Enterprise social networking predictions for 2013 include:
1) A focus on driving behavioral change and adoption through integration with core business processes and data-driven insights.
2) Using social data internally for real-time optimization and management in addition to external monitoring.
3) Establishing social media strategies and capabilities to support key business functions through listening, engaging, and driving outcomes.
Enterprises always look for ways to help employees collaborate with each other more effectively that leads to faster and higher-quality work, which, in turn, drives increased productivity. Though most enterprises keep employee collaboration on top of their corporate agenda, they still lag behind to drive that force to its optimum level! Using traditional approaches for attaining high productivity and innovation among employees are no more beneficial and effective in fast-technology pace and people oriented work space environments.
Social software lets employees connect and share in new ways, and can dramatically improve the effectiveness of your organization. But social technologies like microblogging, social networking, automated activity feeds, social spreadsheets, wikis, etc. are new to most organizations, and most IT departments don’t have experience with how to successfully implement them.
Success with social software involves a lot more than simply finding the product that best fits your needs. It involves framing the problem appropriately in the first place, defining your business goals, and choosing a rollout methodology designed to meet those goals. It involves selling your CFO, changing behavior across your organization, and more.
This paper is designed to help you learn from the mistakes of others before you, so you can avoid the common pitfalls of social software, and get fast business value.
According to Gartner, 70% of social implementations fail because they lack a business purpose. When it comes to harnessing the power of social software, a focus on business value is required. This whitepaper defines a strategic framework for gaining business value from social software. It outlines six successful rollout strategies. Each of the six approaches delivers different business results, and has a different level of risk. And most importantly, each has different requirements to succeed. To be successful with social software, you need to choose the rollout strategy that is best for your organization, and understand its requirements for success.
Social technologies like microblogging and social networking are being used internally by companies to dramatically speed the flow of work. But you need large-scale adoption to get business results that make a difference. This paper provides a blueprint to drive the large-scale adoption of a social software solution, so you get results that are noticed.
In 2011, the US hit a milestone — more than half of all adults visit social networking sites at least once a month. But when it comes to using social-networking technologies inside organizations, many business leaders are at a loss to understand what value can be created from Facebook-like status updates within the enterprise. Some organizations have deployed social-networking features with an initial enthusiastic reception, only to see these early efforts wither to just a few stalwart participants. The problem: Most companies approach enterprise social networks as a technology deployment and fail to understand that the new relationships created by enterprise social networks are the source for value creation. In this first of two reports, Altimeter looks at four ways enterprise social networks create value for organizations.
Enterprises always look for ways to help employees collaborate with each other more effectively that leads to faster and higher-quality work, which, in turn, drives increased productivity. Though most enterprises keep employee collaboration on top of their corporate agenda, they still lag behind to drive that force to its optimum level! Using traditional approaches for attaining high productivity and innovation among employees are no more beneficial and effective in fast-technology pace and people oriented work space environments.
Social software lets employees connect and share in new ways, and can dramatically improve the effectiveness of your organization. But social technologies like microblogging, social networking, automated activity feeds, social spreadsheets, wikis, etc. are new to most organizations, and most IT departments don’t have experience with how to successfully implement them.
Success with social software involves a lot more than simply finding the product that best fits your needs. It involves framing the problem appropriately in the first place, defining your business goals, and choosing a rollout methodology designed to meet those goals. It involves selling your CFO, changing behavior across your organization, and more.
This paper is designed to help you learn from the mistakes of others before you, so you can avoid the common pitfalls of social software, and get fast business value.
According to Gartner, 70% of social implementations fail because they lack a business purpose. When it comes to harnessing the power of social software, a focus on business value is required. This whitepaper defines a strategic framework for gaining business value from social software. It outlines six successful rollout strategies. Each of the six approaches delivers different business results, and has a different level of risk. And most importantly, each has different requirements to succeed. To be successful with social software, you need to choose the rollout strategy that is best for your organization, and understand its requirements for success.
Social technologies like microblogging and social networking are being used internally by companies to dramatically speed the flow of work. But you need large-scale adoption to get business results that make a difference. This paper provides a blueprint to drive the large-scale adoption of a social software solution, so you get results that are noticed.
