This document provides a summary of the film "The Dark Knight". It discusses the director, writers, cast, genre, box office earnings, intended audience, and user reviews of the film. The opening scene is described, which introduces clown-masked men robbing a bank after ziplining across the street. Technical aspects like the use of downloads and issues with piracy are also mentioned.
The document provides negative and positive feedback on a first draft magazine cover design. The negative feedback notes issues with the centered sell line, lack of drop shadows, grammatical errors, and text being too close to the edge. The positive feedback praises the catchy title effect, overlapping design, coordinated pink elements, and resizing text. Based on the feedback, the designer plans to address the sell line alignment, make the model credit stand out more, add a drop shadow to text, rearrange colors for clarity, and increase spacing between text and the edge.
This presentation is about an ongoing art project: The Side View Mirror Project. I take pictures of people in their side view mirrors while we are stopped in traffic. It's an exploration of human interaction. I gave this presentation at Ignite Columbus 4.
The document discusses strategic objectives and strategy concepts. It defines strategic objectives as more definitive statements that accomplish an organization's mission. Strategic objectives typically have multi-year timeframes and require efforts from multiple departments. Effective strategic objectives are measurable, achievable, flexible, and stretch employees without being unrealistic. The document also defines strategy and discusses the relationship between vision, mission, and objectives. It emphasizes that strategy involves making explicit choices about customers, offerings, and activities.
The children go on a treasure hunt in the forest led by Boris, where they use objects in a bag to guide them to five trees on the school's property to learn about the forest ecosystem and proper forest use. As they correctly match objects to trees, they earn keys that may unlock the treasure. Their teachers also got to participate by going on a treasure hunt themselves after a brief explanation.
Benefits of Software Upgradability of a Hardware PlatformFlexera
The document discusses the benefits of a software-upgradable hardware platform compared to proprietary "pizza box" systems. A hardware platform allows adding capacity and new I/O as needed, improving reliability, and introducing new applications through software upgrades. This is more capital expenditure friendly for customers and reduces development costs for vendors. The platform also offers longer product life cycles and higher returns through feature upgrades managed by entitlement licensing.
Campus Activities and Online Learning: Taking our Place in the ConversationCindy Kane, Ph.D.
The document discusses initiatives by the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership at Bridgewater State University to incorporate online and distance learning strategies into their programs. It describes moving training for student programmers, blogging for student travel, pre-service training for orientation leaders, and a student leadership institute online. The initiatives aimed to reach more students, make better use of staff time and resources, and support varied learning styles. Both benefits and challenges were noted, such as reducing interactions but increasing accessibility. The office reflected that the programs allowed them to engage more students while struggling with issues like accountability and time management in virtual spaces.
This document provides a summary of the film "The Dark Knight". It discusses the director, writers, cast, genre, box office earnings, intended audience, and user reviews of the film. The opening scene is described, which introduces clown-masked men robbing a bank after ziplining across the street. Technical aspects like the use of downloads and issues with piracy are also mentioned.
The document provides negative and positive feedback on a first draft magazine cover design. The negative feedback notes issues with the centered sell line, lack of drop shadows, grammatical errors, and text being too close to the edge. The positive feedback praises the catchy title effect, overlapping design, coordinated pink elements, and resizing text. Based on the feedback, the designer plans to address the sell line alignment, make the model credit stand out more, add a drop shadow to text, rearrange colors for clarity, and increase spacing between text and the edge.
This presentation is about an ongoing art project: The Side View Mirror Project. I take pictures of people in their side view mirrors while we are stopped in traffic. It's an exploration of human interaction. I gave this presentation at Ignite Columbus 4.
The document discusses strategic objectives and strategy concepts. It defines strategic objectives as more definitive statements that accomplish an organization's mission. Strategic objectives typically have multi-year timeframes and require efforts from multiple departments. Effective strategic objectives are measurable, achievable, flexible, and stretch employees without being unrealistic. The document also defines strategy and discusses the relationship between vision, mission, and objectives. It emphasizes that strategy involves making explicit choices about customers, offerings, and activities.
