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Are SQL & LLMs a Marriage Made in Heaven?

Dataiku

Structured Query Language (SQL) has long been the standard for managing and querying relational databases, providing a powerful toolset for extracting insights from structured data. Large Language Models (LLMs), though, have been the talk of the town for over a year now and represent a breakthrough in natural language processing (NLP), enabling machines to understand and generate human-like text with remarkable accuracy and fluency.

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SAP names Philipp Herzig as chief artificial intelligence officer

CIO

SAP is reorganizing its AI activities. Philipp Herzig, formerly head of cross-product engineering and experience, now leads a new “end-to-end growth area” focused on AI as the company’s chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Herzig now reports directly to CEO Christian Klein, and will oversee the entire value chain for SAP business AI from research and product development through to implementation at the customer.

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An Agile focus on minimalism

Agile Alliance

Embracing minimalism streamlines processes and fundamentally enhances value by prioritizing meaningful outcomes over irrelevant tasks. The post An Agile focus on minimalism first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

CIO

“Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. But things have gotten a little more complicated now, as the large-scale roll-out of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has introduced the need for a multidisciplinary approach to innovation. Today, it is not enough just to innovate within one’s own vertical; to truly exploit the power of GenAI to transform workflows and drive competitive a

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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 To Configure Squid As An Egress Gateway

Xebia

This blog configures Squid Proxy as an egress gateway to filter web traffic. Always ensure that you comply with applicable laws and regulations when implementing network traffic management solutions. Filtering web traffic Users and applications visit many different websites, possibly including malicious websites. Thus, to protect the user and application network, web traffic is often filtered.

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Secure your Compute Engine by blocking project-wide SSH keys

Xebia

Best practice for handling SSH keys in Google Cloud When you are using the Compute Engine in Google Cloud, you might wonder what’s the best way to handle SSH keys for your Virtual Machines (VMs) ? We’ve also got some questions from our customers. There are several ways to implement and store SSH keys into your Google Cloud environment, but you might wonder what the best way to do so?

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Unleashing the power of banks’ data with generative AI

CIO

The implications of generative AI on business and society are widely documented, but the banking sector faces a set of unique opportunities and challenges when it comes to adoption. Avanade’s latest research found that bankers view automation and efficiency as the biggest benefits of generative AI – with AI having the potential to fundamentally change customer onboarding and fraud detection, as well as automate regulation and compliance requests.

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The Future of Marketing Is Intergenerational

Harvard Business Review

Older consumers can’t just be an afterthought for brands — but that doesn’t mean just shifting the focus from one generation to another.

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ADP’s cloud transformation pays dividends

CIO

For most organizations, a shift to the cloud brings scalability, access to innovative tools, and the possibility of cost savings. For payroll services company ADP, it has paved the way to becoming a SaaS provider capable of taking on big names in enterprise software. An early partner of Amazon, the Roseburg, N.J.-based company migrated to AWS in lockstep with Amazon’s earliest code releases a decade ago, even as the $18 billion payroll giant continued to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure that

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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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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. Digital technology advances have the power to help address the shortcomings of care delivery: It costs too much, its quality isn’t what it could and should be, and millions of people live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital and/or don’t have a primary care doctor.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

Tomago Aluminium is an industry giant in the Asia-Pacific region, and as IT superintendent, Dennis Moncrieff is responsible for leveraging the right technologies to make the process of producing aluminum more efficient. When talking about the organization’s digital transformation journey, he describes it as a constant. “Sure, digital transformation is a buzzword that’s been bouncing around for a long time,” he says, “but digitizing your processes remains important because no modern business can

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Software Development in the Age of AI: How to Balance Quality and Speed

DevOps.com

There’s no mistaking the reality of AI’s influence. Across industries, businesses are calling on tech workers to make the most of this transformative technology as demand skyrockets and companies race to overcome the competition. A flagging economy only pushes expectations for AI use—in software especially.

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Leaders Prioritizing Mental Health for Organizational Success

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode of the Leadership without Losing Your Soul Podcast, our guest, Chinazom Nwabueze, discusses the importance of mental health and its connection to overall wellbeing and performance. He emphasizes the need to prioritize and shares practical tips for maintaining mental fitness, such as filling up one’s emotional energy tank with activities that bring joy, practicing mindfulness, getting enough rest, and setting boundaries.

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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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From Construction To AI Diagnostics, Here Are 5 Areas Where Seed Investors Are Most Active

Crunchbase News

Predicting the future — once the realm of crystal balls and tea leaves — is now a full-fledged profession. Hundreds of professional futurists now work in government, academia and other sectors, analyzing demographic, technological and climatic trends to envision what life will look like years from now. Here at Crunchbase News, we have our own future-telling tool: Seed-funding data.

