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Geopolitical risks could present new opportunities for CIOs: Gartner

CIO

Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic influence on power relationships in international relations.

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What is the IoT and How is it Changing the World?

Smart Data Collective

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been on the rise in recent years, and it’s becoming more and more common among consumers, businesses, and governments alike. IoT refers to any connected physical device that can send or receive data over the internet, including smartphones, computers, speakers, security cameras, thermostats, door locks, vehicles—the list goes on and on.

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model.

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Enterprise Software Startups: What It Takes To Get VC Funding

IT Business Edge

While financial markets have rallied in recent weeks, there are still many enterprise software companies that are trading at depressed levels. It’s common for there to be losses of 50%+ for the past year. Just a few include Okta, Twilio, and DocuSign. This has also put tremendous pressure on funding for startups. During the second quarter, venture capitalists (VCs) struck 24% fewer deals on a quarter-over-quarter basis, according to PitchBook.

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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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An Edge Vision for the Metaverse

CIO

Having many hundreds of interconnected devices in what we now call edge environments is nothing new. In manufacturing and engineering facilities, PLCs (programmable logic controllers) have been attenuating and monitoring industrial devices since the invention of the microchip. What’s different now is that the concept of what will comprise a network node is changing rapidly, along with the number of interconnected devices.

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Breaking Sales Barriers and Winning: Samantha McKenna

Owler

Samantha McKenna, Founder #samsales Consulting discusses how to build better business relationships and win more sales deals. How did you get into sales? This was not something that I dreamed about as a six-year-old. But I will say, I'm the daughter of entrepreneurs, seeing them both in their respective roles, watching them sell and negotiate and delight clients was always something that was just neat, plus the competitive nature of sales.

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The simplification of building Financial Statements in Excel for Oracle Cloud and EBS

Splash BI

Upcoming Webinar. Sept 15th, 2022 | 11 AM ET. The simplification of building Financial Statements in Excel for Oracle Cloud and EBS. Jump to abstract. Webinar Abstract. ?The time will soon come when having a financial statement in Excel is not enough for analysis. SplashGL is a software that has more to offer than just building financial statements, it is fully automated to burst, schedule, and distribute financial packages to any stakeholders in an enterprise.

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Managing Customer Preferences Using Graph Databases

Dataversity

Managing customer preferences is one of the many aspects of managing customer journeys. Customers interact with organizations across a myriad of digital channels, and being mindful of preferences can increase the trust associated with customers. Read on for how graph databases can help manage these customer preferences. Data privacy and protection policies across geographies make it […].

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De-Risk Your Business by Moving to Colocation Data Centers – A Modern Cloud Experience

CIO

The adoption of hybrid cloud accelerated the development of new business models, experiences, and efficiencies across all industries. Indeed, the public cloud underpinned the first wave of digital transformation in the last decade, providing developers and IT operations with a differentiated cloud experience—as well as the speed and agility to build, learn, and scale new apps and capabilities—while also greatly simplifying IT services.

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How Intelligence Connector Helps Pharma Refine Product Offerings

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Pharma faces an increasingly competitive landscape, an expensive but mission-critical process, and a high level of uncertainty––and there is only one way out: information. Here’s how find and make the most of it! There have been some drastic changes in the pharmaceutical industry over the past two decades. The amount of money pharma organizations spend on R&D has increased and, to show for it, the rate at which new drugs are introduced to the market has gone up.

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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 DeFi is Reshaping the Future of Finance

IT Business Edge

What do you think about when you hear the words “the future of finance?” For most people, images of mobile payments, online banking, and other cutting-edge technologies come to mind. But what about decentralization? If you’re unfamiliar with the term, decentralized finance (DeFi) is a subset of blockchain technology that focuses on financial applications powered by distributed ledgers.

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