This presentation is basically all about a small biography of the well known Co-Founder of American Multinational Company Apple Inc. written up on the basis of book named ...iCon Steve Jobs.
This presentation is basically all about a small biography of the well known Co-Founder of American Multinational Company Apple Inc. written up on the basis of book named ...iCon Steve Jobs.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
2. 4th of Today’s Leading Vendors
• This week we begin the 4th episode on
today’s HIS vendors: QuadraMed, whose
story encompasses Compucare and HDS.
- $3.2B = McKesson, née HBOC = Walt Huff, Bruce Barrington, & David Owens
- $2.2B = Cerner, still run by Neal Patterson, co-founded with Cliff Illig
- $1.7B (est) = Siemens, née SMS: Jim Macaleer, Harvey Wilson & Clyde Hyde
- $1.4B = Allscripts, née Eclipsys, also founded by Harvey Wilson of SMS.
- $1.2B = Epic. Gee, I have to wonder, just who was it who founded them?
- $900M (est) - GE Healthcare, née IDX/PHAMIS: created by Malcolm Gleser
- $545M = Meditech, still run after all these years by Antonino Papallardo
- $353M = NextGen: new Opus & old Sphere financials by Florian Weiland
- $174M = CPSI (Computer Products & Services Inc), founded by David Dye
- $170M = QuadraMed, née Compucare, founded by Sheldon Dorenfest
- $160M = Keane, parent giant by John Keane, but HIS div. built by Ray Paris
- $110M = HMS (Healthcare Management Systems), Tom Givens & John Doss
- $70M (est) = Healthland, formerly Dairyland, founded by Steve Klick
3. Triple Play!
• This series of 3 episodes actually covers 3 HIS vendors
(Techie Troika?) that we’ll review in chronological order:
– Compucare – home of Shelly Dorenfest, which we
first covered in an earlier episode (#17, which you
can find at hispros.com), only this time we get the
perspective of the man who took it (and other HIS
firms!) on to bigger & better things: Ron Aprahamian
– QuadraMed – formed by the acquisition of over a
dozen HIS firms over several decades of acquisitions,
then bought itself a few years back, and the surviving
name & vendor in hundreds of hospitals to this day.
– Health Data Sciences – Formed by Ralph Korpman,
yes, that same Dr. Korpman who was a Pathologist at
Technicon back in the days of MIS, and created
UltiCare, the pioneering bedside system.
4. Another HIS-tory Hero!
• Many thanks for this weeks inside story of the rise of Compucare
to David Pomerance, co-founder of Dynamic Control, who was
kind enough to introduce me to Ron Aprahamian, for the inside
story. Ron’s story begins way back in the 1969 mainframe era:
– Ron joined Compucare after it had grown to about 20 FTEs in
the 1970s, but he recalls it was first founded by Peter Marsh
and Richard Freibrun, then joined by Shelly from Abbot Lab.
– Shelly and Peter hardly need introductions, both having long
HIS-tories, but Dick Freibrun has a fascinating background:
• He was one of the 47 charter members of HIMSS in 1961!
• He developed a plastic overlay for clinicians entering data
onto IBM’s “clunky” old 1052 keyboards (which if you’ve
been a good student of HIS-tory, you’ll remember was Mike
Mulhall’s claim to fame at the IBM Monmouth Medical
Center in NJ “HIS” project in the late 60s {see episode #8}).
5. Rocky Start…
• Like so many start-ups, Compucare was challenged to
grow the business through sales (income), while at the
same time programming and installing their HIS
(expenses), and by 1975 the ratio of the 2 was not very
good, with only about $500K in revenue and 30-40 FTEs.
• Ron was the FM (Facilities Management) Director for
Compucare at Georgetown U. Hospital, which you may
remember was the idea behind Compucare: develop an
HIS through a series of FM clients writing various apps.
At that time, most of their clients were mainframe users.
• With the impending minicomputer revolution, Ron
got the idea to switch boxes and paid about $50K to
buy out Compucare’s stock. That would be between
a ¼ and 1/3 of a million in today’s dollars, a pretty
gutsy gamble for 29-year old Ron way back then!
6. Boston Connection!
• How Ron switched from mainframes to a
minicomputer platform is an incredible story that even
blew my mind after being in this crazy business for 40+
years:
– Rather than start from scratch, Ron turned to a
little start up in Boston that had developed a
rudimentary LIS on DG minis: Medical Information
Technology – ever heard of them? Try the acronym
in green they used for their overly lengthy name…
– Yes, Virginia, Compucare’s first HIS apps were
coded in MIIS, Meditech’s proprietary version of
MUMPS, long before it was eventually renamed as
Magic!