In 2011, the US hit a milestone — more than half of all adults visit social networking sites at least once a month. But when it comes to using social-networking technologies inside organizations, many business leaders are at a loss to understand what value can be created from Facebook-like status updates within the enterprise. Some organizations have deployed social-networking features with an initial enthusiastic reception, only to see these early efforts wither to just a few stalwart participants. The problem: Most companies approach enterprise social networks as a technology deployment and fail to understand that the new relationships created by enterprise social networks are the source for value creation. In this first of two reports, Altimeter looks at four ways enterprise social networks create value for organizations.
6 Reasons Your Employees Will Love Collaborative LearningBlue Economy Agency
Our latest infographic is a testament of how collaborative learning can help to enhance employee engagement and spark innovation. So if you are looking to score big with your employees this Valentine’s Day you might want to learn how to share the love of collaborative learning!
Leveraging social technologies and particularly social workflow is a core part of how organizations today can manage the transition to a new way of working or usher in a more holistic cultural change.
Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design. IT managers are familiar with the former, but must also be actively involved in the latter to ensure the long-term success of the collaboration environment. This research will help you:
•Understand the common pitfalls that organizations encounter in implementing a collaboration solution.
•Develop an implementation strategy that addresses all steps in the initial platform deployment, as well as ongoing solution design.
•Create a collaboration business analyst role to bridge the gap between IT and the business, and create solutions that meet the needs of permanent and ad-hoc teams.
•Foster an environment that is conducive to end-user adoption of the collaboration platform.
Collaboration implementation misfires are costly and time-consuming. Adhering to best practices around both steps of the implementation will ensure that the full potential of the platform is realized.
Leveraging social media across the organizationHermes F
In today’s socially driven digital landscape, the enterprise must adapt to leverage the social capitol and knowledge of its employees. Change is not instant and companies will need to deploy various solutions to meet its employees’ businesses needs. The true power of social media lies within unifying the various communication platforms to create and grow their knowledge base.
Leveraging
The Benefits of Enterprise Social for IT ProfessionalsMicrosoft
The world has become a giant network, transformed by the
growth of mobile devices and social technologies. In fact,
there are now more devices than people.1 This networked
world is clearly evident in our personal lives: We keep in
touch with our friends and family on Facebook or Instagram,
use Twitter to get the latest news from people around the
globe, and often find our next career opportunity with
LinkedIn. In this networked world, people connect with each
other easily, information and knowledge move faster, and we
are able to accomplish more by working together.
How IT can empower your organization to wlanMicrosoft
How can enterprise social technologies from Microsoft help your company stay connected and secure when employees are increasingly becoming more mobile and distributed? What tools will enable you to connect employees to each other and at the same time provide the right levels of IT management?
Why today’s businesses need enterprise socialMicrosoft
People today are more connected than ever before. The growth
of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, combined
with the rise of social technologies such as Facebook, Twitter,
and LinkedIn, has turned the world into a global community
that gives users instant access to information, makes it easy
for them to communicate about everything from products to
politics, and facilitates collective action. Technology makes it
easier than ever to tap into the human network.
What 2014 holds for Internal CommunicationsTrefor Smith
This is the follow up to last years guide to Internal Communication trends. This years guide outlines 4 main areas that we think are going to be key in 2014, along with sub themes and a wealth of hints and tips. We hope it is of benefit, and brings you success with your 2014 internal communications!
At its essence, enterprise social computing is the connection of people to people, data to data and people to data within a corporate environment. The discovery, connection and collaboration occurring among employees through social interaction promote the collection of ideas and the encouragement of transparent information sharing, as well as eliminate tacit information loss through long-term employee attrition.
Presentatie gegeven op 31 oktober 2007 tijdens een Masterclass Crossmedia bij MediaPlaza. Een globaal overzicht met actuele informatie over media-kanalen. Uitgangspunt is een eerdere presentatie van Peter Luit.
6 Reasons Your Employees Will Love Collaborative LearningBlue Economy Agency
Our latest infographic is a testament of how collaborative learning can help to enhance employee engagement and spark innovation. So if you are looking to score big with your employees this Valentine’s Day you might want to learn how to share the love of collaborative learning!
