The construction app designed for project managers, document controllers. and facilities managers. Easily mark up, manage, and share your construction documents from your tablet, phone, and desktop.
Success Stories In MEP Engineering Project DeliveryNewforma
In mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering companies across the country, engineers are distracted from their real work. Instead, they’re managing email, logging submittals and RFIs, keeping track of file transfers, compiling and managing punch lists, and more.
If you’re charged with making sure your teams are operating at maximum effectiveness – and are motivated to do their best work – look into Newforma today.
De-Risk Data Center Projects With Cisco ServicesCisco Canada
This presentation will discuss Cisco Advanced Services, why to use Cisco Advanced Services and where Cisco Advanced Services can add value to your business.
Blackboard 2.0 is a proposed service that aims to streamline course delivery and access to information for students. It utilizes four main services - cloud computing, web content management, social networking, and predictive analytics. The services allow course materials to be accessible anytime from anywhere, simplify course building for instructors, and streamline information for students. Potential advantages include simplified data entry and more informed decisions through predictive analytics. However, challenges include full integration into current university systems and privacy issues connecting to some student services.
The document discusses the Atlassian Tool Suite for collaborative science. It describes how the suite, which includes Confluence, Jira, Bamboo, and Bitbucket, can help large research collaborations improve communication, tracking of projects and software, and preparation for scaling up collaboration. The tools provide centralized places for documentation, issue tracking, continuous integration/deployment, and source code management. They support collaboration, transparency, and automation to help prepare for increased collaboration on complex projects.
The construction app designed for project managers, document controllers. and facilities managers. Easily mark up, manage, and share your construction documents from your tablet, phone, and desktop.
Success Stories In MEP Engineering Project DeliveryNewforma
In mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering companies across the country, engineers are distracted from their real work. Instead, they’re managing email, logging submittals and RFIs, keeping track of file transfers, compiling and managing punch lists, and more.
If you’re charged with making sure your teams are operating at maximum effectiveness – and are motivated to do their best work – look into Newforma today.
De-Risk Data Center Projects With Cisco ServicesCisco Canada
This presentation will discuss Cisco Advanced Services, why to use Cisco Advanced Services and where Cisco Advanced Services can add value to your business.
Blackboard 2.0 is a proposed service that aims to streamline course delivery and access to information for students. It utilizes four main services - cloud computing, web content management, social networking, and predictive analytics. The services allow course materials to be accessible anytime from anywhere, simplify course building for instructors, and streamline information for students. Potential advantages include simplified data entry and more informed decisions through predictive analytics. However, challenges include full integration into current university systems and privacy issues connecting to some student services.
The document discusses the Atlassian Tool Suite for collaborative science. It describes how the suite, which includes Confluence, Jira, Bamboo, and Bitbucket, can help large research collaborations improve communication, tracking of projects and software, and preparation for scaling up collaboration. The tools provide centralized places for documentation, issue tracking, continuous integration/deployment, and source code management. They support collaboration, transparency, and automation to help prepare for increased collaboration on complex projects.
The document discusses the benefits of cloud computing for businesses. It states that cloud computing allows companies to focus resources on core projects rather than IT maintenance, offers scalability and accessibility, and reduces costs by paying only for services used. Some key benefits mentioned are increased productivity, reliability, collaboration capabilities, and easier training of employees on familiar cloud-based tools. Risks are mitigated by service providers who employ physical and network security measures.
The document discusses foundational practices for achieving effective observability in serverless solutions. It recommends centralizing telemetry data to allow correlation across distributed systems. It also suggests leveraging native metrics from cloud services and taking a holistic view across all components involved in requests. Key practices include using structured metadata, pushing data rather than scraping, looking for patterns to define alerts, and using observability insights to automate limits and quotas. Tracing is identified as critically important for serverless applications.
The document discusses operations challenges in adopting DevOps practices. It notes that DevOps requires breaking down barriers between development and operations teams through collaboration, communication, and shared tools and processes. Some challenges include disagreements over tool ownership, pressure to adopt new technologies quickly, integrating legacy systems with cloud technologies, testing approaches for microservices, and aligning global teams with different time zones and priorities. Solutions proposed include automating delivery pipelines, deploying and testing changes frequently, monitoring all environments, and embracing changes in culture, processes, and technologies.
Tackling customer issues in cloud native environmentsLibbySchulze
This document discusses tackling customer issues in cloud-native environments. It notes that developers spend 75% of their time solving bugs and that solving customer issues is important for business success, revenue, reputation, market position, and rate of adoption. Some challenges of debugging cloud applications include giving up control, high complexity, dynamic environment changes, and lack of access. The document recommends process and behavior methods like prioritization, managing communications, building the right team mindset, and retrospectives, as well as technical methods like QA, using logs, monitoring, and useful tools to address issues.
