s reward is another person’s punishment. Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things.

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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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Cecabank y Kyndryl estrechan lazos para garantizar el soporte del ‘mainframe’ del banco

CIO

La entidad bancaria Cecabank estrecha lazos con la tecnológica Kyndryl reforzando así su alianza en el ámbito tecnológico. En concreto, ambas entidades han refrendado un acuerdo de colaboración que incluye el mantenimiento y ayuda a la modernización de los sistemas mainframe del banco , entorno en el que residen las aplicaciones de los principales negocios.

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Virtual Care Drives Rise In Addiction Treatment Startup Funding

Crunchbase News

When Hollywood takes on addiction recovery, the script typically conjures up dingy rooms where the down-on-their-luck gather to share their struggles and fears. The prevailing venture-funded model, in contrast, offers little cinematic eye candy. Rather, the focus is mostly on startups where people in treatment message and video chat with care providers and use apps to track prescriptions.

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Applying AI for sales growth: Where to start & how to scale

CIO

Data is a growing, ever-evolving business resource that can be an analytical nightmare or a company’s greatest asset. Because large enterprises use massive amounts of data, this critical asset can quickly become unmanageable and can sabotage the accuracy and efficiency of hard-working sales teams. But with the thoughtful application of AI, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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The AI PC Rally of 2024: the First Salvo

IDC

First-hand analyst account of recent events showcasing AI capabilities and use cases that will make the latest generation of PCs and phones more compelling.

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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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Ex-Open AI researcher Jan Leike joins Anthropic amid AI safety concerns

CIO

Jan Leike, a prominent researcher — who recently resigned from OpenAI over safety and governance issues — has joined OpenAI competitor, Anthropic. Leike announced his move on X , stating his new focus will be on “scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.” Leike’s departure from OpenAI was one of several recent high-profile exits based on the premise that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat” at the ChatGPT creator.

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Balancing Cost and Availability in ECS Using Capacity Providers

QBurst

When you think container orchestration, you usually think Kubernetes. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is just as great an alternative, especially when you want to keep costs low and don’t want the extra bells and whistles that come with Kubernetes. ECS’ managed service approach is a big help too as it takes care of the […] The post Balancing Cost and Availability in ECS Using Capacity Providers appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Leveraging Intelligent Automation (IA) to streamline sales order processing

CIO

The ROI for applying artificial intelligence to business processes has been well documented, especially when applied to manual tasks. Robotics process automation (RPA) and other intelligent automation technologies, powered by AI, hold promise for speeding up workflows. McKinsey reports that 48% of companies that adopt these tools experience a revenue increase, and 43% say they’ve cut costs with AI tools that automate manual tasks, lessen errors, and speed up processes.

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Solving the Dual-Write Problem: Effective Strategies for Atomic Updates Across Systems

Confluent

The dual-write problem can arise in any distributed system. Fortunately, it has solutions in event sourcing & the transactional outbox & listen-to-yourself patterns.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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How to get started with AI-powered automation

CIO

Sales order entry initiates a complex series of processes at multiple touchpoints to fulfill what your business has promised. Sales order management challenges include: Complex and ever-changing supply chain conditions. Your business relies on multiple suppliers, each with its own systems, processes, and requirements. Inventory management is a synchronization nightmare.

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An Auditing Startup Produced 2024’s Biggest VC-Backed M&A Exit. Who Could Be Next?

Crunchbase News

Big M&A deals don’t always involve the buzziest industries or companies. For a case in point, look at last week: Software investor Hg announced it would pay over $3 billion to acquire auditing platform provider AuditBoard. Amid a slow period for big M&A transactions, the deal ranks as the largest purchase of a U.S. private, venture-backed company in 2024, per Crunchbase data.

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Automated Order Management: Is it worth the hype?

CIO

Many distributors face inefficiencies with order management and fulfillment. Unfortunately, many of their problems start with outdated technology. The truth — and there’s data to back it up — is that outdated technology is the foundation for out-of-step workflows. Manual processes make everyone who touches order management and fulfillment work harder than they need to.