FlexNet Operations addresses trends in entitlement management and electronic software delivery. It provides centralized entitlement management, license enforcement, and secure license management. Device manufacturers are increasingly offering software updates and new capabilities through remote enablement rather than new hardware, which FlexNet Operations facilitates. The presentation discusses growth in electronic software delivery and download sizes, as well as increased use of in-product activation and trusted storage models.
Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly P-Synch): Lower cost, improve service a...Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Hitachi ID Password Manager:
Managing the User Lifecycle Across On-Premises and Cloud-Hosted Applications.
Integrated credential management for users: passwords, encryption keys, tokens, smart cards and more.
http://hitachi-id.com/
Great news for Systems Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. This presentation provides a quick overview of what these key updates are and work with a Softchoice Microsoft specialist to understand your needs under this new model moving forward.
RES Software dynamic desktop solutions simplify desktops into centrally managed, secure, personalized, context-aware and less complex desktops for your users.
Faster logins and access to applications make a difference in EHR adoption.
Overview of Identity and Access Management Product LineNovell
Attend the two-hour foundation session on the Identity and Access Management product line from Novell and start your BrainShare right! This session will deliver a high-level overview of the full Identity and Access Management product line. It will highlight how the products work together as an integrated solution, and the session has a modular format so you can attend the product overviews you are most interested in. The session will provide real life examples of integration-focused benefits, followed by a 25 minute overview and update on each of the products: Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager and Novell SecureLogin.
Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly P-Synch): Lower cost, improve service a...Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Hitachi ID Password Manager:
Managing the User Lifecycle Across On-Premises and Cloud-Hosted Applications.
Integrated credential management for users: passwords, encryption keys, tokens, smart cards and more.
http://hitachi-id.com/
Great news for Systems Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. This presentation provides a quick overview of what these key updates are and work with a Softchoice Microsoft specialist to understand your needs under this new model moving forward.
RES Software dynamic desktop solutions simplify desktops into centrally managed, secure, personalized, context-aware and less complex desktops for your users.
Faster logins and access to applications make a difference in EHR adoption.
Overview of Identity and Access Management Product LineNovell
Attend the two-hour foundation session on the Identity and Access Management product line from Novell and start your BrainShare right! This session will deliver a high-level overview of the full Identity and Access Management product line. It will highlight how the products work together as an integrated solution, and the session has a modular format so you can attend the product overviews you are most interested in. The session will provide real life examples of integration-focused benefits, followed by a 25 minute overview and update on each of the products: Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager and Novell SecureLogin.
Identity and Request Management Using Novell Identity Manager: Identity Manag...Novell
To support regulatory compliance, audit requirements and its strategic direction, St. Vincent Health joined with Novell to design, develop and implement a Novell Identity Manager system in its 18 hospitals to provide role-based access control and audit capabilities that exceed auditor requirements. This session will provide an overview of the business case, benefits, phased approach and technical solution for role-based access at St. Vincent Health in support of HIPAA compliance. This session will provide a demonstration of Novell Identity Manager based workflow customization, role-based access control entitlements and provisioning. It will also demonstrate how Identity Manager can be used to manage other processes other than identity and access management. You will see a complete demonstration of St. Vincent’s Identity Manager solution and how Novell Sentinel reporting is providing answers to auditor and management questions.
Hitachi ID Identity Manager: Self-service and automated user provisioningHitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Hitachi ID Identity Manager:
Managing the User Lifecycle Across On-Premises and Cloud-Hosted Applications.
User provisioning, RBAC, SoD and access certification.
http://hitachi-id.com/
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
Minicom White Paper Using Ram To Increase Security And Improve Efficiency In ...elisasson
In recent years, remote server access has become
standard for corporate data centers however, many
data centers have adopted remote access strategies
gradually, on an ad-hoc basis, as technologies have
evolved. As a result they are enjoying only partial
benefits, and may have opened up unexpected
security gaps. With an overall strategy—and a
software solution for system-wide Remote Access
Management , such as AccessIT® from Minicom,
corporations can maximize the benefits, and minimize
the risks of remote server access.
Check out the Jazz for Service Management beta. Demonstration of Jazz for Service Management, showcasing the value of linked data for simplifying integration across existing multivendor tools. It will also preview integration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, SmartCloud Control Desk, Tivoli Business Service Manager, and Omnibus.
