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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers

Forrester IT

AI assistants are only the beginning of the generative AI software development revolution. Find out what’s in store for software developers in our 2025 predictions for software development.

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Threat Actors Are Exploiting Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever

Tech Republic Security

It only takes five days on average for attackers to exploit a vulnerability, according to a new report by cybersecurity company Mandiant.

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Predictions 2025: A Year Of Reckoning For Enterprise Application Vendors

Forrester IT

After a challenging 2024, two themes will dominate the enterprise software market in 2025: trust and value. Learn more in our 2025 predictions for enterprise software.

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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

Alkira is expanding its namesake network-as-a-service ( NaaS ) platform with new zero trust network access ( ZTNA ) capabilities. Alkira provides a SaaS service for on-demand network infrastructure. Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. The platform provides visibility, control and governance over the network as well as dynamic service insertion, allowing organizations to integrate third-part

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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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Predictions 2025: Tech Spending Will Surge, But Can AI Deliver On Its Promises For Insurance In 2025?

Forrester IT

AI’s promise of transforming underwriting, claims, and customer experience remains untapped, and only a tiny fraction of insurers will harness its full potential by 2025. Tech-driven product innovation such as embedded insurance and usage-based insurance may yield faster results, but long-term AI gains remain on the horizon.

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How to Become a Collaborative IT Team Leader

Information Week

It's lonely at the top. That's why a growing number of IT leaders embrace team collaboration.

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CIOs face mounting pressure as AI costs and complexities threaten enterprise value

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver meaningful returns from generative AI initiatives, yet spiraling costs and complex governance challenges are undermining their efforts, according to Gartner. Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said.

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The New Creative Stack: What Adobe MAX Reveals About Our Future

Forrester IT

Adobe MAX 2024 announced several key developments that offer a window into creative work's future. Read the Forrester blog to learn about the opportunities creative teams have to step into a more satisfying, collaborative future.

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Layoffs, AI demand create mismatched talent market for IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills. Since 2022, the tech industry has experienced massive layoffs, as large tech companies have reduced their workforce numbers in response to rising interest rates and emerging generative AI technology.

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Lead A High-Performing Digital Team

Forrester IT

Digital teams are primarily tasked with designing, delivering, and managing digital products or services, launching digital innovations, and developing the digital roadmap.

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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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Oops! You May Be Selling or Sharing Personal Information

Information Week

What in-house counsel and privacy officers need to know -- and ask -- in a privacy regulation landscape that is evolving and expanding.

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Zero-In 2024 Aims To Elevate Customer Success

Forrester IT

Last week I attended the 4th annual ChurnZero conference, Zero-In (formerly Big RYG), in Washington, D.C., and the energy and inspiration are still resonating.

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Home Offices Are Easy to Hack: 3 Keys for Security Pros

IT Toolbox

The COVID-19 global pandemic showed organizations that they did not require their workforce to be local 100% of the time. Many workplaces quickly shifted to a remote work strategy. Still, they didn&r.

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Predictions 2025: Payments Disruption Roars Ahead

Forrester IT

It’s been quite a ride for payments in recent years. So what awaits us in 2025? More fits and starts, and significant disruptions to the status quo.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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How Anthropic’s new ‘computer use’ ability could further AI automation

CIO Business Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model has gained a new ability: operating a computer. The new ability, which the company is calling “computer use,” is currently in beta test. It enables developers to instruct Claude 3.5 Sonnet, through the Anthropic API , to read and interpret what’s on the display, type text, move the cursor, click buttons, and switch between windows or applications — much as today’s robotic process automation (RPA) tools can be instructed — much more laboriously

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Predictions 2025: Banks Must Innovate To Reverse The Double Whammy Of Declining CX And Profitability

Forrester IT

Banks need to get ready for a major challenge in 2025: a simultaneous decline in customer experience and worsening profitability. But fear not, because there is a solution to this double whammy: innovation.

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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams. It began with the opening keynote, which asked the question: “The world of Artificial Intelligence is exhilarating and often exhausting, and the pace of innovation can s

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Prognosen 2025: Unternehmen für Smart Manufacturing und Mobilität passen sich neuen Technologien an

Forrester IT

Nach einem herausfordernden Jahr 2024 werden Unternehmen und Führungskräfte der Fertigungs- und Transportbranche Technologien einsetzen, um sich an das schwierige Umfeld anzupassen, in dem sie und ihre Kunden sich befinden. Erfahren Sie mehr in unseren Prognosen 2025 zu Smart Manufacturing und Mobilität.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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La IA domina las predicciones de Gartner para 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

La inteligencia artificial (IA) sigue dominando el Simposio de TI/Xpo de Gartner de esta semana, así como la lista anual de predicciones de la firma de análisis e investigación. “Está claro que, vayamos donde vayamos, no podemos evitar el impacto de la IA”, dijo a los asistentes Daryl Plummer, distinguido vicepresidente analista, jefe de Investigación y Gartner Fellow.

