Ideas to Execution: (Mis)using Code for PrototypesIntuit Inc.
Heather Daggett discusses the fastest & most effective ways to (mis)use code for prototypes, from initial ideation to refinement & execution at the Grace Hopper Conference 2016.
At Grace Hopper Conference 2016, Komal Bhatia discusses traditional vs. modern web development, the tools and frameworks needed and how to choose the right ones for you.
Webinar - Self-build your cockpits and gain instant insights with SpagoBI 5SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by SpagoBI Labs within SpagoBI Webinar Center in October 2014, in French and English. It provides an overview of the new features of SpagoBI 5, focusing on self-service cockpits, which you can build and tailor with a few clicks and simple drag & drop. Instant views allow you to enrich your enterprise data with external data sources.
Webinar - SpagoBI 5 and what-if analytics: is your business strategy effective?SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by Alberto Ghedin, SpagoBI Architect, in February 2015 (in English). It shows the what-if analytics provided by SpagoBI 5, allowing you to simulate scenarios and predict the effects of potential changes in your business strategies. www.spagobi.org
Webinar - SpagoBI 5 and what-if analytics: is your business strategy effective?SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by SpagoBI Labs within SpagoBI Webinar Center in October-November 2014, in French and English. It provides an overview of the new features of SpagoBI 5, focusing on the What-if analytics allowing you to simulate scenarios and predict the effects of potential changes in your business strategies, thanks to a beand new OLAP engine. www.spagobi.org
Webinar - SpagoBI 5: here comes the Social Network analysis SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by Letizia Pernigotti, SpagoBI Consultant, in March 2015 (in English). It shows the latest feature for social network listening and monitoring provided by SpagoBI 5. www.spagobi.org
Intuit QuickBooks Future of Small Business ReportIntuit Inc.
October 2016 - Projections show that the number of U.S. small businesses will grow from 30 million in 2016 to over 42 million in 2026. Read on to learn five trends that will give small businesses a competitive edge over the next decade.
Ideas to Execution: (Mis)using Code for PrototypesIntuit Inc.
Heather Daggett discusses the fastest & most effective ways to (mis)use code for prototypes, from initial ideation to refinement & execution at the Grace Hopper Conference 2016.
At Grace Hopper Conference 2016, Komal Bhatia discusses traditional vs. modern web development, the tools and frameworks needed and how to choose the right ones for you.
Webinar - Self-build your cockpits and gain instant insights with SpagoBI 5SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by SpagoBI Labs within SpagoBI Webinar Center in October 2014, in French and English. It provides an overview of the new features of SpagoBI 5, focusing on self-service cockpits, which you can build and tailor with a few clicks and simple drag & drop. Instant views allow you to enrich your enterprise data with external data sources.
Webinar - SpagoBI 5 and what-if analytics: is your business strategy effective?SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by Alberto Ghedin, SpagoBI Architect, in February 2015 (in English). It shows the what-if analytics provided by SpagoBI 5, allowing you to simulate scenarios and predict the effects of potential changes in your business strategies. www.spagobi.org
Webinar - SpagoBI 5 and what-if analytics: is your business strategy effective?SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by SpagoBI Labs within SpagoBI Webinar Center in October-November 2014, in French and English. It provides an overview of the new features of SpagoBI 5, focusing on the What-if analytics allowing you to simulate scenarios and predict the effects of potential changes in your business strategies, thanks to a beand new OLAP engine. www.spagobi.org
Webinar - SpagoBI 5: here comes the Social Network analysis SpagoWorld
This presentation supported the webinar delivered by Letizia Pernigotti, SpagoBI Consultant, in March 2015 (in English). It shows the latest feature for social network listening and monitoring provided by SpagoBI 5. www.spagobi.org
Intuit QuickBooks Future of Small Business ReportIntuit Inc.
October 2016 - Projections show that the number of U.S. small businesses will grow from 30 million in 2016 to over 42 million in 2026. Read on to learn five trends that will give small businesses a competitive edge over the next decade.
Dispatches From The New Economy: The On-Demand Economy And The Future Of WorkIntuit Inc.
