Finance executives today are helping to develop corporate strategy and then funding and executing that strategy through financial planning and performance management. As a result, finance executives are becoming increasingly responsible for IT initiatives. Technologies like big data, cloud, mobile, and social computing are transforming how business is done today, and each has far-reaching implications for finance.
Top Digital Transformation Trends and Priorities for 2016Charlene Li
Given the importance of digital transformation and the never ending onslaught of new technologies, how should organization prioritize limited resources, time, and attention? This presentation to the San Francisco American Marketing Association is the 7th year in a row when Charlene has presented her take of top digital trends.
Connecting Your Inbox and Payments with Salesforce to Boost AdoptionColin Carson
Join Sue Fernand, VP of Channel Sales at Cirrus Insight, and Micaiah Filkins, Co-Founder and head of Product for Chargent Payment Processing for Salesforce as they demonstrate how connecting your inbox and payments to Salesforce can drive CRM adoption, increase the efficiency of your team, and speed up sales and revenue generation.
Digital transformation, a roadmap for billion dollar organizationsBen Gilchriest
This study was ranked among the top 5 thought leadership publications of the last decade by Source – a leading market analyst firm for the consulting industry – following a thorough analysis of some 22,000 consulting reports globally. Published in 2011 it provides a detailed definition of Digital Transformation and how to assess your own Digital Maturity.
Digital transformation (DT) – the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises – is becoming a hot topic for companies across the globe. Executives in
all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices – and improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP – to change customer relationships, internal processes, and value propositions. Other executives, seeing how fast digital technology disrupted media industries in the past decade, know they need to pay attention to changes in their industries now.
How can senior executives successfully lead digital transformation?
While many experts urge companies to get started on the digital transformation journey, few tell how to do it. In this report we share the findings from a global study of how 157 executives in 50 large traditional companies are managing – and benefiting from – digital transformation. This study describes the elements of successful digital transformation and show how to assess your firm’s digital maturity.
Digital Transformation by Microsoft Dynamic based on Simon;s data. Muhammad Husayn Ace will discuss Digital Transformation Overiview, and then Microsoft Dynamics. Lastly compare with SAP ERP.
Accelerate your digital transformation with ERP at its coreKnoldus Inc.
Due to COVID pandemic, our smart customers have realized that digital is not nice to have anymore and are accelerating their digital programs. However, the biggest issue with going digital is making core systems participate in the digital journey.
Your digital initiatives will not be successful without access to the core data. For example, a cruise company customer on a pleasure cruise, trying to buy a drink at the bar on a ship, needs reservation data in the mobile app, so that the charges can accrue to his bill instantly. However, most company's legacy systems are complex and going through their own modernization exercise.
But the key issue is, how do you move forward with digital, while you wait for modernization of legacy systems/ERPs and yet make digital investments future proof, ie., not having to redo digital infrastructure? In this webinar, Petals.AI and Knoldus experts will demo how ERP information can be exposed in real time using the modern data lake approach.
From Defender to an Attacker, Lari Hämäläinen, Managing Partner, McKinsey Dig...Salesforce Finland
Presentation (shareable slides) from Lari Hämäläinen, McKinsey Digital & Analytics Managing Partner, held in Salesforce Dreamforce to You event in Helsinki on Nov 23rd, 2017.
Top Digital Transformation Trends and Priorities for 2016Charlene Li
Given the importance of digital transformation and the never ending onslaught of new technologies, how should organization prioritize limited resources, time, and attention? This presentation to the San Francisco American Marketing Association is the 7th year in a row when Charlene has presented her take of top digital trends.
Connecting Your Inbox and Payments with Salesforce to Boost AdoptionColin Carson
Join Sue Fernand, VP of Channel Sales at Cirrus Insight, and Micaiah Filkins, Co-Founder and head of Product for Chargent Payment Processing for Salesforce as they demonstrate how connecting your inbox and payments to Salesforce can drive CRM adoption, increase the efficiency of your team, and speed up sales and revenue generation.
Digital transformation, a roadmap for billion dollar organizationsBen Gilchriest
This study was ranked among the top 5 thought leadership publications of the last decade by Source – a leading market analyst firm for the consulting industry – following a thorough analysis of some 22,000 consulting reports globally. Published in 2011 it provides a detailed definition of Digital Transformation and how to assess your own Digital Maturity.
