Kent Freeman, CTO/COO of Ingram Digital Group, gave the morning keynote. He discussed Ingram Industries, which includes transportation, book wholesale/distribution, and e-content storage companies. He provided a history of Ingram dating back to 1857 and milestones such as acquiring companies to form Ingram Micro. Freeman then discussed Ingram Digital's offerings like print-on-demand, e-book fulfillment, and digital content platforms for libraries, retailers, and education. He emphasized that print and digital content can co-exist and explained their strategies and services to address new marketplace dynamics in the publishing industry.
1. Songs are often rewritten and revised multiple times before becoming a number 1 hit.
2. Collaboration with other music professionals like producers and artists is important.
3. Studying different genres, languages, and world music can help make songs more creative and unique.
This document discusses trends, disruptions, and facts related to mobility. It begins by outlining several technologies and behaviors that are becoming marginalized over time, such as landline phones, CDs/DVDs, and cash payments. It then shows data on the booming use of mobile browsing in Finland, with the number of weekly mobile site visitors growing dramatically in recent years. Finally, it projects that the total revenue from mobile services in Finland will increase substantially from 2008 to 2015, highlighting the growing importance of the mobile market.
Aspects of technology impacting consumers and businesses - Convergence of ent...Dejo George
A presentation on evolution of technology and its impact on business especially content owners. The presentation looks at how business need to reconfigure to avail or leverage the technology evolution and thus maximise their opportunity with consumers. The presentation also describes what are the future trends that one needs to watch out for and be prepared maximise the opportunity
The document discusses how traditional risk management fails in the oil and gas sector and provides solutions. It begins with an introduction on why risk management is important for projects. It then discusses how risk management is defined and the structured process involved. It also covers the nature of risks specific to oil and gas projects and why current risk management is not working as well. Finally, it provides a case study on how one oil and gas project effectively implemented risk management through tools like risk identification, evaluation, management and control.
The document discusses user experience (UX) design practices and principles. It defines usability and outlines how effective UX has become an expectation for software and digital experiences. The document then discusses various UX design methodologies and deliverables including personas, user flows, wireframes, and usability testing which help ensure products meet user needs and expectations.
Slides from a presentation by Bill Hoff, Director, Engineering Group, Gulf Interstate Engineering Company and Edward J. Wiegele, President, Professional Services, Willbros Engineers (U.S.), LLC at the 2012 International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association Convention in Istanbul.
PetroSync - Risk and Simulation Modelling for Oil and Gas ApplicationsPetroSync
Uncertainty is inherent in many aspects of the oil and gas sector, and major investments are made in upstream and downstream areas in the presence of risk and uncertainties. Decisions involving asset acquisitions, exploration, appraisal, drilling, field development, equipment purchases, fiscal negotiations, cost estimation, capital investment planning and general business case analysis all require quantitative support.
The course is extremely hands-on and focusses on the direct implementation of the techniques. Dozens of models will be built from scratch across a range of applications, and using a range of approaches
1. Songs are often rewritten and revised multiple times before becoming a number 1 hit.
2. Collaboration with other music professionals like producers and artists is important.
3. Studying different genres, languages, and world music can help make songs more creative and unique.
This document discusses trends, disruptions, and facts related to mobility. It begins by outlining several technologies and behaviors that are becoming marginalized over time, such as landline phones, CDs/DVDs, and cash payments. It then shows data on the booming use of mobile browsing in Finland, with the number of weekly mobile site visitors growing dramatically in recent years. Finally, it projects that the total revenue from mobile services in Finland will increase substantially from 2008 to 2015, highlighting the growing importance of the mobile market.
Aspects of technology impacting consumers and businesses - Convergence of ent...Dejo George
A presentation on evolution of technology and its impact on business especially content owners. The presentation looks at how business need to reconfigure to avail or leverage the technology evolution and thus maximise their opportunity with consumers. The presentation also describes what are the future trends that one needs to watch out for and be prepared maximise the opportunity
The document discusses how traditional risk management fails in the oil and gas sector and provides solutions. It begins with an introduction on why risk management is important for projects. It then discusses how risk management is defined and the structured process involved. It also covers the nature of risks specific to oil and gas projects and why current risk management is not working as well. Finally, it provides a case study on how one oil and gas project effectively implemented risk management through tools like risk identification, evaluation, management and control.
