Windows Apps on Chromebooks: Deliver a Seamless ExperienceCitrix
Citrix and Google work together to help organizations simplify access to business-critical Windows applications on Chromebooks along side Google Apps, SaaS and other cloud-based services. Read this paper to learn more.
The 8 Biggest Document Management Trends this YearAxero Solutions
Organizations are moving away from paper documents and "going digital." Document management has always been key to business operations, but current methods differ greatly from those of even ten or twenty years ago. Software platforms have taken the lead, and if your company hasn't started making the switch, you're already behind the competition.
A number of trends have recently emerged in doc management practices, and many have the potential to stand the test of time. Some of have been around for years, yet are just now starting to become commonplace. Some, however, are brand new to the world of document management software.
Here are the 8 biggest document management trends this year.
Windows Apps on Chromebooks: Deliver a Seamless ExperienceCitrix
Citrix and Google work together to help organizations simplify access to business-critical Windows applications on Chromebooks along side Google Apps, SaaS and other cloud-based services. Read this paper to learn more.
The 8 Biggest Document Management Trends this YearAxero Solutions
Organizations are moving away from paper documents and "going digital." Document management has always been key to business operations, but current methods differ greatly from those of even ten or twenty years ago. Software platforms have taken the lead, and if your company hasn't started making the switch, you're already behind the competition.
A number of trends have recently emerged in doc management practices, and many have the potential to stand the test of time. Some of have been around for years, yet are just now starting to become commonplace. Some, however, are brand new to the world of document management software.
Here are the 8 biggest document management trends this year.
10 Reasons to Strengthen Security with App & Desktop VirtualizationCitrix
Explore 10 reasons why app and desktop virtualization should be the foundation for your layered approach to information security. It will enable organizations to pursue priorities such as mobility, flexwork and consumerization while effectively managing risk.
How can social media and collaborative technology increase productivity, improve decision-making and strengthen business teams? Introductory presentation by Tom Purves, Enterprise 2.0, Nov 7, 2006
How the Consumerization of IT Affects Your BusinessMicrosoft
This white paper presents the reference model and taxonomy for the consumerization of IT, supported by business scenarios and strategies for supporting consumerization of IT initiatives.
This white paper is one part of the “Microsoft Recommendations for a Consumerization of IT Strategy” series. This series introduces the phenomenon known as the consumerization of IT, including strategies for supporting the proliferation of devices in the workplace and supporting work tasks on personal devices at diverse locations.
Bring your own... Everything! The Rise of the Networked IndividualSharon Richardson
What if enterprise-based productivity and communications tools were replaced with consumer-based online services? This talk explores the impact of the 'Bring your own device' (BYOD) trend in the workplace and asks what else might we start to bring? Bring your own profile, network, apps, data... everything?
Top 3 Reasons to Deliver Web Apps with Application VirtualizationCitrix
Learn how you can simplify management and secure browser apps by using app virtualization to centrally host a single image of a browser and deliver them on-demand.
Desktop Virtualization: Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiencies with Proven VDI So...Citrix
This whitepaper busts myths and describes how VDI has proven to be successful—providing positive outcomes for IT and employees, addressing security vulnerabilities, and delivering favorable economics back to the business.
As mobile devices & remote working practices become more prevalent in today's organizations, an increasing number of workers are using consumer file sharing tools to ensure they have access to the latest version of documents.
However enterprise requirements are very different to individual preferences when establishing which tools to use.
Improving productivity with online collaborationThomson Data
With the advent of online collaboration today, most companies have employees spread all across the world, which in turn had helped a lot in improving the productivity of the business. http://www.thomsondata.com
Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 ConversationRoss Mayfield
Keynote at Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston where we launched SocialCalc the social spreadsheet.
The past five years have held tremendous innovation in enterprise software, an industry not known for its innovation relative to other areas of the technology sector. Enterprise 2.0 has challenged preconceptions and created innovative products. But of more interest, the use cases have evolved and practices are enabling new solutions that offer competitive advantage. Its time to elevate the conversation beyond features (wiki, blog, RSS, social networking, etc.), put aside the hype and talk about what problems the Enteprise 2.0 community is uniquely prepared to solve. In this keynote, Socialtext Chairman, President & Co-founder Ross Mayfield will share his insights from the past five years in business, and look to the next.
