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AI and Automation: The Future of Data Processing and BPO

Offshore India Data Entry

The data processing and business process outsourcing (BPO) landscapes have been fundamentally altered in recent years by emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and automation. These advanced technologies are enabling BPO companies to unlock unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity. For BPO service providers, integrating the latest AI and automation tools and techniques is critical for managing large-scale client projects and scaling operations rapidly.

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The CPG and Retail GBS Market: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges | LinkedIn Live

Everest Group

LINKEDIN LIVE The CPG and Retail GBS Market: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges View the event on LinkedIn, which was delivered live on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. As the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry grapples with multiple challenges – economic slowdown, technology transformation, supply chain disruptions, and talent shortages – global business services (GBS) organizations have emerged as pivotal players in supporting enterprise initiatives.

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3G vs. 4G vs. 5G: what’s been achieved and where it all goes

Vilmate

In the relentless march of technological progress, the evolution of wireless communication has been nothing short of remarkable. The evolution from early mobile telephony through the advent of 5G’s immense capabilities has completely transformed our way of connecting, communicating, and experiencing the world. This journey through different generations of mobile networks represents speed improvements and major changes in industries, global economies, and daily life.

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Healthcare BPO Market: Why Nearshoring is the Top Choice

Auxis

Looking to outsource revenue cycle management? Discover why nearshore outsourcing is the healthcare BPO market’s top choice for judgment-intensive processes.

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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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Contract Management Reporting: A Mission-Critical Capability

SirionLabs

Contract management reporting capabilities are critical to a contract’s lifecycle and managing it well. Learn why and how to implement effective CLM reporting.

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IP Assets Are the Heart of a Tech Company's Competitive Advantage

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/DKosig It goes without saying that intellectual property assets are the heart of a tech company's competitive advantage. So, you have to value them accurately to make informed decisions during global expansion. Before scaling, you need to conduct a thorough IP audit first. By assessing the strength, uniqueness, and market potential of your IP assets, you can determine your value in a global marketplace.

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The history of Kubernetes

IBM Services

When it comes to modern IT infrastructure, the role of Kubernetes —the open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, management and scaling of containerized software applications (apps) and services—can’t be underestimated. According to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) report (link resides outside ibm.com), Kubernetes is the second largest open-source project in the world after Linux and the primary container orchestration tool for 71% of

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The Nonprofit Statement of Financial Position: What You Need to Know

inDinero

A nonprofit statement of financial position is one of several documents nonprofits can use to demonstrate where donors’ money is being spent. It’s essential for nonprofits looking to grow—but they can be complicated. In this guide, we’ll teach you the core components of the nonprofit statement of financial position and how to put one together in a way that’s as painless as possible.

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Really Takes Center Stage

The Global Small Business Blog

©2023 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

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Fail Like a Pro – How to Plan for and Recover from Failure

Perficient Digital Transformation

Success and failure – just like hot and cold, light and darkness, love and hate, or good and evil – these represent the ends of a familiar spectrum. Countless philosophical works have pondered these seemingly opposing concepts. My favorite view for all such opposites is that you cannot understand one without the other. They are more complementary than they are contradictory.

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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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Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghosting Busters

Eclaro

Most of us love a good ghost story. A little scare, the occasional “boo,” things that go bump in the night. But even during the season of jack o’ lanterns and trick-or-treating, nobody likes a ghosting story—especially when it comes to job candidates. The person is there one minute, then all of a sudden they stop communicating, fail to show up for interviews, vanish.

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Leveraging IBM Cloud for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads

IBM Services

Electronic design automation (EDA) is a market segment consisting of software, hardware and services with the goal of assisting in the definition, planning, design, implementation, verification and subsequent manufacturing of semiconductor devices (or chips). The primary providers of this service are semiconductor foundries or fabs. While EDA solutions are not directly involved in the manufacture of chips, they play a critical role in three ways: EDA tools are used to design and validate the sem

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Some Like It Hot and So Does wegg® at Its Next wegginar® 11/1/23

The Global Small Business Blog

©2023 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. All rights reserved. We ? Stacy Moritz, the owner of the Secret Aardvark Trading Company because she has a great sense of humor and knows a ton about exporting. And her products are hot, too (they kick you in the mouth as her company claims)! We can't wait to hear her wegginar presentation on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 11 AM CT on: " Exporting: Is It Just a Way to Get Free Travel ?

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Perficient US Colleagues Participate in Hunger Action Month Campaign

Perficient Digital Transformation

September is Hunger Action Month (HAM) when Feeding America , a Perficient community partner, organizes a campaign to spread awareness about food insecurity. To support these efforts, Perficient Giving ERG organized a friendly HAM competition to encourage colleagues worldwide to donate non-perishable food items to their local food banks. Offices that collect the most donations and have the biggest impact qualify for special recognition as HAM champions!

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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.

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Automation and machine learning boosts productivity, engages employees, and delights customers

Intelligent Sourcing

The business use of applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the key technology trend of 2023. Although AI has been studied by researchers and used in industry for many years, this was the year when the general public also started understanding why it is important. Generative AI (GenAI) has been the real game changer. It […] The post Automation and machine learning boosts productivity, engages employees, and delights customers appeared first on Intelligent Sourcing.

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Apache Kafka and Apache Flink: An open-source match made in heaven

IBM Services

In the age of constant digital transformation, organizations should strategize ways to increase their pace of business to keep up with — and ideally surpass — their competition. Customers are moving quickly, and it is becoming difficult to keep up with their dynamic demands. As a result, I see access to real-time data as a necessary foundation for building business agility and enhancing decision making.

