Tue.Nov 14, 2023

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Creativity Isn’t Just Remixing

O'Reilly on Data

This is not the first time that I’ve written about AI creativity, and I doubt that it will be the last. It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that is very much in the current mind, with events like the strikes by the Writers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild , in which the use of AI to create scripts and to generate images of actors was an issue.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a company’s balance sheet. “There are so many people who bought into cloud without thinking through the real reasons why they were doing this and what they wanted to accomplish,” says David Mitchell Smith, distinguished vice president and

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IBM named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023

IBM Big Data Hub

Forrester Research just released “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023: The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up” by Craig Le Clair with Glenn O’Donnell, Renee Taylor-Huot, Lok Sze Sung, Audrey Lynch, and Kara Hartig and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader. IBM named a Leader In the report, Forrester Research evaluated 15 digital process automation (DPA) providers against 26 criteria in three categories: Current offering,

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How 5G is driving big innovations in healthcare for veterans

CIO Business Intelligence

The nation’s largest healthcare system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) strives to deliver the same high-quality standard of care for the 9 million veterans it serves each year, regardless of health status or location. Fulfilling that goal is tough for an organization with over 1,300 facilities, but the VHA has learned that using the right technology can make a big difference to success.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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An introduction to Wazi as a Service

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s hyper-competitive digital landscape, the rapid development of new digital services is essential for staying ahead of the curve. However, many organizations face significant challenges when it comes to integrating their core systems, including Mainframe applications, with modern technologies. This integration is crucial for modernizing core enterprise applications on hybrid cloud platforms.

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Relationship management: The unsung art of optimizing IT teams

CIO Business Intelligence

Success for an IT leader requires mastering a wide range of skills. One must have technical acumen and business savvy, be a great communicator and problem-solver, and know how to secure funding and capitalize on it. But getting the most out of IT staff and unleashing synergies among IT teams is among the more underappreciated skills an IT leader must have to optimize their organization’s efforts.

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How leadership can empower developers in the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Imposter syndrome—doubting your abilities to the point that you feel like a fraud—is an evergreen topic of conversation among software developers. For many devs, the explosion of GenAI and AI-powered coding tools makes feeling like an imposter more inevitable than ever. Plenty of people who code for a living are scrambling to add AI prompt engineering and other related skills to their repertoires and worrying about their essential job functions being taken over by AI.

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7 Steps to Running a Small Language Model on a Local CPU

KDnuggets

Discover how to run a small language model on your local CPU in just seven easy steps.

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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a permanent fixture for consumers and enterprises as the world becomes more and more interconnected. By 2027, the global number of connected IoT devices is projected to exceed 29 billion, a significant increase from the 16.7 billion devices reported in 2023. While the connected device landscape continues to expand and evolve, so do the opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit IoT vulnerabilities.

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Data Observability vs. Data Quality

TDAN

Data empowers businesses to gain valuable insights into industry trends and fosters profitable decision-making for long-term growth. It enables firms to reduce expenses and acquire and retain customers, thereby gaining a competitive edge in the digital ecosystem. No wonder businesses of all sizes are switching to data-driven culture from conventional practices.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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The future of IT: what we can learn from the mainframe

CIO Business Intelligence

In the continuously evolving landscape of information technology, change is the only constant. Mainframes have now been around for decades and have etched their mark as the systems that laid the foundation for many technological advances. And then came the cloud, a transformative revolution that took the IT world by storm. But cloud isn’t the only “newer” technology out there: Take artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and edge computing.

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Eyes on Data: The Right Foundation for Trusted Data and Analytics

TDAN

Trust. Trust is defined as the assured reliance or belief on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something (Webster’s Dictionary). It’s a term we use often to describe how we feel about the people, the institutions, and the things around us.

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How state and local governments can close the digital divide in education with fast, affordable connectivity

CIO Business Intelligence

Education has long served as the key to unlocking economic progress and social mobility. However, unequal access to digital tools has created a large gap between children who have access to fast, reliable internet connectivity in school and at home and those who don’t. The internet has become an important channel for delivering learning, with many teachers incorporating online applications into classroom instruction.

