Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2024
Most corporate learnings aren’t cutting it. Almost 60% of employees say they’re interested in upskilling and training, but 57% of workers also say they’re already pursuing training outside of work. The author, the former Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, argues that creativity is the missing piece to make upskilling engaging and effective.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2024
The European Union and the US have agreed to increase co-operation in the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), placing a particular emphasis on safety and governance. The announcement came at the end of a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in Leuven, Belgium, on Friday, and followed this week’s broadly similar pact between the US and UK on AI safety.
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Xebia
APRIL 5, 2024
Deploying Google Cloud (GCP) resources via Azure Pipelines used to require service account keys. Today, however, Azure DevOps OIDC tokens can be exchanged to Google credentials using Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation. Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation External workloads can access Google Cloud resources using workload identity federation , without using a service account key.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2024
As artificial intelligence adoption has surged in the past year, many voices have called for regulation to protect people from adverse machine decisions — and regulatory bodies are responding with a complex patchwork of emerging statutes and mandates that CIOs will need to navigate to ensure their AI strategies are compliant wherever their organizations do business.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 5, 2024
Episode 251: In this episode, David Dye discusses transforming workplace conflict to collaboration. He introduces four dimensions that can help alleviate and deescalate conflicts. The four dimensions are: connection, clarity, curiosity, and commitment. David emphasizes the importance of having a conversation with oneself before engaging in conflict resolution and provides phrases and strategies for each dimension.
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Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 5, 2024
To encourage more initiative be specific in your request. Hi Karin, “I’ve got a peer who will never take initiative. I’m always stuck feeling like I’m the one to push if we’re going to get anything done. I really don’t like that feeling. What should I do? How can I get them to step it up? #AskingForaFriend.” This one’s tricky.
Cherry Work
APRIL 5, 2024
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, where efficiency and agility are paramount, digital transformation has become imperative for organizations looking to stay ahead of the curve. One area where digitalization is making a significant impact is in accounts payable (AP) automation. However, the true game-changer lies in the integration of digital supplier collaboration on top of AP automation.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2024
Most workers used to have fixed roles within a hierarchical organization, but today the nature of work today is becoming fluid and dynamic. Project-based work and freelancing are increasingly common, and many roles are now defined by outcomes rather than hours spent at a desk. Success in this new work environment requires not only recognizing that this shift has taken place but also actively strategizing to leverage it to your advantage.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2024
Modular created Mojo to provide Python developers with a programming language that uses the same familiar syntax to build high-performance applications.
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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.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
AI-generated images are everywhere. They’re being used to make nonconsensual pornography, muddy the truth during elections and promote products on social media using celebrity impersonations.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2024
Most IT teams regularly employ a range of tools to monitor application performance. But in an era where applications are running everywhere from the cloud to the network edge, the visibility being provided is limited.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 5, 2024
Being a CEO often conjures up images of success, optimism and authority, with many envisioning a leader who is always in control, highly respected and financially successful. However, my experience as a former entrepreneur and strategic adviser working closely with many CEOs on a daily basis paints a somewhat different picture. In reality, the role of a CEO can be incredibly isolating.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
Sansec, a cybersecurity firm, has reported that threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-20720, in Magento, allowing them to inject a persistent backdoor into ecommerce websites.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 5, 2024
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. The week saw another five startups lock up rounds of $100 million or more.
InfoWorld
APRIL 5, 2024
Cohere has unveiled its latest large language model (LLM), Command R+, which is engineered to enhance enterprise workflows and applications. The company said the new model is its most advanced and scalable LLM yet. Building on the foundations of the earlier Command R model, Command R+ boosts performance for various enterprise tasks, including data categorization and workflow automation, the company said.
Gitprime
APRIL 5, 2024
With the expansion of the IT workforce, even government agencies are using IT certifications as a measuring stick for while filling competitive positions. Especially with positions in network security or jobs in the Dept. of Defense, standardized skills along with work experience are more important than ever.
InfoWorld
APRIL 5, 2024
The latest data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker paints a compelling picture of growth in cloud infrastructure sales on demand. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an 18.5% year-over-year increase in spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments. It is a significant shift in the technological landscape, where AI is now front and center in the push to find cloud infrastructure to run it.
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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2024
What organizations need to know about adopting “regenerative” practices that actively help ecosystems and communities — not just minimize harm to them.
InfoWorld
APRIL 5, 2024
With the release of.NET 8, Microsoft introduced a plethora of new features and enhancements in the.NET Core and ASP.NET Core frameworks. One such feature is the SearchValues class, which marks a significant step forward in efficiently fetching data from data sets. SearchValues is a new type introduced in.NET 8 designed to improve application performance.
Perficient
APRIL 5, 2024
In today’s hyper-competitive retail landscape, merely processing orders is no longer sufficient. Businesses need a digital commerce solution that can create immersive online experiences, drive sales, and foster long-term customer loyalty. Salesforce Commerce Cloud stands out as a game-changer in this regard, and with Perficient as your trusted partner, you can unlock its full potential.
InfoWorld
APRIL 5, 2024
The Eclipse Foundation announced that it is partnering with the Apache Software Foundation and other open source foundations to establish common specifications for secure software development based on existing open source best practices. In an April 2 blog post , Eclipse said that the goal of the initiative was to meet the challenges of cybersecurity in the open source ecosystem and demonstrate cooperation with the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
Generative AI’s remarkable achievements are creating a growing misconception among executives that all previous artificial intelligence technologies will become obsolete. The resulting over-emphasis on generative AI is counterproductive, leading to the compartmentalizing of AI talent and resources.
Perficient
APRIL 5, 2024
Have you ever tried connecting a database to AWS Glue using a JDBC SSL encryption connection? It can be quite a puzzle. A few months ago, I faced this exact challenge. I thought it would be easy, but I was wrong! When I searched for help online, I couldn’t find much useful guidance. So, I rolled up my sleeves and experimented until I finally figured it out.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market.
CTO Academy
APRIL 5, 2024
Strong tech leadership provide a compelling vision and roadmap, improving team focus and motivation. Combined with a culture of trust and open communication, it creates a high level of psychological safety for the team. In turn, such a team is more open to risk-taking, innovation and honest discussion of challenges. Here, we explain how to master that art.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
The founder of China’s largest industrial automation company believes the key role played by the country’s robot makers in keeping global supply chains running will insulate them from rising global protectionism as they try to expand overseas.
CTO Academy
APRIL 5, 2024
One of the major challenges for any start-up is how to drive growth with a bootstrapped marketing budget. So you’re reliant on being creative and patient and hope your customers love your product enough to become part of your front-line sales strategy. This is why we’re always thrilled with the Social Proof emerging via sites […] The post When Our Customers Endorse Everything We Are Striving to Achieve appeared first on CTO Academy.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 5, 2024
OpenAI is seeing surging demand for the corporate version of ChatGPT even as it confronts a growing number of artificial intelligence companies offering similar products for the workplace.
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