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New forms of automation (e.g., robotic process automation) and knowledge of the underlying processes/interactions are key to digital transformation. Process mining helps enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders assess operations and performance, increasing these initiatives’ value. 
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Succeeding is no longer just about who’s able to build the technology, or who’s first to market. It’s about who’s got the best experience.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: in this age where "experiences" seem to matter more than anything else, this article provides a framework to help software developers and their managers with tools to prepare their strategy and deliver.
Scott Fuhriman's curator insight,
September 11, 2019 2:04 PM
Is your Digital Team having more successes than failures?
Lots of great nuggets in this one for producing a successful digital experience. I love the “build the right thing” and “build the thing right” mentality. How often does one or both get done successfully, probably a lot less than we realize.
Another favorite nugget is “data tells you the what but doesn’t tell they why” which is extremely important in today’s data driven world. At the end of the day you have to be in front of and exposed to customers to actually know the why to figure out the how.
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In the connected era, an increasing number of IoT solutions will make our homes, public areas and workplaces, smarter. Building managers will have access to real-time, cloud-based analytics, reporting and services, allowing for informed decision making. With the increasing market demands for cost-saving occupancy comfort solutions, connected technologies are well-positioned to meet the needs of the automated building industry.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: new technologies and protocols are needed to make Inter of Things a reality. Here is a good overview of the LPWAN and LoRaWAN usage in smart building.
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In this article, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of coupled, decoupled, headless, and hybrid CMS architecture.
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WHY IT MATTERS: a simple description of the different architectures of WCMS solutions to help put some structure in this field that is often confusing because everyone wants to be everything for everyone...
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In mature markets like Web Content Management, there is almost always a single proprietary leader and a single Open Source leader. There is Oracle and MongoDB. Splunk and Elastic. VMWare and Docker. Gitlab and Github. That is why I believe that next year it will be Acquia and Adobe at the very top of the WCM Magic Quadrant. Sitecore and Episerver will continue to fight for third place among companies who prefer a Microsoft-centric approach. I was not surprised to see Sitecore move down this year as they work to overcome technical product debt and cloud transition, leading to strange decisions like acquiring a services company.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this analysis is spot on. There are 2 main platforms for large enterprises, Adobe and Acquia. I find the rise of episerver in the Microsoft area, from an ecommerce company into a full web platform very much worth taking notice.
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One of the many challenges with building or refreshing a website is the selection of a Content Management System (CMS). Despite our best efforts the CMS can often be a source of difficulty in a project, but there are alternatives. Read about the approach we took on www.thoughtworks.com to developing functionality to support content management in an incremental fashion. CONCLUSION This article has detailed an incremental approach to developing a content managed web application, in contrast to the adoption of a CMS at the outset. While there are the costs associated with developing functionality which you could get “off the shelf,” these are offset by some of the advantage of this approach – flexibility, simplicity, control, obviating the need to learn a bespoke framework and above all being able to move in small steps from a simple static web site to a managed one.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this is what happens when you ask developers to build a content management solution. Very good insights into the process though.
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Gartner defines web content management (WCM) as the process of creating, managing and delivering content over one or more digital channels through the use of specific management solutions based on a core repository. These solutions may be procured as commercial products, open-source tools, cloud services or hosted services. The functionality of WCM solutions goes beyond simply publishing webpages. It also includes:
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: quadrants are very interesting because they show progress year over year and provide insights into the market leaders and key trends. So take the included solutions and their relative position with a grain of salt, but read the content to understand how complex the world of web content management has become. Choice is difficult, at best.
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We applied the editing-publishing separation When content volume is low and only few trained people are responsible for content creation and maintenance, any added complexity of a two stack CMS isn't worthwhile. Such complexity makes it harder for content creators to learn how to use it and adds significant effort in system maintenance. (Although this may be mitigated by tools that are designed to work in this style.)
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: choosing a web content management solution is a pain in the neck. This approach does away with that altogether and builds its own versions. Very useful to understand the limitations of commercial CMS solutions.
Also read: edit-publish separation by Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EditingPublishingSeparation.html
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Recipes demonstrating cloud-based image and video manipulation and upload using Cloudinary. Sample image and video manipulation URLs and code snippets from multiple frameworks.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: images are essential to making the web and ecommerce powerful. Here is a list of image manipulation code snippets that show just how easy it is to perform changes and adjustments.
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The world"s biggest compilation of resources that can help you learn image and video management for web and mobile apps.
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WHY IT MATTERS: images are essential to making the web and ecommerce powerful. Here is a list of image manipulation reference that show just how easy it is to perform changes and adjustments.
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If you’re new to this, a “marketing stack” is the collection of software that a marketing team uses to ply their trade. The Stackies is a fun awards program at the MarTech conference where we invite marketers to send in a single slide that illustrates their marketing stack in some conceptual way.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: learning from what best in class companies do is always good thing. This award from chiefmartech surfaces the best marketing technology "Stacks" - the list of technologies and solutions that marketing team at Cisco, IBM and others use to do their work - provides insights into the tools that companies leverage to do their work. And with over 6500 solutions in the marketing horizon, finding the "right" set of tools is so difficult that mapping yourself to what others are doing may be a good starting point!
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IoT has paved the way for brands to use connected devices in their physical spaces too. Learn how location-based brands can invest in technology-rich locations that raise the bar for customer experience.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: store of the future will focus on customer experience and technologies such as IOT are key enablers to make the enhanced experience seamless and complete. This research document classifies applications for IOT into 3 categories, track, intuit behaviour and deliver experience. I find this classification and the examples in the document very useful.
