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• BrandPost: Why HPC Matters: Fraud Detection

  07-02-2018 23:43
  Like the dusty streets of a Wild West town, the payment-processing industry is the setting for a never-ending shootout between good guys and bad guys. In this case, the good guys are armed with high performance computing systems that power machine learning algorithms designed to recognize and stop potentially fraudulent transactions initiated by the bad guys. This capability requires HPC systems that process enormous amounts of data on the fly with millisecond response times.That’s the wa
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Tony Robbins extracts the 3 secrets of digital success from the founders of Skype, Venmo and Airbnb

  07-02-2018 20:50
  More than 2,000 business leaders gathered last month in Palm Beach, Florida for an exclusive and sold-out event led by Tony Robbins, the best-selling author, business strategist and coach. The majority of the program was proprietary content available only to paid attendees, but Robbins did share a roughly two-hour block of the five-day event via a free Facebook Live Stream.  During this part of the program, Robbins interviewed  a series of massively successful entrepreneurs from the t
  
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• IT entrepreneurship at MRE: The tough road from support to sales

  07-02-2018 17:18
  At MRE Consulting Ltd., a Houston-based professional services firm, IT staff had long focused on how to minimize revenue loss. Because MRE’s value proposition is based on its intellectual property, the biggest threat was outages that could derail the work of the company’s consultants.“Prior to my arrival, some members of the team had taken it upon themselves to generate a tool that could help them proactively monitor some of the situations that would cause these outages so tha
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: User experience (UX) frameworks can drive productivity and product quality

  07-02-2018 15:47
  I met Mark Hewitt and Julian Flaks, the CRO and CTO respectively, of EQengineered at a Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting. They were the event speakers that evening.  They were eloquently explaining what UX frameworks are and how they can be used to simultaneously enhance IT software development productivity, enrich user experience, and increase overall user satisfaction.  Being impressed with their knowledge and the topic of UX frameworks, I asked them if I could interv
  
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• Does your IT roadmap include martech?

  07-02-2018 15:33
  With the proliferation of advanced marketing technologies (martech 2.0) and the promise they hold to spur revenue growth by considerably improving customer experiences, IT departments must accept an expanded role and collaborate closely with their marketing teams.The emergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and data science provides marketers with the advanced technologies they need to help the companies they represent reach their revenue goals. There’s only one
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The conveyor belt: the missing piece of your cloud puzzle

  07-02-2018 13:00
  Ask any office worker to compare their jobs to their counterparts in manufacturing and many would say that their office work requires a higher degree of discipline and intellectual prowess. But I would counter to say that office workers can learn a lot from their factory-based colleagues  about designing systems that foster execution in a scalable way. Most notably, knowledge workers desperately need a digital conveyor belt that can drive their work, ensuring consistency and predictability
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Fintech and credit cards: where are we heading?

  07-02-2018 13:00
  With more screen-time than any other generation in history, millennials have become almost totally tech dependent. When it comes to finances, digital tools are a top priority for this forward-thinking generation. Gone are the days when everything had to be physically accomplished at a bank branch; millennials now use mobile banking nearly three times as much than other generations, seeing the value in convenience. With more and more tasks being performed on mobile devices year after year, digit
  
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• Removing silos: When non-IT leaders join IT

  07-02-2018 12:15
  The perennial problem facing IT: How do we make our IT organizations more knowledgeable about our business? A close corollary: How do we make the business people we import into the CIO’s organization, more knowledgeable about IT?Brad Clay, CIO of Lexmark, which delivers printing, imaging, and software solutions, has found an answer to both questions. [ Learn from your peers: Check out our State of the CIO 2018 report on the challenges and concerns of CIOs today. | Get weekly ins
  
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• What is quantum computing? A machine learning supercharger businesses can’t ignore

  07-02-2018 12:00
  Once considered a pie-in-the-sky technology, quantum computing is emerging as a way for enterprises to tackle machine learning (ML), optimization, search and challenges that classic computing models can't touch. CIOs must begin exploring the technology now or risk falling behind rivals, according to Gartner.Quantum machines will process in seconds data that takes years for supercomputers to process. That could be game-changing for enterprises that figure out how to use them to solve significant
  
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• The future of work: How to thrive through IT’s latest revolution

  07-02-2018 12:00
  Five years from now, your workplace will be completely unrecognizable compared to today. That’s an easy prediction to make, given how rapidly changing technology, markets and employment dynamics are reshaping organizations. But what will those differences actually look like? And which of today’s new technologies will have the biggest impact on the future?“Technology is going to change the workforce,” says David Burns, senior vice president and CIO of manufacturing and su
  
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