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B2B Go-To-Market Budgets Will Continue To Be Tight In 2025: Here’s What Marketing And Sales Operations Leaders Need To Do About It

Forrester IT

Facing tight budgets in 2025, here are the main areas where B2B revenue, marketing, and sales leaders should prioritize their investments.

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3 Ways CIOs Can Drive Amazing Employee Experiences in the Gen AI Era

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIOs often face challenges in prioritizing employee experience in digital transformation. While customer experience and data initiatives may take precedence, neglecting employee experience can affect hiring and morale. Strategies like promoting hybrid work, evaluating AI agents in service functions, and enhancing developer experiences can drive significant improvements and organizational benefits.

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HPE and Supermicro debut liquid cooling products

Network World

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Supermicro have separately announced new liquid cooling products to keep up with the heat generated by large-scale AI deployments. In the case of HPE, it showed off a design that offers direct liquid cooling without an expensive component: the fans. Liquid cooling is done through one of three ways: chillers, or coolants that cool the pipes as the hot liquid travels through it; fans that blow on the pipe but don’t produce cold air, which is lower power but als

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Unified Commerce Is Not A Thing

Forrester IT

Demystify the concept of 'unified commerce' in this Forrester blog by analysts Emily Pfeiffer and Lauren Cevallos.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Current Top Trends in Data Analytics

Information Week

Turning data into actionable insights is getting faster and easier. Here's a look at today's latest approaches and methods.

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ServiceNow Partners With Rimini Street To Offer AI Innovation To On-prem ERP Systems Worldwide

Forrester IT

In a surprising turn of events for ERP customers globally, as part of its Q3 2024 financial results, ServiceNow announced a new expanded partnership with one of the most popular third-party software support providers, Rimini Street.

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Predictions 2025: Global Flexing Of Regulatory Might Threatens Operational Stability In The Public Sector

Forrester IT

Governments, fueled by populism, are now taking regulatory aim at the tech industry, which the public considers a source of disinformation and discord. But curbing the might of the tech giants is a challenge that will require governments to use new regulatory tactics.

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NTT Data to offer Palo Alto-based threat detection, remediation service

Network World

Palo Alto Networks is teaming with NTT Data to allow the global IT services company to offer an enterprise security service with continuous threat monitoring, detection and response capabilities. Specifically, NTT Data’s new managed extended detection response (MXDR) service is based on Palo Alto’s Cortex Extended Security Intelligence and Automation (XSIAM) platform.

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Beyond the Election: The Long Cybersecurity Fight vs Bad Actors

Information Week

How should organizations orient their cybersecurity and defenses for the post-election landscape? What long-term threats, from misinformation to data breaches, will remain?

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Embracing AIOps: Transforming IT Operations In The Digital Age

Forrester IT

AIOps is rapidly gaining traction across enterprises and industries. Learn how AIOps can enhance efficiency, reduce downtime, and drive innovation in this new blog series.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Lessons learned: 4 Zscaler deployments later

Network World

When I joined Capitec in April 2022 as CTO, the first thing I wanted to find out was whether there was a zero trust strategy in place. Capitec is the second largest bank in South Africa, and like financial institutions the world over, it’s a potential target for attackers. To compound our challenges, our country’s infrastructure problems are mounting, with outages scheduled each day to try to take the pressure off the oversubscribed electricity grid and poor connectivity in rural areas.

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The Hidden Costs of AI Implementation: What No One Tells You

Eric D. Brown

Everyone’s talking about implementing AI these days. The headlines are filled with promises of efficiency gains, cost savings, and competitive advantages. While these benefits are real, another side to the story often gets glossed over: the hidden costs of AI implementation. I’ve spent years helping organizations implement machine learning and AI solutions , and I’ve seen firsthand how these hidden costs can blindside even the most prepared companies.

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Is Firefox Password Manager Secure?

Tech Republic Security

Like other password managers, there are risks and drawbacks to consider before trusting Firefox Password Manager with your credentials.

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Patients may suffer from hallucinations of AI medical transcription tools

CIO Business Intelligence

An AI-powered transcription tool widely used in the medical field, has been found to hallucinate text, posing potential risks to patient safety, according to a recent academic study. And that tool is being used in a commercial medical transcription product that, worryingly, deletes the underlying audio from which transcriptions are generated, leaving medical staff no way to verify their accuracy, AP News reported on Saturday.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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Extreme expands policy options for ExtremeCloud Universal ZTNA

Network World

Extreme Networks is bolstering the access control features of its ExtremeCloud Universal Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ) package, targeting customers that want to boost protection across distributed cloud environments. Universal ZTNA is offered as a subscription addon to the vendor’s flagship ExtremeCloud IQ management platform. It ties together network, application and device access security from a single cloud-based dashboard.

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10 reasons IT managers fail to exceed your expectations

CIO Business Intelligence

Building a great team is one of the most critical tasks for any CIO. It’s also one of the most challenging. In fact, research firm Gartner named IT talent strategy as one of five common CIO pain points that will persist through 2025. But to assemble a high-performance team today , CIOs must pay particular attention to their management ranks. Good managers are key not only to recruiting and retaining the bulk of the IT workforce but also to ensuring IT work gets done and is done well.