The children go on a treasure hunt in the forest led by Boris, where they use objects in a bag to guide them to five trees on the school's property to learn about the forest ecosystem and proper forest use. As they correctly match objects to trees, they earn keys that may unlock the treasure. Their teachers also got to participate by going on a treasure hunt themselves after a brief explanation.
Benefits of Software Upgradability of a Hardware PlatformFlexera
The document discusses the benefits of a software-upgradable hardware platform compared to proprietary "pizza box" systems. A hardware platform allows adding capacity and new I/O as needed, improving reliability, and introducing new applications through software upgrades. This is more capital expenditure friendly for customers and reduces development costs for vendors. The platform also offers longer product life cycles and higher returns through feature upgrades managed by entitlement licensing.
Campus Activities and Online Learning: Taking our Place in the ConversationCindy Kane, Ph.D.
The document discusses initiatives by the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership at Bridgewater State University to incorporate online and distance learning strategies into their programs. It describes moving training for student programmers, blogging for student travel, pre-service training for orientation leaders, and a student leadership institute online. The initiatives aimed to reach more students, make better use of staff time and resources, and support varied learning styles. Both benefits and challenges were noted, such as reducing interactions but increasing accessibility. The office reflected that the programs allowed them to engage more students while struggling with issues like accountability and time management in virtual spaces.
Este documento describe varias métricas para evaluar la calidad de los requerimientos y el diseño de software. Explica la métrica de punto de función para predecir el tamaño del sistema basado en un modelo de análisis. También describe la métrica Bang y cómo se puede usar para estimar el tamaño del software. Además, detalla algunas métricas propuestas por Davis para medir la especificidad, completitud y validez de los requerimientos.
Teks ini membahas tentang tempoyak, yaitu bumbu yang dihasilkan dari fermentasi daging buah durian. Tempoyak dapat dibuat secara tidak sengaja dengan membiarkan durian masak selama 3-4 hari atau secara sengaja dengan memisahkan daging buah durian lalu menambahkan garam 2% dari bobot daging buah. Penulis mencoba membuat tempoyak secara tidak sengaja dari durian yang tertinggal di kulkas selama 10
Management of (Research) Teams - leadership and decision making Francesco Venier
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses FlexNet Operations Administration Training which is a workshop-based engagement to provide software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers with knowledge and hands-on training to implement and administer FlexNet Operations. The training covers system administration, application administration, and integration best practices over 4-5 days. The goal is to help organizations overcome initial barriers and efficiently utilize FlexNet Operations for licensing, entitlement management, and integration with back-office systems.
The document summarizes interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration between 1936-1938 with over 2,300 former slaves from southern states. It provides excerpts from several interviews, including Charity Anderson who said she had a happy life before the Civil War and her kind master trusted her. Tempe Herndon Durham, who was 103 years old during her interview, discussed slave wedding and childbearing traditions. The interviews also described slave labor, relationships with owners, and past times.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 es una plataforma de colaboración empresarial que permite la creación de sitios, comunidades y contenido compartido. Ofrece características como búsqueda avanzada, insights y composites. Su arquitectura incluye componentes como SharePoint Foundation, servidores y bases de datos. Permite la personalización a través de elementos como master pages, layouts y web parts.
The document discusses strategies for software vendors moving to cloud/SaaS models. It summarizes market trends showing strong growth in cloud applications/SaaS. It then discusses challenges SaaS providers face like losing revenue from credential sharing and having one-size-fits-all packaging. Solutions proposed include using Flexera software to package offerings based on customer needs, implement flexible licensing, and protect against revenue leakage from credential abuse.
Pricing and Licensing Strategies for GrowthFlexera
The document discusses pricing and licensing strategies for software vendors in a changing landscape. It covers why customers buy, trends impacting vendors, and elements of pricing models. Key points include:
- Customers buy based on how offerings meet their needs, are good value, and have acceptable risk. Virtualization and cloud trends impact how vendors track usage and package offerings.
- Emerging models like subscriptions are rising as perpetual licenses decline. Commoditization increases competition. Vendors must focus on delivery flexibility and simple, value-based pricing.
