Wed.Aug 17, 2022

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Jacobs revamps its IT operating model to accelerate business

CIO

In March 2022, Steve Demetriou, chair and CEO of Jacobs, announced a new multiyear strategy that would focus on three accelerators for the $15B professional services business: climate response, consulting and advisory, and data solutions, each supported by significant acquisitions. Madhuri Andrews, who became chief digital and information officer of Jacobs in 2019, knew the strategy would require a new IT operating model, both to enable IT to act as a truly global organization and to leverage th

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What is Dropshipping and How Do I Start?

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With many business ventures, you have to invest a lot of money upfront without any guarantee that your business will succeed. By choosing dropshipping, you don’t have to risk all your money — you can get started with a minuscule budget and by investing only a few hours of your time weekly. First-time entrepreneurs often prefer this business model to others — it’s just easy to get started and doesn’t require paying for a warehouse or showroom.

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3 Surprising Insights from Data Leaders

CIO

By Thomas Been, DataStax. Winning enterprises take data, process it, and use it to deliver in-the-moment experiences to customers. Starbucks, Netflix, The Home Depot, and countless other organizations large and small have built great success based on this understanding. But what does that success look like, and what are the challenges faced by organizations that use real-time data?

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Hybrid Vs. Multi-Cloud: 5 Key Comparisons in Kafka Architectures

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology is becoming more important to modern businesses than ever. Ninety-four percent of enterprises invest in cloud infrastructures, due to the benefits it offers. An estimated 87% of companies using the cloud rely on hybrid cloud environments. However, some companies use other cloud solutions, which need to be discussed as well. These days, most companies’ cloud ecosystem includes infrastructure, compliance, security, and other aspects.

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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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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

CIO

Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. To help make it quick and easy for IT leaders to get a reliable snapshot of the enterprise storage trends, we put together this “trends update” for the second half of 2022. In less than five minutes, you can take hold of useful and relevant information that will help you make more insights-driven decisions over the next six m

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Managing the whole lifecycle for human and machine authentication

CIO

In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . Among other things, I advocated that in this remote/hybrid work era, CISOs must protect their company’s access to data by having a cyber-attack plan ready to implement, understanding the new tools and tactics that cyber thieves use, and being aware of newer AI-based technologies that can lessen cybersecurity risks.?

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How To Defend Your Brand with Market Research

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We live in an exciting time when brands have unprecedented access to consumers anytime of the day or night––and anywhere in the world. Online access has made all businesses global, for better or worse. Brands do not often place enough stock in the “worse” part of that equation until a crisis hits, but market research can change that! So, what are the characteristics of solid market research – and how can it be used to defend your brand specifically?

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The Method That Differentiates Companies Hitting Their Long-Term Goals

CIO

Most businesses have a long-term vision and core strategic goals. But many struggle to make them a reality. The problem often arises because the strategic goals are so overarching and distant, that they aren’t focused on consistently among the day-to-day direction. Deeper cultural issues typically underly the problem. Often, there is no clear link between the people working on important projects and the business outcomes targeted.

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Dojo Spotlight: Dojo Black Belt Mark Snodgrass

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Mark Snodgrass recently became just the second Dojo Black Belt in the Dojo’s history, following in the footsteps of Sweetwater Sound’s Grant Smith. As the director of member data strategy for insurance company NLC Mutual , Mark is in Domo “all day, every day,” he says—mainly so he can help members in their Domo journeys. I caught up with Mark to ask him some questions about his use of Domo, what he likes about the Dojo, and more.

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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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A Primer to Optimizing Your Apache Cassandra Compaction Strategy

Dataversity

When setting up an Apache Cassandra table schema and anticipating how you’ll use the table, it’s a best practice to simultaneously formulate a thoughtful compaction strategy. While a Cassandra table’s compaction strategy can be adjusted after its creation, doing so invites costly cluster performance penalties because Cassandra will need to rewrite all of that table’s data.

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – July – 2022!

Elegant BI

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal. If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials. Knowledgebase Articles. Scheduler Management : Reinitiate Missed Tasks for Dataset Rebuild and Delivery Publishing Tasks. Smarten Application Security: Password patterns and configurations in Smarten.