Digital transformation (DT) – the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises – is becoming a hot topic for companies across the globe. Executives in
all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices – and improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP – to change customer relationships, internal processes, and value propositions. Other executives, seeing how fast digital technology disrupted media industries in the past decade, know they need to pay attention to changes in their industries now.
How can senior executives successfully lead digital transformation?
While many experts urge companies to get started on the digital transformation journey, few tell how to do it. In this report we share the findings from a global study of how 157 executives in 50 large traditional companies are managing – and benefiting from – digital transformation. This study describes the elements of successful digital transformation and show how to assess your firm’s digital maturity.
Digital Transformation by Microsoft Dynamic based on Simon;s data. Muhammad Husayn Ace will discuss Digital Transformation Overiview, and then Microsoft Dynamics. Lastly compare with SAP ERP.
Accelerate your digital transformation with ERP at its coreKnoldus Inc.
Due to COVID pandemic, our smart customers have realized that digital is not nice to have anymore and are accelerating their digital programs. However, the biggest issue with going digital is making core systems participate in the digital journey.
Your digital initiatives will not be successful without access to the core data. For example, a cruise company customer on a pleasure cruise, trying to buy a drink at the bar on a ship, needs reservation data in the mobile app, so that the charges can accrue to his bill instantly. However, most company's legacy systems are complex and going through their own modernization exercise.
But the key issue is, how do you move forward with digital, while you wait for modernization of legacy systems/ERPs and yet make digital investments future proof, ie., not having to redo digital infrastructure? In this webinar, Petals.AI and Knoldus experts will demo how ERP information can be exposed in real time using the modern data lake approach.
From Defender to an Attacker, Lari Hämäläinen, Managing Partner, McKinsey Dig...Salesforce Finland
Presentation (shareable slides) from Lari Hämäläinen, McKinsey Digital & Analytics Managing Partner, held in Salesforce Dreamforce to You event in Helsinki on Nov 23rd, 2017.
The Super CIO: The Hero Your Data Strategy NeedsCRMT Digital
Find out how marketing operations tools can help you to drive your business forward with big data strategies.
In the age of data driven marketing a new superhero is emerging - the super CIO or IT manager. This new superhero is stepping up and rising to the challenge posed by big data - pushing into the realms of strategic planning and driving excellence throughout their company. It is this new superhero’s mission to prioritise data management, create cohesive and flowing data channels and transform the customer experience through a data strategy that also aligns to the business’ needs.
HSM Global-Madrid featuring Charlene LiCharlene Li
Special management program on social media sponsored by HSM Global featuring Charlene Li. This was a day-long program on how to create a social media strategy, that took place in Madrid on 12 April 2011. More info available at http://es.hsmglobal.com/contenidos/charleneli.html
5 Steps To Become A Data-Driven Organization : WebinarGramener
Gramener's Chief Data Scientist and Co-founder Ganes Kesari conducted an interesting webinar that will give you an idea of how to analyze your data maturity and plan the five steps to transforming your business using data.
Who should watch this webinar?
Executives, Chief Data/Analytics Officers, Technology leaders, Business heads, Directors, and Managers.
Important points discussed on the webinar:
-The majority of businesses reach a halt in the middle of their data journey.
-According to Gartner, approximately 87% of companies in the business have a poor degree of data maturity (levels 1 and 2 on a scale of 5).
-Adding more data science projects to your portfolio will not boost your talents or results. The truth is that CDOs' primary issues are divided into five categories.
Learnings from this webinar:
-Data Science Maturity. What is it and why is it important?
-How can you determine the maturity of data science and its limitations?
-How does data science maturity (described with an example) assist your business in progressing?
Watch the full webinar on:
https://info.gramener.com/5-steps-to-transform-into-data-driven-organization
To know more about Data Maturity visit:
https://gramener.com/data-maturity/#
Best practice for data interoperabilityCRMT Digital
IT should assume responsibility for data interoperability in an age when marketing campaigns generate and depend upon top-quality information from increasingly diverse sources and technical marketing training.
Data interoperability is becoming essential for organisations who want to run successful marketing campaigns. As strategies evolve, an increasing amount of data is arriving from multiple sources, which needs to be managed, organised and used responsively. With this increase in data, Marketing are moving in on IT spend to narrow silos, but this runs the risk of inconsistencies across data handling. We've created a Slideshare that provides organisations with best practices for data interoperability, with a focus on why providing technical marketing and training to Sales and Marketing is so important.