WhiteHedge Technologies is a global company with over 100 employees that provides agile product development and DevOps services. It discusses how traditional IT models are not designed for today's business needs and how DevOps can help through improved communication, collaboration, and integration between development and operations. DevOps allows for more frequent releases, improved quality, and better cooperation compared to traditional models. The document provides an overview of DevOps benefits and describes how DevOps is not just about automation or increased deployments but enabling continuous improvement and efficient delivery of production-ready code.
Leveraging the cloud for QA environments can address many of the issues with traditional desktop environments. The document outlines four key problems with desktop environments: 1) initial setup is complicated without configuration management or shared tools; 2) collaboration is poor without shared access or tools; 3) accessibility and productivity are limited without remote access; and 4) costs are high to purchase and manage devices. Moving QA to the cloud can solve these problems by providing 1) easy setup without software installations; 2) powerful collaboration tools; 3) anywhere accessibility; and 4) reduced costs through a shared, scalable environment. The cloud allows teams to focus more on testing and less on environment management.
Perforce provides version control and collaboration software that enables continuous delivery. It can handle large files and datasets for industries like gaming, film, and chip design. Perforce allows for distributed workflows and scales from small to very large teams of thousands. Customers like Apple, Twitter, and large financial institutions rely on Perforce's security, flexibility, and ability to integrate with their development pipelines to deliver software continuously.
Seven Principles of Cross-Continent, Distributed DevelopmentTechWell
Many teams practice agile development as an integral part of their organization with the benefits of collocation and local decision making. However, it is increasingly more common to develop code across continents, either in distributed organizations or with the help of offshore outsourcing partners. Igor Gejdos explains the essential principles of interfacing with distributed agile development teams and describes the essence of successful communication techniques that bridge cultural and time differences. Igor emphasizes how agile teams can approach distributed product backlog management and achieve software architectures that allow software decomposition into distributable components. He emphasizes design for testability, proper documentation of software interfaces, and methods for managing changes to keep the collaboration cost effective. Igor describes techniques for system integration planning by using integration checkpoints aligned with sprint plans. If you are a decision maker, developer, or technical leader interfacing with an agile development partner, join Igor to improve your distributed team interaction.
Building the future using Newforma software for design and construction proce...Newforma
Newforma makes software that architects, engineers, contractors, and owner/operators of buildings and infrastructure use to manage information and collaborate more successfully.
Managing IT environment complexity in a Multi-Cloud WorldShashi Kiran
IT environments are continuing to get complex. How do you better manage this to speed up digitization and application modernization efforts using environments-as-a-service
Top 5 Challenges in Scaling DevOps in Brownfield EnvironmentsDeborah Schalm
Many believe that DevOps is primarily for greenfield projects. But, in order to compete enterprises must scale DevOps to utilize new technology solutions while maximizing the value of their current investments in critical IT infrastructure and business applications. Join Gary Gruver, well known DevOps leader and author, and Mark Levy, Director of Strategy at Micro Focus as they discuss the main challenges facing large enterprises as they try to scale DevOps across their brownfield environments.
This document summarizes Harvard Medical School's use of CrashPlan for end user backups. It notes that CrashPlan provides easy, set it and forget it backups across devices and platforms that protect users' personal data. Statistics are presented on the number of users and devices backed up, amount of data stored, and restore activities, with the majority of restores being for single files and under 10 MB in size. Success stories are shared of users' data being successfully restored after various types of data loss and hardware failures. Contact information is provided for support.
How We Do DevOps at Walmart: OneOps OSS Application Lifecycle Management Plat...WalmartLabs
Recently, Dr. Qingsong Zhang spoke at a Meetup about how Walmart is using DevOps.
Within this slide deck, you'll learn about our DataOps, DevOps and OneOps, an application lifecycle management (ALM), and open source DevOps platform for cloud which was developed by Walmart Labs.
Feel free to follow us on Twitter: @one_ops!
Contribute to One_Ops: www.oneops.com
Building and Managing Reliable Infrastructure with Chef and Chef DeliveryMandi Walls
The document discusses Chef and Chef Delivery software for building and managing reliable infrastructure. It provides an overview of Chef's history and products, including Chef for configuration management. Chef Delivery creates a repeatable software delivery pipeline for testing and approving code changes. It treats infrastructure code the same as application code by incorporating versioning, testing, and change management practices. The pipeline standardizes the development stages and allows for customizing activities at each stage.
Delivering Digital Transformation via DevOpsDelta-N
Keynote tijdens het DevOps/Continuous Delivery event door Gerard van der Pol van Microsoft over digitale transformatie via DevOps. Hoe helpt DevOps bedrijven om waarde te leveren in dit digitale tijdperk? Tegen welke uitdagingen loop je aan en wat levert het op?
