Successful IT leaders are continually seeking ways of making their teams more productive, impactful and business-relevant and advancing their own careers in the process. In this closing keynote, seven-time CIO and author Mark Settle will focus on the key organizational and personal competencies required to succeed in the 2020s.
The Day 2 opening keynote, led by BetterCloud’s Chief Product Officer, Jim Brennan, shares BetterCloud’s vision, demonstrates new product announcements, and presents our strategic roadmap. Jim will present on BetterCloud’s product pillars and the top use cases this functionality will enable.
451 Research Report: BetterCloud Pioneers the Emerging SaaS Operations Manage...BetterCloud
SaaS applications are proliferating within and across enterprises in all industries. BetterCloud addresses a new IT challenge – how to automate and govern the IT administrative blind spots related to the use of multiple SaaS applications.
SaaSOps isn’t just a set of technologies—it’s a movement! In his opening keynote, BetterCloud CEO David Politis will discuss how SaaSOps is changing IT’s role, the new challenges it solves, and how it unlocks the promise of SaaS. A panel of modern-day CIOs - Paul Chapman (Box), Uy Ut (Accel), and Eric Tan (Coupa) - moderated by Harry Moseley, CIO of Zoom, will discuss their SaaSOps journeys and share their best advice for you—the CIOs of tomorrow.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Corporate Engineer: The New IT AdminBetterCloud
The notion that IT is only important when stuff breaks is outdated. IT is now the gatekeeper and enabler of business solutions and productivity. Join Blair Sammons, Lead of Corporate Engineering at Weedmaps, for a deep dive into the core skills you need as the IT industry shifts and how to leverage these skills to uplevel your career.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Smart Scaling through Automation: How to Scale Without Adding...BetterCloud
Anthony Ancheta, manager of IT at Lime, and James Kang, manager, IT operations at Udemy, both BetterCloud customers, will show you how to leverage automation in BetterCloud to empower your teams to do more without adding IT headcount.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Enabling Productivity with Agile SecurityBetterCloud
It’s a fine line to give users control over settings and their data, but not too much control. In this session, you’ll learn how Chad Ponder, VP Technology Service and Support at United Capital, Mark Bowling, Remote Chief Information Security Officer at United Capital, and Colin McCarthy, VP of Global IT at Essence, are creating workflows that give their users the flexibility they need to do their jobs, without compromising security.
The Day 2 opening keynote, led by BetterCloud’s Chief Product Officer, Jim Brennan, shares BetterCloud’s vision, demonstrates new product announcements, and presents our strategic roadmap. Jim will present on BetterCloud’s product pillars and the top use cases this functionality will enable.
451 Research Report: BetterCloud Pioneers the Emerging SaaS Operations Manage...BetterCloud
SaaS applications are proliferating within and across enterprises in all industries. BetterCloud addresses a new IT challenge – how to automate and govern the IT administrative blind spots related to the use of multiple SaaS applications.
SaaSOps isn’t just a set of technologies—it’s a movement! In his opening keynote, BetterCloud CEO David Politis will discuss how SaaSOps is changing IT’s role, the new challenges it solves, and how it unlocks the promise of SaaS. A panel of modern-day CIOs - Paul Chapman (Box), Uy Ut (Accel), and Eric Tan (Coupa) - moderated by Harry Moseley, CIO of Zoom, will discuss their SaaSOps journeys and share their best advice for you—the CIOs of tomorrow.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Corporate Engineer: The New IT AdminBetterCloud
The notion that IT is only important when stuff breaks is outdated. IT is now the gatekeeper and enabler of business solutions and productivity. Join Blair Sammons, Lead of Corporate Engineering at Weedmaps, for a deep dive into the core skills you need as the IT industry shifts and how to leverage these skills to uplevel your career.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Smart Scaling through Automation: How to Scale Without Adding...BetterCloud
Anthony Ancheta, manager of IT at Lime, and James Kang, manager, IT operations at Udemy, both BetterCloud customers, will show you how to leverage automation in BetterCloud to empower your teams to do more without adding IT headcount.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Enabling Productivity with Agile SecurityBetterCloud
It’s a fine line to give users control over settings and their data, but not too much control. In this session, you’ll learn how Chad Ponder, VP Technology Service and Support at United Capital, Mark Bowling, Remote Chief Information Security Officer at United Capital, and Colin McCarthy, VP of Global IT at Essence, are creating workflows that give their users the flexibility they need to do their jobs, without compromising security.