Managers need new measures for the new experiences they’re creating. Fortunately they can use social and unstructured data to measure the holistic customer experience performance over time, based on direct and unfiltered feedback from customers.
Build an AI Roadmap and Win the Consumer Goods Intelligence RaceGib Bassett
My presentation from Salesforce Connections 2018. In it, I describe why it's important to think about a use case driven strategy for advanced analytics and AI.
Fighting Fraud: How GameStop rose to the call of dutyWhitepages Pro
Let’s face it, no one likes fraud. But what are you doing to combat it? Watch Jonathan Baker, Senior Manager of Asset Protection at GameStop, and Tom Donlea, Director of the eCommerce Practice for Whitepages Pro, as they discuss tactical ways to fight fraud and clear good orders faster.
Driving results through a connected omni-channel retail sales experienceMicrosoft
Microsoft Services helps businesses all over the world build the right solutions to meet their business goals. In Part 1 of this Omnichannel Retail scenario we’ll see how a retailer can use data insights to build a connected sales experience.
The challenges facing human resources (HR) executives have changed significantly over the past 10 years. Today, HR is an important part of overall corporate performance. This is driven by several factors, including the growing needs to: attract and retain talent; implement strategic succession planning; access and analyze workforce data; and manage a culture that enables multi-generational workforce expectations. Microsoft has a technology platform that HR decision makers can use to address these challenges and deliver business impact.
The Super CIO: The Hero Your Data Strategy NeedsCRMT Digital
Find out how marketing operations tools can help you to drive your business forward with big data strategies.
In the age of data driven marketing a new superhero is emerging - the super CIO or IT manager. This new superhero is stepping up and rising to the challenge posed by big data - pushing into the realms of strategic planning and driving excellence throughout their company. It is this new superhero’s mission to prioritise data management, create cohesive and flowing data channels and transform the customer experience through a data strategy that also aligns to the business’ needs.
HSM Global-Madrid featuring Charlene LiCharlene Li
Special management program on social media sponsored by HSM Global featuring Charlene Li. This was a day-long program on how to create a social media strategy, that took place in Madrid on 12 April 2011. More info available at http://es.hsmglobal.com/contenidos/charleneli.html
5 Steps To Become A Data-Driven Organization : WebinarGramener
Gramener's Chief Data Scientist and Co-founder Ganes Kesari conducted an interesting webinar that will give you an idea of how to analyze your data maturity and plan the five steps to transforming your business using data.
Who should watch this webinar?
Executives, Chief Data/Analytics Officers, Technology leaders, Business heads, Directors, and Managers.
Important points discussed on the webinar:
-The majority of businesses reach a halt in the middle of their data journey.
-According to Gartner, approximately 87% of companies in the business have a poor degree of data maturity (levels 1 and 2 on a scale of 5).
-Adding more data science projects to your portfolio will not boost your talents or results. The truth is that CDOs' primary issues are divided into five categories.
Learnings from this webinar:
-Data Science Maturity. What is it and why is it important?
-How can you determine the maturity of data science and its limitations?
-How does data science maturity (described with an example) assist your business in progressing?
Watch the full webinar on:
https://info.gramener.com/5-steps-to-transform-into-data-driven-organization
To know more about Data Maturity visit:
https://gramener.com/data-maturity/#
Best practice for data interoperabilityCRMT Digital
IT should assume responsibility for data interoperability in an age when marketing campaigns generate and depend upon top-quality information from increasingly diverse sources and technical marketing training.
Data interoperability is becoming essential for organisations who want to run successful marketing campaigns. As strategies evolve, an increasing amount of data is arriving from multiple sources, which needs to be managed, organised and used responsively. With this increase in data, Marketing are moving in on IT spend to narrow silos, but this runs the risk of inconsistencies across data handling. We've created a Slideshare that provides organisations with best practices for data interoperability, with a focus on why providing technical marketing and training to Sales and Marketing is so important.
Managers need new measures for the new experiences they’re creating. Fortunately they can use social and unstructured data to measure the holistic customer experience performance over time, based on direct and unfiltered feedback from customers.
Build an AI Roadmap and Win the Consumer Goods Intelligence RaceGib Bassett
My presentation from Salesforce Connections 2018. In it, I describe why it's important to think about a use case driven strategy for advanced analytics and AI.
Fighting Fraud: How GameStop rose to the call of dutyWhitepages Pro
Let’s face it, no one likes fraud. But what are you doing to combat it? Watch Jonathan Baker, Senior Manager of Asset Protection at GameStop, and Tom Donlea, Director of the eCommerce Practice for Whitepages Pro, as they discuss tactical ways to fight fraud and clear good orders faster.