DevOps Culture transformation in Modern Software DeliveryNajib Radzuan
DevOps culture aims to shorten development cycles and enable continuous delivery of software through practices that combine software development and IT operations. This presentation discusses how digital transformation requires changes to applications, infrastructure, and processes. It defines DevOps and outlines the DevOps process and tools used. Challenges of adopting DevOps culture include overcoming resistance to change and lack of collaboration between teams. The benefits of DevOps include rapid innovation, faster time-to-market, and improved customer focus. Adopting DevOps requires improving skills, evaluating processes and tools, and starting with small changes.
Gear up your IT skillset with DevOps awsomeness, as the topics covered are:
~ DevOps Introduction.
~ DevOps Implementation for an Enterprise Product with case study.
~ Snapshot of Latest Trends.
This document describes Projectplace, a social collaboration platform in the cloud. It allows for project management, document collaboration, and communication. Key features include planning and coordination, document sharing and reviews, messaging, web conferencing, and mobile access. Projectplace provides security, with encrypted communications, access from phones and tablets, and secure data storage. It offers subscription packages for teams, multiple projects, and enterprises. Projectplace has over 800,000 users working on more than 120,000 projects across industries. It aims to improve collaboration through social and mobile features.
GHD iConnect - our intranet for the futureMaree Courts
GHD's journey to build an intranet for the future. Moving from a legacy Lotus Notes platform to a brand new shiny SharePoint 2013 environment was an exciting undertaking.
Collaborative project communication for construction companyAnatoliZ
The document is a project progress report submitted by Anatoli Zhyzhneuski to their lecturer Dr. Matevz Dolenc. It discusses MB&C Engineering Ltd's need for an improved collaborative project management solution. Various web-based project management tools were researched, including WhoDoes, TeamLab, PivotalTracker, MavenLink, and Zoho Projects. Each tool was evaluated based on features and limitations. Zoho Projects was selected as the primary choice for MB&C Engineering Ltd's new hotel construction project due to its feature set and cost. Eight members of the project team will be assigned as users in Zoho Projects to facilitate collaboration.
This document provides an overview and proposal for designing an intranet for IRC (International Rescue Committee). It summarizes Idean's services, experience developing intranets, and proposes conducting user research and design work. The proposal outlines interviewing IRC staff, creating user personas and prototypes, developing a content strategy and information architecture, and implementing a phased approach over 14 weeks for $165,220. The intranet aims to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing across IRC's global offices, volunteers, and partners.
The document discusses the benefits of cloud computing for businesses. It states that cloud computing allows companies to focus resources on core projects rather than IT maintenance, offers scalability and accessibility, and reduces costs by paying only for services used. Some key benefits mentioned are increased productivity, reliability, collaboration capabilities, and easier training of employees on familiar cloud-based tools. Risks are mitigated by service providers who employ physical and network security measures.
The document discusses foundational practices for achieving effective observability in serverless solutions. It recommends centralizing telemetry data to allow correlation across distributed systems. It also suggests leveraging native metrics from cloud services and taking a holistic view across all components involved in requests. Key practices include using structured metadata, pushing data rather than scraping, looking for patterns to define alerts, and using observability insights to automate limits and quotas. Tracing is identified as critically important for serverless applications.
The document discusses operations challenges in adopting DevOps practices. It notes that DevOps requires breaking down barriers between development and operations teams through collaboration, communication, and shared tools and processes. Some challenges include disagreements over tool ownership, pressure to adopt new technologies quickly, integrating legacy systems with cloud technologies, testing approaches for microservices, and aligning global teams with different time zones and priorities. Solutions proposed include automating delivery pipelines, deploying and testing changes frequently, monitoring all environments, and embracing changes in culture, processes, and technologies.
Tackling customer issues in cloud native environmentsLibbySchulze
This document discusses tackling customer issues in cloud-native environments. It notes that developers spend 75% of their time solving bugs and that solving customer issues is important for business success, revenue, reputation, market position, and rate of adoption. Some challenges of debugging cloud applications include giving up control, high complexity, dynamic environment changes, and lack of access. The document recommends process and behavior methods like prioritization, managing communications, building the right team mindset, and retrospectives, as well as technical methods like QA, using logs, monitoring, and useful tools to address issues.
WhiteHedge Technologies is a global company with over 100 employees that provides agile product development and DevOps services. It discusses how traditional IT models are not designed for today's business needs and how DevOps can help through improved communication, collaboration, and integration between development and operations. DevOps allows for more frequent releases, improved quality, and better cooperation compared to traditional models. The document provides an overview of DevOps benefits and describes how DevOps is not just about automation or increased deployments but enabling continuous improvement and efficient delivery of production-ready code.