From delivery, transportation and household errands, to professional services and consulting, the on-demand economy is changing the way people consume goods and services. It is also changing the way people work. Intuit and Emergent Research forecast that the number of people working on-demand jobs will grow from 3.2 million Americans to 7.6 million by 2020. This is a once in a generation opportunity to empower the future of work and a new face of entrepreneurship.
Dispatches from the New Economy: The On-Demand Workforce provides a detailed analysis of the demographics, motivations and challenges of workers pursuing on-demand jobs. The data comes from a study from Intuit and Emergent Research that examined people working via eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies. Study participants included: Deliv, Field Nation, HourlyNerd, MBO Partners, OnForce, Uber, Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), Visually, Wonolo, and Work Market.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Dispatches From the New Economy: The On-Demand WorkforceIntuit Inc.
In 2015, Intuit kicked-off a research project in partnership with Emergent Research and eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies to gain a deep and objective understanding of the motivations, aspirations and pain points of individuals choosing on-demand jobs. In this latest study, new findings reveal that the on-demand economy has taken on a key role in improving the financial stability of people looking for flexible opportunities to supplement income.
Transforming the IT Mindset - Interop 2016Intuit Inc.
Intuit SVP & CIO, Atticus Tysen talked about how to transform the IT mindset at Interop 2016. His presentation illustrates the key ways in which Intuit was able to shift mindsets not just in IT, but across the entire organization, in an effort to make IT more effective in delivering on Intuit's goals by staying laser focused on the customer.
Intuit offers developers an unmatched opportunity to build useful apps for 1.5M global QuickBooks customers. We want developers to know what problems to solve for.
We offer customers best-in-class apps to help run their business so they can focus on doing what they love.These global insights from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia look at app
adoption in these key markets, how small businesses are using apps and the value they are seeing in their app integrations.
Furthermore, it explores trigger points for small businesses not using apps and what the key drivers are in encouraging them to use apps for their business.
‘Small Business Success in the Cloud,’ describes the impact of cloud technology as it is progressively adapted by more and more small businesses – moving from an initial focus on efficiency gains, to the emergence of new models of business, through broad-based saturation across business and society.
The report is the first in a new ‘Dispatches from the New Economy’ research series, a comprehensive research project exploring the ways economic, technology and social shifts will shape the future of small business success. The series builds on a ten year partnership between Emergent Research and Intuit tracking trends in small business.
Dispatches From The New Economy: The Five Faces Of The On-Demand EconomyIntuit Inc.
From people determined to be their own boss, to those embracing the flexibility to do something they love, to workers finding a replacement for a traditional job – people working in the on-demand economy are just about as diverse as the labor market itself. A new report from Intuit Inc. and Emergent Research shows that there are a broad range of motivations – and differing levels of satisfaction – among five distinct groups of on-demand workers:
The Business Builders – primarily driven by the desire to be their own boss. They represent 22 percent of on-demand workers.
The Career Freelancers – happily building a career through independent work. They represent 20 percent of on-demand workers.
The Side Giggers – looking to find financial stability by supplementing existing income. They represent 26 percent of on-demand workers.
The Passionistas – looking for the flexibility to do something they love. They represent 18 percent of on-demand workers.
The Substituters – replacing a traditional job that is no longer available. They represent 14 percent of on-demand workers.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Learn about why the small business market is the next best thing for developers.
See update from 2016 at: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Bgk1gGQHNFIjIq
Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of WorkThumbtack, Inc.
Thumbtack's newest economic report describes how skilled professionals are using new platforms to find new work and build their business – and their lives. Called “Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of Work,” this report explores how technology enables buyers and sellers of services to connect, moving the conversation beyond a one dimensional discussion of the so-called gig economy.
The Future Of Work & The Work Of The FutureArturo Pelayo
What Happens When Robots And Machines Learn On Their Own?
This slide deck is an introduction to exponential technologies for an audience of designers and developers of workforce training materials.
The Blended Learning And Technologies Forum (BLAT Forum) is a quarterly event in Auckland, New Zealand that welcomes practitioners, designers and developers of blended learning instructional deliverables across different industries of the New Zealand economy.
Apple's next press event happens on Monday, March 21 at the company's campus in Cupertino, California.
