The document describes a Data Warehouse System (DWS) that collects, enriches, and correlates charging information from multiple network nodes to generate reports. DWS consists of a database with a pre-integrated data model and optional functions for usage/account history, enriched reporting, and enriched data exports. It collects real-time data records from various sources, normalizes and enriches the data, and generates standard or customized reports for various departments. DWS provides a toolbox for customer care, data exports, and ad hoc reporting to give operators insights into usage trends, campaign success, and more.
The fact that a Meter Data Management (MDM) system is the single, secure repository for the millions of data points collected by an AMI makes it the logical solution for data analytics such as validation, editing and estimation that improve the accuracy of billing information. Yet, as a single-source system of record, the MDM also is the starting point for integration of meter-read data with other enterprise systems to improve real-time efficiency of network operations and business processes.
The MDM with meter modelling components and standardized connectivity can integrate with the utility geodatabase (GIS) and outage management system (OMS) to significantly streamline outage detection and restoration verification.
MDM integrated with the utility supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system or distribution management system (DMS) allows comparison of information at substation/net-stations with aggregated meter data to detect potential theft or network loss during distribution. Similar aggregate comparison helps analyse power quality, identify demand trending and forecast demand. These network analysis capabilities empower accurate asset planning and the utility’s ability to meet demand without adding more capacity.
In all of these enterprise-level functions, MDM integration with the GIS provides valuable visualization that facilitates operator and analyst identification of areas of concern or opportunity.
The real-time network intelligence possible with such a powerful MDM solution can return substantial benefits to several utility operations and business processes — well beyond the initial-level billing accuracy improvement.
Configuring storage from an iPad might be novel, but it isn’t where the true value and impact of storage management mobility lies. Our iPad app is all about putting more specific insight right at the finger tips of administrators so they have immediate insight wherever they are.
Robert McFarlane deconstructs DCIM tools' role in the enterpriseAbhishek Sood
The document discusses the background and role of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools. It describes DCIM tools as software suites that collect data from IT and facilities infrastructure to monitor capacity, power, cooling, space, and assets. It outlines nine key capabilities of DCIM tools, including energy monitoring, environmental monitoring, asset management, and capacity planning. Finally, it explains that effective DCIM tools provide centralized monitoring and management of both facilities and IT aspects of an organization's data centers.
The document outlines an ITSM transformation roadmap over 15 months to implement various ITSM processes and technologies in a phased approach. It includes establishing a service desk, implementing incident management, asset management, change management and other ITIL processes. Each phase has key milestones and deliverables such as process documentation, tool configuration, user acceptance testing and team setup to manage the processes. The overall goal is to lay a foundation of integrated technology and standardized ITIL processes to improve service, reduce costs and better align IT with the business.
[White Paper] Europe’s Window of Opportunity for Terminal OperatorsSchneider Electric
As Europe is going through an unprecedented financial and economic crisis,
the oil and gas industry continues to face an uncertain business environment.
Another recession could lead to reduced demand and further increase the
pressure on margins in downstream operations. This has suppliers and buyers
looking to exploit any operational efficiency they can.
Terminal operators play a critical role in helping suppliers and buyers achieve
those efficiencies, and can benefit their own operations while doing so. To gain
a competitive edge, terminal operators need to be mindful of the big trends
in the industry and make sure that their Terminal Automation System (TAS)
is capable of supporting state-of-the-art supply management systems that
suppliers intend to use in order to maximize their efficiency. And for most TAS,
a simple configuration change is all it takes to achieve this.
Hypervisor economics a framework to identify, measure and reduce the cost o...Hitachi Vantara
Hypervisor Economics white paper examines IT economics and virtual machine total cost of ownership definitions and provides a framework to identify, measure and reduce cost of VMs.
Preparing for the Future: How Asset Management Will Evolve in the Age of Smar...Schneider Electric
Most utilities struggle to organize information about their distribution network assets. Operations, engineering, accounting, and other business functions all use different tools and systems, forcing grid operators to synchronize separate databases. This paper presents an improved approach to managing grid assets by establishing a ‘single source of the truth,’ eliminating special-purpose databases, utilizing spatial databases, and incorporating a workflow management tool to support database updates.
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
The fact that a Meter Data Management (MDM) system is the single, secure repository for the millions of data points collected by an AMI makes it the logical solution for data analytics such as validation, editing and estimation that improve the accuracy of billing information. Yet, as a single-source system of record, the MDM also is the starting point for integration of meter-read data with other enterprise systems to improve real-time efficiency of network operations and business processes.