Leveraging the cloud for QA environments can address many of the issues with traditional desktop environments. The document outlines four key problems with desktop environments: 1) initial setup is complicated without configuration management or shared tools; 2) collaboration is poor without shared access or tools; 3) accessibility and productivity are limited without remote access; and 4) costs are high to purchase and manage devices. Moving QA to the cloud can solve these problems by providing 1) easy setup without software installations; 2) powerful collaboration tools; 3) anywhere accessibility; and 4) reduced costs through a shared, scalable environment. The cloud allows teams to focus more on testing and less on environment management.
Perforce provides version control and collaboration software that enables continuous delivery. It can handle large files and datasets for industries like gaming, film, and chip design. Perforce allows for distributed workflows and scales from small to very large teams of thousands. Customers like Apple, Twitter, and large financial institutions rely on Perforce's security, flexibility, and ability to integrate with their development pipelines to deliver software continuously.
Seven Principles of Cross-Continent, Distributed DevelopmentTechWell
Many teams practice agile development as an integral part of their organization with the benefits of collocation and local decision making. However, it is increasingly more common to develop code across continents, either in distributed organizations or with the help of offshore outsourcing partners. Igor Gejdos explains the essential principles of interfacing with distributed agile development teams and describes the essence of successful communication techniques that bridge cultural and time differences. Igor emphasizes how agile teams can approach distributed product backlog management and achieve software architectures that allow software decomposition into distributable components. He emphasizes design for testability, proper documentation of software interfaces, and methods for managing changes to keep the collaboration cost effective. Igor describes techniques for system integration planning by using integration checkpoints aligned with sprint plans. If you are a decision maker, developer, or technical leader interfacing with an agile development partner, join Igor to improve your distributed team interaction.
Building the future using Newforma software for design and construction proce...Newforma
Newforma makes software that architects, engineers, contractors, and owner/operators of buildings and infrastructure use to manage information and collaborate more successfully.
Managing IT environment complexity in a Multi-Cloud WorldShashi Kiran
IT environments are continuing to get complex. How do you better manage this to speed up digitization and application modernization efforts using environments-as-a-service
Top 5 Challenges in Scaling DevOps in Brownfield EnvironmentsDeborah Schalm
Many believe that DevOps is primarily for greenfield projects. But, in order to compete enterprises must scale DevOps to utilize new technology solutions while maximizing the value of their current investments in critical IT infrastructure and business applications. Join Gary Gruver, well known DevOps leader and author, and Mark Levy, Director of Strategy at Micro Focus as they discuss the main challenges facing large enterprises as they try to scale DevOps across their brownfield environments.
This document summarizes Harvard Medical School's use of CrashPlan for end user backups. It notes that CrashPlan provides easy, set it and forget it backups across devices and platforms that protect users' personal data. Statistics are presented on the number of users and devices backed up, amount of data stored, and restore activities, with the majority of restores being for single files and under 10 MB in size. Success stories are shared of users' data being successfully restored after various types of data loss and hardware failures. Contact information is provided for support.
How We Do DevOps at Walmart: OneOps OSS Application Lifecycle Management Plat...WalmartLabs
Recently, Dr. Qingsong Zhang spoke at a Meetup about how Walmart is using DevOps.
Within this slide deck, you'll learn about our DataOps, DevOps and OneOps, an application lifecycle management (ALM), and open source DevOps platform for cloud which was developed by Walmart Labs.
Feel free to follow us on Twitter: @one_ops!
Contribute to One_Ops: www.oneops.com
Building and Managing Reliable Infrastructure with Chef and Chef DeliveryMandi Walls
The document discusses Chef and Chef Delivery software for building and managing reliable infrastructure. It provides an overview of Chef's history and products, including Chef for configuration management. Chef Delivery creates a repeatable software delivery pipeline for testing and approving code changes. It treats infrastructure code the same as application code by incorporating versioning, testing, and change management practices. The pipeline standardizes the development stages and allows for customizing activities at each stage.
Delivering Digital Transformation via DevOpsDelta-N
Keynote tijdens het DevOps/Continuous Delivery event door Gerard van der Pol van Microsoft over digitale transformatie via DevOps. Hoe helpt DevOps bedrijven om waarde te leveren in dit digitale tijdperk? Tegen welke uitdagingen loop je aan en wat levert het op?
DevOps Culture transformation in Modern Software DeliveryNajib Radzuan
DevOps culture aims to shorten development cycles and enable continuous delivery of software through practices that combine software development and IT operations. This presentation discusses how digital transformation requires changes to applications, infrastructure, and processes. It defines DevOps and outlines the DevOps process and tools used. Challenges of adopting DevOps culture include overcoming resistance to change and lack of collaboration between teams. The benefits of DevOps include rapid innovation, faster time-to-market, and improved customer focus. Adopting DevOps requires improving skills, evaluating processes and tools, and starting with small changes.
