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Everything you need to know about a UX strategy in 2024

Agile Engine

Introduction For 73% of online shoppers, user experience is more important than price or product quality when it comes to purchasing decisions. User expectations soar higher by the day, and companies that fail to meet them risk losing the competition game. Just like a solid foundation supports a towering skyscraper, a well-thought-out user experience strategy is the backbone of exceptional digital experiences.

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Uncovering the seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation

Martin Fowler

Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implementations in modern technology.

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Meet digital transformation experts making waves with Value Stream Management

CIO

We’ve all heard the saying about the journey of a thousand miles starting with a single step. For enterprise leaders, what’s key is making that first step, and every step thereafter, the best one possible. When you’re guiding a large enterprise on a complex, long-term digital transformation journey, it can be very difficult to know which near-term steps will get you most rapidly to your desired destination.

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Building a Cohesive Design System: A Project Narrative

Xebia

In the fast-paced world of design and development, the importance of a robust and cohesive design system cannot be overstated. However, it is often overlooked and built-in fragmented spare time, leading to a Frankenstein Design System that introduces more complexities than solutions. Defining the Design System The first step in our journey was to redefine the concept of a design system.

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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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Women in tech increasingly dissatisfied, job search rates surge

CIO

A troubling trend within the tech industry is coming into sharp focus: women are significantly more likely to be actively seeking new employment than their male counterparts. A new study from the tech job search platform Dice reveals that 38% of women in tech are currently engaged in a job search, compared to 30% of men. The primary drivers of this dissatisfaction are a persistent pay gap and workplace culture issues that often leave women feeling marginalized.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. “Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Ever

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO

Reflecting a wider industry trend, Dell has revealed workforce reductions, attributing this decision to the ongoing macroeconomic environment that continues to affect demand across the sector. In its latest filing, the company said it continued executing cost management measures, “including limiting external hiring, employee reorganizations, and other actions” to align its investments with strategic priorities and customer needs.

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2023 Him For Her And Crunchbase Study Of Gender Diversity On Private Company Boards

Crunchbase News

This report was produced through a collaboration between Him For Her and Crunchbase. Contributors include Gené Teare of Crunchbase and Laura Gluhanich of Him For Her. Lauren Rivera, professor at Kellogg School of Management, co-authored the original 2019 benchmark study upon which subsequent annual research has been based. Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., reveals significant improvement in board div

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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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Salesforce adds Contact Center updates to Service Cloud

CIO

Salesforce has announced new Contact Center updates to its Service Cloud — an offering targeted at bettering customer experience and boosting the productivity of service teams. The new updates to the Contact Center include features such as conversation mining and generative AI -driven survey summarization among other features. Dubbed Einstein Conversation Mining, one of the new features will allow an enterprise’s service team to aggregate and analyze conversation data, with the help of Data Cl

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe copyright, but legal doesn’t mean legitimate—we consider the analogy of MegaFace where surveillance models have been trained on photos of minors, for example, without informed consent.

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Cisco: Workers like the hybrid model, but crave better offices

CIO

Workers around the world are broadly positive about the idea of returning to the office, at least part-time, but CIOs should know that many are also skeptical about the suitability of in-office technology to sustain productivity. According to a new survey of about 14,000 workers and 3,800 employers released today by Cisco, 72% of employees said that they responded “positively” to employers who mandated at least a partial return to office work, while a minority of employers said that they’d lost

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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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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MWC 2024 Replay: Huawei unlocks resilient, ‘non-stop’ banking with four-pronged solutions strategy

CIO

With the goal to enhance intelligence in the digital banking arena, Huawei has unveiled a new framework to bolster infrastructure resilience. Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Jason Cao, Huawei’s CEO of Digital Finance BU, acknowledged that digital financial services are “booming” and that the rise of open architecture as well as emerging technologies like generative AI will have an impact on key fields in the industry such as financial engagement and credit loans.

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Introducing Netlify’s New Rate Limiting Feature

Netlify

Learn how Netlify’s New Rate Limiting Feature enhances security features and gives you enhanced control over your site’s security.

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Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses after being hit by cargo ship: gCaptain has best context

Ooda Loop

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore has collapsed after being struck by a container ship. Several vehicles were crossing the bridge when the container ship made contact with one of its supports.

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Datto Networking and VSA 10: Your Shortcut to Smarter Networks

Kaseya

In the constantly changing world of IT management, seamless integration between tools is the key to doing things better and faster. Enter the powerful integration between Datto Networking and VSA 10 that promises to supercharge network management efficiency for managed service providers (MSPs) and small to midsize businesses (SMBs) alike. Our blog explores the nuances of discovering, deploying and managing networks using this groundbreaking integration.

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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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Secondary Market Seeing Rebound After Slowdown

Crunchbase News

Payments giant Stripe turned a few heads late last month when it announced it had a secondary deal with investors to buy current and former employees shares through a tender offer that valued the company at $65 billion. The valuation was a 30% uptick from its previous funding round and seemed to show the robustness of a secondary market that had its own stumbles as venture capital fundraising tumbled last year.

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Five Chinese nationals among six killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan

Ooda Loop

Five Chinese nationals and a Pakistani driver were killed after a suicide attacker rammed his vehicle that was filled with explosives into their convoy near Besham city. The attack on Tuesday occurred in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when the convoy was on its way from Islamabad to Dasu.

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Oracle Looks to Increase Pace of Java Innovation

DevOps.com

The latest release of Java should make it easier for DevOps teams that build and deploy applications to innovate faster.

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Don’t Get Left Behind in the AI Race: Your Easy Starting Point is Here

Cloudera

The ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence is constantly expanding the realms of possibility, revolutionizing industries and societies on a global scale. The release of LLMs surged by 136% in 2023 compared to 2022, and this upward trend is projected to continue in 2024. Today, 44% of organizations are experimenting with generative AI, with 10% having already implemented it in operational settings.

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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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Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI

InfoWorld

Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini , Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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Survey Sees Cloud Developer Environment Adoption Gaining Momentum

DevOps.com

A Coder survey found that while 95% of developers and business leaders are familiar with cloud development environments, the reasons for adoption vary.

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Google Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI

InfoWorld

Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini , Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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Why the Glass Cliff Persists

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with author Sophie Williams on bias that continues to holds women and other underrepresented groups back.

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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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Ethics makes a comeback in cloud-based systems

InfoWorld

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company (I’m being purposely vague), the right fit for a specific customer problem that I had just learned about in that conference room?

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Fine-Tuning a Model (In Plain English!)

Dataiku

In today's data-driven landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on AI and machine learning (ML) to gain insights, make predictions, and automate processes. As these technologies become more prevalent — especially with Generative AI evolving and advancing as quickly as it is — it's crucial for business leaders (who are analytics and AI enthusiasts!

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Intel taps developers in a massive AI push

InfoWorld

Intel Corporation has launched two new initiatives as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program to promote collaboration between software and hardware ecosystems, aimed at enhancing AI capabilities across over 100 million Intel-based AI PCs by 2025. The first initiative, the AI PC Developer Program, is tailored specifically for software developers and independent software vendors (ISVs).