The MDM with meter modelling components and standardized connectivity can integrate with the utility geodatabase (GIS) and outage management system (OMS) to significantly streamline outage detection and restoration verification.
MDM integrated with the utility supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system or distribution management system (DMS) allows comparison of information at substation/net-stations with aggregated meter data to detect potential theft or network loss during distribution. Similar aggregate comparison helps analyse power quality, identify demand trending and forecast demand. These network analysis capabilities empower accurate asset planning and the utility’s ability to meet demand without adding more capacity.
In all of these enterprise-level functions, MDM integration with the GIS provides valuable visualization that facilitates operator and analyst identification of areas of concern or opportunity.
The real-time network intelligence possible with such a powerful MDM solution can return substantial benefits to several utility operations and business processes — well beyond the initial-level billing accuracy improvement.
Configuring storage from an iPad might be novel, but it isn’t where the true value and impact of storage management mobility lies. Our iPad app is all about putting more specific insight right at the finger tips of administrators so they have immediate insight wherever they are.
Robert McFarlane deconstructs DCIM tools' role in the enterpriseAbhishek Sood
The document discusses the background and role of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools. It describes DCIM tools as software suites that collect data from IT and facilities infrastructure to monitor capacity, power, cooling, space, and assets. It outlines nine key capabilities of DCIM tools, including energy monitoring, environmental monitoring, asset management, and capacity planning. Finally, it explains that effective DCIM tools provide centralized monitoring and management of both facilities and IT aspects of an organization's data centers.
The document outlines an ITSM transformation roadmap over 15 months to implement various ITSM processes and technologies in a phased approach. It includes establishing a service desk, implementing incident management, asset management, change management and other ITIL processes. Each phase has key milestones and deliverables such as process documentation, tool configuration, user acceptance testing and team setup to manage the processes. The overall goal is to lay a foundation of integrated technology and standardized ITIL processes to improve service, reduce costs and better align IT with the business.
[White Paper] Europe’s Window of Opportunity for Terminal OperatorsSchneider Electric
As Europe is going through an unprecedented financial and economic crisis,
the oil and gas industry continues to face an uncertain business environment.
Another recession could lead to reduced demand and further increase the
pressure on margins in downstream operations. This has suppliers and buyers
looking to exploit any operational efficiency they can.
Terminal operators play a critical role in helping suppliers and buyers achieve
those efficiencies, and can benefit their own operations while doing so. To gain
a competitive edge, terminal operators need to be mindful of the big trends
in the industry and make sure that their Terminal Automation System (TAS)
is capable of supporting state-of-the-art supply management systems that
suppliers intend to use in order to maximize their efficiency. And for most TAS,
a simple configuration change is all it takes to achieve this.
Hypervisor economics a framework to identify, measure and reduce the cost o...Hitachi Vantara
Hypervisor Economics white paper examines IT economics and virtual machine total cost of ownership definitions and provides a framework to identify, measure and reduce cost of VMs.
Preparing for the Future: How Asset Management Will Evolve in the Age of Smar...Schneider Electric
Most utilities struggle to organize information about their distribution network assets. Operations, engineering, accounting, and other business functions all use different tools and systems, forcing grid operators to synchronize separate databases. This paper presents an improved approach to managing grid assets by establishing a ‘single source of the truth,’ eliminating special-purpose databases, utilizing spatial databases, and incorporating a workflow management tool to support database updates.
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
This document outlines a high-level roadmap for the post go-live transformation of BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSMB) at USDA over multiple releases between 2011-2013. It includes activities related to maintenance, support, enhancements, onboarding agencies, integrating legacy systems, and establishing service management processes for areas like incident management, problem management, change management, and configuration management.
The document discusses managed data centers and how they provide dynamic infrastructures to support cost efficiency, flexibility, and risk reduction. Key points include:
1) Managed data centers encompass services and technologies like virtualization and cloud computing to provide flexible infrastructures that adapt to changing demands.
2) This includes managed server, network, and storage services that optimize resource usage while increasing availability, security, and performance.
3) Case studies demonstrate reductions in costs, energy usage, and risk through server consolidation and virtualization delivered by managed data center services.
