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French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue

CIO

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. The Autorité de la concurrence said Wednesday that the search giant failed to comply with a June 2022 settlement over the use of news stories in its search results, News and Discover pages.

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Introducing Crayon Answers: AI-Powered Insights and Content Creation at Your Fingertips

Crayon

The sales landscape is fiercely competitive: A staggering two-thirds of open deals are head-to-head with competitors. But traditional competitive enablement is failing. Too many reps are left to do their own legwork, hunting down vital information spread across multiple tools and sources.

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How Much Does Copilot Cost In Microsoft Fabric?

Chris Webb BI

There’s a lot of excitement about Copilot in Power BI and in Fabric as a whole. The number one question I’m asked about Copilot by customers is “How much does it cost?” and indeed there have been two posts on the Fabric blog here and here attempting to answer this question. The point I want to make in this post, though, is that it’s the wrong question to ask.

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Harnessing Advanced Data Analytics for Smarter Saving Strategy

Smart Data Collective

Discover the secrets behind smarter saving strategies using advanced data analytics. Revolutionize your financial plan with data-driven insights!

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

CIO

Payment-processing failures at several high-profile retail brands in the UK over the past week disrupted on-site customer service and stirred speculation about the cause of the outages. The problems at fast food restaurant McDonalds, supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and bakery chain Greggs, highlight retailers’ increasing reliance on third-party payment systems and the technical issues hampering a global shift from cash to digital payments.

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11 Tactics for ABM Success at Every Funnel Stage

Zoominfo

As B2B prospects demand increasingly personalized experiences, incorporating account-based marketing (ABM) throughout the customer acquisition funnel becomes increasingly important. But what does full-funnel integration look like in practice? Here are some practical steps that marketers can take to improve outcomes at each stage of the ABM integration process.

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More Marketing Agencies Utilize AI to Embrace Automation

Smart Data Collective

More marketing agencies are embracing Hubspot and other platforms that use AI technology to offer better solutions to their clients.

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A CIO primer on addressing perceived AI risks

CIO

Ask your average schmo what the biggest risks of artificial intelligence are, and their answers will likely include: (1) AI will make us humans obsolete; (2) Skynet will become real, making us humans extinct; and maybe (3) deepfake authoring tools will be used by bad people to do bad things. Ask your average CEO what the biggest risks of artificial intelligence are and they’ll more likely talk about missed opportunities — of AI-based business capabilities competitors are able to deploy sooner th

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Media Updates: TV Subscription Loss, TikTok Bill Awaiting Senate Action, YouTube CTV Enhancements

Tinuiti

Paid Media Updates Media Updates: TV Subscription Loss, TikTok Bill Awaiting Senate Action, YouTube CTV Enhancements By Tinuiti Innovation & Growth Team Mar 20 2024 Key Highlights:  TV & Audio : Major pay-TV providers lost ~5m subscribers in 2023, an acceleration from their 4.6m net loss in 2022 Paid Social : While the TikTok bill awaits Senate action, advertisers are proceeding with business as usual knowing that a forced sale would not immediately disrupt platform operations Displ

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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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Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric

Paul Turnley

Fabric is here but what does that mean if you are using Power BI? What do you need to know and what, if anything will you need to change if you are a Power BI report designer, developer or BI solution architect? What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? As I write this in March of 2024, I'm at the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington this week learning about what the product teams will be working on over the next year or

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WHOIS Lookup APIs and Domain Monitoring in AI-Driven Cybersecurity

Smart Data Collective

AI is becoming more important in the realm of cybersecurity, which means that AI-driven website monitoring is more important as well.

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SAP user group: S/4HANA usage is growing, but still in the minority

CIO

The German-speaking user group for enterprise software giant SAP says that customers’ willingness to invest in the company’s S/4HANA cloud product is rising, but still lags behind flagship ERP products like ECC 6, and some customers see the need for more discussion on SAP’s prolonged move to the cloud. DSAG, a group representing SAP users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also released data from a survey of its members.

