1. The document discusses using price elasticity in insurance pricing models to optimize prices and profits while staying within regulatory guidelines.
2. It describes how European insurers have benefited from explicitly incorporating price elasticity, while US insurers commonly make "intuition-led" pricing decisions that are implicitly motivated by elasticity concepts.
3. The author argues that insurance pricing could be improved by taking a more scientific approach to incorporating price elasticity data, lifetime customer value, and other factors beyond pure loss costs.
How Innovations in Pricing Can Lead to Increased ValueEverest Group
Everest Group expert, Ross Tisnovsky, will discuss how buyers can strategically use pricing to address key issues and concerns in their outsourcing
relationships and highlight best practices for
improving value capture.
1. The document summarizes key concepts about elasticity from economics including definitions of price elasticity of demand, income elasticity of demand, cross-price elasticity of demand, and elasticity of supply.
2. It provides examples of different types of elasticities including perfectly inelastic demand, inelastic demand, unitary elasticity, elastic demand, and perfectly elastic demand.
3. Formulas are given for calculating various elasticities including the midpoint formula and the determinants of demand elasticity are discussed.
Pensioen Forum 2009, Rotterdam, 30 September 2009fvalkenburg
The document discusses pension reforms in the Netherlands and alternatives to traditional defined benefit plans. It makes several provocative statements: 1) Pension experts should look at pensions from a business perspective rather than just a pension one. 2) The Netherlands has not fully utilized the possibilities of the EU Pensions Directive like Belgium has. 3) Dutch innovations have been stalled by prioritizing own interests over customers' needs. It argues there is a business case for new structures like the Premium Pension Institution and that defined contribution plans can be sustainable alternatives if risks are properly managed. It concludes the Netherlands should stop developing its own pension vehicle and instead utilize alternatives like Belgium's model or a global pension captive.
Competitive market analysis (CMA) provides the most comprehensive approach to measuring an insurer's competitive position, but it is also the most complex and costly to implement. CMA involves using a batch-rating tool to calculate rates for an insurer and its competitors for all current policies or target risks, providing a complete picture of pricing effectiveness down to each rating segment. Some alternatives are less sophisticated, such as reviewing competitors' rate changes or an insurer's own statistics, but these provide only a relative or limited view of competitive position. The most advanced insurers are continuing to leverage complex rating models and data to segment risks and establish niche pricing, making comprehensive CMA more necessary for other insurers to avoid adverse selection and unprofitable
Vanguard's presentation on XXXXXXXXX at the PensionSource Fund Manager Confer...PensionSource
This document discusses indexing and passive investing strategies. It argues that most actively managed funds underperform their benchmarks after fees. Studies show that the majority (70-90%) of funds lag their indexes over long periods of time across different regions and asset classes. The presentation emphasizes that costs are the primary determinant of returns, and low-cost index funds are likely to outperform most active strategies. It promotes Vanguard's index funds as a better option for investors compared to higher-cost actively managed alternatives.
Institutional Net Lease Fund, Summary InformationDavid Wrubel
This document summarizes an investment opportunity in EGM Income & Growth Fund V, a real estate fund that invests in net lease assets leased to investment-grade tenants. The fund seeks to acquire single-tenant properties through direct purchases, sale-leasebacks, and build-to-suits to generate predictable cash flow. Current market conditions allow the fund to invest at attractive prices while targeting higher risk-adjusted returns than historical averages. The fund will invest between $10 million and $200 million across various asset classes and property types leased to a diverse portfolio of investment-grade tenants.
Market Vista report provides data and analysis highlighting the key trends and developments in the fast-evolving global offshoring and outsourcing market. Market Vista captures the key developments across outsourcing transaction trends, health of Global In-house Centers (GICs), location risks and opportunities, and service provider developments.
The document discusses the FIX session layer and message sequencing. It introduces FIX sessions, including how they are initiated with logon messages and maintained with heartbeats. A FIX session guarantees that messages are delivered in the order they are sent through use of sequence numbers that each party tracks for incoming and outgoing messages. Sequence numbers help identify if messages are received out of order.
How Innovations in Pricing Can Lead to Increased ValueEverest Group
Everest Group expert, Ross Tisnovsky, will discuss how buyers can strategically use pricing to address key issues and concerns in their outsourcing
relationships and highlight best practices for
improving value capture.
