1. Coca-Cola Enterprises implemented a digital signage strategy in 2007 but discovered limitations with their current system, including an inflexible user interface, complex content creation process, and inability to refresh content quickly.
2. Cisco Consulting Services interviewed CCE employees and identified challenges around the current system, processes, content, and resources. They recommended upgrading to a new Cisco-based digital signage platform.
3. The new platform improved the user interface, enabled multi-language content creation and real-time updates, and established processes and resources for collaborative content management across locations. CCE expects the system to improve communications and employee engagement.
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ENTERPRISES ARE STANDING AT A CROSSROADS AND COMMUNICATION IS KEY TO SUCCESS.
In today’s highly competitive, global marketplace. Executives need to make decisions quickly, but information and employees are spread out in many different locations. To operate efficiently, businesses need fast, simple ways to exchange data.
As a result, many enterprises stand at an important crossroad. They have invested large sums in legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) network voice infrastructures that do not easily support modern Unified Communications (UC) solutions, such as the increasingly popular Microsoft Lync.
“About 70% of businesses are now using Lync in some fashion,” states Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director for The Nemertes Research Group, Inc. “Most of these companies use it for instant messaging, web conferencing, and voice/video chat. A small but growing percentage are using it to replace or augment their PBXs.”
In addition to delivering new communication options, Unified Commu- nications delivers other benefits. By leaving behind their legacy PBX and moving ahead to a new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network infrastructure, businesses reduce their capital expenditure (CapEx) and lower their ongoing maintenance requirements, which can decrease their operating expenditure (OpEx) by as much as 50%.
The transition from the old to the new works with the right network infrastructure. Enterprises need one that is rock solid. “Today, businesses simply cannot tolerate downtime,” says James Rodd, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Modality Systems, Unified Communications specialists. Businesses must also have a way to integrate their traditional systems with new, modern functions. Finally, they need a solution that offers robust security, so corporate data
is protected as it travels from location to location. To deliver such functionality, enterprises need a Session Border Controller (SBC) that works in conjunction with Lync to enable the delivery of sophisticated voice, data, and video services to enterprise users.
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High cost of supporting and maintaining the expensive legacy applications.
Inefficient, slow and less productive system compared to competition.
Unmitigated risk associated with lack of skill availability in the resource market.
Risk associated with running business critical application on unsupported platform.
Higher time to market due to large, monolithic, complex and less productive systems.
Integration with newer systems due to incompatibility with new and different technologies.
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Collaboration breeds productivity. The average employee must collaborate with at least 10 people each day. That, together with the growth of mobile workers and telework, makes the need for effective Collaboration solutions more important than ever!
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Details will include use of Site Wizard to create multiple sites of different Secretaries on Government of Acre State, resulting in the ability to implement a new Secretary Site just two days, reduced from 3 months. The team will also share how they are delivering a “One-Stop Service Center Employee Portal “ integrating WebSphere Portal , WebSphere Process Server 7.0 and delivering a single, shared view of each citizen's data created with Infosphere Information Server (Infosphere QualityStage and DataStage tools), resulting in aportal solution where the employee of One-Stop Service Center of Acre can perform more than 100 services to the citizen. Understand what and how these solutions were delivered, and next steps in their exceptional web experience journey.
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In today’s highly competitive, global marketplace. Executives need to make decisions quickly, but information and employees are spread out in many different locations. To operate efficiently, businesses need fast, simple ways to exchange data.
As a result, many enterprises stand at an important crossroad. They have invested large sums in legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) network voice infrastructures that do not easily support modern Unified Communications (UC) solutions, such as the increasingly popular Microsoft Lync.
“About 70% of businesses are now using Lync in some fashion,” states Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director for The Nemertes Research Group, Inc. “Most of these companies use it for instant messaging, web conferencing, and voice/video chat. A small but growing percentage are using it to replace or augment their PBXs.”
In addition to delivering new communication options, Unified Commu- nications delivers other benefits. By leaving behind their legacy PBX and moving ahead to a new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network infrastructure, businesses reduce their capital expenditure (CapEx) and lower their ongoing maintenance requirements, which can decrease their operating expenditure (OpEx) by as much as 50%.
The transition from the old to the new works with the right network infrastructure. Enterprises need one that is rock solid. “Today, businesses simply cannot tolerate downtime,” says James Rodd, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Modality Systems, Unified Communications specialists. Businesses must also have a way to integrate their traditional systems with new, modern functions. Finally, they need a solution that offers robust security, so corporate data
is protected as it travels from location to location. To deliver such functionality, enterprises need a Session Border Controller (SBC) that works in conjunction with Lync to enable the delivery of sophisticated voice, data, and video services to enterprise users.
http://www.hcltech.com/ - More on HCL Technologies
According to industry estimates most of the business critical applications for not only midsize companies, but also many Fortune 500 corporations run on legacy systems, due to the system’s excellent performance and stability. CIO’s and IT managers handling these applications constantly face challenges such as:
High cost of supporting and maintaining the expensive legacy applications.