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Stop Basing Your Self-Worth on Other People’s Opinions

Harvard Business Review

Self-worth is our set of core beliefs about our value as a human being. It’s how we see ourselves and who we perceive ourselves to be. People differ in what they believe they must be or do to have worth or value. When we externalize our self-worth, we get emotionally and chemically rewarded when we succeed. This inevitably turns into a never-ending loop in pursuit of instant gratification.

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What the Evolution of Specialized Hardware for AI and ML Means for DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps teams should consider a number of different strategies to ensure apps remain efficient and portable across various chip architectures.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Lambda Leads Massive Week For Megadeals

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Check the calendar — is it 2021 again ?

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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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Mainframes are dead! Long live cloud computing!

InfoWorld

One of the things that has often driven me nuts with the rise of cloud computing is the assumption that the demise of the mainframe is a foregone conclusion. I’ve often written about the reality that not all applications and data sets belong on the cloud, especially ones that reside on mainframes. Although I have often been laughed out of a meeting for this opinion, adoption patterns have proved me correct.

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What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

Honeycomb

Every business is a software business. And by software, we don’t mean code—we mean running software serving customers in production. Those customers may be internal to the company, they may pay you money, or they may represent attention that increases ad revenue—either way, making them happy is your business. And your fast, reliable software makes them happy.

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Dart language upgrade shines on Wasm, generative AI

InfoWorld

Dart 3.3, the latest update to Google’s programming language for building mobile, desktop, and web applications, has arrived, bringing experimental support for web applications compiled to WebAssembly. Google also released an SDK for building generative AI capabilities into Dart and Flutter apps. Dart 3.3 was launched February 15. Instructions on downloading the Dart SDK can be found at dart.dev.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: ChatGPT Gets So-So Grade in Code Analysis Test, while JCDC Pledges To Focus on Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Tenable

Check out why ChatGPT’s code analysis skills left Carnegie Mellon researchers unimpressed. Plus, JCDC will put special focus on critical infrastructure security in 2024. Meanwhile, CISA and OpenSSF shine a spotlight on the security of software package repositories. And scammers leveraged tech tools to steal $10 billion from U.S. consumers last year.

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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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Astral unveils ‘extremely fast’ Python package installer

InfoWorld

Astral, which makes high-performance Python tools such as the Ruff linter , has launched uv, an “extremely fast” Python package installer and resolver written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools , uv is ready for production use today in projects built around those workflows, Astral wrote in a blog post announcing the product.

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The Day Reality Died: OpenAI’s New Model Sora can generate realistic videos from simple text prompts.

Ooda Loop

Could this be the day reality died? What will come tomorrow? Imagine putting on your Apple Vision Pro and asking it to deliver a 90 minute spy thriller full of surprising but realistic twists and drama and having it presented to you a second later.

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Tutorial: Installing and Using Prometheus in Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

This article will lead you through installing and configuring Prometheus, a popular open-source monitoring and alerting toolset, in a Kubernetes context. Prometheus is extensively used for cloud-native applications since it is built to monitor and gather metrics from many services and systems. This post will walk you through setting up Prometheus to successfully monitor your Kubernetes cluster.

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Perficient Launches LiveWell Employee Resource Group

Perficient

New ERG Will Assist in Delivering On Our People Promise At Perficient, our success is defined by our colleagues. Because of this, Perficient has promised to challenge, champion, and celebrate its people, and that includes empowering their personal health and well-being. Today, we proudly announce the launch of the LiveWell Employee Resource Group (ERG), a community of Perficient colleagues passionate about health and wellness that aims to support everyone in achieving better overall well-being.

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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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ReversingLabs Applies AI to Better Secure Application Binaries

DevOps.com

ReversingLabs launched a binary analysis tool that uses machine learning algorithms to identify risks before and after apps are deployed.

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Insider Activity at Paylocity with President & co-CEO Selling 8,000 Shares

CEO Insider

On February 13th, 2024, Toby Williams, the President and co-CEO of Paylocity Holding Corp (NASDAQ: PCTY), completed a transaction involving 8,000 shares of the company’s stock. This action, documented with the SEC, offers detailed insight into recent company developments. On the day of the aforementioned sale, Paylocity Holding Corp shares were valued at $169.15, resulting […] The post Insider Activity at Paylocity with President & co-CEO Selling 8,000 Shares appeared first on C

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US says Russia developing ‘troubling’ space-based anti-satellite weapon

Ooda Loop

Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon that is “troubling” but poses no immediate threat, the White House has said. National security spokesman John Kirby confirmed the weapon was “space-based” but would not comment on reports in US media that it was either nuclear-capable or nuclear-powered.