Introduction to Presales Consulting and Proposal AuthoringSowmak Bardhan
I have made an effort to create a Book of Knowledge on Presales Consulting and Proposal Authoring and have provided a sample proposal documents for your understanding.
Hope this document will give some insights about this Presales Consulting Career and you would get some information or Knowledge which will help you to learn and crack interviews.
How Gartner Helps Across the Entire IT Cost Optimization Life CycleChris Grow
IT Cost Optimization includes the practices, capabilities and behaviors taken by IT organizations and enterprises to balance the constraints of reducing costs, managing service levels and showing the business value of IT in pursuit of enterprise financial imperatives.
Marketing Automation Center of Excellence (CoE): Governance Structure for Con...Guilda
What does it take to not only just talk digital transformation but execute on it successfully? I have successfully helped organizations with establishing a Marketing Automation Center of Excellence which plays a crucial role in launching global brands and customer experience.
Introduction to Presales Consulting and Proposal AuthoringSowmak Bardhan
I have made an effort to create a Book of Knowledge on Presales Consulting and Proposal Authoring and have provided a sample proposal documents for your understanding.
Hope this document will give some insights about this Presales Consulting Career and you would get some information or Knowledge which will help you to learn and crack interviews.
How Gartner Helps Across the Entire IT Cost Optimization Life CycleChris Grow
IT Cost Optimization includes the practices, capabilities and behaviors taken by IT organizations and enterprises to balance the constraints of reducing costs, managing service levels and showing the business value of IT in pursuit of enterprise financial imperatives.
Marketing Automation Center of Excellence (CoE): Governance Structure for Con...Guilda
What does it take to not only just talk digital transformation but execute on it successfully? I have successfully helped organizations with establishing a Marketing Automation Center of Excellence which plays a crucial role in launching global brands and customer experience.
Be ready for hyperautomation with the UiPath RPA PlatformUiPath
Gartner has named hyperautomation the top strategic technology trend for 2020, defining hyperautomation as a combination of technologies used to enable more complex automations and augment human workers. RPA has emerged as the center of gravity for hyperautomation because of its simplicity and fast time to value. At UiPath, we’re preparing you for hyperautomation by creating an end-to-end automation platform that enables you to discover new automation opportunities, build more advanced automations with drag-and-drop AI, and measure how automation has impacted your business metrics. This presentation shows how RPA fits into an overall hyperautomation strategy and how the UiPath RPA platform supports you at every stage of the automation lifecycle.
Creating an Agile Enterprise ArchitectureCognizant
With the proliferation of digital, the function of enterprise architecture is more critical than ever. Getting there requires a strong, agile enterprise architectural foundation that can embrace a fail-fast/fail-safe approach to the IT charter of stronger business alignment, while ensuring that services are delivered fast and friction-free to meet the needs of today’s dynamic business objectives.
The session will be a continuation from last year's session where Hewlett-Packard and Pfizer shared their reasoning, decision process, and value determination behind connecting their on-premise Ariba Buyer instance to Ariba Procurement Content in the cloud. At the time, neither Hewlett-Packard nor Pfizer had completed the implementation and roll-out (they were in the process).
In this session, they will share lessons learned on the entire process including decision process, planning, implementation, roll-out, training, and other aspects from their real-world experiences from their Ariba Procurement Content hybrid implementation.
Learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Thrive with accenture product and platform engineering servicesAccenture Technology
Accenture’s Product and Platform Engineering Services team helps clients navigate through the new wave of platforms. With more than three decades of experience, our deep engineering-skilled workforce of over 8,000 professionals has grown out of the development of our own commercially-available software and platforms. With expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions, we deliver transformational outcomes for a demanding, new digital world.
Quote Automation: Faster Supplier Identification and Bid Execution for Your P...SAP Ariba
Quote automation is a new RFQ automation tool for faster supplier identification and bid execution, with a seamless process that joins together the power of ERP and the Ariba Network. Learn how this valuable tool, which can be implemented quickly and easily, increases savings while providing complete visibility and control for hybrid tactical spend.
ServiceNow ecosystem - True Blue Partners - Review of key investment and mer...Sunil Grover
A comprehensive review of the investments and M&A in the ServiceNow ecosystem. Review of M&A transaction by ServiceNow and the potential impact of these on the App Developer and IT consulting ecosystem. Review of Key transactions it the ITSM market and ServiceNow app and IT services ecosystem.
