Pampered Chef snacks company was facing challenge maintaining their ERP application due to double digital annual growth rate. Rolta was selected to sort the problem. After conducting a deep analysis, Rolta TUSC implemented Oracle EBS upgrading 26 key modules. After deployment Pampered Chef reported numerous problems were eliminated.
A healthcare payment system wanted to increase their processing speed. For this Rolta used Real Application testing (RAT) to capture the work amount on the existing database and play it back on the Exadata environment to predict performance gains, stability & scalability.
ERP Outsourcing, Dynamics AX, and Managed Services by OneNeck IT Servicesoneneckitservices
Learn more about ERP Outsourcing, Dynamics AX, and Managed Services. A CIO’s Perspective on Application Management, Infrastructure, Maintenance and Support.
Visit http://www.oneneck.com/ today.
A healthcare payment system wanted to increase their processing speed. For this Rolta used Real Application testing (RAT) to capture the work amount on the existing database and play it back on the Exadata environment to predict performance gains, stability & scalability.
ERP Outsourcing, Dynamics AX, and Managed Services by OneNeck IT Servicesoneneckitservices
Learn more about ERP Outsourcing, Dynamics AX, and Managed Services. A CIO’s Perspective on Application Management, Infrastructure, Maintenance and Support.
Visit http://www.oneneck.com/ today.
Tips and Techniques for Improving the Performance of Validation Procedures in...Perficient, Inc.
Ensuring the validity of patient data in your clinical data management and EDC system is essential. However, without a way to programmatically identify discrepancies and inconsistencies, such a task can inadvertently leave bad data in your system. Through validation procedures, an endless assortment of expressions and formulas, Oracle Clinical offers the powerful ability to clean and compare patient data.
In this slideshare, Perficient's Dr. Steve Rifkin, a leading expert in Oracle Clinical, demonstrates the structure of validation procedures, as well as provides various tips and techniques for developing procedures that improve the performance of edit checks.
TaskCentre for SAP Business One is the Business Process Management Suite for SAP Business One. It offers the ability to extend and automate the processes within SAP Business One in order to provide workflow, data services & integration, subscription and request mechanisms, advanced business alerts, document automation, and web content publishing.
SARP Enterprise Suite 6.2- Corporate ProfileAsmat Hayat
SARP Enterprise Suite 6.2 is an latest upgrade to our System Analysis & Resource Planning (SARP) Enterprise Suite, designed to match the needs of corporate Management Information System. Its a complete accounting solution developed under the shadow of SQL Server and Oracle (designed to meet the increasing business needs).You can select SQL DBMS or Oracle 116 DBMS as per your business needs. We are pleased to tell that cost will remain same either you choose SQL or Oracle SARP enterprise suite. For more information, please visit our website www.cosmosoftsolution.com or email us at info@cosmosoftsolution.com, cosmosoftintl@gmail.com, asmat@cosmosoftsolution.com
Learn from Method360’s Enterprise Information Management practice lead, James Hanck, and EP Energy customer, Chris Josefy as they share lessons learned and best practices in their efforts to improve data quality, performance, and adherence to EP Energy’s capital budget utilization.
Enterprises across the world rely on SAP software for ERP and data management functions, making SAP backup a mission-critical task. However, increasing factors such as compliance requirements, heterogeneity of environments, increased virtualization platforms, business-critical applications, and different deployment scenarios for cloud-to-cloud applications are putting immense pressure on SAP service/solution providers. Along with this, threat situations like the rising of viruses and ransomware attacks are causing further explosiveness in addition to human error, natural disasters, etc. This demand for a comprehensive, modular, broadly based, and reliable backup/recovery solution.
Established in 1992, SEP is the backup and recovery software vendor for virtual and physical environments, for on-premise and cloud, who reliably takes care of thousands of customers from small to large enterprises. Since its establishment, the company’s sole mission is to protect what you have achieved to free your mind and focus on your future. To fulfill this mission, it offers SAP solutions accompanied by the complete IT environment to have a reliable, comprehensive and powerful enterprise data protection. These solutions cover various categories such as heterogeneous environments, central management, easy to handle and fast to implement, and flexible and customized for what the customers are hunting for.
In a global marketplace where speed, change, and the demand for innovation are accelerating challenges, the expectations of ERP have changed. ERP is no longer simply about cutting costs, but rather about enabling businesses to grow and take advantage of new opportunities (and avoid unexpected risks) as they emerge. Competition may come from anywhere, often from unfamiliar players; disruptive technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing, social networks) may also change the game radically in a short time. Companies now need ERP systems that can adapt to unique and dynamic business environments and that can drive growth as well as control costs.