- Effective pricing models focus on overall value, charge based on value created, and set price levels accordingly. They include packaging structure, discounting framework, and value metrics
Este documento presenta información sobre 44 estudiantes de un programa de desarrollo social y liderazgo. Para cada estudiante se incluye su cédula, apellidos, nombres, programa, aldea, cohorte, estado administrativo, estado académico, certificación y fecha de revisión, así como observaciones sobre su expediente. La mayoría de los estudiantes tienen su expediente completo y unidades curriculares completas, aunque algunos presentan observaciones como inasistencia, falta de actas o pasantía.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
App Portal permet aux entreprises d’améliorer la satisfaction de leur clientèle et l’efficacité de leurs services grâce à un magasin d’applications professionnelles en libre-service qui accélère la livraison des logiciels aux entreprises, tout en réduisant le coût de fourniture du service et en garantissant la conformité permanente des licences.
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.
Make Smarter Cloud Decisions at Every Step of Your JourneyFlexera
This document discusses Flexera's solutions for managing the entire cloud journey from planning migrations to ongoing cost optimization and management. It introduces Flexera's CloudScape, Optima, and Cloud Management Platform tools. CloudScape helps plan migrations by assessing workloads. Optima provides visibility into cloud spend and automates cost optimization. The Cloud Management Platform allows for comprehensive management across cloud environments. Flexera claims to help customers make smarter decisions at every step of their cloud journey from discovery to ongoing governance and cost control.
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.
Este documento describe varias métricas para evaluar la calidad de los requerimientos y el diseño de software. Explica la métrica de punto de función para predecir el tamaño del sistema basado en un modelo de análisis. También describe la métrica Bang y cómo se puede usar para estimar el tamaño del software. Además, detalla algunas métricas propuestas por Davis para medir la especificidad, completitud y validez de los requerimientos.
Teks ini membahas tentang tempoyak, yaitu bumbu yang dihasilkan dari fermentasi daging buah durian. Tempoyak dapat dibuat secara tidak sengaja dengan membiarkan durian masak selama 3-4 hari atau secara sengaja dengan memisahkan daging buah durian lalu menambahkan garam 2% dari bobot daging buah. Penulis mencoba membuat tempoyak secara tidak sengaja dari durian yang tertinggal di kulkas selama 10
Management of (Research) Teams - leadership and decision making Francesco Venier
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses FlexNet Operations Administration Training which is a workshop-based engagement to provide software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers with knowledge and hands-on training to implement and administer FlexNet Operations. The training covers system administration, application administration, and integration best practices over 4-5 days. The goal is to help organizations overcome initial barriers and efficiently utilize FlexNet Operations for licensing, entitlement management, and integration with back-office systems.
The document summarizes interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration between 1936-1938 with over 2,300 former slaves from southern states. It provides excerpts from several interviews, including Charity Anderson who said she had a happy life before the Civil War and her kind master trusted her. Tempe Herndon Durham, who was 103 years old during her interview, discussed slave wedding and childbearing traditions. The interviews also described slave labor, relationships with owners, and past times.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 es una plataforma de colaboración empresarial que permite la creación de sitios, comunidades y contenido compartido. Ofrece características como búsqueda avanzada, insights y composites. Su arquitectura incluye componentes como SharePoint Foundation, servidores y bases de datos. Permite la personalización a través de elementos como master pages, layouts y web parts.
The document discusses strategies for software vendors moving to cloud/SaaS models. It summarizes market trends showing strong growth in cloud applications/SaaS. It then discusses challenges SaaS providers face like losing revenue from credential sharing and having one-size-fits-all packaging. Solutions proposed include using Flexera software to package offerings based on customer needs, implement flexible licensing, and protect against revenue leakage from credential abuse.
Pricing and Licensing Strategies for GrowthFlexera
The document discusses pricing and licensing strategies for software vendors in a changing landscape. It covers why customers buy, trends impacting vendors, and elements of pricing models. Key points include:
- Customers buy based on how offerings meet their needs, are good value, and have acceptable risk. Virtualization and cloud trends impact how vendors track usage and package offerings.