1. The document summarizes key concepts about elasticity from economics including definitions of price elasticity of demand, income elasticity of demand, cross-price elasticity of demand, and elasticity of supply.
2. It provides examples of different types of elasticities including perfectly inelastic demand, inelastic demand, unitary elasticity, elastic demand, and perfectly elastic demand.
3. Formulas are given for calculating various elasticities including the midpoint formula and the determinants of demand elasticity are discussed.
Pensioen Forum 2009, Rotterdam, 30 September 2009fvalkenburg
The document discusses pension reforms in the Netherlands and alternatives to traditional defined benefit plans. It makes several provocative statements: 1) Pension experts should look at pensions from a business perspective rather than just a pension one. 2) The Netherlands has not fully utilized the possibilities of the EU Pensions Directive like Belgium has. 3) Dutch innovations have been stalled by prioritizing own interests over customers' needs. It argues there is a business case for new structures like the Premium Pension Institution and that defined contribution plans can be sustainable alternatives if risks are properly managed. It concludes the Netherlands should stop developing its own pension vehicle and instead utilize alternatives like Belgium's model or a global pension captive.
Competitive market analysis (CMA) provides the most comprehensive approach to measuring an insurer's competitive position, but it is also the most complex and costly to implement. CMA involves using a batch-rating tool to calculate rates for an insurer and its competitors for all current policies or target risks, providing a complete picture of pricing effectiveness down to each rating segment. Some alternatives are less sophisticated, such as reviewing competitors' rate changes or an insurer's own statistics, but these provide only a relative or limited view of competitive position. The most advanced insurers are continuing to leverage complex rating models and data to segment risks and establish niche pricing, making comprehensive CMA more necessary for other insurers to avoid adverse selection and unprofitable
Vanguard's presentation on XXXXXXXXX at the PensionSource Fund Manager Confer...PensionSource
This document discusses indexing and passive investing strategies. It argues that most actively managed funds underperform their benchmarks after fees. Studies show that the majority (70-90%) of funds lag their indexes over long periods of time across different regions and asset classes. The presentation emphasizes that costs are the primary determinant of returns, and low-cost index funds are likely to outperform most active strategies. It promotes Vanguard's index funds as a better option for investors compared to higher-cost actively managed alternatives.
Institutional Net Lease Fund, Summary InformationDavid Wrubel
This document summarizes an investment opportunity in EGM Income & Growth Fund V, a real estate fund that invests in net lease assets leased to investment-grade tenants. The fund seeks to acquire single-tenant properties through direct purchases, sale-leasebacks, and build-to-suits to generate predictable cash flow. Current market conditions allow the fund to invest at attractive prices while targeting higher risk-adjusted returns than historical averages. The fund will invest between $10 million and $200 million across various asset classes and property types leased to a diverse portfolio of investment-grade tenants.
Market Vista report provides data and analysis highlighting the key trends and developments in the fast-evolving global offshoring and outsourcing market. Market Vista captures the key developments across outsourcing transaction trends, health of Global In-house Centers (GICs), location risks and opportunities, and service provider developments.
The document discusses the FIX session layer and message sequencing. It introduces FIX sessions, including how they are initiated with logon messages and maintained with heartbeats. A FIX session guarantees that messages are delivered in the order they are sent through use of sequence numbers that each party tracks for incoming and outgoing messages. Sequence numbers help identify if messages are received out of order.
Deloitte vendavo sept 2010 - outcome based approachTheo Slaats
Vendavo Pricing Seminar Düsseldorf september 2010
Presentation by Theo Slaats, co-leader Deloitte EMEA Pricing and Profitability Management Center of Excellence
Learning from other sectors: How did low-cost business models change an industry?
By: Raúl Sánchez, Director, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte, Barcelona, Spain
Everyone "knows" that B2B customers buy products when you show them the economic advantages of buying your offering. Often, you can develop a strong economic argument without collecting massive amounts of data, installing enterprise software systems or spending a ton of money. In this webinar, Jim Geisman of Software Pricing Partners shares his extensive experience working with companies to sharpen their value propositions.
Jim Geisman provides practical advice and tips that have helped B2B marketing and sales professionals in companies ranging in size from global companies to start-ups.
1) Conducting competitive market analysis (CMA) to assess competitive position is becoming more important for insurers but also presents challenges.
2) CMA involves using a batch-rating tool to calculate rates for an insurer and competitors for current policies, providing a comprehensive view of competitive position by segment.
