1.5 Come Together: Harnessing the Power of Peer Support Through User GroupsTargetX
Ariel Cassista | University of Maine at Augusta
Jami Holmes | University of Maine at Farmington
Eileen Reading | University of Maine at Farmington
Whitney Yorston | University of Maine
Creighton Dent | TargetX
Lean Solutions – Agile Transformation at the United States Postal ServiceITSM Academy, Inc.
The postal business is changing at a rapid pace and the Postal Service must continue to change quickly to remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace. The Postal Service implemented the Agile methodology, replacing the traditional waterfall methodology to improve project communication, increase customer satisfaction, realize business benefits quickly, and improve overall quality. Please join us as Mark outlines the challenges Postal faced before using Agile, how Agile has been implemented across the enterprise, lessons learned, benefits and where they are headed next with Agile Transformation.
Initiating and Advancing Your Strategic GIS Governance StrategySafe Software
Join us as we delve into the benefits of developing a Governance strategy for your organization. Learn the requisite knowledge and tools for efficient deployment and management of FME Governance within your own organization. This webinar will feature two guest speaker segments:
Segment 1, by Jelle De Zwaef from Nordend & Francis Vanden Bulcke from District09, unravels the Governance journey at the Municipality of Ghent. As FME Flow becomes a cornerstone for business-critical processes in Ghent, discover how a well-orchestrated governance strategy, employing Named Connections, Python Scripts, and user access control among other elements, has facilitated the transition of processes to a production environment. This also strategy ensures swift and accurate deployment of alterations in the FME process.
In Segment 2, Théo Drogo & Lesley MacKenzie from Consortech, demonstrate a kickstart into FME Governance with a straightforward self-assessment approach. This segment unveils a proven methodology, cultivated over 20 years, to perform a quick yet thorough assessment of your current FME infrastructure. The discussion, grounded on three foundational pillars—technology, people, and practices, will provide a robust checklist to guide your governance strategy. This method aims to ensure an optimal, secure, and cost-effective FME integration into your IT and business dynamics.
Attend and gain a better understanding of how you can use FME to support data and GIS governance, as well as practical tips and techniques for implementing FME within your own organization.
1.5 Come Together: Harnessing the Power of Peer Support Through User GroupsTargetX
Ariel Cassista | University of Maine at Augusta
Jami Holmes | University of Maine at Farmington
Eileen Reading | University of Maine at Farmington
Whitney Yorston | University of Maine
Creighton Dent | TargetX
Lean Solutions – Agile Transformation at the United States Postal ServiceITSM Academy, Inc.
The postal business is changing at a rapid pace and the Postal Service must continue to change quickly to remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace. The Postal Service implemented the Agile methodology, replacing the traditional waterfall methodology to improve project communication, increase customer satisfaction, realize business benefits quickly, and improve overall quality. Please join us as Mark outlines the challenges Postal faced before using Agile, how Agile has been implemented across the enterprise, lessons learned, benefits and where they are headed next with Agile Transformation.
Initiating and Advancing Your Strategic GIS Governance StrategySafe Software
Join us as we delve into the benefits of developing a Governance strategy for your organization. Learn the requisite knowledge and tools for efficient deployment and management of FME Governance within your own organization. This webinar will feature two guest speaker segments:
Segment 1, by Jelle De Zwaef from Nordend & Francis Vanden Bulcke from District09, unravels the Governance journey at the Municipality of Ghent. As FME Flow becomes a cornerstone for business-critical processes in Ghent, discover how a well-orchestrated governance strategy, employing Named Connections, Python Scripts, and user access control among other elements, has facilitated the transition of processes to a production environment. This also strategy ensures swift and accurate deployment of alterations in the FME process.
In Segment 2, Théo Drogo & Lesley MacKenzie from Consortech, demonstrate a kickstart into FME Governance with a straightforward self-assessment approach. This segment unveils a proven methodology, cultivated over 20 years, to perform a quick yet thorough assessment of your current FME infrastructure. The discussion, grounded on three foundational pillars—technology, people, and practices, will provide a robust checklist to guide your governance strategy. This method aims to ensure an optimal, secure, and cost-effective FME integration into your IT and business dynamics.
Attend and gain a better understanding of how you can use FME to support data and GIS governance, as well as practical tips and techniques for implementing FME within your own organization.
BDT has moved from SAS-based workflow a cloud-based workflow leveraging tools like BigQuery, Looker, and Apache Airflow. Originally presented at the 2018 Pennsylvania Data Users Conference: https://pasdcconference.org/
LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems) are critical for scale-able lab processes. This presentation helps explain the needs for LIMS, how to implement them, and what functionality you should consider. Slides and presentation by Robin Emig, a 20 year veteran in the Biotech field implementing LIMS, ngs, chemi-informatics, and data science pipelines. Contact me for more information robinemig@gmail.com or on Linkedin
Agile Methods and Data Warehousing (2016 update)Kent Graziano
This presentation takes a look at the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile Development and discusses how these apply to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects. Several examples and details from my past experience are included. Includes more details on using Data Vault as well. (I gave this presentation at OUGF14 in Helsinki, Finland and again in 2016 for TDWI Nashville.)
I gave this presentation at OUGF14 in Helsinki, Finland and again for TDWI Nashville. This presentation takes a look at the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile Development and discusses how these apply to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects. Several examples and details from my past experience are included.
Tips for Driving Learning Success with Moodle LMS ReportingLambda Solutions
As your courses run, your learners participate, and your instructors design, Moodle learning management systems create and store a wealth of data just underneath the hood. All of the information you need to optimize your system, report on the effectiveness of your courses, and identify opportunities for learner intervention are waiting to be analyzed, visualized, and shared.