- Emerging models like subscriptions are rising as perpetual licenses decline. Commoditization increases competition. Vendors must focus on delivery flexibility and simple, value-based pricing.
- Effective pricing models focus on overall value, charge based on value created, and set price levels accordingly. They include packaging structure, discounting framework, and value metrics
Este documento presenta información sobre 44 estudiantes de un programa de desarrollo social y liderazgo. Para cada estudiante se incluye su cédula, apellidos, nombres, programa, aldea, cohorte, estado administrativo, estado académico, certificación y fecha de revisión, así como observaciones sobre su expediente. La mayoría de los estudiantes tienen su expediente completo y unidades curriculares completas, aunque algunos presentan observaciones como inasistencia, falta de actas o pasantía.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
App Portal permet aux entreprises d’améliorer la satisfaction de leur clientèle et l’efficacité de leurs services grâce à un magasin d’applications professionnelles en libre-service qui accélère la livraison des logiciels aux entreprises, tout en réduisant le coût de fourniture du service et en garantissant la conformité permanente des licences.
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.
Make Smarter Cloud Decisions at Every Step of Your JourneyFlexera
This document discusses Flexera's solutions for managing the entire cloud journey from planning migrations to ongoing cost optimization and management. It introduces Flexera's CloudScape, Optima, and Cloud Management Platform tools. CloudScape helps plan migrations by assessing workloads. Optima provides visibility into cloud spend and automates cost optimization. The Cloud Management Platform allows for comprehensive management across cloud environments. Flexera claims to help customers make smarter decisions at every step of their cloud journey from discovery to ongoing governance and cost control.
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
This document discusses addressing open source risks during mergers and acquisitions from a legal perspective. It notes that open source software is prevalent in organizations but often unmanaged, posing unknown risks to M&A deals. It recommends conducting an open source audit early in the M&A process to identify license restrictions, security vulnerabilities, and other issues. Audit results can then be used to prioritize remediation plans and negotiate deal terms such as escrow accounts and warranties to contain open source risks.
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.
Flexera Event - The Game Has Changed - Are You Ready?Flexera
This document discusses software asset management (SAM) and the need to transform SAM into software license optimization (SLO). It notes that only 30% of enterprise spending is managed by procurement and 75% of cloud acquisitions are untracked. The document outlines a path to SLO maturity from basic to standardized to rationalized to dynamic. It states that embedding SLO into IT processes including workforce enablement, SaaS application adoption, hybrid cloud management and strategic vendor management can accelerate maturity by 3-4 times.
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.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
GlobalLogic Java Community Webinar #18 “How to Improve Web Application Perfor...GlobalLogic Ukraine
Під час доповіді відповімо на питання, навіщо потрібно підвищувати продуктивність аплікації і які є найефективніші способи для цього. А також поговоримо про те, що таке кеш, які його види бувають та, основне — як знайти performance bottleneck?
Відео та деталі заходу: https://bit.ly/45tILxj
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
2. Enhancing Industrial Automation Solutions with Embedded Software: New Efficiencies and Faster Cycle Times
2 Flexera Software: FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers Whitepaper Series
Enhancing Industrial Automation Solutions with Embedded
Software: New Efficiencies and Faster Cycle Times
Introduction
More than ever, embedded software is playing a central role
in intelligent device manufacturers’ go-to-market strategies.
This trend is especially apparent in markets such as telecom,
test and measurement, healthcare, and industrial automation
– where manufacturers are under increasing pressure to
innovate, rapidly enter new markets, control costs, maximize
incremental revenue from existing customers, and deliver a
competitively differentiated customer experience.
As embedded software has become more integral to their
business, more and more manufacturers are discovering the
power of software licensing. With licensing, manufacturers
can turn device features and/or capacity on and off as
appropriate. This allows them to charge customers for
the capabilities they want, while not charging them
for capabilities they don’t want. Licensing thus enables
manufacturers to more effectively use embedded software
as a means of managing and monetizing the features and
functionality they provide in their devices.
By adopting the right licensing models, industrial
automation providers can:
• Produce different products on the same hardware
chassis. This drives down costs by eliminating the need
for additional production lines and minimizing the
number of SKUs that have to be kept in inventory.
