Crunchbase News

MAY 8, 2024

By Lakshmi Shenoy Every day, I’m joined by CEOs and entrepreneurs sharing the ups and downs of business building. The biggest question on all of their minds: What do I need to do for my business not just to survive, but thrive? Many founders need help, as 50% of startups do not reach the five-year milestone. A recent post by Bessemer Venture Partners noted that, while all companies will have an initial spark, not all of them can sustain the flame to build ongoing success.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

Alex Gay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Adobe Document Cloud Most business today can be described as MORE—more technology, more meetings, more projects, more data, and more documents. Coupled with the increasing expectations to do more with less, it’s a lot for knowledge workers to handle. In fact, according to MIT Sloan , 80 percent of knowledge workers experience information overload and it’s impacting productivity.

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Agile Alliance

MAY 8, 2024

The Agile2024 conference brings Agile communities together annually to share experiences and make new connections. We've put together a list of some of the many reasons to get together in person again in Dallas this year! The post Ten Reasons for Joining Us at Agile2024 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

As the world becomes increasingly reliant on technology and driven by data, the excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) solutions continues to skyrocket. Corporate boardrooms are abuzz with discussions about exploring the possibilities of AI, and massive amounts of capital are being funneled into building AI infrastructure. Companies such Nvidia, Corestreet, and OpenAI are experiencing exponential revenue growth – and valuations, driven by this immense interest.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce

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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Xebia

MAY 8, 2024

DIY LLM Evaluation, a Case Study of Rhyming in ABBA Schema It’s becoming common knowledge: You should not choose your LLMs based on static benchmarks. As Andrej Karpathy, former CTO of OpenAI, once said on Twitter: “I pretty much only trust two LLM evals right now: Chatbot Arena and the r/LocalLlama comments section” Chatbot Arena is a website where you can submit a prompt, see two results, and then choose the best result.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2024

What happens when you have to give a presentation to an audience that might have some professionals who have more expertise on the topic than you do? While it can be intimidating, it can also be an opportunity to leverage their deep and diverse expertise in service of the group’s learning. And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being wi

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

Process automation and improvement is a perennial CIO agenda item, and the call for business process optimization is only getting louder — especially for those processes directly tied to the bottom line. For Expion Health, a cumbersome manual process to determine what rates to quote to potential new customers had become a cap on the healthcare cost management firm’s ability to grow its business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2024

We’ve seen how fully remote work can lead to a loss of connection and development opportunities, particularly those that require observational learning, or learning by watching someone else do it. However, people still want to work from home at least some of the time because of the greater work-life balance and personal productivity that they experience.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

As Tommy Lasorda said, “There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.” He could have been talking about the current state of IT leadership. Foundry’s 23rd annual State of the CIO survey found that leading change has become a clear mandate as organizations prepare for the next chapter, where the convergence of data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies wholly transform the business.

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Advertiser: Procom Services

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2024

Job seekers worry about negotiating an offer for many reasons, including the worst-case scenario that the offer will be rescinded. Across a series of seven studies, researchers found that these fears are consistently exaggerated: Candidates think they are much more likely to jeopardize a deal than managers report they are. This fear can lead candidates to avoid negotiating altogether.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

In the age of big data, where information is generated at an unprecedented rate, the ability to integrate and manage diverse data sources has become a critical business imperative. Traditional data integration methods are often cumbersome, time-consuming, and unable to keep up with the rapidly evolving data landscape. Of late, innovative data integration tools are revolutionising how organisations approach data management, unlocking new opportunities for growth, efficiency, and strategic decisio

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Ooda Loop

MAY 8, 2024

Recently, China’s Cybersecurity Industry Alliance (CCIA) published a report in an effort to further expose the suspected hegemonic practices and “bullying” behavior of the United States in cyberspace.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

Le aziende nutrono molte aspettative nei confronti dei loro CIO: conoscenza approfondita del business, capacità di ottenere risultati finanziari concreti e di lavorare in maniera agile, competenze nel gestire il cambiamento e nel collaborare attivamente con i leader aziendali per spiegare l’IT in modo semplice. Si tratta di una posizione di livello elevato che richiede un ampio spettro di competenze.