The document discusses user experience (UX) design practices and principles. It defines usability and outlines how effective UX has become an expectation for software and digital experiences. The document then discusses various UX design methodologies and deliverables including personas, user flows, wireframes, and usability testing which help ensure products meet user needs and expectations.
Slides from a presentation by Bill Hoff, Director, Engineering Group, Gulf Interstate Engineering Company and Edward J. Wiegele, President, Professional Services, Willbros Engineers (U.S.), LLC at the 2012 International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association Convention in Istanbul.
PetroSync - Risk and Simulation Modelling for Oil and Gas ApplicationsPetroSync
Uncertainty is inherent in many aspects of the oil and gas sector, and major investments are made in upstream and downstream areas in the presence of risk and uncertainties. Decisions involving asset acquisitions, exploration, appraisal, drilling, field development, equipment purchases, fiscal negotiations, cost estimation, capital investment planning and general business case analysis all require quantitative support.
The course is extremely hands-on and focusses on the direct implementation of the techniques. Dozens of models will be built from scratch across a range of applications, and using a range of approaches
Beyond the Internet: Seamless Global CommunicationJerry Fishenden
This document discusses the evolution of communication technologies from the agrarian revolution to the emerging digital revolution enabled by ubiquitous computing and hyperconnectivity. Key points include:
- By 2012 there will be 17 billion networked devices connecting everything from appliances to cars to computers.
- Emerging technologies allow for seamless communication between people, machines, and things through wireless sensors, RFID, and embedded devices.
- This hyperconnectivity is driving convergence of networks and devices but also divergence of new experiences and organizational models.
- The mobile device has become the focal point of convergence due to its ability to keep people constantly connected to information.
Case Study: The Symtio Platform Tim Close, Senior Vice President, SymtioECPA Events
With increasing pressures from the economy, shrinking distribution, and the category-killer influence of Amazon and Google, how do publishers keep some control of their own destinies? The Symtio platform is a turnkey, multi-channel media and e-commerce content delivery platform that empowers publishers to simply and effectively diversify their presence in the emerging digital marketplace.
The document discusses innovation at Nokia and highlights the importance of an "and" approach. It provides examples of Nokia's most important innovations over time that demonstrate decreasing size and power consumption of mobile phones. The document advocates for both exploring new emerging technologies through research as well as building on existing core technologies. It also emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and taking multiple approaches to innovation rather than a single recipe.
DRM, Digital Content, and the Consumer Experience: More Lessons Learned from ...Kirk Biglione
As the market for e-books and mobile content grows, publishers are turning to DRM to protect content without fully contemplating the impact these DRM decisions have on their customers and the marketplace for digital content.
This session will examine the mistakes made by the music industry and lessons that publishers can learn from those mistakes.
IPTVLatino provides a communication and media delivery platform to enable rich online and mobile content like IPTV and peer-to-peer TV. It aims to add value for customers by integrating multiple modes of communication and content across networks. The company focuses on the Latin American market and targets consumers aged 18-35, online/mobile advertisers, media companies, and network operators. It seeks to offer enriched entertainment and communications through services like video, voice, games, social networks, and IPTV.
The document discusses the future of scholarly publishing 25 years from 2028 based on trends since 1978. It summarizes challenges in 1978 around consolidation, costs, standardization, and timeliness. It then outlines key developments between 1978 and 2003 that addressed these challenges through increased online access, standardization, and reduced production costs. Finally, it predicts the publishing landscape in 2028 with personalized 24/7 access, improved search and filtering, electronic-only delivery, and a focus on end-users and peer review over specific sources or brands.
Study of inventory management of amazon.comAnuj Sharma
Amazon adopted an innovative strategy of outsourcing its inventory management to third-party logistics providers in order to reduce costs and maximize efficiencies. This allowed Amazon to streamline its supply chain and fulfillment processes. While initially challenging, outsourcing proved successful in helping Amazon finally achieve profitability by reducing expenses related to warehousing and shipping goods. Expanding its product offerings to include other retailers' items also helped Amazon by giving customers more options on its site and increasing its revenues through additional sales and service fees.
Prezentace Tomáše Zilvara, která představuje fenomén elektronické knihy a její vývoj v USA a ČR.