• Create innovative products on existing hardware
chassis. This reduces the cost and time it takes to bring
differentiated products to new or existing markets.
• Up-sell existing customers by simply activating
additional device capabilities or capacity. This
makes it easier to capitalize on incremental
revenue opportunities.
• Meet evolving customer needs without requiring them
to swap out hardware or otherwise disrupt their
operations. This makes for a more positive ongoing
customer experience.
These examples highlight why software monetization is such
a compelling best practice for manufacturers.
In fact, in today’s highly competitive and fast-moving
markets, the skill with which manufacturers structure
the monetization of their embedded software – and
the diligence with which they manage their customers’
entitlements – may well turn out to be what separates market
leaders from other players.
This whitepaper outlines key trends and opportunities
influencing industrial automation solution providers today,
and how Flexera Software FlexNet®
Producer Suite for
Intelligent Device Manufacturers can help these companies
to fundamentally improve their business. In addition, the
whitepaper illustrates the power of software monetization
solutions with a customer implementation scenario.
Trends and Opportunities in Industrial Automation
In today’s ultra-competitive global business environment,
many intelligent device manufacturers are applying software
monetization principles to hardware that uses electronic
licensing to control and manage a wide range of functions.
Within the industrial automation category, this approach is
being applied across many domains including:
• Building systems management, as the green building
movement drives the development of sophisticated
systems to control heating, ventilation, air conditioning
(HVAC) and lighting.
• Industrial wireless, as these new wireless networks
quickly become integrated with standard plant and
office networks.
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• Embedded software intelligence and diagnostics, as
embedded software operating information and self-
diagnostics reduce the need for expensive on-site
factory service.
• Internet of Things (IOT) and Machine-to-machine (M2M)
communications that are unleashing a wave of new
productivity such as improved asset management and
new service initiatives.
• Automation system security, since most of today’s
automation and control systems use the same
hardware, operating systems, and communications as
broadly deployed networks. Security has become an
urgent issue.
• Consumer-influenced industrial automation, as trends
such as Internet access via cellular phones drive the
development of industry-specific applications.
At a macro level, complementary business issues are driving
the software-based differentiation of industrial automation
solutions – all of which can be capitalized upon with
embedded software licensing solutions:
• Changing economics of intelligent device manufacturing:
The underlying hardware and core operating system
software in many devices is being commoditized,
as industrial automation solution providers seek to
gain economies of scale by using more standardized
components. Industrial automation solution providers
are increasingly buying, versus building, core
subsystems and system software. As a result, their
role is evolving to more of an integrator, and less of a
manufacturer. Solution providers seek better
ways to differentiate themselves; software is a key
means to creating competitive advantage and driving
incremental revenue.
• Growing revenue contribution from software: As a
corollary to the commoditization of hardware, many
industrial automation solution providers are focusing
more resources on software development. As such,
software enables new revenue sources and provides
a way to deliver a superior, differentiated
customer experience.
• Software-enabled supply chain transformation: With
the underlying hardware becoming more powerful and
at the same time commoditized, manufacturers can
now build fewer base configurations and deliver more
functions. Product capabilities, capacity, versions and
price points can be created and modified based on
functions that can be turned on and off by licensing of
the embedded software. This dramatically streamlines
the supply chain and manufacturing processes, as well
as lowering inventory carrying costs.
The challenge for the industrial automation solution
providers is to quickly bring to market devices that
are tailored to meet the unique needs of a particular
segment or new market, while keeping manufacturing
costs low to meet margin requirements. Licensing-
based approaches allow industrial automation solution
providers to enter new markets with a full-function
device, and then create lower price points with the
same device by enabling a subset of capabilities/
capacity if lower-priced competition enters the market.
• Brand and revenue erosion from grey market abuse:
As underlying device configurations become more
standardized, grey market theft can be perpetrated
more easily. For example, demonstration models of
products increasingly find their way into the grey
market via channels for selling used equipment.
These devices are running improper software and
typically do not function correctly, posing a serious
threat to the customer experience. In addition, grey
market sales jeopardize maintenance revenues, as
manufacturers lose track of device ownership and thus
the maintenance relationship.