Leveraging social technologies and particularly social workflow is a core part of how organizations today can manage the transition to a new way of working or usher in a more holistic cultural change.
Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design. IT managers are familiar with the former, but must also be actively involved in the latter to ensure the long-term success of the collaboration environment. This research will help you:
•Understand the common pitfalls that organizations encounter in implementing a collaboration solution.
•Develop an implementation strategy that addresses all steps in the initial platform deployment, as well as ongoing solution design.
•Create a collaboration business analyst role to bridge the gap between IT and the business, and create solutions that meet the needs of permanent and ad-hoc teams.
•Foster an environment that is conducive to end-user adoption of the collaboration platform.
Collaboration implementation misfires are costly and time-consuming. Adhering to best practices around both steps of the implementation will ensure that the full potential of the platform is realized.
Leveraging social media across the organizationHermes F
In today’s socially driven digital landscape, the enterprise must adapt to leverage the social capitol and knowledge of its employees. Change is not instant and companies will need to deploy various solutions to meet its employees’ businesses needs. The true power of social media lies within unifying the various communication platforms to create and grow their knowledge base.
Leveraging
The Benefits of Enterprise Social for IT ProfessionalsMicrosoft
The world has become a giant network, transformed by the
growth of mobile devices and social technologies. In fact,
there are now more devices than people.1 This networked
world is clearly evident in our personal lives: We keep in
touch with our friends and family on Facebook or Instagram,
use Twitter to get the latest news from people around the
globe, and often find our next career opportunity with
LinkedIn. In this networked world, people connect with each
other easily, information and knowledge move faster, and we
are able to accomplish more by working together.
How IT can empower your organization to wlanMicrosoft
How can enterprise social technologies from Microsoft help your company stay connected and secure when employees are increasingly becoming more mobile and distributed? What tools will enable you to connect employees to each other and at the same time provide the right levels of IT management?
Why today’s businesses need enterprise socialMicrosoft
People today are more connected than ever before. The growth
of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, combined
with the rise of social technologies such as Facebook, Twitter,
and LinkedIn, has turned the world into a global community
that gives users instant access to information, makes it easy
for them to communicate about everything from products to
politics, and facilitates collective action. Technology makes it
easier than ever to tap into the human network.
What 2014 holds for Internal CommunicationsTrefor Smith
This is the follow up to last years guide to Internal Communication trends. This years guide outlines 4 main areas that we think are going to be key in 2014, along with sub themes and a wealth of hints and tips. We hope it is of benefit, and brings you success with your 2014 internal communications!
At its essence, enterprise social computing is the connection of people to people, data to data and people to data within a corporate environment. The discovery, connection and collaboration occurring among employees through social interaction promote the collection of ideas and the encouragement of transparent information sharing, as well as eliminate tacit information loss through long-term employee attrition.
Presentatie gegeven op 31 oktober 2007 tijdens een Masterclass Crossmedia bij MediaPlaza. Een globaal overzicht met actuele informatie over media-kanalen. Uitgangspunt is een eerdere presentatie van Peter Luit.
Driving Repeatable Business Innovation: The Vision to Action LifecycleMindjet
The current generation of Social Business tools has missed
a huge opportunity to impact business innovation and
results. By focusing on functionality that emphasizes
communications, they’ve omitted the required structure
and process needed to meaningfully affect the business.
In this presentation, we take you through the Vision to Action Lifecycle, and explain why a holistic approach to innovation can create repeatable, tangible results for your business.
Introducing Social Employee Engagement: Shifting From Technology To PeopleMSL
Social employee engagement puts people at the centre by focusing on what inspires and
engages them to do their best work. This report offers a complete introduction to social business and sets out a roadmap for success.
What Is Social Business ? A SideraWorks BriefXVA Labs
Social business. A term that’s been steadily gaining traction at the intersection of social media’s rise and the current shift in the business world. But what does it mean?
Clarifying the term “social business” is critical to determining whether it’s something we want our companies to be, and if so, how we go about achieving that. At SideraWorks, we’ve spent a great deal of time defining social business in a way that encompasses its essence, but avoids much of the jargon that simply adds to the confusion.