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
History has many examples of powerful companies that seem to be unbeatable. Then in a short time they become irrelevant due to new companies with new ideas. One of the factors in such transformation is technology. Never in history has technological change been so important in building and destroying companies. We look at few examples of successful companies that fail to address the chaning times and become disrupted. We also look at why technology emerges when it does and why some ideas can only be realised when certain conditions are met.
In this first lecture we set the tone for the course and define the themes that we will be looking at.
The document discusses the growth of electronic publishing and eBooks, noting that Barnes & Noble now sells twice as many eBooks as physical books. It provides statistics on eBook sales and the market shares of different mobile platforms. The history and development of electronic publishing technologies like e-readers, tablets, and smartphones are outlined, as well as the opportunities they provide for publishers.
Anita Ondine: Innovating legal and Finance ModelsAphra_Kadabra
Anita Ondine gave a presentation on innovating legal and finance models for transmedia projects. She discussed how market conditions like increased mobile phone and smart phone usage along with technology innovations have created opportunities for new business models. Some of these models include using public funding, strategic partnerships, pre-sales of participation, and downstream revenue sources like advertising. She also covered legal considerations for transmedia projects like contract types, intellectual property rights, trends in copyright law, and EU data protection directives. Overall, her presentation highlighted how new technologies and audience behaviors are enabling new opportunities to finance and distribute transmedia content.
The creative industry in Indonesia generates $8.7 billion annually and employs over 4.5 million workers, making it one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Distribution through retail chains, cinemas, internet cafes, and telcos is critical to success due to Indonesia's geography spanning over 17,500 islands. Major segments include music, comics, film, television, games, and advertising. The mobile industry has seen especially strong growth with over 120 million users and the rise of services like ringback tones. Meanwhile, the education system is building talent through dozens of design and technology schools nationwide.
The document discusses media convergence across different platforms such as television, computers, the internet, mobile devices, and social media. It defines media convergence as the flow of content across multiple media platforms. Now, all forms of media can be accessed through mobile devices anytime, anywhere. Traditional publishers were initially reluctant to embrace digital media, but the revolution of devices like the iPad, Kindle, and eReaders changed everything. This enabled new opportunities for publishers to sell content directly to users and take a more personalized approach through recommendations, discounts, and samples. Both opportunities and challenges exist with continued media convergence in the future.
Digital Publishing - Globalocal Event PresentationBrij Singh
The document discusses the transition of the publishing industry to digital platforms and outlines opportunities and challenges. It notes that eBooks now make up 8-10% of overall sales and that there are 200 million tablets expected by 2012. A new architecture for digital publishing is proposed that focuses on engagement, experience, ecommerce, data, design, and distribution. The document outlines how each element works in a digital context and changes needed to publishing teams and skill sets.
Shortcovers - Michael Serbinis - BookNet Canada Tech Forum 09BookNet Canada
Shortcovers, Indigo’s new digital destination promises to give people a new way to discover their next great read. Michael Serbinis, Indigo’s CIO & EVP Shortcovers, shares why and how Shortcovers is designed to be more than just another eBookstore and how readers are responding to this innovative venture in reading digitally.
BookBrewer is an eBook publishing service launching in the summer of 2010. We're partnering with locally-focused book stores, and will be creating private-label versions in exchange for revenue splits. Interested? Contact sales at feedbrewer dot net.
A presentation I had to do in a computer information system (CIS) class. Main idea was to think of a product and get the history of the industry along with a description of this new item/service. Presentation time : 45 mins.
My Role: Make the entire powerpoint and worry about the logistics of the product
Transparency has become even more important in the past year as we begin the health care reform discussion. There is not a signature event in Nashville to bring quality, marketing, transparency, and technology together. The Naked Hospital event will take the user experience from high level strategy through national and state legislative issues through practical hands on tools to walk away with. The event will focus on how and why health systems and hospitals should focus on quality reporting as well as financial reporting. At the end of the day, all of this puts additional strains on the information systems and resources deployed by most health systems and hospitals. How will they cope? What is the next step?
The document provides data on top hiring employers in Tennessee from 2009 to 2006, including the number of jobs filled each year. It also lists the most common job types during that period, such as analyst, developer, and management. Finally, the document discusses strategies that companies are using to address staffing needs, such as hiring less experienced workers and providing training or incentives for current employees.