Gear up your IT skillset with DevOps awsomeness, as the topics covered are:
~ DevOps Introduction.
~ DevOps Implementation for an Enterprise Product with case study.
~ Snapshot of Latest Trends.
This document describes Projectplace, a social collaboration platform in the cloud. It allows for project management, document collaboration, and communication. Key features include planning and coordination, document sharing and reviews, messaging, web conferencing, and mobile access. Projectplace provides security, with encrypted communications, access from phones and tablets, and secure data storage. It offers subscription packages for teams, multiple projects, and enterprises. Projectplace has over 800,000 users working on more than 120,000 projects across industries. It aims to improve collaboration through social and mobile features.
GHD iConnect - our intranet for the futureMaree Courts
GHD's journey to build an intranet for the future. Moving from a legacy Lotus Notes platform to a brand new shiny SharePoint 2013 environment was an exciting undertaking.
Collaborative project communication for construction companyAnatoliZ
The document is a project progress report submitted by Anatoli Zhyzhneuski to their lecturer Dr. Matevz Dolenc. It discusses MB&C Engineering Ltd's need for an improved collaborative project management solution. Various web-based project management tools were researched, including WhoDoes, TeamLab, PivotalTracker, MavenLink, and Zoho Projects. Each tool was evaluated based on features and limitations. Zoho Projects was selected as the primary choice for MB&C Engineering Ltd's new hotel construction project due to its feature set and cost. Eight members of the project team will be assigned as users in Zoho Projects to facilitate collaboration.
This document provides an overview and proposal for designing an intranet for IRC (International Rescue Committee). It summarizes Idean's services, experience developing intranets, and proposes conducting user research and design work. The proposal outlines interviewing IRC staff, creating user personas and prototypes, developing a content strategy and information architecture, and implementing a phased approach over 14 weeks for $165,220. The intranet aims to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing across IRC's global offices, volunteers, and partners.
Lava cIt All Comes Down to Return on Investment (ROI): How Content Strategy I...Jack Molisani
As “content strategy” supplants “responsive design” as the latest buzzword in technical
communication—understanding how to effectively increase ROI from your process and
tools is essential.
Reducing support costs, cutting project development time, and simplifying your
translation workflow are just a few objectives companies strive for when implementing a
sound content development strategy.
Join Jose Sermeno of MadCap Software as he spotlights major trends and showcases
case studies from companies utilizing concepts of single source development, topic-based
writing, social collaboration and translation management to increase ROI and be
successful content developers
If businesses want to remain competitive in the digital age, they must increase efficiency with technology wherever possible! Microsoft Office 365 has everything you need to increase efficiency and more.
How Partners Are Helping Customers with Novell TeamingNovell
Novell Teaming brought next-generation team collaboration capabilities to the Novell portfolio. And Novell Teaming 2 offers even more to make your teams as productive as possible. In this session you'll hear from two Novell partners with significant experience deploying Novell Teaming in customer environments. Join them to learn about the success they've seen as organizations leverage the product's innovative team workspace, document management, knowledge retention and workflow capabilities.
In this webinar, we get an overview of the comprehensive set of cloud services (Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics) that Microsoft donates to eligible nonprofits through TechSoup Canada. We also hear from local nonprofit Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre about how migrating to Office 365 transformed their operations.
This document summarizes Alfresco One, an enterprise content management platform. It discusses how Alfresco One provides a simple, smart, and secure solution for content management. It can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid manner. Alfresco One enhances productivity with powerful tools for content management, collaboration, and workflows. It also discusses security, flexibility, and open standards.
The document discusses online collaboration tools that allow groups to work together in real-time over the internet, including file sharing tools like Dropbox and Google Drive, presentation tools like Prezi and SlideShare, and blogging platforms like WordPress and Blogger. It also outlines the phases of project management for developing ICT content, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing a project. Curating existing online content involves sorting through large amounts of information and organizing it into meaningful themes.
5 methods session 2 webinar slideshare systems coAconex
Managing Director of Systems & Co and a veteran of John Holland, shares results and advice on how to keep infrastructure projects on track. Learn how to use technology to break scope into manageable sections, use data to your project’s advantage and collaborate across the entire project team.
SharePoint 2016 is coming and with it, Microsoft puts the focus on hybrid solutions.
What do you need to know?
In this webnar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Jill Hannemann discuss SharePoint 2016, including:
- What is a hybrid solution?
- How has hybrid grown in importance?
- What new hybrid capabilities are coming?
- How will hybrid solutions impact the future of SharePoint?
- What other changes should we expect?
Projectplace is a social project management tool that aims to improve project efficiency, productivity, and collaboration. It allows fast project setup, monitoring, and follow up. Projectplace improves visibility, control, and resource usage. It increases efficiency by enabling anyone to identify problems and opportunities. Projectplace also facilitates knowledge sharing, decision making, and reusing previous work.