3) Effective CMA requires overcoming obstacles like selecting appropriate competitor companies, ensuring accurate tier alignment across insurers' rating plans, and validating generated premiums from comparative rating tools.
This document discusses the benefits of improving pricing frameworks for non-retail lenders. It argues that a 5% improvement in margin/fee incomes from a better pricing strategy could result in a 15% increase in shareholder value (around $153 million) for a $10 billion loan portfolio. Current pricing practices often rely on experience and lack dynamism, but a robust pricing framework can leverage information, react quickly to changes, and reduce costs. The document provides an example to illustrate how enhanced pricing could boost profits and valuation.
Traditional business analysis exposes us to unanticipated risk. You need to incorporate uncertainty in business analysis to manage risk in important business decisions.
Delivering measurable results through pricing (DMRTP) outlines challenges faced by organizations in delivering transformational results through pricing and approaches that have proven to be effective in overcoming those challenges. I delivered this presentation at PPS fall 2011 conference in Las Vegas
This document provides an overview of Chapter 3 from the textbook "Services Marketing" which focuses on positioning services in competitive markets. The chapter discusses market segmentation, service attributes and levels, developing an effective positioning strategy, and using positioning maps to analyze competitive strategy. It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing a brand from its competitors through a clear positioning strategy that sets the firm or product apart from others in the minds of customers.
This document summarizes a presentation on pricing variable annuity guaranteed living benefits given in 2009. It discusses how recent market trends have impacted pricing, including large losses announced by insurers, increased reserves, and changes to VA product designs. It also examines factors affecting pricing, such as lower interest rates, higher volatility, increased hedging costs, and higher asset correlations. The presentation argues that pricing assumptions may need to be adjusted to account for these changes in the economic environment.
This document summarizes a presentation on pricing guarantees for variable annuities given recent market conditions. It discusses how lower interest rates, lower expected equity returns, and higher realized volatility are challenging pricing assumptions. Many insurance companies have had to increase reserves, accelerate write-offs, and modify products with higher fees or reduced guarantees due to losses. Hedging guarantees is also very difficult in this environment of increased volatility, basis risk, and funding costs. Proper pricing now requires considering economics rather than just accounting impacts.
Celebrate – Pricing Power
Pricing principles that capture value and enhance profitability
Pricing can no longer be an after-thought, with the pricing strategy and rate structure applied after the service offering is developed. Increasingly, clients want unique pricing structures that include shared accountability – this applies not only to agencies, but is part of a larger trend across many service-business industries. Successfully aligning interests requires integrating the pricing strategy as a core component of the offer – using price to help determine: What is included? How is success defined? How services are delivered. This discussion will take lessons learned from both advertising, and other segments to frame the role of pricing in the sales process. We will also discuss the ways leading-class pricing organizations find success with client procurement teams – who have been very effective at driving down rates. This includes the importance of differentiating cost vs. fees vs. value. Successful alternative fee programs are not positioned as new forms of discounting, but are leveraged as a different way to measure and compensate for value. And, finally, we will discuss the concept of "losing on price."
Speaker:
Scott Lippstreu, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bangko Kabayan President Francis Ganzon shares how to successfully choose a microinsurance provider during the 2012 RBAP-MABS National Roundtable Conference on June 8.
The document discusses coal price risk management and outlines Mitsui's role in providing risk management products and services to help clients stabilize cash flow and reduce earnings volatility from coal price fluctuations. It describes various hedging strategies using derivatives like swaps and options to fix coal prices. The document also analyzes current issues in coal markets like dark spreads, liquidity, new indices, freight costs, and carbon regulations.
This document introduces corporate hedging of bitumen commodity prices. It discusses [1] how volatile bitumen and currency markets pose risks, [2] how to analyze a company's risk exposure through contracts and positions, and [3] how bitumen can be indirectly hedged using correlated products like fuel oil. The remainder outlines hedging strategies like static versus dynamic hedges, the services provided, and implementation through a trading account. The goal is to minimize price risks through professional risk management and generate savings in volatile markets.
A Business Valuation Article: Relative Valuation uses the valuation ratios of Comparable publicly traded companies and applies that ratios to the comapny being valued subject to necessary adjustments.
Key Issues in Relative Valuations- a) Peer Selection, b) Current Multiples or Forward Multiples, c) Adjustments to the Value...