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Four New Apache Cassandra 5.0 Features to Be Excited About

Dataversity

With the recent beta release of Apache Cassandra 5.0, now is a great time for teams to give it a spin and discover 5.0’s most interesting and anticipated new capabilities. As I’ve poked around with the new beta, here are four features introduced with open-source Cassandra 5.0 that developer teams should be excited about: 1. Vector […] The post Four New Apache Cassandra 5.0 Features to Be Excited About appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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Creative Ways to Surf Your Data Using Virtual and Augmented Reality

TDAN BI

Organizations often struggle with finding nuggets of information buried within their data to achieve their business goals. Technology sometimes comes along to offer some interesting solutions that can bridge that gap for teams that practice good data management hygiene.

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AI Can Improve Racial Equality in Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

AI can have a huge impact on the fight for racial equality.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO

We’re at a critical time for digital transformation. Every business in some form or another is looking to adopt and integrate emerging technologies—whether that’s artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud architectures, or advanced data analytics—to help achieve a competitive edge and reach key operational goals. But while there’s plenty of excitement and change underway, security risks and vulnerabilities have continued to follow right alongside that innovation.

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How-To Create HubSpot Custom Objects in the CRM

Weidert Group

If you're a HubSpot user, you’re probably familiar with the CRM platform’s standard objects like Companies, Contacts, Deals, Tickets , and Leads. These objects are essential for managing relationships throughout the buyer journey and customer lifecycle. Your records for these objects are important for automating specific marketing, sales, and service actions in your HubSpot CRM , so that once a record meets a set of criteria you’ve established, it triggers a task like an email send or a workflow

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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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Spring Clean Your ERP Data: Strategies for Reporting Excellence

Splash BI

Upcoming Webinar Spring Clean Your ERP Data: Strategies for Reporting Excellence THU, APR 25, 2024 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm BST Jump to abstract REGISTER NOW Abstract Join Kiran Pasham, Co-founder and Chief Architect, and Graham Spicer, Country Head UK, EMEA & Asia Pac Oracle Alliance Ambassador, in a transformative exploration of ERP data optimization.

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The Role of Quantum Computing in Data Science

Dataversity

Quantum computing is on the cusp of turning the data science world upside down, offering a level of processing power we’ve only dreamed of until now. This new frontier has an incredible potential to reshape the way we approach data analysis, predictive modeling, and solving the kind of complex problems that have always been a tough […] The post The Role of Quantum Computing in Data Science appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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SAP and Nvidia expand partnership to aid customers with gen AI

CIO

SAP and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership today with an eye to deliver the accelerated computing that customers need in order to adopt large language models (LLMs) and generative AI at scale. Under the partnership, SAP is integrating Nvidia’s generative AI foundry service, including the newly announced Nvidia NIM inference microservices, into SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), RISE with SAP, and SAP’s enterprise applications portfolio.

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Mastering Google Search in 2024 (Part 2): SERP Features

GrowbyData

Expanding on our prior analysis of Google SERP Features publications , GrowByData delves deeper into the most prominent organic and paid elements. Google’s latest search engine updates are a game-changer! They show us how search is moving towards a better user experience with more accurate results. In this article, we’ll break down these new Google SERP features and how they might affect how we do search engine marketing (SEM).

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

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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Debunking 5 Popular Expert Network Myths

Alpha Sense BI

Expert networks are a critical tool for market intelligence and are leveraged by professionals to gain firsthand knowledge of specialized industries, companies, and markets. However, decades of costly third-party providers have led to many misconceptions about the efficiency and credibility of expert networks. Fortunately, not all expert networks are created equal as the expert network industry has dramatically evolved since the late 1990s.

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The Drive Toward the Autonomous Enterprise Is a Key Focus for IT Leaders in 2024

Dataversity

According to Gartner, 80% of executives see automation as a vital thread that supports informed business decisions. And they’re right. In today’s business landscape, automation has transcended a mere “nice-to-have” and become a fundamental driver of organizational success. It’s not just transforming tasks but reshaping businesses from the inside out.

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ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On

CIO

Brea, California, February 26th, 2024, Cyberwire The current large surge in cyber threats has left many organizations grappling for security so ThreatHunter.ai is taking decisive action. Recognizing the critical juncture at which the digital world stands, ThreatHunter.ai is now offering their cutting-edge cybersecurity services free of charge to all organizations for 30 days, irrespective of their current cybersecurity measures.

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The End of Agile – Part 1 (A Brief History of Agile)

TDAN BI

In recent years, we have seen substantial pushback on many fronts against Agile as a viable and important project management methodology.

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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