Metadata is more than a search enabler. It is the value added to the workflow.Metadata as a Service (MaaS) means metadata that is hosted, managed and validated at a central source and syndicated in
the form of templates and panels to users to embed metadata into their assets.
For those in the data management community, including roles such as database administrators (DBA's), data architects and data stewards here, there has never been a more challenging period to effectively manage data assets within organizations. Data management professionals therefore need to automate as much as possible in addition to creating boiler plate like processes to their jobs. This article will outline ten helpful ideas for making your workflow more productive as a data management professional, identifying where appropriate tooling or other approaches may be implemented to raise productivity and help automate repetitive tasks.
Understanding Corporate Portals Key Knowledge Management Enabling ApplicationsJose Claudio Terra
Discute como Portais Corporativos e suas funcionalidades podem ser utilizadas para desenvolver e implementar Gestão do Conhecimento, através da mudança de como a informação e as responsabilidades de colaboração são divididas na organização.
www.terraforum.com.br
It is a system used to manage, track and
store documents and reduce paper.
It enable organizations to manage tasks
effectively and streamline processing of
their documents across all departments.
WEBINAR – DAM 2020 Report & Analysis along side the user perspectiveActivo Consulting
WEBINAR – DAM 2020 Report & Analysis along side the user perspective after DAM NY #DAMdigital 2020 from Henry Stewart Event
In this Webinar we are exploring business requirements and best practices in 2020 and see how to select the right DAM and PIM system. We are also reporting the best technology trends in the DAM industry to enhance the customer journey.
https://frederic-sanuy.com/webinar-dam-2020-report-analysis-after-dam-ny-2020/
BNP Paribas implemented a new dynamic publishing solution called eComtail from Quark to replace its outdated in-house tool for customizing marketing materials across its 2,500 French branches. eComtail provides an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to quickly and easily edit templates and add customized content. It streamlines approval workflows and ensures brand consistency. The solution was deployed rapidly and has increased responsiveness, reduced material creation times, and improved standardization.
Escape the Complexity - Technology Innovation Brochure by ISIS Papyrus SoftwareISIS Papyrus Software
The document discusses ISIS Papyrus' approach to business process management (BPM) and business communication integration. It introduces their Papyrus-Objects platform, which provides a complete solution using a self-learning system and integrated security. The platform allows non-programmers to model business processes and integrate applications, interfaces, and data without complex programming or projects.
Your practical reference guide to build an stream analytics solutionJesus Rodriguez
This paper presents an analysis of the stream analytics market based on real world experience. The paper presents practical viewpoints of stream analytic platforms like Apache Storm, Spark Streaming, Apache Samza, AWS Kinesis, Salesforce Thunder and Azure Stream Analytics
This presentation presents an overview of Content Management, particularly as it relates to delivering content on the Web, and takes a high-level view, identifying the challenges of Content Management and the many activities it entails
For those in the data management community, including roles such as database administrators (DBA's), data architects and data stewards here, there has never been a more challenging period to effectively manage data assets within organizations. Data management professionals therefore need to automate as much as possible in addition to creating boiler plate like processes to their jobs. This article will outline ten helpful ideas for making your workflow more productive as a data management professional, identifying where appropriate tooling or other approaches may be implemented to raise productivity and help automate repetitive tasks.
Understanding Corporate Portals Key Knowledge Management Enabling ApplicationsJose Claudio Terra
Discute como Portais Corporativos e suas funcionalidades podem ser utilizadas para desenvolver e implementar Gestão do Conhecimento, através da mudança de como a informação e as responsabilidades de colaboração são divididas na organização.
www.terraforum.com.br
It is a system used to manage, track and
store documents and reduce paper.
It enable organizations to manage tasks
effectively and streamline processing of
their documents across all departments.
WEBINAR – DAM 2020 Report & Analysis along side the user perspectiveActivo Consulting
WEBINAR – DAM 2020 Report & Analysis along side the user perspective after DAM NY #DAMdigital 2020 from Henry Stewart Event
In this Webinar we are exploring business requirements and best practices in 2020 and see how to select the right DAM and PIM system. We are also reporting the best technology trends in the DAM industry to enhance the customer journey.
https://frederic-sanuy.com/webinar-dam-2020-report-analysis-after-dam-ny-2020/
BNP Paribas implemented a new dynamic publishing solution called eComtail from Quark to replace its outdated in-house tool for customizing marketing materials across its 2,500 French branches. eComtail provides an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to quickly and easily edit templates and add customized content. It streamlines approval workflows and ensures brand consistency. The solution was deployed rapidly and has increased responsiveness, reduced material creation times, and improved standardization.
Escape the Complexity - Technology Innovation Brochure by ISIS Papyrus SoftwareISIS Papyrus Software
The document discusses ISIS Papyrus' approach to business process management (BPM) and business communication integration. It introduces their Papyrus-Objects platform, which provides a complete solution using a self-learning system and integrated security. The platform allows non-programmers to model business processes and integrate applications, interfaces, and data without complex programming or projects.
Your practical reference guide to build an stream analytics solutionJesus Rodriguez
This paper presents an analysis of the stream analytics market based on real world experience. The paper presents practical viewpoints of stream analytic platforms like Apache Storm, Spark Streaming, Apache Samza, AWS Kinesis, Salesforce Thunder and Azure Stream Analytics
This presentation presents an overview of Content Management, particularly as it relates to delivering content on the Web, and takes a high-level view, identifying the challenges of Content Management and the many activities it entails
Learn more about ER/Studio at: http://embt.co/ER-Studio
With many organizations seeing a significant increase in data, and with data becoming more diverse and
updated more frequently, it’s clear that the role of data management professionals has become increasingly
complex. Fortunately, ER/Studio Enterprise sets a new standard for data management that empowers users
to easily share, document and publish models and metadata to distributed teams.