• Ron’s programmers built a full set of financial apps, patient and
general accounting (ERP for moderns), to add to Meditech’s suite
of ancillary systems, ADT and OE/RR. As you might imagine, Ron’s
Georgetown Hospital became the pilot, and they started to sell!
7. Rapid Growth & IPO
• Like so many turnkey mini vendors back then,
Compucare’s DG-based HIS sold well, and the firm
went public in 1983, for a total stock value of
≈$40M
– Not bad for a $50K investment by a 29-year old!
• As the stock grew in value, it caught the attention ofanother very successful healthcare company that was looking to
buy its has into the HIS market: Baxter-Travenol, who by then had
already acquired a number of mini and mainframe HIS vendors:
• John Sacco’s “JS Data” (featured in HIStory episodes #26 & 27)
• Mitch Lasky & Dave Pomerance’s Dynamic Control Corp. (#18)
• Frank Russo’s IBM mainframe system from Long Island Jewish
• As you might imagine, Ron & the other
stockholders got a pretty good price from the
supply giant: the total value of the
transaction being somewhere around
8. But Wait, There’s More!
• I’m sure some of you CIOs are ready to
leave your hospital job and start a vendor,
but believe it or not, Ron’s amazing
financial prowess was only just beginning!
• Travenol renamed
Compucare’s HIS the
“Sigma” series and tried to
sell it alongside DCC’s IBM
System 38-based HIS,
which sold much better…
• After several years of this
internecine warfare, and
after Baxter joined IBM to
create IBAX, they gave up!
9. Guess Who, and For How Much?
• So guess who IBAX sold the Sigma series back to? Our man Ron!
And for how much? So little, would you believe $7M! If you’re an
old friend, email Ron at raprahamia@aol.com to confirm…
• When Ron got his old firm back, he
started it in a new direction, that should
sound familiar after you read the last
few Keane episodes on Ray Paris’
Threshold and John Indrgio’s InfostatInfostat:
- An “open” system platform written
in UNIX so it could run an any mini:
- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, DG, etc.
- Under these “open” covers, the
programming language was still
MIIS, but UNIX opened many more
doors for this latest HIS: Affinity
10. ““Code Generator”Code Generator”
• Rom relayed a fascinating tech detail
about a “code generator” they wrote
to write the actual programming code
• He gives credit to a techie named Jim
Kline, the development Director who
created it (sounds like the “translator”
HIS Inc. tried to develop in Brooklyn
that was described in episode 30!).
• When Affinity first went live circa 1990,
response times were slow, and they
had to re-do a lot of the code to speed
things up. “Re-writing by hand would
have taken forever,” per Jim Kline, and
his code generator saved the day!
11. Ron’s Final Sale of Compucare
• By the late-90s, Compucare had sold
over 100 Affinity systems, and the
company was fast approaching the
$100M mark in annual revenue.
• Ron left in 1996, by which time
Compucare had become quite a hot
commodity, again! This time the
buyer was the star of our next HIS-
tory episode: QuadraMed, who
acquired many firms & runs Affinity in
scores of hospitals to this very day.
– Tune in next week for their story…
• And what happened to Ron after he
left Compucare? True to form, he
started looking for “green” pastures…
12. Retirement? This Guy??
• After he left Compucare, Ron was Chairman of the Board of
CHIME until 1999, and came a little close to retirement, serving
as a consultant to Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. for a few years.
• However, you can’t keep a good HIS man down, and in 2000, Ron
became Chairman of the Board of Superior Consulting Corp.,
during which time he organized a turnaround of this struggling
firm. In 2003, Superior was acquired by Affiliated Computer
Services (ACS), who were themselves later acquired by Xerox.
• After Superior, Rom took his expertise to another struggling
consulting firm: First Consulting Corp., turning its shares around
from $5 to $13, before they were eventually acquired by CSC.
• What’s he doing today? Besides golf 5 days a week, he is a
director at a healthcare firm named Hooper Holmes, Inc., along
with Larry Ferguson, another HIS pioneer from SAI (Saint).
– You just can’t keep these HIS-tory heroes down!
13. Most Proud Accomplishment
• Ron gives credit for the success of Compucare was given to al the
hard-working employees who did the day-to-day heavy lifting.
• But his most proud achievement is pictured below:
– Two sons and one daughter, all married, and with 8 grand
kids!
14. Next Week: QuadraMed
• Next week we continue the saga
of Affinity with its new owner
QuadraMed, who along the way
acquired over a dozen other HIS
firms, each its own fascinating
HIS-tory in themselves. Their
latest acquisition a few years
ago will lead us to UltiCare…
• And in case you missed any prior
episodes of our HIS-tory series
(or want to check out where
your HIS vendor originally got
their stuff), just hop on over to
our web site and enjoy any past
episode at: HISPros.com