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
VDI Performance Assurance With Monitoring and TestingeG Innovations
Virtual desktop and VDI initiatives promise a variety of benefits - but the underlying IT architecture adds complexity and risk. Virtual desktop users expect application delivery to be as fast and reliable as their physical desktop experience. A single failure in the service infrastructure can bring virtual desktop performance to a crawl, and significantly impact user productivity and business processes.
Both performance monitoring and performance testing tools address this challenge by helping to create, deliver and maintain the best possible performance for virtual desktop users. However, the approach of the two solutions differ. Where load testing helps to predict and prevent infrastructure performance using simulated user behavior, performance monitoring helps to prevent and, when needed, solve performance problems by diagnosing the behavior of real users and the underlying VDI infrastructure in production environments. A combined approach of using both types of toolsets is the best model for optimal performance assurance.
Join our live webinar with performance management experts Srinivas Ramanathan (CEO, eG Innovations) and Jeroen van de Kamp (CTO, Login VSI) and find out:
- Why performance management of virtual desktop infrastructures is key
- How performance testing and monitoring solutions compare
- How performance monitoring tools complement performance testing tools
- How to combine monitoring and testing for perfect performance assurance
- A real world example of how to leverage best of breed solutions for total performance assurance
Reduce Distribution & Support Costs with Electronic Software Delivery (ESD)Flexera
In this demonstration, Jim Berthold, Principal Solutions Engineer with Flexera Software discusses how software vendors and device manufacturers can reduce distribution and support costs with FlexNet Operations, an entitlement-based electronic software delivery solution. He demonstrates how vendors can improve the customer experience by providing immediate access to software purchased with a clean, easy to use interface. Vendors also benefit from immediate revenue recognition once the customer has been notified that they can access their software.
Identity and Request Management Using Novell Identity Manager: Identity Manag...Novell
To support regulatory compliance, audit requirements and its strategic direction, St. Vincent Health joined with Novell to design, develop and implement a Novell Identity Manager system in its 18 hospitals to provide role-based access control and audit capabilities that exceed auditor requirements. This session will provide an overview of the business case, benefits, phased approach and technical solution for role-based access at St. Vincent Health in support of HIPAA compliance. This session will provide a demonstration of Novell Identity Manager based workflow customization, role-based access control entitlements and provisioning. It will also demonstrate how Identity Manager can be used to manage other processes other than identity and access management. You will see a complete demonstration of St. Vincent’s Identity Manager solution and how Novell Sentinel reporting is providing answers to auditor and management questions.
Hitachi ID Identity Manager: Self-service and automated user provisioningHitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Hitachi ID Identity Manager:
Managing the User Lifecycle Across On-Premises and Cloud-Hosted Applications.
User provisioning, RBAC, SoD and access certification.
http://hitachi-id.com/
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
Minicom White Paper Using Ram To Increase Security And Improve Efficiency In ...elisasson
In recent years, remote server access has become
standard for corporate data centers however, many
data centers have adopted remote access strategies
gradually, on an ad-hoc basis, as technologies have
evolved. As a result they are enjoying only partial
benefits, and may have opened up unexpected
security gaps. With an overall strategy—and a
software solution for system-wide Remote Access
Management , such as AccessIT® from Minicom,
corporations can maximize the benefits, and minimize
the risks of remote server access.
Check out the Jazz for Service Management beta. Demonstration of Jazz for Service Management, showcasing the value of linked data for simplifying integration across existing multivendor tools. It will also preview integration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, SmartCloud Control Desk, Tivoli Business Service Manager, and Omnibus.
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
VDI Performance Assurance With Monitoring and TestingeG Innovations
Virtual desktop and VDI initiatives promise a variety of benefits - but the underlying IT architecture adds complexity and risk. Virtual desktop users expect application delivery to be as fast and reliable as their physical desktop experience. A single failure in the service infrastructure can bring virtual desktop performance to a crawl, and significantly impact user productivity and business processes.
Both performance monitoring and performance testing tools address this challenge by helping to create, deliver and maintain the best possible performance for virtual desktop users. However, the approach of the two solutions differ. Where load testing helps to predict and prevent infrastructure performance using simulated user behavior, performance monitoring helps to prevent and, when needed, solve performance problems by diagnosing the behavior of real users and the underlying VDI infrastructure in production environments. A combined approach of using both types of toolsets is the best model for optimal performance assurance.