At the core of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision is the concept of a ‘service bus’
that can route messages and notifications between any services, whether developed in-house,
purchased from a third-party, or hosted over the Internet. A similar opportunity exists for inte-
grating the complete workflow between people and applications. Routing messages and noti-
fications between applications and their users (and all of those users’ myriad new mobile and
multimedia devices) calls for a Syndication-Oriented Architecture that can unlock a new level of
business intelligence.
This document proposes transforming the company's Order Management platform and IT environment through implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) eBusiness platform. The goals are to improve agility, competitive advantage, operational efficiency, and ability to scale. It defines strategies and requirements, including aligning IT with business needs, evolving quickly for new opportunities, and improving returns on IT investments. Finally, it provides a conceptual architecture view and discusses deployment, non-functional concerns, technologies, and governance.
Based on results of a survey recently conducted by DataBasics of DAM users. What features do you find to be the most important to you in a DAM? We are adding our experience and expertise of working on 100s of DAM projects over the years. Please comment if you have anything to add.
The document describes a software called LetterGen that allows users to dynamically generate documents from multiple data sources in different formats. It has modules for storing templates and business logic, designing documents, and generating documents securely for users. The software aims to reduce costs and errors in document creation processes.
IT professionals need to develop new skills to work with cloud technologies. Their core skills in areas like system configuration and virtualization transfer well, but they must learn skills for managing services in the cloud. These include skills in provisioning, monitoring, automation, security, and service management. Developers also need new skills like identity management, middleware use, and application architecture for the cloud. Database administrators should learn cloud storage services and how to design databases for any location.
The document provides information about Gordon Chastain and his services as an independent project management consultant and virtual project manager (VPM). It outlines his experience and qualifications, describes how he utilizes technology like SharePoint and Microsoft Office to facilitate virtual project management, and explains the benefits of the virtual project model for reducing costs, improving collaboration and allowing access to global resources. The document also includes an overview of the typical project lifecycle and phases.
This document discusses the need to modernize data center networks to make them more application-fluent. It describes the various pressures on current networks from server virtualization, real-time applications, mobile devices, and video. It proposes moving to a switching fabric with low-latency connectivity and automatic adaptation to virtual machine movement. Key components of Alcatel-Lucent's solution include Pods for high-density top-of-rack switching, a Mesh to interconnect Pods, and Virtual Network Profiles to manage applications as services and optimize performance. The approach aims to improve user experience, network agility, and reduce costs.
Segundo Semario de SharePoint en Mexico por Joel OlesonJoel Oleson
10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployment
SharePoint and Futbol
A refresh of the popular SharePoint session on successful SharePoint deployments on Governance, teams, planning, staged deployment.
Crosscode provides tools to automate IT governance in today's decentralized environments. Their Panoptics platform automatically discovers applications and databases, maps dependencies, and enables impact analysis of changes. The new Governance Operating System (GOeS) sits atop Panoptics and allows users to create rules that automate governance by alerting when changes violate rules. This helps revolutionize governance in a way that is compatible with modern development speeds.
Software as a Service (SaaS): Custom Acquisition Strategies - LabGroup.com.auSusan Diaz
Software as a Service (SaaS) has the potential to transform the way information-technology (IT) departments relate to and even think about their role as providers of computing services to the rest of the enterprise.
Portals allow users to view information from disparate sources and are a key technology for Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM), along with Web application servers and integration servers. ARC views portal technology as critical for manufacturers in providing visibility and connectivity between people and systems. Portals consolidate information, empower users, and help align operations decisions with business goals.
The document describes an enterprise content management (ECM) system and how it can be used to manage unstructured content. Key points:
- An ECM system like Documentum adds structure to unstructured content, allows for fast searching, and controls access and distribution of content.
- Content is stored in the ECM repository as objects with properties and files. Properties describe the object and are stored in a database, while files are stored on a file system.
- Users can import, create, move, copy, and link content in the repository using clients like Documentum Webtop and Desktop. Content has versions, renditions, and security permissions can control access.
- Benefits of an E
The document discusses semantic interoperability within a company. It describes several tools that can be used to describe and structure semantics, including ontologies, tagging, classifications, and taxonomies. It provides examples of how these tools can be applied at an enterprise level, including enterprise ontologies, tag clouds, the Zachman framework, and IBM's Information Framework.
Knowledge management and information systemnihad341
this file would help you in writing your assignment on knowledge management and information system. I did this for a student of UK. He got a very satisfactory marks from it. Then i thought that why not help others. The course is a complex one. So, this would be my pleasure if someone really found this useful.
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iStart - Sharepoint: Getting to the pointHayden McCall
Information overload. It defines the age we live in. Distraction,
clutter, and search angst are daily productivity killers causing
headaches and wasting hours.
Believe the disciples, and Microsoft’s SharePoint is on the
cusp of greatness, bringing order to clutter, collaboration to
fragmentation and timeliness to information and decision
making. But listen to the unconverted and it’s badly designed,
slow and another marketing snow job holding together the
Microsoft stack.
Your IT department probably already has the product, so iStart
canvassed a couple of experts on implementing SharePoint to
help you decide if it is a fit for wider use within your business…
The document summarizes eSelf's Relevance Platform, which allows organizations to distribute relevant content within and beyond the enterprise. It analyzes current approaches like personalization and keyword searching that don't account for individual user context. The Relevance Platform sits at the infrastructure layer to provide a unified view of users and intelligently deliver relevant content. It uses languages like PDML and RDML to profile users and content, and an inference engine adapts profiles in real-time. The platform benefits various organizations by enabling personalization, knowledge management, and intelligent information sharing.