• Customer preferences: In today’s ultra-competitive
business environment, customers are demanding
more flexible pricing models, easy access to upgrade
features, and a superior customer experience.
Embedded software licensing capabilities allow
industrial automation solution providers to meet all of
these customer requirements by enabling important
capabilities such as field upgrades and a consistent,
streamlined customer experience across products.
Turning to Flexera Software for Answers
As industrial automation solution providers address these
trends, they increasingly recognize that they face similar
issues as software companies. Today’s intelligent device
manufacturers are looking to Flexera Software to help them:
• Reach new markets by creatively packaging and
pricing embedded software
• Build revenues by better monetizing capability
and capacity
• Cut manufacturing costs by using software to
differentiate capabilities on devices, and thus reduce
the number of unique SKUs
• Accurately track customer entitlements and usage
• Track channel partner activity, and maximize service
and maintenance revenues
• Prevent unauthorized use of capabilities without cutting
off legitimate customers
• Reduce the operational costs associated with shipping
software upgrades
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• Cut customer support costs by offering customers and
channel partners self-service and keeping them current
on the latest version
• Make better development and marketing decisions
based on device usage data
FlexNet Producer Suite Addresses the Unique Needs of
Industrial Automation
FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers
is the most comprehensive end-to-end solution for licensing,
entitlement management and delivery available today.
Industrial automation solution providers can benefit
from Flexera Software’s support for the largest number
of embedded software license models and the inherent
flexibility of the system. FlexNet Producer Suite provides a
single operations view to easily integrate products across
multiple software licensing schemes. Flexera Software
supports dozens of platforms – the widest range in the
industry – enabling industrial automation manufacturers to
use it across both large- and small-footprint devices.
FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers
leverages Flexera Software’s 25 years of industry experience,
helping to maximize revenue, cut costs, and eliminate manual
processes. It is optimized for intelligent device
manufacturers, including:
• Small footprint, embedded client: offers a licensing
toolkit that is highly modular, supports several license
models, and has a very small footprint (under 50K).
This allows intelligent device manufacturers to keep
costs low by using licensing of the embedded software
to configure capability and capacity on a device while
producing a minimum number of device types (SKUs).
• High configurability: allows key elements such as
security and binding to be configured or replaced
as needed. This provides additional flexibility to
fine-tune the solution to meet exact requirements or
take advantage of existing device capabilities, while
keeping the footprint small.
• Hands-free activation and silent trials: provides
hands-free activation and silent trials that don’t require
registration. This transparent in-product activation
improves the customer experience and increases
upgrades/up-selling by enabling easy trials for
new capabilities.
• End-to-End Licensing, entitlement management
and delivery:
a single view for you, your customers and your channel
partners to view and manage software embedded on
devices and enables you to electronically turn on and
off functionality.
Case Study: A Global Building Automation Company
Streamlines Inventory and Reduces Cycle Times with
Flexera Software
Today’s high tech buildings comprise a plethora of
sophisticated systems to control everything from HVAC to
security and fire protection. And just as every building is
different, so are the systems that orchestrate these functions.
For a global building automation company, this inescapable
fact created enormous complexity in manufacturing and
inventory management, which had a negative ripple effect
across numerous other aspects of its business.
Today, the building automation company is using FlexNet
Producer Suite to put product customization capabilities into
the hands of its customers, reducing the number of SKUs it
needs to manufacture and inventory from several hundred
SKUs to just a few. This in turn speeds cycle times – new
systems can be live in just an hour, compared to several
weeks – and lowers the potential for human error.
A challenging economy requires operational innovation
“In the US, the challenging economy has had a big impact
on the construction industry, which directly affects us,”
says the manager of integrated solutions at the building
technology company. “We were looking for innovative ways
to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and boost
operational efficiencies. We met both of these objectives
with Flexera Software FlexNet Producer Suite.
“FlexNet Producer Suite has transformed the way we do
business,” he says. The building technology company
refers to the Flexera Software solution as License Manager.
“Before, to change capability in a deployed unit, we had to
physically remove the old unit and put in a new one. Now
that can be remotely enabled with License Manager.