Working closely with your logistics providers to ensure the provision of optimum capacity ( in the short, medium and long term)
By Roger Moore
LogiChem 2011 will be the event's tenth anniversary and an opportunity for the most senior chemical supply chain & global logistics directors from the European chemicals community to come together once again share experiences, make new contacts and benchmark the latest chemical supply chain initiatives.
Not only will LogiChem 2011 be a chance for the chemical industry to reminisce about the last ten years but an opportunity to shape the next decade. To celebrate a decade of LogiChem, there will be an exciting three day programme filled with networking opportunities in our new location, Antwerp.
KSS Retail: The Evolution of Retail PricingKSSretail
Summary version of presentation by Lyle Walker, VP Marketing, KSS Retail, at "Pricing & Revenue Management Strategy for Retail," a conference produced by IQPC. April 26 - 28, 2011, Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Ever wonder when a customer actually thinks about your product or service? This workshop can help you to determine how to market your services at moments when they do.
Porter's generic strategies include cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having very low production costs to offer lower prices. Differentiation involves unique product attributes that are valued by customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment and achieving either cost advantages or differentiation within that segment. While these strategies provide advantages against competitive forces, attempting multiple strategies risks being "stuck in the middle" without a clear advantage. Later critics argued generic strategies lack flexibility and specificity, and that there are viable strategies between the extremes.
Price optimization uses three predictive models - claim propensity, market situation, and customer behavior - to set prices that maximize profits given constraints. An example is Parker Hannifin, which implemented demand-based pricing and saw profits rise from 7% to 21%. Price optimization integrates these models to predict how customers respond to price changes and identify optimal pricing strategies.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Deloitte vendavo sept 2010 - outcome based approachTheo Slaats
Vendavo Pricing Seminar Düsseldorf september 2010
Presentation by Theo Slaats, co-leader Deloitte EMEA Pricing and Profitability Management Center of Excellence
Learning from other sectors: How did low-cost business models change an industry?
By: Raúl Sánchez, Director, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte, Barcelona, Spain
Everyone "knows" that B2B customers buy products when you show them the economic advantages of buying your offering. Often, you can develop a strong economic argument without collecting massive amounts of data, installing enterprise software systems or spending a ton of money. In this webinar, Jim Geisman of Software Pricing Partners shares his extensive experience working with companies to sharpen their value propositions.
Jim Geisman provides practical advice and tips that have helped B2B marketing and sales professionals in companies ranging in size from global companies to start-ups.
1) Conducting competitive market analysis (CMA) to assess competitive position is becoming more important for insurers but also presents challenges.
2) CMA involves using a batch-rating tool to calculate rates for an insurer and competitors for current policies, providing a comprehensive view of competitive position by segment.
3) Effective CMA requires overcoming obstacles like selecting appropriate competitor companies, ensuring accurate tier alignment across insurers' rating plans, and validating generated premiums from comparative rating tools.
This document discusses the benefits of improving pricing frameworks for non-retail lenders. It argues that a 5% improvement in margin/fee incomes from a better pricing strategy could result in a 15% increase in shareholder value (around $153 million) for a $10 billion loan portfolio. Current pricing practices often rely on experience and lack dynamism, but a robust pricing framework can leverage information, react quickly to changes, and reduce costs. The document provides an example to illustrate how enhanced pricing could boost profits and valuation.
Traditional business analysis exposes us to unanticipated risk. You need to incorporate uncertainty in business analysis to manage risk in important business decisions.
Delivering measurable results through pricing (DMRTP) outlines challenges faced by organizations in delivering transformational results through pricing and approaches that have proven to be effective in overcoming those challenges. I delivered this presentation at PPS fall 2011 conference in Las Vegas
This document provides an overview of Chapter 3 from the textbook "Services Marketing" which focuses on positioning services in competitive markets. The chapter discusses market segmentation, service attributes and levels, developing an effective positioning strategy, and using positioning maps to analyze competitive strategy. It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing a brand from its competitors through a clear positioning strategy that sets the firm or product apart from others in the minds of customers.
This document summarizes a presentation on pricing variable annuity guaranteed living benefits given in 2009. It discusses how recent market trends have impacted pricing, including large losses announced by insurers, increased reserves, and changes to VA product designs. It also examines factors affecting pricing, such as lower interest rates, higher volatility, increased hedging costs, and higher asset correlations. The presentation argues that pricing assumptions may need to be adjusted to account for these changes in the economic environment.
