Nickelring Corp has developed a data analytics solution for small and medium enterprises. During the product development phase, they achieved several milestones including developing a system architecture, prototype, website, marketing plan, and financial analysis. Partnerships will be key to success. Next steps include finalizing the product, pricing, partnership agreements, and seeking initial capital.
Brief introduction of Morgan Clark & Company, who we are, what we do. Interested to meet us? Call +31 20 737 05 37 or e-mail info@morganclark.com. You can also visit our website: morganclark.com
Making a Strong Business Case for Multiagent Technologydgalanti
This document discusses making a business case for using multiagent technology. It describes lessons learned from implementing 15 commercial agent-based applications across various industries. Key findings include that agent technology reduces complexity, improves productivity by 350-500%, and can reduce total project costs by 2-3x. The primary business value is managing complex, changing requirements. Measuring ROI is difficult but agent approaches show compelling gains in programmer productivity.
MindChips is an IT consulting and services firm that addresses business needs through strategic use of technology. It offers application development, IT effectiveness consulting, and sourcing advisory services. MindChips has experience delivering large projects for insurance, manufacturing, and professional services clients. It aims to foster innovation, improve speed and quality, and help clients reduce costs through flexible resourcing models.
This document discusses SAP's service portfolios and the future of Business Suite 7.0 service portfolios. It outlines SAP's approach to satisfying customer business needs through service portfolios that support key business processes. The future outlook is that SAP will provide value assessment and implementation services for SAP Business Suite 7.0 scenarios through an industrialized approach focusing on cost efficiency, quality, and reduced implementation time and risk.
Astute oracle i participate webinar series - v1Arvind Rajan
The document discusses options for organizations currently using PeopleSoft to either upgrade their existing PeopleSoft system, migrate to Oracle Fusion, switch to a different ERP platform, or do nothing. It outlines key drivers, challenges, opportunities and risks for each option. The document also provides an overview of Oracle Fusion capabilities and best practices for conducting a health check assessment and containing upgrade costs.
Yan Zhao presents on service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA). He discusses some of the challenges with traditional enterprise architecture (EA) modeling, stakeholder participation, maintenance and usage. SOA can help address these challenges by taking a more business-centric, service-oriented approach to modeling capabilities. Zhao outlines SOEA concepts including layered service components, domain segmentation, and service federation. He describes the benefits of SOEA such as increased business agility, reuse of existing assets, and reduced costs. Zhao also discusses SOEA governance and lifecycles to help manage services.
Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented EnterpriseYan Zhao
The document discusses service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) and the service oriented enterprise (SOE). It defines SOEA as applying a service-oriented approach to enterprise architecture modeling and SOE as applying service orientation across all aspects of an enterprise's business management and IT operations. The document also outlines how SOEA relates to traditional enterprise architecture, describes elements of the SOE approach like service portfolio management and governance, and discusses how service orientation impacts an enterprise by introducing changes like shared services and a service lifecycle.
Brief introduction of Morgan Clark & Company, who we are, what we do. Interested to meet us? Call +31 20 737 05 37 or e-mail info@morganclark.com. You can also visit our website: morganclark.com
Making a Strong Business Case for Multiagent Technologydgalanti
This document discusses making a business case for using multiagent technology. It describes lessons learned from implementing 15 commercial agent-based applications across various industries. Key findings include that agent technology reduces complexity, improves productivity by 350-500%, and can reduce total project costs by 2-3x. The primary business value is managing complex, changing requirements. Measuring ROI is difficult but agent approaches show compelling gains in programmer productivity.
MindChips is an IT consulting and services firm that addresses business needs through strategic use of technology. It offers application development, IT effectiveness consulting, and sourcing advisory services. MindChips has experience delivering large projects for insurance, manufacturing, and professional services clients. It aims to foster innovation, improve speed and quality, and help clients reduce costs through flexible resourcing models.
This document discusses SAP's service portfolios and the future of Business Suite 7.0 service portfolios. It outlines SAP's approach to satisfying customer business needs through service portfolios that support key business processes. The future outlook is that SAP will provide value assessment and implementation services for SAP Business Suite 7.0 scenarios through an industrialized approach focusing on cost efficiency, quality, and reduced implementation time and risk.
Astute oracle i participate webinar series - v1Arvind Rajan
The document discusses options for organizations currently using PeopleSoft to either upgrade their existing PeopleSoft system, migrate to Oracle Fusion, switch to a different ERP platform, or do nothing. It outlines key drivers, challenges, opportunities and risks for each option. The document also provides an overview of Oracle Fusion capabilities and best practices for conducting a health check assessment and containing upgrade costs.