Software as a Service (SaaS) has come a long way from being just an iota to a budding industry. With rising market trends for SaaS, large numbers of companies are switching from the customary on-premise software to SaaS based applications. Though it’s an early start for SaaS, it has still managed to leave an enduring impression and has played a major role in the success of most small and medium sized businesses (SMBs).
Understand the What, Why & How of Digital Transformation Featuring 451 ResearchVMware Tanzu
Why did we hear so much about “Digital Transformation” in 2016, and frankly what does it mean? While it's easy to dismiss the phrase with an eye-roll, there's no better phrase to represent improving how IT is used to help drive business innovation...and the huge changes organizations must go through to be successful. This webinar with Nick Patience, Research Vice President for 451 Research's software team, and Michael Coté of Pivotal will discuss a pragmatic definition and approach to Digital Transformation as seen through the experiences of organizations who've lived through it.
Digital Transformation is about fundamentally rebuilding business and IT processes, not just about building apps. 451 Research defines Digital Transformation as “a result of IT innovation that is aligned with and driven by a well-planned business strategy, with the goal of transforming how organizations serve customers, employees and partners.” Some main features of a successful transformation include the ability to quickly react to market demands, and use information to make better decisions and serve constituents more effectively.
In this webinar Nick Patience of 451 Research and Pivotal’s Michael Cote will discuss:
- Why now is the time for Digital Transformation
- How the balance of power between customer and provider contributes to this new revolution
- Shifting priorities that require new practices and processes and the technical tools and platforms that support them
- Real-world examples of organizations that have been there (we’ll share all the gorey details, including what worked and didn't work for them)
View the webinar here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14891/242781
Your focus should be on your mission, not on managing antiquated business applications that aren't giving you the business process automation and financial reporting your need. Running a Nonprofit accounting operation can be a tremendous challenge. You've got day to day operational issues, including managing cash, providing your management team with financial visibility and helping your organization stick to its budget. You also have unique challenges from dealing with strict requirements to ensure you account for and report on sources and uses of funds, to managing the expectations of major donors and your board.
Join the Raffa Technology team for an overview of how you can leverage Sage Intacct to better support all aspects of your accounting operations.
How to Manage Organizational Change and Cultural Impact During a Cloud Transf...Amazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn methodologies to prepare and mobilize resources for a cloud transformation
- Review change management frameworks to help gain buy-in for your cloud initiatives
- Discuss lessons learned by other enterprises during various stages of cloud adoption
Best Practices for Managing SaaS ApplicationsCorrelsense
The proliferation of SaaS applications like Salesforce.com is creating a host of new management challenges. For example, how do you measure the performance of applications you don’t host? What real-time data do you have to communicate with business stakeholders? How will you know if SLA commitments are being met?
Join us for a webinar exploring the best practices for managing SaaS applications, including:
*Important ways that the management of SaaS and hosted application management differ
*The unique challenges of supporting enterprise SaaS applications
*Case studies demonstrating new techniques and tools for measuring the performance of hosted applications like Salesforce.com
Today, every company runs many different applications that are essential for success – both internal business applications but also external-facing applications for customers and partners (such as the company website, customer self-service portal, e-commerce sites, or mobile apps).
And then, there's data. Every user interaction with any application works with data, consumes data and generates data. Today, every business collects tremendous amounts of information - and the challenge is how to turn this data into actionable insights and intelligence to provide a superior customer experience.
We will look at how a major industrial organisation is transforming their entire value chain, how they got started, what they've achieved and lessons learnt along the way.
Speaker: Julian Fischer, CEO, Anynines
Summation IT Company Profile- PresentationSummation IT
Summation IT is an emerging software development company located in Hyderabad, India. We have the best teams on various technology platforms. We are one of the leading Outsourcing software development company with a wide portfolio of different industry domains.
EMA research shows that more than 40% of today’s production application workloads are running in the cloud. The age of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud is here to stay. Yet, many IT organizations continue to struggle with their cloud migrations.
