Mon.Nov 04, 2024

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Flood Risk Assessment Using Digital Elevation and the HAND Models

Analytics Vidhya

In early 2024, Brazil experienced heavy rainfall, particularly in the south and northeast regions, leading to floods that damaged cities, destroyed crops, and caused fatalities. As climate change increases the frequency of extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and floods, contingency planning and risk assessment are becoming increasingly crucial for managing such events.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term once relegated to science fiction, is now driving an unprecedented revolution in business technology. From nimble start-ups to global powerhouses, businesses are hailing AI as the next frontier of digital transformation. Nutanix commissioned U.K. research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy.

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – October – 2024!

Smarten

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal. If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials. Knowledgebase Articles Access Rights, Roles and Permissions : AD Integration in Smarten Data Sources : Database Data Sources : Improving performance for fetching data from the database GeoMap : Importing areas and their Lat / Long Predictive Use cases Assisted predictive modelling : Regression : M

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AI in the C-suite: Using AI to shape business strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Jeff Schumacher, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) software company NAX Group, told the World Economic Forum : “To truly realize the promise of AI, businesses must not only adopt it, but also operationalize it.” Schumacher and others believe AI can help companies make data-driven decisions by automating key parts of the strategic planning process.

Strategy 128
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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Optimizing RAG with Embedding Tuning

KDnuggets

Learn how to improve the performance of RAG systems, and make them more accurate at retrieving context-aware information.

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IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors

CIO Business Intelligence

Having a Plan B is table stakes for any IT team. Rather than wait for a storm to hit, IT professionals map out options and build strategies to ensure business continuity. This may involve embracing redundancies or testing new tools for future operations. Following Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, numerous changes prompted customers and partners to reassess their strategies.

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AI will evolve the role of the CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is a leadership opportunity for CIOs. Why? The technology has the potential to disrupt and benefit your organization, and CIOs are well-positioned to support the board, prepare the organization for it, and lead the business into the age of AI. “Everything starts with the board, who are asking, ‘How can we anticipate the unexpected threats brought on by AI?

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Accelerate Your Data Agility at Foundations 2024: A Sneak Peek of the BI & Reporting Track

KDnuggets

Discover how fast, seamless data connectivity can transform your decision-making processes for a bigger impact

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Camelot Secure’s AI wizard eases path to cybersecurity compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) serves a vital purpose in that it protects the Department of Defense’s data. But certification – which includes standards ensuring that businesses working with the DoD have strong cybersecurity practices – can be daunting. Fulfilling all the detailed requirements across multiple maturity levels is costly and time-consuming, especially for smaller businesses without dedicated cybersecurity teams.

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How to Summarize Texts Using the BART Model with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

To summarize text using Hugging Face's BART model, load the model and tokenizer, input the text, and the model generates a concise summary.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses have long understood that simplifying and centralizing operations can reduce costs, break down silos, and foster collaboration and sustainability. Yet, despite its potential, cloud computing has not fully leveraged these advantages in managing complex cloud environments. Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services.

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No-Code ML and GenAI With Dataiku and Fabric

Dataiku

Dataiku , as a proud Microsoft partner , can now leverage data in OneLake through Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric is a powerful new player in the analytics and AI space. It brings together many existing Microsoft capabilities — Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and others — into a single centralized interface backed by Microsoft OneLake.

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The CIO mandate: navigating an era of remarkable change

CIO Business Intelligence

Steering the ship as a CIO, the question often arises: “What exactly does a CIO do?” The truth is there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. Today’s CIOs must be as dynamic and adaptable as the technologies they champion, navigating through an era of remarkable change within the digital landscape. My experience at Nutanix thus far has been a deep dive into this transformative journey.

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7 Critical Thinking Skills Needed in Data Science

KDnuggets

Hone these analytical and practical thinking skills to become an authentic "data wizard"

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Direct Lake memory: hotness, popularity & column eviction

Paul Turley

I just read that the Miss Universe contestant from Panama was evicted from the Miss Universe pageant. I don't know what she did, but it was apparently bad enough to get kicked out. She was hot and she was popular, but she's been evicted.

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The Critical Role of Data Lineage: Improve Data Quality and Boost Efficiency in Modern Ecosystems

BI-Survey

Discover the strategic importance of data lineage in modern business ecosystems. Learn how data lineage enhances data quality, ensures compliance with GDPR & CCPA, and boosts operational efficiency for Data & Analytics teams. Read our latest blog on implementing data lineage for improved governance and streamlined data management. Erhalten Sie Zugriff auf diesen Inhalt, indem Sie BARC+ in unserem Shop erwerben.

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Fast Close Konzept: was bedeutet das?

Jet Global

In der heutigen unstabilen Konjunkturlage erwarten Unternehmen eine schnelle Reaktionszeit Ihrer Buchhaltungs- und Finanztools, um sofortige Entscheidungen auf der Grundlage von Finanzdaten zu treffen, die beinahe in “Echtzeit” erhoben werden. “Fast-Close”-Projekte gewinnen in den Finanzabteilungen wieder stark an Bedeutung. Was ist Fast-Close?