Driving results through a connected omni-channel retail sales experienceMicrosoft
Microsoft Services helps businesses all over the world build the right solutions to meet their business goals. In Part 1 of this Omnichannel Retail scenario we’ll see how a retailer can use data insights to build a connected sales experience.
The challenges facing human resources (HR) executives have changed significantly over the past 10 years. Today, HR is an important part of overall corporate performance. This is driven by several factors, including the growing needs to: attract and retain talent; implement strategic succession planning; access and analyze workforce data; and manage a culture that enables multi-generational workforce expectations. Microsoft has a technology platform that HR decision makers can use to address these challenges and deliver business impact.
Empowering Employee Engagement: Creating an Engaged Workforce through Afforda...Microsoft
For your business to thrive in the years ahead, it’s important to focus on creating experiences that build brand affinity among your customers. This starts with your employees.
Check out our Modern Manual to Brand Affinity ebook: http://po.st/MMBASS
Each and every business is unique. From healthcare to retail, manufacturing or finance — no two businesses
operate the same way. That’s why the Microsoft Cloud can be tailored to meet the needs of any enterprise.
It’s the cloud that helps drive unparalleled productivity. The cloud that turns massive streams of data into
actionable insight. The cloud that scales rapidly t o meet the growing demands of your business. And the
cloud that transforms a mobile workforce into a connected team. This is the cloud that’s built for your business.
Data analytics tools help organizations derive insights from vast amounts of data, enabling informed decision-making, identifying trends and patterns, personalizing customer experiences, optimizing processes, and driving innovation and competitive advantage.
Leverage Sage Business Intelligence for Your OrganizationRKLeSolutions
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The Future of Forecasting and BudgetingJames Myers
Forecasting and planning in today’s fast-changing business landscape is a challenging task for any organization. To survive, organizations require agile forecasting and planning processes to proactively manage change. Progressive CFOs and their teams recognize that the forecasting and planning processes, when done right, are powerful tools for informing the future of the organization.
Anil Patel is Managing Director of GrantBook. At GrantBook, he is leading the development of their Real-time Impact Reporting and Data Visualization practice area. In developing this practice area, Anil spends considerable time searching for useful trends in other creative industries. Industries that make use of human-centered design, 21st management practices and action-learning. Anil is also a co-founder and current board member of Framework, a charity he started with friends over a decade ago. Framework’s marquee program is the Timeraiser. To date, it has generated over 150,000 volunteer hours, invested over $1 million to the careers of emerging artists and supported over 500 nonprofits volunteer programs. Anil is an Ashoka Fellow and Action Canada Fellow
Introducing Smartsheet Gov: The Trusted Work Execution Platform for GovernmentAmazon Web Services
Departments, agencies, and bureaus need a secure way to execute and scale their work to keep up with the growing demands on government programs. Smartsheet Gov is a secure and reliable platform built on the AWS GovCloud (US) that helps Federal agencies bring innovation, collaboration, and transparency to government initiatives. As the only FedRAMP Authorized work execution platform listed in the FedRAMP marketplace, Smartsheet Gov enables agencies to operate with an increased sense of agility, manage work in real time, and make better decisions with timely and accurate information. During this session, we’ll dive into the specific use cases of Smartsheet Gov, including Project and Program Management, Operations and Asset Management, and Organizational Budgets and Planning. Sponsored by Smartsheet.
Ways to Make Business Intelligence Work for Your Small BusinessSpiceworks
In this first 60-minute webinar in the series, Spiceworks and CDW team up to provide answers to your questions on business intelligence - a subject that's becoming increasingly important to small businesses.
Reporting, KPI Reporting, Data-Analytics, Data-Virtualization
Case Study on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) report which is an output of Executed test scripts/cases.
Maximizing Efficiency and Profitability with OnePlan’s Professional Service A...OnePlan Solutions
Achieving operational excellence is paramount for firms aiming for expansion and sustaining a competitive advantage. This webinar presents an integrated approach to boosting operational efficiency, spotlighting the transformative role of AI technology. From fine-tuning resource allocation and enhancing time management to leveraging AI for improved project performance and deepening client connections, learn actionable tactics to streamline your operations, elevate billing precision, and spur innovation in your service offerings. Embrace the agility needed to navigate market changes, all while leveraging OnePlan’s advanced features to fortify your firm’s competitive position.
