Peer-Driven Insights

Peer Insights

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Peer Insights refers to questions aimed at gathering a wide range of experiences, perspectives, or best practices from the community, rather than seeking technical solutions.

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CrowdStrike Outage: Impact And Recovery

From grounded flights to stalled out supply chains, the recent CrowdStrike Windows outage caused major disruptions across the globe. Read on to find out how Gartner Peer Community members were impacted, and how they're responding.

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We're excited to have launched a few new things recently.
>> Updated Profiles that show strengths, interests, and posts. This is what we will use to send questions / polls to the right people;
>> Strengths are based on the number of upvotes received for an answer;

We're adding a badge next to verified members and enabling users to see each other's tech stack as well. This will also enable us to contact the right people for product-centered questions.

Hi all! We currently monetize through sponsored surveys and split revenue with our users while anonymizing the data and sharing it with marketing teams to help them with their GTM strategy.

We'd like to introduce a model where we enable marketing teams to learn directly from CXOs and their potential buyers via Zoom (think Zoom meets Masterclass). Executives on Pulse would be compensated for their time, and marketing teams would learn a tremendous amount every week.

Is this something you would be open to doing? If not, what would your hesitations be?

Why is Six Sigma not widely used in software development industry?

Do folks think the impact of the social media addiction cases in the state court JCCP and MDL N.D. California will be far and wide, seeping into insurance industry changes as well as technological, or will Section 230 save the day once more for platforms?

The case will settle; zero to minimal impact70%

Yes! But effects and repercussions are unknown30%

Why is Microsoft Windows the preferred operating system in corporate environment?

For those who have at least 15 years of work experience at 1 or many companies...... How long do you recommend you stay with your current company if you haven't been able to successfully interview and move up in the company in the past 3 years.

1-3 more years then start external inteviews14%

3-5 more years then start external interviews35%

0-3 more years but start external interviews now but be very selective on jobs29%

After 15 years it's really complicated. It needs to be the perfect next job for me to exit this company19%

I change companies if I have been there more than 5 years, even if I have been getting promoted1%

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Where do you look first to find valuable intel about competitors in your industry?

We are working through different perspectives on the capitalization of IT work. Lots of compounding factors - the move from Clarity to ServiceNow, new IT Finance leadership, more Agile teams, and other changes - have added complexity. Interested in connecting with others who "do it well" and learning about best practices.

We are using a very strong provider for Pen Testing - top right quadrant for sure. However, as we continue to expand and have more requests for pen testing, the current solution is becoming quite expensive. We are investigating Pen Testing as a Service or other more automated/AI enhanced testing. Are others are leveraging these types of services, and how do they feel they compare to traditional human penetration testing?

We are seeing an uptick in SOC 2 reports being issued by individual CPA's instead of CPA firms. While the CPA is certified, the firm / GRC tool that completed the work is not, but the CPA has signed the opinion. We are looking to see if other companies are accepting these reports as valid.

How rooted is GenAI in your work?

Cannot work without GenAI21%

Slowly getting into it58%

I can work without GenAI19%

IDK3%

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As we see the news on Sam Altman leaving OpenAI and the explanation of his exit, I wanted to tap into this community's power to understand your reading on this decision. What do you think?

We're excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar with Diana McKenzie and Marina Levinson on the Board Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19. Please register via the link below, thanks!

home.pulse.qa/webinar_board_perspectives_on_the_impact_of_covid19

Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

We're creating a Platform Architecture function for ServiceNow as we've realized that the Platform needs a level of Governance and Enablement above the individual Solution Designs to set standards, own the shared components etc - has anyone got any ideas or role specs or has done anything similar?

We are in the process of implementing a chatbot for our local government site with intentions to deploy for internal use only for testing. We are having problems quantifying is the cost around token consumption. I know that cost varies depending on the model used, but does anyone have any useful estimators. Consumption calculators I have found don't seem particularly useful. What methods for estimating cost did you use? Did you use number of searches against the site?

About this topic

Featured One-Minute Insights

CrowdStrike Outage: Impact And Recovery

Community Posts

Why is Six Sigma not widely used in software development industry?

Do folks think the impact of the social media addiction cases in the state court JCCP and MDL N.D. California will be far and wide, seeping into insurance industry changes as well as technological, or will Section 230 save the day once more for platforms?

Why is Microsoft Windows the preferred operating system in corporate environment?

For those who have at least 15 years of work experience at 1 or many companies...... How long do you recommend you stay with your current company if you haven't been able to successfully interview and move up in the company in the past 3 years.

Where do you look first to find valuable intel about competitors in your industry?

We are seeing an uptick in SOC 2 reports being issued by individual CPA's instead of CPA firms. While the CPA is certified, the firm / GRC tool that completed the work is not, but the CPA has signed the opinion. We are looking to see if other companies are accepting these reports as valid.

How rooted is GenAI in your work?

As we see the news on Sam Altman leaving OpenAI and the explanation of his exit, I wanted to tap into this community's power to understand your reading on this decision. What do you think?

We're excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar with Diana McKenzie and Marina Levinson on the Board Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19. Please register via the link below, thanks!home.pulse.qa/webinar_board_perspectives_on_the_impact_of_covid19

Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

We're creating a Platform Architecture function for ServiceNow as we've realized that the Platform needs a level of Governance and Enablement above the individual Solution Designs to set standards, own the shared components etc - has anyone got any ideas or role specs or has done anything similar?

Community Posts

Why is Six Sigma not widely used in software development industry?

Do folks think the impact of the social media addiction cases in the state court JCCP and MDL N.D. California will be far and wide, seeping into insurance industry changes as well as technological, or will Section 230 save the day once more for platforms?

Why is Microsoft Windows the preferred operating system in corporate environment?

For those who have at least 15 years of work experience at 1 or many companies...... How long do you recommend you stay with your current company if you haven't been able to successfully interview and move up in the company in the past 3 years.

Where do you look first to find valuable intel about competitors in your industry?

We are seeing an uptick in SOC 2 reports being issued by individual CPA's instead of CPA firms. While the CPA is certified, the firm / GRC tool that completed the work is not, but the CPA has signed the opinion. We are looking to see if other companies are accepting these reports as valid.

How rooted is GenAI in your work?

As we see the news on Sam Altman leaving OpenAI and the explanation of his exit, I wanted to tap into this community's power to understand your reading on this decision. What do you think?

We're excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar with Diana McKenzie and Marina Levinson on the Board Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19. Please register via the link below, thanks!home.pulse.qa/webinar_board_perspectives_on_the_impact_of_covid19

Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

We're creating a Platform Architecture function for ServiceNow as we've realized that the Platform needs a level of Governance and Enablement above the individual Solution Designs to set standards, own the shared components etc - has anyone got any ideas or role specs or has done anything similar?

We're excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar with Diana McKenzie and Marina Levinson on the Board Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19. Please register via the link below, thanks!

home.pulse.qa/webinar_board_perspectives_on_the_impact_of_covid19

We're excited to be hosting an upcoming webinar with Diana McKenzie and Marina Levinson on the Board Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19. Please register via the link below, thanks!

home.pulse.qa/webinar_board_perspectives_on_the_impact_of_covid19