Presentation given by Dion Hinchcliffe at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009. Focused on climbing the maturity curve of process and methods for enterprise social computing.
Web engineering UNIT V as per RGPV syllabusNANDINI SHARMA
E- Commerce, E-commerce Business Models, The Internet and World Wide Web: E-commerce
Infrastructure, Building an E-commerce Web Site , Electronic Commerce environment and opportunities. Modes of Electronic Commerce, Approaches to safe Electronic Commerce, Electronic Cash and Electronic Payment Schemes ,Online Security and Payment Systems, Ecommerce Marketing Concepts, Advertising on the Internet: issues an Technologies, Ecommerce Marketing Concepts Electronic Publishing issues, approaches, legalities and technologies ,Privacy and Security Topics: Introduction, Web Security , Encryption schemes, Secure Web document, Digital Signatures and Firewalls, Cyber crime and laws, IT Act.
Intergen Think! Event: Modern Applications for a Modern EnterpriseIntergen
This session is an introduction to the emerging concepts and patterns that are known as “modern applications” and will be of interest to business innovators and solution developers alike.
The modern application is not about any one technology; it is an application that delivers experiences that users have come to expect. It is more than just a consumable piece of software – it’s also the development and delivery of that software.
We review several elements that power this new wave/next generation of applications and identify how the modern enterprise can consider these as part of enabling business value through technology.
Collaboration 3.0: 8 trends today that will define our tools tomorrowalexschiff
A lot of talk has been made of trends redefining the tools people use to collaborate and get things done: cloud computing, rise (and ubiquity) of mobile, consumerization of enterprise IT, etc. These aren't "predictions" anymore — they're well-accepted facts, and the opportunities to build large companies on this trend are getting smaller.
So, what's next? What will the third wave (details within) of collaboration look like? To answer that question, I turned to 18 product leaders and executives working in the field and asked, "What are the trends forming today that will redefine the tools we use to work together tomorrow?"
10 Reasons to Strengthen Security with App & Desktop VirtualizationCitrix
Explore 10 reasons why app and desktop virtualization should be the foundation for your layered approach to information security. It will enable organizations to pursue priorities such as mobility, flexwork and consumerization while effectively managing risk.
How can social media and collaborative technology increase productivity, improve decision-making and strengthen business teams? Introductory presentation by Tom Purves, Enterprise 2.0, Nov 7, 2006
How the Consumerization of IT Affects Your BusinessMicrosoft
This white paper presents the reference model and taxonomy for the consumerization of IT, supported by business scenarios and strategies for supporting consumerization of IT initiatives.
This white paper is one part of the “Microsoft Recommendations for a Consumerization of IT Strategy” series. This series introduces the phenomenon known as the consumerization of IT, including strategies for supporting the proliferation of devices in the workplace and supporting work tasks on personal devices at diverse locations.
Bring your own... Everything! The Rise of the Networked IndividualSharon Richardson
What if enterprise-based productivity and communications tools were replaced with consumer-based online services? This talk explores the impact of the 'Bring your own device' (BYOD) trend in the workplace and asks what else might we start to bring? Bring your own profile, network, apps, data... everything?
Top 3 Reasons to Deliver Web Apps with Application VirtualizationCitrix
Learn how you can simplify management and secure browser apps by using app virtualization to centrally host a single image of a browser and deliver them on-demand.
Desktop Virtualization: Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiencies with Proven VDI So...Citrix
This whitepaper busts myths and describes how VDI has proven to be successful—providing positive outcomes for IT and employees, addressing security vulnerabilities, and delivering favorable economics back to the business.
As mobile devices & remote working practices become more prevalent in today's organizations, an increasing number of workers are using consumer file sharing tools to ensure they have access to the latest version of documents.
However enterprise requirements are very different to individual preferences when establishing which tools to use.