How to Make Wise Post-Production Changes to Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Captu...Perficient, Inc.
It is not uncommon to make changes to a study after subjects have enrolled. If you use Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) to manage your clinical data, then you know that making those changes can be quite easy. However, even the simplest change could result in unforeseen consequences with the potential to undermine your study. That’s why it’s critical to perform a thorough risk analysis before making any changes.
In this webinar, Perficient’s Tammy Dutkin, director of clinical data management and EDC, discussed the process of evaluating and executing post-production changes in OC/RDC.
Learn about getting started with SAP Net Weaver Business Warehouse on IBM PowerLinux Solution Edition for SAP applications that provides you with an overview of the business solutions and the advantages and the benefits a business can gain when using such a solution. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Oracle Process Manufacturing for Specialty Chemicals - Value PropositionDavid White
Aligns measured business value delivered by the solution with key business issues in target vertical market. A team effort by Oracle solutions marketing.
Tips and Techniques for Improving the Performance of Validation Procedures in...Perficient, Inc.
Ensuring the validity of patient data in your clinical data management and EDC system is essential. However, without a way to programmatically identify discrepancies and inconsistencies, such a task can inadvertently leave bad data in your system. Through validation procedures, an endless assortment of expressions and formulas, Oracle Clinical offers the powerful ability to clean and compare patient data.
In this slideshare, Perficient's Dr. Steve Rifkin, a leading expert in Oracle Clinical, demonstrates the structure of validation procedures, as well as provides various tips and techniques for developing procedures that improve the performance of edit checks.
TaskCentre for SAP Business One is the Business Process Management Suite for SAP Business One. It offers the ability to extend and automate the processes within SAP Business One in order to provide workflow, data services & integration, subscription and request mechanisms, advanced business alerts, document automation, and web content publishing.
SARP Enterprise Suite 6.2- Corporate ProfileAsmat Hayat
SARP Enterprise Suite 6.2 is an latest upgrade to our System Analysis & Resource Planning (SARP) Enterprise Suite, designed to match the needs of corporate Management Information System. Its a complete accounting solution developed under the shadow of SQL Server and Oracle (designed to meet the increasing business needs).You can select SQL DBMS or Oracle 116 DBMS as per your business needs. We are pleased to tell that cost will remain same either you choose SQL or Oracle SARP enterprise suite. For more information, please visit our website www.cosmosoftsolution.com or email us at info@cosmosoftsolution.com, cosmosoftintl@gmail.com, asmat@cosmosoftsolution.com
Learn from Method360’s Enterprise Information Management practice lead, James Hanck, and EP Energy customer, Chris Josefy as they share lessons learned and best practices in their efforts to improve data quality, performance, and adherence to EP Energy’s capital budget utilization.
Enterprises across the world rely on SAP software for ERP and data management functions, making SAP backup a mission-critical task. However, increasing factors such as compliance requirements, heterogeneity of environments, increased virtualization platforms, business-critical applications, and different deployment scenarios for cloud-to-cloud applications are putting immense pressure on SAP service/solution providers. Along with this, threat situations like the rising of viruses and ransomware attacks are causing further explosiveness in addition to human error, natural disasters, etc. This demand for a comprehensive, modular, broadly based, and reliable backup/recovery solution.
Established in 1992, SEP is the backup and recovery software vendor for virtual and physical environments, for on-premise and cloud, who reliably takes care of thousands of customers from small to large enterprises. Since its establishment, the company’s sole mission is to protect what you have achieved to free your mind and focus on your future. To fulfill this mission, it offers SAP solutions accompanied by the complete IT environment to have a reliable, comprehensive and powerful enterprise data protection. These solutions cover various categories such as heterogeneous environments, central management, easy to handle and fast to implement, and flexible and customized for what the customers are hunting for.
In a global marketplace where speed, change, and the demand for innovation are accelerating challenges, the expectations of ERP have changed. ERP is no longer simply about cutting costs, but rather about enabling businesses to grow and take advantage of new opportunities (and avoid unexpected risks) as they emerge. Competition may come from anywhere, often from unfamiliar players; disruptive technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing, social networks) may also change the game radically in a short time. Companies now need ERP systems that can adapt to unique and dynamic business environments and that can drive growth as well as control costs.
How to Make Wise Post-Production Changes to Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Captu...Perficient, Inc.