Buzzwords often give context to concepts that evolved and needed a good “tag” to facilitate dialogue. Microservices is a new “tag” that defines areas I have personally been discovering and using for some time now. Articles and conferences described something that I slowly realized I had been evolving in my own personal experience for the past few years.
Knowledge management using enterprise content management systemzuzu123
This document discusses how knowledge management can be achieved through the use of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. It states that ECM aims to manage all unstructured content within an organization in various digital formats. The document describes some key components of ECM including document management systems, workflow, forms management, web content management, digital asset management, and records management. It explains that ECM provides capabilities for capturing, storing, retrieving, reusing, archiving, and disposing of organizational content to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse.
Testing in Financial Services - Leveraging Process MapsITC Infotech
This document discusses leveraging process maps for more efficient testing in the financial services industry. It notes that traditional testing approaches have led to increased testing time and costs. Process maps can be used to develop realistic scenarios that capture the different decision paths in financial processes. These scenarios can then be used to design test cases, reducing the number of test cases needed while still ensuring adequate coverage. For one application tested this way, the number of test scenarios was reduced by 11-15% and test cases by 20-25%, cutting overall testing effort by around 20%.
TEXT MINING-TAPPING HIDDEN KERNELS OF WISDOMITC Infotech
This document discusses the benefits of text mining for organizations. It describes how text mining can analyze large amounts of text data through techniques like document classification, information retrieval, word frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling to provide meaningful insights. These insights can help with tasks like root cause analysis, competitive strategy development, and enhancing customer experience. The document provides an overview of the text mining process and examples of how organizations in different industries can utilize text mining.
Integrated Engineering Calculation App Enabled Standardization of Elevator De...ITC Infotech
The document discusses an engineering calculation tool developed by ITC Infotech for a global elevator and escalator company. The previous process of using over 50 Excel and MathCAD files for elevator design calculations resulted in inconsistent results and coordination issues. ITC Infotech created a centralized, multi-lingual calculation tool that standardized the engineering calculations process. This improved design timelines and increased production efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Learn more about ER/Studio at: http://embt.co/ER-Studio
With many organizations seeing a significant increase in data, and with data becoming more diverse and
updated more frequently, it’s clear that the role of data management professionals has become increasingly
complex. Fortunately, ER/Studio Enterprise sets a new standard for data management that empowers users
to easily share, document and publish models and metadata to distributed teams.
At the core of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision is the concept of a ‘service bus’
that can route messages and notifications between any services, whether developed in-house,
purchased from a third-party, or hosted over the Internet. A similar opportunity exists for inte-
grating the complete workflow between people and applications. Routing messages and noti-
fications between applications and their users (and all of those users’ myriad new mobile and
multimedia devices) calls for a Syndication-Oriented Architecture that can unlock a new level of
business intelligence.
This document proposes transforming the company's Order Management platform and IT environment through implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) eBusiness platform. The goals are to improve agility, competitive advantage, operational efficiency, and ability to scale. It defines strategies and requirements, including aligning IT with business needs, evolving quickly for new opportunities, and improving returns on IT investments. Finally, it provides a conceptual architecture view and discusses deployment, non-functional concerns, technologies, and governance.
Based on results of a survey recently conducted by DataBasics of DAM users. What features do you find to be the most important to you in a DAM? We are adding our experience and expertise of working on 100s of DAM projects over the years. Please comment if you have anything to add.
The document describes a software called LetterGen that allows users to dynamically generate documents from multiple data sources in different formats. It has modules for storing templates and business logic, designing documents, and generating documents securely for users. The software aims to reduce costs and errors in document creation processes.
IT professionals need to develop new skills to work with cloud technologies. Their core skills in areas like system configuration and virtualization transfer well, but they must learn skills for managing services in the cloud. These include skills in provisioning, monitoring, automation, security, and service management. Developers also need new skills like identity management, middleware use, and application architecture for the cloud. Database administrators should learn cloud storage services and how to design databases for any location.
The document provides information about Gordon Chastain and his services as an independent project management consultant and virtual project manager (VPM). It outlines his experience and qualifications, describes how he utilizes technology like SharePoint and Microsoft Office to facilitate virtual project management, and explains the benefits of the virtual project model for reducing costs, improving collaboration and allowing access to global resources. The document also includes an overview of the typical project lifecycle and phases.
This document discusses the need to modernize data center networks to make them more application-fluent. It describes the various pressures on current networks from server virtualization, real-time applications, mobile devices, and video. It proposes moving to a switching fabric with low-latency connectivity and automatic adaptation to virtual machine movement. Key components of Alcatel-Lucent's solution include Pods for high-density top-of-rack switching, a Mesh to interconnect Pods, and Virtual Network Profiles to manage applications as services and optimize performance. The approach aims to improve user experience, network agility, and reduce costs.
Segundo Semario de SharePoint en Mexico por Joel OlesonJoel Oleson
10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployment
SharePoint and Futbol
A refresh of the popular SharePoint session on successful SharePoint deployments on Governance, teams, planning, staged deployment.
Crosscode provides tools to automate IT governance in today's decentralized environments. Their Panoptics platform automatically discovers applications and databases, maps dependencies, and enables impact analysis of changes. The new Governance Operating System (GOeS) sits atop Panoptics and allows users to create rules that automate governance by alerting when changes violate rules. This helps revolutionize governance in a way that is compatible with modern development speeds.
Software as a Service (SaaS): Custom Acquisition Strategies - LabGroup.com.auSusan Diaz
Software as a Service (SaaS) has the potential to transform the way information-technology (IT) departments relate to and even think about their role as providers of computing services to the rest of the enterprise.
Portals allow users to view information from disparate sources and are a key technology for Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM), along with Web application servers and integration servers. ARC views portal technology as critical for manufacturers in providing visibility and connectivity between people and systems. Portals consolidate information, empower users, and help align operations decisions with business goals.
