Wed.Jan 29, 2025

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Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) are good at learning from unstructured data. But a lot of the proprietary value that enterprises hold is locked up inside relational databases, spreadsheets, and other structured file types. Large enterprises have long used knowledge graphs to better understand underlying relationships between data points, but these graphs are difficult to build and maintain, requiring effort on the part of developers, data engineers, and subject matter experts who know what the data

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AI-powered automation set for gains in 2025

Network World

Automation technology has long been a part of ITs arsenal, as enterprises work to simplify increasingly complex networking and operational environments. Looking ahead, the more AI is added to the automation mix, the more enterprise operations teams stand to gain. 2025 will be the year for AI initiatives, where AI-powered automation has reached a tipping point from being a nice-to-have to a requirement, said Bill Lobig, vice president, product management, withIBMAutomation.

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Abu Dhabi set to become the world’s first fully AI-Powered government by 2027

CIO Business Intelligence

In a move to establish itself as a global leader in AI-driven government, the government of Abu Dhabi has unveiled its ambitious Abu Dhabi Government Digital Strategy 2025-2027. This transformative plan, developed by the Department of Government Enablement (DGE) in collaboration with various governmental bodies, will see an investment of AED 13 billion over the next three years.

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DeepSeek Unleashes Smaller-Footprint Models That Can Transform AIOps From Cloud To Edge

Forrester IT

Exciting developments such as DeepSeeks R1 announcement are extending opportunities to run large language models on edge devices. These advancements could have profound implications for edge computing, particularly in the realms of AIOps and observability. By enabling real-time insights and faster automations at the edge, enterprises can enhance their operational posture, drive down costs, and improve operational efficiency and resilience.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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AI poised to overhaul the customer journey

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is poised to take over the customer journey for a wide range of products in the next five years. CIOs who ignore the trend risk losing major ground to competitors, AI and marketing experts suggest. AI-driven product recommendations are already a common component of customer buying journeys, but AI tools coming soon will act as personal concierges, providing hyper-customized recommendations, after-sale add-on suggestions, and post-purchase support, says Naveen Sharma, senior vice president and

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What's New (And Worrisome) in Quantum Security?

Information Week

A new generation of quantum computers could render current cryptographic technology approaches useless. Is a solution even possible?

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AI Integration Impacts Data, Cybersecurity Skillsets

Information Week

Adoption and evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming tech roles, prioritizing advanced skills and interdisciplinary expertise.

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How agentic AI is making everyone a data expert

CIO Business Intelligence

IT service and operations teams increasingly benefit from the enrichment of their work systems with modern technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) reduces toil, identifies important information, summarizes information, and makes recommendations, enabling IT organizations to focus their critical skills more effectively. However, the data collected during this work is frequently underutilized or overlooked once its immediate purpose is complete.

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Verizon brings AI suite to enterprise infrastructure customers

Network World

Verizon Business has launched AI Connect, an integrated suite of products designed to let businesses deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale. Verizon is building its AI ecosystem by repurposing its existing infrastructure assets in its intelligent and programmable network, which consists of fiber, edge networking, and data center assets, along with its metro and long-haul fiber, ILEC and Fios footprint, its metro network build-out, lit and dark fiber services, and 5G ne

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SAP restructures board to emphasize AI-first, suite-first strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. In the future, Steinhuser will head the newly created Strategy & Operations board group and, in this position, will continue to drive the implementation of SAPs strategy and simplify company processes.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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How IT Leaders Can Weather Geopolitical Unrest

Information Week

Ensuring business continuity in times of geopolitical unrest can be very challenging. Extreme agility helps.

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World’s largest pulp manufacturer streamlined SAP S/4HANA integration for better outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions are transforming and enhancing business operations. Yet despite the organisational benefits, businesses are slow to modernise IT, citing challenges in integrating legacy systems due to change management and user adoption issues. They also need to overcome complexities in data migration and customisation, on top of high related upfront costsall while facing increased data and user demands.

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Bezos vs. Bezos: Amazon sues WA state over Washington Post request for Kuiper records

GeekWire

Amazon’s Project Kuiper is developing a broadband satellite network to rival SpaceX Starlink. In this 2023 photo, United Launch Alliances Atlas V rocket lifts off with two prototype Amazon satellites. (ULA Photo) The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business.

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Evolve conference showcases how enterprises partner with Trace3 to ensure AI success

CIO Business Intelligence

Last years Evolve conference showcased practical use cases for AI, an area where Trace3 has developed significant expertise. Key themes included how AI can help companies grow; charting the AI landscape for the future; and assessing the impact of AI on specific industries, from financial services to healthcare. Expert presentations as well as insights from many of Trace3s partners, including Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell Technologies created a compelling, forward-thinking deep dive on cutting-edge

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Ex-Google, Apple engineers raise $10M to give AI its ‘Linux moment’ with new open source platform

GeekWire

Oumi co-founders Manos Koukoumidis, left, and Oussama Elachqar. (Oumi Photo) A new startup out of Seattle wants to open up the “black box” of foundational AI models in a bid to help spur more innovation for the booming field of artificial intelligence. Oumi came out of stealth mode this week, announcing a $10 million seed round and an ambitious plan to build an open source AI research and development platform.