Join our live webinar with performance management experts Srinivas Ramanathan (CEO, eG Innovations) and Jeroen van de Kamp (CTO, Login VSI) and find out:
- Why performance management of virtual desktop infrastructures is key
- How performance testing and monitoring solutions compare
- How performance monitoring tools complement performance testing tools
- How to combine monitoring and testing for perfect performance assurance
- A real world example of how to leverage best of breed solutions for total performance assurance
Reduce Distribution & Support Costs with Electronic Software Delivery (ESD)Flexera
In this demonstration, Jim Berthold, Principal Solutions Engineer with Flexera Software discusses how software vendors and device manufacturers can reduce distribution and support costs with FlexNet Operations, an entitlement-based electronic software delivery solution. He demonstrates how vendors can improve the customer experience by providing immediate access to software purchased with a clean, easy to use interface. Vendors also benefit from immediate revenue recognition once the customer has been notified that they can access their software.
Enough Already! Quotes from a survey regarding work/life balanceCindy Kane, Ph.D.
Presentation for professionals and graduate students at the 2012 NACA National Convention in Charlotte, NC. Quotes are from unpublished 2010 research study by Michael Miller and Cindy Kane.
This presentation summarizes research conducted in 2009 on the characteristics of multifamily apartment properties that registered and became certified for LEED status as of late 2008/ early 2009. (Cover art by Ross Schmidt)
Current challenges in Software License Management - and solutionsDominic Haigh
Independent software vendors (ISVs) have to deal with many issues in securely protecting their revenues while meeting customers' demands for convenience and flexibility. For example, Internet-based activation works well for both ISVs and their users, but what about users whose systems have no Internet connection, or whose system crashes, or who need to relocate their license, or who want to regularly renew a subscription license or update a usage-based license?
Perhaps product activation will work for the majority of customers, but how do ISVs support enterprise customers who want floating licensing or activation of licenses from a pool?
Securing a license by locking it to hardware parameters of your user's system is a proven approach for copy protection, but what about virtual systems, where hardware parameters can change for legitimate users?
Perhaps an ISV needs to upgrade from an insecure and cumbersome in-house or obsolete commercial licensing tool - how can they smoothly migrate their products and customers to a modern licensing solution, and minimize the development effort required?
This presentation covers these topics and more, and describes practical solutions with case studies of how ISVs are using them today to securely protect their revenues.
An overview of the software license management solutions available from Agilis Software, including product activation and floating licensing. Includes case studies of actual customer implementations.
Thinking about SDN and whether it is the right approach for your organization?Cisco Canada
Thinking about SDN and whether it is the right approach for your organization? Have you heard about Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure and F5 Synthesis yet? The path to radically simplify and accelerate application deployment and datacenter agility can be a phased approach that leverages your existing investment. Rapid delivery of applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time is complex—and many businesses struggle with it.
Get a Complete View of Your Business Services and IT Estate in ServiceNow wit...Flexera
Context is Critical to IT and an Accurate CMDB is Vital to Context
A near-real time accurate CMDB is an important requirement but a major challenge for modern IT organizations. Bad and missing data can significantly impact the business and result in business impacting service outages, increased business risk and exposure to security threats.
ServiceNow provides the essential management and big picture visibility that is crucial to an effective CMDB. And Flexera | RISC Networks provides detailed discovery data, context and analysis to push into your ServiceNow instance, making the picture of the current state accurate and contextually relevant.
10 Tips to Optimize, Automate, and Govern your Hybrid IT EnvironmentFlexera
Join our webinar for 10 tips to help you manage your hybrid environment, erase waste from your IT spend and reallocate spend to critical initiatives – enhancing your bottom line and accelerating your company.
Using Automated Policies for SaaS Governance and ComplianceFlexera
Learn to use automated SaaS policies to enforce governance and compliance, including unsanctioned spend alerts, detecting suspicious user activity, onboarding and offboarding, and detecting inactive user accounts.
The Practical Approach for End-to-End SaaS ManagementFlexera
Watch this webinar and get the answers to help you learn to effectively manage software-as-a-service. Learn to optimize SaaS spend, manage multiple vendors and their pricing models, and right-size contracts with detailed usage and cost data.