Inefficient, slow and less productive system compared to competition.
Unmitigated risk associated with lack of skill availability in the resource market.
Risk associated with running business critical application on unsupported platform.
Higher time to market due to large, monolithic, complex and less productive systems.
Integration with newer systems due to incompatibility with new and different technologies.
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Unified Communications and CollaborationCisco Canada
Collaboration breeds productivity. The average employee must collaborate with at least 10 people each day. That, together with the growth of mobile workers and telework, makes the need for effective Collaboration solutions more important than ever!
Together, we’ll transform the way we interact and engage.
Take advantage of our Collaboration offers here: http://bit.ly/1kiwka1 or visit our webpage for more information on Collaboration technologies: http://bit.ly/TY2l9x
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Details will include use of Site Wizard to create multiple sites of different Secretaries on Government of Acre State, resulting in the ability to implement a new Secretary Site just two days, reduced from 3 months. The team will also share how they are delivering a “One-Stop Service Center Employee Portal “ integrating WebSphere Portal , WebSphere Process Server 7.0 and delivering a single, shared view of each citizen's data created with Infosphere Information Server (Infosphere QualityStage and DataStage tools), resulting in aportal solution where the employee of One-Stop Service Center of Acre can perform more than 100 services to the citizen. Understand what and how these solutions were delivered, and next steps in their exceptional web experience journey.
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"Web 2.0 artefacts in SME-networks – A qualitative approach towards an integrative conceptualization considering organizational and technical perspectives" (Nadine Blinn, Nadine Lindermann, Katrin Fäcks, Markus Nüttgens)
A true visionary with a consistent history of forward thinking, bringing concept and ideas into reality. An outstanding record of delivering high tech cutting edge solutions to a variety of industries. Managed strategic initiatives and project management innovations to accelerate performance and delivery. Developed systems and managed programs for OEM, telco, government, retail, religious, utilities, financial services and education providing solutions start to finish with emphasis on sales, marketing and social media. Developed personal and strategic relationships with global executives worldwide.
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Join us as our guest speaker, Melinda Ballou, IDC’s Program Director for Application Life-Cycle Management research discusses challenges, drivers and best practices for effective web performance testing and quality life-cycle management for today’s rich and complex applications. Additional topics that Imad Mouline, Gomez’s CTO will cover in this session are:
Best practices for ensuring the success of critical eBusiness initiatives
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VidenDanmark og Intra2 afholdt den 19.9.2012 seminar om socialt intranet. Ved seminaret præsenterede Kim Escherich fra IBM, hvordan IBM bruger et socialt intranet internt.
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colleges and the government make available such information in a practical way, this new reality.
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the best to its customers, so that smaller companies cannot keep up. The emergence of new alternatives to
this problem has arisen based on the paradigm of "write once, run anywhere". The multiplatform
development has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and investment firms seeking the best
cost-benefit. This work shows how the hybrid development and shows through an empirical study of a real
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Best practices for ensuring the success of critical eBusiness initiatives
The end-user experience and business impact of emerging web technologies like Rich Internet Applications, virtualization, cloud computing and Web 2.0
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Telephony and Unified Communications is greather than 40% of the solution’s total purchase price. Following software, in terms of the percentage of budget they consume, is telephones, and servers and gateways make up the smallest components of the IPT and UC budgets. While hardware is still an essential component, over time it is becoming increasingly commoditized. Visit http://necam.com/uc to learn more about our UC solutions.
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problems or have access to information on companies, local and diverse. It is expected that companies,
colleges and the government make available such information in a practical way, this new reality.
However, doing so is not always something easy or cheap. Many companies spend their resources to offer
the best to its customers, so that smaller companies cannot keep up. The emergence of new alternatives to
this problem has arisen based on the paradigm of "write once, run anywhere". The multiplatform
development has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and investment firms seeking the best
cost-benefit. This work shows how the hybrid development and shows through an empirical study of a real
application, this new form of development can be the alternative to this new reality.
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However, the words “to scale” have evolved over time. The leap to “Big Data” is only one serial aspect of growth. Beyond the typical 1-off studies that catalyzed the field of Data Mining, Data Science now fulfills enterprise and multi-enterprise use cases spanning much broader and deeper data sets and integrations. For example, AI and Machine Learning frameworks can interoperate with a variety of other systems to drive alerting, feedback loops, predictive frameworks, prescriptive engines, continual learning, and more. The deployment of AI/ML processes themselves often involves integration with contemporary DevOps tools.
Now segue to SEAL – the Scalable Enterprise Analytic Lifecycle. In this presentation, you’ll learn how to cover the major bases of a modern Data Science projects – and Citizen Data Science as well – from conception, learning, and evaluation through integration, implementation, monitoring, and continual improvement. And as the name implies, your deployments will be performant and scale as expected in today’s environments.
