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Process mining helps IT leaders modernize business operations

CIO

Following a legislative review of state purchases in fiscal year 2022, the state of Oklahoma discovered that its agencies had procured more than $3 billion worth of goods and services outside the oversight of its Office of Management and Enterprise (OMES) Central Purchasing division. “Understandably, state leaders were concerned,” says CIO Joe McIntosh.

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Testing the behavior of generated HTML

Martin Fowler

In the story so far, Matteo Vaccari has shown how to test the behaviour of the HTML templates, by checking the structure of the generated HTML. That's good, but what if we want to test the behavior of the HTML itself, plus any CSS and JavaScript it may use?

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10 generative AI certs and certificate programs to grow your skills

CIO

Generative AI is poised to disrupt nearly every industry, and IT professionals with highly sought after gen AI skills are in high demand, as companies seek to harness the technology for various digital and operational initiatives. The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report from Deloitte found that 75% of organizations expect generative AI technology to impact talent strategies within the next two years, and 32% of organizations that reported “very high” levels of generative AI expertise

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3 Challenges to Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them

Harvard Business Review

Managers struggling to implement hybrid work policies confront three key challenges: scheduling, culture, and productivity. Research into companies allowing employees to be both remote and in-person suggest these obstacles can be overcome. In scheduling, shift to a focus not on how often workers are in, but which activities are better done in the office.

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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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How Italian CIOs produce value with gen AI

CIO

ChatGPT was a watershed moment in the evolution and adoption of AI. Some CIOs in Italy watched its boom with a hint of skepticism, though, wondering where the hype ended and real opportunities began. Others have seen gen AI as an opportunity to advance their AI projects with uniquely constructed technology. This is the case of Alpitour World, one of Italy’s largest travel companies, where gen AI projects have merged with preexisting uses of AI.

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Top tips for implementing AI at SMBs

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking previously unimagined ROI for organizations of all sizes and across all industries. That’s especially true for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). “SMBs stand to reap immense benefits from the power of AI,” says Katie Evans, Research Director, Worldwide Small and Medium Business Research at IDC. “With leaner staffs and budgets than their enterprise counterparts, the efficiency gains that AI can bring can be a true game-changer in giving SMBs a compet

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The Cyber Arms Race Gives Way to AI Weaponization

Ooda Loop

The weaponization of cyberspace has been a legitimate concern as nation states aggressively build capabilities to project power, retaliate, and become more offensively minded.

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Faultless with serverless: Cloud best practices for optimized returns

CIO

As enterprises increasingly embrace serverless computing to build event-driven, scalable applications, the need for robust architectural patterns and operational best practices has become paramount. Enterprises and SMEs, all share a common objective for their cloud infra – reduced operational workloads and achieve greater scalability. Since traditional monolithic architectures and server-based deployments fall short in meeting the demands of distributed systems.

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Saas Startup Funding Falls

Crunchbase News

Software as a service — long a favored sector among startup investors — has seen cooling interest in recent quarters even as overall U.S. venture funding has rebounded a bit. So far this year, SaaS and enterprise software companies have raised $4.7 billion in seed- through growth-stage financing, per Crunchbase data. That puts 2024 on track to come in far below last year’s $17.4 billion annual tally — which was itself the lowest total in years.

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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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Barriers and benefits: How CIOs are navigating the AI whirlwind

CIO

Perhaps no statistic shows just how much pressure CIOs are under to enable artificial intelligence (AI) than this: AI is now tied with cybersecurity as the top priority for CIOs, according to a recent Lenovo survey. However, though AI deployment is an urgent issue, most CIOs don’t believe their organizations are ready. Less than half of CIOs say they possess the required technical skills, only 4 in 10 believe they have the required security infrastructure, and just one-third think their organi

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Dynamic video content moderation and policy evaluation using AWS generative AI services

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations across media and entertainment, advertising, social media, education, and other sectors require efficient solutions to extract information from videos and apply flexible evaluations based on their policies. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked fresh opportunities for these use cases. In this post, we introduce the Media Analysis and Policy Evaluation solution, which uses AWS AI and generative AI services to provide a framework to streamline video extraction and eval

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IDC analysis: How SMBs are embracing the AI era

CIO

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasingly tapping into the many flavors of artificial intelligence (AI) on the market today. In fact, according to IDC research, 35% of SMBs listed AI as a top technology priority, compared with 16% a year earlier. The savviest are turning to OEM partners, like Lenovo, with deep expertise across the AI innovation portfolio.

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Your Idea Factory – Quality Innovation from Quantity

Perficient

Quality innovation is not for the weak at heart! Innovation myths may have you thinking it is for the lucky or the extremely talented – that’s not true. Pablo Picasso said, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Thomas Edison quipped, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” In this blog post, I want to focus on a different quote with the same intent.

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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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Tres cosas que los CIO pueden hacer para que la IA genere sostenibilidad

CIO

El año pasado, cuando muchos CIO se preparaban para su primera ronda de informes de alcance 3, la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa se abrió camino en prácticamente todas las oficinas. A veces entró por la puerta principal, pero en la mayoría de los casos, se filtró silenciosamente, a medida que los trabajadores experimentaban con ella para redactar documentos y correos electrónicos sin admitir necesariamente que lo estaban haciendo.