UM Technologies provides an interactive energy management software called UtilityModule 4.0. The software allows users to manage utility data, costs, and consumption in one centralized system. Key features include customized dashboards for users to view important metrics, robust reporting capabilities to analyze usage and costs, and alerts to notify users of variances from budgets or spikes in demand. The cloud-based software is designed to integrate with utility suppliers and companies to provide users with a complete view of their energy data.
The IT systems at the State Bank of Pakistan have matured and become more sophisticated, adding high value to bank operations. Key developments include enhancing the Globus banking system to automate more processes, upgrading Oracle ERP, improving the data warehouse, and establishing a disaster recovery site. Efforts were also made to strengthen IT security, infrastructure, and provide training to staff.
N(i) 2 is a company that offers IT management software called The N(i) 2 Suite to help organizations manage their IT infrastructure and services. Their flagship product is a configuration management database platform that provides visibility of IT assets and their relationships. They also offer modular business applications that can be used for tasks like incident management, service desk management, and change management.
The document describes various integration methods that can be used to connect the BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) system with external systems and data sources. It explains the main integration technologies including the AR System C API, Java API, web services, plug-ins, command line interfaces, XML import/export, and others. The goal is to support automated communication between Remedy and external repositories and applications.
A key part of implementing Volt-VAR control and optimization is to identify the benefits that can be attributed to VVO. The major challenge is to separate the impacts of VVO (i.e. the VVO benefits) from the impacts of factors not related to VVO, such as changing weather conditions, random customer behavior and routine operational changes (planned switching). Utilities on the panel have performed VVO measurement and verification using different methods. Each presenter will describe how the method works, data requirements, strengths and weaknesses of the approach and results. The session also will summarize work by the IEEE Volt-VAR task force to develop IEEE Guideline P1885 M&V of VVO projects for electric distribution utilities.
How Test Labs Reduce Cyber Security Threats to Industrial Control Systemse cy...Schneider Electric
Federal agencies are moving their industrial control systems (ICS) from operational business networks to separate, dedicated networks in order to enhance security. However, without a system to test the new equipment and software coming into these separate networks, security risks will persist. This paper explores the impact on security of instituting a sanctioned ICS test lab and recommends best practices for setting up and operating these labs.
The document discusses Manager of Manager (MoM) architectures for providing enterprise-wide situational awareness. A MoM architecture allows integrating data from multiple legacy and new systems through a single interface without replacing hardware or software. This provides operators with end-to-end monitoring and control of the entire enterprise. The document provides examples of MoM implementations and outlines guidelines for selecting MoM components, including supporting a wide variety of hardware, customizable interfaces, and open interfaces for integration.
The document provides an overview of IBM's monitoring and management software portfolio, including SmartCloud Monitoring, Application Performance Manager, Tivoli OMNIbus, Network Manager, and Business Service Manager. It discusses the key capabilities of each product for monitoring infrastructure, applications, networks, and business services across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments. The modular and integrated nature of the solutions allows for comprehensive as well as targeted monitoring and management.
Short description of information system that is used in electric utility command center where it orchestrates messages and documents and helps monitoring electric distribution grid.
This document discusses Fujitsu's Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering. It provides virtualized server and storage resources to customers on a pay-per-use basis from Fujitsu data centers. The objectives are to offer low-cost, easy to use IT resources and enable customers to focus on their core business rather than managing infrastructure. Key benefits highlighted include minimized costs through predictable monthly billing, improved flexibility, and optimized integration with Fujitsu's expertise in data center operations and management.
IBM is releasing version 7.5.1 of its SmartCloud Control Desk product, which will feature new app headers to understand tickets quickly, a simplified and redesigned app interface following IBM's OneUI guidelines, and live chat support. The release will also include infrastructure management features like viewing logical and geographic topologies of resources and incidents, performing "what-if" impact analysis, and getting a full 360 degree view of a resource. The document provides roadmaps for future releases of IBM's Maximo, Tririga, and SmartCloud Control Desk products with planned new features, integrations, optimizations, and capabilities through 2015 and beyond.
AspectCTRM is the only Web-based trade, risk and operations management solution.
Fuel Marketers can now benefit from this leading professional system with an efficient
and cost-effective way to manage streams of trading and transport activity. Traders, risk
managers, schedulers, procurement and back-office personnel rely on this comprehensive,
affordable solution.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
How green standards are changing data center design and operationsSchneider Electric
An effort is underway to harmonize certain energy-efficiency standards. Could global standardization ultimately diminish the technical effectiveness of such standards? Which will emerge as the de facto standards? This session will explore these questions, as well in data center efficiency and sustainability guidelines.