Yan Zhao presents on service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA). He discusses some of the challenges with traditional enterprise architecture (EA) modeling, stakeholder participation, maintenance and usage. SOA can help address these challenges by taking a more business-centric, service-oriented approach to modeling capabilities. Zhao outlines SOEA concepts including layered service components, domain segmentation, and service federation. He describes the benefits of SOEA such as increased business agility, reuse of existing assets, and reduced costs. Zhao also discusses SOEA governance and lifecycles to help manage services.
Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented EnterpriseYan Zhao
The document discusses service oriented enterprise architecture (SOEA) and the service oriented enterprise (SOE). It defines SOEA as applying a service-oriented approach to enterprise architecture modeling and SOE as applying service orientation across all aspects of an enterprise's business management and IT operations. The document also outlines how SOEA relates to traditional enterprise architecture, describes elements of the SOE approach like service portfolio management and governance, and discusses how service orientation impacts an enterprise by introducing changes like shared services and a service lifecycle.
eBIDI Solutions is a startup company founded in 2011 and located in Chennai, India. It has 4 employees and provides business and technology consulting services, including as an authorized reseller for enterprise software vendors. The company develops data warehouse and business intelligence software solutions using open source tools. Its target market is small and medium enterprises in various industries.
The SOPERA Advanced Service Factory (ASF) is a sophisticated all-inclusive platform for service-oriented integration projects. Thanks to a significant technological advantage, SOPERA provides leading functionality and is specifically designed to meet practice needs. SOPERA also features strong support for service development and business process management.
Using Business Architecture To Drive Business ServicesDavid Baker
The document discusses using business architecture to identify business services. It begins by explaining the roles of technical, enterprise, and business services. It then provides an example service model for a financial services company. The document emphasizes that the operating model and business capabilities should drive service identification, not technical requirements. It provides guidance on engaging business stakeholders, developing a business architecture, and integrating services with enterprise architecture governance. The overall message is that a business-driven approach focusing on capabilities, not technical solutions, is needed to properly identify business services.
mPower Global Inc. is a leading software services company specialized in enterprise portal solutions. They have over 60 employees with extensive experience and offer services such as portal development, consulting, training and support across multiple industries and geographic regions. mPower is an expert in the open source Liferay portal platform and has successfully delivered solutions for many large clients.
The document provides guidance on creating an enterprise architecture (EA) roadmap to transition from a current to a future state. It discusses identifying gaps, grouping changes into initiatives, prioritizing initiatives, justifying initiatives, sequencing initiatives, and laying out the roadmap. The roadmap sequences initiatives over multiple years to deliver capabilities incrementally and address risks, with the goal of providing clear guidance to stakeholders on the path forward.
The document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture tools and reference architecture. It outlines key enterprise architecture activities including architecture reviews and recommendations using TOGAF. It presents Oracle's enterprise reference architecture diagram depicting core systems, integration systems, and access channels supported by enterprise infrastructure and information management. The activities aim to create an enterprise IT platform through initiatives for master data management, flexibility, business insights, operational excellence, and agile/secure infrastructure.
The document summarizes an upcoming conference on remote services implementation. The conference will cover strategies for using remote technologies to increase revenue, cut costs, and maximize product lifecycles in a down economy. Speakers from various industries will discuss topics like predictive maintenance methodologies, integrating remote systems and processes, and setting up successful remote service infrastructures. Attendees will learn how to assign value to remote services and evolve their remote service offerings.
Mobile SRM offering by Business & Decision and MicrostrategyJean-Michel Franco
Mobile SRM by Business & Decision and Microstrategy lets you publish on Apple App Store an application to communicate strategy and financial results to investors, shareholders, analysts and business partners .
Daugherty is a management and IT consulting firm that provides full-lifecycle consulting services including strategy, development, and outsourcing of technology solutions. They have over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Daugherty has 5 regional offices across the US and over 700 long-term employees. They specialize in custom solutions, business intelligence, mobile computing, and general management consulting. Daugherty provides a local alternative to large national consulting firms with more cost-efficient and pragmatic results.
JSoft Solutions provides integrated IT solutions including consulting, infrastructure management, and BPO/outsourcing services. It is part of the $10 billion JSW Group based in Bangalore, India. JSoft offers ERP implementations and support for Oracle and SAP solutions, as well as custom application development, business intelligence, and manufacturing execution systems. It aims to deliver cost reductions, process improvements, and enablement of business growth through synergistic technology and business solutions.
