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CIOs Want To Run Their IT Department Like Adobe

The Accidental Successful CIO

Adobe has a satisfied workforce, how can CIOs have the same thing? Image Credit: a_bul16. Being the person with the CIO job is hard work. You try and you try and you try to do a good job but it always seems like you are somehow falling further and further behind. There is so much work to do in regards to the importance of information technology that you only dream of being able to do all of the things that you should be doing in order to make your IT department as good as it could be.

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Get Sirius About Customer Engagement Marketing

Forrester IT

In 2003, Fred Reichheld, who was by then a partner at Bain & Company, introduced a way of measuring how well an organization treats its customers. This metric also assessed how well a firm generates relationships worthy of loyalty. Sixteen years later, most business people recognize this metric as the Net Promoter Score™. Mr. Reichheld […].

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Is Your Business Ready for the Internet of Things?

CTOvision

Read why Aviva Leebow Wolmer says that adopting the Internet of Things is must for businesses on Entrepreneur : Ten years ago, it would have been strange to stand alone in a room and tell that someone named “Alexa” to order pizza — but today, most of us take in stride the virtual assistance that […].

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10 Questions before starting a Machine Learning POC

Social, Agile and Transformation

37% of organizations have implemented artificial intelligence in some form according to Gartner. Since AI is a a broad category of algorithms covering cognitive, natural language, pattern recognition and other areas, I suspect the number of organizations experimenting with machine learning or deep learning is a lot smaller. Yet there are daily stories of different organizations benefiting.

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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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Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

Network World

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pusle may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.

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Alexa Just Became HIPAA-Compliant — Prepare For Impactful And Personalized Voice-Driven Healthcare Experiences

Forrester IT

Amazon has announced that Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant. This is a long-awaited announcement and a big move for Amazon as it expands its footprint in the $3.65 trillion US healthcare industry. Voice presents an opportunity for healthcare organizations (HCOs) to gain access to new consumer data and for consumers to have a convenient way to […].

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SCCM OSD Task Sequence Steps by Step Ultimate Guide

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Hello All, My name is Vishal Goyel, and this is my first post on this blog. I worked for several years as a Microsoft support engineer specialized in SCCM Task Sequence and OSD. In this post, you will learn step by step description of the SCCM OSD Task Sequence. Introduction SCCM OSD Task Sequence The […].

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A Good Workflow to Avoid Bad Data

Information Week

Data is important, yet processing data sometimes can make teams feel like they're chasing their own tails to unlock its value.

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Cyber Catalyst Brings Minimal Value To Businesses

Forrester IT

In late March, Marsh announced the launch of a program with a number of leading cyberinsurance firms including Allianz, AXA, Beazley, XL, and Zurich to evaluate cybersecurity products and services. Products that meet a minimum standard of criteria receive the designation of “Cyber Catalyst” for their effectiveness in reducing cyber risk. The intent is for […].

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Yahoo data breach settlement effort reaches $117.5 million

CTOvision

Yahoo has once again attempted to settle a class-action lawsuit involving millions of users following one of the largest data breaches in history with a revised settlement figure of $117.5 million. On Tuesday, the proposed resolution to the lawsuit was made public. The revised figure of $117.5 million has been made in response to criticism made […].

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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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SCCM Step by Step Guide to Update Windows ADK and WinPE Versions

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I think, most of the SCCM admins missed this latest Windows 1809 ADK change. In this post, you will see what are the ADK and WinPE changes concerned for SCCM admins. I also share the best practices to update Windows ADK and WinPE to the latest version on SCCM server. Introduction Starting from Windows ADK […].

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How to quickly deploy, run Linux applications as unikernels

Network World

Building and deploying lightweight apps is becoming an easier and more reliable process with the emergence of unikernels. While limited in functionality, unikernals offer many advantages in terms of speed and security. What are unikernels? A unikernel is a very specialized single-address-space machine image that is similar to the kind of cloud applications that have come to dominate so much of the internet, but they are considerably smaller and are single-purpose.

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Introducing Forrester’s Consumer Energy Index: A Formula For Consumer Innovation Readiness

Forrester IT

CMOs’ ability to impress and influence consumers becomes more difficult with each new technology and experience that enters the market. Despite a myriad of headlines about the awe-inspiring potential of AI or the wave of entrepreneurs dreaming up the next moonshot, consumers contend with more glitter than gold. The reality today is that: Businesses struggle […].

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Insights for your enterprise approach to AI and ML ethics: Advice for the C-Suite

CTOvision

This post is the third in a series of three based on interviews of Courtney Bowman and Anthony Bak of Palantir. The first post laid a foundation which can help any organization seeking to establish an ethics policy and program around AI and ML. The second post picked up from there and dove into the […].