Social Media in the Workplace - Are We Nearly There?Infor HCM
Since Facebook was invented a decade ago, it has attracted a billion users worldwide. Twitter now reports 200 million users who send 400 million tweets every day. Compounded by record IPO valuations well into the billions, there is little doubt that the social media way of life is here to stay.
Individual Project I-3
1. Title
Technology Innovation Project
2. Introduction
Background of the Corporation
Largo Corporation is a major multinational conglomerate corporation which specializes in a wide array of products and services. These products and services include healthcare, finance, retail, government services, and many more. The annual revenue is about $750 million and it has about 1,000 employees. The parent company is located in Largo, Maryland and its subsidiaries are headquartered throughout the United States.
The mission of the corporation is to bring the best products and services to people and businesses throughout the world so they can then realize their full potential.
The corporate vision guides every aspect of their business to achieve sustainable, quality growth:
Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.
People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to achieve their maximum potential.
Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value.
Responsible: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference through ethical behavior.
Revenue: Maximize long-term return while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.
The company’s culture is reflected in their corporate values:
Leadership: Courage to shape a better future.
Collaboration: Leverage collective intelligence.
Accountability: Own up to your responsibility.
Passion: Committed to excellence.
Diversity: Provide new perspectives into our business.
Quality: We will want quality as part of our brand.
The corporation consists of the parent company and the following subsidiaries:
Healthcare – Suburban Independent Clinic, Inc. (medical services)
Finance – Largo Capital (financial services)
Retail – Rustic Americana (arts and crafts), Super-Mart (office products)
Government Services – Government Security Consultants (information security)
Automotive – New Breed (electric cars)
Systems Integration –
Solution
s Delivery, Inc. (communications)
Media Design – Largo Media (website and app design)
The organization is headed by CEO Tara Johnson who completed her Master’s degree at UMUC and eager to make worthwhile improvements to the corporation. She rose through the ranks of Largo Corporation starting with systems integration, then retail and her last position before becoming CEO was in finance.
The corporation is in a highly competitive environment so the CEO wants savvy employees at many levels to make wise judgments and take an aggressive approach and deliver results towards improving the bottom line yet maintaining corporate social responsibility.
Corporate Issues
Ms. Johnson is very concerned about the outlook of her company. Revenues recently declined and she felt that the organization needed a transformation for the company to do well over the long term. In thumbing through some readings she was inspired when she uncovered the following:
We live in a business world acceler.
Organizational Change Management: A Make or Break Capability for Digital SuccessCognizant
To realize the full benefits of digital transformation programs, businesses must manage the impact of digital change on their operational structure, culture and employees.
This presentations takes you behind the scenes on recent enterprise social projects from corporate and public sector organisations, discussing social business in 2014 and beyond.
This roadmap is a tool to help organizations effectively develop social business processes and to help identify and address potential issues before they become real problems.
This roadmap is a tool to help organizations effectively develop social business processes and to help identify and address potential issues before they become real problems.
The roadmap is designed as a framework – that is, it addresses a wide variety of issues and challenges, not all of which will be applicable to every organization. Organizations are encouraged to use this roadmap as a starting point, but to customize it to their particular circumstances including their regulatory environment, organizational culture, level of familiarity with different tools, and of course their overall strategic goals and objectives.
Organizations that follow this roadmap will move from tactical, ad hoc, and suboptimal approaches to social business technologies to a more strategic and systematic implementation.
The Social Dynamics model: how to integrate social media in your companySteven Van Belleghem
This is a research paper in which we describe how companies should integrate social media into their entire company. this paper is based on more than 25 in-depth interviews with senior executives working on the integration of social media.
We are social creatures and we crave social interaction. This presentation from SPSNYC is about how we build social solutions to our business problems...today.
What 2015 holds for Internal CommunicationsTrefor Smith
Here is our annual guide to where we think will be this years Internal Communication trends. This years guide outlines 5 main areas that we think are going to be key in 2015, along with sub themes and a wealth of hints and tips. We hope it is of benefit, and brings you success with your 2015 internal communications!
In part one of this two part study, The Socially Enabled Enterprise, we explored the opportunities and challenges global organizations are facing in the transition to becoming socially enabled enterprises. Oracle, Leader Networks, and Social Media Today recently conducted an online survey of over 900 marketing and technology executives to understand how companies are leveraging social technologies and practices throughout their organizations.