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Buyer’s guide: High-performance computing (HPC) for AI

Network World

High-performance computing (HPC) requires powerful servers running the fastest processors (typically GPUs, which are specialized graphics processing chips). But HPC also calls for a full stack of complementary technologies including software, high-performance storage, memory and file systems, high-speed networking (typically InfiniBand), and specialized management tools for scheduling and other tasks.

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Directrices en lugar de políticas: el enfoque para abordar la IA generativa de la Universidad de Texas

CIO Business Intelligence

Desde el punto de vista de la integridad académica, la aparición de ChatGPT llevó a muchos a temer que los estudiantes utilizaran la inteligencia artificial (IA) para hacer trampas. También se temía que una dependencia excesiva de las herramientas de IA pudiera socavar el pensamiento crítico y la capacidad de resolución de problemas. En respuesta, algunas instituciones han adoptado un enfoque conservador respecto a la IA, imponiendo límites a su uso y favoreciendo un planteamiento de ‘ver y espe

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Seattle startup Read AI raises $50M to fuel ‘copilot everywhere’ vision for enterprise software

GeekWire

From left: Read AI co-founders Rob Williams, David Shim, and Elliott Waldron. (Read Photo) Read AI is on a roll. The Seattle startup, which sells enterprise productivity software tools fueled by generative AI, is adding 100,000 new accounts each week and has 75% of the Fortune 500 using its products. And it hasn’t spent a single dime on marketing.

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IT Cost Reduction Strategies: 8 Real-World Money Saving Examples

IT Toolbox

"Doing more with less" seems to be a common phrase in meetings and boardrooms. These tips on cost reduction, sourced straight from the Spiceworks Community, can help you save money with minimal impact to your day-to-day work. The post IT Cost Reduction Strategies: 8 Real-World Money Saving Examples appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Is Voting Secure?

Phil Windley

Summary: I'm fairly certain that what I write here won't change the minds that need changing. But I feel like I need to make a statement anyway: your vote is secure. There's a lot of fear mongering about the security of elections. I've wanted to discuss this for a while. I have several things in my background that have given me insight into how elections work.

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SAP ups AI factor in its SuccessFactors HCM suite

CIO Business Intelligence

The launch by SAP of new AI capabilities in its SuccessFactors HCM (human capital management) suite Monday is a case of “better late to the party than never,” according to an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. Scott Bickley, advisory fellow with the firm, said, “Workday launched its Skills Cloud back in 2018, and has been a thought leader in forecasting the enterprise shift from pre-defined roles to skills-based capabilities that allow an organization to dynamically pull from a skills pool

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

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.

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Meet the couple who just cost Google £2.4 billion in antitrust fines

TechSpot

In 2006, a mere eight years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin released Google on the world, a UK couple launched a comparison-shopping website called "Foundem." Adam and Shivaun Raff had high expectations for their business because it offered more than other price-hunting sites.

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Google prepares Jarvis to fight the AI ‘computer use’ war

CIO Business Intelligence

Google is also throwing its hat in the AI-based computer use war along with players such as Anthropic and OpenAI in an effort to gain share of the nascent yet evolving AI-based automation market, driven by Agentic AI. The company is working on building Jarvis, which will allow users to automate tasks such as research and shopping over the Chrome browser with the help of the company’s Gemini 2.0 large language model ( LLM ), according to The Information.

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How to Enable Dark Mode in Azure Portal | Simple Steps to Change the Theme | Startup Views

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 How to Enable Dark Mode in Azure Portal | Simple Steps to Change the Theme | Startup Views appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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OpenAI transcription tool faces scrutiny over fabricated text in medical transcriptions

TechSpot

OpenAI's transcription tool called Whisper has come under fire for a significant flaw: its tendency to generate fabricated text, known as hallucinations. Despite the company's claims of "human level robustness and accuracy," experts interviewed by the Associated Press have identified numerous instances where Whisper invents entire sentences or adds non-existent.

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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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Is your enterprise getting the IT it deserves?

CIO Business Intelligence

I used to tell anybody who would listen: “Organizations get the technology they deserve.” In doing so I was trying to establish a direct causal relationship between actions and outcomes. I wholeheartedly believe that enterprises that fail to put in the hard work associated with identifying, procuring, installing, operating, maintaining, and ultimately retiring systems will predictably fail to deliver full value on their IT investment.

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Re-experience '90s internet with this new 56K dial-up modem

TechSpot

Planex Communications' new PL-US56K2(A) USB modem just hit the market. For around $40 on Amazon, this retro device connects to your PC via USB, allowing you to access analog phone lines for internet connectivity, data transfers, and even fax capabilities.

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Seattle startup Moondream, led by AWS vets, raises $4.5M for vision language model software

GeekWire

Jay Allen. (LinkedIn Photo) Moondream , a new Seattle startup building a large language model for visual-related use cases, raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed round. VentureBeat reported on the funding. The company offers a “vision language model” that can answer questions about images. The model is small by today’s standards, operating with 1.6 billion parameters, which allows the software to run on phones and edge devices. “Our customers are chomping at the bit to build

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Microsoft faces scrutiny over AI spending as Copilot adoption lags

TechSpot

Microsoft has invested around $13 billion in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI since 2019, but we've been hearing reports since April that investors are concerned that reaping the financial rewards is taking longer than expected.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

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.