Improving productivity with online collaborationThomson Data
With the advent of online collaboration today, most companies have employees spread all across the world, which in turn had helped a lot in improving the productivity of the business. http://www.thomsondata.com
Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 ConversationRoss Mayfield
Keynote at Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston where we launched SocialCalc the social spreadsheet.
The past five years have held tremendous innovation in enterprise software, an industry not known for its innovation relative to other areas of the technology sector. Enterprise 2.0 has challenged preconceptions and created innovative products. But of more interest, the use cases have evolved and practices are enabling new solutions that offer competitive advantage. Its time to elevate the conversation beyond features (wiki, blog, RSS, social networking, etc.), put aside the hype and talk about what problems the Enteprise 2.0 community is uniquely prepared to solve. In this keynote, Socialtext Chairman, President & Co-founder Ross Mayfield will share his insights from the past five years in business, and look to the next.
Presentation given by Dion Hinchcliffe at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009. Focused on climbing the maturity curve of process and methods for enterprise social computing.
Web engineering UNIT V as per RGPV syllabusNANDINI SHARMA
E- Commerce, E-commerce Business Models, The Internet and World Wide Web: E-commerce
Infrastructure, Building an E-commerce Web Site , Electronic Commerce environment and opportunities. Modes of Electronic Commerce, Approaches to safe Electronic Commerce, Electronic Cash and Electronic Payment Schemes ,Online Security and Payment Systems, Ecommerce Marketing Concepts, Advertising on the Internet: issues an Technologies, Ecommerce Marketing Concepts Electronic Publishing issues, approaches, legalities and technologies ,Privacy and Security Topics: Introduction, Web Security , Encryption schemes, Secure Web document, Digital Signatures and Firewalls, Cyber crime and laws, IT Act.
Intergen Think! Event: Modern Applications for a Modern EnterpriseIntergen
This session is an introduction to the emerging concepts and patterns that are known as “modern applications” and will be of interest to business innovators and solution developers alike.
The modern application is not about any one technology; it is an application that delivers experiences that users have come to expect. It is more than just a consumable piece of software – it’s also the development and delivery of that software.
We review several elements that power this new wave/next generation of applications and identify how the modern enterprise can consider these as part of enabling business value through technology.
Collaboration 3.0: 8 trends today that will define our tools tomorrowalexschiff
A lot of talk has been made of trends redefining the tools people use to collaborate and get things done: cloud computing, rise (and ubiquity) of mobile, consumerization of enterprise IT, etc. These aren't "predictions" anymore — they're well-accepted facts, and the opportunities to build large companies on this trend are getting smaller.
So, what's next? What will the third wave (details within) of collaboration look like? To answer that question, I turned to 18 product leaders and executives working in the field and asked, "What are the trends forming today that will redefine the tools we use to work together tomorrow?"
[COLLABORATION]
Superhero
In the
Cubicle
New collaborative tools
empower employees to
tackle tasks with better
results. By Virginia Citrano
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et's face it: It s not easy working for
a U.S. company these days, regard-
less of your job. Decentralization is
pushing more tasks down, leaving
those below with more to organize, moni-
tor and deliver. Communications technology
means everyone is on call 24/7, in the office,
at home, on the train, in the car. The flood
of information unleashed on the Internet
that was supposed to simplify our jobs
has left most of us feeling deiuged...
Most, but not all. As the Internet
blossoms into Web 2.0, some work-
ers and managers are discovering new
tools to cope with task and data over-
load: Flexible tools designed for the
myriad challenges knowledge work-
ers face, not just for routine tasks. Tools
that help better manage and prtoritize
work, rally the strongest team mem-
bers for each job and use talent most
efficiently. Tools that help deliver work
and gather feedback. And perhaps most crit-
ical, tools that let only the essential infor-
mation through the floodgates, in the most
useful format.
Thanks to new collaborative tools, these
employees have the power to do their jobs
in a whole new way—a way that makes the
best use of their time and their company's
resources. It's hard to fault them for feeling
a little like superheroes. capes rippling in
the wind.
c And Speaking of Weather...
