Thu.Jun 27, 2024

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Maximizing Efficiency: Tips for Choosing the Right Cross-Border AP Automation Solution 

Cherry Work

In today’s world of business, speed and precision are important. Organizations use accounts payable automation to manage their invoice processing. Given the vast number of solutions available in the market, it can be quite difficult to select the right APA solution. This blog elucidates the features to look for when selecting a cross border AP Automation solution.

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New trade body wants to license training data for AI use

CIO

Seven companies that license music, images, videos, and other data used for training artificial intelligence systems have formed a trade association to promote responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property. The issue has become a concern for builders of generative AI models and the enterprises that use them, as some data sets used in AI training have legally and ethically uncertain origins.

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OpenID Connect: Mocking You

Xebia

OIDC (OpenID Connect) is a protocol that allows companies to streamline user experiences by centralizing accounts in one place. This allows better security and protection of privacy. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Auth0… provide OIDC Providers. It makes users’ lives easier by having only one username and password and those should be stored securely and thus are less susceptible to data leaks.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO

Manifesto is “more than a declaration of our current contributions; it’s a promise to continue driving open innovation and collaboration at a significant scale,” says SAP CTO. It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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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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Parallel Collections and Actors in Scala

Xebia

A while ago, I wrote a small python program that accesses the api provided by my utility company. The program collects data about my power usage, which allows me to create a graph. This works, but then I thought I might use this problem (read data from an api, store it in a database and run queries) to practice some scala. I’ll be joining a team using scala as their main language for services, so after not having used scala in about a decade, I figured a refresher was in order.

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Why Are Companies That Lose Money Still So Successful?

Harvard Business Review

In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Of late, however, loss-making firms are highly sought after by investors — often more than some profitable firms. Unicorns, or startups with valuations exceeding a billion dollars, are examples of such loss-making firms.

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El BCE encara las vulnerabilidades del futuro euro digital

CIO

El Banco Central Europeo (BCE) ha sentado las bases de la que podría ser la moneda del futuro en la región: el euro digital. Desde el pasado mes de noviembre la máxima autoridad monetaria europea aspira a desarrollar un modelo de gemelo digital de los billetes y monedas en curso dando respuesta al auge de los pagos digitales. El objetivo, según han detallado desde Bruselas, no es otro que garantizar que el sistema monetario siga siendo seguro al crear una moneda pública independiente de los banc

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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.

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Recursos Humanos desaprovecha el potencial de la tecnología para el negocio

CIO

El 24% de los empleados de Recursos Humanos (RR.HH); es decir, menos de una cuarta parte, considera que el departamento de RR.HH de su organización está extrayendo el máximo valor de la tecnología para el negocio. Así se desprende de la encuesta llevada a cabo por la firma de análisis e investigación Gartner a un total de 85 líderes de RR.HH en febrero de 2024.

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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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How Smaller Companies Can Join the Circular Economy

Harvard Business Review

Even smaller and medium-size enterprises can become more sustainable by finding other companies that need their waste. Pursuing those opportunities — and becoming part of the circular economy — entails four steps: take stock of your materials flow, seek collaboration opportunities, leverage digital marketplaces, and treat going circular as a major change program.

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Sateliot refuerza las comunicaciones de sus satélites 5G-IoT

CIO

Sateliot ha anunciado en sociedad una alianza estratégica con Leaf Space. Con esta colaboración, la compañía catalana de satélites de órbita terrestre baja aspira a fortalecer la conectividad de su constelación de satélites 5G-IoT. Según ha detallado la organización comunicado mediante, la infraestructura de Leaf Space les permitiría escalar su servicio comercial de conectividad 5G-IoT “sin limitaciones geográficas ni de capacidad”.

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How Do I Do a Well-Being Check-in Without… (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical, Easy(ish) Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In You care about your employees and their mental health. You want to talk with them. But these conversations can be tricky and sensitive. And of course, you also care about their work and their productivity. What do you do? Today I bring expert insights from Angela Gaffney of East West Family of Companies from Beaver Creek Colorado. 2 Easy-Ish Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In Angela and I would also be curious about YOUR b

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How Vulcan Materials paved its way to digital success

CIO

In a recent “all-hands” meeting, Krzysztof Soltan, CIO of Vulcan Materials, announced his IT organization would continue its “laser focus on digital transformation.” Digital technology, he explained, would remain a central focus of the construction-aggregates industry and would underpin customer-grade experiences increasingly expected from industry leaders.