We've already talked about what to expect, in our PPT but to recap: Apple is expected to announce a new 4-inch iPhone that combines the size of the iPhone 5S with features from the iPhone 6 and 6S. It will also supposedly be upgrading the 9.7-inch iPad, giving it updated internals, a Smart Connector, and Apple Pencil support imported from the iPad Pro. The Apple Watch may get some love in the form of new band colors and combinations, but rumors say not to expect a full hardware refresh just yet.
We suddenly live in a strange and wonderful nexus of digital and physical. Touchscreens let us hold information in our hands, and we touch, stretch, crumple, drag, and flick data itself. Our sensor-packed phones even reach beyond the screen to interact directly with the world around us. While these digital interfaces are becoming physical, the physical world is becoming digital, too. Objects, places, and even our bodies are lighting up with with sensors and connectivity. We’re not just clicking links anymore; we’re creating physical interfaces to digital systems. This requires new perspective and technique for web and product designers. The good news: it’s all within your reach. With a rich trove of examples, Designing for Touch author Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
From the SMX West Conference in San Jose, California, March 21-23, 2017. SESSION: Brick & Mortar's Secret Weapon: Search Data. PRESENTATION: Brick & Mortar's Secret Weapon: Search Data - Given by Andrew Ruegger, @aruegger - Catalyst, Senior Partner, Head of Data Science. #SMX #13C2
From the SMX West Conference in San Jose, California, March 21-23, 2017. SESSION: Paid Search Fundamentals. PRESENTATION: Paid Search Fundamentals - Given by Matt VanWagner, @mvanwagner - FindMeFaster, President. #SMX #13D
As your organization builds multi-tier architecture consisting of several applications and technologies, higher vulnerabilities or availability issues between tiers are bound to surface. Failures in downstream system can start a dominoes effect to bring the entire application down and un-estimated load can make revival very challenging.
How do you ensure that failure at a tier remain isolated and doesn’t cascade?
What does it take to build a fault tolerant, self healing system that fails fast or degrades gracefully?
Basically, how will you make your system resilient and when will you call ‘Its done’?
Dispatches From The New Economy: The On-Demand Economy And The Future Of WorkIntuit Inc.
From delivery, transportation and household errands, to professional services and consulting, the on-demand economy is changing the way people consume goods and services. It is also changing the way people work. Intuit and Emergent Research forecast that the number of people working on-demand jobs will grow from 3.2 million Americans to 7.6 million by 2020. This is a once in a generation opportunity to empower the future of work and a new face of entrepreneurship.
Dispatches from the New Economy: The On-Demand Workforce provides a detailed analysis of the demographics, motivations and challenges of workers pursuing on-demand jobs. The data comes from a study from Intuit and Emergent Research that examined people working via eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies. Study participants included: Deliv, Field Nation, HourlyNerd, MBO Partners, OnForce, Uber, Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), Visually, Wonolo, and Work Market.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Dispatches From the New Economy: The On-Demand WorkforceIntuit Inc.
In 2015, Intuit kicked-off a research project in partnership with Emergent Research and eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies to gain a deep and objective understanding of the motivations, aspirations and pain points of individuals choosing on-demand jobs. In this latest study, new findings reveal that the on-demand economy has taken on a key role in improving the financial stability of people looking for flexible opportunities to supplement income.
Transforming the IT Mindset - Interop 2016Intuit Inc.
Intuit SVP & CIO, Atticus Tysen talked about how to transform the IT mindset at Interop 2016. His presentation illustrates the key ways in which Intuit was able to shift mindsets not just in IT, but across the entire organization, in an effort to make IT more effective in delivering on Intuit's goals by staying laser focused on the customer.
Intuit offers developers an unmatched opportunity to build useful apps for 1.5M global QuickBooks customers. We want developers to know what problems to solve for.
We offer customers best-in-class apps to help run their business so they can focus on doing what they love.These global insights from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia look at app
adoption in these key markets, how small businesses are using apps and the value they are seeing in their app integrations.
Furthermore, it explores trigger points for small businesses not using apps and what the key drivers are in encouraging them to use apps for their business.
‘Small Business Success in the Cloud,’ describes the impact of cloud technology as it is progressively adapted by more and more small businesses – moving from an initial focus on efficiency gains, to the emergence of new models of business, through broad-based saturation across business and society.