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Cooking Up Successful DataOps With Dataiku

Dataiku

Discover why Dataiku is the go-to DataOps solution to streamline automation & monitoring of your data and prepare you for machine learning.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How transportation agencies can maximize infrastructure investments with network modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Across roads, highways, rails, and airports, federal, state and local transit authorities are rolling out new digital infrastructure to enhance safety and make transportation more efficient. The deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart cameras, lidar systems and other sensors is designed to increase awareness of traffic and surface conditions, so officials can more quickly identify and fix problems.

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Data Speaks for Itself: Data Love and Data Limerence

TDAN

Now that “data” is finally having its day, data topics are blooming like jonquils in March. Data management, data governance, data literacy, data strategy, data analytics, data engineering, data mesh, data fabric, data literacy, and don’t forget data littering.

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The network is your office intelligence center

CIO Business Intelligence

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and y our network is more than a data conduit—it’s your office intelligence center. As an IT decision maker, it’s up to you to transform your network for the future so it can anticipate worker needs, reduce energy usage, reinforce security, and deliver real-time data for a faster path to innovation. Done right, your network can be the foundation for insight-backed sustainability and office space optimization programs.

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Game-Changing Data Definitions You Cannot Afford to Ignore

TDAN

In today’s data-driven world, the terms “data governance” and “data stewardship” have become buzzwords, often thrown around without a clear understanding of their significance. However, defining these terms is not about adding complexity, it’s about establishing clarity and accountability and providing a sense of practicality and pragmatism.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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From Fiction to Reality: ChatGPT and the Sci-Fi Dream of True AI Conversation

KDnuggets

Have our Sci-Fi dreams become reality?

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Metadata Governance: An Outline for Success (Part One)

TDAN

Organizations are driven by their mission and the underlying strategies to accomplish that mission. Organizations that fail to understand their mission and strategies will at best flounder and at worst fail. The outline in the following article will help an organization manage its metadata about itself (mission, strategies, etc.

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How to accelerate your data monetization strategy with data products and AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Data monetization is a business capability where an organization can create and realize value from data and artificial intelligence (AI) assets. A value exchange system built on data products can drive business growth for your organization and gain competitive advantage. This growth could be internal cost effectiveness, stronger risk compliance, increasing the economic value of a partner ecosystem, or through new revenue streams.

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Synchronized Video Data Collaboration for Multi-Layered Insights

TDAN

In this digital age, large amounts of data are produced and consumed every second. And particularly for experienced bloggers in the data management or IT industry, synchronized video data collaboration represents an untapped wellspring of potential. By harnessing this data revolution, businesses can gain multi-layered insights into consumer behavior and enhance organizational performance.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How Wallapop improved performance of analytics workloads with Amazon Redshift Serverless and data sharing

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data at petabyte scale, using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Today, tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it effortless to run and scale analytics workloads without having to manage any data warehouse infrastructure.

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Data and AI as the Key to Unlocking Financial Inclusion

Cloudera

Of the many things one might take for granted, access to banking and financial services may not immediately come to mind. But as a thought experiment, imagine trying to buy a home or a car without the ability to take out a loan. Try depending on cash payments from your employer, or relying on alternative banking solutions like short-term payday loans, check-cashing services, and prepaid debit cards.

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What is code-to-cloud security intelligence?

CIO Business Intelligence

In the last decade, the technology industry experienced a massive shift toward the cloud where every company no matter the industry developed and deployed cloud-native applications. This pace shows no sign of stopping; we have an app economy – now bolstered by AI-led developments. Data reflects this momentum, with worldwide public cloud spending expected to reach $600 billion by the end of 2023.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: celebrating a decade of real-time data innovation

AWS Big Data

Data is a key strategic asset for every organization, and every company is a data business at its core. However, in many organizations, data is typically spread across a number of different systems such as software as a service (SaaS) applications, operational databases, and data warehouses. Such data silos make it difficult to get unified views of the data in an organization and act in real time to derive the most value.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Expert Insights on Developing Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI Frameworks

KDnuggets

In alignment with President Biden's recent Executive Order emphasizing safe, secure, and trustworthy AI, we share our Trusted AI (TAI) lessons learned two years into the course of our US Federally funded TAI research projects.

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Real-Time Data Drives Reporting Success With Wands for Oracle

Jet Global

In today’s data-driven world, having accurate, timely insights into data is critical. When your operational and financial reporting teams are extracting and transforming Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) data, it can be a complex, cumbersome task and they need a way to handle data that empowers them to overcome reporting obstacles. They need data that meets security and compliance thresholds, not inaccurate data that hampers the organization’s goals.