This document summarizes a presentation on pricing guarantees for variable annuities given recent market conditions. It discusses how lower interest rates, lower expected equity returns, and higher realized volatility are challenging pricing assumptions. Many insurance companies have had to increase reserves, accelerate write-offs, and modify products with higher fees or reduced guarantees due to losses. Hedging guarantees is also very difficult in this environment of increased volatility, basis risk, and funding costs. Proper pricing now requires considering economics rather than just accounting impacts.
Celebrate – Pricing Power
Pricing principles that capture value and enhance profitability
Pricing can no longer be an after-thought, with the pricing strategy and rate structure applied after the service offering is developed. Increasingly, clients want unique pricing structures that include shared accountability – this applies not only to agencies, but is part of a larger trend across many service-business industries. Successfully aligning interests requires integrating the pricing strategy as a core component of the offer – using price to help determine: What is included? How is success defined? How services are delivered. This discussion will take lessons learned from both advertising, and other segments to frame the role of pricing in the sales process. We will also discuss the ways leading-class pricing organizations find success with client procurement teams – who have been very effective at driving down rates. This includes the importance of differentiating cost vs. fees vs. value. Successful alternative fee programs are not positioned as new forms of discounting, but are leveraged as a different way to measure and compensate for value. And, finally, we will discuss the concept of "losing on price."
Speaker:
Scott Lippstreu, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bangko Kabayan President Francis Ganzon shares how to successfully choose a microinsurance provider during the 2012 RBAP-MABS National Roundtable Conference on June 8.
The document discusses coal price risk management and outlines Mitsui's role in providing risk management products and services to help clients stabilize cash flow and reduce earnings volatility from coal price fluctuations. It describes various hedging strategies using derivatives like swaps and options to fix coal prices. The document also analyzes current issues in coal markets like dark spreads, liquidity, new indices, freight costs, and carbon regulations.
This document introduces corporate hedging of bitumen commodity prices. It discusses [1] how volatile bitumen and currency markets pose risks, [2] how to analyze a company's risk exposure through contracts and positions, and [3] how bitumen can be indirectly hedged using correlated products like fuel oil. The remainder outlines hedging strategies like static versus dynamic hedges, the services provided, and implementation through a trading account. The goal is to minimize price risks through professional risk management and generate savings in volatile markets.
A Business Valuation Article: Relative Valuation uses the valuation ratios of Comparable publicly traded companies and applies that ratios to the comapny being valued subject to necessary adjustments.
Key Issues in Relative Valuations- a) Peer Selection, b) Current Multiples or Forward Multiples, c) Adjustments to the Value...
Working closely with your logistics providers to ensure the provision of optimum capacity ( in the short, medium and long term)
By Roger Moore
LogiChem 2011 will be the event's tenth anniversary and an opportunity for the most senior chemical supply chain & global logistics directors from the European chemicals community to come together once again share experiences, make new contacts and benchmark the latest chemical supply chain initiatives.
Not only will LogiChem 2011 be a chance for the chemical industry to reminisce about the last ten years but an opportunity to shape the next decade. To celebrate a decade of LogiChem, there will be an exciting three day programme filled with networking opportunities in our new location, Antwerp.
KSS Retail: The Evolution of Retail PricingKSSretail
Summary version of presentation by Lyle Walker, VP Marketing, KSS Retail, at "Pricing & Revenue Management Strategy for Retail," a conference produced by IQPC. April 26 - 28, 2011, Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Ever wonder when a customer actually thinks about your product or service? This workshop can help you to determine how to market your services at moments when they do.
Porter's generic strategies include cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having very low production costs to offer lower prices. Differentiation involves unique product attributes that are valued by customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment and achieving either cost advantages or differentiation within that segment. While these strategies provide advantages against competitive forces, attempting multiple strategies risks being "stuck in the middle" without a clear advantage. Later critics argued generic strategies lack flexibility and specificity, and that there are viable strategies between the extremes.
Price optimization uses three predictive models - claim propensity, market situation, and customer behavior - to set prices that maximize profits given constraints. An example is Parker Hannifin, which implemented demand-based pricing and saw profits rise from 7% to 21%. Price optimization integrates these models to predict how customers respond to price changes and identify optimal pricing strategies.
Similar to Fractal analytics elasticity based pricing (20)
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!