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• IDG Contributor Network: Why retail is the new data industry

  12-02-2018 19:52
  At massive tech conferences like CES, SXSW, Web Summit or even Dreamforce, data is at the core of many innovations and conversations. But it’s time we add another annual event to that list: The National Retail Federation’s Big Show. More and more, the retail industry is driven by data insights and the technologies powering them. So, it came as no surprise to me when visiting NRF in New York last month, data-centric technology innovation was in the air.The NRF’s Retail Big Show
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Do you have a compelling innovation story?

  12-02-2018 19:20
  Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well. In both cases, these technology-based potential innovations are often created by engineers or technologists that are well-versed in the problems they are solving to make the technology work, but not always with the problems that the technology may s
  
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• Oracle pitches autonomous capabilities for its entire cloud platform

  12-02-2018 18:54
  Oracle is raising its bid to attract enterprises moving to the cloud  by extending AI-based automation throughout its PaaS (platform as a service) offerings, claiming that the new automated services will cut costs and reduce management headaches.The company is using AI techniques including machine learning to enable the various services in its Oracle Cloud Platform to do self-maintenance, such as optimizing workloads and installing patches.[ Cut through the hype with our practical guide to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Policy challenges of artificial intelligence

  12-02-2018 17:24
  As Harvard University economist Jason Furman said when he was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, our biggest worry about AI should be that there might not be enough of it.  The United States needs to develop this powerful new technology to its fullest to maintain our economic and technological leadership in the face of increasingly sophisticated competition from China, which has made AI-development a strategic priority.Of course, AI is fraught with ethical challenges.  In t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Unveiling the ERP Pain-O-Meter

  12-02-2018 17:15
  About 25 years ago I ran my own manufacturing business and personally experienced significant ERP pain. The business struggled to get reliable data out of the ERP system to make decisions and we constantly found ourselves working outside of the system as our manufacturing processes evolved.I masked the issues with short-term solutions: customizing existing software, bolting together multiple best-of-breed software solutions, and utilizing spreadsheets as workarounds. However, these options incr
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 things you should never, ever say when giving a presentation

  12-02-2018 15:52
  A presentation does not begin in silence. It’s not drawn upon a blank slate.  A presentation is born into a world of noise. There’s ambient noise in the room. Most slides are visually noisy. The head of every member of the audience is filled with noise: afterthoughts from the last meeting; mental reviews of emails unsent; thinking ahead to what follows this meeting; and small crises on the home front. The task of a presenter is to reduce and cut through this noise. Fi
  
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• Funko’s cloud-first future goes all in on CIO’s Microsoft past

  12-02-2018 12:00
  Don’t expect Sarathy Annamraju to apologize for his Microsoft bias. The Microsoft veteran is betting that the software giant’s cloud portfolio will help ensure a successful digital transformation he is orchestrating as CIO of toy collectible company Funko.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 12 technologies that will disrupt business in 2018

  12-02-2018 12:00
  In 2018, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and computer vision are maturing, going from game-changing ideas to foundational tools for business. This year, we’ll see these and other technologies drive how business gets done and what new products will launch in the near future.To get a sense of what’s ahead for this year, we looked at the technologies experts say are most likely to affect a wide variety of organizations as they undergo
  
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