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This document presents the Target Operating Model (TOM) for the DMI project and
describes how the organisation will change across its people, process and technology
aspects as a result of implementation of the DMI project.
Read this Executive Brief to understand why your team should make the case to modernize your communications and collaboration infrastructure.
Understand why it's time to move forward with modernizing your communications infrastructure.
Discover the productivity and efficiency gains you can achieve.
Redefine how you think about communications.
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Internet of Everything Collaboration IndexCisco Services
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Among the most advanced of these solutions is Cisco Remote Expert for Manufacturing, an enterprise-class, remote collaboration and communications platform that combines high-definition video, audio streams, and data capabilities.
CHAPTER 3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
THE ESSENCE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
—Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
THE BBC DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVE
In 2007, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launched the Digital Media Initiative, an IT project meant to digitize media production and media asset management across the organization. Originally estimated at a cost of £80 million ($128 million), DMI was intended to introduce a tape- less workflow—from raw footage to finished programs—and give BBC staff immediate desktop access to the entire BBC archive. It was predicted that the DMI would save the company 2.5 percent in media production costs per hour, bringing a return of £100 million ($160 million) by 2015. In 2008, the BBC awarded the contract to Siemens, its long-time technology partner; however, that partnership broke down in 2009, with neither company taking direct responsibility for the failure. Rather, the two companies issued a statement saying, “The media environment has changed a great deal since the DMI project began, and both organizations have been in discussions about the way forward. The BBC and Siemens have reached an agreement that allows the BBC to complete the
Chapter 3
project in-house.” DMI was dubbed the “Don’t Mention It” project and delegated to the BBC’s chief
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technical architect and executive producer.
Once in-house, however, DMI ran into a series of obstacles. Behind schedule, the IT team struggled to get end users to commit to firm project requirements and priorities. “Throughout the project, the team informed me that the biggest single challenge facing the project was the changes to requirements requested by the business,” said the former chief technology officer John Linwood. The result was a constantly fluctuating project scope.
In addition, the technology team sought to adopt an agile development approach, so that the software would be produced bit-by-bit, with the business units exploring each incremental release as it was developed. Linwood claims, however, that the business units did not want to take the time to test the releases. Eventually, the IT team simply developed major system components with minimal business unit testing. Meanwhile, the project was falling further and further behind sched- ule. In addition, the BBC did not assign anyone the responsibility or the authority to oversee the adoption of the program by the business units, depriving the DMI of effective project integration management. Because the transition from tape-based production and asset management to digital production and asset management necessitated a significant shift in work processes, management of the adoption and integration of the DMI into business units was essential.
In May 2013, the B.
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From Chapter 3, pages 89-90, WEB-BASED CASE. Read the following case and answer all questions.
BBC DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVE REVISITED
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WEB-BASED CASE BBC Digital Media Initiative Revisited
The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinizes public spending in the United Kingdom. Its memorandum on the BBC’s DMI project reported on several key findings. First, the in-house team was severely challenged by the fact that the project was already 18 months behind schedule when they began work on the project. Second, the technology team issued releases throughout the project that did not meet end-user expectations and eroded confidence in the project. Third, the BBC focused more on the technological development rather than on encouraging organization-wide changes in workflow that would encourage adoption. Finally, the NAO concluded, the DMI lacked governance arrangements for the scale, risk, and complexity of the project.
Do research online to identify the capabilities of digital asset management software. What are the top-rated digital asset management software products? Who uses this software?
Given the NAO’s findings and what you discover about available off-the-shelf products, would it have been wiser for the BBC to adopt a collection of these existing products? What actions would be necessary to gain the cooperation of the business units to incorporate this collection of products into their work processes?
CASE STUDY Webcor
: Building Buy-In in the Brick-and-Mortar Business Founded in 1971, Webcor Builders is one of the largest construction companies in California and one of the largest green construction companies in the United States. Committed to innovative practices, Webcor has gained considerable attention due to its award-winning construction, historic restoration, and seismic renovation work. As Webcor expanded from multifamily residences to commercial offices, interiors, retail, public works, parking structures, and federal, education, and healthcare facilities, the company opened offices first in San Francisco, and then in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Alameda. Its merger with the large Japanese construction firm Obayashi positioned the company to reach customers along the Pacific Rim, with a new office in Honolulu. Along with developing innovations in building materials and methods, Webcor has leveraged cutting-edge information technologies—in an industry that is often slow to consider, accept, and adopt IT advances. As early as 1984, Webcor integrated the Apple desktop into its work process. In 2011, Webcor made a significant commitment to virtual design and construction in its public sector building projects. Adopting Vico Software’s 5D Virtual Construction application allowed Webcor to estimate costs, schedule projects, an.
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