The Global Small Business Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

©iStock/ipopba What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: AI is being used for all things wonderful but it comes with a worry. Language translation: what companies should know. Winning formulas for e-commerce growth. Quote of the week: "The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights?

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V-Soft Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2024

The rise and rise of generative AI has led most businesses to look at ways of adopting it. Even software-as-Service (SaaS) providers are racing to integrate generative AI capabilities into their platforms to stay competitive in the marketplace. ServiceNow, being a pioneer in its field, had already implemented generative AI capabilities by integrating Open AI LLMs including ChatGPT.

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IBM Services

JANUARY 8, 2024

The judiciary, like the legal system in general, is considered one of the largest “text processing industries” Language, documents, and texts are the raw material of legal and judicial work. That data plays a crucial role in the judicial system, helping investigators, lawyers and judges fit together the circumstances surrounding a particular case in an effort to see that justice is served.

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NoonDalton

JANUARY 8, 2024

In today’s increasingly specialized business environment, filling certain roles can be a significant challenge for many companies. These “hard-to-fill positions,” characterized by their requirement for specific skills, high qualifications, or niche expertise, often remain vacant for extended periods, causing notable disruptions in productivity and efficiency.

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IBM Services

JANUARY 8, 2024

In modern enterprises, where operations leave a massive digital footprint, business events allow companies to become more adaptable and able to recognize and respond to opportunities or threats as they occur. They can optimize their supply chains, create delightful, personalized experiences for their customers, proactively identify quality issues or intercept customer churn before it occurs.

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SirionLabs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Read this blog to learn why static contract repository management is inadequate and how smart contracting can help get more out of commercial relations.

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Management 52

SirionLabs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understand how enterprise contract management software benefits your bottom line so that you can start investing in your business's future.

Software 52

Software Management 52

IBM Services

JANUARY 8, 2024

Organizations are increasingly investing in digital transformation as a way to maintain or grow a competitive advantage. Organizations implementing successful business transformations are more likely to grow their existing businesses, eliminate silos, create revenue growth and business models and reinvent how they handle their operations. A tried-and-true way to approach digital transformation is to understand the relationship customers have with the product and the brand, where that relationshi

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 8, 2024

Reading Azure EventHub Data into DataFrame using Python in Databricks Azure EventHubs offer a powerful service for processing large amounts of data. In this guide, we’ll explore how to efficiently read data from Azure EventHub and convert it into a DataFrame using Python in Databricks. This walkthrough simplifies the interaction between Azure EventHubs and the ease of working with DataFrames.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 8, 2024

Reading Azure EventHub Data into DataFrame Using Apache Spark – Scala Apache Spark provides a seamless way to ingest and process streaming data from Azure EventHubs into DataFrames. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the setup and configuration steps required to achieve this integration. Prerequisites: Before diving into the code, ensure you have the necessary setup and permissions: Basic knowledge of setting up Event Hubs, Key Vaults, and managing secrets.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 8, 2024

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 8, 2024

In Apache Spark, efficient data management is essential for maximizing performance in distributed computing. Partitioning, repartitioning, and coalescing actively govern how data organizes and distributes across the cluster. Partitioning involves dividing datasets into smaller chunks, enabling parallel processing and optimizing operations. Repartitioning allows for the redistribution of data across partitions, adjusting the balance for more effective processing and load balancing.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 8, 2024

A new generative AI-powered assistant designed to streamline tasks and accelerate decision-making and problem-solving in your business. Amazon Q can be tailored to your company’s needs and allows you to have conversations, generate content, gain insights, and act by connecting to your enterprise systems, data, and code. Amazon Q offers user-based plans, so you can choose the features, pricing, and options that best suit your needs.

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