The document describes an enterprise content management (ECM) system and how it can be used to manage unstructured content. Key points:
- An ECM system like Documentum adds structure to unstructured content, allows for fast searching, and controls access and distribution of content.
- Content is stored in the ECM repository as objects with properties and files. Properties describe the object and are stored in a database, while files are stored on a file system.
- Users can import, create, move, copy, and link content in the repository using clients like Documentum Webtop and Desktop. Content has versions, renditions, and security permissions can control access.
- Benefits of an E
The document discusses semantic interoperability within a company. It describes several tools that can be used to describe and structure semantics, including ontologies, tagging, classifications, and taxonomies. It provides examples of how these tools can be applied at an enterprise level, including enterprise ontologies, tag clouds, the Zachman framework, and IBM's Information Framework.
Knowledge management and information systemnihad341
this file would help you in writing your assignment on knowledge management and information system. I did this for a student of UK. He got a very satisfactory marks from it. Then i thought that why not help others. The course is a complex one. So, this would be my pleasure if someone really found this useful.
<a>Please visit our site for fitness products</a>
iStart - Sharepoint: Getting to the pointHayden McCall
Information overload. It defines the age we live in. Distraction,
clutter, and search angst are daily productivity killers causing
headaches and wasting hours.
Believe the disciples, and Microsoft’s SharePoint is on the
cusp of greatness, bringing order to clutter, collaboration to
fragmentation and timeliness to information and decision
making. But listen to the unconverted and it’s badly designed,
slow and another marketing snow job holding together the
Microsoft stack.
Your IT department probably already has the product, so iStart
canvassed a couple of experts on implementing SharePoint to
help you decide if it is a fit for wider use within your business…
The document summarizes eSelf's Relevance Platform, which allows organizations to distribute relevant content within and beyond the enterprise. It analyzes current approaches like personalization and keyword searching that don't account for individual user context. The Relevance Platform sits at the infrastructure layer to provide a unified view of users and intelligently deliver relevant content. It uses languages like PDML and RDML to profile users and content, and an inference engine adapts profiles in real-time. The platform benefits various organizations by enabling personalization, knowledge management, and intelligent information sharing.
Buzzwords often give context to concepts that evolved and needed a good “tag” to facilitate dialogue. Microservices is a new “tag” that defines areas I have personally been discovering and using for some time now. Articles and conferences described something that I slowly realized I had been evolving in my own personal experience for the past few years.
Knowledge management using enterprise content management systemzuzu123
This document discusses how knowledge management can be achieved through the use of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. It states that ECM aims to manage all unstructured content within an organization in various digital formats. The document describes some key components of ECM including document management systems, workflow, forms management, web content management, digital asset management, and records management. It explains that ECM provides capabilities for capturing, storing, retrieving, reusing, archiving, and disposing of organizational content to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse.
Testing in Financial Services - Leveraging Process MapsITC Infotech
This document discusses leveraging process maps for more efficient testing in the financial services industry. It notes that traditional testing approaches have led to increased testing time and costs. Process maps can be used to develop realistic scenarios that capture the different decision paths in financial processes. These scenarios can then be used to design test cases, reducing the number of test cases needed while still ensuring adequate coverage. For one application tested this way, the number of test scenarios was reduced by 11-15% and test cases by 20-25%, cutting overall testing effort by around 20%.
TEXT MINING-TAPPING HIDDEN KERNELS OF WISDOMITC Infotech
This document discusses the benefits of text mining for organizations. It describes how text mining can analyze large amounts of text data through techniques like document classification, information retrieval, word frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling to provide meaningful insights. These insights can help with tasks like root cause analysis, competitive strategy development, and enhancing customer experience. The document provides an overview of the text mining process and examples of how organizations in different industries can utilize text mining.
Integrated Engineering Calculation App Enabled Standardization of Elevator De...ITC Infotech
The document discusses an engineering calculation tool developed by ITC Infotech for a global elevator and escalator company. The previous process of using over 50 Excel and MathCAD files for elevator design calculations resulted in inconsistent results and coordination issues. ITC Infotech created a centralized, multi-lingual calculation tool that standardized the engineering calculations process. This improved design timelines and increased production efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Dynamic Oil Pricing System Enabled Faster Market Reaction TimeITC Infotech
The existing downstream oil pricing system of an international oil and energy company was outdated and inefficient in handling fluctuating oil prices. This made it difficult for the company to keep up with competitors. ITC Infotech developed a new pricing system using the latest technology that automated pricing updates and allowed prices to be adjusted every two minutes. This enabled faster reaction times to market changes and more coordinated pricing decisions. The new system integrated multiple legacy systems and supported dynamic pricing strategies. It provided benefits like improved communication between the company and retailers and better management of pricing across its eight country operations.
Top 5 Trends For CPG & Retail Industry 2015ITC Infotech
With the CPG & Retail industry gaining fast grounds into an increasingly global market place, businesses are demanding a blend of Strategic Consulting, Operational Consulting and Value Realization through flawless
execution. Glocalisation – phenomenon of the modernized world – has a profound effect in the CPG & Retail industry and has created unprecedented challenges such as, maintaining consistency in customer experience, optimizing supply chains in emerging markets and devising
methods for developing new products more efficiently. We believe that in order to help the industry gear up for success and be future-ready, consulting firms will have to seamlessly blend industry & domain expertise
with management consulting skills, bringing unique capabilities to discover and resolve business concerns of the day.
European Market Infrastructure RegulationITC Infotech
The EMIR rules have been designed to reduce counterparty and systemic risks in OTC trading, standardize OTC derivative contracts and enhance transparency. This paper aims to look at the impact of the regulation on derivatives market participants from their business operat ions and technology landscape.
