CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When it embarked on an ERP modernization project, the second time proved to be the charm for Allegis Corp., which performed two ERP deployments in seven years. “Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. Allegis had been using a legacy on-premises ERP system called Eclipse for about 15 years, which Shannon says met the business needs well but had limitations.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How a fintech giant transformed stagnant Sprint reviews into dynamic, user-focused collaborations through Agile values, boosting team morale and user engagement. The post Turning Sprint reviews into a powerhouse of feedback first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Are We Facing a New Software Crisis? Yes, we are facing a new software crisis! Or at least I think we are. The growing complexity of software systems, combined with rising development costs and missed deadlines, resembles the original software crisis of the late 1960s. In this post, I’ll explore why history repeats itself and how modern solutions like Platform Engineering can help solve the challenges of today.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The 2024 report, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work,” published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, provides a detailed examination of the evolving implications of AI on productivity, workforce dynamics, and education. The report builds on its 2017 predecessor, integrating insights about the rapid advancements in AI technologies such as large […] The post National Academies Report on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: Key

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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.

Enterprise

DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its authentication service to make it simpler for software engineering teams to eliminate passwords. In addition to now adding support of passkey authentication based on public key cryptography and biometrics to the AWS Cognito service, the AWS Cognito service already supports one-time-passwords over email and SMS connection.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The success story of a German insurance company overcoming "copy-paste Agile" by embracing true agility with cross-functional teams and customer focus. The post From copy-paste Agile to true transformation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Have you ever had to deploy, configure, and maintain your own DevOps agents, be it for Azure DevOps or GitHub? If so, then you probably found out it is such a hassle to keep everything up-to-date and up-and-running. Managed DevOps Pools have recently been announced as Public Preview. In this article, we go over the most important features and capabilities of the new service and provide examples on how to implement this using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

When most people prompt generative AI, they do so within the paradigm of how they think about what could or should come next. For example, when searching Google, users may ask a question, search for the best Thai restaurant “near me,” or insert specific criteria based on filtered output, such as “best downhill mountain bike for intermediate riders.” That approach is often carried into prompting.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue. Unsurprisingly, more than 90% of respondents said their organization needs to shift to an AI-first operating model by the end of this year to stay competitive — and time to do so is running out.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In the final article of this four-part series on Kafka producer and consumer internals, observe the inner workings of brokers as they attempt to serve data up to consumers.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the field of generative AI , latency and cost pose significant challenges. The commonly used large language models (LLMs) often process text sequentially, predicting one token at a time in an autoregressive manner. This approach can introduce delays, resulting in less-than-ideal user experiences. Additionally, the growing demand for AI-powered applications has led to a high volume of calls to these LLMs, potentially exceeding budget constraints and creating financial pressures for organizatio

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Don’t start with the “Q” word.

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How To 131

CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. However, there’s a significant difference between those experimenting with AI and those fully integrating it into their operations. For companies investing in data science, realizing the return on these investments requires embedding AI deeply into business processes.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A new so-called “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has arrived on the scene. It’s one of the few to rival OpenAI’s o1, and it’s the first available to download under a permissive license. Developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, QwQ-32B-Preview contains 32.5 billion parameters and can consider prompts up ~32,000 words in length; it performs better on […] The post Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model appeared first on OODAloop.

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Dell EMC

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Learn how to bolster your family's cybersecurity hygiene and effortlessly protect them from online threats this holiday season.

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How To 115

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s very popular to push logs, in a formatted way, to the console output of an application (sometimes referred to as stdout ). Although using a push-based approach like OTLP over gRPC/HTTP is preferred and has more benefits, there are many legacy systems that still use this approach. These systems typically use a JSON output for their logs. So, how do we get these JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CEOs and CIOs appear to have conflicting views of the readiness of their organizations’ IT systems, with a large majority of chief executives worried about them being outdated, according to a report from IT services provider Kyndryl. About two-thirds of CEOs say they’re concerned their IT tools are out-of-date or close to the end of their lives, according to Kyndryl’s survey of 3,200 business and IT executives.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Welcome to 8th edition of my annual top 10 books list! Each year, I read close to 100 books and distill down my 10 favorite security, technology and business books into this top 10 list and also include my favorite fiction books of year and a handful of honorable mentions that didn’t make the top […] The post Top 10 Security, Technology, & Business Books of 2024 appeared first on OODAloop.

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Technology 122

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

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Strategy 113

AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) have witnessed an unprecedented surge in popularity, with customers increasingly using publicly available models such as Llama, Stable Diffusion, and Mistral. Across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and marketing—organizations are now engaged in pre-training and fine-tuning these increasingly larger LLMs, which often boast billions of parameters and larger input sequence length.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For enterprises operating on the cloud, security and cost management are rising concerns. Typically, these issues are addressed in silos, with cyber teams and FinOps teams pursuing their charters and priorities separately — and with little thought given to collaboration opportunities between these teams that could be leveraged for better business results.

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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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. Read previous interviews with Felicis , Battery Ventures , General Catalyst , Bessemer Venture Partners , Accel , Insight Partners , Index Ventures , Sequoia Capital , Section 32 , M12 , Sapphire Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , Menlo Ventures and Scale Venture Partners , as well as highlights from these stories from 2023.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for application development to include a set of plug-in extensions, that make it possible to launch natural language queries against data residing in platforms from Datadog and Wiz.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Generative AI agents are designed to interact with their environment to achieve specific objectives, such as automating repetitive tasks and augmenting human capabilities. By orchestrating multistep workflows that adapt to evolving goals in real time, these agents increase productivity, reduce errors, and deliver more personalized experiences. To manage these complex workflows effectively, agents rely on an orchestration strategy that coordinates interactions with various tools, knowledge source

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Turnover has always been a concern for employers, but in a recent PwC report, an increasing number of employees worldwide are looking to move within the next year in light of many things, but mostly because of opportunities afforded by the rapid pace of technological change. “Technology is fundamentally changing the way work gets done and the skills employers seek,” said Pete Brown, global workforce leader at PwC UK in the report, adding that employees value organizations that invest in their sk

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not even the holiday season can stop cyber fundraising it seems. Anti-ransomware firm Halcyon became the latest cyber startup to raise big, locking up a $100 million Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners that values the company at $1 billion. The round also saw participation from Bain Capital , SYN Ventures , Harmony Group , ServiceNow Ventures and others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Five considerations for managers, HR professionals, and organizational leaders.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With the rise of large language models (LLMs) like Meta Llama 3.1, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to deploy and serve these models. AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia based instances, combined with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), provide a performant and low cost framework to run LLMs efficiently in a containerized environment.

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