These slides, based on the webinar hosted by EMA Research and Scalable Software, examines the core requirements for assessing your current IT landscape, setting priorities, and determining which workloads impact which services as you migrate to cloud.
The People Model & Cloud Transformation - Transformation Day Public Sector Lo...Amazon Web Services
The People Model & Cloud Transformation
A successful cloud-transformation journey incorporates three pillars: people, process, and technology. Far too often, organizations focus on process improvements and technology implementation, but ignore the human aspect. Many leaders acknowledge that the first two are easy to modify, while influencing culture is more difficult. This session covers best-practice methods meant to empower customers to address this challenge. Learn about roles and responsibilities germane to the transition and post-cloud adoption phase. Assess your organization’s gaps among the requisite skills and competencies. Build effective training models. And shape an effective DevOps culture.
Speaker:
Thomas Blood, Enterprise Evangelist, Amazon Web Services.
The Next Big Service Provider Opportunity—Beyond Infrastructure: Architecting...CA Technologies
The Next Big Service Provider Opportunity—Beyond Infrastructure: Architecting Your Customer’s Modern Software Factory
For more information on MSP, please visit: http://ow.ly/kWsH50gbxYh
Leading Your Firm To Success With SharePoint & Office 365 - ILTASPSRichard Harbridge
Richard Harbridge will share first-hand experience and advice on the practical application of Microsoft’s cloud technology. Learn what’s changed and why you should use O365 in the future, how best to integrate and leverage your existing investments in technologies and usage patterns, and how these technologies provide significant business value in legal departments and law firms today. What are successful organizations doing to maximize the effects of SharePoint and Office 365? Find out during this eye-opening keynote!
Extend Your Salesforce Investment with Cloud IntegrationPerficient, Inc.
It is no secret that Salesforce solutions are spreading rapidly across the business world today. As you move more of your business functions to Salesforce, you’ll quickly realize the need to maintain your core back-office systems and expose parts of them to your sales and service groups. These existing systems are mission-critical to your success and need to be highly available in real time to maximize productivity.
Learn how to break the integration barrier to cloud computing and see how your organization can obtain the full benefit of Salesforce in just days with IBM WebSphere Cast Iron.
We delivered an in-depth look at:
-Connecting cloud and on-premise applications quickly and easily with Salesforce
-Comparing traditional approaches to integration and the benefits of employing Cast Iron integration
-Empowering IT with an off-the-shelf approach to integration reviving your existing back-office systems with a conduit to the cloud
See what customers from all industries had to say about productivity, software integration, records management and business process automation at the Empower 2015 conference.
Overview of Krish's software development and IT consulting services for enterprise application modernization, SharePoint/Office 365, and cloud migrations.
The five secrets of high performing cisosPriyanka Aash
The connected world is a dangerous place. CISOs must lead their companies to adopt safe business practices. How should you proceed? IANS reveals the secrets of high-performing CISOs by drilling into findings from CISO ImpactTM, a framework of best practices and diagnostic data gleaned from over 1000 organizations. Armed with strong guidance, CISOs can chart their own paths to leadership.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Why IT needs more IT Architects (IASA style)Paddy Baxter
This is a deck I presented to IT leaders in the public sector. In it I explain the IASA definition of IT Architect and how in-house tech leaders can deliver substantially to their teams, IT and their whole organisation by focusing on the skills IASA defines as required for a high performing IT architect.
Software as a Service (SaaS) has come a long way from being just an iota to a budding industry. With rising market trends for SaaS, large numbers of companies are switching from the customary on-premise software to SaaS based applications. Though it’s an early start for SaaS, it has still managed to leave an enduring impression and has played a major role in the success of most small and medium sized businesses (SMBs).
Understand the What, Why & How of Digital Transformation Featuring 451 ResearchVMware Tanzu
Why did we hear so much about “Digital Transformation” in 2016, and frankly what does it mean? While it's easy to dismiss the phrase with an eye-roll, there's no better phrase to represent improving how IT is used to help drive business innovation...and the huge changes organizations must go through to be successful. This webinar with Nick Patience, Research Vice President for 451 Research's software team, and Michael Coté of Pivotal will discuss a pragmatic definition and approach to Digital Transformation as seen through the experiences of organizations who've lived through it.
