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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO

Welcome to the golden age of experts. It’s hard to go anywhere in IT these days, physically or virtually, without bumping into someone offering IT advice. The problem, of course, is that many experts — even those affiliated with major organizations — are sometimes wrong. Or, more commonly, they might be right about some things and wrong about others.

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AI Creats Better Software Development Solutions to Google Sheets

Smart Data Collective

A couple of months ago, CNBC published an article citing the major changes that are coming from artificial intelligence. Google is among the many companies that are making it a priority. We have talked about some of the major changes that big data and artificial intelligence have brought to Google. For example, we mentioned that Google Analytics is evolving quickly and shared some tips on how to use it.

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO

Finding the answer to the world’s most pressing issues rests on one crucial capability: high performance computing (HPC). With HPC, complex questions that have puzzled humankind for centuries are being unraveled at record speeds–such as unlocking mysteries of the universe, finding cures for diseases, sequencing DNA, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

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Capgemini: Is this international power house creeping into your house?

FedSavvy

Capgemini was founded in 1967 in Paris, France as a data processing and enterprise management firm. Today, Capgemini is a global consulting firm with over 357,000 employees providing technical solutions in cloud, data, AI, engineering, and platform support to federal and commercial customers. Capgemini’s U.S.-based Government Solutions sector was created in 2002 and it is based in McLean, Virginia.

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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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Minimizing the negative impact of IT through design and circularity

CIO

In a previous blog , I described the three areas of product development and operation that HPE Aruba Networking focuses on when designing our products for IT efficiency and sustainable operations—like how products are made, how they work, and how they are being used. But what about the product lifecycle itself? With sustainability now a growing business imperative, product lifecycle has become a hot topic.

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Enabling a sovereign cloud using a multicloud foundation: Technology executive considerations

CIO

The adoption of multiple clouds by European business and public agencies continues to increase due to the need for competitive differentiation and growth through speed, quality, and the delivery of great customer experiences. To achieve these goals, IT and business executives must manage challenges across data governance, security, and compliance to protect sensitive customer, citizen, and country data using privacy, access, and security controls.

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Owler Weekly Funding Insights June 12-18, 2023

Owler

? COMPANIES YOU SHOULD KNOW + SpotHopper Raised $12M in a Series B Funding Round Spothopper, an AI-powered platform providing sales and marketing solutions to the restaurant industry, raised $12M in funding. The private, Wisconsin-based company’s plans for the funding include advancing improvements to its platform. + Series A Round Results in $25.4M for FIA Tech DC-based cloud platform FIA Tech raised $25.4M in funding.

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How Data is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry

CIO

In the media and entertainment business, success is engaging viewers and creating “stickiness.” That happens when you understand viewer preferences and understand how audiences interact or consume content. It’s key to make informed decisions from what can be massive amounts of data you manage effectively. Nearly every business in this industry collects massive amounts of digital information: gaming, cable, and streaming companies maintain detailed usage information on millions of su

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Reprint: Americans Are Demanding Annuities #AnnuityAwarenessMonth

Wink Intel

I have seen the demand for annuities grow stronger and stronger over the past couple of decades. When I talk about this with colleagues in the annuity industry, they think I am being facetious. What? You haven’t seen the same? Well, let me show you about the demand for annuities from my own perspective. Click HERE to read the original story via Broker World.

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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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Start with digital documents to make your workplace more accessible

CIO

In today’s rapidly evolving work and customer landscape, accessibility is a crucial consideration in ensuring employees and customers can fully participate in the experiences brands provide – and generally part of being a responsible corporate citizen. However, a recent Adobe survey found that only about half of brands are investing in making experiences more accessible for customers (51%) and employees (48%).

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#SplashTrains: EiS Express – Roadmap & what’s changing?

Splash BI

SplashTrains EiS Express – Roadmap & what’s changing? JUN 29 | 11.00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT EiS eXpress reporting tool has been a great asset to many organizations. And rightfully so! After all, it fills the void created by Oracle EBS’s native operational reporting solutions and enables business users to be more efficient & effective.

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iomart: Making the cloud straightforward

CIO

Founded in 1998, iomart began providing cloud services as the new millennium arrived. In the quarter of a century since, the company has grown into one of the U.K.’s most successful and trusted providers of cloud services and solutions. Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in virtually every industry.

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Buyer Intent Data: What It Is, Why It’s Important & How to Use It

Weidert Group

Two inbound marketing growth strategies that continue to gain momentum are account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns and paid ads ( pay-per-click (PPC) ads ). With both executions, you’re maximizing marketing and sales efforts by focusing on the smallest possible target , even individual targets or target accounts. Intent data can be a key to the effectiveness of your efforts.

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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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Simply the best: Celebrating IT innovation at CIO 100 Symposium & Awards August 14-16 in Southern California

CIO

Tina Turner was known as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll for a reason. She inspired generations of performers and fans, made valuable contributions to the music industry, and won more awards than I can mention here. Tina died on May 24, but her legacy as a rock icon and role model for women will endure. If the idea of legacy and being “better than all the rest” interests you, register today to secure your place with the best in IT at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards on August 14-16 at Terranea – L.

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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: The Importance of Data Visualization

Dataversity

Have you ever heard the saying, “A picture is worth 1,000 words”? This statement holds especially true in the field of Data Science. Let’s say you are a data scientist at a top Fortune company, dealing with budget portfolio optimizations worth millions of dollars annually for various clients. It is essential to effectively communicate your […] The post A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: The Importance of Data Visualization appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Getting ahead of cyberattacks with a DevSecOps approach to web application security

CIO

Web applications are foundational to a company’s business and brand identity yet are highly vulnerable to digital attacks and cybercriminals. As such, it’s vital to have a robust and forward-leaning approach to web application security. With an estimated market size of USD $30B by 2030 , the term “application security” takes on numerous forms, but one area of heightened relevance in today’s world is the DevSecOps space.

