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Organic search is down by 24-30% as people turn to AI for answers. Sarah Aryanpur Burgess hears from Webflow CEO, Linda Tong, on what organizations need to change about the way they engage with customers through their websites: bit.ly/4iqoq27 #OrganicSearch #SEO #AISearch #Personalization

“Any invention, wrapped in a cradle-to-grave system that turns the central nugget of value into a useful, sustainable service, will require human skills and efforts to keep it going. AI is certainly no exception: ‘There's a growing global workforce of millions toiling to make AI run smoothly. It's gruntwork that needs to be done accurately and fast,’ noted the US TV news program ‘60 Minutes’ in a recent telecast about the data tagging industry in Kenya… The supply curve will not be ‘flat and free.’” diginomica https://lnkd.in/gBaitxtK

Profits are up. Revenues are up. Yet share prices are down. As Oracle becomes the latest enterprise player to run foul of Wall Street's expectations, despite business booming in all the right places, Stuart Lauchlan analyzes the numbers and 'that' reaction. bit.ly/3DbUNla

AI is already rewriting the rules, so what are the game-winning plays? Peter Coffee of Salesforce explores how technological advancements like AI are reshaping economic systems and asks if inventions can ever truly be 'free'? bit.ly/3VuNpaw

Maintenance for SAP’s ECC platform runs out in 2027, but the majority of UK & Ireland organizations are yet to move to #S4HANA. Derek du Preez spoke with the Chair of UKISUG about the SAP ECC maintenance deadline and the looming skills crisis: bit.ly/3VrhYhh

One of the best parts of my job is seeing the incredible use cases that our customers implement using Astronomer, Apache Airflow and the power of data orchestration. One of the coolest examples is how the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series champion Texas Rangers Baseball Club use Astro to not only help them win games, but to also accelerate data delivery time by an entire 24 hours - without incurring any additional costs of new compute. Astro’s worker queue feature ensures CPU-intensive tasks, such as real-time analytics, receive dedicated computing power to significantly improve performance. As a result, the Rangers reduced pipeline processing times by over 80%, allowing them to process multiple additional pipelines in parallel and deliver game-day analytics much more efficiently. ⚾ Read more in this diginomica article: https://lnkd.in/eHPW7amV

New research indicates that developers are feeling more than a little 'meh' about AI productivity gains. Atlassian's Andrew Boyagi reviews the reasons for this - and how devs can go from meh, to wow. bit.ly/4ithXTX #SoftwareDevelopment

In this week's roundup from Jon: Now that the last big enterprise show is over, what did we learn? Making sense of re:Invent news is on the agenda, along with a closer look at enterprise automation, and what gen AI can (and can't) do. As always, your weekly whiffs. bit.ly/4faDoqj

Samsara has raised its full-year guidance as large customers continue to buy into connected operations, with those paying over $100,000 in ARR jumping by 38%. Derek du Preez analyzes the Q3 2024 earnings: bit.ly/4ipK3Qa #ConnectedOperations

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines shares new customer-centric messaging around agentic automation paying off, saying AI agents will be "first class citizens on our platform". Stuart Lauchlan reviews the Q3 numbers, Wall Street's reaction, and what's coming next: bit.ly/4imhJy4