IT Cost Optimization includes the practices, capabilities and behaviors taken by IT organizations and enterprises to balance the constraints of reducing costs, managing service levels and showing the business value of IT in pursuit of enterprise financial imperatives.
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
Object Oriented Business Capability Map - IIBA 2022 - Draft.pptxAustraliaChapterIIBA
Join IIBA® Melbourne as they host an online event specifically on how to develop business capability maps.
About this event
Ever wondered how to develop business capability maps? or perhaps you need a refresher?
Join Mohammad Mirkarimi Senior Business Architect at Capsifi and David Grindlay Principal Business Architect at Capsifi as they guide us through this session.
Captivated by art, science and business - Mohammad is trying to bring these three together. Moh is a drummer, a physics and biology enthusiast, and a business architect and analyst. He has studied Engineering, Business Management and Finance in academia. Also, equipped with IIBA, TOGAF and The Business Architecture Guild bodies of knowledge. Moh has worked as team member, leader and visionary in Management Consulting, Banking, Wealth, Insurance, Government, Telecom and Education industries.
With over 15 years of experience implementing software, David started his career as a business analyst in South Africa primarily in the financial services – insurance industry. In 2014 he moved over to Australia where he really started to observe the notorious gap between business strategies and project roadmaps as well as the downstream implications. More recently in his career, he gained broader exposure to other industries (Retail, Financial Services, Government and Hospitality) helping to structurally decompose business strategies, define the business landscape and help project teams (Business and Technical) realise and align on their common purpose. Today, David considers himself a Business Architect, doing whatever it takes to help companies realise their vision.
This session will contain two parts:
The first part is about learning the basics. There will also be time to review some theoretical stuff – but we promise it won’t be boring! We’ll review The Business Architecture Guild’s view by taking an Object-oriented approach to developing a business capability map
In the second part, we’ll pick a business (a simple one for this exercise, e.g. local cafe) and apply what we’ve studied to develop a business capability map for the chosen business.
At the end of the session, there will be time to share our learnings!
Future Proofing Your IT Operating Model for DigitalDavid Favelle
Having worked with Operating Model for over 10 years, Dave has new adopted DevOps, IT4IT and Continuous Delivery alongside traditional frameworks. The concept of the value stream is central to the thinking. The presentation was delivered as a Keynote at the Open Group in Amsterdam October 2017 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yH1JJKvqc&t=1969s
Note that Dave and the ValueFlow team deliver Operating Model on the ServiceNow platform.
Reengineering The IT Operating Model to Embrace The Power Of The Cloudaccenture
Cloud winners and losers: Massively scalable and resource-elastic businesses are clobbering incumbents. Why?
Because many traditional businesses have failed to realize the full power of the cloud. They have simply taken the new technology and deployed it using their existing IT operating model.
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
Object Oriented Business Capability Map - IIBA 2022 - Draft.pptxAustraliaChapterIIBA
Join IIBA® Melbourne as they host an online event specifically on how to develop business capability maps.
About this event
Ever wondered how to develop business capability maps? or perhaps you need a refresher?
Join Mohammad Mirkarimi Senior Business Architect at Capsifi and David Grindlay Principal Business Architect at Capsifi as they guide us through this session.
Captivated by art, science and business - Mohammad is trying to bring these three together. Moh is a drummer, a physics and biology enthusiast, and a business architect and analyst. He has studied Engineering, Business Management and Finance in academia. Also, equipped with IIBA, TOGAF and The Business Architecture Guild bodies of knowledge. Moh has worked as team member, leader and visionary in Management Consulting, Banking, Wealth, Insurance, Government, Telecom and Education industries.
With over 15 years of experience implementing software, David started his career as a business analyst in South Africa primarily in the financial services – insurance industry. In 2014 he moved over to Australia where he really started to observe the notorious gap between business strategies and project roadmaps as well as the downstream implications. More recently in his career, he gained broader exposure to other industries (Retail, Financial Services, Government and Hospitality) helping to structurally decompose business strategies, define the business landscape and help project teams (Business and Technical) realise and align on their common purpose. Today, David considers himself a Business Architect, doing whatever it takes to help companies realise their vision.
This session will contain two parts:
The first part is about learning the basics. There will also be time to review some theoretical stuff – but we promise it won’t be boring! We’ll review The Business Architecture Guild’s view by taking an Object-oriented approach to developing a business capability map
In the second part, we’ll pick a business (a simple one for this exercise, e.g. local cafe) and apply what we’ve studied to develop a business capability map for the chosen business.
At the end of the session, there will be time to share our learnings!
Future Proofing Your IT Operating Model for DigitalDavid Favelle
Having worked with Operating Model for over 10 years, Dave has new adopted DevOps, IT4IT and Continuous Delivery alongside traditional frameworks. The concept of the value stream is central to the thinking. The presentation was delivered as a Keynote at the Open Group in Amsterdam October 2017 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yH1JJKvqc&t=1969s
Note that Dave and the ValueFlow team deliver Operating Model on the ServiceNow platform.
