Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
-The role that a CIO fulfills within your organization
-Risks and opportunities that having a CIO mitigates
-The new world of outsourced IT
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
• The role a CIO fulfills within your organization
• Some areas you may not be addressing without one
• Risks and opportunities that having a CIO mitigates
• The new world of outsourced IT
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff - but someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
•The role a CIO fills in different sized organizations
•Areas you may be neglecting without an experienced CIO
•Opportunities a CIO can help you address
If outsourced IT is right for your organization We will discuss the following questions:
•Can your organization thrive without the latest technology?
•Do you know what your IT team is doing? What should they be doing?
•How does your IT infrastructure measure up against best practices?
•What technology am I missing out on?
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
-The role that a CIO fulfills within your organization
-Risks and opportunities that having a CIO mitigates
-The new world of outsourced IT
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
• The role a CIO fulfills within your organization
• Some areas you may not be addressing without one
• Risks and opportunities that having a CIO mitigates
• The new world of outsourced IT
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff - but someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand:
•The role a CIO fills in different sized organizations
•Areas you may be neglecting without an experienced CIO
•Opportunities a CIO can help you address
If outsourced IT is right for your organization We will discuss the following questions:
•Can your organization thrive without the latest technology?
•Do you know what your IT team is doing? What should they be doing?
•How does your IT infrastructure measure up against best practices?
•What technology am I missing out on?
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
2016-09-15 How To Improve Your IT Decision MakingErin Crowley
There are many approaches organizations use to help make key IT decisions –decision trees, rate of return, strategic analysis, TCO, ROI, etc. Which one is right for you and your organization? Each of these can be effective and have their respective merits. They also need to match your organization’s goals, culture, and capabilities.
A common misconception is that IT Governance is only for big enterprises. Cloud computing and the increasing pervasive use of technology in the workplace requires that smaller organizations take a more strategic and risk-aware approach to managing their technology and business information. Attend this session to learn how to apply IT governance principles and practices to smaller not-for-profit organizations to help develop your IT strategy, manage your IT risk, and enable better business decisions through information.
Profit from AI & Machine Learning: The Best Practices for People & ProcessTony Baer
Presents the results of a detailed survey of organizations highly experienced with AI projects in production, providing best practices for when to apply AI; how to organize AI project teams; how to manage the AI project lifecycle and keep projects aligned; and what are the added challenges that AI introduces compared to managing traditional data science projects.
"Intuit Transforms HR," introduced by Dave Duffield and presented by Jennifer Hall, VP of HR with Intuit, provider of Quicken, TurboTax, QuickBooks, and online banking services. In this session, Jennifer Hall will share details of Intuit's HR transformation.
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
Webinar discussing the top trends driving the Digital Enterprise with Content and Process. ECM has never been more important to driving productivity in the enterprise. Forrester's Cheryl McKinnon discusses the top trends that leaders are using to build the Digital Enterprise.
Workday Webinar: Predict and Prepare: Is your HR solution ready for 2010? Workday
The past year was challenging for businesses of every size in every industry. According to many experts, the most difficult times are behind us economically, but 2010 promises to present many other challenges. One of the major challenges that HR leaders continue to face and will face even more in the future is the tough conversation with a CIO as organizations struggle to balance functionality and usability vs. a perceived lower total cost of ownership. This along with many other issues mean that HR will need to ensure tight organizational alignment, be able to clearly state HR goals and objectives, engage the workforce, and fill gaps in critical roles in the company.
The roundtable discussion will be followed by an open Q&A session. Last year's “Predict and Prepare Webinar” went into overtime, so bring all your questions and take advantage of this opportunity to learn from leading experts in HR.
CSUN 2011: How to Eat an Elephant: Tackling Web Accessibility in a Large Corp...Elle Waters
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, San Diego
Humana's Accessibility team relays the challenges they faced instituting web accessibility across a Fortune 100 company. The team will share successes and lessons learned.
Lisa Barnett
Humana
Wes Dillon
Deque Systems
Preety Kumar
Deque Systems, Inc
Sharron Rush
Knowbility, Inc.
Elle Waters
Humana
You’ve heard that many industries are moving to the cloud, but can government be one of them? Leading organizations are in fact moving certain technologies into the cloud to save money and improve service effectiveness.
SR&ED: What you need to know about the changing landscape - MaRS Best PracticesMaRS Discovery District
The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program provides support in the form of tax credits to groups or individuals conducting scientific research or experimental development in Canada.
