Insights Success is The Best Business Magazine in the world for enterprises. Being a platform, it focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading fastest growing companies, their confrontational style of doing businesses and the way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. Here, we talk about the leader’s viewpoints & ideas, latest products/services, etc. Insights Success magazine reaches out to all the ‘C’ Level Professionals, VPs, Consultants, VCs, Managers, and HRs of various industries.
The working conditions survey interviewed 1,202 members of SAK-affiliated trade unions by telephone in February and March 2018. The SAK Good Job Barometer gauges the quality of working conditions by measuring employment essentials and elements of a smooth working experience.
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2009 North Bridge Future of Open Source StudyNorth Bridge
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Disruptive business models are maturing in large markets like Web Content Management and Social Publishing, making it an attractive investment area for the team at North Bridge. However what the survey also shows is that much work remains to evangelize these benefits and establish a credible ecosystem to bring open source solutions to mainstream IT buyers.
Insights Success is The Best Business Magazine in the world for enterprises. Being a platform, it focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading fastest growing companies, their confrontational style of doing businesses and the way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. Here, we talk about the leader’s viewpoints & ideas, latest products/services, etc. Insights Success magazine reaches out to all the ‘C’ Level Professionals, VPs, Consultants, VCs, Managers, and HRs of various industries.
The working conditions survey interviewed 1,202 members of SAK-affiliated trade unions by telephone in February and March 2018. The SAK Good Job Barometer gauges the quality of working conditions by measuring employment essentials and elements of a smooth working experience.
This partial report of the working conditions survey concerning digitisation was produced as part of the SAK Time of Opportunities project.
2009 North Bridge Future of Open Source StudyNorth Bridge
2009 Future of Open Source study; presented at InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference Keynote Panel: Dries Buytaert, Founder & CTO- Acquia;Ron Hovsepian, CEO Novell;John Lilly, CEO Mozilla; Mårten Mickos, SVP Sun Microsystems; John Roberts, CEO SugarCRM. The panel was chaired by North Bridge. The study, collected from 435 respondents, bring to light a variety of significant issues and topics surrounding open source software, such as the impact of the economic recession, key market drivers, and predictions regarding the types of companies that will drive the next wave of commercial open source success.
Disruptive business models are maturing in large markets like Web Content Management and Social Publishing, making it an attractive investment area for the team at North Bridge. However what the survey also shows is that much work remains to evangelize these benefits and establish a credible ecosystem to bring open source solutions to mainstream IT buyers.
Emerging Trends in Testing - Conclusions from the 2013-2014 World Quality ReportTEST Huddle
View webinar: http://www.eurostarconferences.com/community/member/webinar-archive/webinar-82-emerging-trends-in-testing---conclusions-from-the-2013-2014-world-quality-report
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Mark your calendar for a dynamic 30-minute discussion with Capgemini and HP where we'll share results from the World Quality Report. This report is the industry's most comprehensive annual research study focused on insights about the latest trends and best practices in application quality assurance, testing methodologies, tools, and QA processes. The report is based on more than 1,500 telephone interviews with CIOs, CFOs, IT directors and managers and QA directors across 25 countries.
During this event you'll hear actionable highlights of the findings on topics including:
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This insightful discussion co-author of the World Quality Report, Makarand Teje, Senior Vice President, Applications, Capgemini is joined by Michael Cooper, HP Software QA and Testing Evangelist.
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DevOps implementation too often focuses only on communication between dev teams and their business counterparts, but fails to adequately loop in downstream testing and operations teams. A lack of visibility for operations teams leads to delaying rollouts and going live with buggy code.
Check this Forrester Consulting report to see what strategies DevOps teams are using to maximize visibility, speed, and agility.
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A rundown of the key findings and overall themes of InvestmentNews' flagship adviser technology benchmarking study, addressing the driving factors behind how and why firms invest in technology, the factors they weigh the closest in making those key decisions, and the strategies they implement to better their firms.