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Predictions 2025: Smart Manufacturing And Mobility Firms Adapt With Tech

Forrester IT

After a challenging 2024, manufacturing and transportation firms and leaders will use technology to adapt to the tricky environment in which they and their customers find themselves. Find out more in our 2025 predictions for smart manufacturing and mobility.

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Cyber trailblazers breaking barriers: Insights from women cybersecurity leaders at Gitex 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2025, women are expected to comprise 30% of the global cybersecurity workforce, with projections rising to 35% by 2031. While this represents notable progress, discussions at Gitex 2024 underscored that the journey toward gender parity is far from complete. One solution emphasized during the event was the critical role of mentorship and supportive networks in empowering women within cybersecurity.

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Predictions 2025: A Changing Of The Generational Guard, Adoption Of AI, And An Embrace Of Tokenized Assets

Forrester IT

The upcoming year will see investment firms wrestle with restless offspring and technologies that have moved from “emerging” to “almost there.” In other words, 2025 will feel like a centuries-old industry has just hit its teens.

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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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As AI scales, infrastructure challenges emerge

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations experimenting with gen AI typically set up enterprise-grade accounts with cloud-based services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, and early field tests and productivity benefits may inspire them to look for more opportunities to deploy the technology. “Companies use gen AI to produce executive summaries, or to produce marketing content,” says Nick Kramer, leader of applied solutions at SSA & Company, a global consulting firm, and next year, we’ll see increased adop

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Prognosen 2025: Tech-Führungskräfte auf der Suche nach High Performance

Forrester IT

Nach einer Zeit erheblicher Technologie-Investitionen wird sich der Fokus 2025 darauf verschieben, das Potenzial der vorhandenen Technologien durch eine verbesserte

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A world without passwords is in sight

Vox

Passkeys are a new kind of credential that you can use to sign into web accounts without the use of a password. Apple thinks 249 of my passwords need attention. Some of them have been reused. Some of them have been caught up in data breaches. Some are just bad passwords. That’s why, for the past 11 years, a group called the FIDO Alliance has been working to kill passwords — or at least make us less reliant on them.

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Technical Debt by a Thousand Cuts

Forrester IT

Every week I get inquiries about technical debt, whether from enterprise architects, CIOs, CTOs, Offices of the CIO, or strategic portfolio managers. It’s a broad concern in IT and digital management, and in the minds and operating models of Forrester clients which have expanded WELL beyond the original Ward Cunningham definition.

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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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Los CIO recalibran sus estrategias ‘multicloud’ mientras persisten los retos

CIO Business Intelligence

Las estrategias en la nube están experimentando un cambio radical últimamente, y los directores de sistemas de información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) están cada vez más decididos a sacar el máximo partido de las nubes múltiples. Pero la gestión de entornos multicloud presenta desafíos únicos , especialmente cuando se trata de la interoperabilidad y los problemas de fluidez de la carga de trabajo en el centro de las estrategias multicloud más deliberadas, en lugar de casuales.

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In a shocking move, Arm cancels Qualcomm's license to manufacture Snapdragon chips

TechSpot

This "architectural license" agreement is the core partnership that's kept Android smartphones humming with Qualcomm's cutting-edge processors for years. Now, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg, Arm has fired off a 60-day cancellation notice that could bring that long-standing deal crumbling down.

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Inside Seattle’s new Sweetgreen restaurant, where a large robot helps the humans make your salad

GeekWire

A worker at Sweetgreen on Capitol Hill in Seattle stocks a station where finishing touches are put on orders that are mostly assembled by the “Infinite Kitchen” machine at right. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A worker at the new Sweetgreen restaurant location in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood bangs out orders in no time and has portion consistency down to a science.

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Massive lithium reserve discovered in Arkansas could power global EV industry

TechSpot

Researchers have uncovered an enormous lithium deposit in southwestern Arkansas – a discovery that has the potential to remake the electric vehicle industry and bolster the US' position in the clean energy race.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.