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CBRE and AWS perform natural language queries of structured data using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This is a guest post co-written with CBRE. CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 130,000 professionals serving clients in more than 100 countries. Services range from financing and investment to property management. CBRE is unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize value across the entire commercial real estate lifecycle—from guiding investment decisions to managing buildings.

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Aggity suma la plataforma ‘cloud’ EmS a su cartera de servicios para la Industria 4.0

CIO

La multinacional tecno lóg ica española Aggity r obustece su oferta global en sintonía con la estrategia de la sostenibilidad que abandera. En concreto, la compañía que capitanea Óscar Pierre en su papel de presidente ejecutivo para España ha firmado un acuerdo con el grupo de ingeniería y tecnología Sener. En virtud del mismo comercializará su solución de gestión energética EmS (Energy monitoring System) en proyectos de mejora de la eficiencia energética y descarbonización para el sector indus

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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: What U.S. Employers Need to Know

Harvard Business Review

A new federal law requires organizations with 15 or more employees to accommodate all health needs at work arising from pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions.

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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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Los 10 puestos de TI más difíciles de cubrir y cómo abordarlos

CIO

Para muchos responsables de TI, la contratación y la retención se han vuelto algo más fáciles últimamente. Niel Nickolaisen , por ejemplo, ha visto ciertas luces en el mercado de talento TI. “Cuando publicamos un puesto de trabajo”, dice el director de Sistemas Empresariales y Seguridad de la Universidad Estatal de Utah , “recibimos más y mejores candidatos que en varios años, y tengo menos rotación con mi personal actual”.

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Vitech uses Amazon Bedrock to revolutionize information access with AI-powered chatbot

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-written with Murthy Palla and Madesh Subbanna from Vitech. Vitech is a global provider of cloud-centered benefit and investment administration software. Vitech helps group insurance, pension fund administration, and investment clients expand their offerings and capabilities, streamline their operations, and gain analytical insights. To serve their customers, Vitech maintains a repository of information that includes product documentation (user guides, standard operating procedure

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PwC integra ChatGPT Enterprise en el negocio convirtiéndose en un revendedor

CIO

La consultora PwC anunció el miércoles que está a celerando su adopción de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa en Estados Unidos (EE.UU) y Reino Unido mediante un acuerdo de colaboración con OpenAI. En virtud del mismo, la consultoría tecnológica se ha convertido en el primer distribuidor de ChatGPT Enterprise y en el mayor usuario del producto.

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When members of your team have conflict with each other, how do you handle it?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When members of your team have conflict with each other, how do you handle it? I ignore it and hope they figure it out 6.40% I tell them to go resolve it 14.16% I offer to mediate if they’d like me to 49.32% I jump in and actively mediate 27.39% I reassign their work so they don’t have to interact 2.73% Mediating conflict.

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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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Eye On AI: xAI’s Backers Have A Lot Of Other Bets Besides Musk’s LLM

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Looks like we are back to weekly billion-dollar raises at multibillion-dollar valuations, at least when it comes to generative AI startups. Last week, Scale AI raised $1 billion in a round led by Accel that values the data labeling and evaluation startup at a stunning $13.8 billion.

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Health Insurer Trends to Watch at AHIP 2024

Perficient

Health insurers from every corner of the country are set to assemble in Las Vegas for the 2024 AHIP conference —and here at Perficient, we’re excited to have two of our colleagues attending as well. At AHIP 2024, thought leaders will address some of the industry’s most pressing questions, and the conference will feature educational sessions, Q&As, and networking opportunities.

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How CPUs will address the energy challenges of generative AI

InfoWorld

The vast majority of company leaders ( 98% ) recognize the strategic importance of AI, with nearly 65% planning increased investments. Global AI spending is expected to reach $300 billion by 2026. Also by 2026, AI’s electricity usage could increase tenfold, according to the International Energy Agency. Clearly, AI presents businesses with a dual challenge: maximizing AI’s capabilities while minimizing its environmental impact.

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Bringing Financial Services Business Use Cases to Life: Leveraging Data Analytics, ML/AI, and Gen AI

Cloudera

The financial services industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the need for data-driven insights, digital transformation, and compliance with evolving regulations. In this context, Cloudera and TAI Solutions have partnered to help financial services customers accelerate their data-driven transformation, improve customer centricity, ensure compliance with regulations, enhance risk management, and drive innovation.

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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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Error'd: Beer and Peanuts

The Daily WTF

We got a lot of good submissions this week, including some examples of test-in-prod we're saving for a special edition. Not too many of the usual NaN/Null/Undefined sort, but we did also get a small rash of time failures. But frist, Henk highlights the curious case of QNAP's email subscription management page (which appears to be outsourced). "QNAP surely does not want to lose me!

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Building Catchpoint Into CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

Catchpoint's value proposition is simple to understand. It monitors website and application performance beyond your own infrastructure to provide a “user's-eye view.

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Understanding the Windows Copilot Runtime

InfoWorld

It wan’t hard to spot the driving them of Build 2024. From the pre-event launch of Copilot+ PCs to the two big keynotes from Satya Nadella and Scott Guthrie , it was all AI. Even Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual tour of Azure hardware innovations focused on support for AI. For the first few years after Nadella became CEO, he spoke many times about what he called “the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge,” mixing the power of big data , machine learning , and edge-based processing.

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