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5 forces shaping the future IT workforce

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Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market. In the first half of this year, 115,000 new IT jobs were added, according to consulting firm Janco Associates. Even with inflation, high energy costs, and the invasion of Ukraine, IT hiring continued at a record-setting pace, but keeping tech talent still poses challenges.

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Algorithmic Trading Communities Show the Benefits of AI

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Artificial intelligence has led to some pivotal changes in the financial sector. Fintech companies are projected to spend over $12 billion on AI this year. A growing number of traders are taking advantage of AI technology to make more informed trading decisions. AI technology has actually changed stock market investing as we know it. There are a number of ways that traders can benefit from AI.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

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With more than 30,000 employees spread across more than 60 affiliate locations and 14 manufacturing sites around the world, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly operates at a truly global scale. Operating at that scale comes with issues, not the least of which is sharing accurate and timely information internally and externally. “From internal training materials to formal, technical communications to regulatory agencies, Lilly is translating information often,” says Timothy F.

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How to Sell in a Recession: 3 Tips Based on Experience

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As interest rates rise by 75 basis points for the first time in almost 30 years, experienced sales reps and newcomers alike are facing the prospect of selling during a recession. Sales is tough enough as it is, and prolonged economic uncertainties make the job even harder. Budgets are reduced or eliminated. Companies evaluate prospective new technologies with greater scrutiny or postpone such investments entirely.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Lack of IT alignment hampers migration to SAP S/4HANA, report says

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Only a minority of companies who are either current SAP customers, or plan to become SAP ERP users, have completed their migration to the company’s S/4HANA system, even though support for its ECC on-premises suite will end in 2030, according to a report from digital transformation services provider LeanIX. Just 12% of current and intended SAP ERP users responding to a LeanIX survey have completed the transition to S/4HANA, SAP’s cloud-based ERP suite that runs on the HANA in-memory database.

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Partnering on Strategies for Data-First Modernization

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As companies lean into data-first modernization to deliver best-in-class experiences and drive innovation, protecting and managing data at scale become core challenges. Given the diversity of data and range of data-inspired use cases, it’s important to align with a robust partner ecosystem. This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location.

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Establishing Connections and Putting an End to Data Silos

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The global pandemic and the move to remote and hybrid workplaces have highlighted the importance of connections in an increasingly disconnected world. While the traditional office setting has become dispersed, business leaders must still connect everyone and everything within their organization. They must connect not only systems, data, and applications to each other, but also to their […].

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How FLO Cut Customer Refund Time from Weeks to Seconds

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It’s the 1960s, and you live in Turkey. You just bought a pair of beautiful shoes — the latest pair from one of the finest shoemakers in Turkey. But for some reason, the shoes are not quite right. Such things happen even with the best products. A problem with one of the heels , you think. So, you return to the Gaziantep workshop, where you’re greeted by owner Ahmet Ziylan.

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Ep. 562 – Intergenerational Views on the Job Market

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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How to get your competitors pricing - THE ULTIMATE GUIDE

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Pricing strategy is a key contributor to product adoption and overall market competitiveness. But basing your pricing strategy on a rumor can be a dangerous game, that is why we have created this ultimate guide to help monitor your competitors' pricing.

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Web Scraping with Pandas: How to Scrape Monkeypox data

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When extracting web data, there are cases when you need to extract tabular information from websites. The usual way to go is to write a web scraper using Python Beautifulsoup, Selenium, Scrapy, or something else. However, there is an easy way to get tabular information out of web pages just using Pandas and in less than a minute & five lines of Python code.

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Northwestern Mutual: Should Student Loan Borrowers Also Get Life Insurance?

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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With student loan debt in the United States currently estimated to total $1.762 trillion , the price of higher education is quickly taking its toll on many households. Borrowers may be wondering if they need to consider their student loans when purchasing life insurance coverage. The answer to this depends on what type of loan the borrower has and who signed for it.

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How Aster DM Healthcare used federated learning to better secure AI analysis of sensitive data

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For the healthcare sector, siloed data comes across as a major bottleneck in the way of innovative use cases such as drug discovery, clinical trials, and predictive healthcare. An Aster DM Healthcare, an Indian healthcare institution, has now found a solution to this problem that could lead to several cutting-edge solutions. A single patient generates nearly 80MB of data annually through imaging and electronic medical records.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Conducting Market Research: Template and How-To Guide

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Understanding a market means having specific insight around a customer base, trends, and competitors. And this is all essential intel to capture, as a strategy that’s not rooted in this knowledge is riddled with assumptions and destined to fail. Let’s see that you don’t, with a template to guide your efforts! Even today, some decision makers rely on their own experience, intuition, and opinions to make critical decisions.

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Getting a business grip on security frameworks

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Trying to explain secure access service edge (SASE pronounced ‘sassy’) and zero trust can be exasperating when you’re making the case for business leaders to invest in new products and infrastructure. The onus is on IT leaders to focus top executives on the business benefits these technology concepts entail and how they will advance the cause of enterprise security.

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13 ABM Metrics You Should Be Monitoring Right Now

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We’ve all heard the stories (maybe you’ve even told some yourself) of sales and marketing teams working in unison, launching hyper-targeted account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns that resonate with ideal customers — and drive the type of revenue that makes your team legendary. But in order to make the case for ABM, you’ve got to show results.

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BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 1

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One of the most frequent questions I have been asked lately is what do I think about PowerBI and can it really replace BusinessObjects? My stock answer has been along the lines of “PowerBI is a Business Intelligence solution from Microsoft oriented towards I.T. and, no, it cannot properly replace BusinessObjects although many in the BI Analyst community and Microsoft themselves might lead you to believe that it can.”.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr