- SAP customers often feel regret when trying to extract and analyze data from multiple SAP applications like ERP, CRM, and SCM. It is difficult and time-consuming to consolidate this data.
- Traditional big BI systems further complicate matters by requiring technical skills to build reports, dashboards, and analyze the consolidated data. This prevents non-technical users from directly accessing and exploring the data.
- QlikView is presented as a solution that allows users to directly control how data is analyzed through associative in-memory technology. This empowers users to more quickly generate insights, make decisions, and drive innovation without needing IT assistance.
Research in the performance of business intelligence tools finds that most deployments serve less than 15% of the enterprise population requiring insights to make better decisions. Surprising then that corporations on average employ more than 15 different BI tools. The high cost and complexity to change means that many Enterprise BI software suites focus on answering questions that are already well understood. Learning lessons from previous deployments suggest the future of business intelligence lies in nimble tools that extend collaborative workspaces with ‘instant insight’.
Outsourcing to Save IT Costs: Interview with: George Bower, President and Chi...IT Network marcus evans
Outsourcing to Save IT Costs: Interview with: George Bower, President and Chief Executive Officer, Axis Technologies, a solution provider at the marcus evans CIO Summit 2012, discusses the benefits to CIOs of outsourcing features of their enterprise software management.
"Design Thinking + IT-Mediated Services = Innovation Excellence"
August 2009
White paper from Motiv Strategies CEO Jeneanne Rae and Director Carl Fudge.
Bimodal / Two Speed IT and Cloud Serverless Microservice ArchitectureRobert Wilson
In a Bimodal IT, the high speed or Innovative Organisational IT allows a business to respond to or create disruption their market.
Two key enablers for this Innovative Organisational IT are:
1. Cloud Services and a Cloud Architecture, and
2. Cloud Serverless Microservice Architecture.
Research in the performance of business intelligence tools finds that most deployments serve less than 15% of the enterprise population requiring insights to make better decisions. Surprising then that corporations on average employ more than 15 different BI tools. The high cost and complexity to change means that many Enterprise BI software suites focus on answering questions that are already well understood. Learning lessons from previous deployments suggest the future of business intelligence lies in nimble tools that extend collaborative workspaces with ‘instant insight’.
Outsourcing to Save IT Costs: Interview with: George Bower, President and Chi...IT Network marcus evans
Outsourcing to Save IT Costs: Interview with: George Bower, President and Chief Executive Officer, Axis Technologies, a solution provider at the marcus evans CIO Summit 2012, discusses the benefits to CIOs of outsourcing features of their enterprise software management.
"Design Thinking + IT-Mediated Services = Innovation Excellence"
August 2009
White paper from Motiv Strategies CEO Jeneanne Rae and Director Carl Fudge.
Bimodal / Two Speed IT and Cloud Serverless Microservice ArchitectureRobert Wilson
In a Bimodal IT, the high speed or Innovative Organisational IT allows a business to respond to or create disruption their market.
Two key enablers for this Innovative Organisational IT are:
1. Cloud Services and a Cloud Architecture, and
2. Cloud Serverless Microservice Architecture.
Lean/Agile system architecture presentation. Goes through pros/cons of upfront work and the xp/agile approach. Defines important concepts, shows examples of how things could be done and goes through tools/things that can help along the way.
A synopsis of our MQWorx session. These are run in conjunction with our industry partners to help raise the awareness and understanding of the possibility of mobile...
Avoiding the Bimodal Disaster - New Life for Enterprise ArchitectureJason Bloomberg
As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than struggling to convince traditional IT to get with the digital program, executives are taking advice from IT research firm Gartner, and encouraging existing IT to continue in their desultory ways.
However, many CIOs are realizing the dangers of following Gartner’s advice. The central challenge with bimodal IT is that it encourages IT management to shift their transformation efforts away from 'slow' IT to 'fast' digital efforts.
Such bimodality is a recipe for disaster, as transformation efforts must be end-to-end. If IT governance remains buried in 'slow' IT, then 'fast' digital risks compliance breaches, security vulnerabilities and worse.
To help bimodal enterprises avoid such a fate, enterprises require professionals with an end-to-end view of the organization -- experts who understand the organizational, technological, information, and process challenges that digital transformation efforts must surmount. Who better than the Enterprise Architects to lead their organizations out of the bimodal quagmire?
Tavant BI Capabilities: Architect and design large complex BI solutions tailored to meet your needs
Build/refine BI Strategy, including Roadmap creation and Budgeting
24x7 monitoring for business critical BI applications
Improve data quality by identifying/improving and automating data testing processes
Implement cutting edge technologies to process large volumes of structured and unstructured data
Execute architecture, technology and performance assessment of existing BI solutions
Slide notes for "The Rise of Self-service Business Intelligence"skewdlogix
These notes are for “The Rise of Self-service Business Intelligence” at the second annual Data Management Conference (DMC) – Canada in Edmonton, AB – DAMA Edmonton – September 2016.
