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Digital Workspace | Espace de travail numérique
Facebook Groups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access
June 20, 2018 – The Verge
Facebook will now let group administrators start charging $4.99 to $29.99 a month for exclusive membership in certain groups starting with parenting, cooking, and home cleaning groups. This will add a sense of exclusivity to groups as well as provide group administrators, who put a lot of time and effort into growing their communities, with a revenue for their hard work.More
The digital workplace: first step to nationwide digitization
June 13, 2018 - EnterpriseINNOVATION
To enable successful digitization initiatives, business leaders are not only investing in disruptive technologies, but also disrupting business processes.
Here are the 5 steps to transforming into a digital workplace:
1. Business and IT requirements
2. Roadmap and strategy
3. Design and architecture
4. Implementation and deployment
5. Monitoring and review
The foundation of a digital workplace is in its capacity to enable users to communicate and share files safely and securely across multiple devices, create automatic workflows, as well as to achieve faster and more direct return of investment.More
Building a collaborative culture key to business success
June 21, 2018 – people matters
For a business to succeed, its employees need to work together to foster a sense of community so collaboration is second nature, increasing creativity and productivity.
Some of the key aspects to creating a healthy and collaborative culture in an organization include:
• Teamwork
• Online tools and platforms
• Programs and policies that bring employees together
• Leveraging digital advancements
Don't Let Your Application Backlog Sink Your Digital Transformation
June 21, 2018 - Forbes
The demand for new and updated applications and software infrastructure is increasing at an exponential rate, as well as the demand for individual features and capabilities.
Enterprises need to add to their extensive software to-do lists, as the professionals who create and maintain these programs are in short supply. This creates a backlog that can lead to problems with the digital transformation of a business.
This article covers how agile handles backlogs, the challenge of backlog ‘granularity’ as well as resolving backlog issues that agile cannot.
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AI | I.A.
Xineoh offers AI that predicts customer behavior with scary accuracy
June 21, 2018 – VentureBeat
The AI Xineoh created uses its deep learning capabilities to match individuals with products, inventory with business opportunities, prices with spending propensities, and people with usage patterns at a very high speed. Essentially, this means it can predict what consumers will buy, where to market products, and how to target a brand’s story. This provides businesses with the opportunity to minimise their inventory and maximise their working capital.
Xineoh CEO Vian Chinner stated: “we are continuing to improve the prediction results at a massive rate, [and] we can currently out-predict our closest competitor at double their accuracy.”
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Open source | Logiciels libres
Microsoft open-sources UI Recorder tool for Windows 10 developers
June 21, 2018 – The Register
“WinAppDriver UI Recorder” is a tool created for Windows 10 develloppers to “easily create automated UI tests”, as said by Microsoft’s Hassan Uraizee. It compares to the older tool called Inspect, a tool that lets users view UI element attribute data, but the new tool provides a much needed upgrade that allow devs the ability to generate XPath queries.
The GitHub repository also includes a zipped executable of the UI recorder.
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Red Hat changes its open-source licensing rules
June 18, 2018 - ZDNet
Red Hat announces that, all new Red Hat-initiated open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License(GPLv2) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)v2.1 licenses, will be expected to supplement the license with the GPL version 3 (GPLv3)'s cure commitment language.
The top Linux developers explained: “Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the software. We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute this software. We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or enforcement that might limit adoption of our software.”
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GitHub:Changes to EU copyright law could derail open source distribution
June 21, 2018 – ZDNet
A proposed European law would mandate that content providers utilize a content filter to ensure rights holders receive their royalties. The Directive, however, currently fails to distinguish between a multimedia site like YouTube or Spotify, and a source code repository like GitHub or GitLab, creating disastrous effects on similar platforms.
"Automated upload filtering of code would require entirely new technology," stated GitHub Policy Director Mike Linksvayer, "and would result in either vast numbers of false positives, causing software to become much more fragile, literally breaking builds, or vast numbers of false negatives, because most software, including proprietary software, includes some open source components."More.