How to Bring About Finance Transformation on Your Own TermsWorkday, Inc.
In this deck, experts from PwC and Workday explain how finance leaders can use automation, artificial intelligence, and analytical skills to help their teams adapt to rapid change.
In a rapidly changing business climate, Workday Extend helps you stay agile by building apps that run alongside your existing Workday applications. This slide deck features updates and demos from Workday product experts, along with testimonials from Workday Extend customers IBM, KONE, and Sun Life Financial.
Microsoft er en data-drevet organisation, og finance spiller en vigtig rolle ift dette. Data-indsigt er en forudsætning for en transparant forretning og for transformation. Hør Microsofts CFO’s syn på sagen og se en demo af de spændende muligheder med Power BI og visualisering.
George Tsichlis, CFO og Lars Bo Granath, Produktchef for Data Platform, Microsoft Danmark
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Modern Marketing: The Case of Microsoft USMicrosoft
What are the challenges facing CMO's today? Explore the opportunities in modern marketing, and get a close up view of how Microsoft US is embracing digital transformation.
Cybersecurity threats you should know about in 2018Microsoft
To keep up with the always evolving landscape, the
Security Intelligence Report provides a thorough analysis of security threats and how to best mitigate the top attack types.
Cyberattacks on government agencies at all levels can compromise private citizen information and leave the United States vulnerable to national security threats. Take these first steps toward stronger cybersecurity hygiene.
Insider's Guide to Cybersecurity for Government eBook: http://aka.ms/govcybersecurityguide
Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Office 365 Forrester StudyMicrosoft
Microsoft is excited to announce the release of the latest whitepaper from Forrester Consulting, “The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Office 365.” In this study, Forrester surveyed 63 enterprise Office 365 customers to understand the financial impact Office 365 has had on their organizations. The study had some amazing results.
The airline industry is increasingly challenged to engage guests and passengers anywhere, anytime, across any device, while maintaining brand experience and consistency. Airlines are changing from a traditional business where money was made by selling seats on a plane to a more dynamic and adaptive business, where the services are being delivered in a personalized manner. Insights into the customer’s preferences and other operational processes will allow the airline to adjust functions and maximize profitability and at the same time, offer a differentiated passenger experience. View our webcast on demand if you would like to learn more: https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=23371&AffiliateData=slideshare
Microsoft Services helps businesses all over the world build the right solutions to meet their business goals. In this marketing scenario see how a chief marketing officer of a retail store plans and optimizes their marketing efforts for the launch of a new smart watch.
Understanding the Business Value of Migrating to Windows Server 2012Microsoft
In December 2014, IDC Asia/Pacific undertook a study commissioned by Microsoft and Intel to understand the incremental gains that organisations can potentially achieve by migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, especially in light of the upcoming end of extended support which will occur in July 2015. This whitepaper lays out the results of this study.
10 real-world tips for building relationships and closing more on LinkedInMicrosoft
Social Selling is the way forward for modern-day digital sales reps that are looking to exceed their quota and become a sales linchpin within their organization. In this world where relationships are the new currency, the sales folks with the best networks will become rock stars. Why? Because they’ll be the ones who connect with and glean insights about decision makers via social channels to move deals along.
You’ll find plenty of support to carry out current directives and initiatives when you buy Microsoft Dynamics AX
This exciting platform is easy to adopt and extend at your organization’s own pace.
5 Steps to Help Your Organization Succeed This YearMicrosoft
If you could drive a transformation what would it be? The answers to these questions probably depend on a variety of factors, including the current product or service line-up, the competitive environment, and the direction set by senior leadership. What’s your Big Idea?
5 Steps to Help Your Organization Succeed This YearMicrosoft
If you could drive a transformation what would it be? The answers to these questions probably depend on a variety of factors, including the current product or service line-up, the competitive environment, and the direction set by senior leadership. What’s your Big Idea?
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
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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/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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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
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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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.
Mission to Decommission: Importance of Decommissioning Products to Increase E...
Finance Today: reimagined to drive impact
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with collaboration
tools
• Drive growth while
mitigating risk
• Transform your
business with a
connected platform
• Give all employees
anywhere, anytime
access
• Reduce costs with
unified
communications tools
• Accelerate information
sharing and innovation
“Information technology and business are becoming
inextricably interwoven.”
Bill Gates, Microsoft
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6. Achieve business growth and operational goals with timely, easy
access to information that drives impact.