The report is the first in a new ‘Dispatches from the New Economy’ research series, a comprehensive research project exploring the ways economic, technology and social shifts will shape the future of small business success. The series builds on a ten year partnership between Emergent Research and Intuit tracking trends in small business.
Dispatches From The New Economy: The Five Faces Of The On-Demand EconomyIntuit Inc.
From people determined to be their own boss, to those embracing the flexibility to do something they love, to workers finding a replacement for a traditional job – people working in the on-demand economy are just about as diverse as the labor market itself. A new report from Intuit Inc. and Emergent Research shows that there are a broad range of motivations – and differing levels of satisfaction – among five distinct groups of on-demand workers:
The Business Builders – primarily driven by the desire to be their own boss. They represent 22 percent of on-demand workers.
The Career Freelancers – happily building a career through independent work. They represent 20 percent of on-demand workers.
The Side Giggers – looking to find financial stability by supplementing existing income. They represent 26 percent of on-demand workers.
The Passionistas – looking for the flexibility to do something they love. They represent 18 percent of on-demand workers.
The Substituters – replacing a traditional job that is no longer available. They represent 14 percent of on-demand workers.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Learn about why the small business market is the next best thing for developers.
See update from 2016 at: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Bgk1gGQHNFIjIq
Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of WorkThumbtack, Inc.
Thumbtack's newest economic report describes how skilled professionals are using new platforms to find new work and build their business – and their lives. Called “Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of Work,” this report explores how technology enables buyers and sellers of services to connect, moving the conversation beyond a one dimensional discussion of the so-called gig economy.
The Future Of Work & The Work Of The FutureArturo Pelayo
What Happens When Robots And Machines Learn On Their Own?
This slide deck is an introduction to exponential technologies for an audience of designers and developers of workforce training materials.
The Blended Learning And Technologies Forum (BLAT Forum) is a quarterly event in Auckland, New Zealand that welcomes practitioners, designers and developers of blended learning instructional deliverables across different industries of the New Zealand economy.
Apple's next press event happens on Monday, March 21 at the company's campus in Cupertino, California.
We've already talked about what to expect, in our PPT but to recap: Apple is expected to announce a new 4-inch iPhone that combines the size of the iPhone 5S with features from the iPhone 6 and 6S. It will also supposedly be upgrading the 9.7-inch iPad, giving it updated internals, a Smart Connector, and Apple Pencil support imported from the iPad Pro. The Apple Watch may get some love in the form of new band colors and combinations, but rumors say not to expect a full hardware refresh just yet.
We suddenly live in a strange and wonderful nexus of digital and physical. Touchscreens let us hold information in our hands, and we touch, stretch, crumple, drag, and flick data itself. Our sensor-packed phones even reach beyond the screen to interact directly with the world around us. While these digital interfaces are becoming physical, the physical world is becoming digital, too. Objects, places, and even our bodies are lighting up with with sensors and connectivity. We’re not just clicking links anymore; we’re creating physical interfaces to digital systems. This requires new perspective and technique for web and product designers. The good news: it’s all within your reach. With a rich trove of examples, Designing for Touch author Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
From the SMX West Conference in San Jose, California, March 21-23, 2017. SESSION: Brick & Mortar's Secret Weapon: Search Data. PRESENTATION: Brick & Mortar's Secret Weapon: Search Data - Given by Andrew Ruegger, @aruegger - Catalyst, Senior Partner, Head of Data Science. #SMX #13C2
From the SMX West Conference in San Jose, California, March 21-23, 2017. SESSION: Paid Search Fundamentals. PRESENTATION: Paid Search Fundamentals - Given by Matt VanWagner, @mvanwagner - FindMeFaster, President. #SMX #13D
As your organization builds multi-tier architecture consisting of several applications and technologies, higher vulnerabilities or availability issues between tiers are bound to surface. Failures in downstream system can start a dominoes effect to bring the entire application down and un-estimated load can make revival very challenging.
How do you ensure that failure at a tier remain isolated and doesn’t cascade?
What does it take to build a fault tolerant, self healing system that fails fast or degrades gracefully?
Basically, how will you make your system resilient and when will you call ‘Its done’?