Digital Transformation is about fundamentally rebuilding business and IT processes, not just about building apps. 451 Research defines Digital Transformation as “a result of IT innovation that is aligned with and driven by a well-planned business strategy, with the goal of transforming how organizations serve customers, employees and partners.” Some main features of a successful transformation include the ability to quickly react to market demands, and use information to make better decisions and serve constituents more effectively.
In this webinar Nick Patience of 451 Research and Pivotal’s Michael Cote will discuss:
- Why now is the time for Digital Transformation
- How the balance of power between customer and provider contributes to this new revolution
- Shifting priorities that require new practices and processes and the technical tools and platforms that support them
- Real-world examples of organizations that have been there (we’ll share all the gorey details, including what worked and didn't work for them)
View the webinar here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14891/242781
Your focus should be on your mission, not on managing antiquated business applications that aren't giving you the business process automation and financial reporting your need. Running a Nonprofit accounting operation can be a tremendous challenge. You've got day to day operational issues, including managing cash, providing your management team with financial visibility and helping your organization stick to its budget. You also have unique challenges from dealing with strict requirements to ensure you account for and report on sources and uses of funds, to managing the expectations of major donors and your board.
Join the Raffa Technology team for an overview of how you can leverage Sage Intacct to better support all aspects of your accounting operations.
How to Manage Organizational Change and Cultural Impact During a Cloud Transf...Amazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn methodologies to prepare and mobilize resources for a cloud transformation
- Review change management frameworks to help gain buy-in for your cloud initiatives
- Discuss lessons learned by other enterprises during various stages of cloud adoption
Best Practices for Managing SaaS ApplicationsCorrelsense
The proliferation of SaaS applications like Salesforce.com is creating a host of new management challenges. For example, how do you measure the performance of applications you don’t host? What real-time data do you have to communicate with business stakeholders? How will you know if SLA commitments are being met?
Join us for a webinar exploring the best practices for managing SaaS applications, including:
*Important ways that the management of SaaS and hosted application management differ
*The unique challenges of supporting enterprise SaaS applications
*Case studies demonstrating new techniques and tools for measuring the performance of hosted applications like Salesforce.com
Today, every company runs many different applications that are essential for success – both internal business applications but also external-facing applications for customers and partners (such as the company website, customer self-service portal, e-commerce sites, or mobile apps).
And then, there's data. Every user interaction with any application works with data, consumes data and generates data. Today, every business collects tremendous amounts of information - and the challenge is how to turn this data into actionable insights and intelligence to provide a superior customer experience.
We will look at how a major industrial organisation is transforming their entire value chain, how they got started, what they've achieved and lessons learnt along the way.
Speaker: Julian Fischer, CEO, Anynines
Summation IT Company Profile- PresentationSummation IT
Summation IT is an emerging software development company located in Hyderabad, India. We have the best teams on various technology platforms. We are one of the leading Outsourcing software development company with a wide portfolio of different industry domains.
EMA research shows that more than 40% of today’s production application workloads are running in the cloud. The age of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud is here to stay. Yet, many IT organizations continue to struggle with their cloud migrations.
These slides, based on the webinar hosted by EMA Research and Scalable Software, examines the core requirements for assessing your current IT landscape, setting priorities, and determining which workloads impact which services as you migrate to cloud.
The People Model & Cloud Transformation - Transformation Day Public Sector Lo...Amazon Web Services
The People Model & Cloud Transformation
A successful cloud-transformation journey incorporates three pillars: people, process, and technology. Far too often, organizations focus on process improvements and technology implementation, but ignore the human aspect. Many leaders acknowledge that the first two are easy to modify, while influencing culture is more difficult. This session covers best-practice methods meant to empower customers to address this challenge. Learn about roles and responsibilities germane to the transition and post-cloud adoption phase. Assess your organization’s gaps among the requisite skills and competencies. Build effective training models. And shape an effective DevOps culture.
Speaker:
Thomas Blood, Enterprise Evangelist, Amazon Web Services.