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Emerging Trends in Testing - Conclusions from the 2013-2014 World Quality ReportTEST Huddle
View webinar: http://www.eurostarconferences.com/community/member/webinar-archive/webinar-82-emerging-trends-in-testing---conclusions-from-the-2013-2014-world-quality-report
How does your company stack up to the industry in software quality and testing? For instance, did you know that, despite the rapid rise in mobile testing (from 31% in 2012 to 55% in 2013), close to half of respondents this year report that they still lack mobile testing experts...
Mark your calendar for a dynamic 30-minute discussion with Capgemini and HP where we'll share results from the World Quality Report. This report is the industry's most comprehensive annual research study focused on insights about the latest trends and best practices in application quality assurance, testing methodologies, tools, and QA processes. The report is based on more than 1,500 telephone interviews with CIOs, CFOs, IT directors and managers and QA directors across 25 countries.
During this event you'll hear actionable highlights of the findings on topics including:
• Testing in the cloud
• Mobility & security testing
• Managing Agile distributed testing organizations and testing CoEs
• Test automation
• Quality metrics
• ReportingMike Cooper
This insightful discussion co-author of the World Quality Report, Makarand Teje, Senior Vice President, Applications, Capgemini is joined by Michael Cooper, HP Software QA and Testing Evangelist.
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DevOps implementation too often focuses only on communication between dev teams and their business counterparts, but fails to adequately loop in downstream testing and operations teams. A lack of visibility for operations teams leads to delaying rollouts and going live with buggy code.
Check this Forrester Consulting report to see what strategies DevOps teams are using to maximize visibility, speed, and agility.
Data Quality Doesn’t Just Happen: And Here’s What Some of the Industry’s Most...InsightInnovation
Data quality isn’t always the sexiest topic, but it’s critical and one that buyers and suppliers often neglect to have. The ramifications of ignoring it can cost millions of dollars. Some of the industry’s largest buyers and suppliers have found a simple solution though and it’s one that is available to everyone else too. Come here about how the issue of data quality concerns haven’t gone away, and what others are doing to make sure they and their insights are protected.
A rundown of the key findings and overall themes of InvestmentNews' flagship adviser technology benchmarking study, addressing the driving factors behind how and why firms invest in technology, the factors they weigh the closest in making those key decisions, and the strategies they implement to better their firms.
InvestmentNews Research collected firm-level data from over 300 independent advisory firms in December 2014 - January 2014. Firms submitted truncated P&L data, including measures of operating expenses, profits, revenue, assets, client and staff. "Top Performers", or the most profitable and productive firms, and "Innovators", the firms who utilized the most technology at their firms, were identified as cohorts used to benchmark the industry.
Survey Results: Trends in Supply Chain Visibility E2open
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Technology - It's position and impact on Surveying 2020 Report - May 2020Anthony Walker
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The AI renaissance is here. Organizations are using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of the market--unlocking new digital intelligence from large volumes of data. And a key strategy for many of these organizations making inroads with AI initiatives is to let their developers lead the charge.
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Sabancı Üniversitesi ile Teknoloji ve Lisans Yöneticileri Derneği (LES) Türkiye tarafından hazırlanan Fikri ve Sınai Mülkiyet Haklarının kitlesel iletişimde doğru kullanımına yönelik bir kitapçık.
2016 Q2 Tech Investments Report by startups.watch Webrazzi
2016 Q2 Tech Investments Report by startups.watch. The Report may not be modified, copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, decompiled or transmitted in any way, without the prior written consent of Startups.Watch.
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By taking a ‘rapid-fire’ directional approach, public service organizations can quickly identify key issues and insights that reveal new potential value or even suggest a beneficial change in strategic direction. Learn more about Unplanned Analytics and the FASTT Methodology
Broken links: Why analytics investments have yet to pay off, sponsored by ZS, draws on the survey findings, interviews with senior corporate executives and desk research to explore the current state of sales and marketing analytics.