Offshore Engineering Development Center Engineering ServicesITC Infotech
This paper discusses various global sourcing
options that a company may consider and
further delves into providing a way to “rightsource”
to meet the engineering objectives
and the goals set
Looking Ahead–The Big Opportunity for Network Design - GST Introduction in IndiaITC Infotech
In this paper we present ITC Infotech’s understanding of the changes that will happen once GST is implemented in India and its impact on the supply chain.. The paper also provides a suggested methodology for optimizing your supply chain network, post the implementation of GST in India.
Dynamic Oil Pricing System Enabled Faster Market Reaction TimeITC Infotech
A completely revamped architecture developed by ITC Infotech based on latest tech platform, delivered an integrated and automated system that is intuitive, highly adaptable as well as scalable.
Looking Ahead – The Big Opportunity for Network Design - GST Introduction in ...ITC Infotech
The proposed implementation of GST in India will significantly impact company supply chain networks. Under the current tax system, many companies established warehouses in different states to avoid taxes on interstate goods movement. However, post-GST with uniform taxes across states, these warehouses may no longer be needed. Companies will need to redesign their supply chain networks to optimize for cost rather than tax benefits. A network design exercise analyzing various scenarios can help companies determine the optimal post-GST network configuration with fewer warehouses and facilities.
Shared services units can achieve enterprise-wide cost savings by consolidating common work and infrastructure, but business units often complain that shared services costs are too high. Typical issues with shared services cost models include complex costing methodologies that make cost allocation and reporting difficult, as well as a lack of standardization. ITC Infotech's shared services cost models provide cost transparency using methods like the reciprocal costing model and recursive costing model. This allows business units to understand their shared services costs and consumption. The models also facilitate cost analysis and "what if" scenario planning. Implementation involves information gathering, model definition, configuration, reporting, and documentation. In a case study, ITC Infotech helped a bank improve cost transparency, operational
This document discusses elastomer applications in new industries and engineering support. It begins with an introduction to elastomers and their properties. It then lists several new industries where elastomers are used, including automotive, aerospace, defense, biomechanics, and consumer products. The document discusses the mechanical behavior of elastomers under different loads. It also discusses elastomer failure modes and how computer simulations can be used to model elastomer behavior and support design. The appendices provide more details on elastomer molecular structure, numerical treatment of incompressibility, and material models based on stretch ratio.
This document discusses how 3D interfaces can enhance product development processes when integrated with product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. It describes the current market scenario of rapid innovation, shorter product lifecycles, and pressure on manufacturers to reduce costs and time to market. PLM systems that interface with 3D tools can help manufacturers collaborate better with global suppliers and partners, streamline processes, and get products to market faster while reducing costs.
In recent years, the need to manage digital assets has become critical - compelling organizations to focus more on how digital asset management (DAM) systems can be leveraged across the digital supply chain, rather than simply archived. DAMification employs DAM concepts and systems to automate, integrate and enhance workflows, processes and applications - all within an adaptable, technology-agnostic framework that utilizes best-of-breed solutions and supports positive business growth.
The document discusses two approaches to managing domains in a data mesh architecture: the open model and strict model. The open model gives domain teams freedom to choose their own tools and data storage, requiring reliable teams to avoid inconsistencies. The strict model predefines domain environments without customization allowed and puts central management on data persistence, ensuring consistency but requiring more platform implementation. Both have pros and cons depending on the organization and use case.
The document discusses big data and NoSQL technologies. It defines big data, discusses its key characteristics of volume, velocity, and variety. It then discusses NoSQL databases as an alternative to traditional SQL databases for handling big data workloads. Specific NoSQL technologies and how they provide more scalability and flexibility for big data are covered. The document also addresses whether NoSQL is replacing SQL databases and argues it depends on the specific use case.
This document discusses big data business opportunities and solutions. It notes that big data solutions are tailored to specific data types and workloads. Common business domains for big data include web analytics, clickstream analysis using the ELK stack, and big data in the cloud to provide auto-scaling, low costs, and use of cloud services. Effective big data solutions require data governance, cluster modeling, and analytics and visualization.
Peopleware. Introduction to Enterprise DataMashupsJusto Hidalgo
1. The document discusses enterprise data mashups, which aggregate and enrich data from multiple sources to provide a unified view for business users and applications.
2. It provides an overview of Denodo, a company that provides an enterprise data mashup platform, and compares their capabilities to traditional web mashups. Their platform is designed for enterprise needs like security, performance, and integration.
3. Examples are given of how mashups can be used for applications like customer analytics, sales automation by combining internal and external data sources.
The document discusses different content management systems (CMS), comparing features of open source and paid CMS like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. It outlines various factors to consider when choosing a CMS like installation, theming, plugins, ease of use, security, and scalability. The document also addresses stakeholder needs, project requirements, and questions to ask to determine the best CMS for a particular website.
Discute como Portais Corporativos e suas funcionalidades podem ser utilizadas para desenvolver e implementar Gestão do Conhecimento, através da mudança de como a informação e as responsabilidades de colaboração são divididas na organização.
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The document discusses business intelligence vendors and their capabilities. It notes that the winners will be those able to quickly gather, analyze, and use data to make decisions. It also discusses how vendors are integrating different business intelligence functions into unified suites and how database vendors are building predictive analytics directly into their databases to enable real-time decision making from transactional data.
This document outlines RTS's plan to implement a system landscape of cloud-based SaaS tools to replace their existing on-premise solutions. It describes integrating tools for customer communication, project management, lead management, data reporting, and potentially implementing a Salesforce ERP solution. Integrating best of breed cloud tools will provide flexibility while reducing costs compared to an all-in-one system. The new system aims to improve operational efficiency, analytics, and collaboration across the organization.