Chapter 2 is all about defining social business strategy. Essentially, I condense the entire content of my first book, Smart Business, Social Business, into one chapter and introduce new thinking, implementation strategies and new models.
Similar to 16 Enterprise Social Networking Predictions for 2013 (20)
Leading Media and Marketing Solutions Company Yellow Pages Group Uses Enterpr...tibbr
Yellow Pages Group is a leading media and marketing solutions company in Canada with its roots in the declining print industry. By facilitating better communication between its 1,100 consultants, YPG has made huge strides in transforming itself into a digital powerhouse.
How Schneider Electric Connects Over 140,000 Employees Around the Globetibbr
Schneider Electric needed to revolutionize its business processes. Schneider chose enterprise social networking to discover in-house expertise, to collaborate more effectively across regions, and to create a single destination for all knowledge.
Professional Services Firm Veritec Reduces Email Traffic and Noise with Enter...tibbr
Veritec is a fast-growing professional services firm in Australia whose existing communication systems weren't cutting it. By reducing email traffic and noise, tibbr gave Veritec an on-premise deployment, great mobile access, and business app integration.
Global Law Enforcement Agency InterPortPolice Uses Enterprise Social Networki...tibbr
InterPortPolice is a global law enforcement association. Its officers at airports and seaports all over the country are out in the field 90% of the day, so InterPortPolice uses the tibbr Mobile app to push critical, location-based information to the right officer at the right time.
Australian Real Estate Agency Compton Green Uses Enterprise Social Networking...tibbr
Compton Green is the largest independent real estate agency in western Melbourne. With a growing workforce of young sales associates who often work remotely in the field, it needed a modern and very simple way to more efficiently execute on projects and collaborate on activities surrounding the marketing and sale of properties. Compton Green selected tibbr for its intuitive mobile applications and subject-based approach, which ensures the right information, is delivered to the right person at the right time.
Global Energy Management Specialist, Schneider Electric, Uses Enterprise Soci...tibbr
Schneider Electric needed to revolutionize the outdated business processes used by their 150,000+ employees. The impetus for shift was their unusual objective of increasing worker productivity by 5% so they could deliver a 30% cost savings to their customers. To meet this ambitious goal, Schneider Electric chose a social approach, and more specifically, tibbr. Today, they're successfully using tibbr to find expertise in unexplored areas, to collaborate more effectively across global regions and teams, and to create a single destination for knowledge across the organization.
Leading Digital Advertising and Marketing Solutions Company, Yellow Pages Gro...tibbr
Learn how leading advertising and marketing solutions company, Yellow Pages Group, uses enterprise social networking to transform sales and marketing initiatives.
Leading Nordic IT-services Company, Tieto, Uses Enterprise Social Networking ...tibbr
Tieto — the largest Nordic IT-services company — went looking for ways to connect its global workforce, systems and partners, while eliminating communication silos. Tieto sought to increase knowledge-sharing among its 16,000 employees and increase productivity by five percent. Learn why Tieto decided to deploy tibbr as an enterprise social layer, what challenges they faced during the roll-out, and the excellent results they achieved.
Multinational Media and Information Firm, Thomson Reuters, Uses Enterprise So...tibbr
Thomson Reuters is embedding tibbr within their actual products to create customer communities - improving customer service and shifting the cost of ownership.
German Search Portal Meinestadt Uses Enterprise Social Network tibbr
meinestadt.de, Germany's leading regional web property, which serves as a search engine for information on local events, ticketing, yellow pages, classifieds, jobs and dating for more than 11,000 German towns, deployed tibbr as an enterprise-wide collaboration solution that cuts down on email flow and encourages knowledge sharing across their rapidly growing businesses.
How Social Software Helps 350,000 Men's Wearhouse Customers Dress Better Ever...tibbr
Find out how The Men’s Wearhouse uses tibbr today to meet the challenges of a modern retail environment in “The Future Of Work ― A Retailer’s Perspective” from his breakout session presentation at TUCON 2013.
A Nielsen Company Case Study: Accelerating Innovation with Collaborationtibbr
Learn how Nielsen is leading a cultural revolution towards collaboration among its tens of thousands of employees worldwide. See how they’re gaining social adoption and regular platform use, resulting in increased collaboration and the generation of over 5500 new ideas — one of which has already led to the creation of their first, and hugely successful, B2C product.