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BARC Comment on the announced acquisition of “Causal” by Lucanet

BI-Survey

What happened? Lucanet has announced the acquisition of Causal, a UK-based provider of cloud planning software. Causal is Lucanet’s third acquisition in the last two years to add new functionality to its product portfolio, following the addition of Amana (disclosure management and tax) and ementexx (cash management) in 2023. Causal is a five-year-old venture-backed company with around 50 employees, mainly in the UK and US.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Does the Rise of AI-generated Content Affect Model Training?

Analytics Vidhya

Recently, there’s been a surge of tools claiming to detect AI-generated content with impressive accuracy. But can they really do what they promise? Let’s find out! A recent tweet by Christopher Penn exposes a major flaw: an AI detector confidently declared that the US Declaration of Independence was 97% AI-generated. Yes, a document written over 240 […] The post Does the Rise of AI-generated Content Affect Model Training?

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To build business value, leverage your company’s data with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Although we live in an increasingly data-driven world, most companies don’t operate data-driven business models. The virtuous circle of network effects driving the success of enterprises like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon aren’t available to organizations selling traditional products and services. However, the tools to get more from the proprietary data you generate from everyday business processes are becoming widely accessible, and could help your company develop a competitive edge.

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Efficient Symptom Analysis Using a Small Language Model

Analytics Vidhya

This intelligent healthcare system uses a small language model MiniLM-L6-V2 to better understand and analyze medical information, such as symptoms or treatment instructions. The model turns text into “embeddings,” or meaningful numbers, that capture the context of the words. By using these embeddings, the system can compare symptoms effectively and make smart recommendations for conditions […] The post Efficient Symptom Analysis Using a Small Language Model appeared first on Analytics Vidh

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Beyond the hype: Unlocking real enterprise value from genAI

CIO Business Intelligence

When generative AI (genAI) burst onto the scene in November 2022 with the public release of OpenAI ChatGPT, it rapidly became the most hyped technology since the public internet. But what goes up must come down, and, according to Gartner, genAI has recently fallen into the “trough of disillusionment ,” meaning that enterprises are not seeing the value and ROI they expected.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Unlocking Faster Insights: How Cloudera and Cohere can deliver Smarter Document Analysis

Cloudera

Today we are excited to announce the release of a new Cloudera Accelerator for Machine Learning (ML) Projects (AMP) for PDF document analysis, “ Document Analysis with Command R and FAISS ”, leveraging Cohere’s Command R Large Language Model (LLM), the Cohere Toolkit for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications, and Facebook’s AI Similarity Search (FAISS).

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Herramientas vs. soluciones: por qué los CIO necesitan un enfoque de dos niveles para la IA generativa

CIO Business Intelligence

Los CIO que no logran ganar tracción organizacional con la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa podrían querer repensar cómo están introduciendo la tecnología y cómo están perfeccionando sus estrategias de IA para adaptarse. Según una nueva investigación del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), cuando los responsables de TI se plantean la IA generativa, deberían crear estrategias distintas para el despliegue de herramientas de IA que mejoren la productividad y para el despliegue de s

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Accelerate Your Embedded Analytics with Logi Symphony on Google Marketplace

Jet Global

Have you heard the news? Logi Symphony is now available on Google Marketplace, making embedding powerful analytics directly into your Google Workspace-integrated applications easier. This partnership with Google isn’t just another integration—it’s a game-changer for teams who need seamless access to insights without breaking their workflows. By hosting embedded analytics on Google’s cloud, application teams can keep data close to the Google tools they use every day, streamlining everything from

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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Few CIOs would have imagined how radically their infrastructures would change over the last 10 years — and the speed of change is only accelerating. To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. It’s a tall order, because as technologies, business needs, and applications change, so must the environments where they are deployed.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Nutanix CEO sees multi-year opportunity after Broadcom’s VMware acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. New product bundling and pricing, reseller program adjustments, divestments, and unforeseen changes are driving CIOs and IT providers to reassess their strategies and technologies.

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A strong CX ecosystem ignites innovation, accelerating next-gen customer service

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer experience (CX) technologies are reaching new levels of innovation, enabling businesses to create deeper customer connections and new pathways to business growth. This innovation is transforming the modern contact center into dynamic Experience Centers, capable of enhancing customer interactions across text, email, chat, and voice channels – through enhanced automation, analytics, and of course, the ultimate game-changer, AI.

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CIO frente a CEO: claves para una colaboración de éxito

CIO Business Intelligence

Atrás quedan los tiempos en los que el papel de la parte de sistemas informáticos y tecnología en una empresa se limitaba a un par de llamadas de emergencia si no encendía un ordenador. El impulso digital de los últimos años ha promocionado a este departamento, que hoy en día es uno de los principales dentro de cualquier compañía u organización. Ya no se encargan (únicamente) de desfacer entuertos: son parte del núcleo corporativo, ayudan a definir la estrategia y tienen voz propia en el comité

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Celanese centra su transformación digital en las personas

CIO Business Intelligence

Celanese opera más de 50 grandes plantas de fabricación en 27 países y ha realizado varias adquisiciones importantes en los últimos años, como el negocio de movilidad y materiales (M&M) de Dupont, valorado en 11.000 millones de dólares. Al mismo tiempo, la empresa está experimentando una transformación digital masiva. Sameer Purao, que se incorporó a Celanese como CIO y CDO en 2021, está manteniendo al equipo y a la empresa centrados haciendo de la gestión del cambio una competencia básica y

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.