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• IDG Contributor Network: Overcoming the hype around predictive analytics for better business outcomes

  10-10-2018 21:02
  There’s no question that machine learning and predictive analytics have entered the public consciousness. A few things made this possible. For starters, compute power has gotten much faster and more economical, and data transfer speed and storage costs improved dramatically, all of which have enabled artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to scale up to the highly glorified big data. But, enterprises should be wary of buzzwords and the cure-all promises of artificial intelligence before
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: SAP and Oracle audits – US constitutional principles do not apply

  10-10-2018 17:04
  The US Constitution is the foundational document establishing the laws of the land and the creation of the federal government. One of the key concepts in the US government system is the separation of power between the legislative branch (creates laws), the executive branch (enforces laws), and the judicial branch (applies laws to the facts in cases alleging legal violations). For most US citizens these principles form the basis for how we view the fair an
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: National Health IT week 2018: 3 trends that will drive the future of technology in healthcare

  10-10-2018 16:57
  October 8-12 is National Health IT week (NHIT Week). Healthcare IT has gone through dramatic changes in the past decade. Driven by a need to rein in runaway healthcare cost increases, the federal govt passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its companion HITECH Act that used the Meaningful Use program of financial incentives to promote the implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems. During this time, we have gone from what was largely a paper-based healthcare ecosystem to almost
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The many hands of a robot

  10-10-2018 14:30
  There is a lot of discussion in the industry around AI and the coming robot invasion. I’ve talked a great deal in my blog about some of the different forms of AI including machine learning and chatbots. One of the rapidly growing areas of AI today is robotic process automation. Robotic process automation, or RPA, usually focuses on the highly repetitive tasks that don’t require as much cognitive processing or human judgement, but rather are often “boring” tasks.Some year
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Enterprise connectivity requires community building conversational environments

  10-10-2018 13:00
  As I’ve covered the communications and collaboration space for many years, the one thing that’s been hard to accomplish throughout all the iterations of the technology is the establishment of a true contextual conversational environment with a robust community engine. Now we’ve had products, especially in the social software wave that were marketed for internal communities and external communities, but they lacked the necessary modes of communication, identity and policy proto
  
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• What is SCOR? A model for improving supply chain management

  10-10-2018 12:00
  Supply chain management (SCM) is a critical focus for companies that sell products, services, hardware and software. The supply chain includes everything involved in the flow of goods from a business to its customers, clients or to other businesses. It’s not something that can be set up and left alone — your supply chain needs to be regularly evaluated so it stays efficient and productive for the business.The supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model is designed to help maintai
  
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• Digital first: How companies transform customer relationships

  10-10-2018 12:00
  Need help picking out the right wine? If you’re shopping at a BevMo store in Silicon Valley, just ask the robot. The box-like digital clerk will greet you at the door, escort you to the correct aisle, and let you know what’s on sale.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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