The document discusses the complexity of implementing a data warehouse. It involves multiple steps such as collecting business requirements, creating a data model and physical design, defining data sources, choosing database and reporting tools, and updating the warehouse. No single tool can handle all data warehouse access needs, so implementations rely on a suite of tools chosen based on the type of access required. Vendors have emerged that focus on fulfilling requirements like extraction, integration, and management of metadata for data warehousing. Solutions discussed include Prism Warehouse Manager, Carleton's PASSPORT, and SAS Institute products.
How the Journey to Modern Data Management is Paved with an Inclusive Edge-to-...Dana Gardner
This document discusses how a data fabric approach can help organizations manage data from the edge to the core to the cloud in a harmonized way to improve insights. It explores some of the challenges organizations face with fragmented data and silos that limit insights. The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is presented as a solution that can provide common data access and governance across diverse data types and locations through standard APIs and security. This helps avoid issues around complexity, lock-in and lack of portability that come from point solutions and siloed data systems.
Citrix's GoToMeeting and WebEx WebOffice were among the finalists for a prestigious award that recognizes excellence in collaboration tools, along with Microsoft products like Office, Office SharePoint Server, and Exchange Server. The annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software across categories based on factors like productivity, innovation, usefulness, and real-world feedback. Voting was open online to determine the winner in the Collaboration Tools category.
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Metadata as a Service (Are We There Yet?)
By Ron Roszkiewicz
Now that we’ve moved from workgroup silo to enterprise silo — thanks to DAM systems and metadata —
are we ready for the pervasive Internet cloud and global search or have we just created a new set of problems? The recent Henry
Stewart DAM conference provided some answers.
Content creators and publishers are struggling with choices for the best way to store, retrieve and protect data. Many
organizations have made a first and second pass at archiving and retrieval. They’ve made progress; money is being saved every
day on searches and reuse. As long as searches are carried out within the closed loop of the company schema all is well.
Unfortunately, most companies need more. They need dynamic taxonomies, adaptable controlled vocabularies, and the ability to
distribute assets with these taxonomies without fear of mischaracterization and inadvertent metadata changes. In addition, they
need the ability to maintain some digital integrity over their metadata and treat it as the important intellectual property that it is. This
concept recognizes that for many companies, metadata is more than a search enabler, it is the value added to a workflow that
streamlines the product search for a customer and acts as the basis for a successful sales process. Recognizing this potential
raises metadata above the hit-and-run copyright and authorship tags we use now. It raises it to a level where the assets it supports
in turn support the global knowledgebase that the cloud makes possible. Metadata as a Service (MaaS) attempts to define this
broader workflow relationship and strengthen the digital integrity of the metadata in the assets through synchronization and
validation while providing tools to manage the taxonomy and controlled vocabularies as needed, when needed.
Metadata is more than a search enabler. It is the value added to the workflow
One of the best ways to gauge the health of an industry is by attending a user-driven conference. The November Henry Stewart
DAM conference in Los Angeles was a mixture of user group meeting and vendor networking event. As always it provided a
snapshot of what’s happening in the industry. A similar snapshot taken a few years ago would show DAM/CMS systems as the
answer to information silos and scalable, open interoperable solutions. Metadata was emerging as a flexible but powerful answer
to data search on unstructured assets just as it had always been for structured data. Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
was also emerging as the standard for supporting metadata across applications and platforms. Developments seemed to be
plodding along. With that in mind, it was interesting to see the preponderance of sessions still devoted to metadata and the
technology that supports it. Vendors continue to show applications that use metadata and focus on the value proposition for using
it. Users describe workflows created to support their publishing environment. In the context of the vast Internet cloud, global
searching, Software as a Service (SaaS) and other collaborative relationships that have made the notion of a firewall a virtual
artifact, we seem to have moved from the workgroup as silo to the organization as silo without acknowledging the irony. This is not
to say that all systems should adhere to one standard, one taxonomy or even one set of best practices.
In fact, the proposition is just the opposite. In companies where there exist myriad repositories it is impossible to control and
validate metadata between systems without complicated connecting software or a new approach to metadata in the content
lifecycle. The fact is that without controls over the use of metadata, some approaches to managing and validating it will never
achieve in the open era of computing the importance it had during the long run of the relational database.
Déjà vu again
This workflow argument is reminiscent of the discussions of color management, trapping and PDF-based workflows that once
dominated Seybold conferences. The problem then and now is that there are few applications or engines that support global meta-
data control. Metadata, for example, is still subsumed within DAM systems and limited mostly to the needs of that system. That is
not to say that some systems don’t provide tools to customize schema within the application. They do, but the market requirement
exceeds what has been provided.
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The problem is also a lack of consistent metadata support from application to application, and tools to manage metadata from
end-to-end. As more and more users implement some form of metadata approach, they become increasingly aware of the
difficulty maintaining metadata with files as they are distributed in the field. It’s equally important to maintain metadata upstream
and downstream throughout the content creation workflow, into prepress and beyond. This holds true for web and print. There
must be digital integrity for embedded metadata throughout the process. We faced similar challenges in the past with Post-
Script, color management and digital file formats.
Unfortunately, the assets we need to manage are multiplying exponentially. We are collecting so much digital “stuff” that a large
proportion of it becomes irrelevant the moment it is captured. There is no good way to find it again when it is needed. Editing
the incoming data often helps. Editing and embedding metadata is even better. Best of all is treating metadata as intellectual
property and controlling and managing it as such throughout the lifecycle of the asset it inhabits. This is the ultimate objective
for any effective workflow and the key benefit of MaaS.
Can Chaos Have a Precedent?