Join Stewart Rogers, the Lambda Solutions reporting and analytics expert, to discover how you can use reporting and analytics in your Moodle LMS to drive learning success. This webinar will demonstrate what you can gain from analytic insights into your learner data created through Moodle, and provide tips and tricks on how you can quickly access, analyze, and share this information for actionable insights that will help you improve the effectiveness of your learning programs.
Attend the live webinar to learn how to:
- Monitor student progress and identify intervention opportunities
- Report on student activity and engagement within your courses
- Collect and visualize compliance data
- Assess “time spent” by your learners and instructors
- Analyze trends in the effectiveness of your learning programs
Measuring the Productivity of Your Engineering Organisation - the Good, the B...Marin Dimitrov
High-performing engineering teams regularly dedicate time on measuring the performance & quality of the systems and applications they’re building or on measuring & improving the various aspects of the development lifecycle. High-performing product companies are also data-driven when it comes to measuring the impact of new features & products in terms of business KPIs and Northstar metrics.
Can a data-driven approach be applied to measuring the performance, maturity and continuous improvement of an engineering team or the whole engineering organisation? In this discussion we’ll cover various important topics related to quantifying the performance of an engineering organisation
Ad109 - XPages Performance and Scalabilityddrschiw
Understanding the XPages architecture is key to building performant scalable enterprise-ready Lotus Domino web applications. We'll show how to go under the hood to discover functional features that help your application perform and scale well. You'll learn about design patterns and techniques that ensure your applications are optimally tuned for your business requirements, and we'll show how to integrate existing business logic -- without increasing performance cost.
Reproducibility and experiments management in Machine Learning Mikhail Rozhkov
Machine Learning becomes more and more common practice in many companies. ML teams size is growing and collaboration goes out of office and personal laptops. The complexity of ML projects leads to adopting distributed team collaboration, cloud based infrastructure and distributed machine learning. Well defined and manageable process for ML experiments becomes a central issue. Practices to apply automated pipelines, models and data set versioning helps to establish a good manageable process in project and provide reproducible results.
This speech helps to start with handling models and datasets versioning using open source tools: DVC, mlflow, Luigi, etc.
The Power of Science + Art: How Advanced Analytics Innovations and Staff Empo...TargetX
The Power of Science + Art: How Advanced Analytics Innovations and Staff Empowerment Can Increase Your Recruiting Effectiveness
Technology Innovations Track
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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
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. Introduction to Joel
● Currently the Director of Advancement Services
● Formerly the E.M. Data Systems Manager
● Worked in Enrollment Management for 25 years
● FunkyTech / Admin
● 5 year SalesForce & TargetX veteran
3. Introduction to The College of Saint Scholastica
● Private College in Duluth, Minnesota
● Total Enrollment of 4000+ students
● Implemented SalesForce and TargetX in 2013
● Student Profile
● Reimplemented TargetX in 2018
● Revamped Data Structure
● Student Portal
● Online Application
● Decision Tools
● Improved Automation
4. Who Are You?
● Quick Survey by show of hands
● Public Institution
● Private Institution
● IT Staff or Admin Role
● Leadership Position
● Minimal Technical Background
● On Salesforce or TargetX Already
● In Implementation
● Considering a CRM Change/Implementation
5. Automating Application Processes
● Do students experience delays when saving their application?
● Do background processes happen out of order sometimes?
● Are there ‘automations’ that don’t always execute?
● Do reviews trigger without everything being complete?
● Are there routine manual processes you wish you could automate?
● Do you wish for an easier way to move data from one object to another?
● Do you long for a way to conditionally create tasks and their content?
● Do you long to trigger an email immediately without waiting for a schedule?
21. Processes
● Prior to Reimplementation
● 9 Different Processes
● Affecting 5 Different Objects
● Used for:
● Triggering Task Assignments
● Populating Related Data Fields
22. Processes
● After Reimplementation
● 15 Processes
● Affecting 10 Different Objects
● Used for:
● Triggering Tasks
● Feeding Flows
● Orchestrating Application Reviews
● Updating Codes
● Complex Formulas
● ****** Some Delivered Functionality ******
23. Processes
● Logic Behind our Changes
● Improve Processing Overhead
● Improve Order of Execution
● Incorporate Decision Trees
● Handle Complexity
● Eliminate Error Messages for Students
40. Flows
● After Reimplementation
● 5 Flows
● Affecting 5 Different Objects
● Used for:
● Triggering Task Assignments
● Populating Related Data Fields
● Triggering Emails
● Updating Related Data Fields
41. Flows
● Logic Behind Changes
● Minimal Processing Overhead
● Situational and Sequential Processing
● Able to Tackle Complex Situations
● Able to Interact with Multiple Objects
● Automated Manual Processes
● Trigged Custom Apex Classes (generate PDF of app as submitted)
47. Source to Master
● After Reimplementation
● 3 Profile Builder Rollups
● Affecting 3 Different Objects
● Used for:
● Migrating Data to Contact Object
48. Source to Master
● Logic Behind Changes
● Easy Way to Migrate Data to Contact from App, Inquiry and Enrollment History Objects
● Resolves Some Timing Issues
● Challenges with Order By
● Challenges with Multiple Fields
49. #TargetXSummit
Summary
• Challenge Yourself to Learn New Functionality
• Work Toward Greater Automation
• Process Builder
• Flows
• Profile Builder
• Automation Can Improve Student Experience
• Automation Can Improve Staff Experience