It is not uncommon to make changes to a study after subjects have enrolled. If you use Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) to manage your clinical data, then you know that making those changes can be quite easy. However, even the simplest change could result in unforeseen consequences with the potential to undermine your study. That’s why it’s critical to perform a thorough risk analysis before making any changes.
In this webinar, Perficient’s Tammy Dutkin, director of clinical data management and EDC, discussed the process of evaluating and executing post-production changes in OC/RDC.
Learn about getting started with SAP Net Weaver Business Warehouse on IBM PowerLinux Solution Edition for SAP applications that provides you with an overview of the business solutions and the advantages and the benefits a business can gain when using such a solution. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Oracle Process Manufacturing for Specialty Chemicals - Value PropositionDavid White
Aligns measured business value delivered by the solution with key business issues in target vertical market. A team effort by Oracle solutions marketing.
Cloud transformation is about new possibilities but it also poses big challenges, especially around security and systems management. The proliferation of new cloud apps and connected devices has led to the disappearance of network perimeters as workers use increasingly personal devices to connect to enterprise systems from any location. As a result,
organizations have less visibility into which resources their applications are using and who is doing what, where, and when.
FinancialForce HCM Case Study: Jacobus Consulting - midsize businessPolina Polishchuk
With FinancialForce ERP, the Jacobus team is able to break down the silos that existed between operations, HR, finance and sales team - information flows seamlessly on the Salesforce platform.
Understanding the then and now of Enterprise Management Systems.pdfAnil
Enterprise Management Systems (EMS), also known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, have evolved significantly over the years. Understanding the "then" and "now" of EMS can provide insights into the transformation of business processes and technology.
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR) in PAKISTANLibcorpio
MIS, BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING, BPR, PAKISTAN, OBJECTIVES & PRINCIPLES OF BPR, IMPLEMENTATION OF BPR IN ORGANIZATION, BPR€“ PAKISTANI ENVIRONMENT, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND LEARNING,
At SmartERP, we realize that every organization is different with a unique set of requirements. You depend on your PeopleSoft applications to manage many facets of your business. When contemplating how to improve your PeopleSoft system to meet your continually changing business requirements, there are three potential options: Cloud, Edge, or Replace. These are all great options that will not only make your working life easier; it will save you time and money. Learn more about updating your PeopleSoft in this webinar on-demand (slides) - see smarterp.com webinars on-demand for the recording of the webinar.
Creating a Successful DataOps Framework for Your Business.pdfEnov8
As data is universally important and has a major role in decision-making and other business operations, a strong data-driven culture has become extremely important for business organizations.
This calls for a successful and efficient DataOps framework. Let us explore more about this emerging methodology.
Rolta Photogrammetry suite is an end to end photogrammetry solution providing a versatile collection of software tools to produce reliable geospatial data sets with the highest accuracy. The modular configuration of this program makes it an easy to use, accurate and cost-effective in a production oriented environment. It addresses the entire range of photogrammetric techniques along with added imaging applications to produce quality geospatial products. The products are technically supported by experienced domain experts.
Rolta Geomatica Suite is a single integrated software system, which brings highest degree of automation for Remote Sensing and Image Processing and turns imagery into answers and offers robust solutions for all types of desktop Geomatics. It helps in various GIS based workflow applications and advanced image analysis such as change detection. The software brings patented algorithms for image classification, cartographic map production, hyper-spectral analysis, advanced Data visualization and editing and raster spatial analysis.
Rolta has come up with an upgraded to version 7.5 of its OnPoint Solution. This report highlights some compelling reasons to upgrade to this feature rich version
Rolta’s Advance GIS is a great tool for collecting GIS data and then processing this data to build precise maps. This document highlights some core features and benefits of this tool.
Rolta has come up with an upgrade in its OnPoint product version 8.5. The new version comes with a whole lot of new capabilities. This report highlights some compelling reasons to upgrade to this new product.
Rolta Terrain Analyst for software terrain manipulation.Rolta
Rolta Terrain Analyst is a useful and simplistic Terrain analysis tool that can be useful in editing, creating and manipulating elevation data. This product sheet highlights the key features and benefits of this solution.
Rolta Tactical Decision Support System for advanced GIS solutionsRolta
Roltas Tactical Decision Support System (RTDSS) has bougt advancements to GIS solutions. Roltas Tactical Decision Support System by Rolta Geomatica provides features for 2D and 3D Military GIS. This product sheet highlights some key features of the system.
Rolta Software for Walkthrough for terrain visual analysisRolta
Rolta’s Software for Walkthrough (PSW) is a terrain tool that enables creating and Editing in a 3D Environment based in real terrain.The software has a unique and well defined workflow along with 3d rendering and simulations. This product sheet highlights the key features and benefits of Rolta’s software.