Continuous Integration Testing Techniques to Improve Chef Cookbook QualityJosiah Renaudin
Chef, Puppet, and other tools that implement “infrastructure as code” are great for configuration management and automated deployments, but it is difficult to test these infrastructure scripts before putting them into production. Since infrastructure as code is a relatively new technology, methodologies for its testing are not yet standardized. Glen Buckholz shares a way to solve the two major problems with testing Chef scripts—[1] capturing a start state similar to your target environment, and [2] rolling back to the starting state when your script fails. Development techniques are typically ad-hoc with most developers creating a personal method of testing in their own environment or circumstance. Glen shows how to use established continuous integration (CI) techniques to allow an automated platform to more quickly generate test results and automatically stage the code to the Chef server. By linking together established CI and testing techniques, we can hold Chef code development to the same mature standard as application programming.
Beyond the IOPS: Flash Storage Essentials for Performance & UptimesSolarWinds
Presented by Kong Yang, Head Geek at SolarWinds, and Andrew Levin at Pure Storage, attendees will learn:
• Why storage monitoring is essential to maximize performance and maintain application uptime
• How monitoring an all-flash-array is different than monitoring a traditional storage array
• Best practices to optimize your monitoring solutions/processes to deliver expected performance to your applications and meet your end user's QoS SLA
• How to do forecast capacity requirements and utilization over time with capacity planning tools
Cocktail of Environments. How to Mix Test and Development Environments and St...Aleksandr Tarasov
Usually, companies have a clear separation between testing environments and development environments. But what if we take a different approach and combine everything into one environment and still survive? The speaker will discuss ways to organize cloud environments for testing and development, compare them, and discuss the pros and cons of the combined approach.
The presentation which I was using during my talk at EPAM Lviv JS community about offline-first applications. Contains high-level review of tools and web platform to submerge folks in a world of offline-first thinking.
ARC's Sal Spada Packaging Machinery Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010ARC Advisory Group
ARC's Sal Spada Packaging Machinery Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Latest Developments in Packaging Machinery
Trends in Packaging Line Configurations
♦Overall production operation can be balanced
with a combination of high speed mechatronic
packaging lines in combination with rapid
changeover robotic packing lines.
♦Operational strategy going forward does not
mean that robotics will displace specialized
packaging machinery such as blister, flow
wrappers, or form/fill/seal packing machinery.
♦Going forward, the industry challenge is to
determine the optimal combination of rapid
changeover, but slower robotic lines that create a
balance with dedicated high speed lines.
Administrivia: Golden Tips for Making JIRA HumAtlassian
JIRA is a powerful tool that can be used for many different things. Often the critical path to a successful deployment is configuring and administering the system properly. This session explores best practices in JIRA administration, with practical experiences from JIRA customer experts.
Customer Speaker: Joanna Thurmann of Polycom
Key Takeaways:
* General tips and tricks on administration
* Security, workflow and performance configurations
* Ideas for improving adoption and uptake
Administrivia: Golden Tips for Making JIRA HumAtlassian
JIRA is a powerful tool that can be used for many different things. Often the critical path to a successful deployment is configuring and administering the system properly. This session explores best practices in JIRA administration, with practical experiences from JIRA customer experts.
Customer Speaker: Joanna Thurmann of Polycom
Key Takeaways:
* General tips and tricks on administration
* Security, workflow and performance configurations
* Ideas for improving adoption and uptake
★ Session Summary ★
This session will be working through the planned open source contributions from Linaro, ARM, and other members who want to share their open source contribution plans for the next year. Projects to be included are: gcc, llvm, glibc, gold, gdb, binutils.
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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137749
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c3knobs1t2fd2vi9f9mhejehts0
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mtKxOm0m8&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-303
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://connect.linaro.org
Deliver Unrivaled End-User Experience With Confidence - How Synthetic Monitor...DevOps.com
DevOps engineers would love to measure the performance and availability of every page of a website or application. It’s easy enough to do technically. Just attach a Synthetic User Monitor to each page and then see the results in an easy-to-use data presentation tool. The snag is that it can be expensive since Synthetic User Monitoring tools usually come as part of a large Application Performance Monitoring package.