This document discusses ways to improve the performance of Vision reports. It breaks recommendations into four main areas: 1) writing reports efficiently by minimizing unnecessary filters and formulas, 2) using performance tools like Vision Cache and Optimized Summary Links, 3) tools for data and SQL like transaction archiving and database indexing, and 4) timing and delivering reports through scheduled updates, archiving, and publishing to Vision Net Enterprise.
The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). The main concept of a central control room is the ability to gather and automatically transform information from different sources and mines into business decisions, centralizing and monitoring them from a single location. This central control room also acts as a complete repository of all business operations including mine planning, metrics, asset management, quality and process control, surveillance, sustainability data, emissions, energy efficiency projects, weather and more.
Infor SunSystems is a core financial management solution that is ideal for fast growing, small- to medium-sized businesses; organizations with international financial management needs; and subsidiaries of larger enterprises. The solution is particularly well-suited to companies with complex lines of business or multiple locations, where the ability to easily adapt processes and procedures to meet a variety of needs is essential.
http://www.llpgroup.com/en/index.php/productssolutions/fbm/inforfmssunsystems.html
The document describes several Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled smart building monitoring and control solutions that use sensors, analytics, and automation to reduce human intervention in building management tasks. Examples include OptiNergy from SmartGreen, Cobundu, Davra, IOT Factory, BuildingIQ, 75F, Control Envy, Blue Pillar, eSightenergy, and Domognostics from Phoebe Innovations - all of which provide cloud-based platforms and software to monitor conditions, optimize performance, and automate building systems using IoT technologies. The solutions analyze data, generate reports and alerts, and in some cases automatically adjust building operations based
The document discusses four different offshore projects completed by Mahindra & Mahindra for various clients. The first project involved developing a central customer database for Prudential plc. The second project designed a web-based information system for a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturer to provide daily access to critical business data. The third project created a data warehousing application for a utility consulting firm to process 50 million meter readings daily. The fourth project involved building a data mart environment for an oil equipment manufacturer to give users consolidated access to enterprise information for reporting and analysis.
The document discusses the candidate's background and experience in engineering, IT solutions implementation, and project management. It then summarizes three case studies where the candidate's company, Masterland, provided mobile solutions to digitize business processes for a telecom operator, an insurance company, and a distribution company. The solutions enabled field data collection, analysis and real-time tracking to drive business operations and services. The document also covers disruptive trends in enterprise software around cyber security, cloud computing and IoT, and proposes a framework for defining a corporate roadmap.
This document outlines a high-level roadmap for the post go-live transformation of BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSMB) at USDA over multiple releases between 2011-2013. It includes activities related to maintenance, support, enhancements, onboarding agencies, integrating legacy systems, and establishing service management processes for areas like incident management, problem management, change management, and configuration management.
The document discusses managed data centers and how they provide dynamic infrastructures to support cost efficiency, flexibility, and risk reduction. Key points include:
1) Managed data centers encompass services and technologies like virtualization and cloud computing to provide flexible infrastructures that adapt to changing demands.
2) This includes managed server, network, and storage services that optimize resource usage while increasing availability, security, and performance.
3) Case studies demonstrate reductions in costs, energy usage, and risk through server consolidation and virtualization delivered by managed data center services.
UM Technologies provides an interactive energy management software called UtilityModule 4.0. The software allows users to manage utility data, costs, and consumption in one centralized system. Key features include customized dashboards for users to view important metrics, robust reporting capabilities to analyze usage and costs, and alerts to notify users of variances from budgets or spikes in demand. The cloud-based software is designed to integrate with utility suppliers and companies to provide users with a complete view of their energy data.
The IT systems at the State Bank of Pakistan have matured and become more sophisticated, adding high value to bank operations. Key developments include enhancing the Globus banking system to automate more processes, upgrading Oracle ERP, improving the data warehouse, and establishing a disaster recovery site. Efforts were also made to strengthen IT security, infrastructure, and provide training to staff.
N(i) 2 is a company that offers IT management software called The N(i) 2 Suite to help organizations manage their IT infrastructure and services. Their flagship product is a configuration management database platform that provides visibility of IT assets and their relationships. They also offer modular business applications that can be used for tasks like incident management, service desk management, and change management.
The document describes various integration methods that can be used to connect the BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) system with external systems and data sources. It explains the main integration technologies including the AR System C API, Java API, web services, plug-ins, command line interfaces, XML import/export, and others. The goal is to support automated communication between Remedy and external repositories and applications.