This document highlights the main features and options of Rolta’s Situational Awareness System which provides complete monitoring of an area under surveillance.
Rolta Photogrammetry suite has the ability to use a number of Geospatial Imaging Application and Rolta's key focus in photogrammetry is accuracy. The suite is cost-effective, reliable and accurate which is supported by experienced domain experts. This product sheet highlights some key features and benefits of the Rolta Photogrammetry Suite.
Rolta GeoImaging Accelerator is a hardware optimized image processing system in the photogrammetric pre-processing and value add segments. Satellites, by switching to GXL architecture can bolster their speed and performance.
Rolta engineers multiple military appliances one of them is night vision scopes. The product sheet lists multiple features and technical specifications of the same.
Rolta Terrain Analytics for accurate terrain analysisRolta
Rolta Terrain Analyst is a useful and simplistic Terrain analysis tool that can be useful in editing, creating and manipulating elevation data. In this product sheet multiple key features and benefits are listed.
Rolta’s Mine Field Recording System flushes out the risks involved to men for the laying and maintenance of mines by using its technologies to track and maintain them. The product sheet points out the ky features and product benefits of the technology.
This document describes the main features and benefits of Rolta IRS Sensors which provide a range of satellite support systems. The main purpose of this sensor is for tackle the disturbance which damages the resolution while transmission.
eGovernanve acts as a critical ingrediant in accomplishing the critical mission. Enterprise GIS Solution by Rolta simplifies eGovernance by providing hassle free and timely services to citizens by being a transparent source of information and communication technology. This product sheet highlights some features and advantages of Rolta Geospatial Fusion Solution.
Enterprise performance management by Rolta for better and faster decisionsRolta
Rolta Enterprise Performance Management System provides organizations with the push they need to excel in this highly competitive market by getting along with better cost allocation strategies. This product sheet highlights some key capabilities of the Enterprise Performance Management System.
Data warehousing by Rolta Exdata for Extreme Performance Extreme ServiceRolta
Oracle Exdata is the best platform for private cloud as is it secure, scalable, and cost effective. It provides extreme performance for both data warehouse and OLTP application with a capacity of storing 10 times more data.
Enterprise performance management by Rolta for better and faster decisions Rolta
Rolta Enterprise Performance Management System provides organizations with the push they need to excel in this highly competitive market by getting along with better cost allocation strategies. This product sheet highlights some key capabilities of the Enterprise Performance Management System.
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:
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
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
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
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
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
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.
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.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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The Pampered Chef case study
The Challenge
With more than 50,000 independent sales consultants
throughout North America and Europe, The Pampered
Chef is the premier direct seller of hundreds of essential
kitchen tools, cookware, cookbooks and foodstuffs.
With 50,000 consultants accessing order entry and
customer service sites remotely, usability, availability,
and reliability of The Pampered Chef systems are critical.
For many years, the company’s business was primarily
supported by a custom-built, enterprise application
(“P800”), which provided core business processing
to support order entry, customer service, product and
inventory management and CRM. Due to the extent
of customization, the application was difficult to use,
expensive to maintain, and had limited scalability to
support the Pampered Chef’s double-digit annual
growth rate. The Pampered Chef undertook an in-depth
software evaluation to select a replacement for its legacy
application, focusing primarily on order processing,
customer service and distribution.
“Our goals were to reduce maintenance, ensure
scalability and ultimately improve the overall experience
for our consultants and customers. The ability to quickly
and accurately access information was key,” said Rich
Schubkegel, senior vice president of information and
support services for The Pampered Chef.
“TheOracleE-BusinessSuitewasthemostrobustsolution
we found,” said Rick Mahoney, director of information
services for The Pampered Chef. “Not only did it have a
rich feature set, but the level of integration and potential
for adding on other modules were unparalleled. Ironically,
the integration potential turned out to be even more
comprehensive than we realized at the time.”
With Oracle selected as its future software platform, The
Pampered Chef began searching for an implementation
and integration partner, issuing a competitive RFP to
four vendors.
“Rolta TUSC’s in-depth expertise and knowledge of the
Oracle suite coupled with its strong customer references
made it the compelling choice,” said Schubkegel. “Each
member of the Rolta TUSC team impressed us with
their knowledge and desire to dig into the details and
understand our true business needs.”
The Approach
Although The Pampered Chef’s initial implementation
approach revolved strictly around the P800 replacement,
TUSC’s in-depth requirements analysis uncovered
additional business needs that could be met by the suite.