7. Translate data into insight and business impact
Use data visualization tools to provide the right insights, to the right people, at the right time
on any device.
Your executives and unit
managers want the realtime data to make agile
business decisions, but
they often have to wait
for IT to manage data
collection, analysis and
reporting.
To drive faster, better
decisions for all, powerful
BI capabilities in familiar
tools let more users easily
find and work with all
data types securely from
anywhere, on any device,
while IT maintains control
and oversight.
By integrating data insight
tools with Lync’s
collaboration capabilities,
users can find information,
share insights, and work
online with peers in realtime for enhanced
productivity and better
decision making.
Companies that
are more satisfied
[with their ability
to analyze risk] are
moving into visualanalytics reporting
so they can work
their way through
the data in an
accessible way.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
survey, Risk in Review Series:
Global Risk In The
Transformation Age
8. Manufacturer uses timely customer insight to grow
Self-service data visualization tools provide broader use of data at a lower cost
Results
Objectives
Tactics
• Improve analysis of customer service
data
• Use data to determine growth
opportunities
• Improve customer service delivery
Empower business
users to quickly
compile and analyze
data on their own
without having to rely
on IT staff.
“By using Power View, our
business users can immediately
gain clear views of data. This
increases the speed of decision
making and dramatically
reduces operational workloads
and costs.”
Toshihiko Nakazawa
Customer Satisfaction (CS)
Planning Director
“In strengthening our BI infrastructure and connecting it to the Microsoft products we have, we
have created an environment where users can better realize the value of our information tools.”
– Mr. Takahiko Akiyama, ICT Department Manager, CS Planning Division
9. Streamline processes with collaboration tools
Ensure ‘one version of the truth’ and share learnings within your finance department
You are presenting the
monthly revenue
numbers to your
executive team. The CEO
notices an anomaly and
you quickly find the
owner of the information
in question to understand
what happened.
You connect online and in
seconds, you have
communicated the issue
via Lync. To dive deeper,
you share your desktop,
and together you review
the Excel spreadsheet to
find the issue.
The issue is resolved in
minutes and, still engaged
in the meeting, you explain
why the number isn’t as
expected. You share this
with your finance peers via
a private Yammer group
as a learning.
“Advanced
software
applications can
streamline
processes and
contribute
significant
value.”
CFO.com, “Essentials Of
Financial Consolidation
Applications”
10. Efficiently and confidently control risk across traditional finance
functions and company-wide strategy and performance initiatives.
11. Control risk with self-service and automated tools
Tear down silos and give employees information they need at their fingertips
Image here
Your company annually
distributes a paper based
anti-corruption policy and
form to complete when
giving gifts. Unaware of
the policy, a new sales
employee gives a trip to a
government official; this is
leaked to the press.
Image here
To mitigate future risks, a
SharePoint self-service
portal is created with the
anti-corruption policy and
an online form. This
becomes part of new
employee orientation
and annual employee
training.
An automated approval
workflow is instituted for
all gifts to government
officials. Requests and
approvals can be tracked
in real-time, providing
additional risk mitigation.
“The key
message is to…
proactively
adapt and
adopt your
governance,
monitoring and
policy models.”
CFO.com, “Emerging Tech:
Are CFOs Blind to the
Risks?”
12. Construction leader exceeds 300% return on investment
by automating compensation processes
FPO
FPO
Objectives
•
•
•
Tactics
Improve compensation workflow
processes and employee access to
compensation information
Reduce management costs
Reduce dependency on highly
trained experts
Replace manual, siloed,
and paper-based
processes with a
Business-Critical
SharePoint and
mobility solutions
Results
•
•
•
•
Provided secure, self-service
access to compensation
processes for all employees
across multiple devices
Improved employee
satisfaction and productivity
Maximized the value of existing
IT systems
Achieved tremendous cost
savings
“I can’t believe how quickly MyOVS had things up and running!”
– Jane Cicinelli, VP of Human Resources, NPL Construction Company
13. Drive growth while mitigating risk
Leverage big data and risk analysis tools to gain holistic view of opportunities
Your company is
considering extending its
mobile payment
capabilities to a new,
international region; fully
understanding the risks
and opportunities is key
to the initiative's success.
Your team analyzes
current revenue data and
public data on customer
demographics using Excel
with Power View. You then
assess security and
privacy aspects, and save
the report to your
SharePoint finance portal.