7 Things You Need to Know for Your Cloud-First StrategyFlexera
One of your top priorities is implementing a cloud-first strategy. Learn to make the shift as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Watch this webinar and learn the best practices for cloud migration, optimization, governance and automation.
The Role of In-House & External Counsel in Managing Open Source SoftwareFlexera
Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss the role of in-house counsel to better manage any potential legal risks that might be inherent with OSS use.
Addressing Open Source Risks During M&A: A Legal ViewFlexera
Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss why a carefully planned audit of open source should be part of every due diligence effort.
Having Trouble Managing All Your Cloud Services? We Know!Flexera
Most businesses have at least 3 or more cloud services, and it’s hard enough to control spend for just one. That’s why Flexera acquired RightScale, the leading multi-cloud management provider. With cloud services making up 20% of most IT budgets, the spend optimization stakes are high. This year’s Rightscale State Of The Cloud report shows that up to 35% of cloud services spend may be wasted.
View these slides to see how RightScale Optima helps you find that 35% and act on it.
Webinar: Maximizing the ROI of IT by Simplifying Technology ComplexityFlexera
View this webinar with Forrester analyst Charlie Betz and Forrester consultant Stephen Odell, as they present the detailed findings of their study. After the webinar, you will have a better understanding of the benefits of Flexera Data Platform.
Webinar: What's New In FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R1Flexera
Learn about the new features in FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2018, which brings new capabilities to extend Flexera's leadership in Software Asset Management.
Software Distribution, Customer Experience and the IoT: Get Ready for Fast, S...Flexera
There’s no second chance to make a first impression! Are your software upgrades making a good impression on your customers? Are your software delivery processes fast, scalable, and secure?
Join Forrester Principal Analyst David Johnson, Akamai and Flexera as they discuss what modern electronic software delivery processes should look like in this rapidly growing IoT world.
Fast!
No one likes to wait. Learn how a robust software delivery solution gets software and updates out to customers – without the wait.
Scalable!
File sizes and cadence of updates are faster than ever. Intelligent devices defy conventional software distribution models. Hear what you can do to keep up.
Secure!
Security has many aspects – where do you focus? Discover how to deliver your software in a secure way and only to those entitled to receive it.
Windows 10 webinar: What’s new for IT pros Windows 10 v 1709Flexera
Join Microsoft's Iris Fang and Nick Moseley, Technical Solutions Professionals, for an overview of the new business-friendly features coming in the Windows 10 Update 1709. Whether you have already migrated to Windows 10 and are planning for the upgrade, or preparing to migrate from Windows 7 to The Fall Creators update, this webinar will review what enterprises can expect in the new release.
Don’t Let Hackers Breach Your Data: Shutting Your Risk Window on Apache Struts2Flexera
Cyber-criminals target these known vulnerabilities in both commercial and open source software. Many organizations are either unaware of what’s in their software or take too long to patch their systems. These gaps lead to ignorance of known vulnerabilities and/or a lack of efficient processes to apply critical patches quickly.
Watch this webinar on understanding these gaps, closing the risk window and reducing your risk of a breach. Find out how vulnerable code can be easy to discover and patch.
Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Current and constantly curated. Available on the software industry’s first open platform for this data. It’s about time.
Webinar: Take Proactive Control of Your SAP Licensing, Indirect Usage and Ven...Flexera
Join UpperEdge and Flexera in this webinar to learn the importance of getting more proactive control of your SAP relationship to drive predictable outcomes and increased value.
Keeping a Lid on Costs for Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS ApplicationsFlexera
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the spend management risks associated with cloud services and some of the strategies organizations can use to keep a lid on these costs using Software Asset Management processes and tools. We’ll use Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365 as specific examples of cloud infrastructure services and SaaS applications, respectively, that can be managed for better cost efficiency.
Do You Manage Software? Understanding Your Role in Cybersecurity DefenseFlexera
Organizations are under constant attack by hackers targeting applications used by the business. The University of Maryland recently quantified the near-constant rate of attacks on computers with Internet access to every 39 seconds. The best defense requires a holistic approach and collaboration of different teams in a concerted effort to reduce the attack surface for hackers. In this webinar we will discuss the roles and the impact that activities, not always associated with security, have in reducing risk. Whether you are an asset manager, a desktop or datacenter manager, or an IT security professional, your role has a significant impact on your organizations ability to reduce the risk of cyber-attack.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Entitlement and Compliance Management: Trends and 2012 Vision
1. ECM Trends and 2012 vision
October 25, 2011
Mathieu Baissac, Product Manager
2. Confidentiality
• All information contained in this presentation is confidential information
of Flexera Software and may not be disclosed without the written
approval of Flexera Software.