Solution Architecture And (Robotic) Process Automation SolutionsAlan McSweeney
Automation is a technology trend IT architects should be aware of and know how to respond to business requests as well as recommend automation technologies and solutions where appropriate. Automation is a bigger topic than just RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
Automation solutions, like all other technology solutions, should be subject to an architecture and design process. There are many approaches to and options for the automation of business activities. Too often automation solutions are tactical applications layered over existing business systems
The objective of all IT solutions is to automate manual business processes and their activities to a certain extent. The requirement for RPA-type applications arises in part because of automation failures within existing applications or the need to automate the interactions with or integrations between separate, possibly legacy, applications.
One of the roles of IT architecture is to always seek to take the wider architectural view and to ensure that solutions are designed and delivered within a strategic framework to avoid, as much as is practical and realistic, short-term tactical solutions and approaches that lead to an accumulation of design, operations and support debt. Tactical solutions will always play a part in the organisation’s solution landscape.
The objective of these notes is to put automation into its wider and larger IT architecture context while accepting the need for tactical approaches in some instances.
These notes cover the following topics:
• Solution And Process Automation – The Wider Technology And Approach Landscape
• Business Processes, Business Solutions And Automation
• Organisation Process Model
• Strategic And Tactical Automation
• Deciding On The Scope Of Automation
• Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation And Automation
• Specifying The Automation Solution
• Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
• Sample Business Process – Order To Cash
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation)
An enterprise failing to recognize the importance of Pre-sales in their Sales Force Automation workflow faces tough situations in terms of downfall or loss in business. Appropriate pre-sales activities help in capitalizing on the opportunities and handling leads correctly.
It is then imperative that pre-sales be an all important part of Sales Force Automation solutions, to make sure that the sales pipeline gets the much required kick-start and ensure that the Sales Force Automation Software remains complete and extensive
Read More At: http://www.mobilesalesforceautomation.net/blog/pre-sales-backbone-sales-force-automation-solutions/
Solution Architecture and Solution AcquisitionAlan McSweeney
This describes a systematised and structured approach to solution acquisition or procurement that involves solution architecture from the start. This allows the true scope of both the required and subsequently acquired solution are therefore fully understood. By using such an approach, poor solution acquisition outcomes are avoided.
Solution architecture provides the structured approach to capturing all the cost contributors and knowing the true solution scope.
There is more packaged/product/service-based solution acquisition activity. There is an increasing trend of solutions hosted outside the organisation. Meanwhile solution acquisition outcomes are poor and getting worse.
Poor solution acquisition has long-term consequences and costs.
The to-be-acquired solution needs to operate in and co-exist with an existing solution topography and the solution acquisition process needs to be aware of and take account of this wider solution topography. Cloud-based or externally hosted and provided solutions do not eliminate the need for the solution to exist within the organisation solution topography.
Strategic misrepresentation in solution acquisition is the deliberate distortion or falsification of information relating to solution acquisition costs, complexity, required functionality, solution availability, resource availability, time to implement in order to get solution acquisition approval. Strategic misrepresentation is very real and its consequences can be very damaging.
Solution architecture has the skills and experience to define the real scope of the solution being acquired. An effective structured solution acquisition process, well-implemented and consistently applied, means dependable and repeatable solution acquisition and successful outcomes.
Your Challenge
Infrastructure, by focusing on the reliability, availability, and serviceability of existing platforms, is perceived as a cost center rather than a business enabler.
Business stakeholders look to external vendors, rather than Infrastructure, to exploit emerging technologies. This leads to duplication of effort, inconsistent standards, and ineffective IT governance.
Infrastructure directors are unable to draw a line showing how their activities directly support the overall business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Think of the roadmap as a service, not a product. Its value is inversely proportional to the time since its last update.
Alignment perception issues can be addressed by having the infrastructure practice formally engage and communicate with business stakeholders.
Shadow IT can provide business-ready initiatives that need only to be tweaked to align with Infrastructure’s internal goals.
Impact and Result
This blueprint will help you build:
A formal channel and way of communicating value bottom-up and top-down between IT and the executive team.
A methodology to prioritize and create projects that generate business value.
A tool that can produce multiple outputs of value for different audiences using the same data.
An ongoing roadmap process, rather than a static document, that is able to adjust and react to evolving business circumstances.
Be ready for hyperautomation with the UiPath RPA PlatformUiPath
Gartner has named hyperautomation the top strategic technology trend for 2020, defining hyperautomation as a combination of technologies used to enable more complex automations and augment human workers. RPA has emerged as the center of gravity for hyperautomation because of its simplicity and fast time to value. At UiPath, we’re preparing you for hyperautomation by creating an end-to-end automation platform that enables you to discover new automation opportunities, build more advanced automations with drag-and-drop AI, and measure how automation has impacted your business metrics. This presentation shows how RPA fits into an overall hyperautomation strategy and how the UiPath RPA platform supports you at every stage of the automation lifecycle.