In this webinar, learn how you can use open source tools as a powerful option for Synthetic Monitoring and be on the road to building observability into your applications.
State of Small Business – Growth and Success ReportIntuit Inc.
In an effort to better understand how small businesses approach growth and how those views impact their operations and planning, Intuit QuickBooks released the “State of Small Business – Growth and Success” report.
Check out the results to learn more!
Working for yourself shouldn’t mean the odds of success are stacked against you. QuickBooks is committed to small business success with a comprehensive set of business tools that do the hard work for you – leveraging the latest in AI and emerging technologies to create a platform that evens the odds for small business owners.
In an effort to better understand the behaviors, attitudes and cash flow challenges experienced by small businesses and self-employed professionals around the world, Intuit QuickBooks released the “The State of Small Business Cash Flow” Report.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners are on the front lines, navigating the realities of automation. And they have unique advantages. The very fact that they are small and nimble makes small businesses well suited to the realities of the 21st century economy. They are able to quickly adapt, take advantage of new opportunities, and to pivot to serve customer expectations in a rapidly changing world.
To better understand how small businesses are adapting to the age of AI, Intuit conducted a survey examining attitudes towards automation technology today as well as perceptions on how automation technology will impact their business and lives over the next 5 years.
Get financially Fit: Tips for Using QuickBooksIntuit Inc.
When you're running a business, the last thing you want to be worried about is wasting time trying to figure out how to do your accounting. Join a QuickBooks product expert as she shares best practices for simplifying your day-to-day accounting and truly getting the most out of QuickBooks as a small business owner.
SEO, Social, and More: Digital Marketing for your BusinessIntuit Inc.
Every business owner wants to attract more customers, convert prospects to sales, and get more referrals from customers. Attracting the right customers to "sell and wow" will help your business bring in more sales and better your bottom line.
Why Building Your Brand is Key to Getting CustomersIntuit Inc.
Building and establishing your small business or personal brand can be challenging if you don’t know where to start — or how to compete with larger, recognisable brand names. Mick Spencer, founder and CEO of ONTHEGO SPORTS, has grown OTG into a leading Australian sporting goods brand by building deep customer intimacy through listening to customer needs and building personalised products.
Get Found Fast: Google AdWords Strategies for GrowthIntuit Inc.
Simply just having a website isn't enough to attract customers to your business — you must also ensure that people can actually find you amidst all of the noise online. Google AdWords is a cost-per-click advertising platform that will get more people to your website and allow you to advertise to new customers.
This session will help you deepen client relationships so they never dream of going to anyone else.
Attendees will learn where they have gaps in their client relationships or with providing services, and will leave with a specific plan to fill the gaps and transform client relationships for good.
It’s a given that the work that Accounting firms do today will look very different in the future. New technologies are emerging that will allow practitioners to gain efficiencies and uncover insights in ways that are not possible now, and firms will need to adopt very different methods to attract and retain great talent and keep relationships with clients healthy and strong. At the same time, competition will come from all sides and the firms that can deliver services in a way that clients need and want will be the ones that survive. Chris Hooper, The Accounting Futurist, will examine the major trends that are likely to disrupt practices in the next decade, and will identify steps that firm owners of all sizes can take now to ensure their firm not only survives, but thrives in the exciting new world of tomorrow.
The digital age requires you to evolve the tools and technologies you use. With this evolution, the old pricing methods don’t work anymore.
In this research-based session, Trent McLaren will share key pricing strategies designed to ensure you thrive in the digital age.
Advanced QuickBooks Online - Handling Tricky TransactionsIntuit Inc.
QuickBooks Online is the world’s most popular cloud accounting program, with over 1.8 million companies using it every day to manage their businesses.
This session will focus on how to handle tricky transactions such as Customer Deposits, Loan accounts, Dishonored Cheque ’s and much more. If you have been using QuickBooks Online for a while, this is a session not to be missed.
A full handbook will accompany the session so that attendees can replicate the tricks when they get back to their offices.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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:
- 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:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Daily Decisions to Bottom Line: Connecting Product Work to Revenue by VP...
