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Harnessing generative AI for good

Candid

The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples. 2) Fast follow The Gartner Hype Cycle captures the euphoria new technologies tend to generate in the early days.

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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Add these bbcon 2022 Sessions to Your Agenda

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Tom Walker, Blackbaud’s Principal Product Manager for Financial Edge NXT, will walk through the current process for bringing Accounts Receivable to the web application. He’ll also review the current plans for rolling out Blackbaud’s Early Adopter Program and how you can get involved. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2:45 P.M.

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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

NTEN

Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics. According to Gartner, the average server uses 65% of its power just sitting idle. Gartner noted that client virtualization is still pretty new, though, and there are kinks to work out. . Gartner agrees. Disruptive Technology #1: Virtualization. .

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

NTEN

Enter Gartner. According to Gartner (and they do consider themselves the authority here), Cloud computing is: A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. I'd like to respond to that with a healthy "Get Over It!",

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Why Savvy Nonprofits Are Dumping QuickBooks™ and Moving to the Cloud

Connection Cafe

That’s because, if you’re like a lot of nonprofits, you’re using an on premise accounting application. Which is what’s driving adoption. The great majority of CFOs are planning to implement cloud services for their companies in 2015 and beyond, according to surveys from CFO Magazine, KPMG and Gartner.