Creating an Agile Enterprise ArchitectureCognizant
With the proliferation of digital, the function of enterprise architecture is more critical than ever. Getting there requires a strong, agile enterprise architectural foundation that can embrace a fail-fast/fail-safe approach to the IT charter of stronger business alignment, while ensuring that services are delivered fast and friction-free to meet the needs of today’s dynamic business objectives.
The session will be a continuation from last year's session where Hewlett-Packard and Pfizer shared their reasoning, decision process, and value determination behind connecting their on-premise Ariba Buyer instance to Ariba Procurement Content in the cloud. At the time, neither Hewlett-Packard nor Pfizer had completed the implementation and roll-out (they were in the process).
In this session, they will share lessons learned on the entire process including decision process, planning, implementation, roll-out, training, and other aspects from their real-world experiences from their Ariba Procurement Content hybrid implementation.
Learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Thrive with accenture product and platform engineering servicesAccenture Technology
Accenture’s Product and Platform Engineering Services team helps clients navigate through the new wave of platforms. With more than three decades of experience, our deep engineering-skilled workforce of over 8,000 professionals has grown out of the development of our own commercially-available software and platforms. With expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions, we deliver transformational outcomes for a demanding, new digital world.
Quote Automation: Faster Supplier Identification and Bid Execution for Your P...SAP Ariba
Quote automation is a new RFQ automation tool for faster supplier identification and bid execution, with a seamless process that joins together the power of ERP and the Ariba Network. Learn how this valuable tool, which can be implemented quickly and easily, increases savings while providing complete visibility and control for hybrid tactical spend.
ServiceNow ecosystem - True Blue Partners - Review of key investment and mer...Sunil Grover
A comprehensive review of the investments and M&A in the ServiceNow ecosystem. Review of M&A transaction by ServiceNow and the potential impact of these on the App Developer and IT consulting ecosystem. Review of Key transactions it the ITSM market and ServiceNow app and IT services ecosystem.
Solution Architecture And (Robotic) Process Automation SolutionsAlan McSweeney
Automation is a technology trend IT architects should be aware of and know how to respond to business requests as well as recommend automation technologies and solutions where appropriate. Automation is a bigger topic than just RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
Automation solutions, like all other technology solutions, should be subject to an architecture and design process. There are many approaches to and options for the automation of business activities. Too often automation solutions are tactical applications layered over existing business systems
The objective of all IT solutions is to automate manual business processes and their activities to a certain extent. The requirement for RPA-type applications arises in part because of automation failures within existing applications or the need to automate the interactions with or integrations between separate, possibly legacy, applications.
One of the roles of IT architecture is to always seek to take the wider architectural view and to ensure that solutions are designed and delivered within a strategic framework to avoid, as much as is practical and realistic, short-term tactical solutions and approaches that lead to an accumulation of design, operations and support debt. Tactical solutions will always play a part in the organisation’s solution landscape.
The objective of these notes is to put automation into its wider and larger IT architecture context while accepting the need for tactical approaches in some instances.
These notes cover the following topics:
• Solution And Process Automation – The Wider Technology And Approach Landscape
• Business Processes, Business Solutions And Automation
• Organisation Process Model
• Strategic And Tactical Automation
• Deciding On The Scope Of Automation
• Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation And Automation
• Specifying The Automation Solution
• Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
• Sample Business Process – Order To Cash
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation)
An enterprise failing to recognize the importance of Pre-sales in their Sales Force Automation workflow faces tough situations in terms of downfall or loss in business. Appropriate pre-sales activities help in capitalizing on the opportunities and handling leads correctly.
It is then imperative that pre-sales be an all important part of Sales Force Automation solutions, to make sure that the sales pipeline gets the much required kick-start and ensure that the Sales Force Automation Software remains complete and extensive
Read More At: http://www.mobilesalesforceautomation.net/blog/pre-sales-backbone-sales-force-automation-solutions/
Solution Architecture and Solution AcquisitionAlan McSweeney
This describes a systematised and structured approach to solution acquisition or procurement that involves solution architecture from the start. This allows the true scope of both the required and subsequently acquired solution are therefore fully understood. By using such an approach, poor solution acquisition outcomes are avoided.
Solution architecture provides the structured approach to capturing all the cost contributors and knowing the true solution scope.
There is more packaged/product/service-based solution acquisition activity. There is an increasing trend of solutions hosted outside the organisation. Meanwhile solution acquisition outcomes are poor and getting worse.