Making the Most Out of Your Company's Expertisetibbr
In the professional services industry, expertise is one of your most valuable resources. Yet it's often fragmented and distributed haphazardly around your whole organization. And, since it's impractical to have all your employees working on one client all the time, your company's ability to grow depends on making expertise available to more clients more often by tapping into the collective knowledge of the organization.
HLB Mann Judd, the fast growing, dynamic network of professional accounting firms and business advisors, is no exception to this rule. They recognized that endless email chains and phone-tag aren't the best way to communicate and share information. So they turned to an Enterprise Social Network because the research firm, McKinsey Global Institute, estimated that an ESN can streamline the internal search for experts and information by 35 percent.
Turbo-charging Your Organization's Productivity with Enterprise Socialtibbr
Tieto — the largest Nordic IT-services company — went looking for ways to connect its global workforce, systems and partners, while eliminating communication silos. Tieto sought to increase knowledge-sharing among its 16,000 employees and increase productivity by five percent. In this webinar, you'll learn why Tieto decided to deploy tibbr as an enterprise social layer, what challenges they faced during the roll-out, and the excellent results they achieved. Presented by Ilkka Malva, Community Manager, Tieto CIO Office.
In this webinar, you'll learn how even a large organization like Tieto successfully deployed tibbr as a social layer across all their systems and mobile devices and used tibbr to do the following:
-Onboard new employees
-Extend conversations and crowdsource solutions
-Improve efficiency by reusing the knowledge shared on the network
Engaged vs Disengaged Employees [Infographic]tibbr
Let’s take a look at a comparison of two types of coworkers and how enterprise social networking boosts employee engagement overall. - See more at: http://www.tibbr.com/blog/#sthash.w7n1aepd.dpuf
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.
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
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.
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/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
16 Enterprise Social Networking Predictions for 2013
1. 15 Predictions for
Enterprise Social
16 Enterprise Social Networking Predictions for 2013
Networking in 2013
2. Ray Wang Lee Bryant
Principal Analyst, CEO MD, Europe
Constellation Research Dachis Group
New business models have formed at the convergence The adoption of social platforms in the enterprise for core
of social with mobile, cloud, big data, and unified daily work activities has been slower than we originally
communications. The result - the shift from a hoped, partly because of a lack of integration between
transactional world to one of engagement. Customers, systems of record and systems of engagement, but also
employees, suppliers, and partners now interact in because not enough attention has been paid to the
conversations as they work towards addressing behavioral aspects of encouraging new ways of working.
regulatory compliance, improving efficiency, driving This has traditionally been thought of as encouraging
revenue, differentiating offerings, and forwarding the adoption of new tools, but we need to think more widely
brand. This move to outcomes through engagement than that. In 2013, I think enough companies will have hit
leads to a mass redesign of business. Social emerges the natural adoption limits, so more and more focus will
as a catalyst. Consequently, organizations must design be placed on how to stimulate behavioral change within
business processes to reflect people centric principles in highly networked environments.
order to compete. And in that process, they will improve The other big change I foresee for 2013 is the idea of
their ability to monetize interactions for outcomes. real-time data as an optimization and management tool
being applied internally, just as we have seen externally
with social media monitoring and listening.
3. Marcia Conner Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe
Principal Chief Strategy Officer
Chief Strategy Officer
Sensify Dachis Group
Dachis Group
Enough talk about sharing lessons learned and finding As the experimental phase for enterprise social media in
far-flung experts. In 2013 smart organizations will see many companies transitions to more serious usage in
that to become extraordinary workplaces, collaborative 2013, companies will focus on established fundamental
capabilities aren’t enough. Employees and customers operations and optimizing their work in these new
alike won’t tolerate outdated business practices, even channels. Many companies will capitalize on the big data
when wrapped in shiny social bows. People now expect trend to tap into global conversations. They will look at
all work to be interpersonal work, whether complex or employing social media to support and improve
routine. Where to start? Repost uncomfortable marketing, sales, customer care, and product
engagement data to socialnets where people can self- development. This will require actionable data that's
organize while generating sustainable solutions. relevant and accurate, both about their customers and
Reinvigorate isolated budgeting with real-time context their competitors’ activities. I predict that companies will:
gleaned from those on the front lines. Recruit colleagues 1) Put additional focus into social media strategy to
to alert friends about job ops, sales promos, Q&A tests, create a more integrated, organized, and better-
or innovation jams—anything where a wide net builds resourced functions.
