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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As I reflect on the biggest technology innovations during my career―the Internet, smartphones, social media―a new breakthrough deserves a spot on that list. Generative AI has taken the world seemingly by storm, impacting everything from software development, to marketing, to conversations with my kids at the dinner table. At the recent Six Five Summit , I had the pleasure of talking with Pat Moorhead about the impact of Generative AI on enterprise cybersecurity.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Champions (a.k.a. advocates or evangelists) are coworkers who encourage their peers to consume the content you produce. They are essential to the success of your competitive intelligence program.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The stock prices are soaring. Everyone is still amazed by the way the generative AI algorithms can whip off some amazing artwork in any style and then turn on a dime to write long essays with great grammar. Every CIO and CEO has a slide or three in their deck ready to discuss how generative AI is going to transform their business. The technology is still in its infancy but the capabilities are already undeniable.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AI technology has become a huge boon for marketers all over the world. AI has been especially useful in the e-commerce field, which is one of the reasons that e-commerce companies are projected to spend $16.8 billion on machine learning by 2030. One of the reasons more e-commerce companies are using AI is that it helps with personalization. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of using AI to create personalized experiences for e-commerce customers.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Oracle is betting on high demand for data, driven by generative AI -related workloads, to boost revenue in upcoming quarters as enterprises look to adopt generative AI for productivity and efficiency. “Generative AI is changing everything. As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AI is coming into its own as a practical technology for helping companies with a range of initiatives, from improving customer experience to streamlining business processes. And, while the technology’s long-term impact on the workforce remains unclear, some companies, such as France-based Schneider Electric, are putting AI to work to aid employees in advancing their careers.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Demand for generative AI has reached a fever pitch in business — and like a lot of tech trends, the early waves of excitement are starting to collide with bottom-line reality. As leaders across all sectors push to adopt generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s also becoming clear that most generative AI (GenAI) initiatives for business will quickly fall apart without a foundation of accurate, timely, and comprehensive data.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The hype around generative AI since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022 has driven some software vendors to rush to incorporate the technology into their applications. Despite being an early adopter of AI in general, Salesforce has taken a more measured approach to generative AI. Following its announcement of Einstein GPT in March, it has slowly added the generative AI functionality to a few of its applications.

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Kompyte

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a product marketing manager, your role revolves around bringing teams together. In fact, making sure everyone in your organization is on the same page is vital to the success of your positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s Wednesday afternoon. A severe thunderstorm is forecasted to roll through your suburb in the next hour. As it nears, your electricity goes out. Fortunately, your cell phone still works. That’s because the 5G technology powering your phone remains intact, giving you a reassuring sense of security and an open line of communication with weather updates, friends and family during the storm.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For as long as I’ve been handling my own finances, I’ve been hearing that people should “buy term and invest the difference.” I have never really taken stock in the concept. I mean, I am a financial services professional that cut her teeth on whole life, but who would adopt this theory centered around buying only term life insurance? Granted, term is an inexpensive type of life insurance, but it is also a temporary type of coverage (10, 20, 30 years max!).

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Can a company embrace digital innovation and become more sustainable at the same time? In the past, business leaders sometimes accepted the idea that being on the leading edge of technology came at a price to the environment. And those who made “going green” a top goal resigned themselves to thinking that they would need to forgo using some advanced technology.

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Dataversity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Advanced data-intensive applications, the increased use of digitalization, and IoT devices are forcing organizations across various industries to reevaluate how they handle large amounts of data and exponential data growth effectively and efficiently. ZFS is a popular storage system because it is powerful and flexible, making it well-suited to handle large amounts of data while […] The post Scale-Out ZFS: Scalable Storage for Exponential Data Growth and Powerful Data Protection appeared f

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] NIS2 was adopted in early 2023 as a response to increasing digitalization and rising cybersecurity threats stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine War.

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Domo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

SILICON SLOPES, Utah – Today Domo (Nasdaq: DOMO) announced it has been named an Overall Leader in the Business Intelligence (BI) category of the Dresner Advisory Services’ Wisdom of Crowds® Industry Excellence Awards for the seventh consecutive year. The award program recognizes vendors who demonstrate excellence across all categories of measurement: product/technology, sales and service, value and confidence.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

February 7, 2011 It has been nearly thirty years since consumers were first offered the benefits of Universal Life (UL) and with UL came flexibility in premium payments, death benefit options, coverage amounts, and all sorts of other things that they never dreamed of. UL was the beginning of a whole new world of product development in the insurance industry.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Registered index-linked annuities (RILAs), also called indexed-variable annuities and structured annuities, continue to gather significant assets. I originally released a paper for the Alliance for Lifetime Income, as well as series of articles in Advisor Perspectives (see here , here , here and here ), exploring RILAs in April 2021. In one particular article , I noted that buffer RILAs were significantly more efficient than floor RILAs.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In the 1934 comedy classic It’s a Gift, W.C. Fields’ character encounters an aggressive, slick-talking annuities salesman in an indelible scene that helped shape a negative perception of the product. Despite decades of product innovation and the adoption of industry-wide operating principles benefiting consumers, some would have you believe that selling annuities has changed little in the intervening decades.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Annuity riders are add-ons that can be used to enhance and customize the benefits of an annuity contract to better align the contract with your client’s needs. There are a variety of annuity riders available across the insurance industry. However, not all riders are available from every company or for all types of annuity contracts. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Annuity Riders, Explained appeared first on Wink.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Financial advisors and their clients should have a continual focus on portfolio preparation, and not so much on prediction, as we look ahead to 2024 and beyond. Protecting clients’ assets by rethinking 60/40 portfolios and utilizing products that offer risk protection can help weather a variety of potential market outcomes. This is especially important for retirees.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Annuities may be enjoying unprecedented popularity in this time of economic uncertainty and rising interest rates. But that doesn’t necessarily mean every advisor should join the crowd and rush to add them to their clients’ portfolios. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Planning The post Pros and cons of annuities as havens amid recent market turmoil appeared first on Wink.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Experienced, top-tier executive will lead Integrity’s efforts to provide innovative life insurance solutions to agents and consumers as part of its holistic life, health and wealth mission DALLAS , Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced Tess Grace will become President of Integrity’s life insur

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

OMAHA, Neb. , Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Senior Market Sales ® (SMS), one of the industry’s premier insurance marketing organizations (IMOs), has acquired EMG Insurance Brokerage, one of the oldest and most well-respected IMOs in the country. SMS President Jim Summers touted the new partnership as a major win for SMS and parent company Alliant Insurance Services as they build a network of companies that work together to grow, spark industry innovation and impact advisorsR

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

SEATTLE , Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the results of its two 2023 Variable Annuity Industry Experience Studies, which analyze policyholder behavior across 22 companies spanning 15 years. The two studies cover surrender behavior and partial withdrawals, focusing on income utilization for guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) riders.

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Wink Intel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

SUMMIT, N.J. , Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Simplicity Group Holdings, Inc. (“Simplicity”) today announced the acquisition of Hancock Brokerage (“Hancock”). Based in Louisiana and specializing in life insurance and life settlements, Hancock is led by Susan Cimini who becomes a Simplicity Partner following this transaction. “During the process of building a thriving business, Susie has proven herself to be a leader in this industry for more than 30 years

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Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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