Get the best from connected RPA in 7 steps

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Connected RPA provides a collaborative platform for humans and automated Digital Workers to deliver business-led, enterprise-wide transformation. Although connected RPA is a business-led technology, it can end up out of control if it’s treated solely as a pure business project. However, it’s not…READ MORE

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Test Heuristics

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Twelve years ago I was complaining about this term, Heuristics. The term itself is incredibly simple in meaning – the kind of thing  you can learn in thirty seconds. People seemed, to me, to be using it to “sound smart”, to create insiders (who knew the term) and outsiders (who did not).

Today I…READ MORE

Matt Heusser4,960 pointsBadges:

Ubuntu 19.10 offers ‘integrated’ AI/ML developer experience

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Autumn (or Fall, depending on your level of Americanization) was a busy period… so busy in fact that the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog saw a number of milestone advancements go whizzing past.

Among those news items we’re catching up on as we approach the Christmas silly season is t…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,070 pointsBadges:

Find the right pull request workflow for your dev projects

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At the heart of all large-scale software development projects are the communications patterns required to keep everyone on the same page. The dawn of Git as a distributed version control system allowed enterprises to rethink the way they communicate about the state and updates of large application c…READ MORE

George Lawton110 pointsBadges:

When does the state of quantum computing become relevant for CIOs?

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Is there a reason normal CIOs should be thinking about the state of quantum computing? It depends on how one defines normal, was Brian Hopkins’ answer. Hopkins is a Forrester Research analyst who focuses on emerging tech.

“It’s very much dependent on the industry you’re in. We think the first bre…READ MORE

Linda Tucci8,275 pointsBadges:

Sophos to developers: who you gonna call? (for cyberthreat APIs)

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Every company is now a software company, this much we already know.

But now, every company wants to be a developer company, well… that’s the emerging message from some of industrys newer and more established players.

Not content with being a ‘next-generation cybersecurity solutions firm�…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,070 pointsBadges:

Turning heads for the HyperX Cloud Orbit gaming headset

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Inspect-a-Gadget has been on the road — it’s been a busy tech conference season and so all the normal home comforts have had to be forgone for a good part of the autumn period.

Upon getting back to base though, the go-to comforts include a portion of non-chlorine washed chicken, a cup of prope…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,070 pointsBadges:

Moving forward, data science needs a holistic approach

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Data science is a relatively new entry into the scientific fold. In general, all of science is concerned with data in the grander scheme of things, but data science has a much broader focus and tends to make much greater use of machine learning and sophisticated algorithms in order to parse data and…READ MORE

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Windows Graphics Card Reset Key Sequence

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Hmmm. I’ve been having a recurrence of some “interesting” problems with Remote Desktop in Windows 10. On a couple of my older Lenovo laptops (the T520 and the X220 Tablet) sleep during an RDP session sometimes leads to a black screen with cursor upon waking. Sounds a bit weird to put things this way…READ MORE

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DCAC Supporting Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (@egpaf) #WorldAIDSDay - Redux

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Tis the season and Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting has a quick way for you to make a difference. All you have to do, is click through to our donation webpage, and that’s it.  For clicking through, DCAC will donate $1 to Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Every dollar accessed…READ MORE

Denny Cherry69,065 pointsBadges:

2020 Customer Support and Experience (CX) Predictions

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UJET’s Anand Janefalkar, Founder and CEO has some very interesting 2020 Customer Support and Experience (CX) Predictions. UJET is provider of the world’s leading cloud contact center platform. Here are those quotes by Anand.

According to Anand, Messaging Will Surpass Voice. He says,

“While vo…READ MORE

Jaideep Khanduja19,565 pointsBadges:

Walking on the water

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There wasn’t much fanfare around Amazon Prime’s midweek maiden voyage into Premier League football coverage. We’d have missed the delectable choice of fixtures altogether had we not opened the app to check on the order status of a used £1.81 hardback of Hugh Cudlipp’s 1976 memoir Walking on…READ MORE

Ryan Priest1,035 pointsBadges:

Are your message threads tight or Slack?

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Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for consumer-grade discussions. 

Slack’s had the capability to show a message and its replies as…READ MORE

Bryan Betts300 pointsBadges:

Taking the cloud to the edge of space

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In this guest post, Chris Roberts, head of datacentre and cloud at Goonhilly Earth Station, wonders if enterprises are ready to tap into the business opportunities the explosion in data generated by Earth observation satellites is on course to bring?

During the summer, satellite images of fires b…READ MORE

Caroline Donnelly7,535 pointsBadges:

Cerner-AbleVets deal aimed at helping federal programs

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EHR vendor Cerner Corp. is bringing an IT consulting firm into the fold to assist with its work with federal clients, particularly with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Cerner is acquiring IT consulting and engineering firm AbleVets, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small busine…READ MORE

Makenzie Holland825 pointsBadges:

Salesforce seeks DevOps street cred with CD Foundation

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Salesforce recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Continuous Delivery Foundation to help grow the CI/CD ecosystem. This move seems to have gone unnoticed by many, but two things stood out to me about it.

I wasn’t aware that Salesforce had its own DevOps tool, Salesforce DX, which enables develope…READ MORE

Darryl Taft880 pointsBadges:

How to decide on the top and best SD-WAN offerings

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If you are currently considering initial investigation into SD-WAN procurement, you’ll know how many moving parts are involved. In this article, I’ll discuss 17 features and benefits together with 10 vendors which IT teams may wish to consider when buying SD-WAN solutions for U.K., U.S. and global b…READ MORE

Robert Sturt395 pointsBadges:

Your election choice: Protectionist Stagflation or Radical (Technology enabled) Change

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Without radical change, particularly to our education and training system to give our current and future workforce the skills of the future, that future is bleak, who-over wins on December 12th.

Thec Conservative spending plans are ambitious. They require much more than the Brexit Dividend from h…READ MORE

Philip Virgo4,245 pointsBadges:

Alibaba’s growing open source stature

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It’s not uncommon for cloud-first companies to participate in open source communities – after all, they have benefited from the very same open-source technologies that power their businesses.

In the Asia-Pacific region, Alibaba, the Chinese internet and e-commerce giant, has been stepping up …READ MORE

Aaron Tan3,790 pointsBadges:

Another Bitcoin storage fraud, this time in China

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The CEO of a Chinese Bitcoin exchange, International Data Access Exchange (IDAX), has vanished with the keys, leaving all its balances inaccessible — to anyone but himself, presumably.

“Following the official announcement ‘Announcement of IDAX withdrawal channel congestion’ on November 24,…READ MORE

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