strength; then ask your connectors to stay involved, 2) Create capabilities to help the organization listen,
tapping 1:1 trusted relationships to ensure a cared-for fit. respond, and engage in scale with social media to drive
These approaches are strategic and transformative, yet important business outcomes, like additional sales and
neither costly nor time-consuming. They just require higher customer satisfaction and retention.
ingenuity and action. The future is here and finally 2013 will mostly be about forging a strong basic
interesting. Get started now. foundation in social media across key functions.
4. Angela Ashenden Alan Lepofsky
Principal Analyst, Collaboration VP, Principal Analyst
MWD Advisors Constellation Research
I see four major technology trends occurring in the Personal Task Automation helps employees get their
enterprise social space as we progress through 2013, all jobs done. Sites like IFTTT and Zapier have introduced a
of which are a direct result of the growing understanding new generation of workflow tools that use simple rules
among organizations of the value of social collaboration, and actions to automate tasks which span popular web-
and the way we can use these technologies to our based applications. For example, if your company is
advantage within business. The first is social analytics, mentioned on a social media site it could trigger the
using this to measure progress and value, and also to creation of a new page in your favorite note-taking
help drive adoption through recommendations. The application. These tools are simple enough that non-
second is social projects and tasks, recognizing that we technical people can configure them, but they are not an
collaborate to get things done, and that it must be tied to integrated part of a platform supported by corporate IT.
our business processes. Third, is the impact of mobile With task automation built into enterprise collaboration
and BYOD, with these being the primary means for using suites employees would not need to create accounts on
enterprise social technologies and key to driving outside systems and the triggers and actions could
adoption. And, finally I see the social intranet hitting the be integrated securely with internal business processes.
mainstream as a mechanism for deploying enterprise For instance, product manager uploads a presentation
social, a natural hub for collaboration and communication about an upcoming release, task automation could
which spans the whole organization. automatically set up a web conference to train the Sales
team and notify the marketing team to include the new
content on the company web site.
5. Chris Stephens Scott Allison
CEO, Chairman of the Board Cofounder, CEO
iHealth Exchange Teamly
Healthcare has been cautious about bringing social Enterprises will even more enthusiastically deploy social
networking into the workplace because of the security technologies in 2013. In a report by McKinsey Global
and privacy rights of patients. Enterprise Social Networks Institute they estimate that companies that fully
that meet the demands of HIPAA privacy and security, implement social technologies, see a 25 percent
and enables better collaboration between doctors, increase in productivity of knowledge workers. These
patients and healthcare facilities, will be used by most people spend almost one third of their week managing e-
healthcare facilities in the near future. mail alone, but enterprise social technologies are helping
Patients do not want to login to multiple, cumbersome them get their work done better and faster by increasing
electronic health portals for every doctor and hospital engagement and improving collaboration across the
they visit. They want to communicate privately with the company. And that’s just some of several tangible
people they trust on an easy-to-use social network. benefits for the end user.
Cutting edge facilities like Mayo Clinic have embraced In order for businesses to see all of the tangible benefits,
enterprise social networks already, and many are sure to a culture of trust and openness from senior management
follow. The driving force for social in healthcare is, and is needed to make sure employees feel comfortable and
always will be, the voice of the patient. willing to share. In 2013, successful companies will not
just implement the technology, but also embrace it from
the top-down.
6. Christine Jed Cawthorne
Senior Manager, Intranet Initiatives
Comaford BMO Financial Group
Business Accelerator
Christine Comaford Associates
2013 will be both an exciting and challenging year for the My predictions for enterprise social in 2013 are:
Social Enterprise. To date, one of the greatest • With a broad field of increasingly mature products
challenges facing organizations trying to become a (SharePoint 2013, Connections, Jive, Igloo, Chatter,
Social Enterprise is leadership. Social collaboration Tibbr and others) having an enterprise social platform will
cannot succeed without executive sponsorship by a increasingly become the norm for large enterprises.
social leader—one who is S.O.C.I.A.L. – sincere, open, • What will differentiate these enterprises is the level to
collaborative, interested, authentic and likeable. This is which they integrate their enterprise social platform into
what we’ll see change in 2013. other tools and applications.
