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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. For more information on the benefits of the latest version of ITIL, see “ ITIL 4: ITSM gets agile.”.

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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win

CIO Business Intelligence

“Our strategy in taking a hybrid approach has provided the agility we need to do advanced services in the cloud as we go through our digital transformation,” says Gabriel, who joined the company in 2001 and was promoted to executive vice president and CIO of Clean Harbors in 2018. However, nothing is ever that simple,” McCarthy adds.

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You Need a Higher, More Reliable ROI

Andrew White

Demographics and labor costs have both provided an ample reservoir for many years, helping to keep global costs down. There are no cheap labor pools to join the WTO, as China did in 2001. There were other channels with better rates of return and lower risk. The biggest reservoirs are drying up. Cloud migration.

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Four Factors to Consider when Migrating to Microsoft Business Central Online

Jet Global

To accomplish some of the key technical objectives that contribute to lower costs, increased agility, and customer value, there comes a point when vendors must make a clean break with the past. An evolving toolset, shifting data models, and the learning curves associated with change all create some kind of cost for customer organizations.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

In 2001, just as the Lexile system was rolling out state-wide, a professor of education named Stephen Krashen took to the pages of the California School Library Journal to raise an alarm. The report has pages of careful caveats, but in the end it treats these risk-adjusted ratios as a good measure of a surgeon’s performance.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Other estimators, such as those based on matching and subclassification, may benefit from the balancing property, but the discussion of those estimators is postponed to a later post. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). 2001): 5-32. Unfortunately, randomization is not possible in many situations.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science? Guess who benefits most by that? In terms of teaching and learning data science, Project Jupyter is probably the biggest news over the past decade – even though Jupyter’s origins go back to 2001! Provide references.