CCIT Consultants propose solutions using Microsoft Lync, SharePoint 2010, and Project Professional 2010 to address Tallahassee Designs' issues with communication, collaboration, and project management. Lync would provide an integrated communication tool, SharePoint would enable centralized collaboration and file sharing, and Project Professional would offer project management capabilities. The proposed solutions integrate with existing Microsoft technologies and are designed to improve how the company works.
Extending Microsoft Project into a Unified Work Management SolutionMichelle Manimtim
Project management solutions can be isolated silos of information within a much larger and complex enterprise. A variety of tools for managing tasks and work are scattered across the organization, and often perform overlapping and similar functions. Redundancy and duplicate entry of data can be drains on productivity and employee satisfaction. There is a better way! Come see how Tivitie’s Project Connect integrates Project to tools like Wunderlist, Office 365 Planner, TFS, JIRA, and others, to provide a unified work management experience, and dramatic improvements in operational efficiency.
Appnovation is a Canadian-owned company founded in 2007 that provides open source solutions like Drupal, Alfresco, and Sproutcore. It has about 40 employees located in Vancouver with competitive billing rates. Appnovation creates cross-platform mobile solutions, websites, intranets, and more using leading open-source technologies. It is an Acquia Enterprise Select Partner and Alfresco Platinum Partner. Appnovation helps clients address common challenges through customized agile development processes. It has also developed Canopy, an integration of Drupal and Alfresco, to enable content management and presentation.
The document describes Celoxis, a project management software company. Celoxis allows users to collaborate, manage projects, and share information. It offers features like resource management, project planning and tracking, reporting, and workflow customization. Celoxis provides both SaaS and on-premise deployment options and claims to help users gain control and visibility of their projects.
PBworks is a hosted collaboration platform that allows teams to work more productively together. It has over 3 million global active users across 1,000,000 projects. PBworks provides a central place for authorized users to create, store, and share information across geographic and corporate boundaries. It is more secure, reliable, and easy to use than traditional on-premise or intranet collaboration tools.
Portal Solutions' Jill Hannemann, Director of Advisory Services and Chris Poteet, UX/UI Consultant with special guest David Lavenda, Vice President, Product Strategy with harmon.ie discuss how to maximize the business value through effective mobile initiatives.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
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Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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2. DOCUMENT
COLLABORATION
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATION
• Sharing, reviews
& version
management
• Drag ’n drop file
management
• MS Office &
Desktop
integration
• Planning & work
coordination
• Project office
support
• Time & issue
management
• Resource
management
• Messaging,
reporting
& notifications
• Web conferencing
• Meeting
management
• Member &
stakeholder
management
PROJECTPLACE
Social Collaboration in the Cloud
SOCIAL DYNAMICS THROUGHOUT THE SERVICE
MOBILE ACCESS FROM IPHONE, IPAD AND ANDROID
SECURE ACCESS AND STORAGE OF DATA
3. SUCCEED WITH PROJECTS
Optimise day-to-day planning with kanban-inspired action boards
& drag 'n drop cards
Track progress with overview of workflows,
timeline and widgets
Coordinate work with issue-,
time- and resource management
Get an organisational overview with
project office support
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
4. SHARE & REVIEW DOCUMENTS
With easy, document-collaboration tools, all version-managed
files are stored in a single, secure, virtual workplace, easy to
find, share & review.
With MS integration, just drag’n drop between the project
and desktop to get instant, easy access, with document-
management add-ons.
Work anywhere, anytime,
on any device with
Projectplace mobile apps.
DOCUMENT
COLLABORATION
5. IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
Manage meetings, communicate, hold web conferences,
follow real-time conversation & activity feeds.
Projectplace social communication tools encourage true,
people-centric collaboration, motivating and engaging teams.
Update members & stakeholders with automated
progress reports and notifications.