“Likewise, License Manager has dramatically reduced the
number of SKUs we have to manufacture and manage,” he
continues. For example, one of the company’s top hardware
platforms has 12 hardware variations and 40 firmware
variations, creating 480 SKUs for a single product line.
License Manager allows us to manufacture and stock just
two base products, which are customized in the field
with entitlement licenses created using FlexNet Licensing,
in conjunction with the company’s SAP enterprise
software system.
FlexNet Producer Suite enables flexibility and
business efficiency
The manager of integrated solutions and his team created
a simple, three-step process that allows licenses to be
generated on demand with License Manager by entering an
order in the SAP system. SAP automatically feeds the order
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into FlexNet®
Operations, Flexera Software’s entitlement
management system. The license is then emailed to the
user, who activates system functionality on site by entering
the entitlement identification number into the building’s
management console (a workstation) or directly into the
device (such as an HVAC controller) through its Human
Machine Interface.
“Simply put, I love Flexera Software FlexNet Producer Suite.
Our License Manager system couldn’t make the entitlement
management process any easier for the field organization,”
he says.
The quick, three-step process that the building automation
company implemented is in sharp contrast to the two
week-plus turnaround time that previous ordering and
manufacturing processes required. “Our inventory costs have
dropped significantly,” the manager of integrated solutions
says. “It’s not just the physical components themselves, it’s
the time required to manage everything.”
Merchandise returns have also dropped. “Due to the high
number of variations within each of three major project
lines, the previous ordering process made it easy to make
specification errors, resulting in returned merchandise that
had to be restocked. This created a fairly large pool of
inventory that was difficult to repurpose,” he explains.
Ease of use for all
In addition to creating an easy-to-use system for technical
users, the manager of integrated solutions, a business user
with no formal IT training, found Flexera Software FlexNet
Producer Suite exceptionally easy to deploy. “I’ve done all of
the installations and upgrades to FlexNet Operations myself,
with a little help from Flexera Software’s fantastic support
team. I was thoroughly impressed with the clarity of the
documentation. It walked me through all the steps easily; I
didn’t even have to get help from one of our own IT people.”
Based on the building technology company’s success with
utilizing FlexNet Producer Suite to automate the licensing of
its key product line, he is enthusiastic about applying this
breakthrough technology across the company’s product line.
He summarizes, “With License Manager we have achieved
major business improvements. We are serving our
customers better with faster velocity and greater agility.
Flexera Software has helped us reduce the manufacturing
complexity of a very sophisticated product line down to
just two models. I am excited to see how Flexera Software
solutions will continue to benefit our company and,
ultimately, the construction industry we serve.”
Summary
Industrial automation solution providers are increasingly
shifting to a technology and business model that
emphasizes value delivery through software. FlexNet
Producer Suite is the industry-leading software monetization
solution for intelligent device manufacturers - unlocking
revenue of embedded software and reducing operational
costs while streamlining manufacturing processes. FlexNet
Producer Suite also delivers unified entitlement management
in both cloud and on-premises options.
As competition intensifies in today’s global market,
maximizing customer satisfaction, increasing revenues and
reducing costs remain top business imperatives. FlexNet
Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers allows
companies to:
• Penetrate new markets through cost-effective, software-
driven product differentiation
• Improve customer satisfaction by offering self-service
and a consistent experience for downloading, using and
upgrading products
• Reduce the number of SKUs that must be manufactured,
carried and supported
• Enable electronic upgrades
• Fully monetize maintenance programs with better
tracking of channel and end-customer entitlements
• Allow new up-sell capabilities to be sampled and
activated in the field
About Flexera Software
Flexera Software helps application producers and
enterprises increase application usage and the value they
derive from their software. Our next-generation software
licensing, compliance and installation solutions are essential
to ensure continuous licensing compliance, optimized
software investments and to future-proof businesses against
the risks and costs of constantly changing technology. Over
80,000 customers turn to Flexera Software as a trusted and
neutral source for the knowledge and expertise we have
gained as the marketplace leader for over 25 years and for
the automation and intelligence designed into our products.
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