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  • Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Speaker Series

    Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Speaker Series

    Technical University Munich Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence launches a speaker series to bring experts from all over the world to Munich and talk about Ethics and Governance for Artificial Intelligence. The Series kicks off with an Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert on December 13 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

     IEAI Speaker Series – Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert December 13 – 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

    With its new Speaker Series, the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is bringing experts from all over the world to Munich to talk about Ethics and Governance of […]

    Source: IEAI Speaker Series – Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert – Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

  • The possibility to understand: SaaS Product Metrics

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    Do you measure up?

    Part of the compelling nature of SaaS Products is the possibility to understand the user and improve on the go. Any Product Manager will literally have to understand what are the use-cases for customers and how to focus on the important areas. Just recently our team led the debate which metrics would be the right ones to focus on.

    Nancy Wang, Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services, highlights six product metrics enterprise SaaS companies should track.

    In this Article, Nancy Wang, head of Product Management at the most successful cloud service providers, shares her insights on important metrics to keep an eye on. The possibility to understand often goes overboard and requires focus.

    The case under discussion in the article revolves around paid products. Derived metrics are a foundation that serves as a blueprint to other products in the SaaS space. Goals differ, but ultimately, to make a product successful, it requires an understanding of how successful customers were, using the product. Following the established funnel pattern, users are being segmented into funnel. Along that funnel, the metrics acquired need to reflect the stage of the journey the user is on.

    At the top of the funnel, most often the interaction is anonymous and requires profiling to understand the audience coming in. Further down in the funnel, metrics capture engagement and transaction. Towards the end of the funnel, the metric needs to relate to retention.

    Source: Do You Measure Up? Metrics for Enterprise SaaS Product Managers

  • Django 3 released

    Mentionable improvements are:

    • Django 3.0 begins our journey to making Django fully async-capable by providing support for running as an ASGI application.
    • Django now officially supports MariaDB 10.1 and higher.
    • Custom enumeration types TextChoices, IntegerChoices, and Choices are now available as a way to define model field choices.

    Details are in the announcement.

  • CDU will Open Source

    Nachdem die SPD in München mit Limux vorerst gescheitert ist, will die CDU Open Source für Verwaltungsaufgaben fördern. Ausserdem soll Open Data von der Forderung “Public Money?, Public Code!” partizipieren. Die CDU nimmt damit eine Position der Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) ein.

    via Golem

  • Customer Relationship Management. Kundenbericht.

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    Salesforce, Anbieter von CRM Software

    Customer Relationship Management ist schon länger der am stärksten wachsende Software-Markt. Als Gewerbetreibender kommt man nicht umhin, sich mit dem Trend auseinanderzusetzen. Nur durch den Einsatz von Software kann man seinen Kunden besser verstehen und so sein Angebot verbessern. Heute möchte ich einmal kurz die andere Perspektive einnehmen, und eine kurze, aber mir sehr auffällige Erfahrung aufzuschreiben.

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  • SpaceX Starlink Ruins Astronomical Observation

    Starlink will make Stargazing more difficult in the near future.

    via Forbes.

  • Tesla announces electric Pick-Up

    Tesla announced an electric ‘Cybertruck‘, at a low price, that has a long range. Meanwhile, the 2017 announced Semi Truck, starts production with ‘limited volumes‘.

  • Celonis Series C

    Celonis, a Munich and NY based AI Startup in process mining, raised $290M in Series C financing. The company is now valued at $2.5 Billion.

  • Former Munich Mayor Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux

    Christian Ude, Oberbürgermeister von München zwischen 1993 und 2014.

    Christian Ude speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws)

    Techrights.org

    Source: Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux | Techrights

  • How big is the cloud?

    It sound’s odd and definitely wrong. At 43.000 participants in 2018 at a registration fee of $1.799, that’d be $77.357.000 of revenue, which is hard to believe Oracle and IBM together cannot top. Still, it’s s still a totally fascinating thought about size of cloud and how dominant AWS is in that business.