20120717 baker boundaries for business architecture v3David Baker
The document discusses business architecture and operating models. It defines business architecture as designing the operating model of a business based on strategic business model decisions. An operating model describes how a business operates across domains like customers, capabilities, structure and metrics. The intersection of business model decisions and operating model identifies required changes. A business architect needs skills in facilitation, decomposition, structuring and knowledge of strategies, offerings, organizations and more to design effective operating models.
The document discusses the importance of IT financial management in running IT successfully. It outlines key components of the IT financial management lifecycle including planning, budgeting, accounting, chargebacks, spend analysis, and portfolio management. Adopting these practices and using tools to support them can help optimize costs, ensure alignment between IT and business objectives, and deliver value from IT investments.
Setting Some Realistic Enterprise Architecture GoalsPaul Ramsay
The document is a presentation on enterprise architecture given by Paul Ramsay. It discusses key topics such as the benefits of enterprise architecture, challenges of unintegrated systems, selecting an architecture framework, demonstrating results and value, and ensuring long-term viability of the architecture. The presentation provides an overview of enterprise architecture concepts and considerations for organizations.
Celgene Corporation is a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory diseases. The procurement function at Celgene has transformed over the past 3 years from being transactional oriented with no strategic sourcing experience to becoming a global strategic sourcing organization through hiring experienced category managers, implementing procurement technology, and establishing a global procurement matrix structure. This transformation has helped capture over $60 million in savings and position procurement as a strategic partner within Celgene.
Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd. aims to be a global leader in providing technology services for business availability and continuity. It offers infrastructure management, technology services, and enterprise solutions to help organizations increase productivity, predictability, and profitability. Omnitech has over 1000 professionals, a technology center in Mumbai, and a presence in India and countries like the US, Middle East, and Europe.
Lucid IT & UXC Consulting: The Cloud Opportunity: Building on Your Investment...j_white
This document discusses how organizations can leverage their existing best practices to take advantage of cloud computing opportunities. It outlines key cloud characteristics and implications for IT, including proliferation of cloud services, hybrid IT environments, and evolving expectations. The document also examines how cloud services fit within traditional IT service models and categories. Finally, it proposes that while cloud raises concerns around security, integration and other issues, organizations can build on their best practices to develop optimal cloud management models and capabilities.
Business is always in a constant state of flux- more so these days, with disruption happening all around. How do you move from your AS IS state to TO BE architecture in your enterprise transformational journey? What mix and match of people, processes and technology will you blend together, and in what proportion, to drive enterprise value to deliver transformational results? TOGAF has a suite of tools that can help architects to chalk out the architectural roadmap for enterprise success. This talk will also focus on how agility is an underlying thread in this framework, and how value is delivered incrementally, making the process robust and
bankable.
Key Takeaways
Exposes the audience to the features of TOGAF which help plug business technology gaps.
How TOGAF has agility at its core to drive transformational results.
Why it is a good skill and knowledge for a seasoned IT professional to have in their kitty.
The Customer Fact Sheet ES Bundle provides essential customer information through reusable enterprise services. It leverages services related to customer, invoice, and contact data to generate a consolidated fact sheet. The bundle includes guidance on using the services, technical details, and lessons learned from other customers. It allows quick enablement of a customer fact sheet capability with pre-defined services and content from SAP and partners.
Selecting Approaches to Enterprise Architecturesallybean
This presentation was given at EAC Europe (the premier European Enterprise Architecture conference) in 2010. It shows how some of the ideas of Systems and Complexity Science can be applied to produce a new way of thinking about EA that is accessible to all stakeholders and supports improved communication between people as well as machines
This is the deck of a webinar that I presented at the OpenGroup. The focus of this webinar is on the challenge of using these standards in practice to build a strong architecture capability in organizations.
Open Group Presentation on MSBI method of creating Enterprise Architecture Co...Nick Malik
This presentation describes a step-by-step process for creating a core diagram that is applicable to companies that exist within the collaboration operating model, as described by Ross and Weill in their book "Enterprise Architecture As Strategy." The method produces a core diagram that preserves business agility by forcing the enterprise architect to consider the costs and benefits of reuse of processes, information, services, and systems. The resulting model supports "Capability at the Core, and Agility at the Edge."
eBIDI Solutions is a startup company founded in 2011 and located in Chennai, India. It has 4 employees and provides business and technology consulting services, including as an authorized reseller for enterprise software vendors. The company develops data warehouse and business intelligence software solutions using open source tools. Its target market is small and medium enterprises in various industries.