Beyond the Internet: Seamless Global CommunicationJerry Fishenden
This document discusses the evolution of communication technologies from the agrarian revolution to the emerging digital revolution enabled by ubiquitous computing and hyperconnectivity. Key points include:
- By 2012 there will be 17 billion networked devices connecting everything from appliances to cars to computers.
- Emerging technologies allow for seamless communication between people, machines, and things through wireless sensors, RFID, and embedded devices.
- This hyperconnectivity is driving convergence of networks and devices but also divergence of new experiences and organizational models.
- The mobile device has become the focal point of convergence due to its ability to keep people constantly connected to information.
Case Study: The Symtio Platform Tim Close, Senior Vice President, SymtioECPA Events
With increasing pressures from the economy, shrinking distribution, and the category-killer influence of Amazon and Google, how do publishers keep some control of their own destinies? The Symtio platform is a turnkey, multi-channel media and e-commerce content delivery platform that empowers publishers to simply and effectively diversify their presence in the emerging digital marketplace.
The document discusses innovation at Nokia and highlights the importance of an "and" approach. It provides examples of Nokia's most important innovations over time that demonstrate decreasing size and power consumption of mobile phones. The document advocates for both exploring new emerging technologies through research as well as building on existing core technologies. It also emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and taking multiple approaches to innovation rather than a single recipe.
DRM, Digital Content, and the Consumer Experience: More Lessons Learned from ...Kirk Biglione
As the market for e-books and mobile content grows, publishers are turning to DRM to protect content without fully contemplating the impact these DRM decisions have on their customers and the marketplace for digital content.
This session will examine the mistakes made by the music industry and lessons that publishers can learn from those mistakes.
IPTVLatino provides a communication and media delivery platform to enable rich online and mobile content like IPTV and peer-to-peer TV. It aims to add value for customers by integrating multiple modes of communication and content across networks. The company focuses on the Latin American market and targets consumers aged 18-35, online/mobile advertisers, media companies, and network operators. It seeks to offer enriched entertainment and communications through services like video, voice, games, social networks, and IPTV.
The document discusses the future of scholarly publishing 25 years from 2028 based on trends since 1978. It summarizes challenges in 1978 around consolidation, costs, standardization, and timeliness. It then outlines key developments between 1978 and 2003 that addressed these challenges through increased online access, standardization, and reduced production costs. Finally, it predicts the publishing landscape in 2028 with personalized 24/7 access, improved search and filtering, electronic-only delivery, and a focus on end-users and peer review over specific sources or brands.
Study of inventory management of amazon.comAnuj Sharma
Amazon adopted an innovative strategy of outsourcing its inventory management to third-party logistics providers in order to reduce costs and maximize efficiencies. This allowed Amazon to streamline its supply chain and fulfillment processes. While initially challenging, outsourcing proved successful in helping Amazon finally achieve profitability by reducing expenses related to warehousing and shipping goods. Expanding its product offerings to include other retailers' items also helped Amazon by giving customers more options on its site and increasing its revenues through additional sales and service fees.
Prezentace Tomáše Zilvara, která představuje fenomén elektronické knihy a její vývoj v USA a ČR.
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
History has many examples of powerful companies that seem to be unbeatable. Then in a short time they become irrelevant due to new companies with new ideas. One of the factors in such transformation is technology. Never in history has technological change been so important in building and destroying companies. We look at few examples of successful companies that fail to address the chaning times and become disrupted. We also look at why technology emerges when it does and why some ideas can only be realised when certain conditions are met.
In this first lecture we set the tone for the course and define the themes that we will be looking at.
The document discusses the growth of electronic publishing and eBooks, noting that Barnes & Noble now sells twice as many eBooks as physical books. It provides statistics on eBook sales and the market shares of different mobile platforms. The history and development of electronic publishing technologies like e-readers, tablets, and smartphones are outlined, as well as the opportunities they provide for publishers.
Anita Ondine: Innovating legal and Finance ModelsAphra_Kadabra
Anita Ondine gave a presentation on innovating legal and finance models for transmedia projects. She discussed how market conditions like increased mobile phone and smart phone usage along with technology innovations have created opportunities for new business models. Some of these models include using public funding, strategic partnerships, pre-sales of participation, and downstream revenue sources like advertising. She also covered legal considerations for transmedia projects like contract types, intellectual property rights, trends in copyright law, and EU data protection directives. Overall, her presentation highlighted how new technologies and audience behaviors are enabling new opportunities to finance and distribute transmedia content.
