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• IDG Contributor Network: Do you really want to be a platform?

  14-11-2017 20:04
  Platforms are the newest cool thing— arguably the holy grail of digital strategy, if you read the headlines. Increasingly, many of the biggest businesses are software companies with platform business models. In a platform business, creators and suppliers add content and services to the platform, consumers flock to the platform to use those services and content, and the platforms exist in the middle, with the businesses behind them taking a cut. Many of the platforms seem to grow, as the sa
  
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• 47% off HDMI Female to Female Coupler 2-Pack, Gold Plated High Speed Adapter - Deal Alert

  14-11-2017 19:52
  Here's an adapter that's always good to have on hand. Pop one of them on the end of an HDMI cable and extend your back-of-the-tv HDMI port around front where it's easier to access. Or use them to couple multiple HDMI cables together for extended reach. Supports 3D and 4k signals. The list price of $10.99 has been reduced to just $5.89 for the two-pack. See this deal now on Amazon.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A product management manifesto – what it is and why you need it

  14-11-2017 17:20
  For decades technology organizations have utilized, with varying degrees of success, a wide variety of techniques to “align to the business.” With digitization in every product and service – every customer experience we deliver, we are one enterprise with one goal. There is no front office or back office anymore. We need to get beyond the idea of disparate parts that need to be brought together.Gartner agrees. In fact, in a recent report, “Words Matter: Use the Right Lang
  
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• BrandPost: Get HIP to Simple and Secure Networking

  14-11-2017 15:00
  There is a better approach to security and networking—one where it’s easy to connect, route, and segment any device with a powerful orchestration engine. Not only that, but it essentially cloaks network devices from would-be wrong-doers. It’s the HIP way of doing things. HIP—which stands for Host Identity Protocol—moves beyond the old address-defined networking paradigm of blindly networking everything. Instead, HIP only networks devices with provable host iden
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How neural networks will transform e-commerce

  14-11-2017 14:13
  Consider this. You are shopping for new shirts to match your suite online. You take a quick picture of you wearing that jacket and trousers, upload it to the e-tailer's website and immediately get matching suggestions of shirts and ties in your size.Right now, that may sound like a sci-fi experience. But not much longer in fact. The rapid advances in AI, and more specifically the usage of neural networks can make this kind of CX a reality.What are neural networks?In the human brain, neural netwo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Your first 60 seconds

  14-11-2017 14:03
  Every minute in your presentation has to be earned. In the first 60 seconds you must earn the audience’s permission to continue for the next 60 seconds. That next 60 seconds earns the 60 seconds after that. You have to earn an audience’s permission to continue.A business audience makes up its mind very quickly whether they want to invest their time and attention listening to you. So, unless you are the boss and they HAVE to listen to you, in that first 60 seconds you need to grab the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Regulatory technology: innovating compliance and your business

  14-11-2017 14:00
  Regulatory compliance issues are some of the most labor-intensive and complex that organizations face. Effective management of ongoing regulatory impacts and reducing compliance costs is top-of-mind. Companies want to drive strategic growth while effectively and efficiently meeting regulatory compliance obligations. Regulatory (RegTech) or regulatory compliance automation helps to both innovate front and back-office compliance activities, while driving business operations.Compliance costs contin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How blockchain technology is disrupting the remittance Industry

  14-11-2017 13:41
  Blockchain is undeniably huge. Bitcoin alone is enough to show the technology’s potential, but bitcoin as a currency is just one use case. Thinking of Bitcoin and blockchain as synonymous is like thinking that emails and the internet are the same thing. They’re just not.That’s why so many pundits are predicting huge amounts of disruption for industries across the board, from healthcare and real estate to the beleaguered financial industry, which is already aware of blockchain&r
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Who needs an IT service desk analyst anyway?

  14-11-2017 13:19
  According to Gartner, IT service desks cost as a percent of IT costs rests at an 5.8% average, which the range scaling as high as 15% for some organizations. Unsurprisingly, 87% of those IT service desk costs are with personnel. This seems easy, right? IT organizations looking to reduce or optimize IT costs, should look no further than to reduce and optimize IT service desk personnel. Furthermore, with the promises of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the notion of a log-and-flog, ca
  
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• 10 cloud mistakes that can sink your business

  14-11-2017 12:00
  "The sun always shines above the clouds," optimists enjoy telling us. What they fail to mention is that beneath the clouds there's often high winds, torrential downpours, lightning and the occasional golf-ball-size hail bombardment.The same is true with cloud computing. On the sunny side, the cloud offers a variety of benefits, including the promise of enhanced reliability, flexibility, manageability and scalability. Look below, however, and you'll see the cloud's dark side — a place where
  
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• BrandPost: Data Drives Better Business Outcomes

  14-11-2017 01:05
  CIOs spend less than a third of their time on strategic activities such as driving business innovation or identifying opportunities for competitive differentiation—but they aspire to do much more. Data has never been more important as the fuel used to power these game-changing activities. View this infographic to learn more about data's rising value, and how to capture the opportunity.DownloadData Drives Better Business Outcomes
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