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3 key areas where AI is transforming insurance today

CIO Business Intelligence

In the two years since generative artificial intelligence (genAI) burst onto the global stage and quickly found its way into the strategy playbooks of the worlds largest businesses, weve all heard a lot about the technologys potential. Countless surveys and one-off product demos have touted a future vision where workflows are streamlined, customer interactions are more personalized, and manual tasks are automated.

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The Hidden Cost of Partial Digital Transformation

Information Week

Businesses implementing incomplete digital modernization often perform worse than those using fully legacy systems. Partial transformation creates complexity without efficiency, leading to operational friction and missed opportunities.

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Assessing the Future for AI PCs – What IT Execs are Saying

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past couple of years, AI has infiltrated virtually every aspect of digital infrastructure, with an initial focus on storage and compute servers. Now, as organizations move from proofs of concept to deployment of AI projects, interest is growing in the potential that the AI PC holds. Attendees of recent CIO Roundtables have provided their insights into what to expect from this new class of device.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reaches $13B annually as tech giant tops earnings expectations

GeekWire

Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations for revenue and profits in its latest quarter. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft says it’s generating revenue from its artificial intelligence products and services at a rate of $13 billion annually, exceeding the $10 billion run rate that the company foreshadowed previously. The company on Wednesday afternoon reported $69.6 billion in revenue for the December quarter, up 12%, with earnings of $3.23/share, topping Wall Street’s expectatio

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Achieving more with less: How Wipro enhances Microsoft 365 Copilot for superior results

CIO Business Intelligence

Using generative AI tools as part of a productivity suite isnt just about doing things better and faster. With the right partner, businesses can redefine what is possible, bringing more intelligence and creativity into routine tasks and ultimately enabling them to maximise the benefits by using an AI companion. This is what Wipro aims to deliver with its custom offerings for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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3D-modeling startup Canvas, led by former Moz CEO Sarah Bird, lands $10M

GeekWire

Canvas leadership, from left, back row: Meena Srinivasan, fractional CFO; Sarah Bird, CEO; Zoe Silverman, head of people; Dianne Hallock, chief revenue officer. Front row: Anton Yakubenko, chief product officer; Jed Lyon, head of operations; and Gleb Krivovyaz, head of engineering. (Canvas Photo) Canvas , a startup providing technology for 3D measurements and modeling used in architecture, interior design and construction, today announced $10 million in new funding.

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How Wipro made adopting RISE with SAP at a near-zero migration cost possible

CIO Business Intelligence

The potential of innovation is exciting given how technology solutions are progressively evolving into an everything-as-a-service due to the advent of the cloud. This is seen clearly in enterprise resource planning (ERP). Of all the different ways of adopting ERP tools, the cloud ERP model goes further by shifting from a total cost of ownership (TCO) to a cost innovation aspect.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Oregon legal tech startup raises $22M to fuel AI platform that speeds research, drafting and more

GeekWire

Paxton leadership, from left: Michael Ulin, co-founder and CTO; Jen Paau, COO; and Tanguy Chau, co-founder and CEO. (Paxton Photo) Paxton , a Bend, Ore.-based legal tech startup, raised $22 million to fuel growth of its AI-powered platform, the company announced Wednesday. The Series A funding was led by Unusual Ventures, alongside Kyber Knight, 25Madison, and Wisconsin Valley Ventures.

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Reimagine Enterprise Productivity with Wipro’s Custom Approach for Microsoft 365 Copilot

CIO Business Intelligence

Most people know that using an AI companion at work can be an effective productivity tool, helping boost efficiency and outcomes. But what many may not realise is that when used to its full potential, an AI companion can also boost creativity by providing newer perspectives to existing issues. Microsoft 365 Copilot is developed to unlock this capability.

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Oops! It did it again: The Italian “Garante” asks DeepSeek about its data privacy practices.

Forrester IT

While the world and (the financial markets!) was taken by surprise by the raise of DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1), the Italian privacy regulator Il Garante didnt waste time and sent a formal request to the Chinese company to disclose information about their practices with personal data.

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Download the security information and event management (SIEM) tools buyer’s guide

Network World

From the editors of our sister publication CSO, this enterprise buyers guide helps network security staff understand what SIEM can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Best Guide to Deploy SQL Server Management Studio App Using Microsoft Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Best Guide to Deploy SQL Server Management Studio App Using Microsoft Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Vaishnav K.

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Hardware-focused startup studio Conduit Venture Labs expands reach to support outside companies

GeekWire

Amish Patel, left, and Susan Paley of Conduit Venture Labs. (Conduit Venture Labs Photos) Conduit Venture Labs , a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its reach with Conduit Beacon , a service offered to outside founders, companies, VCs and research entities to help them execute and scale.

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Enable Fast First Sign In Policy under Authentication in Intune Settings Catalog

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enable Fast First Sign In Policy under Authentication in Intune Settings Catalog appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Atari releases Asteroids watches for game's 45th anniversary – they're already sold out

TechSpot

The result of a collaboration between Atari and luxury watch brand Nubeo, the Asteroids watches are available from the latter's website in five different styles, each with a different colored band: nebula blue, plasma pumpkin, supernova red, nova nightfall, and celestial citrine.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for