The Next Big Service Provider Opportunity—Beyond Infrastructure: Architecting...CA Technologies
The Next Big Service Provider Opportunity—Beyond Infrastructure: Architecting Your Customer’s Modern Software Factory
For more information on MSP, please visit: http://ow.ly/kWsH50gbxYh
Leading Your Firm To Success With SharePoint & Office 365 - ILTASPSRichard Harbridge
Richard Harbridge will share first-hand experience and advice on the practical application of Microsoft’s cloud technology. Learn what’s changed and why you should use O365 in the future, how best to integrate and leverage your existing investments in technologies and usage patterns, and how these technologies provide significant business value in legal departments and law firms today. What are successful organizations doing to maximize the effects of SharePoint and Office 365? Find out during this eye-opening keynote!
Extend Your Salesforce Investment with Cloud IntegrationPerficient, Inc.
It is no secret that Salesforce solutions are spreading rapidly across the business world today. As you move more of your business functions to Salesforce, you’ll quickly realize the need to maintain your core back-office systems and expose parts of them to your sales and service groups. These existing systems are mission-critical to your success and need to be highly available in real time to maximize productivity.
Learn how to break the integration barrier to cloud computing and see how your organization can obtain the full benefit of Salesforce in just days with IBM WebSphere Cast Iron.
We delivered an in-depth look at:
-Connecting cloud and on-premise applications quickly and easily with Salesforce
-Comparing traditional approaches to integration and the benefits of employing Cast Iron integration
-Empowering IT with an off-the-shelf approach to integration reviving your existing back-office systems with a conduit to the cloud
See what customers from all industries had to say about productivity, software integration, records management and business process automation at the Empower 2015 conference.
Overview of Krish's software development and IT consulting services for enterprise application modernization, SharePoint/Office 365, and cloud migrations.
The five secrets of high performing cisosPriyanka Aash
The connected world is a dangerous place. CISOs must lead their companies to adopt safe business practices. How should you proceed? IANS reveals the secrets of high-performing CISOs by drilling into findings from CISO ImpactTM, a framework of best practices and diagnostic data gleaned from over 1000 organizations. Armed with strong guidance, CISOs can chart their own paths to leadership.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Why IT needs more IT Architects (IASA style)Paddy Baxter
This is a deck I presented to IT leaders in the public sector. In it I explain the IASA definition of IT Architect and how in-house tech leaders can deliver substantially to their teams, IT and their whole organisation by focusing on the skills IASA defines as required for a high performing IT architect.
Top Strategies to Modernize Information Management SystemsNuxeo
Did you know that more than 75% of AIIM respondents said they have challenges finding the right information in a timely way? Are you one of them? Industry leader Martyn Christian shares insights about new strategies for modernizing legacy information systems that enable organizations to connect systems and remove information silos, streamline processes and information access, strategically consolidate, without impacting end users, and leverage existing IT investments.
How to analyze text data for AI and ML with Named Entity RecognitionSkyl.ai
About the webinar
The Internet is a rich source of data, mainly textual data. But making use of huge quantities of data is a complex and time-consuming task. NLP can help with this problem through the use of Named Entity Recognition systems. Named entities are terms that refer to names, organizations, locations, values etc. NER annotates texts – marking where and what type of named entities occurred in it. This step significantly simplifies further use of such data, allowing for easy categorization of documents, analyze sentiments, improving automatically generated summaries etc.
Further, in many industries, the vocabulary keeps changing and growing with new research, abbreviations, long and complex constructions, and makes it difficult to get accurate results or use rule-based methods. Named Entity Recognition and Classification can help to effectively extract, tag, index, and manage this fast and ever-growing knowledge.
Through this webinar, we will understand how NER can be used to extract key entities from large volumes of text data
What you will learn
- How organizations are leveraging Named Entity Recognition across various industries
- Live demo - Identify & classify complex terms & with NERC (Named Entity Recognition & Categorization)
- Best practice to automate machine learning models in hours not months
Why do top CTOs prefer SAP Managed Services Providers (MSPs)Anil
Though it often sounds excruciating, change is inevitable, and some changes are necessary. The pandemic profoundly affected many aspects of our lives, business being a major casualty. One of the biggest exposures because of the pandemic is how interconnected the business economy is and how it has expedited digital transformation worth a decade in a mere span of 2 years, keeping technology leaders and key decision-makers of an organization on their toes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & The Future of Employee ServiceITSM Academy, Inc.
Dan Turchin, Astound
he bots are coming… but not to take your job. Learn how and why AI and machine learning are making humans better and how organizations like McDonald’s and adidas are delivering better service today.
Astound co-founder Dan Turchin will discuss the future of AI in IT and provide actionable tips that will guarantee your AI initiatives succeed.
Key takeaways:
How artificial intelligence is impacting IT
Why machine learning accelerates shift left strategies
How AI and natural language processing (NLP) are used to improve KPIs like MTTR, FCR, cost per ticket, and customer satisfaction
How AI-driven automation benefits the entire service lifecycle from provisioning and monitoring to incident, problem, and change management
The MILES Series - IT - Bringing Everything TogetherAnurag Purohit
How IT makes everything and everyone work together. Fundamentals of IT and related technologies and how they help organisations in achieving its goals. A perfect kick off for people who want to clear their doubt about how various components of IT work in harmony to help the organisation in getting the leading edge in the market. From the MILES (Make IT Logical, Easy and Simple) Series.
So the technology organisation introduced Agile, DevOps, and Cloud-based delivery. Why do they still suck in the eyes of the business? The answer lies in the management perspective which still relies on the 20th century thinking for 21st-century technologies. Using a major European car manufacturing company as a case study. Alan explains the management change necessary to get a better return on energy after digital transformations.
Less tech more talk the future of the ciso rolePriyanka Aash
As technology’s role in business success increases, so does the importance of cybersecurity. This session will discuss how the role of the CISO is evolving from a technical position to a business-focused position, and the business and communication skills that will become critical.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
How to classify documents automatically using NLPSkyl.ai
About the webinar
Documents come in different shapes and sizes - From technical documents, customer support chat, emails, reviews to news articles - all of them contain information that is valuable to the business.
Managing these large volume data documents in a traditional manual way has been a complex and time-consuming task that requires enormous human efforts.
In this webinar, we will discuss how Machine learning can be used to identify and automatically label news articles into categories like business, politics, music, etc. This can be applied in another context like categorizing emails, reviews, and processing text documents, etc.
What you will learn
- How businesses are leveraging document classification to their advantage
- Best practice to automate machine learning models in hours not months
- Demo: Classify news articles into the right category using convolution neural network
Any modern business with digital assets requires a robust site reliability framework to secure it’s digital domains and ensure uninterrupted service delivery.
This is essential to protect revenue streams and brand value as well as to shield your website against cyber threats.
From Cave Man to Business Man, the Evolution of the CISO to CIROPriyanka Aash
The CISO is evolving to CIRO. Successful IT security leaders are transforming their skills to meet the demands for today and future needs of their organization. A CIRO understands how to prepare board presentations, information risk management, third-party risk and regulatory requirements, and how to balance those with the needs of the business. Earn your seat at the table by becoming a CIRO!
(Source: RSA USA 2016-San Francisco)
The 2020 State of SaaSOps finds that as more companies adjust to the realities of managing SaaS at scale, SaaSOps will evolve into a core IT discipline—influencing strategic priorities, technology investments, and even job titles and career paths. Get the report for key findings and insights into the future of IT.
ALTITUDE 2019 | Automate Your Team Out of (Boring) Jobs with SaaS OperationsBetterCloud
Drafting a detailed business case is an effective way to get the approval and support of senior management to implement new initiatives and purchase new software. Join this session with Karel vanBeekom, IT manager at Justworks, for a first-hand account about the benefits of SaaS Operations tools and how to write a business proposal that will justify a purchase to higher-ups from an experienced IT leader.
IT is faced with more and more security vulnerabilities that they do not even know about, thanks to the influx of SaaS apps in the workplace. Learn how to combat these vulnerabilities to create a secured SaaS environment.
BetterCloud Whitepaper: Offboarding Inefficiencies and Security ThreatsBetterCloud
With the increase of SaaS apps in the workplace, it can take hours to just offboard one employee. Its time to tackle this issue, and offboard fast, and securely.
The 10 Commandments of the SaaS-Powered WorkplaceBetterCloud
There are no rules engraved in stone for how to run modern day IT. But what if there were? What would they say? In this presentation, BetterCloud explores 10 foundational principles (plus a bonus one for good measure) that every IT professional should follow to find success in the age of the SaaS-Powered Workplace.