The creative industry in Indonesia generates $8.7 billion annually and employs over 4.5 million workers, making it one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Distribution through retail chains, cinemas, internet cafes, and telcos is critical to success due to Indonesia's geography spanning over 17,500 islands. Major segments include music, comics, film, television, games, and advertising. The mobile industry has seen especially strong growth with over 120 million users and the rise of services like ringback tones. Meanwhile, the education system is building talent through dozens of design and technology schools nationwide.
The document discusses media convergence across different platforms such as television, computers, the internet, mobile devices, and social media. It defines media convergence as the flow of content across multiple media platforms. Now, all forms of media can be accessed through mobile devices anytime, anywhere. Traditional publishers were initially reluctant to embrace digital media, but the revolution of devices like the iPad, Kindle, and eReaders changed everything. This enabled new opportunities for publishers to sell content directly to users and take a more personalized approach through recommendations, discounts, and samples. Both opportunities and challenges exist with continued media convergence in the future.
Digital Publishing - Globalocal Event PresentationBrij Singh
The document discusses the transition of the publishing industry to digital platforms and outlines opportunities and challenges. It notes that eBooks now make up 8-10% of overall sales and that there are 200 million tablets expected by 2012. A new architecture for digital publishing is proposed that focuses on engagement, experience, ecommerce, data, design, and distribution. The document outlines how each element works in a digital context and changes needed to publishing teams and skill sets.
Shortcovers - Michael Serbinis - BookNet Canada Tech Forum 09BookNet Canada
Shortcovers, Indigo’s new digital destination promises to give people a new way to discover their next great read. Michael Serbinis, Indigo’s CIO & EVP Shortcovers, shares why and how Shortcovers is designed to be more than just another eBookstore and how readers are responding to this innovative venture in reading digitally.
BookBrewer is an eBook publishing service launching in the summer of 2010. We're partnering with locally-focused book stores, and will be creating private-label versions in exchange for revenue splits. Interested? Contact sales at feedbrewer dot net.
A presentation I had to do in a computer information system (CIS) class. Main idea was to think of a product and get the history of the industry along with a description of this new item/service. Presentation time : 45 mins.
My Role: Make the entire powerpoint and worry about the logistics of the product
Transparency has become even more important in the past year as we begin the health care reform discussion. There is not a signature event in Nashville to bring quality, marketing, transparency, and technology together. The Naked Hospital event will take the user experience from high level strategy through national and state legislative issues through practical hands on tools to walk away with. The event will focus on how and why health systems and hospitals should focus on quality reporting as well as financial reporting. At the end of the day, all of this puts additional strains on the information systems and resources deployed by most health systems and hospitals. How will they cope? What is the next step?
The document provides data on top hiring employers in Tennessee from 2009 to 2006, including the number of jobs filled each year. It also lists the most common job types during that period, such as analyst, developer, and management. Finally, the document discusses strategies that companies are using to address staffing needs, such as hiring less experienced workers and providing training or incentives for current employees.
IBM Managed Services Overview Nashvilletechcouncil
The document discusses how organizations can leverage outsourcing and strategic partnerships to drive operational efficiencies and cost savings while freeing up resources to invest in growth initiatives. It provides examples of IBM clients that achieved significant cost reductions and performance improvements through outcomes-based outsourcing of services such as IT infrastructure management, business processes, and applications management. The document advocates for a "smarter sourcing" approach that combines process optimization with selective use of lower-cost global resources.
HCA IT&S is pursuing a flexible sourcing strategy to manage its growing IT needs. It sources some projects using internal staff, and supplements those teams with external partners for additional capacity or specialized skills. This allows HCA to leverage existing staff while gaining access to new technologies. Critical to the strategy's success is establishing the right sourcing model for each project based on factors like risk, skills required, and timelines. The flexible approach aims to support employees while providing the best resources for various types of IT work.
This document discusses the partnership between MedSolutions and eMids to provide quality assurance (QA) services. It outlines how the initial partnership began with a QA pilot project and knowledge sharing. The partnership has since grown to include additional QA, development, and PeopleSoft support services. The current partnership structure includes onsite and offshore teams to deliver these various services. The document also discusses security best practices implemented and value adds provided by the partnership, such as a formalized internal QA process and PeopleSoft center of excellence.