Life in Hell: The Experience of Successful BI Managersmark madsen
Life in Hell: The Experience of Successful BI Managers - retitled from the boring original.
Growing business intelligence from a departmental deployment or pilot project to an enterprise scale is not as simple as buying more licenses. Increasing the scope of BI means taking into account a broader set of information needs in the organization, increasing the size and variety of data needed in a warehouse or mart. Broader use implies more varied delivery needs, as well as scaling up the user count. Increasing the scope of use also raises the importance of managing day to day operations and reliability.
This webcast will discuss factors to consider when increasing the scope of a BI program, and what requirements that puts on components of the technology infrastructure.
Different axes of enterprise scale
How information delivery requirements change as you expand BI
The impacts of growth on operations and administration
Slides from a webcast for TDWI. You can listen to the full webcast and see the Jaspersoft/Talend presentations here: http://ow.ly/3lkHj
Building Innovative Mobile, Cloud, & Process Applications using SOAManmohan Gupta
Mobile computing, the cloud and process applications open up new ways to increase the business value of your SOA. Watch this webinar to learn best practices for building mobile, cloud and process applications. See how your peers are driving business value with SOA and learn how you can make IT more agile to support changing business needs.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation DashboardsFindWhitePapers
Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow.
Lean/Agile system architecture presentation. Goes through pros/cons of upfront work and the xp/agile approach. Defines important concepts, shows examples of how things could be done and goes through tools/things that can help along the way.
A synopsis of our MQWorx session. These are run in conjunction with our industry partners to help raise the awareness and understanding of the possibility of mobile...
Avoiding the Bimodal Disaster - New Life for Enterprise ArchitectureJason Bloomberg
As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than struggling to convince traditional IT to get with the digital program, executives are taking advice from IT research firm Gartner, and encouraging existing IT to continue in their desultory ways.
However, many CIOs are realizing the dangers of following Gartner’s advice. The central challenge with bimodal IT is that it encourages IT management to shift their transformation efforts away from 'slow' IT to 'fast' digital efforts.
Such bimodality is a recipe for disaster, as transformation efforts must be end-to-end. If IT governance remains buried in 'slow' IT, then 'fast' digital risks compliance breaches, security vulnerabilities and worse.
To help bimodal enterprises avoid such a fate, enterprises require professionals with an end-to-end view of the organization -- experts who understand the organizational, technological, information, and process challenges that digital transformation efforts must surmount. Who better than the Enterprise Architects to lead their organizations out of the bimodal quagmire?
Tavant BI Capabilities: Architect and design large complex BI solutions tailored to meet your needs
Build/refine BI Strategy, including Roadmap creation and Budgeting
24x7 monitoring for business critical BI applications
Improve data quality by identifying/improving and automating data testing processes
Implement cutting edge technologies to process large volumes of structured and unstructured data
Execute architecture, technology and performance assessment of existing BI solutions
Slide notes for "The Rise of Self-service Business Intelligence"skewdlogix
These notes are for “The Rise of Self-service Business Intelligence” at the second annual Data Management Conference (DMC) – Canada in Edmonton, AB – DAMA Edmonton – September 2016.
Life in Hell: The Experience of Successful BI Managersmark madsen
Life in Hell: The Experience of Successful BI Managers - retitled from the boring original.
Growing business intelligence from a departmental deployment or pilot project to an enterprise scale is not as simple as buying more licenses. Increasing the scope of BI means taking into account a broader set of information needs in the organization, increasing the size and variety of data needed in a warehouse or mart. Broader use implies more varied delivery needs, as well as scaling up the user count. Increasing the scope of use also raises the importance of managing day to day operations and reliability.
This webcast will discuss factors to consider when increasing the scope of a BI program, and what requirements that puts on components of the technology infrastructure.
Different axes of enterprise scale
How information delivery requirements change as you expand BI
The impacts of growth on operations and administration
Slides from a webcast for TDWI. You can listen to the full webcast and see the Jaspersoft/Talend presentations here: http://ow.ly/3lkHj
Building Innovative Mobile, Cloud, & Process Applications using SOAManmohan Gupta
Mobile computing, the cloud and process applications open up new ways to increase the business value of your SOA. Watch this webinar to learn best practices for building mobile, cloud and process applications. See how your peers are driving business value with SOA and learn how you can make IT more agile to support changing business needs.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation DashboardsFindWhitePapers
Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow.