Some significant changes are on the way as a result of the last federal budget. See how these new rules could affect you!
Managing ICT well is no different to managing organisations or teams. You need to take care of people, money, physical resources and services and set the right environment and tone.
If you don’t, you won’t get the benefits (and if you don’t when time are tough – then organisations will fail)
apidays LIVE Singapore 2022_There is no such thing as digital transformation....apidays
apidays LIVE Singapore 2022: Digitising at scale with APIs
April 20 & 21, 2022
There is no such thing as digital transformation (and why that matters)
Dr Dennis Khoo, Digital Transformation Expert at allDigitalfuture, Author of the bestselling book, "Driving Digital Transformation: Lessons from building the first ASEAN Digital Bank"
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Not every organization can afford to have a full time CIO on staff. But someone will be fulfilling the role, even without the title. This seminar will help you understand the role a CIO fulfills within your organization, the areas you may not be addressing without a CIO, the risks and opportunities mitigated by the presence of a CIO, and the new world of outsourced IT.
Additionally, we will discuss if your organization can thrive without the latest technology, whether your IT team is doing what they should be, how your IT infrastructure measures up to best practices, and what technology you may be missing out on.
2016-09-15 How To Improve Your IT Decision MakingErin Crowley
There are many approaches organizations use to help make key IT decisions –decision trees, rate of return, strategic analysis, TCO, ROI, etc. Which one is right for you and your organization? Each of these can be effective and have their respective merits. They also need to match your organization’s goals, culture, and capabilities.
A common misconception is that IT Governance is only for big enterprises. Cloud computing and the increasing pervasive use of technology in the workplace requires that smaller organizations take a more strategic and risk-aware approach to managing their technology and business information. Attend this session to learn how to apply IT governance principles and practices to smaller not-for-profit organizations to help develop your IT strategy, manage your IT risk, and enable better business decisions through information.
Profit from AI & Machine Learning: The Best Practices for People & ProcessTony Baer
Presents the results of a detailed survey of organizations highly experienced with AI projects in production, providing best practices for when to apply AI; how to organize AI project teams; how to manage the AI project lifecycle and keep projects aligned; and what are the added challenges that AI introduces compared to managing traditional data science projects.
"Intuit Transforms HR," introduced by Dave Duffield and presented by Jennifer Hall, VP of HR with Intuit, provider of Quicken, TurboTax, QuickBooks, and online banking services. In this session, Jennifer Hall will share details of Intuit's HR transformation.
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
Webinar discussing the top trends driving the Digital Enterprise with Content and Process. ECM has never been more important to driving productivity in the enterprise. Forrester's Cheryl McKinnon discusses the top trends that leaders are using to build the Digital Enterprise.
Workday Webinar: Predict and Prepare: Is your HR solution ready for 2010? Workday
The past year was challenging for businesses of every size in every industry. According to many experts, the most difficult times are behind us economically, but 2010 promises to present many other challenges. One of the major challenges that HR leaders continue to face and will face even more in the future is the tough conversation with a CIO as organizations struggle to balance functionality and usability vs. a perceived lower total cost of ownership. This along with many other issues mean that HR will need to ensure tight organizational alignment, be able to clearly state HR goals and objectives, engage the workforce, and fill gaps in critical roles in the company.
The roundtable discussion will be followed by an open Q&A session. Last year's “Predict and Prepare Webinar” went into overtime, so bring all your questions and take advantage of this opportunity to learn from leading experts in HR.
CSUN 2011: How to Eat an Elephant: Tackling Web Accessibility in a Large Corp...Elle Waters
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, San Diego
Humana's Accessibility team relays the challenges they faced instituting web accessibility across a Fortune 100 company. The team will share successes and lessons learned.
Lisa Barnett
Humana
Wes Dillon
Deque Systems
Preety Kumar
Deque Systems, Inc
Sharron Rush
Knowbility, Inc.
Elle Waters
Humana
You’ve heard that many industries are moving to the cloud, but can government be one of them? Leading organizations are in fact moving certain technologies into the cloud to save money and improve service effectiveness.
SR&ED: What you need to know about the changing landscape - MaRS Best PracticesMaRS Discovery District
The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program provides support in the form of tax credits to groups or individuals conducting scientific research or experimental development in Canada.
Some significant changes are on the way as a result of the last federal budget. See how these new rules could affect you!
