Wed.Nov 29, 2023

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How To Recognize And Avoid Phishing Scams Online?

31 West

You have to be cautious, as disguises of phishing scams are prevalent. Have you ever received an email claiming to be from a prince, offering a share of their fortune? You know better than to fall for that one, but what about emails, texts, and calls that appear to be from trusted individuals like your CEO or colleague? Recent data highlights an alarming increase in phishing scams, making them harder to detect: Barracuda reports that 91% of all cyberattacks begin in your inbox; Verizon finds tha

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6 factors to consider in offshore investment

Redial

Since we started with a blast our offshore operations in Johannesburg, South Africa, this year, we have strengthened our outsourcing efforts and perspectives. Business leaders in different areas, like the financial and banking industry, increasingly turn to offshore investment to optimize their contact services. Outsourcing has become a strategic move, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising service quality.

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Crafting Cybersecure Websites: Essentials For Modern Web Design

31 West

In the digital era, where the internet is a central pillar of our daily lives, the importance of cybersecurity in modern web design has never been more crucial. Websites are not just digital storefronts or platforms for content; they are vital assets that require robust protection. As the first line of defense against an ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, a well-designed website must integrate security at its core.

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Streamlining ERP Selection: A Business Imperative

Perficient Digital Transformation

The Core of Efficiency: Choosing the Right ERP Choosing the right Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is critical for ensuring optimal efficiency and future growth of your business. It is important to choose a system that seamlessly integrates with your unique processes and objectives, acting as the driving force behind your business operations.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Best practices for hybrid cloud banking applications secure and compliant deployment across IBM Cloud and Satellite

IBM Services

Financial Services clients are increasingly looking to modernize their applications. This includes modernization of code development and maintenance (helping with scarce skills and allowing innovation and new technologies required by end users) as well as improvement of deployment and operations, using agile techniques and DevSecOps. As part of their modernization journey, clients want to have flexibility to determine what is the best “fit for purpose” deployment location for their a

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Perficient’s Impressive Oil and Gas Industry Expertise and Capabilities Continue To Be Recognized 

Perficient Digital Transformation

As oil and gas companies face a future of flux and rapid energy transition, remaining competitive requires either full-fledged digital transformation or major components of it. Specifically, automated workflows and connected worker solutions are improving the employee experience and productivity. Further, direct consumers are demanding digital experiences tailored to their expectations.

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CPG GBS Leadership Exchange: Journey to the Future of GBS | CPG GBS Leadership Community Event

Everest Group

CPG GBS Leadership Community EVENT CPG GBS Leadership Exchange: Journey to the Future of GBS November 29, 2023 | 10:00 AM EST | 8:30 PM IST Over the years, GBS organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry have risen as a competitive differentiator for their global enterprises. From supporting a wide array of service segments to housing critical capabilities, the GBS organization’s influence has only become stronger.

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Synthetic data generation: Building trust by ensuring privacy and quality

IBM Services

With the emergence of new advances and applications in machine learning models and artificial intelligence, including generative AI, generative adversarial networks, computer vision and transformers, many businesses are seeking to address their most pressing real-world data challenges using both types of synthetic data: structured and unstructured. Structured synthetic data types are quantitative and includes tabular data, such as numbers or values, while unstructured synthetic data types are qu

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Perficient Mentioned in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™: Cloud ERP Services for Service-Centric Enterprises

Perficient Digital Transformation

Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Its expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities, and Gartner included Perficient in Honorable Mentions in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Services for Service-Centric Enterprises, published November 20, 2023.

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How blockchain enables trust in water trading

IBM Services

Australia pioneered water rights trading in the early 1900s, becoming a world leader in water sharing between valleys. The initiative extended throughout the states of Australia across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). However, findings from the water market’s inquiry of the MDB, completed by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), highlighted a great many challenges of the system.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Headless BI?

Perficient Digital Transformation

Imagine you’re running a business and using analytics to make decisions. You have reports, dashboards, data visualizations – all sorts of content that helps you understand what’s happening in your business. This content goes through a life cycle: it’s created, used, updated, and eventually retired. Managing this cycle effectively is crucial to ensure the information remains accurate and useful.

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Sensors, signals and synergy: Enhancing Downer’s data exploration with IBM

IBM Services

In the realm of urban transportation, precision is pivotal. Downer, a leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand, considers itself a guardian of the elaborate transportation matrix, and it continually seeks to enhance its operational efficiency. With over 200 trains and a multitude of sensors, Downer has accumulated a vast amount of data.

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Enable the Suggest & Spellcheck feature in Solr

Perficient Digital Transformation

Apache Solr provides several functionalities, and recently, I have used the auto-suggest and spell-check functionality in my project. The primary requirement was to integrate functionality that offers suggestions on the search term. For example, a text box enabled the suggester component, which displays the list of suggestions as the user types a query term in the text box, and the user can select from the list to complete the search term.

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How Your Business Can Benefit from Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)

Metasource

The future of business – regardless of your industry – is data. But not just any data… In order to thrive in today’s data-driven world, your information needs to be highly organized and readily usable by a computer system for numerous operations. In other words, your data needs to be structured. Unfortunately, 90% of the world’s data is unstructured, meaning it’s disorganized, doesn’t conform to pre-defined data models, and isn’t easily searchable or usable.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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Unleashing Creativity: A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploring Generative AI with Azure OpenAI Integration

Perficient Digital Transformation

Introduction Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offers a variety of AI tools and services that make artificial intelligence available to a wider range of users. This article provides a step-by-step guide. How to create an Azure OpenAI service. Deploy a model. And use the playground for interactive testing and experimentation. The aim of this guide is to make it easier for users to access and utilize the power of AI, by simplifying the process of creating and deploying models.