“As we started understanding more about the company’s
multiple, disparate systems, we knew Oracle could
improve data flow and data integrity tremendously,”
said Dave Trch, project manager for Rolta TUSC.
“For instance, the existing financial and warehouse
management applications were stand-alone systems with
minimal integration. Manual intervention was required
to keep the applications in sync and created multiple
instances of the same data. By phasing out the old
systems and implementing additional Oracle modules,
the company could improve productivity and experience
true continuity of data.”
Rolta TUSC ultimately recommended an application
footprint featuring 26 Oracle modules including:
• Oracle Financials and iExpense
• Oracle Warehouse Management
• Oracle Supply Chain, including Inventory,
Forecasting, Purchasing and Costing
• Core CRM modules and Email Center
“By thoroughly evaluating the company’s business needs
and eliminating additional stand-alone systems, we were
able to help The Pampered Chef leverage modules
they had already purchased and expand integration
throughout the organization,” said Trch. “The revised
plan reinforced the concept of a single source of data
to significantly improve data integrity and workflow and
lower total cost of ownership.”
In addition, Rolta TUSC recommended expanding the
underlying Oracle infrastructure/architecture with Oracle
Database 10g, RAC and Data Guard to address the
company’s needs for high availability, disaster recovery, and
business intelligence/data warehouse/reporting. “TUSC
helped us look beyond what we needed to get out of each
specific application and also consider what we needed from
an infrastructure perspective to support our true business
needs,” said Mahoney. TUSC completed the project in a
phased approach over the course of 18 months.
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The Pampered Chef case study
The Results
The Pampered Chef has realized tangible benefits,
including:
• Streamlined processes—With key systems
integrated, data flows seamlessly from one system to
another. The elimination of manual intervention has
freed employees to focus on other business tasks.
For example, prior to implementation of Oracle
eMail Center, employees had to sort and route
e-mails manually for six different accounts. Following
implementation of Oracle, routing is handled
automatically based on pre-specified logic, and all
inquiries come in through a single account. Templated
responses to common questions and issues are also
reducing the workload. Similarly, TUSC helped create
an interface between The Pampered Chef’s banks and
Oracle Financials for seamless workflow. As a result of
the interface, vendor inquiry calls have been reduced
from hours to minutes, and bank reconciliations are
automatic, reducing the risk of human error.
• More accurate and timely visibility into
company health—The Pampered Chef has instant
access to a 360-degree view of the business – from
the front-end contact center to the supply chain –
speeding the decision-making process and allowing
management to impact results. Integrated processes
and information reporting mean data no longer has
to be pulled from multiple systems and analyzed
manually. With Oracle eMail Center in place,
management can measure contact center activities
and related performance statistics for the first time.
• Improved data integrity—With data duplication
eliminated through implementation of the integrated
Oracle platform, there is now one single source of
data. Management can be confident that the data
they access is accurate.
• A better experience for TPC employees,
consultants, vendors and end customers—
With quicker access to accurate information, the
Pampered Chef response times and hand-offs for
problem resolution have been reduced substantially.
Vendors have already benefited from Oracle and
the bank interface when calling to inquire regarding
payment. An A/P clerk can now not only verify that
a vendor check was issued, the date issued and
the check number, but the clerk can also see if that
check cleared the bank – all within minutes. Oracle
eMail Center’s consolidation of related information
on a topic or customer has also made contact
center representatives’ jobs easier and simplified
collaboration among internal groups. Ultimately,
Oracle is helping the company achieve its goal of
establishing a “Universal Pampered Chef agent,”
where any internal employee can handle almost any
question based on the increased availability and
accuracy of information.
• Ease of management—By moving to a single,
centralized platform, The Pampered Chef is
experiencing simpler system management. The IT
staff is no longer responsible for maintaining highly
customized applications and interfaces.
• Availability, scalability and disaster recovery—
The new Oracle RAC-based environment minimizes
the risk of business interruption by providing a highly
reliable and available 24x7 environment for the
company’s consultants. Oracle DataGuard ensures
automaticfailovertoaredundant,off-siteDRlocation,
virtually eliminating the possibility of downtime. The
scalable new architecture also ensures the ability to
handle escalating volumes seamlessly.
“TUSC’s ability to understand our business needs and
willingness to challenge our preconceptions in a positive
way ensured we received the best possible solution,”
concludedSchubkegel.“Theirstrongprojectmanagement
skills, professionalism and ability to mentor us made the
project a pleasant verses painful experience.”
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