Managing ICT well is no different to managing organisations or teams. You need to take care of people, money, physical resources and services and set the right environment and tone.
If you don’t, you won’t get the benefits (and if you don’t when time are tough – then organisations will fail)
apidays LIVE Singapore 2022_There is no such thing as digital transformation....apidays
apidays LIVE Singapore 2022: Digitising at scale with APIs
April 20 & 21, 2022
There is no such thing as digital transformation (and why that matters)
Dr Dennis Khoo, Digital Transformation Expert at allDigitalfuture, Author of the bestselling book, "Driving Digital Transformation: Lessons from building the first ASEAN Digital Bank"
------------
Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/
Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences?
https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8
Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community:
https://www.apiscene.io
Explore the API ecosystem with the API Landscape:
https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/
Deep dive into the API industry with our reports:
https://www.apidays.global/industry-reports/
Subscribe to our global newsletter:
https://apidays.typeform.com/to/i1MPEW
The Digital Workplace - Building a more productive digital work environment s...Oscar Berg
It's time to take employee productivity and digital working seriously. The Digital Workplace is an approach that helps you build a more productive digital work environment - service by service.
Trends impacting budgets: CPA Australia Emerging Leaders, Melbourne May 2016. A short presentation: what's wrong with budgets, why is there pressure to change? What does a newly skilled SME sector and the emergence of incredibly powerful but cheap IT mean, when it intersects the growing importance of non-accounting numbers?
Enterprise Project Management Solutions - Install and train, job done? by "Da...Project Controls Expo
Enterprise Project Management Solutions - Install and train, job done? by "David Dunning - Chairman for CPS, UK" at Project Controls Expo 2017, Arsenal Stadium, London
Federated data organizations in public sector face more challenges today than ever before. As discovered via research performed by North Highland Consulting, these are the top issues you are most likely experiencing:
• Knowing what data is available to support programs and other business functions
• Data is more difficult to access
• Without insight into the lineage of data, it is risky to use as the basis for critical decisions
• Analyzing data and extracting insights to influence outcomes is difficult at best
The solution to solving these challenges lies in creating a holistic enterprise data governance program and enforcing the program with a full-featured enterprise data management platform. Kreig Fields, Principle, Public Sector Data and Analytics, from North Highland Consulting and Rob Karel, Vice President, Product Strategy and Product Marketing, MDM from Informatica will walk through a pragmatic, “How To” approach, full of useful information on how you can improve your agency’s data governance initiatives.
Learn how to kick start your data governance intiatives and how an enterprise data management platform can help you:
• Innovate and expose hidden opportunities
• Break down data access barriers and ensure data is trusted
• Provide actionable information at the speed of business
Let’s take a look at IT agility—with a fresh perspective: through the eyes of a relatively new Java developer. This session dives into how companies are staying competitive by increasing their agility. You may be familiar with traditional SDLC methodology and how many firms are replacing a more rigid/monolithic approach with agile and related iterative methodologies: Scrum, XP, prototyping. An organization can’t just complete a checklist and be “agile.” Some key elements are nonnegotiable; core values and results must be the primary goals. The road to those goals must be adapted to each organization’s own model and culture. Whether you’re a longtime professional, have just joined the field, or are looking for something new, this session may give you thought-provoking perspectives.
Are project tracking tools helping or complicating Continuous Improvement Pro...Kubilay Balci
Are project tracking tools helping or complicating Continuous Improvement Projects? presented by Kubilay Balci at 8. Project Management Symposium in Vienna June 7th, 2017.
click here for narratives:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/project-tracking-tools-helping-complicating-continuous-kubilay-balci
Join Raffa Technology & BI360 for an informative session on best practice approaches to managing your budget process beyond Microsoft Excel. Come learn how you can help your organization increase productivity, insight and decision making while decreasing the manual keying and inaccuracies inherent with Microsoft Excel. This seminar includes a presentation of the BI360 budgeting and reporting software.
What Makes A World Class Microsoft 365 Intranet & Digital Workplace - WorkshopRichard Harbridge
Many organizations have accelerated their transformation to cloud enabled and powered Microsoft 365 digital workplaces.
While technologies like Microsoft Teams have been prioritized, for many organizations their intranets have not evolved to keep up with a more demanding workforce.
