Wed.Jul 03, 2024

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4 essential lessons in AI governance

CIO

Austin-based software company Planview began using gen AI to boost productivity around 18 months ago. During that same period, they started integrating gen AI into their products, building a copilot that users interact with to do strategic portfolio management and value stream management. The copilot creates plan scenarios to help managers hit product release goals, and suggests ways to move deliverables around on roadmaps, share work between teams, and reallocate investment.

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How AI Can Change the Way Your Company Gets Work Done

Harvard Business Review

AI offers many ways to enhance a company’s overall internal capabilities and skills. AI can be used to infer skills from employee profiles and their activity. AI can be used to classify learning content and make it more applicable and accessible for the whole workforce, as well as making learning more personalized to each individual. AI can be used to summarize, recommend, and augment learning content.

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Scaling gen AI right takes a certain kind of CIO. Are you one of them?

CIO

According to McKinsey , only 15% of companies say that gen AI is bringing meaningful bottom-line impact. The more typical experience is to experiment within the classic “tech looking for a solution” trap. CIOs are on the front lines to turn gen AI’s enormous potential into actual value creation. To do so, they can choose one of three approaches. “Takers” use off-the-shelf, gen AI–powered software from third-party vendors.

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Survey Surfaces Lots of Software Supply Chain Insecurity

DevOps.com

A global survey of 900 application security professionals finds nearly two-thirds work for organizations that have had their software supply chains compromised in the past two years.

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Provide Real Value in your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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España lidera la adopción de la IA en Europa con un reto en el horizonte

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha convertido en un factor clave en el ámbito empresarial; tanto es así que su influencia en la rutina de los empleados en Europa es innegable. Sin embargo, la preparación de los profesionales y las empresas para esta transformación tecnológica varía significativamente entre colectivos y países. En este sentido cabe destacar que España se alza como líder en la adopción y adaptación de la IA, con un 84,4% de los empleados reconociendo su uso activo, el porcentaj

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Paradores implementa una herramienta de gestión hotelera mejorando así la toma de decisiones

CIO

Paradores pone el foco en la digitalización de sus operaciones de negocio con una nueva herramienta de gestión hotelera. La cadena turística pública, con casi un centenar de establecimientos repartidos a lo largo y ancho de la geografía española, ha firmado un acuerdo con Minsait, la división tecnológica de Indra, para implantar una plataforma de gestión tecnológica.

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Introducing guardrails in Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed capability that helps you securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This feature streamlines the entire RAG workflow, from ingestion to retrieval and prompt augmentation, eliminating the need for custom data source integrations and data flow management.

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VMware licensing and pricing hikes: What options do you have?

CIO

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. An increase of 300%. How about an increase of 500%? For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Other customers have time — until the end of their current contracts — to explore their options.

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Cost Reduction Strategies Without Sacrificing Quality For Tech Companies

Crunchbase News

For growing tech companies aiming to reach profitability, balancing cost reduction with maintaining high-quality products and services is crucial, especially when most expenses are tied up in manpower, marketing, sales and R&D. Here’s how you can trim the fat without losing your edge. Streamline operational efficiency I have mentioned it before: I don’t think AI will replace people, but people who don’t use AI will be replaced by those who do.

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Navigating the Automation Landscape: Selecting Tools That Fit Your Business

Speaker: Gary Dmitriev

Our upcoming webinar aims to demystify the process of selecting and implementing automation tools for financial institutes. This session will provide your roadmap for vetting potential solutions, focusing on due diligence, vendor assessments, and aligning technology with strategic goals. We’ll also address the critical issue of innovation fatigue, offering tips on maintaining enthusiasm and momentum for new initiatives.

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Download the IT Modernization Enterprise Spotlight

CIO

Businesses are under constant change as they evolve to meet new customer and commercial needs. That means they must constantly modernize the IT systems that power their business, bringing in.

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Medical content creation in the age of generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Generative AI and transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have been in the top headlines recently. These models demonstrate impressive performance in question answering, text summarization, code, and text generation. Today, LLMs are being used in real settings by companies, including the heavily-regulated healthcare and life sciences industry (HCLS).

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La administración digital madura a un ritmo constante en el Viejo Continente

CIO

La administración digital parece consolidarse en la eurozona según el último informe publicado por la Comisión Europea. Así lo constata el digno sucesor del Índice de Economía y Sociedad Digitales (DESI), dedicado a medir la transformación digital de los Veintisiete, en su segunda edición. Y es que según reza el pliego, los gobiernos digitales europeos han progresado de forma constante en la prestación de servicios públicos en línea, aunque todavía hay “margen de mejora” , especialmente en lo re

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Research: How Family Motivates People to Do Their Best Work

Harvard Business Review

Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. Yet, the idea that family can be motivational at work has been overlooked. Instead, in the past, family has been mostly seen as competing with work for an employee’s finite resources, like their time and energy. A large body of research on work-family conflict drew on this notion and illustrated how work and family domains create conflicting demands and interfere with one another.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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AWS’ new approach to RAG evaluation could help enterprises reduce AI spending

InfoWorld

AWS’ new theory on designing an automated RAG evaluation mechanism could not only ease the development of generative AI-based applications but also help enterprises reduce spending on compute infrastructure. RAG or retrieval augmented generation is one of several techniques used to address hallucinations, which are arbitrary or nonsensical responses generated by large language models (LLMs) when they grow in complexity.

