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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Getting Project Management Right

Harvard Business Review

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

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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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