Modern intranets and digital workplaces don’t look the same as they did even a few years ago. With rich new capabilities, innovation from Microsoft, a changing technology landscape, and increased expectations from an increasingly digitally literate user population – a world class Intranet and Microsoft 365 powered Digital Workplace looks very different than it has in the past.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, CTO at 2toLead and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, who will share best practices on:
How organizations are planning their digital workplace strategy
How organizations today are taking their intranets to the next level
How designs and intranet patterns continue to evolve
What organizations are doing to deliver more value
How you can improve your own Digital Workplace
Most businesses are trying to achieve digital transformation, but not everyone is going about it the right way. MuleSoft recently surveyed 800 global IT decision makers; 96 percent of respondents are executing on digital transformation initiatives or planning to do so in the near future. However, the results also showed that just 18 percent of IT decision makers are confident that they will succeed in meeting this year’s digital transformation goals.
In this presentation, you will learn:
-How IT can enable opportunities that impact the bottom line
-Steps to digitize data and transform the organization
-How CIOs and IT teams can reconcile existing technology with expectations for digital transformation
Key Questions and Ideas this presentation addresses:
· How to manage a Portfolio if you don't have a PMO?
· How to say no to a project request?
· Portfolio Governance
· How to setup a portfolio management office?
· How to engage the business or practice groups?
· How to develop a mature portfolio practice?
· What are the steps for setting up a PPM capability?
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2018-07 Systems Integration Best Practices for Integrating Your Business Appl...Raffa Learning Community
How much time does your organizations spend getting data to and from critical business systems such as your donor management, association management, membership and accounting applications? What about time sheets, expense reports and payroll data? Have you made customizations to your systems that make packaged integrations difficult to work with? In this session we will share considerations, best practices and use cases from actual customer integrations that may help you tackle your next integration project.
In today’s accounting environment, there is mounting pressure to run leaner while becoming more effective than ever. Meeting deadlines, reviewing or preparing reconciliations and providing support requires new approaches to mitigating errors and compromising the integrity of your SOFP and SOA. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Join nonprofit industry leader Raffa, PC and BlackLine to discover a simpler way to perform your reconciliation process that allows you to focus on analysis, risk mitigation, and value creation for your organization.
With the ever-increasing threat of viruses, security breaches, and cyber theft, it is important to understand the basics of network and internet security. In this session, you will learn how to pass the security portion of your audit and how to protect your hardware. We will also discuss security in the cloud and Privacy Laws.
This class is beneficial to IT, Operations, and Administrative professionals.
Adam Grant, in a recent Atlantic article, says it best: “People Don’t Actually Know Themselves Very Well.” Do you agree? He argues that your coworkers are much better at rating aspects of your personality than you are. Studying thousands of people at work show that coworkers are more than twice as accurate when asked to assess how stable, dependable, friendly, outgoing and curious you are. In this workshop, we will give you an opportunity to solicit feedback in advance of the workshop, reflect on feedback you’ve received, and provide a safe and confidential environment to explore your blind spots. Those blind spots may be related to the way you see yourself as a manager or leader or perhaps how you think about intergenerational differences. We’ll discuss the importance of self-awareness and provide some tools to help you integrate new knowledge about yourself in practical ways at work.
Keeping reserves for a “rainy day” is a good practice for all nonprofit institutions, but how much should your organization set aside? A percentage of annual budget? Three-to-six months? Our answer is: it depends. Each nonprofit is unique and can experience distinct unexpected circumstances that may affect its long-term financial health.
This session, led by mark Murphy of Raffa Wealth Management, will focus on how to conduct a risk assessment that will assist your nonprofit in quantifying financial risks and opportunities. Once completed, this risk assessment aims to assist in finding the appropriate reserve level for your unique organization.
Whether you are in the initial phases of creating your nest egg or revaluating longstanding reserve levels, this session is for you.
Help your organization make better informed decisions. Join the Raffa Technology team and Prophix to discover how best in class organizations are using financial automation to drive improved budgeting, strategic financial analysis and better business decision making.
Learn how organizations are automating the financial budget process to deliver more accurate and timely information in the financial planning process.
The OMB Uniform Guidance proposes a more fair and equitable treatment of nonprofits providing services under programs funded by the federal government. This requires every nonprofit earning federal funds, either directly or indirectly, to take actions to ensure compliance. Join us as we illustrate steps to create a culture of compliance and sustainability in the federally funded marketplace.