Emids Morning Security Virtual India V3techcouncil
The document discusses data security and privacy in offshore operations. It outlines potential risks like loss of data, intellectual property, and damage to brand. It then discusses ways to mitigate these risks, including understanding relevant laws and regulations, NASSCOM's role in promoting standards in the Indian IT market, vendor best practices around frameworks and audits, and drafting secure contracts.
Cognizant is a global technology company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It has annual revenues of $2.8 billion and employs approximately 63,000 people across more than 40 global delivery centers. Cognizant provides a range of technology services including application development, integration and maintenance, IT infrastructure services, and technology consulting. The company focuses on industries like banking and financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and manufacturing.
The document discusses Deloitte's operations in India. It summarizes the growth of Deloitte's India offices over time, with the number of employees in India increasing significantly between 2004 and 2006. It also outlines some of the key value drivers for offshoring work to India, including access to talent, innovation, cost reduction, and quality. Challenges of operating in India such as talent competition and building organizational culture are also briefly mentioned.
The document summarizes the Indian healthcare landscape. It notes that India has a large population but low spending on healthcare per capita compared to other countries. Healthcare is provided through both public and private sectors. The burden of disease is shifting from communicable to non-communicable diseases. Government initiatives aim to increase access through programs and infrastructure growth, but challenges remain around access, costs and quality across the public and private sectors. The healthcare industry is seen as a major growth opportunity in India.
The document discusses India's economic growth over the past 15-20 years since economic reforms began in 1992. Key points include rapid GDP growth averaging over 7-9% annually, a growing middle class, increased foreign investment and exports, and the emergence of strong Indian companies. It also summarizes GE's increasing presence and investments in India across various technology sectors like healthcare, and their focus on developing affordable products for both rural and urban India.
The document discusses the healthcare industry in India. It notes that many Indian hospitals have physicians trained in the US and UK who have brought Western standards of quality to India. Private hospitals in India have grown and introduced health insurance, though public hospitals remain complicated and bureaucratic. The healthcare business environment in India includes medical tourism, challenges from new market entrants, and competing to provide contracted services to US hospitals at lower rates. The future holds opportunities for outsourcing services to India like transcription and interpreting, as well as providing training, but US companies must understand the lower cost structure of the Indian healthcare market.
TCS North America Presentation 5 07 2009techcouncil
The document provides an overview of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It states that TCS is part of the Tata Group, has over 140,000 employees in 47 countries, and generated $6 billion in revenues in FY 2008-09. It also outlines TCS's presence and capabilities in North America, including its centers of excellence and delivery centers across the US, Canada and Mexico.
TCS Healthcare presented at a virtual trade mission in Nashville on improving healthcare. They discussed challenges like rising costs, lack of access, and waste. TCS aims to enhance healthcare through increasing access, lowering costs, improving outcomes, and empowering patients through analytics, dashboards, and other technologies. They provide services including hospital management systems, clinical decision support, and business process outsourcing to healthcare payers and providers.
The document discusses opportunities for a virtual trade mission to India in the context of the global economic downturn. It notes that India leads as a sourcing hub for IT and business processes due to an established industry, large skilled workforce, cost advantages of 30-40%, and a progressive policy environment. Specific examples are given of large companies that have significantly increased their outsourcing to India to cut costs and gain efficiencies.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
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1. Morning Keynote
Kent Freeman, CTO/COO
Ingram Digital Group
Copyright 2008 Ingram Industries, Inc.
2. About Ingram
• One of the largest privately-owned companies in
the US
• Ingram Barge Company – Transportation
• Ingram Lightning Group– Book wholesale, distribution
and Print on Demand
• Ingram Digital - e-Content storage, management and
distribution
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3. Some Key Historical Milestones
1857 Orrin Ingram starts up his own lumber company
1880’s Orrin becomes an investor in Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
1930’s Hank Ingram diversifies into Oil and Barge
1964 Ingram acquires Tennessee Book Company
1978 Bronson Ingram and his brother divide the companies
1979 Ingram Book installs IBM mainframe, delivers microfiche catalog
1982 Ingram Book launches Ingram Video and Ingram Software
1986 Ingram Distribution begins move to LaVergne, TN
1986 – 1989 Ingram acquires companies to form Ingram Micro
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4. Some Key Historical Milestones
1995 Bronson Ingram passes away
1996 Ingram Micro IPO
1997 Ingram Entertainment splits off from Ingram Industries
1998 Barnes & Noble announces intent to acquire Ingram Book
1998 Ingram launches print on demand – Lightning Print
1999 Ingram and Barnes & Noble withdraw request to FTC
1999 Ingram Book launches significant B2B legacy systems integration
2000 Lightning Print changes name and launches ebook fulfillment
2006- 2008 Ingram creates Ingram Digital, grows organically and via acquisition
Copyright 2008 Ingram Industries, Inc.
