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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that ESG considerations started to appear in mainstream investment strategies. In 1995, the U.S

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries. The lengthy process slowed feedback on solution design, as well as delivery times on changes.

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Schrodinger’s Automation in AI and the Automation Bias

Jen Stirrup

In response to a UK Government green paper, the then UK Prime Minister Theresa May noted that ‘some directors seem to have lost sight of their broader legal and ethical responsibilities’ (Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 2017). What can we do to ensure that our businesses are not prey to Automation Bias?

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO Business Intelligence

When a large organization depends on a highly customized ERP system, any change invites a host of potential perils from go-live failures to endless testing cycles. As with any perilous mission, success would depend on a combination of the right strategy and the right team. The Strategy – ESOAR lets Sony roar.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO Business Intelligence

When a large organization depends on a highly customized ERP system, any change invites a host of potential perils from go-live failures to endless testing cycles. As with any perilous mission, success would depend on a combination of the right strategy and the right team. The Strategy – ESOAR lets Sony roar.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly on Data

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

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Q&A with Greg Rahn – The changing Data Warehouse market

Cloudera

Say, circa 2004 when I started at Oracle. So if you had a terabyte or more of data in your Oracle data warehouse, you were a big customer in 2004. And one of the systems that I worked on benchmarking in 2004 was 70 terabytes. And one of the systems that I worked on benchmarking in 2004 was 70 terabytes. But, yeah.