Are you ready to transition your accounting system to a modern cloud based platform that delivers business process automation while providing you with robust financial reporting and analytics to manage your operations? The Raffa Technology team invites you to our educational seminar reviewing the powerful web based accounting software Intacct. This presentation will focus on the key business drivers for cloud based accounting systems and provide you with best practices for evaluating and implementing the right solution for your organization.
This seminar is geared toward “C" level executives.
A new tool for corporate impact: In the rapidly changing world of “CSR” and “shared impact” a new and innovative tool has been added by The Sheridan Group. They call it “Impact Advocacy”. Their approach is to help a corporate entity concerned about a social issue design and implement a program using advocacy models to create partnerships, achieve transformative outcomes, increase “good” brand recognition and build new political alliances. This idea requires the corporate partner to intentionally commit to a high social impact solution (such as passing legislation or increasing funding) and to achieve those goals in authentic partnership with the best performing experts in the non for profit space providing solutions across the nation.
This tool is new but TSG has a 25 year track record as the top advocacy organization for non profit public interest causes including creating the ONE Campaign with Bono, Leading the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship movement and initiating the first policy effort on Human Trafficking and Slavery.
Tom is a veteran of the domestic AIDS movement, Gays in the Military and the cancer advocacy community. Our roundtable with Tom will detail this new idea, explore how it serves the C-suite, CSR, GR, PR and HR functions within any corporation and discuss the kinds of issues companies may choose to focus on using “Impact Advocacy” on. Since this new product is just rolling out, Tom is anxious and receptive to have feedback on how to improve the design and features of “impact advocacy” so that it truly fits the unique needs of corporations looking to distinguish themselves in the environment.
Join us to learn more about how tax reform impacts nonprofits across the industry. By Congress approving the H.R. 1 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it significantly alters the U.S. tax code.
Congress has approved H.R. 1 the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, significantly altering the U.S. tax code. Join us to learn more about what the new legislation means for individuals and businesses, including corporations and pass through entities.
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The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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
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.
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
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
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2018 3-14 The Changing Role of Today's CIO
1. Thrive. Grow. Achieve.
Who needs a CIO ?
And what would they do for
me anyway ?
Kerry Mickelson CIO for hire
March 14, 2018
2. AGENDA
WHO NEEDS A CIO?
• What do you do anyway ?
–Connect the dots between Business and
Technology.
–IT best practice
–Capacity and Capability
–Identify opportunities and threats from
technology
–Bridge between Business and IT
• What am I missing ?
–Cloud, Mobile enabled workforce
• How Raffa Can Assist You
Can your business
survive without
technology ?
Do you know what
your IT team is
doing ? or can do ?
Are you compliant
with the law ? With
best practice ?
How can you
manage change?
What’s the right
priority ?
Who can assess
vendors
independently ?
Is there a different
way to do this ?
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3. IT MANAGER VS CIO
When is a CIO the
right choice
May not need a CIO
all the time, but role is
critical :
•During major change
•When IT is no longer
meeting the enterprise
needs
•New Initiatives / New
Business
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CIO Manager / Supervisor
Primary focus is Business opportunities and drivers Primary focus is maintenance / IT Operations
External and Enterprise focus – How IT is
leveraged
Business area inward focused on IT
Proactive, Opportunity seeking to improve Responsive to demands, reactive
Strategy and execution focused – What to perform Process and Procedure focused – How to perform
Critical during times of change or in larger
environments
Works in a smaller or stable environment
Generates and drives strategic plans Requires Strategic leadership from outside, may
generate tactical plans
4. ITS NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS
SOMETIMES YOU NEED EXPERT KNOWLEDGE
Does your business
have a web address
or business email ?
Your web address
Backup and Disaster
Recovery
Do you have legal
exposure for
sensitive data
What does the group
do all day
Outsourced and
Hosted services are
not secure
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Do you own the web
address
No its Rented – the ‘DNS’ record links that
name with specific “Addresses”
Disaster recovery
vs. Business
Continuity
How will we function
if our building
catches fire?
How long could you be down without
irreparable Harm
Do you know your
legal obligations
about data
Employees ?
Customers ?
Donors ?
PII, HIPPA,PCIDSS – who has access and how
Not just digital data. Voicemail, paper records.
Birthday including year ? Address and phone ?
Do you know what
they are doing ?
Do you know what
they can do ?
Expectation gaps:
Never want to say
‘No’. Set up to fail
Keeping the lights on (Housekeeping)
Maintenance (Obsolescence)
Growth (Volume / Size, Projects, Features)
Capacity and Capability
What are you
getting for your
investment?
