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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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Build your multilingual personal calendar assistant with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Foreigners and expats living outside of their home country deal with a large number of emails in various languages daily. They often find themselves struggling with language barriers when it comes to setting up reminders for events like business gatherings and customer meetings. To solve this problem, this post shows you how to apply AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock , AWS Step Functions , and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to build a fully-automated multilingual calendar artificial

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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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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Diez formas en que la IA contribuye a productivizar las TI

CIO

Cuando se trata de maximizar la productividad, los responsables de TI pueden recurrir a toda una serie de estímulos, como pausas regulares, aperitivos y bebidas gratis, mejoras en el espacio de trabajo, miniconcursos, etcétera. Sin embargo, ahora existe otr a herramienta de vanguardia que puede estimular significativamente tanto la productividad como la innovación de los equipos: la inteligencia artificial (IA).

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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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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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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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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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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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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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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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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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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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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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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Supercharge Customer Journeys with Salesforce OmniStudio

Perficient

In today’s digital landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences is paramount. Salesforce OmniStudio empowers you to create engaging, personalized, and brand-consistent interactions across all touchpoints. This blog post delves into OmniStudio, exploring its capabilities, benefits, and how you can leverage it to elevate your customer journeys.

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Mastering Distributed Caching on AWS: Strategies, Services, and Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

Distributed caching is a method for storing and managing data across multiple servers, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and improved read/write performance. In cloud environments like AWS (Amazon Web Services), distributed caching is pivotal in enhancing application performance by reducing database load, decreasing latency, and providing scalable data storage solutions.

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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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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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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 Blazor in Enterprise Applications

Apiumhub

Blazor is a shiny new and competent web framework from Microsoft that helps one create web applications that are interactive and are developed with the AID of C# and.NET rather than JavaScript. This exciting development has paved the way for a whole new vista in the realm of.NET capability to work as multimedia documents, whereas it offers one solution for client-side and server-side Web development.

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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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Generative AI for Answering Patient Questions

John Snow Labs

In today’s healthcare landscape, generative AI is revolutionizing how we deliver precise and timely responses to patient questions. By leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP), this technology interacts seamlessly with patients, enhancing their journey and alleviating the workload on healthcare professionals. As patients increasingly seek accurate health information, generative AI stands out as a vital tool, bridging the gap between patient queries and expert medical advice.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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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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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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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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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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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Intro to multithreaded JavaScript

InfoWorld

The JavaScript language is one of the wonders of the software world. It is incredibly powerful, flexible, and versatile. One limitation of its fundamental design, however, is its single-threaded nature. Traditional JavaScript appears to handle parallel tasks, but that is a trick of syntax. To achieve true parallelism, you need to use modern multithreading approaches like web workers and worker threads.

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How Deep Tech Week and a Cadre of Innovators Shaping The Future Ignited My Optimism

Ooda Loop

Deep Tech Week was one of the most optimistic gathering I have been to. Every session was characterized by a positive and hopeful atmosphere and a sense of community.

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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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