* High wind and torrential rain can be the
3 bane of the Federal Aviation Administration
[COLLABORATION]
this time of year. But thanks to some new
collaborative technology, the FAA is ready
to handle the worst that hurrtcane season—
and govemment auditors—can dish out.
If an FAA installation is knocked out by
a storm, the agency relies on a team of 200
volunteers to get it back on line fast. Man-
agers use persona] credit cards to buy any
equipment they need to make repairs. That's
much faster than govemment procurement
channels, but it used to leave a messy trail
for auditors. Now. however, the FAA's Disas-
ter Response Team uses IBM Lotus Connec-
tions, a new Web-based tool from Big Blue
will be acquired, and some may be simply
overrun as larger companies such as Micro-
soft, IBM and Google push deeper into the
world of collaborative technology. What's
more, even the best collaborative tools will
be moot if a company fails to build a culture
of collaboration around them.
But these collaborative technologies are
the seeds of the next Web revolution. Busi-
ness strategists Don Tapscott and Anthony
D. Williams coined the term "wikinomics"
and published a book by that name in 2006
to sum up the business dynamics of the tools
that will make leaders of the companies that
''You can go upstream with the
solution a heck of a Jot faster than before."
^_-=:Chds.Matthews^ specialized Bicycle
that combines record-keeping, blogging,
bookmarking and more. Using this appli-
cation, workers can easily file all receipts,
for.
First Firecat Friday presentation: tools, best practices and design insights we've put to work for organizations of all sizes to help groups and teams work on projects, share ideas, keep track of files, stay on top of tasks -- while feeling like a team.
MBA 5401, Management Information Systems 1 Course Lea.docxaryan532920
MBA 5401, Management Information Systems 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit III
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
8. Analyze the importance of software, hardware, and telecommunications to the business.
8.1 Examine how technologies such as software, hardware, and telecommunications support
business operations.
8.2 Explain current technologies used in organizations.
8.3 Explain emerging technologies in business.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 5:
IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies
Chapter 7:
Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology
Unit Lesson
IT Infrastructure and Technology
How are IT infrastructure and emerging technologies important to organizations? In the last unit, we
talked about the role that information technology (IT) plays in organizations and business strategy. In this unit,
we will discuss a natural continuation of that topic with a focus on emerging technologies and communication
technologies such as wireless technology, the Internet, and telecommunications.
What is IT infrastructure? If you remember from the textbook reading in Chapter 1, our IT infrastructure
includes the shared technology resources that provide the platform supporting our information systems
applications. IT infrastructure includes everything technical that supports the business. It supports both the
business and IT strategies.
Think of it this way: If our strategy is to offer our customer a specific service such as electronic invoicing
(EDI), how can we do that without the infrastructure in place to carry out that goal? The IT infrastructure in this
case is the EDI software, the hardware (a server, database, and the Internet), the personnel, educational
services, management services, and so on.
How has the IT infrastructure evolved over time? Most of us have a sense of the scope’s answer to this
question. It is enormous! Just look at computers—the first ones were huge. Businesses used mainframes the
size of trucks, and now servers are the size of a desktop.
Simple applications of the past have now become suites, or bundles of applications that can work together.
Now, there are enterprise-level applications that help improve an organization’s productivity and efficiency via
a collection of programs with common business applications. They are designed to be customizable to solve
enterprise-wide problems rather than personal or departmental problems.
In addition, there are newly emerging enterprise-level tools such as enterprise database management
software. Again, this concept of enterprise level takes the already existing tools to a different level to answer
the need for more storage and enterprise-wide sharing.
Years ago, dialing into the Internet meant using a slow modem. Now, businesses can use fiber-optic and
wireless technologies. In the past, for small to medium-sized organizations, many of the emerging
UNIT III STUDY GUIDE
Infrastru ...
Week 5 DiscussionYou really like the concept of web-based coladonnacamplin
Week 5 Discussion
You really like the concept of web-based computing and want to use as many web-based programs as possible. Write a brief paragraph discussing the programs you would use for productivity, file storage, collaboration, and communication. What are the benefits and drawbacks of each choice?