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Today in Global Small Business: The History of Halloween 2023

The Global Small Business Blog

©2023 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The history of Halloween. Spooky Halloween traditions around the world. Halloween is gathering popularity around the world. Quote of the week: "It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare." – Brackett, Halloween There's so much to talk about regarding Halloween.

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First Steps of a Mind of its Own: AI

Perficient Digital Transformation

Hello everybody! I am Brandon Hernández, an intern working at Perficient offices in Mexico. This time, I am focusing on Artificial Intelligence, a cutting-edge technology offered by Azure. Since my professional career started, I affirmed that everything related to Tech was for me. However, I did not know what I was certainly going to dedicate myself to.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Life Sciences Next-generation Customer Engagement Platforms (CEP) PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Life Sciences Next-generation Customer Engagement Platforms (CEP) Since the pandemic, industries worldwide have shifted their investment priorities to focus on delivering personalized Customer Experience (CX), and the life sciences commercial function is no exception. To stay resilient and keep pace with the evolving landscape, the life sciences industry has begun embracing technology to differentiate itself for end users.

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How IBM and AWS are partnering to deliver the promise of AI for business

IBM Services

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. According to a survey by the MIT Sloan Management Review, nearly 85% of executives believe generative AI will enable their companies to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage. The global AI market is projected to grow to USD 190 billion by 2025, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.62% from 2022, according to Markets and Markets.

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The U.S. Economy's Vulnerabilities

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/MarianVejcik America’s smallest companies tell us a lot about the economy’s vulnerabilities. So far, they have been resilient in the face of rising borrowing costs. Recession watchers should be careful about jumping to conclusions over the rise in small-business bankruptcy activity. Smaller firms' exposure to variable-rate debt may well make them a leading indicator for the American economy, but so far they're mostly sending a message of resilience.

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The Hackett Group: U.S. Companies See Worsening Performance of Payables, Collections and Inventory in Q2 2023

The Hackett Group

Miami, FL — November 2, 2023 — The largest U.S. companies saw their ability to extend payments to suppliers, collect from customers and manage inventory degrade in the first half of 2023, according to new working capital research from The Hackett Group , Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT). The research provides further evidence of the trend that has been emerging over the past year – that buyers have lost leverage with suppliers and can no longer simply delay payments to improve their own balance sheet.

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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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Patient Engagement Platforms PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Patient Engagement Platforms In the current healthcare landscape, patient engagement platforms play a vital role. They serve as a crucial link between patients and healthcare providers, promoting proactive healthcare management. As consumers increasingly demand personalized and accessible healthcare services, these platforms give patients real-time access to their medical information, telehealth options, and appointment scheduling.

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NVMe vs. SATA: What’s the difference?

IBM Services

Today, everyone from gamers and video editors to software start-up executives launching apps in the cloud are demanding faster solutions for data storage. The reason is simple: Better storage technologies mean faster, higher-performing compute environments. For gamers, this means less lag time; for editors, it means shorter video renders; and for businesses, it means they can run workloads swiftly and smoothly in the cloud.

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Teaming Up: G-P is the Official Global Employment Partner of the Golden State Warriors

Globalization Partners

Ready, shoot, score, it’s time to hit the court #dreamteam! G-P recently signed a multi-year partnership with the Golden State Warriors, naming G-P the official global employment partner of the seven-time NBA champions and highlighting the organizations’ shared mission to unlock global opportunities for everyone. This new partnership between the Warriors and G-P reflects the shared global mindset of both companies.

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Perficient Makes a Difference During Hunger Action Month

Perficient Digital Transformation

Our corporate giving philosophy involves two main philanthropic pillars, advancing STEM education and improving the health and wellbeing of the community. At Perficient, we take pride in volunteering our time, resources, and skills to promote positive change. This year, Perficient’s Giving Employee Resource Group (ERG) collaborated with our community partner, Feeding America , to support Hunger Action Month (HAM), a global campaign to fight food insecurity.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Enterprise Generative AI Adoption: Risk Evaluation for Competitive Advantage | Blog

Everest Group

The adoption of generative AI technology poses four major types of threats to enterprises: data privacy and security, reliability and explainability, responsibility and ownership, and bias and ethics. By assessing current risk levels and implementing practices, tools, and systems to manage these challenges, enterprises can realize the most value from this transformative technology.

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How to stay on the right side of the latest SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules for a data breach

IBM Services

In July 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt new cybersecurity rules and requirements for all market entities to address risks. Among the passed regulations were updated requirements for Form 8-K reporting as well as new guidance for Form 10-K Amendments. Under the rule surrounding Form 8-K reporting, public companies are now required to report data breaches within four days of an incident.

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Applying Application Administration To The Contract Lifecycle

SirionLabs

Application administration is a critical capability of any contract lifecycle management platform. Learn why and how to ensure your CLM is up to par.

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Latin America Colleagues Celebrate HAM

Perficient Digital Transformation

In September, we celebrate Hunger Action Month, a campaign founded by Perficient partner Feeding America that aims to spread the word and aid in relieving food insecurity. This year, we not only continued our support of HAM, we expanded our support globally. The Perficient Giving ERG hosted a friendly competition, challenging Perficient offices across the globe to make an impact by donating non-perishable food to local shelters.

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Foundations of Diversity: Building an Inclusive Company From the Ground Up

Can you guess why top-tier companies place such a high emphasis on diversity? Because a successful business mirrors the world around it. Diverse companies create empowering environments and are 35% more likely to financially outperform their peers. This new guide offers strategic insights to build a vibrant, diverse, and innovative workforce. Learn to assess your current workforce, understand demographics, and identify barriers to inclusivity.