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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

CIO

At Gitex Global 2024, a panel of top cybersecurity leaders delivered a clear message: cybersecurity is no longer just the responsibility of the cybersecurity team or the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). It is now a critical issue that demands the attention of board members and every department within an organization.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Every leader and every team should use rate of change to determine how quickly they can turn around a particular change, Avila recommends. Here they are.

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Average Daily Rate: The Role of ADR in Hospitality Revenue Management and Strategies to Improve This KPI

Altexsoft

We also investigate predicting ADR through machine learning and strategies to enhance this KPI. Unlike the other metrics, ADR focuses solely on revenue from actual room sales, making it a vital KPI of a hotel’s pricing strategy effectiveness. However, like any other technique, it comes with its own strengths and weaknesses.

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13 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

CIO

Power BI reports can also be embedded in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint and be shared via Teams. According to Microsoft, an organizations’ use of Power BI data nearly doubles when the app is pinned in Teams. Use a rotating tile or a Power KPI custom visualization to combine multiple report types on a single tile.

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Analytics creates Extra Power for your Software Development Organization?—?Part 1: Deep dive into…

Seerene

Analytics creates Extra Power for your Software Development Organization?—?Part The typical numbers you find in the real-world corporates are frightening high: Imagine you have a budget of 10 million Euros to spend on software development and only 2 million Euros can be used for value creation (see Image 1). The reasons are manifold.

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5 Biggest DevOps Mistakes You Must Avoid

OTS Solutions

Having gone through the process with many companies, a devops engineer told me the five common devops mistakes organizations make when carrying out devops development for the first time. Your devops developer will advise you to quantify the workload of each and the team as a whole. As a result, the quality of the job is poor.

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