Building Resilient Distributed Systems by Using Caching Command and Rollback-Replay
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2016Building Resilient Distributed
Systems by Using Caching
Command and Rollback-Replay
Tanuja Phadke
tanuja_phadke@intuit.com
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The problem with resiliency in distributed systems
Single node system
Node
Database1
Web
container
caching
Database2
• All components reside in the same
machine.
• It’s not too hard to ensure atomicity.
• Either all occur or nothing occurs
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The problem with resiliency in distributed systems
node node1
node2
node2node1
node1 node2
• Components are spread out.
• Maintaining atomicity and resiliency is a
challenge.
• So we strive for eventual consistency.
• The change will eventually be propagated
to all the copies of data.
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Intuit case study: Login Service
Intuit makes financial software. Many of these products
use the Login service for login and fetching users’ bank
accounts and transactions securely.
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Requirements for the Login Service
• Fast response times
• Resilience
• Fault-tolerance
• Consistency
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4-step solution we used to solve the problem
1. Decouple design
a. Implement single responsibility principle (SRP)
b. Use the command pattern
2. Use circuit breaker framework
3. Use reactor to recover
4. Use caching (record)
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1. Decouple design
• Individual components can be developed independently.
• Plug and play components into bigger solution.
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1a. Implement single responsibility principle
• Module or class should have responsibility over a single part
of the functionality provided by the software, and that
responsibility should be entirely encapsulated by the class. All
its services should be narrowly aligned with that
responsibility.
• Separation of concerns
• Each module/method does only one task.
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1b. Use command pattern
Invoker
Client
creates
<<interface>>
Command
execute()
recover()
Concrete
Command A
Concrete
Command B
implements
uses
creates
A behavioral design pattern in which an object is used to encapsulate all
information needed to perform an action or trigger an event at a later time.
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Benefits of the command pattern
• Each command knows how to execute itself.
• Each command knows how to react to failures.
• Rollback
• Retry
• Something else
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Traditional model with services
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
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Introduce commands
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Command
create, update ...
Command
create, update ...
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2. Use circuit breaker
• Circuit breaker is used to detect failures, and encapsulates
logic to reacting to failure (during maintenance, temporary
external system failure or unexpected system difficulties).
• The circuit breaker pattern is a stability patterns applied in a
RESTful architecture.
• Several open sources are available (Hystrix is developed by
Netflix and is popular open source).
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Example of circuit breaker
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3. Use reactor
• Gets invoked in case of failure.
• We can specify the behavior.
• Rollback
• Retry
• Trigger a back-up
• Fallback
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Use circuit breaker
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Circuit breaker
Fallback
Short circuit
Log error
Error response
CommandCommand
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4. Use caching
• Use cache to save the commands so that they can be used for
recovery.
• Some popular open source solutions:
• Hazelcast
• Memcache
• Redis
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4. Use caching
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Fallback
Short circuit
Log error
Error response
Cache
Client
Cache
Cache
Listener
[Reactor]
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Full resilient picture
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
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Service A fails
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Fallback
Short circuit
Log error
Error response
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Service A is successful and Service B fails
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Fallback
Short circuit
Log error
Error response
Cache
Client
Cache
Cache
Listener
[Reactor]
Reactor(recover)
Caching dirty
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Service A and Service B both succeed
Orchestration
Handler
Service A
Service B
create
update
delete
get
create
update
delete
get
GET
PUT
Fallback
Short circuit
Log error
Error response
Cache
Client
Cache
Cache
Listener
[Reactor]
Caching(record)
Not Dirty
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4-step solution we used to solve the problem
1. Decouple design
a. Implement single responsibility principle (SRP)
b. Use the command pattern
2. Use caching (record)
3. Use circuit breaker framework
4. Use reactor to recover
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Our story: How did we benefit?
Over 100 user update requests were failing.
• They got slow responses.
• Resulted in high CPU utilization and cascading failures.
After we implemented this solution, we failed fast and
could adhere to the SLAs.
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For more info ...
Retry pattern
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn589788.aspx
Command Handling
http://www.axonframework.org/docs/2.0/command-
handling.html
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Editor's Notes
Based on fast reads, writes requirements we can choose chaches. For mem cache read is fastest, max size of value.
http://blog.engineering.aol.com/2015/08/28/a-comparative-study-of-distributed-caches/