The SOPERA Advanced Service Factory (ASF) is a sophisticated all-inclusive platform for service-oriented integration projects. Thanks to a significant technological advantage, SOPERA provides leading functionality and is specifically designed to meet practice needs. SOPERA also features strong support for service development and business process management.
Using Business Architecture To Drive Business ServicesDavid Baker
The document discusses using business architecture to identify business services. It begins by explaining the roles of technical, enterprise, and business services. It then provides an example service model for a financial services company. The document emphasizes that the operating model and business capabilities should drive service identification, not technical requirements. It provides guidance on engaging business stakeholders, developing a business architecture, and integrating services with enterprise architecture governance. The overall message is that a business-driven approach focusing on capabilities, not technical solutions, is needed to properly identify business services.
mPower Global Inc. is a leading software services company specialized in enterprise portal solutions. They have over 60 employees with extensive experience and offer services such as portal development, consulting, training and support across multiple industries and geographic regions. mPower is an expert in the open source Liferay portal platform and has successfully delivered solutions for many large clients.
The document provides guidance on creating an enterprise architecture (EA) roadmap to transition from a current to a future state. It discusses identifying gaps, grouping changes into initiatives, prioritizing initiatives, justifying initiatives, sequencing initiatives, and laying out the roadmap. The roadmap sequences initiatives over multiple years to deliver capabilities incrementally and address risks, with the goal of providing clear guidance to stakeholders on the path forward.
The document discusses Oracle's enterprise architecture tools and reference architecture. It outlines key enterprise architecture activities including architecture reviews and recommendations using TOGAF. It presents Oracle's enterprise reference architecture diagram depicting core systems, integration systems, and access channels supported by enterprise infrastructure and information management. The activities aim to create an enterprise IT platform through initiatives for master data management, flexibility, business insights, operational excellence, and agile/secure infrastructure.
The document summarizes an upcoming conference on remote services implementation. The conference will cover strategies for using remote technologies to increase revenue, cut costs, and maximize product lifecycles in a down economy. Speakers from various industries will discuss topics like predictive maintenance methodologies, integrating remote systems and processes, and setting up successful remote service infrastructures. Attendees will learn how to assign value to remote services and evolve their remote service offerings.
Mobile SRM offering by Business & Decision and MicrostrategyJean-Michel Franco
Mobile SRM by Business & Decision and Microstrategy lets you publish on Apple App Store an application to communicate strategy and financial results to investors, shareholders, analysts and business partners .
Daugherty is a management and IT consulting firm that provides full-lifecycle consulting services including strategy, development, and outsourcing of technology solutions. They have over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Daugherty has 5 regional offices across the US and over 700 long-term employees. They specialize in custom solutions, business intelligence, mobile computing, and general management consulting. Daugherty provides a local alternative to large national consulting firms with more cost-efficient and pragmatic results.
JSoft Solutions provides integrated IT solutions including consulting, infrastructure management, and BPO/outsourcing services. It is part of the $10 billion JSW Group based in Bangalore, India. JSoft offers ERP implementations and support for Oracle and SAP solutions, as well as custom application development, business intelligence, and manufacturing execution systems. It aims to deliver cost reductions, process improvements, and enablement of business growth through synergistic technology and business solutions.
20120717 baker boundaries for business architecture v3David Baker
The document discusses business architecture and operating models. It defines business architecture as designing the operating model of a business based on strategic business model decisions. An operating model describes how a business operates across domains like customers, capabilities, structure and metrics. The intersection of business model decisions and operating model identifies required changes. A business architect needs skills in facilitation, decomposition, structuring and knowledge of strategies, offerings, organizations and more to design effective operating models.
The document discusses the importance of IT financial management in running IT successfully. It outlines key components of the IT financial management lifecycle including planning, budgeting, accounting, chargebacks, spend analysis, and portfolio management. Adopting these practices and using tools to support them can help optimize costs, ensure alignment between IT and business objectives, and deliver value from IT investments.
Setting Some Realistic Enterprise Architecture GoalsPaul Ramsay
The document is a presentation on enterprise architecture given by Paul Ramsay. It discusses key topics such as the benefits of enterprise architecture, challenges of unintegrated systems, selecting an architecture framework, demonstrating results and value, and ensuring long-term viability of the architecture. The presentation provides an overview of enterprise architecture concepts and considerations for organizations.