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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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Ivanti

MAY 8, 2024

The exciting benefits of digital transformation and automation — global interconnectedness, efficient operations, greater business outcomes — have come with an equal measure of concern over digital safety. It has become clear that to safely realize the benefits of digital acceleration, as an industry we must take bold steps toward securing the digital landscape and mitigating cybersecurity threats.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

En los próximos tres años, y bajo el contexto de los Planes de Digitalización, los CIO del sector público juegan un papel fundamental como arquitectos de la transformación digital que tiene como principales desafíos impulsar la modernización, fomentando un crecimiento sostenible, y lo más importante, la mejora continua del servicio al ciudadano. En este contexto, gracias a los avances de la computación en la nube y la inteligencia artificial, los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) emerg

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 8, 2024

Giving your team the authority to make important decisions improves trust, satisfaction, and accountability. Members of high performing teams are going to be the most satisfied when they feel like they can have an impact on the outcome of their work. And to get to that point you need to understand the difference between accountability and responsibility and then how authority interplays with both of them.

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Dell EMC

MAY 8, 2024

Your list of top Dell Technologies World sessions for security, data management, data storage, Dell APEX, thin client and more are here.

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DevOps.com

MAY 8, 2024

Sumo Logic this week at the RSA Conference previewed a copilot that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for IT and cybersecurity professionals of varying levels of experience to derive benefits from its observability platform via a user interface (UI) the company is in the process of revamping.

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InfoWorld

MAY 8, 2024

For decades, when I got to work in the morning, I would start Microsoft Visual Studio (or one of its predecessors, such as Visual C++ or Visual InterDev), then brew tea and possibly attend a morning meeting while it went through its laborious startup. I would keep the IDE open all day as I went through develop/test/debug cycles to avoid another startup delay.

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DevOps.com

MAY 8, 2024

A lead contributor to OpenTofu answers the (truly) frequently asked questions about the open source project.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 8, 2024

Many in the venture capital and M&A worlds have predicted this year could see a return to more robust deal-making after a slow 2023. There is good reason for some of that optimism — as valuations of venture-backed startups have slowly come down, the IPO market has reopened slightly, and strategic and private equity buyers are loaded with cash. However, the first quarter saw only a slight uptick with 413 deals being completed through March, Crunchbase data shows.

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Honeycomb

MAY 8, 2024

Over the past five years, software and systems have become increasingly complex and challenging for teams to understand. A challenging macroeconomic environment, the rise of generative AI, and further advancements in cloud computing compound the problems faced by many organizations. Simply understanding what’s broken is difficult enough, but trying to do so while balancing the need to constantly innovate and ship makes the problem worse.

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Dell EMC

MAY 8, 2024

As GenAI evolves, invest in a future-proof landscape for the scale and flexibility to innovate at a steady pace.

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InfoWorld

MAY 8, 2024

Research suggests there are seven JavaScript language elements developers lookup more than any other. While you might not be able to write a complete JavaScript program using only these features, you most certainly won't get far without them. Beginners need to learn them, but they're also great brain refreshers for JavaScript veterans. Let’s take a look at the JavaScript language features every developer needs.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 8, 2024

For ordinary shareholders, bankruptcy almost always means a total loss. But for the companies that file for bankruptcy reorganization, it’s quite possible to emerge from the process with a bright future ahead. Numerous prominent brands — including General Motors , American Airlines and Six Flags — went through bankruptcy. Today, they’re multibillion-dollar companies.

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InfoWorld

MAY 8, 2024

Microservices architectures solve some problems but introduce others. Dividing applications into independent services simplifies development, updates, and scaling. But it also gives you many more moving parts to connect and secure. Managing all the network services—load balancing, traffic management, authentication and authorization, and so on—can become stupendously complex.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2024

Their corporate culture often focuses on unconventional solutions to hard business problems.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

MAY 8, 2024

This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction of beloved musical instruments is the perfect metaphor for how utterly tone-deaf technologists are capable of being.

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