• This presentation includes certain statements, estimates and
projections provided by the company’s management with respect to
anticipated future performance, features, products or
functionality. These are merely targets. Nothing herein shall be
construed to be a promise or guarantee to provide any future product,
functionality, or features. No representation or warranty is made as to
the accuracy of any such estimates or any other materials contained
herein. The Company undertakes no responsibility to update any
information, estimates or projections contained in this presentation.
2
3. Topics
• Trends in the market place
– ESD – some observations
– In-product activation
– Licensing of software/hardware
– Virtualization use increasing (threat and opportunity)
– Cloud strategies
– Usage-based & compliance-only approaches
• Commercial break
– Flexera addresses trends
3
4. ESD (electronic software delivery) growth
Value of software delivered
electronically is expected to grow
32% in 2012 v. 2011.
Drivers include:
• Easy ROI replacing physical
shipments
Source: IDC, 2011 • Customer self-service expectation
4
5. ESD observations Year Average download
size in megs
2007 146
• Downloads are increasing in
size – requiring more than FTP 2008 220
2009 312
2010 485
• Export compliance denials are
more frequent than expected.
Our own data shows between
2.8 to 1 out of 1000 downloads
in last year
5
6. Trend: In-product activation- making it easier for
end customers
“Product activation is getting widespread acceptance. Over
the past few years, a growing number of leading software
companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, Bentley Systems,
Microsoft, Network Associates and Symantec have added product
activation to their products in an effort to protect the spirit of
innovation and intellectual property that is at the heart of the
software industry.”*
46% of NEW FlexNet Operations customers used product activation in 2009
35% of Publishers use internet activation in 2010 vs. 27% in 2009
*Source: Best Practices for Product Activation, Business Software Alliance
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7. Trusted Storage and In-product activation overview
• Trusted Storage value proposition:
– Streamline and improve end user license handling experience
• Modern design based on market trend and customer feedback
• Paradigm shift for handling and managing license rights (eg. Copy and paste
license string versus managed license handling)
– 360 degrees visibility within license lifecycle
– High level security model
• Secure re-host, repair, return, re-install
• Anchoring and Binding identities (from the target machine) provide additional
security
• An Activation utility adds/removes rights from trusted storage
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8. Product Activation Example
FlexNet Operations
/ On-Demand
Producer
Create
Entitlement
Email Activation Activation
Notification Request Response
Activation ID
End Customer 126A2B850D75AD51
License Installed!
Download
Installation Activation Use
9. Trusted Storage/Activation: Usage Scenarios – Trial
Licenses
• Enable trial licensing
– Auto Start (for an ISV defined duration)
– Automatic at time of Install
– Requires Zero involvement/contact with the ISV
– Frequently called a Courtesy or Starter License
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10. Trusted Storage/Activation: Usage Scenarios –
Volume Licensing
• Charge up a license server with license rights
– (like depositing money in a major account)
• Activate a license on a specific system from the
license server system
– (transferring money to another account for the same owner)
• Return a license from one system back to the
license server
– (return the money back to the original major account)
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11. Trusted Storage/Activation: Types of Activation
• Internet activation (Hands Free)
– Programmatic activation, using FlexNet Operations or
LGT/LGAPI
• File-based activation (Dark Site Processing)
– FlexNet Operations Self Service Customer Portal
– Manual activation (email) using FlexNet Operations or response
generator
• Keyboard activation (Dark Site Processing)
– For telephone activation, using short-code ASR
• Embedded activation (Disconnection Trial/Courtesy)
– Using local-trial (Trials, Emergency or stopgap) ASR
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13. Entitlement and Compliance Management (ECM)
FlexNet Producer Suite Overview
Vendor Environment Customer Environment
Customer Self
3rd Party License Service
Generators
Customer
Entitlement Portal
Management Solution Smart
Devices
On-Premise On-Demand API
Software
• Customer master database
• Entitlement management
• License enforcement and revenue protection
• Product packaging and flexible licensing schemes
• Secure license management
• License fulfillment and management
• Software and hardware activation
• Electronic software delivery
• Electronic feature enablement
• Export compliance
• Software and firmware updates
• Comprehensive business intelligence
• Revenue recognition
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14. Why centralized entitlement management?