You review the report
with the executive team
and drill down into both
revenue potential and
risks, giving a holistic
view of the opportunity
and how to mitigate risk.
“The ability to
predict financial
outcomes has
become as
critically
important as
bottom-line
financial
efficiency”
IDC, “How CFO Priorities are
Shaping IT Funding
Strategies”
14. Bank gains insight needed to balance risks and returns
while boosting competitiveness
FPO
FPO
Objectives
•
•
•
•
Achieve greater operational insight
Increase efficiency and accuracy
Facilitate innovation and agility
Deliver competitive offerings with
less risk
Tactics
Replace legacy reporting
system with the dynamic
reporting and analytics
capabilities of Excel 2013
and SQL Server 2012 with
Power View and
PowerPivot for Excel
Results
•
•
•
•
Enabled financial staff to
quickly access, create, share,
and explore multidimensional
reports
Updated profiles in Active
Directory to control access to
BI and posted reports
Reduced the time to produce
accurate insights by over 50%
Transformed departmental
collaboration on services
“Employees can instantly drill down and see the calculations and data points behind report values.
As a result, we’ve improved BI accuracy, especially in our consolidated profit-and-loss statements.”
– Jonathon Bellisha, Chief Technology Officer, Union Bank of Israel
15. Transform your business with a connected platform
Meet today’s high expectations for managing costs with an ERP solution that allows users across
the enterprise to operate at continual peak performance.
Your company has many
different systems for
activities such as sales
forecasting and financial
reporting. You need a
real-time view into your
business, but instead
receive quarterly reports
that take days to create.
You deploy a Dynamics ERP
solution that brings all of
your information into one
place, giving the added
advantage of automated
processes, predictive
analytics, and role-based
tools.
With instant access to
company performance
data, you can respond
quickly and effectively to
market trends – enabling
your company to better
serve your partners and
customers.
“ERP can
improve the
process-driven
ways of old,
and allow the
event-driven
possibilities of
tomorrow.”
Deloitte, “The ERP
Evolution”
16. Revlon consolidates ERP to turn data into information
and information into action
Objectives
•
•
•
Tactics
Create a single ERP solution to
provide global subsidiaries the
same information
Enable agility to react quickly to
fast-changing markets
Provide subsidiary specific solutions
Results
Local ERP systems
consolidated into
Microsoft Dynamics AX
with a solution tailored
to business processes
and local subsidiary
requirements.
•
•
Streamline and improve
decision-making
Provide flexibility for local
requirements
“How well you wield your information drives how good your decisions are.”
- David Giambruno, Senior VP and CIO, Revlon
17. Increase productivity and lower the cost of doing business within your
Finance operations and across the company
18. Optimize business efficiency and IT resources
Leverage the cloud to scale and achieve IT efficiency across the enterprise
Online competition is
eroding your sales. Your
company needs to
modernize how it
engages with customers,
and ensure that your IT
systems can support
these new initiatives.
All sales people are
equipped with devices
and applications that
show a real-time view of
inventory, competitor
pricing, and more.
Enabling this behind the
scenes is a scalable
hybrid cloud solution.
As a result, your customer
purchase frequency and
size increases. Your CIO
reports that the hybrid
cloud solution allows IT to
shift resources to
supporting new business
initiatives.
“Imagine being
able to
remember
a time when
enterprise
software
and hardware
upgrades were
needed.”
Paul A. Robinson
Global Technology Lead
Deloitte
19. Luxury sports car manufacturer drives collaboration and
speeds business processes worldwide
FPO
Results
•
Objectives
•
•
•
Foster innovation with collaboration
Implement security policies across
devices to protect intellectual assets
Enable IT resources to improve
processes and focus on strategic
initiatives
Tactics
Provide easy access to
business-critical
productivity tools and
enhanced security and
reliability with Office 365,
Lync and SharePoint
•
•
•
Provided employees anytime,
anywhere access across
multiple devices
Enabled Lync federation to
external partners
Enhanced security and
compliance procedures
Simplified IT administration and
refocused resources on higher
value projects
“Office 365 gives our employees the technology they need and we don’t have to worry about it.
We don’t think about storage, capacity planning, external access, or downtime. It’s a real luxury.”
– Daniel Roach-Rooke, IT Infrastructure Manager, Aston Martin
20. Give all employees anywhere, anytime access
Leverage cloud productivity to provide real-time information access while reallocating
IT costs
Your company has
remote employees who
need access to content,
collaboration tools, and
customer relationship
management information
to address customer
service inquiries.