Strategic
investments?
Maintenance and housekeeping
High Risk
High Cost
Low added value
5. WHAT’S YOUR TECH INVENTORY ?
End user computers
(and software)
Back Office
Computers, Storage,
Data (and software)
Security: Passwords
and more
Network:
All the connected
devices
How important is
technology to your
enterprise ?
Critical ?
Essential ?
Peripheral ?
Will it stay the
same?
What are your
technology
lifecycles ?
• Hardware ?
• Software ?
• End of Life ?
• End of Use ?
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Expensive.
Don’t last
long (3-5
years)
Hate power
spikes, heat,
water ~ 5 year
life
Keys to the
kingdom
The
Domain,
LAN or
WAN
6. WHAT’S YOUR SKILLS INVENTORY ?
How many people / what
people
Generalists
• Helpdesk : Internal or External
• Supporting Functions:
Supervision, Project Management,
Business Analyst
Specialists
–Administrators
–Engineers
–Developers
What resources do
I have ?
What are their
competencies
Certifications ?
What do I need ?
Is there a gap ?
What’s most
valuable to my
business ?
Where are my
biggest risks ?
Who Needs a CIO ? Page 6
•Future specialists
•Can be a commodity
•Low investment
•Generic Skills
•Specific Skills
•Privileged Access
•Out of hours support ?
•Key System architects
•Hard to replace
•‘On demand’ ?
•Should not have ‘1’
•Need governance
7. TECHNOLOGY AND CAPABILITY
•How does my Technology translate into Capability
• What you HAVE today is a constraint – created by past decisions
• Resources are focused around status quo and stability (reliability,
repeatability, Routine, Maintenance)
–Not the best environment for change – but do you need to change ?
–If the Inventory doesn’t match the Enterprise you can change the
inventory !
What you have
and what you
need may not be
aligned
IT tends to over
estimate capacity
and capability to
deliver change
Result is delivery
below
expectations
Processes and
people are harder
to change than
systems
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8. WHAT DOES A CIO (OR IT) DO ANYWAY ?
–What Processes you have in place
• WHAT does IT do, HOW is it done
–Are you getting what you need ?
– Are you really getting good value ?
• Main Elements: People, Services, Software,
Hardware
• What Information you are processing and
storing
–Compliance – HIPPA, PCIDSS, PII
–Accuracy / Quality and standards
–Completeness / Controls
–Security
Technology uses its
own (arcane and full
of acronyms)
language.
In a smaller
enterprise the CIO
role is not a full time
job. Changing
technology is
changing the role
too.
The world is
changing and your
enterprise needs to
keep up. It’s a
survivability issue.
Tech is everywhere.
There are complex
rules that you need
to be aware of.
Page 8Who needs a CIO?
• CIO aligns technology to the business goals (PERIOD)
Looks at what you HAVE / ARE DOING / CAN DO with technology in your
Enterprise, Compared to what you SHOULD HAVE / SHOULD be doing – and acts to
close the gaps.
9. WHAT CAN A CIO DO FOR ME ?
Where does IT fit in the enterprise
What does IT contribute
Where can best value be achieved
Where are the key opportunities for improvement
Help manage IT better
• Reporting
• Scorecards
• Planning
• Execution
• Governance
• Projects
• Key Performance Indicators
• Communication
Yes, but how can I
do these things ?
We have no
dedicated CIO
and / or I still don’t
get these answers
Change is not
natively easy.
Without
Governance,
reporting,
compliance, its
hard to achieve
accountability for
delivering value (In
IT or indeed
elsewhere)
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Help in bridging the cultural and language barrier
Simple tools to manage Technology resources and projects
10. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
ROUTINE MANAGEMENT
Cyclical tool to
manage a
department
Formal
communication
between execution
and management
Over time see
trends and
patterns
Suggested Weekly
or bi weekly
Presentation Title / Page 10
Broad Focus Areas
■ What’s Important in the function at the
moment
■ Where are we spending time money
and effort
New Information
■ What’s New this cycle
■ What did we achieve in the last cycle
■ What did we find out
Targets for this cycle / week
■ What are we going to get done
■ Who is doing it
■ What’s the status of ongoing efforts
Open items / Roadblocks
■ Open Decisions
■ Things I am waiting for others (who)
on
■ Carried forward open issues
THE 4-BLOCK REPORT : DATE / PRESENTED BY
11. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
ROUTINE KPI’S / METRICS
Usually Monthly
Aligns with
Enterprise
Financial
Reporting
Meaningful
indication of
performance
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MONTHLY IT METRICS DATE / PRESENTED BY
Item Content
Budget Operating budget with narrative. Performance to
Plan / Last year
Reliability Uptime %, failure rates, downtime stats. Trended
over time (Network Phones, Backups, Servers)
Helpdesk Tickets handled, average time to close,
Outstanding unresolved by importance (critical)
Capacity Utilization: Storage, Compute, Network
Inventory Bought, Broken, Repaired, Retired, Lost/Stolen
(phones and aircards if owned as well)
Staff Gaps, new, exits, promo’s, Training, Skills
Services SAAS provider performance by provider
Change
Management
Planned and Deployed changes. Outcome
summary
12. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
CAPITAL / PROJECT REPORTING
Project reporting
is about how well
change is being
executed
Do you know
what projects IT
are executing on
?