Poor solution acquisition has long-term consequences and costs.
The to-be-acquired solution needs to operate in and co-exist with an existing solution topography and the solution acquisition process needs to be aware of and take account of this wider solution topography. Cloud-based or externally hosted and provided solutions do not eliminate the need for the solution to exist within the organisation solution topography.
Strategic misrepresentation in solution acquisition is the deliberate distortion or falsification of information relating to solution acquisition costs, complexity, required functionality, solution availability, resource availability, time to implement in order to get solution acquisition approval. Strategic misrepresentation is very real and its consequences can be very damaging.
Solution architecture has the skills and experience to define the real scope of the solution being acquired. An effective structured solution acquisition process, well-implemented and consistently applied, means dependable and repeatable solution acquisition and successful outcomes.
Your Challenge
Infrastructure, by focusing on the reliability, availability, and serviceability of existing platforms, is perceived as a cost center rather than a business enabler.
Business stakeholders look to external vendors, rather than Infrastructure, to exploit emerging technologies. This leads to duplication of effort, inconsistent standards, and ineffective IT governance.
Infrastructure directors are unable to draw a line showing how their activities directly support the overall business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Think of the roadmap as a service, not a product. Its value is inversely proportional to the time since its last update.
Alignment perception issues can be addressed by having the infrastructure practice formally engage and communicate with business stakeholders.
Shadow IT can provide business-ready initiatives that need only to be tweaked to align with Infrastructure’s internal goals.
Impact and Result
This blueprint will help you build:
A formal channel and way of communicating value bottom-up and top-down between IT and the executive team.
A methodology to prioritize and create projects that generate business value.
A tool that can produce multiple outputs of value for different audiences using the same data.
An ongoing roadmap process, rather than a static document, that is able to adjust and react to evolving business circumstances.
this presentation is going to explain the difference between Conventions sales strategy and Digital sales strategy. This is technology era and the old school of selling is not more effective so know more about the difference between Conventional sales and Digital sales strategy.
As Global thought leader on Digitalization of Governments, I was asked to address the Minister of ICT and Senior Government leaders at a conference in Port Louis. My keynote presentation addressed how ICT innovations - especially in LDC's and MDC's can greatly improve eGovernment implementation success - especially if three key prerequicites are remembered: Good Master Data, Good Identification of Citizen and Good Communication Infrastructure. Also outlined a number of recommendations that Governments can follow to be successful with eGovernment Implementations.
Creating Individualised Customer Experiences in the Digital AgeBrad Arsenault
Customers are clearly in charge and businesses that understand what their customers need and want are winning. Some of the winners are new entrants, the disrupters, and others are more traditional organisations that have been fast to understand the changing customer-led landscape. Presented by Oracle & Fifth Quadrant with CX experts Steve Nuttall and Kristi Mansfield.
Desktop Transformation Success - The 5 Secrets to Delivering User Satisfactio...eG Innovations
RES and eG Innovations combine best-of-breed virtual desktop management solutions to deliver maximum user productivity and satisfaction while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing hybrid desktop environments:
- Deliver secure, personalized and compliant desktops
- Reduce the cost & complexity of user management
- Proactively manage dynamic desktop performance
- Right-size the dynamic desktop environment for maximum ROI
- Deliver on the ROI and user experience promise of desktop transformation initiatives
Closing the Gap on ROI Measurement - Spur Interactive, Steve InteractiveOnline Marketing Summit
Closing the Gap on ROI Measurement
Measuring engagement and attributing credit are now "must-have" capabilities. This session will provide actionable insights and methodologies into defining what to measure, how to measure, how to calculate value from online engagement and how to build a compelling ROI business case.
* Steve Latham, President, Spur Interactive (@stevelatham)
Oracle EPM Day Boston - Improving Performance with Enhanced Insight into Pro...Alithya
Oracle EPM Innovation Day - Boston
Mike Killeen of Edgewater Ranzal presented on Improving Performance with Enhanced Insight into Profitability and Costs using Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM)
Take the Guesswork Out of Measuring ROI for Sales TrainingCorporate Visions
The why, what, and how of measuring the sales effectiveness and business impact of Power Messaging, Scott Watson of Beyond ROI.
Watch video of this presentation: http://conference.corporatevisions.com/new-measurement-tool/
Future-Proof Your Business Processes by Automating SAP S/4HANA processes with...SAP Technology
Automating repetitive manual business processes enables your employees to focus on key business priorities, reduce manual errors, and improve customer satisfaction. Learn how SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation helps you automate SAP S/4HANA business processes with pre-built bots and comprehensive development toolset.