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REPRINT: ANNUITY ILLUSTRATIONS: LIABILITY YOUR AGENTS DON’T NEED #AnnuityAwarenessMonth

Wink Intel

When it comes to life insurance sales, you cannot close the deal without an illustration. Thanks to the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s (NAIC’s) Life Insurance Illustration Model Regulation, there are very few instances where one need not collect an illustration to get a life policy issued. However, when it comes to the annuity side of the house, illustrations are optional.

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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

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Oracle’s new EU Sovereign Cloud regions to help enterprises meet data regulations

CIO

Oracle on Tuesday said it is opening its EU Sovereign Cloud for enterprises and government bodies to help them meet evolving data residency and privacy regulations — such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — while moving to the cloud. The new EU Sovereign Cloud will comprise two data regions or data centers located in Frankfurt and Madrid, which will be operated by Oracle-owned EU legal entities incorporated in the EU, hiring EU-based personnel only, Oracle said.

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Executive compensation are no small cookies

Wink Intel

I have commenced by executive compensation study of CEO pay at life/annuity insurers. I pulled the CEO pay from a regulator’s office. In this study, I am reviewing the total compensation of 70 different insurance companies that operate in the life/annuity space. The first thing that caught my attention? These CEO’s salaries were not as high as I anticipated.

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The Truth About Custom Indices

Wink Intel

Fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) have surged in popularity because of their potential for growth when markets are strong and ability to ensure principal protection in down markets. Click HERE to read via InvestmentNews’ sponsored content by Athene The post The Truth About Custom Indices appeared first on Wink.

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Economic Climate Has Retirement Savers Eyeing Guaranteed Lifetime Income and Financial Planning Options, Morning Consult Survey Finds

Wink Intel

WASHINGTON – New research shows retirement savers are eyeing guaranteed lifetime income products and financial planning options as key financial supports in the current economic environment. Conducted this month by Morning Consult* for the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), the nationwide survey of more than 1000 retirement savers – pre-retirees 45 to 65 years old — finds 54 percent reporting today’s economy has them considering “a guaranteed lifetime income product that pays out

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Retiree Sues LPL and Ameritas over Annuity ‘Misrepresentation’

Wink Intel

LPL Financial and Ameritas Investment Co. are facing a lawsuit from an investor who claims that his retirement nest egg was broken by an advisor’s misrepresentation of annuity products. The suit’s plaintiff, Peter Parrino, a retired emergency medicine physician in his mid-50s, was counting on an investment account totaling about $1.43 million to fund his retirement, according to the suit’s complaint, filed last week in the U.S.

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Lincoln Financial in settlement talks with ex-agent who sued over FIA returns

Wink Intel

The update sets out a court schedule that ends with a trial date of April 7, 2025. The discovery phase, the initial disclosure included, is delayed until Dec. 18, 2023. Sheryl Moore, CEO of both Moore Market Intelligence and Wink, Inc., does not think those dates will be needed. “Insurance companies have a record of settling disputes, whenever possible,” she said. “No one likes to see their name in lights with a class action lawsuit.

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Push for more insurance and annuities into retirement accounts far from over

Wink Intel

Michelle Richter-Gordon, founder of Annuity Research & Consulting, sits down with InvestmentNews anchor Gregg Greenberg at Nasdaq’s Advisor Appreciation Day to discuss the explosion of insurance products and annuities in retirement accounts. Click HERE to read the view the video via InvestmentNews The post Push for more insurance and annuities into retirement accounts far from over appeared first on Wink.

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TruStage Announces Enhancements to ZoneChoice™ Registered Index-Linked Annuity

Wink Intel

An index from Dimensional provides expanded market exposure and more flexibility to manage risk and returns MADISON, Wis. , June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TruStage , an insurance, investment and technology provider, announces enhancements to its ZoneChoice registered index-linked annuity (RILA). The enhancements include a new index – the Dimensional US Small Cap Value Systematic Index (“Dimensional Index”) – which draws on decades of academic research to pursue higher expected

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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iPipeline® Creates Dedicated Team to Enhance the Customer Experience and Help Customers Achieve Their Business Goals

Wink Intel

EXTON, Pa. , June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — As part of its ongoing commitment to strategically transform the life insurance and financial services industries through its innovative technology solutions, iPipeline ® announces the establishment of a dedicated customer success initiative. Leading this firm-wide initiative to ensure customers realize maximum value from the company’s solutions is Leonid Davelman , iPipeline’s new Vice President of Customer Success.

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A Quarter of Investors Near Retirement are Delaying Plans due to Financial Uncertainty

Wink Intel

COLUMBUS, Ohio , June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — After decades of planning, investors close to retirement age are delaying their retirement plans in light of today’s rising inflation, high interest rates and unstable economic environment, according to Nationwide’s eighth annual Advisor Authority survey , powered by the Nationwide Retirement Institute.

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USAA Survey Shows Concern Around Retirement Plans and Lack of Knowledge about Annuities

Wink Intel

SAN ANTONIO , June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly half (49%) of Generation X and Millennials, ages 35-54, feel they will never be able to afford to retire, according to a new USAA Life Insurance Company survey. Additionally, the survey finds overall, four in ten adults over the age of 18 are concerned about their retirement savings. Life insurance can offer families protection if there is a sudden loss of an income earner or caregiver, while annuities can protect long-term financial goal