Reply-1 ( Rahul)
Organizations build web applications for the purpose of access all the business applications comfortably from any locations because most of the organizations in the recent days operate the business with the main players from multiple locations. With the help of using web applications in the business, it can turn into the hub of productivity by improving their business operations and services as per the needs of enterprises. Each team members can able to log in comfortably and securely by using the standard w eb browsers.
Web based applications for the use of productivity:
Web application offers more than what enterprises are exactly looking for and it avoids all unnecessary meeting and gatherings and offer smart work which automatically helps to improve the productivity. Wb based applications offers free subscriptions and user-friendly applications to the all users. Hence this applications are gaining the huge demand in the recent days.
Examples: Google apps, Trello, MindMeister, Cacoo etc.
Programs for file storage:
In the recent years, AOL technologies are creating a huge impacts on the business to store all the web applications securely with the help of servers. The main agenda of all the web applications are to eliminate the rework like make a separate storage system for all the applications users produce and sending data to the external devices.
Examples: Google drive, IDrive, Mozy, Zumo drive etc.
Program for collaboration:
Collaboration facilitates the communications on web with the help of web applications software tools on the internet in real time. Web Applications mainly priorities and facilitates the organizational team works and workflow from multiple locations with the help of collaboration tools and other required applications. Every team managers and leads make sure that individuals should be aware to understand the new technologies which supports the collaboration tools for better communications.
Examples: Google drive, CoMotion, Adobe LiveCycle, Eclipse etc.
Web based applications for communications purposes:
Organisations are encouraging the communications channels in the organisations so that they can easily convey the latest updates about the technologies and trends to their teams and staff across the all locations. Web applications provides various services for communications which includes:
Google Hangout’s, Skype, instant messaging, etc.
Web based applications are utilizing globally since they are encouraging all the user friendly applications which can be easily handled and operate to increase the productivity of the business. This applications are cost effective and easy to acce ...
Situational applications and their role in enterprise it strategyNewton Day Uploads
In this article a describe how situational applications have come of age through enterprise situational applications platforms - and how they are helping organizations to rationalize IT platforms and empower innovation by producing tens if not hundreds of applications
Five Key Focus Areas for New-Age CollaborationCognizant
Virtually any enterprise can benefit greatly from deploying new-age organizations' collaboration technologies and systems. We review the tools and activities available for collaborating on five levels: within a program, within an organization, between channels, within the extended enterprise and with the external world.
Cloud Computing for Nonprofits - What's Microsoft Got?George Durham
Are you wondering what the cloud has to offer your organization, and why you should care? Or maybe you’re thinking about how to more seamlessly integrate your cloud with your existing on-premise infrastructure? Or how to take advantage of software donations you may already have from Microsoft while still exploring cloud computing?
Join us to learn more about Microsoft’s vision for Software plus Services, a view that recognizes we can’t always have our mission-critical applications and data dependent on Internet access. See what’s available today and what’s around the corner. From the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to Azure to Office 2010, Microsoft’s offerings have the potential to enable nonprofit organizations to spend less time and money running their IT infrastructure so they can spend more time delivering on their missions.
We’ll share examples from organizations already using Microsoft’s cloud services and tell you about donations and discount programs for nonprofits. Product demonstrations and overviews will include Microsoft’s Online Services (Exchange Online, Exchange Hosted Services, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, Dynamics CRM Online, Office Communications Online).
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
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1. Citrix & WebEx Wrestle Microsoft Might in the Collaboration Tools Category at
Developer Summit Award
Bangalore, March 11, 2010: Darwin’s reference to biological symbiosis involves two or more species that
commit to a relationship and through their combined efforts and mutual collaborative interactions, both
stand to gain success. In a similar vein, there can be no doubt that one of the hottest spaces in enterprise
software today is collaboration. It’s no surprise collaboration is getting a lot of interest. The old processes
for capturing, authoring and sharing information are stale and inefficient. As such, there is lot of room for
achieving productivity improvements through improved user experience. This has been true for all
software, but especially so in the enterprise software space where collaboration is essential for daily
operation, where every ounce of productivity translates into big dollars.