COMMUNICATION
6. MOBILE, SOCIAL, SECURE
MOBILE ACCESS FROM IPHONE, IPAD AND ANDROID
SECURE ACCESS AND STORAGE OF DATA
SOCIAL DYNAMICS THROUGHOUT THE SERVICE
7. More info:
http://www.projectplace.com/why-projectplace/security/security-details/
Authentication and encryption
• Encrypted communications with 128-bit SSL encryption and
1024-bit RSA public keys
• All user documents stored encrypted with individual keys
• Passwords stored in a one-way encrypted format
• Automatic logout
System architecture and backups
• Scalable multi-tenant architecture with multi-layer redundancy
• Firewalls and intrusion detection
• Database security and backups
• Disaster Recovery Site
Management Systems and Internal Procedures
• Co-location with 24/7 monitoring, redundant and high-capacity internet
connections, secondary power supply systems , fire and climate control
• ISO 27001 information security certification
• Regular external security audits
STATE-OF-THE-ART
Infrastructureand Security
8. Team
One project
CORE FEATURES
Project overview
Documents
Projectplace planner
Tasks
Issues
Meetings
Enterprise
Customised solution
Multi
Five projects
Five projects
Pre-defined project models
Training for project members
Training for project managers
& administrators
Unlimited projects
Pre-defined project models
Portfolios
Project directory
Resource overview
Archiving
Training for project members
Training for project managers
& administrators
One project
Pre-defined project models
Training for project members
Training for project managers
& administrators
Online meetings
iOS and Android
Members & Contacts
Document management add-ons
Feedback & History
Own project templates
External project site
Support
Getting started
Mobile apps
SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES
Team, Multi, Enterprise
10. Projectplace proved its
worth. Not least because of
its transparancy. There were
fewer misunderstandings
and, thus, fewer delays
With demanding planning
assignments, it’s important
to have a user friendly and
central planning tool –
Projectplace does.
”Projectplace document
sharing solution enabled
mutual collaboration and
communication”
CUSTOMER VOICES
“Projectplace streamlined
communication for the team
in a way that would have
been impossible using email.”
“We always use
Projectplace for large
development projects.”
…helps enormously in cutting
travel time and costs
…coordination is much faster
…content is easily shared
11. Link to case study
“With demanding planning
assignments, it’s important
to have a user friendly and
central planning tool –
Projectplace does.”
Skanska is one of the world’s leading
building contractors and has been using
Projectplace as a web-based management
tool for projects of all sizes since 1999.
NEED
With extremely intense projects it is vital to be able to
disseminate large amounts of information to a lot of
different specialists, at all times.
THE SOLUTION
A user-friendly central project management tool.
PROJECTPLACE WAS USED FOR
• Communication to keep project members and a
multitude of specialist consultants involved and up-
to-date
12. Simplify global communications at
Vodafone Global Enterprise. Enabling work
on the go, practically without limitations.
NEED
“Our priority is to have consistent, integrated
communications – especially across multiple locations.
Our previous solution didn’t cover this.”
THE SOLUTION
A virtual office.
KEY REASONS FOR CHOOSING PROJECTPLACE:
• Allows simple, straight forward communication
• Accessible anywhere, on any device
• Ease-of-use
“The software helps
enormously in cutting
down on travel time and
costs. Coordination is much
faster with online
meetings.”
Link to case study
13. Link to case study
“Projectplace streamlined
communication for the
team in a way that would
have been impossible
using email.”
Seven Mental Health and Community NHS
Trusts procuring a framework of Clinical
Information Systems (CIS)
NEEDS
Collaboration solution keeping 50 people in seven
organisations up-to-date throughout the project.
THE SOLUTION
Transparency with an open communication tool.
KEY REASONS FOR CHOOSING PROJECTPLACE
• Planning tools
• Document management
• Ability to facilitate open communication
between project members.
15. PROJECTPLACE
NO.1INEUROPEFORPROJECTCOLLABORATIONINTHECLOUD
1998
One of the world´s first SaaS solutions in 1998.
800,000
Number of registered users.
99.97%
Average uptime of our service is 99.97%.
160
Approximately 160 employees in 7 countries.
7
Available in 7 languages: English, Swedish,
Dutch, German, French, Danish and Norwegian.
We are today in a unique position where we have elaborated a project management environment allowing collaboration and communication between members in a modern and easy way. We do this through three main interconnectable areas: Project Management, Document Collaboration, and Communication. Projectplace is not about Social Media, it’s a part of Social Business. Obviously the two are connected to each other. Social media is about sharing experiences and giving feedback, and that’s exactly what we want in our professional life as well. Because it increases productivity, creates engagement and enables your team to work more goal orientated, when they can give feedback on ideas, document, meeting, plans, tasks, issues etc, to better manage their projects.
Let’s quickly look at what we offer through the three areas: Project Management provides Planning & work coordination, Project office support, Time & issue management, and Resource management. We’re very strong in document collaboration, sharing, reviews & version management, Drag ’n drop file management, MS Office & Desktop integration. Some of our clients get stuck here and only use document-sharing, which can get pretty expensive. There is sooo much more on offer when it comes to project management and our social communication tools. For true collaboration to work, you need good social communication tools, messaging, reporting & notifications, Web conferencing, Meeting management, Member & stakeholder management.
Project Management part of our collaboration tool helps you optimize your daily planning with tools such as kanban-inspired action boards and cards you can drag and drop to update the status of tasks worked on and finished as the work is progressing. Here you can also get a clear overview of your project timeline and workflows, manage resources and their time, and as a Project Manager you also have easy overview of project progress through Project Office Support.