• Entitlements is the most valuable data for Publishers
– Who has what, how, how much, when, where
• Centralized view is critical
– Shared view with customers, channel, etc.
• Single user experience
– Reduces support calls, costs of multiple systems, etc.
• 7x24, always available
– Matches the reality of this connected world
• Enables many business processes
– Revenue recognition, Fulfillment, Delivery, Device Mgmt, Upgrades,
Upsells, Product Reconfigurations, Compliance
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15. Trend: Device manufacturers are becoming software
vendors
• “Before, to change capability in a
deployed [HVAC] unit, we had to
physically remove the old unit and put
in a new one. Now that can be
remotely enabled with FlexNet
Operations” - Siemens Building
Technologies
• BEFORE: 12 hardware variations and
40 firmware variations, creating 480
SKUs for a single product line.
• AFTER: 1 base model driving 480
variations
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16. FlexNet Producer Suite Architectural Overview
Entitlement
Customer
Notification
Direct Device
FlexNet
Activation or
Embedded Server
Provisioning via
FlexNet Activation or
FlexNet
Embedded Provisioning via
Operations
Server FlexNet
Operations
Device Activation
or Provisioning
via FlexNet
Embedded Server
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17. Licensing of software & hardware
• Requirements include:
– Extremely small footprint
– High availability
– Trusted storage
– Licensing models such as capacity
– Very higher quantity of devices
– Much tighter integration with back-office
• 35% of Software publishers use internet activation in 2010 vs. 27% in 2009
– Device information
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18. Trend: Virtualization use increasing (threat & opportunity)
• Virtualization is mainstream but Publishers are slow to react
– 71% of Publishers believe that Customers use VMs (IDC 2010)
– 36% of Publishers want to use virtual appliances (IDC 2010)
– 65% of Enterprises are using VM in their data centers (Information Week 2011)
• Approaches
– Detect and deny
– Bind to a VM identifier
– Bind to an external identifier on a non-virtual component
• The requirements
– detection, binding, hard binding
• The complexity
– We’ve identified 37 different VM technologies
– It’s bound to get simpler....
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19. Virtualization & Cloud Computing
Accelerate results for compute Intensive Jobs
Public
Private Virtual Machine Cloud
Virtual Machine
Cloud Virtual Machine
(EC2)
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Transparent
movement Virtual Machine
Engineer needs to simulate a Numerous VM’s created & sent to
Large IC design– more time and public cloud to perform Computation
resources required than available.
Time-to-market is the business driver
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21. Virtualization - Bare Metal Binding or Bind to UUID
Flex Virt Virt Flex Enabled
App
Server
App App
App App App
App App
Lic Svr Application
Flex Enabled
Application
Operating System Operating System Flex Enabled
Application
Virtual
Private Cloud
VirtMachine1 UUID=ABC1 VirtMachine2 UUID=ABC2
Flex Enterprise
lmbind Virtualization Layer Network
X86 Architecture
Flex
lmbind
CPU Memory NIC Disk
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22. Cloud market
Pure-play SaaS Packaged Software High-Tech Device
Cloud Applications Virtual Appliances Manufacturers-
S+S: Software + Services
Software as for Packaged SW Virtual Appliances
a Service
(SaaS)
Cloud Platform App Development APIs
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
App Development, Web
Infrastructure, Data Warehousing
Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Servers, Networking, Storage
Sources: Flexera Software analysis, based on IDC and Gartner concepts
Note: The companies mentioned illustrate the trend but may not be Flexera Software customers
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23. Cloud strategy 1: SaaS
• SaaS is on everyone’s
drawing plans
Industry Annual Growth Rate
40.0%
42.2% 40.5% SaaS
• Considered a future play 24.2%
20.0%
for most companies 14.6% 12.1%
– Significant re-design of 0.0%
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
products and market
strategies for existing
companies
• Usage-based pricing
models considered
– Monthly user usage
– Storage capacity per month
Source: IDC 2010
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24. Cloud strategy 2: On-premise + service in the cloud
CAD Software: Desktop + Cloud to add more value
• Design on the desktop
• Search for parts online
(stored in Amazon S3)
Source: Company website
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25. Cloud strategy 3: off-load computation in the cloud
Scientific Computing Software: Desktop + Cloud to Accelerate
Desktop System Cloud Cluster
Local Servers
• Program on the
Cloud Servers
Performing Performing desktop
Computation Computation
• Compute in the
cloud (Amazon EC2)
• Accelerate results
Scheduler
Source: Company website
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26. Cloud strategy 4: sell products in the cloud
9000 virtual • Oracle customers can now license Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware,
appliances on the
and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in the
Amazon Web AWS cloud computing environment.