A key part of implementing Volt-VAR control and optimization is to identify the benefits that can be attributed to VVO. The major challenge is to separate the impacts of VVO (i.e. the VVO benefits) from the impacts of factors not related to VVO, such as changing weather conditions, random customer behavior and routine operational changes (planned switching). Utilities on the panel have performed VVO measurement and verification using different methods. Each presenter will describe how the method works, data requirements, strengths and weaknesses of the approach and results. The session also will summarize work by the IEEE Volt-VAR task force to develop IEEE Guideline P1885 M&V of VVO projects for electric distribution utilities.
How Test Labs Reduce Cyber Security Threats to Industrial Control Systemse cy...Schneider Electric
Federal agencies are moving their industrial control systems (ICS) from operational business networks to separate, dedicated networks in order to enhance security. However, without a system to test the new equipment and software coming into these separate networks, security risks will persist. This paper explores the impact on security of instituting a sanctioned ICS test lab and recommends best practices for setting up and operating these labs.
The document discusses Manager of Manager (MoM) architectures for providing enterprise-wide situational awareness. A MoM architecture allows integrating data from multiple legacy and new systems through a single interface without replacing hardware or software. This provides operators with end-to-end monitoring and control of the entire enterprise. The document provides examples of MoM implementations and outlines guidelines for selecting MoM components, including supporting a wide variety of hardware, customizable interfaces, and open interfaces for integration.
The document provides an overview of IBM's monitoring and management software portfolio, including SmartCloud Monitoring, Application Performance Manager, Tivoli OMNIbus, Network Manager, and Business Service Manager. It discusses the key capabilities of each product for monitoring infrastructure, applications, networks, and business services across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments. The modular and integrated nature of the solutions allows for comprehensive as well as targeted monitoring and management.
Short description of information system that is used in electric utility command center where it orchestrates messages and documents and helps monitoring electric distribution grid.
This document discusses Fujitsu's Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering. It provides virtualized server and storage resources to customers on a pay-per-use basis from Fujitsu data centers. The objectives are to offer low-cost, easy to use IT resources and enable customers to focus on their core business rather than managing infrastructure. Key benefits highlighted include minimized costs through predictable monthly billing, improved flexibility, and optimized integration with Fujitsu's expertise in data center operations and management.
IBM is releasing version 7.5.1 of its SmartCloud Control Desk product, which will feature new app headers to understand tickets quickly, a simplified and redesigned app interface following IBM's OneUI guidelines, and live chat support. The release will also include infrastructure management features like viewing logical and geographic topologies of resources and incidents, performing "what-if" impact analysis, and getting a full 360 degree view of a resource. The document provides roadmaps for future releases of IBM's Maximo, Tririga, and SmartCloud Control Desk products with planned new features, integrations, optimizations, and capabilities through 2015 and beyond.
AspectCTRM is the only Web-based trade, risk and operations management solution.
Fuel Marketers can now benefit from this leading professional system with an efficient
and cost-effective way to manage streams of trading and transport activity. Traders, risk
managers, schedulers, procurement and back-office personnel rely on this comprehensive,
affordable solution.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
How green standards are changing data center design and operationsSchneider Electric
An effort is underway to harmonize certain energy-efficiency standards. Could global standardization ultimately diminish the technical effectiveness of such standards? Which will emerge as the de facto standards? This session will explore these questions, as well in data center efficiency and sustainability guidelines.
This document discusses ways to improve the performance of Vision reports. It breaks recommendations into four main areas: 1) writing reports efficiently by minimizing unnecessary filters and formulas, 2) using performance tools like Vision Cache and Optimized Summary Links, 3) tools for data and SQL like transaction archiving and database indexing, and 4) timing and delivering reports through scheduled updates, archiving, and publishing to Vision Net Enterprise.
The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). The main concept of a central control room is the ability to gather and automatically transform information from different sources and mines into business decisions, centralizing and monitoring them from a single location. This central control room also acts as a complete repository of all business operations including mine planning, metrics, asset management, quality and process control, surveillance, sustainability data, emissions, energy efficiency projects, weather and more.