Celgene Corporation is a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory diseases. The procurement function at Celgene has transformed over the past 3 years from being transactional oriented with no strategic sourcing experience to becoming a global strategic sourcing organization through hiring experienced category managers, implementing procurement technology, and establishing a global procurement matrix structure. This transformation has helped capture over $60 million in savings and position procurement as a strategic partner within Celgene.
Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd. aims to be a global leader in providing technology services for business availability and continuity. It offers infrastructure management, technology services, and enterprise solutions to help organizations increase productivity, predictability, and profitability. Omnitech has over 1000 professionals, a technology center in Mumbai, and a presence in India and countries like the US, Middle East, and Europe.
Lucid IT & UXC Consulting: The Cloud Opportunity: Building on Your Investment...j_white
This document discusses how organizations can leverage their existing best practices to take advantage of cloud computing opportunities. It outlines key cloud characteristics and implications for IT, including proliferation of cloud services, hybrid IT environments, and evolving expectations. The document also examines how cloud services fit within traditional IT service models and categories. Finally, it proposes that while cloud raises concerns around security, integration and other issues, organizations can build on their best practices to develop optimal cloud management models and capabilities.
Business is always in a constant state of flux- more so these days, with disruption happening all around. How do you move from your AS IS state to TO BE architecture in your enterprise transformational journey? What mix and match of people, processes and technology will you blend together, and in what proportion, to drive enterprise value to deliver transformational results? TOGAF has a suite of tools that can help architects to chalk out the architectural roadmap for enterprise success. This talk will also focus on how agility is an underlying thread in this framework, and how value is delivered incrementally, making the process robust and
bankable.
Key Takeaways
Exposes the audience to the features of TOGAF which help plug business technology gaps.
How TOGAF has agility at its core to drive transformational results.
Why it is a good skill and knowledge for a seasoned IT professional to have in their kitty.
The Customer Fact Sheet ES Bundle provides essential customer information through reusable enterprise services. It leverages services related to customer, invoice, and contact data to generate a consolidated fact sheet. The bundle includes guidance on using the services, technical details, and lessons learned from other customers. It allows quick enablement of a customer fact sheet capability with pre-defined services and content from SAP and partners.
Selecting Approaches to Enterprise Architecturesallybean
This presentation was given at EAC Europe (the premier European Enterprise Architecture conference) in 2010. It shows how some of the ideas of Systems and Complexity Science can be applied to produce a new way of thinking about EA that is accessible to all stakeholders and supports improved communication between people as well as machines
This is the deck of a webinar that I presented at the OpenGroup. The focus of this webinar is on the challenge of using these standards in practice to build a strong architecture capability in organizations.
Open Group Presentation on MSBI method of creating Enterprise Architecture Co...Nick Malik
This presentation describes a step-by-step process for creating a core diagram that is applicable to companies that exist within the collaboration operating model, as described by Ross and Weill in their book "Enterprise Architecture As Strategy." The method produces a core diagram that preserves business agility by forcing the enterprise architect to consider the costs and benefits of reuse of processes, information, services, and systems. The resulting model supports "Capability at the Core, and Agility at the Edge."
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and StrategyNic Smith
Microsoft Business Intelligence slide deck, learn the Microsoft vision and strategy for business intelligence. These slides include the offering and value proposition for Microsoft BI.
The document discusses digitalization through the use of domain-specific languages (DSLs). It suggests that DSLs can help accelerate development, simplify customization, and express business goals, requirements, design, and implementation in a single language. The document outlines considerations for whether an organization needs a DSL, how to structure a proof of concept, and how to ensure long term maintenance and adoption of the DSL approach.
Building Elastic into security operationsElasticsearch
Learn how Optiv took foundational ideas around optimization of data ingestion, automation, and search to build world-class managed cybersecurity services with Elastic.
Optimizing Your Outsourcing Portfolio – Deciding What to Source: Core vs. Con...Neo Group Inc
Neo Group’s Portfolio Assessment Model can help you enhance your outsourcing portfolio to ensure your company’s sourcing program is aligned with its long-term goals.
Business Intelligenze Company presents its Business Intelligence as a Service solution called JumboAnalysisTM. The solution collates, analyzes, and reports operational performance data to help customers run effective operations, manage contracts, and continuously improve performance. JumboAnalysisTM has been successfully deployed in several organizations where it has driven quality improvements and cost reductions. The solution can help customers achieve operational excellence and increased profitability, satisfaction, and sales. Rahul Sethi then demonstrates the solution's capabilities and takes questions.