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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 Make Packagers Life Easier – Part 3

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. The application packaging team is a closed technical community. There are not many contributors in application packaging community. In this post, you will learn to get more Smart package studio training to make you as packagers life easier. [Related Post – Learn How to Make Application Packagers Life Easier – Part 1 & How to […].

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Digital Reality is Ready to Roll

Information Week

If years of hype have left you skeptical, all signs now point toward reasons to believe that digital reality is ready for its transformative moment.

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The Forrester Wave: Loyalty Technology Platforms, Q2 2019 Is Now Live

Forrester IT

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of loyalty technology providers — The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Technology Platforms, Q2 2019 — is now live. In our 28-criterion evaluation, we identified the top 13 loyalty technology vendors – Aimia, Annex Cloud, Brierley+Partners, Cheetah Digital, Clutch, Collinson, Comarch, CrowdTwist, Epsilon, ICF Next, Kobie, Merkle/HelloWorld, and SessionM – […].

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Web threats affecting SMBs in 2019

CTOvision

How safe is my business online? This question goes through our minds quite a bit as we click around our emails, scroll various web pages, and consent to cookies that track our data. With a robust internet audience of over 4 billion active users, the web has turned into a playground full of data for cybercriminals. […].

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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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Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

Network World

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pulse may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.

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Customer Experience Hot Spots: Where to Invest or Divest?

Information Week

Gartner's Technology Roadmap Survey reveals tech areas in which service and support leaders are exploring, abandoning and investing in for the future.

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Forthcoming Innovation Insights

Forrester IT

As you have heard from me before, in today’s age of the customer that is driven by digital transformations, to position your company for future market leadership you must prioritize tech-driven innovations that delivery net-new values to your customers. To best achieve this aim you must start with company-wide mission and CX-driven ideation efforts that […].

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Mozilla adds fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining protection to Firefox

CTOvision

Mozilla is adding a new feature to protect you against web annoyances in future releases of Firefox. The new feature is currently available in the beta version of Firefox 67, and the nightly version of Firefox 68. They will be available in the stable release of Firefox in a few weeks. The cryptomining and fingerprinting blocks […].

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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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How to Deliver Workplace Safety Training on Mobile Devices

Kitaboo

Why Is Workplace Safety Training Important? Safety training is an important part of the employee onboarding process. If there’s a mishap at your workplace and an employee gets hurt, s/he could file a lawsuit against you. In such a scenario, if your organization is found to be non-compliant with the safety norms, it will not only affect your company reputation, but will also cost you money.

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6 Digitization Trends Coming From AI and Blockchain

Information Week

By themselves and working together, AI and blockchain are shaping the future of business.

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What’s News In Food Tech? Data Tools Help Separate The Wheat From The Chaff

Forrester IT

Looking for a new data source to deliver differentiating insights? Yeah, you and everyone else. It’s not easy to find that local knowledge or the heads up about something that will drive business. There is more and more information out there. We’re constantly bombarded with news. Headlines scream at us via email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn […].

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As the connectivity of trucking fleets grows, so do cybersecurity risks

CTOvision

Connectivity is changing commercial truck fleet operations. While the development of autonomous heavy vehicles is still in early stages, fleet owners have been increasingly relying on “connected” trucks to improve their uptime, safety, fuel efficiency and tracking, among other things. But every connected technology — from telematics and remote diagnostics to in-cab software and on-board […].

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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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Exploring the Future Ep8: Platform strategy as enabling ecosystems

Trends in the Living Networks

My latest vlog was made at the EU Cloud Stakeholder Summit in Vienna, where I gave a keynote on Platform Strategy. In the vlog I discuss the idea of platforms as trust-enabled ecosystems, which I believe is an important frame for how we think strategically about the power of platforms. See here for more on platform strategy and the framework I released at the summit.

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Boost Your Analytics, Machine Learning with Alternative Data

Information Week

Adding external data sources to your analytics and machine learning initiatives can provide new dimensions of insights. Here are some sources of data you can tap.

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Marketing Cloud Vendors Pick Up Where CDPs Left Off

Forrester IT

The last couple weeks have been an exciting time for the customer data platform (CDP) category. At long last, major marketing technology vendors formally declared their intentions to get serious about managing and activating data for marketing. For the CDP community, the entry of marketing clouds is a big deal, carrying equal parts excitement over […].

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The problem with AI ethics

CTOvision

Many AI critics say big tech companies are formulating AI ethics boards and principles as a strategy for avoiding the possibility of government regulation. Read more on The Verge : Last week, Google announced that it is creating a new external ethics board to guide its “responsible development of AI.” On the face of it, […].

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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.