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Consumer Product (CP) companies operate in an industry where the fundamental rules of the game are changing. The growth of e-commerce, the ability to bypass retailers, the rise of private labels, and the advent of niche CP startups are just some of the trends that are reshaping the sector. Find out the latest findings from our Consumer Insights Infographic.
Survey Results Age Of Unbounded Data June 03 10nhaque
Enterprises today can generate, collect and consider more data than ever before. New types of data can provide insight into previously opaque processes and motivations, but prodigious quantities of data present opportunity, as well as complexity and distraction. nGenera Insight’s 2010 Leading in an Age of Unbounded Data survey garnered responses from over 70 major organizations, including many global corporations, to provide a cross-industry pulse of the state of enterprise data.
You had a strategy. You were executing it. You were then side-swiped by COVID, spending countless cycles blocking and tackling. It is now time to step back onto your path.
CCG is holding a workshop to help you update your roadmap and get your team back on track and review how Microsoft Azure Solutions can be leveraged to build a strong foundation for governed data insights.
The Innovator’s Journey: Insurance Sector InsightsState Street
On behalf of State Street, Longitude conducted a global survey of senior executives at investment
organizations during October and November 2014. We asked them to self-assess their confidence and
progress across six data capabilities, including infrastructure, insight, adaptability, compliance, talent and
governance. The 400 respondents were drawn from 11 countries and included insurance companies,
private and public pension funds, fund-of-funds, foundations, central banks, endowments, sovereign
wealth funds and supranationals. One-hundred insurance companies participated in the survey.
Unleashing the Power of Analytics: Driving Performance at the Intersection of...Human Capital Media
Performance analytics is a data-driven approach used to optimize how organizations manage and deploy learning and development that supports execution of business strategy. How are learning organizations today using data? How do they define and determine relevant analytics? Is there a critical shortage of analytics skills in the learning function? What outcomes are organizations realizing from their efforts when deploying performance analytics to drive learning and development (L&D)? Finally, how do we link learning analytics and business analytics to produce performance data that really deliver results?
In this session, we will share the results of a proprietary research conducted with hundreds of CLOs , in partnership with Human Capital Media, that delved into these questions… and more. We will shed light on best practices being employed and the challenges for learning leaders.
Learning Objectives:
Identify best practices and gaps in the adoption of analytics by learning organizations
Understand the difference and impact of learning analytics vs Performance analytics
Examine how analytics can transform strategy and outcomes for the learning function
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The presentation shows how organization can successfully become data driven and avoid wasting time and money. It explain how to prioritize business questtions, how to combine properly people, tech&data and processes, and how to structure a transforamtional journey for becoming a data driven.
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The classic B2B sales and marketing funnel is a model that has served marketers well for decades. An entire ecosystem of job titles, roles, responsibilities and technologies now exists around the funnel. Funnel management has evolved as a science with precise measurements that marketers use to manage and optimize a set of complimentary tools, processes and relationships that have to work in harmony to pull things through the funnel. But whether marketers realize it or not, they’re no longer working with their grandfather’s funnel.
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The reality for many marketers is they now have more people interacting with their content. There are ever greater numbers of things to follow-up on, to route, to track and to push through the funnel. Demand Metric, in partnership with MRP, has completed a study about the current state of the funnel. The “funnel flow” survey measured how well leads flow through the sales and marketing funnel. This report shares the data and analysis from this research effort, providing insights on how to optimize the flow of leads through the funnel.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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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.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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
2. 22
High performers share
a winning approach to
analytics when it comes
to investments, talent,
technological tools, and
their focus on linking
decision-making with
business outcomes.
3. 3
Analytics high performers are far ahead
in the journey from data and analysis
to insights, decisions and outcomes.
High performers see better results when
they adopt analytics because they then
adapt their enterprises to leverage
analytics’ full power. By embedding
analytics into decision-making processes
linked to desired business outcomes,
high performers can make smarter
decisions faster and with greater certainty.