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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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How Do I Do a Well-Being Check-in Without… (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical, Easy(ish) Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In You care about your employees and their mental health. You want to talk with them. But these conversations can be tricky and sensitive. And of course, you also care about their work and their productivity. What do you do? Today I bring expert insights from Angela Gaffney of East West Family of Companies from Beaver Creek Colorado. 2 Easy-Ish Ways to Do an Employee Well-Being Check-In Angela and I would also be curious about YOUR b

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Demystifying AI: Understanding weak and strong AI

CIO

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of our time, yet it remains widely misunderstood. Whether that stems from science fiction portrayals of sentient robots, or the mystique surrounding the term itself, AI has become one of the most divisive emerging technologies in recent history. To ensure a positive trajectory for the future of AI innovation and public perception around it, it is important to clarify the distinctions between weak AI and strong AI, illust

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AI Success Depends on Tackling “Process Debt”

Harvard Business Review

Typically, organizations in the midst of transformation efforts spend significant time and resources trying to correct massive amounts of “technical debt” — the price of years of short-term decisions and prioritizations that result in an overly complex technological infrastructure. But equally challenging is managing organizations’ often undiscussed “process debt” — the build-up of often antiquated, functionally isolated, and customer-disconnected ways of doing work.

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Ensuring Application Security from Design to Operation with DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Safe development is critical for any company that creates software, whether for its own use or for others. DevSecOps principles focus on automating information security processes and introducing security measures early in software development.

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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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Treat Your Team Members Like Individuals

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Treating your people like individuals makes them feel seen and improves their performance. Learn how to develop a maxim for treating your team members as individuals. No one wants to be treated like a faceless cog in the machine. We all want to be known as individuals. We want to feel like our wants and needs are important, especially to our leaders.

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Enhancing Your Company’s DevEx With CI/CD Strategies

DevOps.com

A company can improve its developer experience (DevEx) by tweaking its continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process.

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Hero, Villain, or Victim? Stories that Sabotage

Perficient

In 1968, psychiatrist Stephen Karpman modeled what he called the Drama Triangle. With this, he illustrated dysfunctional mindsets that can derail social interactions. The three roles defined in this model are the rescuer (hero), persecutor (villain), and victim. This is another view of the lies we tell ourselves. Since the dawn of history, we’ve loved stories.

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Immutable Rails Cache Header, Local Assigns in Strict Local Templates, Threaded Active Storage Mirror Service

Ruby on Rails

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Support “immutable” directive in Cache-Control This PR adds a new option to the expires_in method to support the immutable directive for the “Cache-Control” header. Also pass “local_assigns” to strict locals templates When using Strict Locals in a partial, local_assigns is now passed to the view in order to workaround an issue where trying to access the default values of a name that is also a reserved Ruby keyword.

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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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Achieving Revenue Goals: The N2Growth Approach to CRO Search

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Importance of CRO in Revenue Growth In today’s fast-paced business world, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) role has become essential for achieving corporate objectives. Chief Revenue Officers are crucial in driving business growth through their oversight of revenue-generating departments and their ability to navigate a constantly changing business landscape.

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Eye On AI: OpenAI Goes On A Buying Spree As AI Looks To Open Up M&A, IPO Markets

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It may be the big funding rounds that grab the headlines when it comes to the startup world, but for investors it’s the exit that actually matters. For the past few years the M&A market for startups has been slow — and the IPO pipeline nonexistent. However, just as AI is taking over venture, perhaps it is doing that for the M&A and IPO markets.

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Investing in Financial Mastery: Finance Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

Financial Leadership: Finding the Right Talent for Your Organization Financial leadership requires finding the right talent for long-term success. As the financial landscape evolves and becomes more complex, organizations need leaders with the necessary technical skills and a strategic vision. These leaders can navigate the ever-changing financial industry and drive the organization toward sustainable growth.

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Precision AI — Revolutionizing Cybersecurity with Our Latest Campaign

Palo Alto Networks

It was just a regular cybersecurity Monday… J, a CISO, is struggling to stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. Are you? Like many organizations, his team’s cybersecurity was patched together using point product solutions from various vendors (more than 32, in fact). This left his company vulnerable to attacks across his network, cloud and SOC.

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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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Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE

InfoWorld

The company best known for RStudio, the leading integrated development environment (IDE) for R programmers, has quietly launched a “next-generation” IDE designed specifically for both R and Python. The Positron IDE is available in public beta as of today for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Created by Boston-based Posit PBC, formerly RStudio, Positron is based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.

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Building Resilient Organizations: Strategies for Thriving Amidst Global Uncertainties

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Organizational Resilience The importance of organizational resilience cannot be overstated. It goes beyond the ability to bounce back from challenges; it includes an organization’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond, and adapt to gradual changes or sudden disruptions to survive and succeed. Organizational resilience is a quality that becomes apparent when businesses face adversity, especially during times of widespread uncertainty and constantly changing regulat

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The EU Targets Russia’s LNG Ghost Fleet With Sanctions as Concern Mounts About Hybrid Attacks

Ooda Loop

The European Union announced new sanctions on Russia as a result of the war on Ukraine which target Moscow’s shadow tanker fleet.

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