When we refer to collaboration on a business activity, there are generally two buckets for these
processes. The first are activities that would fit within the process of innovation. This might include
creating new products, models or business processes. In other words, we are talking about the process of
creation and innovation by teams. The second bucket includes activities around executing the business
processes. Execution includes the hundreds of processes that run each day to operate the business. These
are tactical in nature, and traditionally have key performance indicators (KPIs) measuring the success of a
given process.
In this day and age, fast is synonymous with instantaneous. Increasingly, there is less time to dial up a fax
machine or wait for a file to slowly attach to e-mail (then wait yet again during sending). This is especially
true for entrepreneurs, whose small businesses are built on every advantageous edge that makes them
competitive with larger corporations as well as one another. For small business, everything must be real-
time – not just information anymore, but also changes. Small business needs collaborative tools that can
keep up.
Enter web-based collaborative tools, center stage. These business implementations are the only means
fast enough to match the high-speed demands of the Internet-age industry. They achieve instantaneous
cooperation despite distance, cost, and other past inhibitive considerations. In support of a powerful
storage hub, they allow you to securely store your information, make real-time changes to it, share it
openly or discretely, and, most importantly, collaborate on it with family, friends, groups, departments,
business teams, clients, vendors, or anyone.
Fast isn't the only measure, though. These tools must be easy, with user-friendly interfaces and intuitive
commands. Complicated FTP programs are a thing of the past, and e-mail is too limited (and sometimes
too flaky) to fully meet a company's diverse needs. Tools must be cheap. The idea is productivity, and
expensive software or services prohibit that goal. Web-based tools fill the demands traditionally met by
established application suites, but without their hefty price tags attached. Most of all, though, tools must
be reliable. Web-based collaboration does not depend on one machine (PC or Mac) or one server, but
reliably and securely functions outside of these constraints in the cloud, so to speak. The information your
enterprise team works on in the office all day should still be accessible at your home computer (so you
can continue work with them at night). And with the extensive controls built in to web-based tools, even
the most sensitive materials remain completely confidential despite their availability within user-defined
limitations. Simply put, all-in-all web-based tools make collaboration simple.
In the pre-computer age (before 1970), collaboration was a manual process. This was done mainly in face-
to-face meetings and phone calls. The technologies used included calculators, blackboards, telephones,
postal mail and pencil on paper. While computers might be part of the process, it was mainframe host
oriented that offered no interaction by the participants. This was labor intensive with long cycle times for
even simple tasks. In this era, teams needed to be in the same location, or endure significant travel.
2. When the Internet entered the picture (1980s), it provided a basis for the team to communicate, mainly
via email. This allowed teams to collaborate while geographically separated, which further improved the
efficiency of the process. Since collaboration allowed teams to extend beyond a single location, they could
now include more talented people in other geographies. Other technology advances such as overnight
mail, video conferencing, faxing and conference calling further improved the process.
Another emerging area of how web collaboration is impacting execution is through business intelligence
networks. These are like Facebook or Twitter on steroids. An example of this would be collecting sales and
market intelligence through an internal network – very similar to a social network. The key difference is
that in these applications the participants are internal communities, and the network has intelligence.
Information is assembled and analytics push back conclusions based on all the inputs. This allows the
community to respond quickly to new conditions. In other words, the decision latency is reduced closer to
the dream of “real time business.”
Clearly, web collaboration has enabled business execution to be better, cheaper and faster than in the
past.
Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12
categories,based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity,
functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In
the Collaboration Tools Category, the final shortlist consists of Citrix’s popular GoToMeeting, Microsoft’s
Office, WebEx WebOffice, Microsoft’s Office SharePoint server and Microsoft’s Exchange Server. Oracle’s
Collaboration Suite was the first collaboration tool to win this award in 2008 followed by Adobe Acrobat
Connect Professional in the 2009 chapter of the same awards. Voting is open from
http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist.
If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you
evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes
April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards
website and cast your vote. It counts!
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