September, 2024

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

Knowledge 910
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Crayon Announces Sparks, the First AI-Analysis Tool that Transforms Data Overload into Actionable Enablement

Crayon

Call Clips for Gong Also Unveiled to Deliver Real-Time Competitive Insights from Call Recordings

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What Can You Do With Copilot In DAX Query View?

Chris Webb BI

On my LinkedIn feed this morning I saw an amazing demo from Brian Julius showing how you can use AI to generate code for Python visuals in Power BI, immediately followed by this video from Marco Russo warning us not to believe all the hype about AI. I guess I, like most people, am waiting to see what turns out to be useful in the real world as a result of all of the current investment in AI.

Learning 248
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Data Sharing is Crucial for Smart Data-Driven Brands

Smart Data Collective

Data-driven decision-making is becoming more important, which means that companies need to share data with their partners more easily.

Business 274
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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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The Trouble with AI and Identity

Dataversity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has earned a reputation as a silver bullet solution to a myriad of modern business challenges across industries. From improving diagnostic care to revolutionizing the customer experience, many industries and organizations have experienced the true transformational power of AI. However, that’s not the case for the masses.

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How AI is transforming business today

CIO

Hannah Calhoon, vice president of AI for Indeed, uses artificial intelligence “to make existing tasks faster, easier, higher quality and more effective.” She points to a recent initiative in which the job matching and hiring platform company started using large language models (LLMs) to add a highly customized sentence or two to the emails it sends to job seekers about open positions that match their qualifications.

Business 887
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Seven Essential Sales KPIs that Enterprise Leaders Need to Track

Zoominfo

For every enterprise sales leader who wants to rethink their team’s key performance indicators (KPIs), there’s a seemingly endless supply of best practices to choose from. The problem with best practices, however, is that they’re usually past practices. What may have worked well even a few years ago may not guarantee success today. This means that your enterprise sales KPIs should be continually reviewed and adjusted — the same as companies recalibrating their go-to-market efforts to meet ever-c

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Finding Power BI Semantic Model Refresh Operations In Gateway Logs

Chris Webb BI

The logs for your on-premises data gateway contain a lot of information that is useful for troubleshooting and performance tuning. The contents of the logs are documented here and there a several great solutions out there for reporting on their contents: there’s a Microsoft-provided template and Rui Romano’s more sophisticated monitoring solution here (there’s also another, even better community solution being worked on that will be publicly available soon).

Profiling 255
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Ensuring Cybersecurity When Rolling Out IoT Across Your Business Operations

Smart Data Collective

Discover essential strategies to enhance cybersecurity while implementing IoT solutions in your business operations for safer connectivity.

Business 260
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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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The Data Governance Wake-Up Call From the OpenAI Breach

Dataversity

Shockwaves reverberated throughout the political and tech ecosystems this summer when OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – admitted it had been breached. The breach, which involved an outsider gaining access to internal messaging systems, left many worried that a national adversary could do the same and potentially weaponize generative AI technologies.

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The ChangeOver Podcast: Retool Your Industrial Marketing Strategy

Weidert Group

Industrial marketers and salespeople alike are struggling to reverse drops in website traffic and falling lead engagement and conversion rates. You know your strategies need to change, but with limited time and resources, it’s tough to keep up with the endless stream of new tactics and trends. That’s why we’ve launched The ChangeOver Podcast , specifically for B2B sales and marketing leaders in the industrial sector, like you.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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Generative AI strategy dilemma: Buy, build, or partner?

CIO

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development.

Banking 879
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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

CIO

In continuation of its efforts to help enterprises migrate to the cloud, Oracle said it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer database services on the latter’s infrastructure. This is Oracle’s third partnership with a hyperscaler to offer its database services on the hyperscaler’s infrastructure. In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers , giving customers direct acc

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Deepfakes break through as business threat

CIO

Deepfakes targeting enterprise financial data used to be a hypothetical concern, but that’s no longer the case, as criminal deepfakers now target more than a quarter of all companies, according to a recent survey. About 15% of executives say cybercriminals have targeted their companies’ financial or accounting data using deepfakes at least once in the past year, while another 11% say they’ve seen multiple deepfake scams.

Business 882
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Do boards understand their new role in cybersecurity?

CIO

Julie Ragland was CIO of vehicle manufacturing company Navistar, and has held IT leadership roles at Adient and Johnson Controls. To Ragland, who also sits on several state agency and non-profit boards, one of the greatest responsibilities for today’s boards is in governing cyber security risk. And while board members are generally tuned in to the importance of cyber governance, they don’t always understand the true risks with cyber and their own governing role.

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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

Gaming 895
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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO

At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine. “Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum comp

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

CIO

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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It’s time for CIOs to think about post-quantum cryptography

CIO

With the threat that quantum computers will break current encryption methods “looming on the horizon,” the adoption of post-quantum cryptography is now a critical priority, particularly for those industries that handle sensitive data, a report released Tuesday revealed. The current and future state of quantum are among six trends contained in Info-Tech Research Group’s Tech Trends 2025 report, based on responses from an estimated 1,000 IT decision-makers in the US, Canada, Asia Pacific (APAC), a

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

CIO

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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AI could be taken over by a few multinationals, warns UN

CIO

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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The IT sector is bringing down Europe all on its own

CIO

On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office. I put long-awaited in quotation marks because, although it is described as such, it takes a certain masochistic disposition to look forward to a slap in the face like this.

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IT leaders: check out how 2D barcodes and RFID are reinventing retail

CIO

The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. But major retailers like Walmart, Target, and Dollar General are starting to phase out self-check in some locations because they’ve contributed to higher rates of shoplifting and inventory loss. But is this the beginning of the end for self-checkouts? Some industry experts believe the pull-back is only temporary, and the future for self-checkout is bright — as soon as new technologies begin to be de

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Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event

CIO

As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations. Shifting gears from his standpoint last year, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison took to the stage last week to unveil the company’s strategies and products around multicloud, distributed cloud, AI, application development, and security.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.