This document discusses how small businesses can benefit from partnering with CyberOptic Group (CyOp) to implement open source software solutions. It outlines CyOp's services for professional implementation of applications like ERP, CRM, and other enterprise software. Partnering with CyOp allows companies to offer these services and solutions to customers, providing additional revenue streams. The document shares customer success stories and describes CyOp's engagement process, highlighting opportunities for partners.
Observability is the most important capability needed to manage the development, deployment, and operation of modern systems.
These slides—based on the webinar with EMA Research and LightStep--explore the importance of observability and how to address this capability for complex systems.
Leverage Data Strategy as a Catalyst for InnovationGlorium Tech
The document discusses leveraging data strategy as a catalyst for innovation. It provides an overview of how a data strategy can help organizations innovate with data. It outlines key components of developing a winning data strategy, including understanding the current state, developing the strategy and implementation plan, executing use cases iteratively, and establishing governance. The document also discusses common challenges to innovation with data and provides examples of innovation use cases across different industries.
Akshay Rathi has over 10 years of experience as a TM1 Architect, Designer, and Developer. He has specialized expertise in Cognos TM1 and has worked on numerous projects for banking and financial institutions. Some of his key responsibilities include designing and developing TM1 solutions, defining technical requirements, ensuring infrastructure stability, and managing projects through the software development lifecycle. He has extensive experience delivering solutions for planning, budgeting, reporting, cost allocation, and regulatory compliance.
Imaginea believes the right people in the right environment are key to innovation and design. They focus on design-driven development and hire for attitude. Imaginea offers product development capabilities, a blended management style, and access to talented engineers in India. They aim to enable customers to provide better service through consistent and predictable delivery of high quality code.
This document provides technical specifications and guiding principles for product development of PRESTO, a digital enterprise platform. It includes information on PRESTO's specifications, frequently asked questions, how the product is fed data, how change requests are managed, and how customizations are developed. Product customizations follow a workflow that includes identifying requirements, designing, building, testing, and releasing changes, with roles and responsibilities defined in a RACI matrix.
The document discusses key considerations for IT during mergers and acquisitions. It emphasizes the importance of early IT involvement in planning, thorough due diligence to identify risks and synergies, and detailed transition planning and integration strategies. Failure to adequately plan IT integration can lead to significant costs, issues and jeopardize the overall M&A goals.
Traditional business intelligence solutions are costly, complex, and fall short of enabling organizations to achieve their goals of improved efficiency and effectiveness. They focus only on reporting and analysis of key performance indicators, rather than integrating with business processes to drive changes. Open source solutions are needed that are less expensive, more customizable, and that integrate business intelligence with workflow and process management to address business problems as complete solutions.
Business intelligence (BI) on the cloud allows companies to access BI tools, analytics, and data through cloud computing rather than maintaining expensive on-premise software and hardware. Key benefits of BI on the cloud include scalability, lower upfront costs, and easier access to BI capabilities. Some challenges are that cloud BI requires IT involvement and customization of solutions, and user adoption can be difficult compared to standard business applications.
INDUSA conducted a webinar on March 14, 2012 which focused on how the use of Mobile Business Intelligence is an excellent choice for companies like yours. In this tech webinar, we explained how BI with SharePoint as well as Mobile BI based applications allows you to access the business information you need to make better decisions. The webinar provided strong insight to professionals on how one can implement agile Business intelligence measures with the help of Smart Mobility.
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Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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Data Insights OEP interim submission
1. nickelring corp.