5. Ingram Content Companies
Interesting Book on Nashville’s Business History
Available only at Davis-Kidd Booksellers
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6. The Power of Print-on-Demand
50 million books
p
printed
Currently 1.2m
books per month
Average print run
1.8
Operations in USA
and Europe
Repository of 1m
titles
Paperback,
hardback,
hardback color
Plans for global
rollout
7. An integrated approach to content
management and di ib i
d distribution
• Printing 1 4m books per
1.4m • 18 000 publishers
18,000 • 185 000 online titles
185,000
month • 30,000 customers • 7,000 audio files
• Average print run 1.8 • 1.5m titles in stock • 200,000 downloadable
• 1m titles • 5.4m title records e-books
• 8 000+ publishing partners
8,000+ • Over 100m books shipped • Over 1 000 library
1,000
• Paperback, hardback, per year customers
color • 50,000 titles in asset
management system
8. Changing Marketplace
• Retailers ramp up e-commerce operations
• Web 2.0 introduces new ways to drive content discovery -
and sales - online
• Libraries worldwide looking to expand without expanding
physical footprint
• Large print market
• Long-tail opportunities
• Worldwide opportunity
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9. An “Either/And” World
• Print and “e”
e
•Press run and print-on-demand
•Individual sales and chapters
and subscriptions
• Print + online e-books +
downloadable e-books +
audiobooks+ mobile enabled files…
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10. New Marketplace Dynamics
• Consumer increasingly in
control
l
• Audience fragmentation
g
• “iTunes” pricing model
becoming the norm
• Sales no longer concentrated
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11. Which Road to Take?
Why not all of them?
• Print
• Digitized Files
• Print on demand
• Downloadable e-book
• Full book or chapters
• Multiple formats
• Mobile devices
• Online Subscription
• Collection
• Stand alone
• With print on demand option reach more than 30,000
customers through Ingram Book Group sales channels
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12. Ingram Digital Organization
• Retail Solutions
• Tools to market, promote, sell and deliver digital content
through online retailers and booksellers
• Content Solutions
• Di it l warehouse storage, t
Digital h t transformation and di t ib ti
f ti d distribution
services
• Institutional Solutions
• Online e book and audio services for libraries
e-book
• Education Solutions
• Portable interactive digital textbooks for students and
educators
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14. Retail Capabilities
• Transparent eBook distribution to retailers (MBS,
Fictionwise, Powell s )
Fictionwise Powell’s …)
• Delivery to mobile devices
• Phones
• iPhones, WinMobile, Android and Palm
• E-Ink readers
• Sony Reader, iRex
• eBook and digital audio fulfillment from publisher Web
sites
• Search and Discover
• Widgets
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15. Retail Channels
A Book Company, LLC eChapterOne, LLC
At A Glance Bookstore Fictionwise, Inc. / eReader.com
Books on Board Interead Ltd
Cokesbury Landmark Ltd
Computer Manuals Ltd Lybrary.com
Content Realtime MBS Books
Diesel eBooks MINDREIGN
Digital Pulp PayLoadz, Inc
eBook Mall Powell's Books
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16. e-Book Fulfillment
Web services approach
Flexible, seamless integration
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18. Cart and Card
Branded so ut o
a ded solution
Seamless cart
Tax collection
International support
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19. CoreSource
Digital Asset Distribution
March 2009
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20. What is CoreSource?
