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• BrandPost: Can AI Drive Innovation? It Already Is.

  18-04-2018 21:56
  IBM and IDG ContentWithout a doubt, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is rife with ongoing insights and innovations. But can the cognitive technologies flowing from AI research labs, in turn, help organizations in their own efforts to innovate? The answer is a definitive “yes,” based on the experience of companies taping the AI capabilities provided by IBM Watson.The Watson AI platform encompasses a wide variety of cognitive technologies including machine learning, natural l
  
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• BrandPost: Re-imagining Business Operations with Robotic Process Automation

  18-04-2018 21:47
  IBM and IDG ContentWhen asked by IBM how artificial intelligence (AI) couple help them become more competitive, executives at organizations globally identified three primary areas of impact: delivering more personalized customer experiences, enhancing forecasting and decision-making, and optimizing business processes.Arguably, the last of these three areas is seeing the most rapid and widespread adoption of AI-enhanced solutions. Many organizations have already tapped robotic process automation
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The IT skills gap: are companies missing the boat?

  18-04-2018 20:48
  Businesses have a big problem, and it’s not a new one: to stay competitive, every business is expected to digitally interact with customers elegantly, swiftly, and uniquely. Technology drives the world, and businesses know it.  They’re building and deploying software faster than ever before. Amazon handles a new software deployment every second! U.S. companies are innovating, accelerating, and delivering.  And they’re planning to hire a lot more technology workers to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Establishing enterprise IT best practices for an SMB

  18-04-2018 15:14
  Enterprises worldwide are expected to spend nearly 3.8 trillion dollars this year on IT. A major chunk of this is going to Communication Services and IT Services with a significant chunk also being spent on devices, enterprise software and data center systems.One reason why enterprise IT infrastructure costs so much is because they are designed to comply with all the federal regulations related to data storage and security/transmission. In addition to this, IT downtime can contribute to potenti
  
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• BrandPost: CapEx and OpEx – What’s the Best Option for Technology Investments?

  18-04-2018 15:03
  There’s a lot of debate around whether Capital Expenditures (CapEx) or Operational Expenditures (OpEx) is the better way to go in regard to technology investments. A number of organizations think it’s better to have more CapEx – that is, investments in the actual physical resources behind the technology (for example, servers, network pipes or hardware). On the other hand, some organizations argue in favour of having more OpEx: Paying month-to-month for services makes more sens
  
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• 160-year-old insurance giant transforms into a digital business

  18-04-2018 12:15
  For most of its 160 years, Northwestern Mutual had succeeded by using technology primarily to conduct its back-office functions, streamline its processes and create operational efficiencies — always supporting the work of its corporate office teams and its nationwide network of world-class financial advisors.Several years ago, though, company leaders recognized that the wave of digital transformation that was revolutionizing and disrupting almost every industry was leading to a change in
  
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• New AI tools make BI smarter — and more useful

  18-04-2018 12:00
  Companies looking to make good on the promise of machine learning for data analysis are turning to a somewhat unlikely old friend. Business intelligence systems, largely the domain for analyzing past performance, are being retrofitted with artificial intelligence to bring predictive features to their reporting capabilities.The Symphony Post Acute Network is one such organization. The health care company, which has 5,000 beds in 28 health care facilities in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, wante
  
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• 4 things successful CIOs know about digital transformation

  18-04-2018 12:00
  2017 was a tumultuous year: From Amazon acquiring Whole Foods to Tesla accepting orders for its new fully electric Class 8 truck, it is evident our world is changing quickly. Within IT, a domain where change is something we live with every day, even we are struggling with what is coming at us! To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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