They also make decisions that are more
likely to lead to tangible business results.
There is a strong consensus across all
companies surveyed on the importance
of analytics to an organization’s future:
more than two-thirds agree that analytics
is important. But major differences surface
when companies are grouped by several
parameters: their application of analytics,
along with growth, profitability, consistent
performance and future prospects.
From this analysis, a new class of company
emerges, termed “high performers.” These
high performers deliver higher business and
analytics performance by doing analytics
differently. They…
• Adopt analytics to support decision-
making: Twice as many high performers
are using analytics in key areas.
• Adapt decision processes to embed
analytics: Twice as many high performers
are embedding analytics in decision-
making that leverages machine learning.
High performers embed predictive analytics
insights into key business processes
(79 percent vs. 34 percent) and keep
monitoring decisions and course-correct
(84 percent vs. 32 percent).
Analytics Accelerates Smarter
Business Decisions
For many companies, analytics is still a question.
For high performers, analytics is the answer.
High-performing companies – those that deliver
continuous above-average business performance
as well as above-average analytics performance –
do analytics differently. This distinctive approach
contributes to measurable gains across their enterprises.
In essence, the stronger a company’s commitment
to analytics, the higher that company’s performance.
High Performers Low Performers
94% 48%vs
92% 24%vs
94% 48%vs
92% 24%vs
High performers make better and more
informed decisions
High performers are almost four times as
likely to report receiving a significant ROI
from analytics
What high performers do:
4. Low Performers
High Performers
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4
Commitment is Crucial,
Investment Indispensable
Adoption of analytics is widespread, because most companies agree that
analytics is important to an organization’s future. But only high performers
show true commitment in terms of time, focus and investment. The best
demonstrations of commitment are investments in analytics technology
and the readiness to adapt the enterprise to that new technology.
vs59% 17%
82% 40%vs
Today’s high performers are three times as likely as low performers to
invest a substantial portion of their technology spend on analytics.
59 percent of high performers invest
more than one-quarter of their total
technology expenditure in analytics,
versus only 17 percent of low performers
More than twice as many high performers
are spending more on analytics, including
making greater investments in human
capital through training, investments
in people and the use of consultants
(82 percent vs. 40 percent).
vs53% 9%
53 percent of high performers plan to
significantly increase their analytics
investment over the next three years
Compared to 9 percent of low
performers, further widening the gap
between high and low performers
Increasing investment tomorrow
Smarter investment overall
5. High Performers Low Performers
5
High Performers
Win by Managing
Talent End-to-End and
Using a Multi-Pronged
Sourcing Strategy
Talent powers the analytics machine. High performers
use a multi-pronged talent sourcing strategy to not only
manage the talent they have well, but also to go outside
the organization to secure talent wherever they can find it.
High and low performers both struggle to find talent
Analytics skills are difficult to findvs47% 44%
Organizations lack needed skillsvs42% 38%
Cannot find people to bridge
the gap between analytics
and its application
vs36% 38%
6. High Performers Low Performers
6
High performers are better talent managers
High performers fill talent gaps more aggressively
Well-defined sourcing,
selection and allocation
strategy
vs88% 34%
Formal
competency
model
vs88% 39%
Global and local
communities of
practice
vs87% 36%
Partner with companies
that bring skills and
capabilities needed
vs63% 33%
Partner with
academic institutions vs52% 24%
Acquire companies that
add needed skills vs43% 18%
7. High Performers Low Performers
69% 32%vs
58% 30%vs
81% 45%vs
59%
21%
High Performers Use More Data Sources,
Advanced Tools and Techniques
Complex decision-making support requires more data sources, smarter tools
and advanced analytics techniques. High performers can take on more complex
analytics challenges because they have richer data and superior tools, and are
more sophisticated in their use of data sources and analytic techniques.
7
Nearly three times as many
high performers leverage
seven or more data sources
Twice as many high
performers leverage
intermediate tools...