OEP Interim Submission
Team Data Insights
7 July 2012
Confidential
2. Executive Summary
• Based on our successful market testing and analysis during the OAP phase, we pursued developing
the specifics of a data analytics solution for the SME’s as per the OEP guidelines
• We understand that our product is complex and requires a longer timeframe to finalise the go-to-market
strategy; therefore, we chose to extensively focus on the primary building blocks of the execution plan
achieving considerable success as outlined below
Key milestones achieved during the OEP phase
• Technical components
• System architecture – We have developed a detailed solution overview and associated architecture
for implementation
• Website – We have developed a functional website to enhance our online presence and to support
our marketing efforts (www.nickelring.com)
• Prototype – We have also developed a basic prototype for the product and market tested with SME’s
• Partnership analysis – Partnerships will be key to our success, therefore we identified & initiated contact
with a few of the key technical and distribution partners
• Marketing plan – Reaching out to the SME’s without a large sales force implies smart marketing and
therefore we have spent considerable effort in devising a strong marketing plan
• Financial analysis – Finally, we have developed a comprehensive template that will enable us to
conduct robust financial analysis as we finalise the different cost and revenue components
Confidential
4. Team composition
Name Location Work Core competence Team / Effort
experience per month
Alessandro Sweden 2 Years Software Engineering (C++, VHDL) Finance / 0.5
Arnaud Tahiti, French 13 Years Marketing & Business development Distribution / 0.5
Polynesia
Bharath Singapore 2 Years Software Engineering, Database Tech / 1.0
Administration
Deepak Singapore 8 Years Software Engineering, Machine Learning Tech / 1.0
Techniques
Filip Antwerp Area, 10 Years Business Consultancy Product / 0.5
Belgium
Matej Slovenia, EU 2 Years Software Engineering, System Tech / 0.5
Administrator
Munir NC, USA 15 Years PLM, Business Analytics (Data Mining) Product / 0.5
Patrick CA, USA 1 Year Software Engineering Tech / 0.5
Romil New Delhi, 10 Years Internet Marketing & Branding, E- Marketing / 0.5
India commerce and Web development
Sajith Singapore 5 years Software Engineering, Data Mining, Tech / 1.0
Semantics
Sandeep Singapore 14 years Strategy Consulting Lead / 0.5
Business case development
Total – 7 FTE
Confidential
5. Solution Overview
The core process underpinning our system is as outlined below with three key areas of
differentiation
Ability to connect
with multiple Easy user interface
data sources to conduct ETL
relative to
competitors
State-of-the-art
visualisation for
advanced
analytics
Confidential
6. Architecture Overview
A comprehensive &
scalable system
architecture
Architecture was
whetted by our
technical mentor
Confidential
7. Technology stack
We have chosen our technologies that are scalable and provide us with the appropriate
platform to develop a competitive solution
Confidential
8. Partnerships
• A partnership is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual
interests (Source: wikipedia)
• Partnerships are a significant strategy used in the current business environment in order to
achieve economies of scale, effort, distribution and penetration
• Partnerships will be one of the major initiatives we will use at nickelring in order to achieve a
fast time-to-market as well as to supplement our organization with best-of-breed capabilities
in the technology stack as well as sales and distribution
• Partnerships can be classified across the following 2 axes:
• Technology Partnerships
• Front-end/Presentation Layer
• Back-end/Database Layer
• Databases
• Data Sources (public econometric data, census data, demographic data)
• Integration/ETL
• Analytics
We are pursuing partnerships
• Sales/Distribution Partnerships
that are the most beneficial to us
• Value Added Reseller
in terms of Relevance, Fit,
• OEM / License
• Self Service (Cloud) Overlap, Defensibility and
• Affiliate Revenue impact
Confidential
9. Partnership Evaluation (Analytics)
Identify the right partner that can deliver a wide range of standard statistical/analytical
functionality upon which we will build.
Size of Org/Relevance/Private,Public
Potential Benefit
R Project
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
MADLib
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
10. Partnership Evaluation (Data Sources)
Partners to deliver supplementary data sources based on which we can provide a right application
delivery as well as implement demonstrations and application templates
Size of Org/Relevance/Private,Public
U.S. Bureau
Potential Benefit
of the
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Census
Ameristat
Bloomberg
Google
Analytics
Facebook
Insights
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
11. Partnership Evaluation (Databases)
What data source/s will we use as our backend? We have to choose from a wide range of
choices including existing customer base and ease of implementation/deployment.
Size of Org/Relevance/Private,Public
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Netezza
Teradata
MySQL
SQL
Server
Oracle
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
12. Partnership Evaluation (Vizualization)
We can partner with technology companies that provide breakthrough
visualization platforms.
Size of Org/Relevance/Private,Public
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Google
Maps
Google
Charts
Quantu
m GIS
Yahoo Tableau
Pipes VIDI
Choosel
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
13. Partnership Evaluation (ETL/Integration)
We can leverage existing open-source or other ETL tools that have a proven track
record. It will be idea to use one that can be customized for a good fit with our user-
interface.