Due to technological advancements, the role of IT is in constant flux. The 10 commandments outlined in this webinar will serve as core tenets for you and your organization, regardless of the technology you use, your role, experience, industry, or any other variable. This presentation will not only define these fundamental rules, but we’ll also provide actionable takeaways for you to implement immediately.
The presentation covers:
- The mindset of the modern day IT professional
- 10 fundamental rules every IT professional must follow
- How to future-proof your IT environment
Watch the video for this presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT1XI9eCViA&t=721s
The 2016 State of Cloud IT Report by BetterCloud
The Cloud Changes Everything
Work as we know it is transforming. Today, all businesses are technology enabled, regardless of size, industry, or location. But merely using technology no longer guarantees you remain competitive. As digital natives flood the global workforce, businesses are met with a decision: resist new norms or provide the latest technology to their employees.
We are in the midst of a technological shift not seen since the launch of Microsoft Office and the invention of the Internet. The world of IT is at a tipping point, and at the center are IT professionals experiencing once-in-a-career shifts in their roles and responsibilities. For years, IT has been mischaracterized as solely an internal support team; if something breaks, IT is there with the fix. In 2016, IT professionals are beginning to offload their routine work to cloud software and service providers, giving them more time to focus on strategic work.
The skills required to be a successful IT professional in the modern, cloud-first workplace are far different than they once were. Cloud IT is coming of age, and it’s going to affect every organization and IT professional in the world, much faster than you think.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
3. #SaaSOps
My IT writing experience
Contents
Follow the Money
Get Them to Like You
Fishing in the Talent Pool
Playing Nicely with the Vendors
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
Decoding Demand Signals from the Business
Exercising the Power of Position
Managing Innovation
Look in the Mirror
4. #SaaSOps
My IT writing experience
The future is
already here -
it’s just not
evenly distributed
- William Gibson
5. #SaaSOps
People
Attracting Talent
Recruiting Talent
Developing People
Eliminating Talent Debt
Teamwork
Process
Service Management
Application Dev & Maintenance
API Governance
Data Management
Security Culture
Compliance
Technical Debt
Workflow Automation
IT Governance
Technology
Application Proliferation
Infrastructure Abstraction
Cost Control
The Virtual Workplace
Automation First Mentality
Vendor Ecosystem Leverage
Business Process Prescience
Truth from the Valley
A Preview of Coming Attractions
6. #SaaSOps
Process
Service Management
Application Dev & Maintenance
API Governance
Data Management
Security Culture
Compliance
Technical Debt
Workflow Automation
IT Governance
Technology
Application Proliferation
Infrastructure Abstraction
Cost Control
The Virtual Workplace
Automation First Mentality
Vendor Ecosystem Leverage
Business Process Prescience
Truth from the Valley
A Preview of Coming Attractions
People
Attracting Talent
Recruiting Talent
Developing People
Eliminating Talent Debt
Teamwork
8. #SaaSOps
Application Proliferation
How to provide leadership?
• Pick your battles
(differentiate systems of record
from systems of engagement)
• Follow the money
• Safeguard the corporation
• Provide the glue
• Report on utilization
12. #SaaSOps
Essential Elements of an Effective Cyber Security
Policies
Operational Controls
Work Rules & Procedures
Technology Tools
Dedicated Staff
Building a Security Culture Within IT
13. #SaaSOps
Essential Elements of an Effective Cyber Security Culture
Organization-Wide Awareness of Cyber Risks and Vulnerabilities
Policies
Operational Controls
Work Rules & Procedures
Technology Tools
Dedicated Staff
Routine Discussion of Security-Related Issues & Concerns in
Standard IT Processes
Building a Security Culture Within IT
14. #SaaSOps
Building a Security Culture Within IT
Teach
Awareness
Manage
Vulnerabilities
TalkMeasure
Personalize
Penalize
Behavioral triggers that can create a flywheel effect
17. #SaaSOps
The perils of being an
NFL coach (or IT leader!)
Why are NFL coaches fired?
• Failure to recruit, develop and manage
talent
• Failure to innovate and react to change
• Failure to intervene when things start
going wrong
• Failure to develop effective working
relationships with business leaders
18. #SaaSOps
How to gauge your personal development as IT leaders
People Skills
Technical
Expertise
Business
Knowledge
19. #SaaSOps
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills”
Chinese Proverb