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8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications

Analytics Vidhya

In today’s AI landscape, the ability to integrate external knowledge into models, beyond the data they were initially trained on, has become a game-changer. This advancement is driven by Retrieval Augmented Generation, in short RAG. RAG allows AI systems to dynamically access and utilize external information. Various tools have emerged to simplify both the integration […] The post 8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. I wrote, “ It may be even more important for the security team to protect and maintain the integrity of proprietary data to generate true, long-term enterprise value.

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How BMW streamlined data access using AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control

AWS Big Data

This post is cowritten with Ruben Simon and Khalid Al Khalili from BMW. BMW’s ambition is to continuously accelerate innovation and improve decision-making across their global operations. To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). The CDH is used to create, discover, and consume data products through a central metadata catalog, while enforcing permission policies and tightly integrating dat

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Oracle targets healthcare firms with new features in Cloud HCM and SCM

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has added new features to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) and Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM) suites, targeting firms in the healthcare sector. One of the new features, named the Oracle Healthcare Talent Network, has been introduced as part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting inside the HCM suite and is designed to help healthcare firms find talent to fill mission-critical roles.

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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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Model Selection and Experimentation Automation with LLMs

KDnuggets

Automate the machine learning modelling important step with LLMs.

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Contact Center AI Gain Traction: Profitable Use Cases

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

With a flood of artificial intelligence-related tools now available for contact center buyers, it can be helpful to take a step back and review where buyers can expect a quick return on investment and maximum improvement in efficiency and productivity. For now, it appears that there are three broad buckets into which contact center-focused AI applications are clustered.

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Data-Driven Tips to Choose the Perfect Gamer Laptop

Smart Data Collective

Data scientists may want to consider using gaming laptops, since they are powerful enough to do major calculations.

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Fine-Tuning GPT-4o

KDnuggets

Learn how to enhance GPT-4o performance for legal text clarification on your old laptop with just a few lines of code.

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Adjusting the Outside and Inside Chart Borders in Excel

Depict Data Studio

Is your chart… Too wide? Too narrow? Bars are too short? Weird white space? Labels not showing? Labels wrapped funny? If so, it’s probably the outside and/or inside border. If you’re not sure what I mean by outside and inside border , stick around! This video is for you.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisor

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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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Improve OpenSearch Service cluster resiliency and performance with dedicated coordinator nodes

AWS Big Data

Today, we are announcing dedicated coordinator nodes for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains deployed on managed clusters. When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service to create OpenSearch domains, the data nodes serve dual roles of coordinating data-related requests like indexing requests, and search requests, and of doing the work of processing the requests – indexing documents and responding to search queries.

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5 reasons why Agile transformation fails

CIO Business Intelligence

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Now, however, organizations are laying off Agile teams en masse, disillusioned by the lack of tangible results.

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Control your AWS Glue Studio development interface with AWS Glue job mode API property

AWS Big Data

In recent years, as the importance of big data has grown, efficient data processing and analysis have become crucial factors in determining a company’s competitiveness. AWS Glue , a serverless data integration service for integrating data across multiple data sources at scale, addresses these data processing needs. Among its features, the AWS Glue Jobs API stands out as a particularly noteworthy tool.

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How innovation workshops help to get smart about gen AI use cases

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for business value across the enterprise, gen AI use cases, specifically, are arguably no different than any other technology-related ones. It all comes down to cost benefit, and having a set of priorities. Advantages of gen AI workshops In conducting hundreds of innovation workshops around the world for the public and private sectors, many of which have been focused on AI/ML, data, and analytics, I’ve found these design-based brainstor

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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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Doing Power BI the Right Way in 2025

Paul Turley

I work with hundreds of consulting clients who go through the same cycles, having the same experiences, facing the same challenges, many making the same mistakes, and many learning some of the same lessons. The purpose of this series is to share those lessons with you. Universal Best Practices If we sum up Power BI best practices at the highest level, it is that all projects of any scale and size should adhere to the same general set of guidelines, categorically.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO Business Intelligence

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. By embracing sustainable architecture practices and aligning technological advancements with sustainability objectives, organizations can harness AI’s transformative potential while safeguarding the planet while meeting regulatory requirements.

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insightsoftware Eases Reporting for Finance Teams Using Workday, Freeing Time for More Strategic Work

Jet Global

New connector puts near real-time Workday ERP data directly into Excel and other familiar tools, further chipping away at finance teams’ reporting burdens RALEIGH, N.C. – October 29, 2024 – insightsoftware , the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, today launched insightsoftware Reporting for Workday. Establishing a live connection with Workday enables finance teams to speed up report production so they can spend more time on strategic analysis.

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El Sistema de Seguridad Nacional robustece su operativa digitalización mediante

CIO Business Intelligence

La multinacional tecnológica GMV ha ganado el concurso convocado por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DSN) para desarrollar y desplegar la primera fase de la Plataforma de Inteligencia de Datos del Sistema de Seguridad Nacional (SSN). El proyecto, cuyo pistoletazo de salida tuvo lugar el pasado 13 de septiembre, supone un hito en la modernización de las infraestructuras críticas de España.

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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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INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs

CIO Business Intelligence

As the year-end approaches, it’s common for enterprises to discover they still have funds that must be utilized. Often, these L&D dollars are “use or lose,” meaning they will be returned to the general fund if not invested. Recognizing this, INE Security is launching an initiative to guide organizations in investing in technical training before the year end.

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La planta de refabricación de maquinaria industrial Reviver se rinde a la digitalización

CIO Business Intelligence

GAM ha seleccionado a Telefónica Tech como socio tecnológico para llevar a cabo el proyecto integral de digitalización en su planta de refabricación de maquinaria industrial Reviver , situada en la localidad de Villacé, en León. Esta alianza contribuirá a generar un impacto positivo en el medio ambiente y ayudará a conseguir el objetivo de Reviver de alargar el ciclo de vida útil de los equipos.

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Diez razones por las que los responsables de TI no superan sus expectativas

CIO Business Intelligence

Formar un gran equipo es una de las tareas más acuciantes para cualquier CIO. También es una de las más difíciles. De hecho, la empresa de investigación Gartner señaló la estrategia de talento informático como uno de los cinco puntos débiles comunes de los CIO que persistirán hasta 2025. Pero para reunir un equipo de alto rendimiento hoy en día , los CIO deben prestar especial atención a sus filas directivas.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

During my career I have developed a few mottos. For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” Thus, to help humans embrace the better, I need to make the better both familiar and comfortable. To recognize technical debt, my smart aleck motto is, “Technical debt is something I did more than five years ago or something that someone else did more than six months ago.

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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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Scaling success: How Avaya empowered Atento’s global growth

CIO Business Intelligence

Atento is one of the world’s leading business process and transformation outsourcing companies and serves over 400 clients across 17 countries. With a workforce of 150,000 employees, Atento’s growth has scaled with impressive speed. However, this rapid expansion presented significant challenges in maintaining consistency and efficiency across its global operations.

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Personal liability: A new trend in cybersecurity compliance?

CIO Business Intelligence

Compliance is becoming personal — personal in the sense that cybersecurity compliance regulations increasingly include provisions that make it possible to hold individuals personally liable for oversights that lead to issues like cybersecurity breaches. This means that the stakes of noncompliance are becoming steeper. Although charges or fines directed at individuals have not yet become a common occurrence, regulators in certain jurisdictions have the power to impose this type of penalty against