What are your
expectations on
scope and
delivery ?
How are you gate
keeping and
prioritizing
projects ?
Who needs a CIO Page 12
USUALLY MONTHLY EXCEL 1 LINE PER PROJECT.
Item Content
Name Name and code for project (if coded)
Description Business name / meaningful to all
Purpose Why do this project (type, benefit, priority, risk)
Budget Project Lifetime (original) budget to actual.
Performance to plan. Estimate to complete,
contingency balance
Scope
management
Changes to scope – Approved, waiting, declined
Dates Approved, planned start, Planned end, Projected
end
Status Green (on plan / target), Yellow (at Risk), Red (off
target –Time, Budget, scope, outcome)
13. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
PROJECT REPORTING
Individual project
reporting is about
progress and
execution of a
specific objective
Often Weekly.
But can change
on activity level
on project
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CYCLES WITH ACTIVITY. USUALLY 1 SHEET
Item Content
Name Name, description, objectives
Team Who, roles, responsibilities
Budget Budget details, vendors
Changes to
scope / dates
Changes to scope – Approved, waiting,
declined
Milestones Key dates within project
Status Green (on plan / target), Yellow (at Risk), Red
(off target –Time, Budget, scope, outcome)
Current activity Good / Bad, delivered / Missed, Roadblocks /
Issues, Next Planned Activity, Projected
outcomes, Milestone reporting
All sheets = ‘Book of Knowledge’ a standard PMO tool
14. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
COMPLEX PROJECT REPORTING
Where a project
is high risk, or a
large project, with
cross functional
teams or
enterprise wide
impact
E.g. changing
ERP systems
Copies from MS
project
Use Excel data
Bars for complete
%
Who needs a CIO Page 14
PROJECT STEERING / STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS
Item Content
Objective /
Milestone
Project Component being reported
E.g. Cleaned up Vendor Master file, Chart of
accounts sign off
Dates Planned start, Due, projected
Completion Percentage Complete
Actions Responsibilities and actions due / performed
15. SIMPLE TOOLS AND PROCESSES
IT STRATEGY / DELIVERABLES
Annual or longer
view of multiple
changes or
projects
Simple
presentation of
complex issues
Present IT and
projects to a
board
Who needs a CIO Page 15
Time scale /
Item
Q1
16
Q2
16
Q3
16
Q4
16
Q1
17
Q2
17
Exchange Upgrade
ERP Migration
New Location opens
Office 2013 deployment
IP Video Deployment
Intranet / SharePoint
Simple depiction of major initiatives that can be easily
shared and digested.
High level summary – Low level details can be built as
required
16. THE WORLD TURNS – NEW TERMS
THE ‘CLOUD’
–A different way of providing services and managing technology
–Enabled by “virtualization”
VIRTUALIZATION
–Compute capability can be separated from computer hardware
–Less hardware, more efficient. Shared data and resources.
CLOUD APPLICATIONS
–Programs designed to be delivered via the internet (E.g. Turbotax online)
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS)
–Rental agreement rather than purchase
–Usually priced on usage over time or volume
PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS)
–The ability to buy or rent computing capacity, rather than acquire or build it.