• CoreSource is a hosted technology platform that provides archive
and distribution services for digital content files and metadata for
publishers
• The system is SaaS (Software as a Service), leveraging Ingram’s IT
infrastructure
i f t t
• Data center located at Ingram’s headquarters in La Vergne, TN USA
• Software architecture based on custom-developed ingestion,
transformation, and distribution modules plugged into the
Artesia DAM system
• Configured with SAN-based storage
including 400 TB working space
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23. Manage, Repurpose, and Deliver
Any 3rd
Party
Vendor
Printers
ID Publisher
Portal
ID Publisher Portal •Validate export
requests
• Publisher Sign‐in
• Prepare/customize Aggregators
• Authenticate user/role content for vendor
specific transfer
• Determine permissions
and privileges of user
d i il f • Export content
Export content
and metadata
• Record export requests
• Report on actions
performed Search
Audio and
eBook
Distributors
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24. e-Books have arrived … the sequel
q
• Amazon sold ~ 240,000 Kindles in 2008*
• Kindle announced in UK in September 2008
• 30,000 sold by year end, along with 75,000 books
• Sony has sold ~ 300,000 readers since 2006
• Apple anticipates over 21 million iPhone/iPod Touch units to be sold in 2009
• Over 800 million apps have been downloaded to date
• Over half a million downloads of the eReader app alone
• Book publishers starting to build content-rich apps through ScrollMotion
and other development companies
* source techcrunch
25. CoreSource Services
• Digital Asset Distribution System
• Facilitates syndication of digital assets along with metadata to
digital channels through intelligent technical systems
• Search Channels
• Amazon Google Barnes & Noble etc
Amazon, Google, Noble, etc.
• Institutional Channels
• MyiLibrary, NetLibrary, ebrary, etc.
• Retail Channels
• Sony, Amazon Kindle, Fictionwise, etc.
• Audio Channels
• Audible.com, OverDrive, GoSpoken, etc.
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26. CoreSource Services
• Content Preparation
• Con ersion to required digital formats, including EPUB and
Conversion req ired formats incl ding
e-book optimized PDF, and scanning services
• Hosted Archiving
g
• Provides offsite disaster recovery coverage
• Digital File Repository
g p y
• Storage and versioning of materials used in key publishing
operations including cover images and production source
files with full access to the Artesia DAM interface
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29. e-Content Aggregation Platform
• 175,000 titles, many unique to the MiL platform
• 7,000
7 000 downloadable audio titles
• Over 1,000 existing library customers in the
academic, public, government and K 12 library
d i bli t d K-12 lib
markets
• Comprehensive full text searching across platform
• Unique, flexible DRM security
• Metadata integration
• Customers can buy across publishers/subject areas
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30.
31. MyiLibrary Publishers
• Elsevier S&T • U. California Press
• Springer • Yale U Press
U.
• Wiley Blackwell • Princeton U. Press
• Wolters Kluwer • Macmillan
• Oxford U. Press • Taylor & Francis
• Cambridge U. Press • Encyclopaedia
• IGI Britannica
• McGraw Hill • World Bank
• Pearson Education • W ld S i tifi
World Scientific
• SAGE +over 300 more…
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32. Nashville Public Library
• Taking on responsibility for the
management of K 12 school libraries
K-12
• Employing MyiLibrary solution to
extend key titles in digital form to K-
12 school market
• Planned for Fall 2009
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34. VitalSource Functionality
• Unique delivery platform
• On- or offline access
• Ability to organize and work with content;
• note taking and sharing
• highlight and search relevant content
• Integrate interactivity – audio, animation, video
• U
Unparalleled security of content and saved notes
ll l d it f t t d d t
• Integrate other types of digital content; PDF, Word,
Excel, Audio,
Excel Audio Video
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35. VitalSource Functionality
• Build and sell unique products:
• Select chapters
• Bundle books
• Add variable time-availability
• Set pricing
• Distribute codes for reviewers, prospective
customers or P+E
t P E
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36. Major Publishers Rely on VitalSource…
• Elsevier
• McGraw-Hill
M G Hill
• Wiley
• Cengage
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37. VitalSource Storefront
Branded solution
Featured items
Taxonomy
Customizable
objects
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38. VitalSource Bookshelf
Offline
Online
O li
Mobile
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39.
40. “Ingram Industries’ solid and rapid growth is
Ingram Industries
founded on the firm belief that success is a
function of, and dependent on, the very best
professional people at every level of the
organization.”
E. Bronson Ingram
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41. Questions/Thank You!
Feel free to contact me at
kent.freeman@ingramdigital.com
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