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• Tackling artificial intelligence using architecture

  19-12-2018 20:50
  Artificial intelligence (‘AI’) is more and more sneaking up into our daily activities. Anyone using Google, Facebook or a Microsoft product knows this. It’s far from perfect, but it’s improving at a quick pace. Not every enterprise is using AI at the same pace. Has your organization started looking into using AI yet? Do you have any clue on how to tackle and implement AI in your organization? How should your enterprise and business architects examine AI? Where should the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why the Internet of Things needs dynamic data exchanges

  19-12-2018 17:55
  The IoT is based on the collection, manipulation and exchange of data. A key commercial driver for IoT investments is the value of this data in terms of how it can be deployed within business applications. Like any emerging market, liquidity is required to make it worthwhile for buyers and sellers of data to engage with each other. IoT data exchanges have a vital role to play in providing that liquidity.What are data exchanges?
  Just as stock markets allow the buying and selling of company share
  
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• Skills CIOs will hire for in 2019

  19-12-2018 16:59
  The skill gap is growing fast. Seventy-five percent of organizations are going to experience visible, risky business disruptions thanks to skill gaps by 2020, says Gartner. That’s an increase of 20 percent from just two years ago.Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are creating obvious gaps in hard technical skills, but companies are experiencing an even bigger problem with soft skills. CapGemini and LinkedIn recently produced a report on the state of digital talent
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Healing as a service: The next wave of AI innovation for business automation

  19-12-2018 15:15
  "Time is money." Ben Franklin coined the phrase more than two centuries ago, but it's just as true today for modern companies. In a recent survey of large businesses, 98 percent said that a single hour of IT downtime costs them more than $100,000 in lost productivity. For a third of those firms, the losses exceed $1 million. Such losses underscore the need for IT systems that can recover from errors quickly and efficiently, without going offline.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Competition in digital advertising is on the rise

  19-12-2018 15:07
  In September eMarketer reported that Amazon had climbed into third place in the U.S. online ad market. It has a 4.1% market share in contrast to market leader Google at 37.1% and Facebook at 20.8%.  This is not a blip caused by a one-time tax accounting change. The research firm projects that in 2020, Amazon’s share will climb to 7.0%, a growth rate of over 144%, while shares for Facebook and Google are expected to decline.According to PwC, online ads account for around $100 billion
  
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• What is SWOT analysis? A strategic tool for achieving objectives

  19-12-2018 12:00
  SWOT analysis is a planning methodology that helps organizations build a strategic plan to meet goals, improve operations and keep the business relevant. During SWOT analysis, organizations identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (the four factors SWOT stands for) pertaining to organizational growth, products and services, business objectives and market competition. CIO.com
  A two-by-two matrix is used to build a SWOT analysis, with horizontal pairings of internal (strengths an
  
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• 4 KPIs IT should ditch (and what to measure instead)

  19-12-2018 12:00
  Everything about your job has changed. It’s time your metrics did too.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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