Infor SunSystems is a core financial management solution that is ideal for fast growing, small- to medium-sized businesses; organizations with international financial management needs; and subsidiaries of larger enterprises. The solution is particularly well-suited to companies with complex lines of business or multiple locations, where the ability to easily adapt processes and procedures to meet a variety of needs is essential.
http://www.llpgroup.com/en/index.php/productssolutions/fbm/inforfmssunsystems.html
The document describes several Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled smart building monitoring and control solutions that use sensors, analytics, and automation to reduce human intervention in building management tasks. Examples include OptiNergy from SmartGreen, Cobundu, Davra, IOT Factory, BuildingIQ, 75F, Control Envy, Blue Pillar, eSightenergy, and Domognostics from Phoebe Innovations - all of which provide cloud-based platforms and software to monitor conditions, optimize performance, and automate building systems using IoT technologies. The solutions analyze data, generate reports and alerts, and in some cases automatically adjust building operations based
The document discusses four different offshore projects completed by Mahindra & Mahindra for various clients. The first project involved developing a central customer database for Prudential plc. The second project designed a web-based information system for a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturer to provide daily access to critical business data. The third project created a data warehousing application for a utility consulting firm to process 50 million meter readings daily. The fourth project involved building a data mart environment for an oil equipment manufacturer to give users consolidated access to enterprise information for reporting and analysis.
The document discusses the candidate's background and experience in engineering, IT solutions implementation, and project management. It then summarizes three case studies where the candidate's company, Masterland, provided mobile solutions to digitize business processes for a telecom operator, an insurance company, and a distribution company. The solutions enabled field data collection, analysis and real-time tracking to drive business operations and services. The document also covers disruptive trends in enterprise software around cyber security, cloud computing and IoT, and proposes a framework for defining a corporate roadmap.
This slide introduces Cyient's FiOps services offering and outlines its values, the architecture approach to delivery, and the key thought leadership of Cyient will enable the capability.
The document provides an overview of NICE's contact center and IP telephony solutions. It describes NICE Perform, a standard software package that includes modules for interaction monitoring, reporting, rules management and more. It also outlines NICE's multi-layered architecture, including applications, engines and capture layers. Additionally, it covers the company's recording capabilities like liability, interaction-based, quality assurance and record-on-demand, as well as its use of rules engines and integrated components like loggers, storage centers and interaction centers.
The document is a presentation from VMware discussing end-user computing. It highlights VMware's end-user computing products like Horizon and AirWatch, customer case studies from companies like Sprint, TeleTech, United Airlines and Mecklenburg County, and VMware's strategy to address the market from the data center to devices. It also discusses VMware's total addressable market growing to over $60 billion by 2017 and its momentum in the end-user computing space.
This document discusses the five pillars of federal data center networking: 1) application effectiveness, 2) programmatic control and orchestration, 3) security and data integrity, 4) elasticity and scalability, and 5) automation and simplified management. It describes how Brocade technology delivers on these pillars through high-performance networking, software-defined networking, security, scalability, and automation capabilities.
The document discusses the five pillars of federal data center excellence: (1) application effectiveness, (2) programmatic control and orchestration, (3) security and data integrity, (4) elasticity and scalability, and (5) automation and simplified management. It describes how Brocade delivers on these pillars through technologies that increase application performance, provide programmatic control of resources, ensure security and data integrity, allow for flexible scaling of resources, and enable automated management of data centers. The document also categorizes different types of federal data centers and discusses how Brocade technologies address the specific needs of customer-facing, analytical, and tactical/transportable data centers.
IRJET- Cipher Text-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption and with Delegation ...IRJET Journal
This document presents a proposed system for ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption and verifiable delegation in cloud computing. It discusses the existing systems and their disadvantages, including that cloud servers could tamper with or replace encrypted data. The proposed system uses general circuits to define access policies and allows users to verify the correctness of decrypted data from cloud servers. It provides security based on computational assumptions and implements the system over integers. The system aims to ensure data confidentiality and verification of delegated access on untrusted cloud servers through its ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption and verifiable delegation design.
This document discusses consolidating USFK's SharePoint services onto a cloud platform to reduce costs and improve performance and security. It analyzes moving to either Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Phase 2 International or Software as a Service (SaaS) with Microsoft SharePoint Online. Phase 2 IaaS is recommended to lower total cost of ownership while maintaining current services. Key requirements like security, availability and scalability must be defined in a Service Level Agreement to ensure needs are met.
VigilantPlant is Yokogawa's automation concept for safe, reliable and profitable plant operations
Our concept is for a plant to be a place where people can be watchful and attentive, while the business responds quickly and efficiently to change. Non-stop production is assured as the plant’s personnel confidently expand their capabilities.