–Someone else is responsible for ‘Plumbing’
–Azure/Amazon WebServices
BIG DATA
–Marketing term for a specific product / business problem
New Technologies
New ways of
delivering service
New Risks
New Opportunities
New Language to
describe the
capabilities
16Who needs a CIO Page
17. WHAT IS THE ‘CLOUD’
The ‘Cloud’ a Simple definition
–Computers / Programs (What computers do for us) are managed and
provided as a ‘Service’ rather than components. This service is
generally made accessible to users via internet connections
History:
–Mainframes
• Big, Expensive, Did one thing, Inflexible, Local
–Client / Server
• Smaller unit cost, Networked, Distributed, Generally focus on 1 function
–Virtualization - Separation of ‘Logical’ and ‘Physical’
• Shared Hardware, Dynamic load and capacity.
–Inside your network= “Private cloud”
–Provided externally = “Public Cloud”
•What is the computer (Mainframe, Server etc)
• Less important than
• What it can do
• How it is Accessed
Ill defined term’
Multiple uses with
different meanings
Most significant is
‘Public Cloud’ and
‘Private Cloud’
computers/services
as commodities
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18. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR IT
–Virtualization
• Mainstream technology
• Efficient (cost, support, reliability, resilience)
–Outsource/Cloud IS better than on premise
• All inclusive models (24/7, Risk Mitigation)
• Remove single point failures / dependencies
• Security is as good or better than in house
• Scalable at short notice
• Changes what IT does
Is IT Infrastructure good ‘Value’ for you ?
Is it a Core Competence ?
What’s your Risk ?
What should your energy be directed towards ?
Should we be
virtualized or in the
Cloud ?
Absolutely to both –
Hybrid model
depending on
enterprise
Self host generally if
very high data
volumes (scanning
many his resolution
images for example)
or high level of
integrations with
localized systems
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19. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR IT
Possible Strategies
/ viewpoints
Are we BIG enough
to have enough
skills to support
specific
technologies in
house ?
Using SAAS we
can avoid having to
hire skill set
specialists
Should IT functions
be a primary
competence of our
business ?
Can also consider
full outsource
models
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Product SAAS Status Impact Results
Email Common High Reliability, resilience, Frees resource for
Enterprise mission
Payroll Common High Compliance, Security, Risk
SharePoint Rare (but growing) High Resilience, Accessibility
Website Common High Security, Reliability, Capacity
ERP / Accounting Becoming common High Reliability, Accessibility, Key skills
Helpdesk (system) Common Med Reliability, Accessibility - Stays up even if
you are down !
Telephony Becoming common Med Depends on installed base and
equipment
HR Systems Common High Security
CRM systems Common Med Reliability, accessibility
POS Common is small orgs High Risk, compliance. Can be more efficient
in house but higher risk
Network /
Connectivity
Growing High In house skill is expensive. Key man
dependencies. Critical infrastructure
20. CLOSING VIEWPOINT
Things change – Entropy vs Development
•We make decisions with what information we can gather and digest
• Research
• Experts
• Evaluations
•As new choices (and mandates) become available
• Need to re-evaluate options
• Context of past decisions and current status
• Some ‘trigger points’ – Obsolescence, Contracts, Strategy, Staff turnover,
Compliance, Growth
•Not all new options are right – Change vs Stability
• Lots of marketing hype. Don’t get sold on shiny toys
• Biggest benefits are not always cost
• Will it help achieve the goals of the enterprise - how
How do you stay informed ?
•People like us. Field experts, Benchmarks, Peer review, Sector
experience, Passion in our fields, Constant Research.
Where am I
compared to best
practice
Where am I
compared to my
peers
For my type and
size of enterprise
What keeps me
awake at night
Am I happy with
what IT is doing
for me now
Who Needs a CIO Page 20
21. EVERYDAY ISSUES / GLOBAL BEST
PRACTICE
Stop keeping credit card numbers (everywhere):
• End to end encryption for POS
• Tokenization for Web
Don’t host your web site from your office
• Resource and access sharing is a bad idea. They will conflict.
Only collect personal data you NEED and keep it safe. Have a clean up
process
• Most executives who lose sensitive data lose their jobs. Minimize the
data and take care of it.
Check your backups work and are safe
• Perform test restores, Keep offsite copies (secure). Understand how
you would recover from a failure.
SAAS and Cloud / Hosting is not a silver bullet
• New flexible solutions – New issues. Wont solve every problem but
are a game changer
Some simple
thoughts to take
away
Who Needs a CIO Page 21
22. THANK YOU!
Kerry Mickelson
Direct: 202-573-4277
E-mail: kmickelson@raffa.com
Seth Zarny
Direct: 301.279.6500
E-mail: SZarney@raffa.com
Q
A
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