Size of Org/Relevance/Private,Public
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Informatica
CloverETL
Pentaho
Apatar
Scriptella
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
14. Marketing plan
Key Elements
• Agile marketing approach – endeavoring to involve prospective
customers, distributors and various stakeholders for real-time feedback on
product development
• Branding and product positioning – created a brand image, logo, colors,
feel and setup a website (nickelring.com) with clear value proposition
(including a beta signup page)
• Demand creation experiments - utilizing set of popular tools such as
social media, newsletters, analytics related forums we tested our value
proposition
• Cost of customer acquisition and selecting right promotional tools –
we tested our hypothesis and came up with and ideal set of tools to run a
cost-effective marketing campaign
Confidential
15. Marketing Evaluation (Promotional Tools)
Various tools we tested to run our pilot marketing campaigns in the most cost
effective manner possible
Relevance
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
SEO
(organic)
Twitter
Facebok SEM
Page (Google,
BI market
Google+ sites)
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
16. Distribution
• Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a
consumer or business user, using direct means, or using indirect means with intermediaries.
(Wikipedia)
• Distribution is a key element in our entire marketing strategy as it will help us to expand our reach
and grow our revenues
• Nickelring is addressing Small and Medium Enterprises and should consider the most effective
channels but also the most efficient in terms of Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC)
• Nickelring will use a combination of direct and indirect channels to deliver its software to potential
customers
• Direct to end users
• Website and marketing campaigns
• Affiliate
• Channel partners
• Marketplaces
• VARs (Value Added Reseller)
• OEM and ISV
• We should look for companies that have a trusted relationship with our end-users : consultants,
accountants, banks could be natural partners.
Confidential
17. Distribution Evaluation (Marketplaces)
What type of software application is complimentary to our solution on marketplaces ? We
have a good fit with accounting software, ERP, CRM.
Size of Org/Relevance
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Salesforce
Appexchange
Google
Apps
Intuit App
Center
Microsoft
office 365
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
18. Distribution Evaluation (VARs)
Understanding who the end-customer is and who they trust. It requires a strategic planning, a
software channel manager, motivation and strong support to succeed.
Size of Org/Relevance
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Salesforce
Keyrus
Business
& Decision
Accounting
firms
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
19. Distribution Evaluation (OEM and ISV)
OEM and ISV partners will take advantage of our extensibility to embed analytics easily into
new application offerings. It integrates with the partner's offering and becomes transparent to
the end user.
Size of Org/Relevance
Potential Benefit
Fit/Overlap/defensibility/Revenue
Intuit
Zoho
Salesforce
SugarCRM
impact
Feasibility/Expected
Growth
Confidential
20. Revenue Model (Market Share)
• The total 2012 market size for analytics is USD 12 billion
• The analytics market is expected to grow at a rate of ~16%
• A simple extrapolation assuming that growth remains at 16% or less
provides the following projections:
2011 $12.2 billion
2012(+16,4%) $14.2 billion
2013(15%) $16.3 billion
2014(+14%) $18.5 billion
2015(+10%) $20.4 billion
• We are in the process of pricing our product and finalising our revenue
models
• However we expect our primary revenue stream to be subscription
based (direct as well as reseller) with additional revenue from
associated services (implementation,
• We make a conservative estimate of 0.1%-0.5% market share for
nickelring in 5 years – giving us total revenues in the range of $20-100
million
Confidential
21. Cost Analysis
We have estimated the cost for the first year of operation since this is the “nearest truth” for
our operations and is a basis for requesting funds from potential investors
Cost element Annualised cost Comments
estimate (USD)
Personnel cost $420,000 • We estimate 7 FTE’s will be part of the startup
• Average salary – USD 60,000
• Salary range varies from $40k (for programmers) to $ 80k
(for senior management)
Office rental $24,000 • Office will be based in Singapore
• Monthly rental – USD 2,000
Infrastructure costs $49,000 • This includes utilities, hardware, software, hosting
charges, etc.,
• Estimated cost of USD 7k per person
Legal costs $30,000 • This includes patents, trademarks, contracts, partnership
agreements, etc.,
Marketing costs $50,000 • This includes cost of branding, enhancing our website and
online marketing (SEO, SEM, etc.,)
• Costs also cover attending key events, booths and
associated costs such as travel & collateral development
Other costs $50,000 • This would cover incidental expenses, consulting fees,
etc.,
Total costs $623,000
Confidential
22. Next Steps
• In order to successfully take the product to market, we are working on the
following key activities:
• Finalise the prototype & commence V 1.0 product development
• Finalise product pricing
• Perform detailed analysis of partnerships and prepare an engagement
model
• Register corporation and logos
• Enhance our marketing efforts and engage prospects from our website
alpha interests
• Seek capital ( we intend to bootstrap as long as we can to increase the
value of the company before seeking investment)
Confidential