This proposal incorporated a vision for the network architecture of a new platform Milliman was creating. It was based on research into what was then new technologies like SQL Server Failover and Catalyst (now Cisco) 6500 series switching.
Swisscom AG implemented application performance monitoring using Brocade's Analytics Monitoring Platform to gain visibility into application performance across its large, complex storage network supporting many enterprise customers. This identified oversubscribed ports causing high latency, allowing Swisscom to redistribute traffic and reduce peak latency by over 90%. It reduced troubleshooting time from 30 days to under 10 minutes and improved reporting and assurance of SLA compliance for customers.
Turn network and customer data into actionable insight
Whether you are a wireless, wireline, or cable network operator, the customer is king. From retaining existing customers to acquiring new subscribers from your competitors, competitive advantage in the fast-moving communications market is all about customer satisfaction and network modernization.
Alteryx Strategic Analytics allows you to combine massive volumes of business and engineering data from your Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) with third-party demographic, firmagraphic, and industry-specific data in single, integrated environment. Powerful analytics transform disparate data into actionable insight with geographic significance, so you can make strategic decisions about network expansion, customer acquisition and retention, proactive maintenance, and other critical improvements.
Plus, results can be easily shared across your company to enable agile decisions that improve network performance, increase customer satisfaction, and drive new revenue opportunities.
Field Data Gathering Services — A Cloud-Based ApproachSchneider Electric
Utilities today wish to facilitate the capture of asset information in the field in a way that is not only scalable but cost effective. They need a system that is simple to use, inexpensive to implement, flexible enough to meet ever-changing needs, yet also powerful enough to cover a majority of their needs with immediacy. This paper describes Schneider Electric's powerful cloud-based solution to optimize the inspection and gathering of field information.
The document summarizes the Packaging Repository application, which centrally manages packaging for automotive components at RENAULT. It is currently developed in Java-J2EE but the goal is to migrate it to Salesforce's cloud platform. The summary discusses:
1) The application allows for creating and managing packaging codes, characteristics, and documents from 5 origins. It has different user roles for administration, validation, coordination, and viewing.
2) Packaging goes through statuses of draft, under study, and validated as part of its lifecycle managed by administrators and validators.
3) The application architecture follows Apex design patterns like separation of concerns (SOC) with domain, service, and controller layers to
Secure Storage Auditing with Efficient Key Update for Cognitive Industrial IO...IRJET Journal
This document proposes a secure auditing storage scheme with efficient key updates for a cognitive industrial internet of things (IIoT) environment. It discusses how cognitive computing and IIoT can advance manufacturing capabilities. The existing auditing schemes only consider data integrity and elements without key exposure resistance, so the proposed scheme uses techniques like homomorphic verifiable authenticators and proxy recryption to allow third-party auditors to efficiently update keys and authenticators in the cloud without recovering old keys or data. It aims to support data and sub-block auditing to address owners' concerns about data security in the cloud.
IT Ops Mgmt in the New Virtualized, Software-defined WorldEMC
During this recorded webcast, you will hear from EMC and Enterprise Management Associates Inc. discuss leading approaches to manage your virtualized, software-defined environment. Learn how the EMC Service Assurance Suite for Virtual Data Center and Software-Defined environments, can help you deliver new services quickly and reliably, identify and resolve problems before service impact, and improve operational efficiency.
This document provides an economic analysis of cloud computing. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and its benefits over traditional IT models. It then analyzes cloud computing qualitatively in terms of direct cost savings, productivity improvements, and potential for innovation. Barriers to adoption and common challenges are also discussed. The document performs a quantitative financial analysis using models like net present value to compare the total cost of ownership of enterprise data centers versus cloud computing. It reviews several existing cost models and concludes that the total cost of ownership model is best suited for analyzing IT investments in cloud computing.
Project Business Case and Capital Justification for Implementation of Applica...Duane Bodle
Business Case and Capital Justification Presentation For
Application Performance Monitoring and Retrospective Network Analysis Implementation. *** This Presentation Has Been Sanitized of IP Information ***
This document discusses cloud computing and its potential benefits for organizations. It defines cloud computing and describes deployment and service models. The key benefits of cloud computing include lower costs, faster deployment of applications, scalability, and improved organizational agility. However, security, lack of standards, and regulatory compliance are challenges. The adoption of cloud computing is increasing but still early, with most activity from early adopters.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.