You leverage mobile
devices and cloud
productivity tools to give
all employees secure
access to internal
information anytime,
anywhere and on any
device.
As a result customer
escalations have been
reduced, all employees
have access to the same
information, and you have
transferred a portion of
your IT spend from your
CAPEX to your OPEX
budget.
”Just having mobile
access to e-mail is
profoundly
insufficient for
increasing
productivity and
producing betterinformed
employees.”
Strategic Growth Concepts,
“Mobile Technology for
Increased Productivity &
Profitability
21. Global engineering company to deploy strategic
collaboration initiative worldwide
FPO
FPO
Objectives
•
•
Provide a single platform for
productivity, communication, and
collaboration in the cloud
Embrace enterprise social
networking solutions
Tactics
Transition from
multiple collaboration
and messaging
solutions to Office 365
integrated with
Yammer
Results
“Office 365 and Yammer will
enable us to transform
communication and
collaboration among our
employees, surfacing the best
and most innovative ideas across
the organization.”
Andy Tidd
Chief Information Officer
ABB Group
“ABB’s decision as a global technology leader to deploy Office 365 and Yammer will help it
empower employees with new ways of working via enterprise social and the cloud.”
– Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer
22. Reduce costs with unified communications tools
Enhance enterprise-wide productivity and achieve cost savings with a modern, unified
communication and collaboration (UCC) strategy
Your company’s travel
costs have increased
substantially as your
business expands to new
markets. Real-time
communication is
challenging - phone and
email is not enough.
You implement a unified
communications
platform based on
Lync. The geographical
barriers have been
removed and employees
can communicate and
collaborate with anyone,
anywhere, anytime.
Your company has
reduced travel costs by
15 percent and, your
traditional PBX phonerelated costs have been
cut in half.
“61% of surveyed
IT decisionmakers cited
measurable cost
savings, employee
uptake and
employee
productivity
following major
UCC investments.”
CFOInnovationAsia.com,
June 2013
23. Helly Hansen accelerates business with hosted
communication and collaboration solutions
Objectives
•
•
•
Update aging, unreliable email and
telephony systems
Reduce costs
Focus small IT staff on higher value
initiatives
Tactics
Results
Adopted Office 365,
Lync and SharePoint to
enable live meetings,
desktop sharing and
project management
tools for global teams.
•
•
•
Improved communication
Accelerated business processes
Transformed travel culture,
reducing travel costs by 10 to
15 percent.
“It is important for everyone to have a Lync-certified endpoint to make their experience as
good as possible …. We really appreciate the variety of devices that we can use with Lync.
– Sandy Abrahams, IT Director, Helly Hansen
24. Accelerate information sharing and innovation
Provide employees instant access to information and idea sharing with internal
social tools
Due to several
acquisitions, your
company has grown
causing employees to
become disconnected
from one another.
You adopt a social
collaboration platform
where ideas and
information can be
shared, transcending
organizational and
geographical silos.
Within weeks employees
are asking each other
questions, coordinating
projects and collaborating
with one another,
improving overall
business health.
“Individual
empowerment
will accelerate
substantially
during the
next 15-20
years.”
National Intelligence
Council, Global Trends
2030: Alternative Worlds
25. Xerox accelerates innovation with Yammer
Objectives
•
•
Connect employees with the people
and information they need in order
to excel
Merge two company cultures
following an acquisition
Tactics
Results
Deployed Yammer as a
go-to place for
employees to connect
globally and innovate
together.
•
•
•
Accelerated innovation
Streamlined information flow
Merged communications
across two companies
“There’s no question Yammer has helped us reduce the time it takes to go from a new idea or
call to action to execution. It accelerates innovation.”
- Gregory North, Vice President of Corporate Lean Six Sigma and Business Transformation, Xerox
26. Reimagining with Microsoft
Consumers + Business
Culture of reliability, security and privacy
Enabling you with seamless, differentiated business solutions
Personal focus | Consistent experience | Global excellence
28. Next steps
With a complete data
platform, drive faster
business insights for
all using familiar tools
like SQL and Excel
with Power View.
Enhance productivity
with the cloud and
Office 365 and
leverage SharePoint
and Lync
collaboration tools.
Develop an
enterprise social
collaboration
strategy that will
capitalize on
products you
already own.
Learn more about the
Microsoft Dynamics
AX ERP solutions for
Finance.
Modernize your
line of business
applications to
increase business
efficiency.