7 Top Reasons to Automate Processes with SAP Intelligent Robotic Processes Au...SAP Technology
SAP Intelligent Robotic Processes Automation (RPA) is designed to automate SAP S/4HANA processes and comes with prebuilt bots to accelerate automation. Enable employees to focus on higher priority tasks, reduce manual errors, and increase customer satisfaction by automating repetitive manual SAP S/4HANA process steps using SAP Intelligent RPA.
Extend SAP S/4HANA to deliver real-time intelligent processesSAP Technology
Accelerate your journey towards an intelligent enterprise. Extend SAP S/4HANA with SAP’s business technology platform to make data from all sources available to business applications and analytics, deliver real-time insights to act quickly, augment intelligence, and enable breakthrough innovations.
Process optimization and automation for SAP S/4HANA with SAP’s Business Techn...SAP Technology
As you move to SAP S/4HANA, take this opportunity to optimize and automate your business processes to become an intelligent enterprise. With SAP’s business technology platform, you can understand your processes, integrate SAP and non-SAP apps with S/4HANA and help your knowledge works focus on higher-value tasks by automating repetitive manual tasks.
Accelerate your journey to SAP S/4HANA with SAP’s Business Technology PlatformSAP Technology
Best run companies are already benefiting from SAP S/4HANA. Move to SAP S/4HANA quickly with confidence. SAP EIM and SAP Cloud Platform capabilities help you migrate data, curate, and govern master data, archive unused data, move custom code. With performance, functional, and security test tools, customers can move to SAP S/4HANA with confidence.
Accelerate Your Move to an Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Cloud Platform and...SAP Technology
Manage rapidly evolving business processes with greater ease. Minimize complex, time-consuming updates. Reduce high maintenance costs. Discover how enterprise IT teams are conquering the challenges of migrating from legacy ERP systems and innovating faster with SAP Cloud Platform and SAP S/4HANA.
Transform your business with intelligent insights and SAP S/4HANASAP Technology
Extend SAP S/4HANA with SAP’s Business Technology Platform to enable digital transformation through data-driven intelligence and process innovation. Learn how SAP’s Business Technology Platform delivers unprecedented opportunities for business process innovation.
SAP Cloud Platform for SAP S/4HANA: Accelerate your move to an Intelligent En...SAP Technology
Keep SAP S/4HANA clean to deliver a stable digital core and accelerate innovations. Leverage SAP Cloud Platform for SAP S/4HANA integration with SAP and non-SAP applications, side-by-side extensions, and innovations so that you can accelerate your move to SAP S/4HANA, deliver a stable S/4HANA system, and offer an agile development.
Innovate collaborative applications with SAP Jam Collaboration & SAP Cloud Pl...SAP Technology
Learn how SAP Jam Collaboration together with SAP Cloud Platform helps you to transform your existing applications by enabling collaboration inside applications and allows you to innovate next-generation collaborative applications. SAP Jam Collaboration also simplifies application development by providing a single platform to brainstorm, collaborate, share documents and track progress and streamline application roll-out and support by providing a place to share training material and self-service support forums. With SAP Jam Collaboration, you can also build a modern intranet with collaboration capabilities which is easy to update and accessible from mobile and outside corporate network. You can simplify IT landscape by consolidating software solutions such as document storage systems, blogging platform, wikis, collaboration platform and real-time messaging tools using SAP Jam Collaboration.
This presentation talks about how SAP S/4HANA can empower finance to strategically guide your business evolution via instant insights, intuitive user experience, and a flexible non-disruptive platform.
Five Reasons To Skip SAP Suite on HANA and Go Directly to SAP S/4HANASAP Technology
Don’t burn extra resources. Read on to discover five reasons to fly direct to SAP S/4HANA instead of adding a layover at SAP Suite on Hana (SoH) on the way.
SAP Helps Reduce Silos Between Business and Spatial DataSAP Technology
Discover how spatial solutions from SAP can help your business leverage geographic and spatial data to deliver location intelligence, increase insight, and improve efficiency. Solutions include SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects Analytics, SAP Geographical Enablement Framework, SAP GEO.e, Galigeo.
This presentation is a supplement to the "Why SAP HANA?" video on Youtube. Download and follow along to the video. An added bonus to this presentation is an Appendix and Presentation Notes slides.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCEr9Y8ZrVQ
Spotlight on Financial Services with Calypso and SAP ASESAP Technology
Capital markets solutions from Calypso and SAP ASE can help your organization reduce the total number of systems in use, simplify business architecture, streamline processes, and improve efficiency – all while reducing total cost of ownership.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.