At one time publishing was ruled by proprietary file formats. Interoperability was a chore, and the idea of assembling a hybrid
workflow was daunting and often impossible. Out of that chaos emerged PostScript. Although it did some things well, like
describing text and illustrations graphically without regard for output device, it did not provide many improvements over the
predictable output provided by proprietary systems. It also had to go through many years of maturation before it was suitable
for use as a commercial quality format capable of high-resolution color, illustrations and fonts. It was also too verbose, which
degraded system performance. The answer to these issues, the Page Definition Format (PDF), did not immediately provide the
final link in the workflow chain, but had to go through years of incremental improvements before it satisfied the requirements of
prepress operators. By the time applications and operators were able to create readable and complete PDF files for prepress
operators, there was only one major issue to resolve before PDF was accepted as an end-to-end solution. It had to certify in
some way that the data used to form the file upstream was the same being read downstream. Data integrity was necessary to
allow for that last bit of workflow streamlining, file checking and sign-off just before output and all of the proof sheets and film
that entails. To achieve this final bit required a tweaking of the format into variations of PDF/X. Today there are successful end-
to-end PDF workflows that combined with Job Definition Format (JDF) schema provide a glimpse into true automated print and
web-to-print workflows.
Under the hood is no place for the user
The hours wasted tracking down and working around errors in PostScipt is legendary. Some errors were caused by the applica-
tions, some by the user. None should have made it into the PostScript code. By the time PDF arrived, users were still too gun-
shy from their experiences with PostScript to rejoice. In fact the MANAGEMENTsame problems were possible with PDF even
though the format was cleaner and more compact. Garbage in equals garbage out. Getting files downstream intact and made
up of predictable parts was solved by a combination of workflow best practices, industry supported standards (PDF/X) and a
workflow process that recognizes host and client interdependencies. The same will be true for metadata and the XMP specifica-
tion. It is no mystery that metadata can get trashed as it is making its way from desktop to desktop or desktop to server.
The problem is a lack of consistent metadata support from application to application, and tools to manage metadata
from end-to-end.
Like PDF, users must manage a master template at the server end and validate the metadata in assets as they come and go.
This can be done in cooperation with a DAM server or simply by identifying a straightforward target directory to serve as the
repository. Once again this embedding, reading, writing and managing data is done by server-based host based on rules set up
by the user, not manually by users.
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XMP is an important technology but, like PostScript and PDF, it’s better left under the hood. It’s the application of this technology
that is important. For that we turn to the Creative Suite and the File Info menu and templates first for applying pre-defined meta-
data properties and values to a file. Unfortunately, XMP is not completely finished. Adobe applications do not handle XMP meta-
data consistently from application to application. Some applications strip out metadata and some metadata actually conflicts
internally with that which is contained in other templates. In this writer’s opinion, this is wrong and the user should not have to
deal with it.
Dealing with metadata that is somewhat unpredictable as it is stored by the application in the file presents a problem to the user
who wants to build a workflow based on metadata. For Digital Asset Management system vendors the problem is moot. They
define and ingest metadata for their own inter-DAM purposes with little attention paid to the outside workflow. For content
creation workflows the problem is obvious. But the same issue is exponentially larger for consumer and Web based workflows.
Chaos now rules and is leading to the issue of data irrelevance.
In point of fact, users — both consumer and professional — want much more metadata than they have access to now. They
want metadata to bring order to video. They want metadata to complement image pattern matching for searching and sorting
pictures of the kids or political figures. Professionals also want rights management terms to be integrated into the metadata
package. System managers want metadata to trigger events along the workflow route with precision and predictability. How is
any of this possible without standards, centralized management and the concept of digital integrity applied to metadata?
MaaS Appeal
Metadata as a Service (MaaS) means metadata that is hosted, managed and validated at a central source and syndicated in
the form of templates and panels to users to embed metadata into their assets. This is possible now because metadata technol-
ogy is stable and mature enough. Many applications use this technology and more will in the future. We can identify best prac-
tices and build tools that apply technology to workflow thanks to the many installations of DAM in existence. Just as many users
mis-identify DAM solutions as workflow, they also make the same mistake with XMP metadata by identifying it as an application.
From the start, XMP was defined as a platform made up of technologies on which applications can be built. These applications
use MaaS in the same client/server relationship as in a SaaS relationship.
Using MaaS overcomes the problem of many vendors using metadata subsets for their own purposes within their applications.
As a part of a DAM application, there is limited functionality to customize or in any way dynamically change the nature of the
captured metadata. Therefore, what is effectively happening is the open XMP metadata is subsumed in the application and
treated like other proprietary metadata in the application. Clearly, this is not what was intended for the technology.
Mapping of metadata schema properties and values between interoperating applications is also taking place. This means when
a occurrence of a metadata value is found in one user’s DAM, it is mapped to a similar or equal value in the receiver’s repository.
This simplistic approach does not support the rich faceted nature of taxonomies or topics, synonyms and thesauri. It just facili-
tates the interchange.
In day-to-day database management, fields may be changed, deleted or added. Assets may or may not inherit these changes
and the validity of the embedded metadata, if there is any, is typically not challenged. Not validating the metadata that is used
to characterize the files is similar to not validating the PDF that carries the page elements. Prior to preflight software, files often
slipped through the prepress process with RGB images, incorrect fonts and missing illustrations. Metadata that identifies the
owner of the asset, the usage rights and allows internal and external users to successfully retrieve it is no less valuable. Without
upstream or downstream validation, this metadata can become altered inadvertently and defeat the whole purpose for which it
is used.
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Users do not want to fill out metadata forms and for the most part, they shouldn’t have to. Most information about a project is
known and can be input by an administrator and embedded automatically as a server function. Batch processing project tags,
digital rights and other workflow related metadata is better left to a person assigned the task like a Cybrarian, familiar with the
corporate taxonomy and controlled vocabulary. Most metadata embedding should be a server task and not a desktop task, even
in small workgroups. XMP technology provides for this by supporting templates made up of taxonomy and values. All that is
required is an application to execute the event or a script hand made for the task.