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Why do people hate call queues? Answers from psychology

Balbelforce

Call queues are a universally dreaded aspect of calling customer service. No one likes to wait in line, whether it’s at the grocery store or on the phone with customer support. But why do we hate waiting so much? What is it about being in a call queue that makes us feel irritated, frustrated, and downright angry? As it turns out, some scientists have gone out of their way to study the psychology behind our hatred of waiting – and we’ve got some answers for you.

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Azure Key Vault: Understanding and Recovering Deleted Secrets

Perficient Digital Transformation

The inspiration behind authoring this article came from a recent incident where a colleague accidentally deleted important secrets from the Azure Key Vault and asked for my help in recovering them. In the spirit of sharing knowledge and assisting others who may find themselves in similar predicaments, I have decided to document the recovery process in this informative article.

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Total Experience Strategy: Everything in the Contact Center Altogether, All At Once

Blue Ocean

The fact that silos are the enemy of business success is nothing new. That they happen anyway is one of the biggest business challenges a leader must navigate. At Blue Ocean, we have long held the position that the customer experience and the employee experience are inextricably linked. We’ve said it so often it’s become cliché, but we stand by the concept that happy employees make for happy customers, and in outsourcing, happy customers make happy clients.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Perficient Hosts AI Bootcamps in Houston, Dallas, St. Louis, and Detroit with Mark Cuban Foundation

Perficient Digital Transformation

Perficient had the honor of collaborating with the Mark Cuban Foundation for a third year to host impactful Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bootcamps for high school students in Dallas, Houston, Detroit, and St. Louis. Our colleagues have a strong passion for making a difference in their communities, and partnering with the Mark Cuban foundation to advance STEM education has been an incredible experience for all involved.

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How to Outsource Operations to a Remote Team

NoonDalton

Outsourcing operations to remote teams has become more than just a strategic choice—it’s a pivotal component of modern business practices. This shift, accelerated by technological advancements and a changing global economy, has opened doors to a myriad of opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Outsourcing to remote teams is not just a response to the demands of a globalized market, but a proactive step towards operational efficiency, innovation, and growth.

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Key Takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2023

Perficient Digital Transformation

The conference season has been in full swing across all industries over the past few months. I would like to highlight some key takeaways from one of the biggest and most important conferences in the communications, media, and technology (CMT) industry: the Mobile World Congress (MWC). MWC, held in both Las Vegas and Barcelona this year, showcases the “Power Of Mobility” every year.

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RAYA CX Achieves Remarkable Q3 2023 Earnings: Revenue Soars by 61.6% YoY

Raya Contact Center

RAYA CX’s Q3 2023 earnings report has been published and we’re livid about the results! We’ve seen year-on-year growth across all figures, specifically a 61.6% increase in revenue, a 95.4% increase in EBITDA, and a 1,594% increase in net profit. These solid results are a testament to the dedication and hard work of the entire RCX team. In a dynamic and challenging business landscape, our focus on innovation, customer-centricity, and operational excellence has driven remarkable results.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Rapid Response Healthcare Blogging: Blog Fast, Blog Smart, Blog Well

Perficient Digital Transformation

Blogging is a great way to establish your healthcare organization and your providers as thought-leaders in the communities you serve. But as your audience members come to trust your organization, they will look to you as a trusted resource when healthcare issues arise in the news. That’s where rapid response comes in. Rapid response blogging is pretty self-explanatory.

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The Unseen Risk: CX Software Buyers’ Concern Over Technical Debt

Anexa

Your CX software solutions should improve results and provide a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, today, software vendors often sacrifice perfect code to deliver a speedy software solution, leading to “technical debt.” Technical debt slows the progress of SaaS and increases costs related to issues such as buggy software, increased maintenance, extended deadlines, and software patches.

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HARI KRISHNA

Zinnov

Captain Hari Krishna is an award-winning, multidisciplinary talent strategist, with a track record building organizational capabilities and human capital transformation for 20+ years. His expertise in developing structed L&D programs, designing agile teams, and driving people innovation have been leveraged by Fotune500 companies including Bank of America, Allstate, and the Indian Army.

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Azure OpenAI and Its AI Services: A Comprehensive Overview Introduction

Perficient Digital Transformation

Introduction: The world is changing rapidly, and with it, there is an ever-increasing demand for intelligent and automated systems. Machine learning is a powerful tool that can help us create intelligent systems that learn and adapt to changing circumstances. Microsoft Azure OpenAI is a cloud-based platform that provides a wide range of machine learning tools and services.

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Challenges and Solutions in High-Volume, High-Stakes Hiring

Facing a hiring surge that feels like conducting a complex orchestra? Our guide is your roadmap to harmonious high-volume hiring. In it, you’ll learn: Strategies to maintain quality while hiring at scale The real math behind agency vs. in-house recruiting Secrets to a stellar candidate experience during hiring spikes Resource optimization techniques for stretched TA teams Don't let resource constraints or market pressures derail your hiring goals.