…and advanced tools such as
Hadoop and in memory computing
Nearly twice as many high performers
use two or more advanced analytical
techniques such as optimization,
simulation, crowdsourcing, and
sentiment analysis
Compared to only 21%
of low performers
Advanced Analytics Tools and Techniques
A Wider Variety of Data Sources
8. 8
High Performers Embrace the Change Journey
Tools and techniques play key roles in analytics, but tools alone do little if they are not used
because of politics, an inability to change or other barriers. Where high performers excel is in
effectively navigating these change barriers in order to adapt their organizations for analytics.
Change is the Real Challenge
In virtually every industry, low performers cite “inability to change” and “politics” as the top
barriers to implementing good decisions. High performers do a better job ofovercoming
internal resistance, functional silos and other barriers.
Smarter Decisions Drive Better Outcomes
In the final stages of leveraging analytics, the high performers are doing it better. High
performers are both adopting and adapting – embedding analytics throughout decision-
making processes, and so exploiting the full power of analytics across the enterprise.
High Performers
Low Performers
Inability to change
High performers are nearly twice as
likely to achieve specific business
outcomes from analytics
High performers are morethan twice
as likely to reporteffective applications
and positiveresults from analytics
comparedto low performers
Politics
vs79% 39%
vs37% 55%
vs91% 38%
vs33% 49%
9. 9
Only one in five invest at a high
level in analytics and only one in 10
expect this to increase significantly
in the next three years
Less than half manage talent from
end-to-end; just over half use a
multi-faceted approach; few are
willing to acquire talent
Only one in five use seven
or more types of data in their
analyses; less than half use
advanced analytical techniques
One third or fewer embed analytics
into the decision process and
struggle with decision-making
High performing companies are satisfied with the contribution
analytics has made to shaping strategic direction, addressing growth
opportunities, informing critical decisions and managing risk,
compared with 39 percent of low performers (on average).
The majority invest considerably in
their analytical capability and this
is expected to significantly increase
over the next three years
Nearly all manage talent from end-to-
end and four out of five source talent
using a multi-faceted approach;
more than twice as many high
performers are willing to acquire
talent compared to low performers
The majority use seven or
more types of data in analyses;
four out of five use advanced
analytical techniques
Four out of five embed analytics
into the decision process
Low performers High performers
Gather data, lack analytics talent Focus on insights to actions
9
High Performers Use Analytics to Connect
Decisions with Business Outcomes
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Methodology
The research was based on data from
Accenture’s High Performance Business
Research program and a survey of 864
respondents from companies in nine
countries and eight industries. Using data
mining techniques, Accenture and MIT
identified analytic performance areas
(e.g., satisfaction with analytics results,
returns on investment) and linked them
to companies’ business performance
(e.g., revenue growth, profitability) over a
seven-year period. Organizations delivering
continuous above-average business
performance as well as above-average
analytics performance were classified
as “high performers.” By comparing high
performers to low performers (organizations
delivering below-average business and
analytics performance), Accenture and MIT
identified the analytics practices in which
both groups are similar and those in which
high performers differ significantly from
low performers in applying analytics.
The research covers the countries of Brazil,
Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan,
the United Kingdom and the United States.
It includes companies in these industries:
Banking, Communications, Consumer Goods
and Services, Energy, Health Payers, Health
Providers, Insurance, Retail.
About the Accenture and MIT
Alliance in Business Analytics
The Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics combines Accenture’s industry and
analytics expertise with MIT’s scientific and technological leadership. Research conducted
by the alliance aims to close the gap between the advance of analytics technologies
and their successful application in specific industry and government environments.
The alliance’s two streams of collaboration cover the challenges of harnessing big data
and new approaches to improve the science of decision-making. The alliance is headed by
Narendra Mulani, senior managing director for Accenture Analytics, and David Simchi-Levi,
professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering systems at MIT.
For more information, please visit www.aba.mit.edu