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Finance AI Is Critical to CFO Digitalization Efforts

Most finance teams now use RPA to drive efficiencies , but RPA can only automate simple, repeatable tasks; it can’t automate the complex processes and workflows needed to improve business agility and efficacy. Adding AI-powered technologies and tools offers the next level of automation for finance, but CFOs must identify the most appropriate use cases .

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Microsoft is going to have lots of clouds for industries. Here’s why they matter

Microsoft already has two vertical ‘ clouds for industry ‘ for healthcare and retail; expect more. “These are the two first ones that came out but there’ll be more to come,” Takuya Hirano, Microsoft vice president for global alliances and systems integrators partners said during a recent announcement about the state of the Microsoft partner ecosystem .

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Why Verizon Media picked BigQuery for scale, performance and cost

As the owner of Analytics, Monetization and Growth Platforms at Yahoo, one of the core brands of Verizon Media, I’m entrusted to make sure that any solution we select is fully tested across real-world scenarios. Today, we just completed a massive migration of Hadoop and enterprise data warehouse (EDW) workloads to Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Looker .

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Sigfox collaborates with Google Cloud to accelerate its global IoT strategy

Google Cloud and Sigfox  announced that the global 0G network and IoT platform services provider, has partnered with Google Cloud, to scale its cloud infrastructure and extend its IoT services portfolio. This partnership will enable Sigfox to rapidly accelerate its “Massive IoT” agenda processing billions of messages each month from objects connected to the internet using data stored in the cloud.

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Build a chatbot resume on Google Cloud

Getting the job you want requires you to stand out to potential employers—especially in the current job market. Recently I did just that by building a conversational chatbot on Google Cloud that answers questions about my professional experience (plus some surprises).

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Querying a Vertica data source in Amazon Athena using the Athena Federated Query SDK

The ability to query data and perform ad hoc analysis across multiple platforms and data stores with a single tool brings immense value to the big data analytical arena. As organizations build out data lakes with increasing volumes of data, there is a growing need to combine that data with large amounts of data in other data stores.

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Migrate to regional backend services for Network Load Balancing

With Network Load Balancing , Google Cloud customers have a powerful tool for distributing external TCP and UDP traffic among virtual machines in a Google Cloud region. In order to make it easier for our customers to manage incoming traffic and to control how the load balancer behaves, we recently added support for backend services to Network Load Balancing.

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