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3 Lessons from The Washington Post’s Leadership Turmoil

Harvard Business Review

The leadership questions surrounding new Washington Post CEO Will Lewis serve as a case study in the challenges of bringing in an outsider to lead an organization, highlighting the importance of transparency and alignment with company values. This article offers three lessons leaders can draw from it — as well as advice on how the Post and Lewis can move forward.

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The Growing Dichotomy of AI-Powered Code in Cloud-Native Security

Prisma Clud

Unveiling the Duality: Harnessing AI's Potential While Safeguarding Cloud-Native Security AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. However, amidst the allure of newfound technology lies a profound duality – the stark contrast between the benefits of AI-driven software development and the formidable security risks it introduces.

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JetBrains launches Qodana Self-Hosted

InfoWorld

JetBrains has released an on-premises edition of Qodana , the company’s code quality platform based on the static code analysis engine of JetBrains IDEs. With Qodana Self-Hosted, users can manage and maintain the platform on their own infrastructure. With Qodana Self-Hosted, announced July 3 , developers gain complete control over analysis reports, user accounts, and other sensitive data, as well as Qodana maintenance and upgrades, JetBrains said.

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

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AI Coding Software Magic Looking To Conjure Up $200M At $1.5B — Report

Crunchbase News

AI Coding Software Magic Looking To Conjure Up $200M At $1.5B — Report San Francisco-based Magic , which develops AI models to write software, is reportedly in talks with investors to raise a fresh $200 million. The raise would come at a $1.5 billion valuation — triple its previous valuation from just five months ago — per a Reuters report. Magic has no revenue and no product for sale, the report says.

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How to get started with GraphQL

InfoWorld

Developed by Facebook and released as an open standard for all to use, GraphQL is intended as an alternative to REST APIs. Like REST, GraphQL provides a way to create and consume web-based APIs, but queries and returned data use formal schemas and a type system to guarantee consistency. In this article, we’ll walk through the basics of designing and implementing a GraphQL API and discuss many of the key considerations and decisions you’ll make during the process.

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The Hater’s Guide to Dealing with Generative AI

Honeycomb

Generative AI is having a bit of a moment—well, maybe more than just a bit. It’s an exciting time to be alive for a lot of people. But what if you see stories detailing a six month old AI firm with no revenue seeking a $2 billion valuation and feel something other than excitement in the pit of your stomach? Phillip Carter has an answer for you in his recent talk at Monitorama 2024.

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Data Integration Technology Maturity Curve 2024-2030

Dzone - DevOps

When it comes to data integration, some people may wonder what there is to discuss — isn't it just ETL? That is, extracting from various databases, transforming, and ultimately loading into different data warehouses. However, with the rise of big data, data lakes, real-time data warehouses, and large-scale models, the architecture of data integration has evolved from the ETL of the data warehouse era to the ELT of the big data era and now to the current stage of EtLT.

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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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ECMAScript 2024 JavaScript standard approved

InfoWorld

ECMAScript 2024 , the latest version of ECMA International’s standard for JavaScript , has been officially approved, with features including transferring ArrayBuffers and advanced capabilities for working with string sets. The ECMAScript 2024 specification , also generally known as ECMA-262, was approved on June 26. Among the features are added facilities for resizing and transferring ArrayBuffers and SharedArrayBuffers.

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Stay Connected to Your Team’s Reality

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Staying in touch with your team’s day-to-day challenges is important. It shows you’re willing to get out there, get dirty, and understand their jobs. One of the worst types of leaders to work for is the one who’s checked out—the one who has no basis in reality or understanding of what their team does. These individuals don’t always appreciate the hard work that the team does.

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How to Pass Your Financial Physical

CEO Insider

Health and wealth go hand in hand. Just as physicians recommend annual physicals for their patients, so do financial advisors suggest annual reviews for their clients. Everyone knows it’s harder to get in shape than it is to stay in shape; the same rules apply to money, going from a frivolous spender to a frugal […] The post How to Pass Your Financial Physical appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn

Ooda Loop

For two years, many unprofitable tech start-ups have cut costs, sold themselves or gone out of business. But the ones focused on artificial intelligence have been thriving. Now the A.I. boom that started in late 2022 has become the strongest counterpoint to the broader start-up downturn. Investors poured $27.

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12 Reasons Snowflake Costs Get Out of Control — And How to Solve It

With no barriers to entry you can get started with Snowflake for next to nothing, but as you may already know, costs can quickly spiral out of control. While usage costs can be better managed for your internal BI use case, Snowflake costs skyrocket for SaaS providers because the need to deliver real-time, interactive analytics in a multi-tenant environment is always on.