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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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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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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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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Microsoft: A Case Study in Strategy Transformation

Harvard Business Review

If you’re leading your team through big changes, this episode is for you.

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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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Getting Project Management Right

Harvard Business Review

Tips for motivating and influencing others, communicating effectively, and solving problems.

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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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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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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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Future-Proofing Your Business With Sustainable IT Strategies

Dell EMC

Dive into the power of sustainable IT with industry leaders from Computacenter, Creative Strategies and Dell Technologies.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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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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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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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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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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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.