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DXC Technology, Brexit Partners Announce Collaboration (Intelligent CIO)

DXC Technology and Brexit Partners has announced a collaboration to help organisations understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with various Brexit sce... More

SAS Charts AI Future, But Doesn’t Forget Analytics Past (Datanami)

What happens when you put a neural network in charge of a rules-based marketing automation solution? Would the AI emerge victorious, or does the human driver still have a thing or ... More

How Hackers Talk Their Way Into Getting Company Secrets (WSJ)

Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victim’s. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive o... More

Amazon to Bring its Cloud Services to Indonesia with $1B Investment (Data Economy)

While Alibaba is already present in the country after a recent data centre opening, AWS is hoping its existing global scale can be quickly ramped up to serve one of the biggest cou... More

IBM Releases Pre-Trained AI Toolkit For 9 Industries (CBR)

IBM is releasing pre-trained AI algorithms for its IBM Watson engine across nine different industries: agriculture, customer services, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing,... More

Artificial Intelligence: The Robots are Now Hiring (WSJ)

Hiring is undergoing a profound revolution. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation -- from robot avatars interviewing job candidates to computers weeding ... More

Planning a Big Project? Story Mapping Provides the Blueprint for Success (DXC Technology Blog)

Big projects can be daunting. You need to start somewhere, and you need a plan, but it’s surprising how many projects launch with people just starting to work without developing ... More

Peering Into the Visual Landscape of Half a Billion News Images with Google’s Cloud Inference API (Forbes)

What new insights could we learn about how we “see” the world around us by using Google’s Cloud Vision API deep learning image recognition platform to catalog half a billion ... More

Featured Jobs: IBM; Comcast Technology Solutions; Diamond

Senior Software Engineer — Chicago — IBM Manager, Data Infrastructure Software — Seattle — Comcast Technology Solutions Chatbot Engineer — Culver City, CA — Diamond ... More

How Forward-Thinking Companies are Addressing the Digital Talent Gap (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

While every business’s digital journey is unique, one aspect will be consistent across the board: Employee talent investment. As digital technologies such as artificial intellige... More

SAP, Alibaba Team Up on Cloud Services (Reuters)

SAP said on Wednesday it was teaming up with Alibaba to offer its flagship products on the Chinese company’s cloud infrastructure. SAP Chief Executive Bill McDermott said the gro... More

Salesforce’s Answer for Jobs: An Online Training Site with 1M Users (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ask Salesforce chief Marc Benioff how his company’s going to create new jobs to replace those eliminated by artificial intelligence and automation, and he starts talking about Tr... More

How Identity and Access Management Helps Meet the Data Protection Requirements of GDPR (Open Text Blog)

Preventing data breaches and the misuse of personal data is at the heart of GDPR, which makes it surprising that the regulation doesn’t specify IAM at any point. Yet, data breach... More

How to Secure a Premier League Football Team (Forbes)

Arsenal is preparing to play Everton in the Premier League this Sunday. Led by manager Unai Emery, the team will currently be researching its opposition and formulating a game plan... More

Cloud Computing, Once Loved for Simplicity, is Now a Complex Beast (Forbes)

When cloud computing emerged a few years ago in its current form, its biggest selling point was that it was supposed to simplify things for enterprises. If a developer needed to te... More

The Future of Intelligent Internal Services (Intelligent CIO)

Mark Flexman, DXC Technology: For those working in enterprise businesses, it can sometimes feel like the digital revolution never happened. From requesting holiday to solving a pes... More

Twitter Moves 300 Petabytes to Google Cloud (Light Reading)

Twitter is using tools running on Google Cloud to find out more about how people use its service, including monitoring abuse and mapping how conversations develop. "We operate at a... More

Report: Almost a Third of Spending Within Key Enterprise IT Markets Will Shift to the Cloud by 2022 (IA)

It appears that it’s a critical period for traditional infrastructure providers, as more enterprises shift to the cloud. According to a new study by Gartner, 28% of spending with... More

Why Data Scientists are Crucial for AI Transformation (Forbes)

Until a few years ago the work of data scientists was isolated and mattered primarily for research and/or R&D purposes. The industry has been extremely thankful for the contributio... More

Featured Jobs: FilmTrack; CAA; Vistex

Application Engineer — Studio City, CA — FilmTrack BTS Analyst/Sports — LA — CAA IT Security Manager — Denver — Vistex Click here to view all available jobs... More

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