We’ll see significantly increased focus on, and support •For mature organizations “social” will become the
of, social leadership throughout the enterprise. We’ll see normal way of working, breaking down silos and levering
social leaders who are actively engaged and the serendipitous connections to increase productivity.
enthusiastically willing to promote both inter- and intra- •Knowledge Management will continue to see a revival
department collaboration to move innovation, based on the use of social tools to capture, share and
communication, collaboration forward. The social distribute information within specific contexts.
leader’s degree of influence and likeability will propel the •The SMB sector will generate the most benefit from the
evolution of an organization into a Social Enterprise. For use of cloud based social platforms, which will also
greater influence and likeability, the most effective social facilitate the move to mobile working.
leader will study the neuroscience of rapport and be able •Organizations will consider enterprise social platforms
to befriend even the most challenging opponents. as “table stakes” for recruiting and retaining the talent
Change requires support—the social leader masters this. they need.
7. Tom Jessiman Matthew Ryan
CEO CIO
Wayin Cordelta
Organizations that are… We’ve already seen enterprise social networking create
• IN THE CLOUD: Developing once, using it everywhere better client-centric collaboration, enable faster decision
• MOBILE: Collaborating anytime, anywhere, with making across teammates, and reduce the workload for
anyone IT when it comes to integrating business processes and
• USING BIG DATA: Information, analytics, experience, managing email.
opinions For 2013, I predict businesses will have a more defined
• SOCIAL: Curating the best of the best in the social sense of the role of enterprise social networking versus
universe email and other forms of communication. Enterprise
… will be on top in 2013. Those who wait and watch, will social technology will enable aggregation of social media
be playing catch up in 2014. streams both inside and outside the organization. And,
businesses will be able to share relevant business
process streams between partners, vendors and other
business affiliates who are involved as well.
8. Eric Lebel Ram Menon
VP Knowledge Management President of Social Computing
CGI TIBCO
Now that everybody is adding a "social" spin to its app In 2013, enterprise social will mature, from a silo based
from ESN, CRM, HRIS and other vertical apps, the next approach of people posts around a business application
step will be "integrated user social experience" and all to a platform approach that brings processes, outcomes
this adapted to the particularities of social in the and business events relevant to you on to your wall to
enterprise so that real business value will emerge from get work done faster. Social will bring far flung outposts
the present social trend. of an organization closer and customers will demand
tangible ROI from this collaboration.
9. And from the Branding, Customer Engagement Side…
Wendy Lea Mark Fidelman
CEO Managing Director, CEO
Get Satisfaction Evolve! Inc.
The first generation of social was a key transformation in Brands will begin to map out and engage their
the way people interact. Suddenly people were key influencers as the next phase into becoming a social
connecting, building networks, and participating online in business. They will match influencers with social
a complete new way. Brands felt the need to get in the campaigns to amplify and widen its effect. This new
social game, build a following, and participate in the
method of influencer engagement will be very focused
conversations. But they really didn’t have much insight
and targeted. Think about how the Obama campaign
into the audience they had developed or how to engage
was able to find and leverage influencers to motivate
with them in a meaningful way.
The second generation of Social is about truly apathetic voters and get them to the polls.
understanding who these Fans, Followers, and Friends As a result, some brands will reach the tipping point and
are—what do they care about, what influences their move from an advertising push model to pull. In a pull
behavior, and what insights and value can they bring to dynamic, new customers, suppliers, partners and
companies and their fellow customers? To do so, talented recruits will see the brand as thought leaders
companies must build authentic engagements with and industry trailblazers, and will want to develop closer
customers at every stage of the customer life cycle. A relationships with the organization. In this new model,
branded customer community is key to building this brands will find the ability to mobilize people easier and
authentic engagement and should be an integral part of
with greater impact - at a much lower cost.
every company’s social strategy.