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What are the latest trends in digital marketing workplace technology marketplaces? RSG Managing Director & Analyst Jarrod Gingras for a fast-paced tour of key currents affecting your digital investments. Topics include: - significant developments in asset management tools
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: the marketing technology landscape is often confusing and this webinar presents a very good overview of the market and provides key insights to understand the macroscopic trends.
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The future of navigation will be centralized around HD maps. While plenty of companies exist to provide this type of data, all are limited by paywalls and strict Terms-of-Service. It is time for this paradigm to change. Comma.ai is releasing US interstate HD maps from our 5,000,000+ miles of data.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: to make digital transformation a reality we required to blend the digital and the real world. In particular it is essential to have high definition maps of the real world and this paper explains why this is important, and why they have made their model opensource for everyone to see and use.
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October 4, 2018 7:27 AM
With 15 years of experience under our belt, Roadmap sofware in Chennai specializes in ERP provider by offering exclusive ERP Software Solutions in Chennai crucial to the daily functioning of your industry/business.
Obinna Odenigbo's curator insight,
October 23, 2018 2:58 AM
The future of autonomous cars relies on HD maps that accessible to everyone.
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Top 20 new social media tools to try in 2018, including their prices, a quick walkthrough, and a review.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: say what you will, technology is often the driver of change. Always good to keep track of what's out there and what's possible because who knows, one of these may be useful... ;-)
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Deep Learning is at the cutting edge of what machines can do, and developers and business leaders absolutely need to understand what it is and how it works. This unique type of algorithm has far surpassed any previous benchmarks for classification of images, text, and voice.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: good introduction to a technology that will impact all our lives in the very near future.
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microservices.io website offers a comprehensive set of resources for learning about microservices including articles, an O'Reilly training video, and example code
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Patterns are a way to learn from the best and not reinvent the wheel. With the growing popularity of microservices over plain SOA, I found this reference extremely interesting. and useful.
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At LinkedIn, we use machine learning technology widely to optimize our products: for instance, ranking search results, advertisements, and updates in the news feed, or recommending people, jobs, articles, and learning opportunities to members. An important component of this technology stack is a knowledge graph that provides input signals to machine learning models and data insight pipelines to power LinkedIn products. This post gives an overview of how we build this knowledge graph.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT LinkedIn has 450M members, 190M historical job listings, 9M companies, 200+ countries (where 60+ have granular geolocational data), 35K skills in 19 languages, 28K schools, 1.5K fields of study, 600+ degrees, 24K titles in 19 languages, and 500+ certificates, among other entities. Making sense of relations between those entities is a difficult task and this paper explains how LinkedIn does it. Not for the technically faint of heart.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Learning from the best is a must today. Engineering blogs are the way to gather insights from the best companies and individuals, to learn what solutions they found to the most difficult problems around.
I often refer to engineering blogs in my posts, see here some of them: http://fmcs.digital/?s=engineering This replaces an old references from 2015: http://sco.lt/6p5b7p
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For the past five years, our Android project has maintained a similar package structure from when it was first created in 2012. We also want to keep our package structure clean. This rethought is about keeping the workspace that we interact with on a daily basis both tidy and organized. So we set about to rethink the entire package structure of the Buffer Android app. I’m excited to share what our process looked like and all that we learned, and it’d be great to hear your thoughts and questions, too.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A detailed explanation of how buffer has refactored its android mobile app source code to be more efficient and better organized.
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In this post, we want to share more details of our current password storage mechanism and our reasoning behind it. Our password storage scheme relies on three different layers of cryptographic protections, as the figure below illustrates. For ease of elucidation, in the figure and below we omit any mention of binary encoding (base64).
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Very technical summary from dropbox of their password encryption algorithm. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I expect all cloud service providers to treat my information as confidential, starting with my passwords. With the care and attention that dropbox protects its password, you can see how top tier cloud providers - Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook - will most often be more secure than anything you can do, even if you are a fairly large corporation. Trust cloud services as they are probably more secure than whatever your internal IT can provide. It is their bread and butter and their reputation - and ultimately their whole business - relies on it.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
October 11, 2016 10:50 AM
Cloud security is a serious business! This article shows how Dropbox does it.
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With new neural network architectures popping up every now and then, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Knowing all the abbreviations being thrown around (DCIGN, BiLSTM, DCGAN, anyone?) can be a bit overwhelming at first. So I decided to compose a cheat sheet containing many of those architectures. Most of these are neural networks, some are completely different beasts. Though all of these architectures are presented as novel and unique, when I drew the node structures… their underlying relations started to make more sense.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A reference chart of neural network architecture, with detailed explanation of each one. Very useful reference.
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Those who identify the potential of new technologies, trends and technological progress at an early stage have a competitive advantage and build the foundation for innovation. Constantly increasing technological complexity is leading to a growing number of areas that are relevant for our company to keep an eye on.
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A report that highlights key technology trends in the insurance industry.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Always good to know what is hot and what is not in different industries. Take with a grain of salt, as with all predictions...!
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CIO Desk Reference is the world's best source for thought leadership articles, tools, and practical advice for CIOs, and IT Managers. It includes sections on the following topics:
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CIO index provides a series of reference documents, white papers, studies, getting started guides and other document that focus on all IT fields.
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Magento, SAP hybris, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Oracle Commerce (ATG) e-commerce platform comparison including typical project, license, support, infrastructure m…
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This guy is obviously biased towards Magento but it is nice to see different solutions compared as is the case here. In particular, look at slide #9. Thank you Francois Medioni for the reference.
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WHY IT MATTERS: mapping processes is useful to craft a digital transformation that provides a seamless customer experience. Process mining tools help uncover issues by drawing insights from actual data extracted from call center logs, ERP transactions, etc.