Sat.Sep 07, 2024 - Fri.Sep 13, 2024

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The state of CIO salaries: Rising to meet the prominence of the role

Ooda Loop

Elevated in prominence over the past few years, CIOs are now an integral part of the C-suite, with salaries and compensation packages now commensurate with that stature. “As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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Content Hub: Data Model Simplified

Perficient

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.

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Ransomware: Attacks Once More Nearing Peak Levels

Symantec

Attacks surge again in second quarter of 2024 as attackers bounce back from disruption.

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How Apple just changed hearing aids forever - and the lives of those who need them

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Millions of people with hearing loss go without assistive devices for various reasons. However, many of those millions likely now possess AirPods Pro 2 earbuds that can soon function as clinical-grade hearing aids.

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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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A Lasting Strategy for Global Impact

TechSoup

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet. We're dedicated to delivering on this promise because we believe that building the digital capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) at scale can produce tremendously positive outcomes in the name of safeguarding democracy, preserving our planet, and serving the millions of people that rely on services provided by our sector each day.

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Using Speed, Agility, and Innovation to Beat Your Competition

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Innovation, speed, and agility can be a winning combination if they’re used appropriately. Those elements must be tied closely to your strategy if you really want to win. Today’s post is by Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky, authors of OUTMANEUVER: OutThink, don’t OutSpend. Every executive knows speed is important. Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard declared recently that “the future belongs to the fast.

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CodeSOD: Take a Line Break

The Daily WTF

The number of web applications which need to generate PDFs is too damn high, in my experience. But it's a requirement which continues to exist for a variety of reasons, so we just have to accept it. Derek was accepting of it, at least until he found this attempt to add ten lines of space between paragraphs. var pgText2N2 = section.AddParagraph(); pgText2N2.Format.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Right; pgText2N2.Format.RightIndent = rightMargin; var pgText2N3 = section.AddParagraph(); pgText2N

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Producing Messages With a Schema in Confluent Cloud Console

Confluent

To make application testing for topics with schemas easier, you can now produce messages that are serialized with schemas using the Confluent Cloud Console UI.

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#807 Free Speech vs. Technology: Where Should We Draw the Line? With Anders Indset, Philosopher & Bestselling Author

Modern CTO

Today, we’re talking to Anders Indset, Philosopher & Bestselling Author. We discuss the principles of Norwegian work ethic, the relationship between free speech and technology, and the philosophical challenges we face in our modern day. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Anders Indset, check out his website here: [link] Produced by ProSeries Media: [link] For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Anders Indset Recognized by T

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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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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

CIO

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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The Unicorn Board Adds 8 New Companies, With One Newly Minted Entry Valued At $16B 

Crunchbase News

Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively. Among them was Huawei Technologies’ smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology , valued at $16 billion. That dollar amount represents the second-largest value for a newly minted unicorn this year — trailing only xAI , which was valued at $24 billion in May when it joined the board.

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Confluent + WarpStream = Large-Scale Streaming in your Cloud

Confluent

Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.

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How to Kickstart Your Post-Summer Career Development

Harvard Business Review

Using the end of the summer to reset your approach to development can create new energy for your career. Instead of feeling like another thing to fit in, it can be a new source of motivation that supports everything else you’re trying to do. The idea is to identify actions that will kick-start your learning in a way that’s easy to add into your day.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

CIO

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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Can The Perks Of Early-Stage VC Make A Difference To Founders?

Crunchbase News

It is widely known that getting the right investors at the right time can be vital to a startup’s success. This truth is always top of mind for founders who are raising venture capital. While it’s somewhat standard practice to get an idea off the ground with friends and family, then angel investors, things get more complex as startups approach their early stages and begin raising successive rounds.

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Navigating Agile Waters: Why Integrating Copilot Demands Methodological Adjustments

DevOps.com

Changes to agile methodology are inevitable because GenAI and Agile are providing real competitive advantages.

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How CEOs Are Using Gen AI for Strategic Planning

Harvard Business Review

Real-world examples of what these new tools can — and can’t — do.

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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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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

CIO

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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AI-Powered Work Assistant Glean Doubles Valuation To $4.6B In Less Than Seven Months

Crunchbase News

That didn’t take long. Less than seven months after raising a more than $200 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation, AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup Glean raised more than $260 million in a Series E funding at a $4.6 billion valuation co-led by Altimeter Capital and DST Global. The Palo Alto, California-based startup hit unicorn status in May 2023 after raising a $100 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital.

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Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development

DevOps.com

A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.

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The End of the Chevron Doctrine Is Bad for Business

Harvard Business Review

Recent Supreme Court decisions on regulatory powers will have a major impact on business investment — but not in the way most people think.

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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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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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These Female Founders And CEOs Raised The Biggest Rounds In 2024

Crunchbase News

When measuring funding to startups with female founders and CEOs, the perennial takeaway is that women remain underrepresented. Last year, for instance, just 3% of U.S. funding went to startups with solely female founders. Women-led companies appeared similarly underrepresented in the funding tallies, capturing less than 5% of investment, per preliminary Crunchbase tallies.

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Cribl Extends Reach of Platform for Routing DevOps Telemetry Data

DevOps.com

Cribl this week added support for multiple additional platforms to its cloud service for collecting and routing telemetry data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms.

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How healthcare payers and plans can empower members with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help health insurance plan members get the information they need. Many health insurance plan beneficiaries find it challenging to navigate through the complex member portals provided by their insurance plans. These portals often require multiple clicks, filters, and searches to find specific information about their benefits, deductibles, claim history, and other important details.

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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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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

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AI Startup World Labs Launches With $230M From Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia’s Venture Arm

Crunchbase News

Spatial intelligence AI startup World Labs launched Friday with more than $230 million in total funding. The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz , NEA and Radical Ventures. Other investors include Marc Benioff , Ashton Kutcher , Adobe Ventures , AMD Ventures , Databricks Ventures and NVentures , the venture capital arm of Nvidia. It was reported just last month that the Stanford, California-based company had raised a pair of financing rounds two months apart, and that the latest valued the

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Security by Default: The Crucial Complement to Secure by Design

Ivanti

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. This new reality is being answered with the software development concept called security by default, a necessary complement to the principles of Secure by Design set forth by the U.S.