Finally, managing the digital integrity of metadata as intellectual property requires an application of its own. This application
must complement the metadata handling functionality of DAM systems and repositories. It must allow for dynamic metadata
maintenance from day-to-day as products change or subjects of the daily news emerge. As a server-based technology it must
provide for other search types to be layered on top of it. For example, it is possible to embed digital rights management URLs
from the Plus Coalition into an XMP schema field. This means that two servers, the XMP metadata server and the Plus Coalition
DRM server will be interacting interdependently and the status of the digital rights can be displayed in the standard XMP search
view. Any changes to the URL can be identified during the validation and the metadata can be edited at that time.
Just as many users mis-identify DAM solutions as workflow, they also make the same mistake with XMP metadata by
identifying it as an application.
New search types can be added to the applications such as face and pattern recognition software. This software can work in
partnership with other XMP file characterization metadata to expand further the notion of multi-faceted searches. In an environ-
ment where an assortment of different DAM systems is in use, a centralized complementary application conducting searches
based on a set of master criteria would be a powerful one indeed.
Conclusions
It’s time that the subject of metadata shifts from technologies to applications. The killer application for metadata is not XMP but
some form of search and retrieval application that uses XMP or a similar data characterization approach. Once the discussion
is about the application of metadata, companies will begin identifying the functions, and features of search. The notion that a
full-fledged metadata management tool will be built into every DAM system in the future is far fetched. As developments stand
today, we are just at the beginning of metadata deployment. The excitement is over the fact that there is a technology that
provides a way to stuff tags into files so they can be used to enable searching. On a planet where every business runs on
metadata-based queries within a database, this is not revolutionary. Providing every company with a custom schema develop-
ment tool built into their database and have it automatically support schema built by others in their databases is also far fetched.
One answer may be the way desktop applications solved the color management issue. Adobe, with its broad Creative Suite of
applications, synchronized the color management in these applications through the Adobe Color Engine (ACE). This engine
uses profiles (schema) for different output requirements (vertical applications) and runs in the background. Setup is easy. Once
the ACE is invoked, all that is left to do is choose a profile based on the type of substrate (surface) or screen the image will be
portrayed on. Images processed in Photoshop have this profile embedded in the file and it is recognized by the other Creative
Suite applications.
It’s an accepted fact that every company needs custom metadata schema. Most can get along with a core set of a standard
schema, but all will want to add to this core set and have the ability to make changes when needed. As in-house web site devel-
opers seek to automate their web-to-print mechanisms, they are looking for ways to leverage the power of metadata as a tool
to streamline this processing. Once users are able to make the clear distinction between technology and application they will
demand more workflow related functionality out of their asset management tools and out of new tools on the horizon.
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Summary
While the slow emergence of Scribus has largely gone unnoticed outside of open source communities, the product has quietly
evolved into a viable, professional desktop publishing system. Its main value proposition is its broad cross-platform support,
which is unmatched by other page layout software. Together with its support for 25 languages, impressive PDF authoring capa-
bilities, built-in image editing support, Python scripting support and open source format makes the product attractive for several
publishing environments and applications.
Scribus’ main limitation is governed by product development. Built by a team of enthusiastic hobbyists, the product roadmap
relies on developers donating their free time, outside of their day jobs, family lives and everyday responsibilities. Furthermore,
Scribus lacks the luster of highly polished commercial software. Instead, its interface is raw and bears several marks of unfin-
ished and deprecated features.
While the limitations of the OSS development model will continue to hinder Scribus from making any short-term market impact,
there is future potential for growth. Following Wikipedia’s funding model, it is conceivable for the Scribus team to secure dona-
tions and funding from users who share a vested interest in product development. In addition, it’s conceivable that an organiza-
tion could adopt an open source business model, similar to that of Red Hat who sell subscriptions for the support, training, and
integration services of their Linux-based open source operating system.
The products’ free licensing model presents an attractive proposition to many in the midst of an economic crisis, where organi-
zations are looking for quick ways to cut costs and software budgets are an inevitable victim. Software giants are already bear-
ing the scars of a looming recession, including Adobe, who recently cited a weaker-than-expected demand for the newly
released Creative Suite 4 and has taken steps to reduce its headcount by approximately 600 full-time positions.
Despite the attractive licensing model and its admirable features, Scribus may never be able to crack the mainstream publishing
market. Existing commercial software products are heavily ingrained in publishing workflows. Convincing users to make the
switch is no easy task. While Adobe has managed to convince many long-term QuarkXPress users to make the switch to InDe-
sign, it hasn’t been without considerable effort. The real cost of desktop publishing doesn’t lie in the software alone or a robust
feature set, but in the accumulated, associated cost of adopting and learning a new software tool, then changing and adapting
workflows to suit it.
For many, Scribus may not signal an immediate mass-exodus in desktop publishing. However, as publishers struggle to survive
and adapt, open source software will become an attractive model that no one can afford to ignore.
Eliot Harper is Director of Eliot & Company, an information publishing firm based in Sydney, Australia.
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Gilbane Boston – Continued from page 3
crisis would accelerate or decelerate the adoption of community applications and other Web 2.0 technologies, the panel and
audience agreed that tight budgets cause companies to look for value and that because of their attractive pricing Web 2.0 applications
will be easier to justify for cash strapped companies. Lundberg concluded that there will be continued pressure for companies
to innovate and grow despite less capital being available and that avoiding risk coupled with security, reliability, and
accountability will drive many technology adoption decisions.
While the pervasive attitude could best be termed realistic, there were many productive exchanges of best practices and tactics
for innovating and improving productivity in a difficult environment.
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