Services (AWS)
marketplace • Oracle has delivered a set of free Amazon
Machine Images (AMIs), that can be
downloaded from the Oracle site
• Developers can take advantage of the
1400 virtual provisioning and automated software
appliances on the deployment in these AMIs to rapidly build
VMware applications using development tools such as
marketplace Oracle Application Express, Oracle
JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for
Eclipse and Oracle Workshop for WebLogic.
Sources: Oracle/Amazon web sites
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27. Cloud requirements
• Has many of the needs of on-premise software:
– Monetization of solution
– Capacity counting/ tracking
– Authentication & authorization of use
– Usage tracking
– Binding to help with compliance
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28. Trend: Licensing is being applied as a spectrum
• Compliance philosophy is based on trust & leniency of
enforcement for B2B enterprise customers
Enforcement Continuum
• More focus being
placed on Strong
Denial of service
– reporting as opposed to Denial & message
– license denials for Message, then denial
– larger , enterprise Message, x% over-use, then denial
– customers Queue request
Enterprise Trend
Message only, no denial
Audit (product leaves usage info)
Weak No effect – product operates
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29. build slide warning
Relationship Between Usage & Enforcement
Supporting use-cases:
Amount of enforcement
China • Different licensing models
for different geographic
regions
• Ensuring client identity and
USA preventing ID sharing with
Company A pay-per-use.
SaaS
Hard-enforcement Overdrafts Compliance Pay-per-use
Amount of usage capture
• Publishers hard-enforce
IDM now, but want to move to
pay-per-use in future.
• Enforcing usage (non-
standard metrics)
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30. Trend: Usage-based licensing model is gaining popularity
• SaaS licensing approaches are gaining popularity
– Salesforce.com – monthly payment for # of users (in tiers of use)
– MS BPOS – monthly payments
– Office 365 is making a big splash
• First time office is being broken into sub-components for pricing
• Producers are talking to us about:
– Put the application in a VM and host it at Amazon
– Charge for the # of hours
• We expect that the resulting model will be:
– Purchase a level of perpetual licenses
– Pay “per use” for use above the perpetual licenses
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31. Example #1: Device Manufacturer–pays for capacity
(based on compliance findings)
• Service providers can use capacity, but within overage limits
(e.g., 10% overage)
• Pattern of overage may result in compliance conversation periodically
with the manufacturer
Example:
• Customer pays for 120 Gbps initially with ability to exceed by 10%
(i.e., up to 132 Gbps)
• For the next 90 days, customer exceeded 120 Gbps for 40 days
• Manufacturer uses usage data to have a compliance conversation
(e.g., “maybe you should upgrade to 240 Gbps?”)
Device Capacity
Initial Capacity: Add-On Capacity: Total Capacity:
120 Gbps 240 Gbps 360 Gbps
Actual use
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32. Example #2: Top CAD Publisher–use every product, we’ll set
licenses based on results
License Server
License Collection View Alerts
True-Up
Server Agent
Report
Reporting Server
Harvests config, Encrypted
enforces registry Anonymized Centralized
policy
Reports
Usage Data Data
Workstation
Portal Server
Collection
Software
Agent
Portal
View
True-Up
Report
Alerts
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33. Example #3: Large High-Tech–give the data to customers
Short-term approach Long-term approach
Enterprise Enterprise
App App App App
1 Use application 1 Use application
Api Api
3 Review and
2 Get usage (from logs/scripts) approve sending
2 Get usage
Reporting Application 3 View & manage internally Report Application
Publisher
Publisher
Entitlement 4 View reconciliation/
compliance
Management System Reports, automate
Entitlement Management System dialogues
Automate audits
Usage Module 5 Upsell/ xsell
Charge – new licensing models
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