People sending e-mails to each other. Plans are not updated. People are not updated. Different versions of documents are circling. Difficulties to find accurate information, more importantly to GIVE accurate information. With Projectplace, you gather all information in one place. So people can collaborate around this in an efficient way. Wherever they are. On any online device. Involve your stakeholder here to get perfect alignment. Make a change in your project and your customers or board members can see and react on it. With MS integration, you can easily drag and drop files between projects and desktop. You also have Plug-ins for general integrated file editing from any PC or Mac application, and for desktop shortcuts, drag ´n drop file and folder uploading/downloading.
In summary, with our communications features you can for example manage meetings, do messaging, reporting & notifications, web conferencing, meeting management, member & stakeholder management. All this with Projectplace social tools that encourage collaboration between project stakeholders for best results.
As you can see, social features are visible throughout the entire tool. A whole spectra of features is available on your mobile devices. All this securely stored in the cloud, so that you can simply pay as you go and get free support. Finally, Projectplace does not only create value by improving collaboration in projects. The delivery form in itself also improves efficiency and reduces cost of usage. Projectplace is distributed as a Cloud Service which means big savings in time and costs. Often the largest cost when implementing a new service are the hidden costs such as training and maintenance that you don’t see on the price tag. With Projectplace, you pay for what you use and there is no hardware or software installation or any other upfront investment in time and money. Maintenance costs, software updates and other cost-drivers that you typically get with a SW implementation are non-existing when you use a cloud service. And since Projectplace is a standardized online service used through any web browser, you can literally have the whole organisation up and running in minutes. The system maintains state-of the art security standards with real-time data mirroring and continuous backup. As one of the first IT-companies in Sweden Projectplace has been awarded the ISO 27001 certification for information security. ISO 27001 is an international standard for information security that includes proactive management as well as the evaluation and addressing of risks.
System architecture and backupsScalable multi-tenant architecture with multi-layer redundancyFirewalls and intrusion detectionDatabase security and backupsDisaster Recovery Site Authentication and encryptionEncrypted communications with 128-bit SSL encryption and 1024-bit RSA public keysAll stored user-documents encrypted with individual keysPasswords stored in one-way encrypted formatAutomatic logout Management Systems and Internal ProceduresCo-location with 24/7 monitoring, redundant and high-capacity internetconnections, secondary power supply systems, fire and climate control ISO 27001 information security certificationRegular external security audits
We have one service offered in three subscription packages. /Read through each of the three product offerings/
Projectplace is Europe’s leading provider of project collaboration tools in the cloud. Since 1998, we have been at the forefront of online collaboration development, driven by a people-centric approach as key to successful project management. The company’s collaboration tools have helped over 800,000 users on more than 120,000 projects motivate and engage their teams.
So how do our customer use us? Let’s look at some testimonials: With demanding planning assignments, it’s important to have a user friendly and central planning tool – Projectplace does. Skanska is one of the world’s leading construction groups. “Projectplace document sharing solution enabled mutual collaboration and communication” says Vodafone.PMI is one of the world's largest not-for-profit membership associations for the project management profession. ‘Projectplace proved its worth.’ Not least because of its transparency. There were fewer misunderstandings and, thus, fewer delays for DPD, an international network for professional parcel shipping. And we’ve helped many more customers...
Here are a few examples of customer cases…
Here are a few examples of customer cases…
Here are a few examples of customer cases…
The value of Projectplace has been experienced by over 800,000 users on more than 120,000 projects worldwide. The majority of our customers are European companies and organisations from both the private and public sectors. The size of our client organisations range from small businesses to large, multi-national corporations. Half of our revenue comes from organisations with more than 500 employees.
Projectplace has always been a first mover, breaking new grounds for efficient collaboration and modern project management. 10% of the company is still owned by key employees including the original founder, and the remaining 90% by Scandinavian institutions. We are a multi-cultural company with more than 20 nationalities represented, and global policies for work-life balance and equal opportunities. In total there are over 160 people employed in 7 countries, with everyone sharing this same passion everyday: Our continued mission? To make even more projects successful with new, innovative tools that: improve collaborationmake life easy and inspiring for project peopleand save time and money for the organisation
To summarize, Projectplace social collaboration tools help organisations to:get socialboost productivitysucceed with projects We do this by providing modern, delightful, online tools for:communicationdocument collaborationproject management …in a social, mobile and secure cloud service... As I’ve said over and over in the presentation, communication is the root to everything. If there is no communication, the project is most likely to fail. Communication in Projectplace is very transparent; it’s the core to everything. In knowing what other people are doing and planning to do, you can adopt your work to the others. In the core of what we do is Collaborative Planning, a social approach to project planning, focuses on sharing, transparency and communication for optimal execution to achieve the goal. We’ve believed in this approach for 15 years, and will continue to firmly do so.