Information management is key to business growth. It is a competitive advantage with the same merit as product knowledge and inventory availability. These once-held corporate competitive advantages are now considered “tickets to entry” and rather indistinguishable. Regulatory protections are largely gone, and when comparing your company’s features and functions, “demo parity” is the norm, especially within the larger industries.
Unifying the big data analytics stack by enabling ETL, OLAP, visualization, and collaboration via a single interface. Get an End To End implementation of The Modern Analytics Architecture.
Projections for BI in 2012 from the neutrinoBI teamneutrinoBI
At this time of year (January 2012) a number of industry commentators pop their heads above the parapet to suggest what we’re likely to see happening in the market over the coming year. Not to be left out, I asked the neutrinobi team what they thought the market would look like over the next 18 months, and after some great debate, this is what we came up with:
Increased interest in collaborative/social BI
Demand for BI without boundaries
Enterprises embrace a wider portfolio of BI tools
Data Discovery comes of age
The real BI search is ‘Freeform’
Data integration - overcoming the silos
Interactive data visualisation becomes a fundamental requirement
Demand for real-time results means in-memory technology becomes mainstream
To big data...and beyond!
Cloud-based BI? The conversation continues
This paper explains each of these projections in a bit more detail, and throughout January, with help from Jon Woodward (CEO), Patrick Foody (CTO), and Andy Bailey (Pre-Sales Consultant), we’ll be looking at some of these concepts in a bit more detail in our blog: http://www.nbi-blog.com.
See How Virtualization can help Organisations to Improve their Datacenters: W...Microsoft Private Cloud
This guide examines strategies for moving an organization toward a dynamic information technology (IT) environment using data center virtualization technologies. As companies approach Dynamic IT, their data centers evolve through a series of stages from manual and reactionary to automated and proactive—from being perceived as cost centers to becoming strategic assets for the company. This guide shows how virtualization can help organizations improve their data centers, control costs, increase security and availability, and enable their business to be more agile. This guide also highlights scenarios that show how virtualization can enable server consolidation, business continuity, and an optimized desktop environment, among others, while examining the Microsoft® technologies that support those solutions. It also explains some of Microsoft’s technology partnership investments that support heterogeneous virtualization environments. Lastly, the appendices in this guide provide information on Microsoft licensing for virtualization.
What are actionable insights? (Introduction to Operational Analytics Software)Newton Day Uploads
What Are Actionable Insights? In this presentation I outline what Actionable Insights are and the Operational Analytics Software that can produce them. And because Business Intelligence and the Business Intelligence Software market can be so confusing for buyers I've attempted to position where Actionable Insights and Operational Analytics fit in the Business Intelligence 'story'.
http://www.actian.com/
Actian’s strategy is to enable companies to develop Action Apps. Action Apps are lightweight
consumer-style applications that automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data.
Action Apps will unleash the next level of business innovation and competitive advantage currently locked in the endless streams of data flowing through organizations and the industry. Action Apps are easy to build, require no training and provide value far beyond traditional business intelligence applications. Action Apps will be developed, managed
and shared on the world’s first Cloud Action PlatformTM from Actian.
It is Time For Action Apps
Over the past decade, most innovation in software has been in the consumer market.
Think about the way you use technology in your personal life today. We all enjoy small, light-weight, big-value apps on the smartphones and tablets we love. These consumer
apps help us do practical things like pay bills, book flights and taxis, and do fun things
like connect and share with friends. It’s never been more effective and fun.
Compare this to the experiences we have at work, where we are forced to use monolithic, hard-to-use, and harder-to-manage enterprise software. Actian’s mission is to enable users, developers, and Enterprise IT organizations to embrace and build consumer style apps to unleash a new level of enterprise productivity.
Whether it’s monitoring a particular company’s stock prices, keeping tabs on your competition’s
sales data, or watching your prospects’ credit ratings rise and fall, every Action App
is customized to meet the information needs of your particular job or workflow.
Action Apps are designed to constantly scan and probe a wide variety of disparate data sources, from highly structured corporate CRM and ERP systems to software-as-a-service offerings like salesforce.com, and even unpredicted unstructured twitter feeds, LinkedIn updates and Facebook posts. When the Action Apps data probes uncover important
information, they fire triggers which signal the appropriate business user and either
communicate, or cause an action to be taken as a result.
The QlikView Business Discovery platform bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and standalone office productivity applications, enabling users to forge new paths and make new discoveries. QlikView works with what you already have and infuses a broad set of new capabilities into BI. It brings a whole new level of analysis, insight, and value to existing data stores with user interfaces that are clean, simple, and straightforward.
This presentation makes the link between a concept developed in the Harvard Business Review around data-driven decision making and real Deployments Factory achievements. It's focused on Project Management but is also valid for other management domains.
It was presented on the 11th of december 2012 at a ULB master in Management course whose teacher is Antonio Nieto Rodriguez.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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