Reengineering The IT Operating Model to Embrace The Power Of The Cloudaccenture
Cloud winners and losers: Massively scalable and resource-elastic businesses are clobbering incumbents. Why?
Because many traditional businesses have failed to realize the full power of the cloud. They have simply taken the new technology and deployed it using their existing IT operating model.
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Gartner analysts will further discuss how to prioritise IT initiatives, while balancing the use of resources at Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2011, 14-15 June in London. For more information please visit europe.gartner.com/ppm
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
SAP Reference Architecture based on LeanIXLeanIX GmbH
At EA Connect Days 2018, Florian Masjosthusmann und Manuel Männle from itelligence tried to solve the follwing questions: How can you adapt your business from where it is today to where it needs to be tomorrow? How can you document a SAP centric IT-Landscape with LeanIX? How will your IT landscape evolve to meet the demands of the digital transformation with SAP? Based on LeanIX they developed a concept to describe your SAP centric IT-Landscape and Business Architecture. On this basis, an overall strategy for S/4 HANA Transformation can be developed which is oriented on best practices and SAP Reference Architectures. The itelligence EA-Approach is to connect the SAP Best Practice E2E Views and the Capability Views with die IT-Solution Landscape.
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
An Introduction into the design of business using business architectureCraig Martin
Business Architecture is gaining interest from many non-traditional architecture stakeholders across the enterprise however most remain unclear of its scope and application. This webinar was presented through the Open Group as lead up to the London 2013 Conference on business transformation. It provides an overview of the language, methods and techniques of developing a business architecture and assist architects to demonstrate its relevance to business leaders. It also provides an insight into the method and techniques taught in the "Discovering Business Architecture" course run by Enterprise Architects.
You can receive our Powerpoint slides by sharing this presentation and submitting your email at www.slidebooks.com | Digital Transformation Strategy Template and Training | By ex-Deloitte and McKinsey Consultants
Gartner - The art of the one page strategyDeepak Kamboj
The components of an IT strategy when using "science" to develop it
Techniques for developing an 'artful' one-page strategy
How to effectively use the one-page strategy
Strategic planning is at the heart of any enterprise, and alignment with the corporate strategic plan is often a key concern of CIOs. There is a science to developing an IT strategy, and there is an art. This session explores the art of strategic planning, helping attendees articulate IT's contribution to business success.
Source : Gartner
Heather Colella
Research VP
http://www.gartner.com/webinar/3203818/player?commId=192095&channelId=5502&srcId=null
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Gartner analysts will further discuss how to prioritise IT initiatives, while balancing the use of resources at Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2011, 14-15 June in London. For more information please visit europe.gartner.com/ppm
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
SAP Reference Architecture based on LeanIXLeanIX GmbH
At EA Connect Days 2018, Florian Masjosthusmann und Manuel Männle from itelligence tried to solve the follwing questions: How can you adapt your business from where it is today to where it needs to be tomorrow? How can you document a SAP centric IT-Landscape with LeanIX? How will your IT landscape evolve to meet the demands of the digital transformation with SAP? Based on LeanIX they developed a concept to describe your SAP centric IT-Landscape and Business Architecture. On this basis, an overall strategy for S/4 HANA Transformation can be developed which is oriented on best practices and SAP Reference Architectures. The itelligence EA-Approach is to connect the SAP Best Practice E2E Views and the Capability Views with die IT-Solution Landscape.
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
An Introduction into the design of business using business architectureCraig Martin
Business Architecture is gaining interest from many non-traditional architecture stakeholders across the enterprise however most remain unclear of its scope and application. This webinar was presented through the Open Group as lead up to the London 2013 Conference on business transformation. It provides an overview of the language, methods and techniques of developing a business architecture and assist architects to demonstrate its relevance to business leaders. It also provides an insight into the method and techniques taught in the "Discovering Business Architecture" course run by Enterprise Architects.
You can receive our Powerpoint slides by sharing this presentation and submitting your email at www.slidebooks.com | Digital Transformation Strategy Template and Training | By ex-Deloitte and McKinsey Consultants
Gartner - The art of the one page strategyDeepak Kamboj
The components of an IT strategy when using "science" to develop it
Techniques for developing an 'artful' one-page strategy
How to effectively use the one-page strategy
Strategic planning is at the heart of any enterprise, and alignment with the corporate strategic plan is often a key concern of CIOs. There is a science to developing an IT strategy, and there is an art. This session explores the art of strategic planning, helping attendees articulate IT's contribution to business success.
Source : Gartner
Heather Colella
Research VP
http://www.gartner.com/webinar/3203818/player?commId=192095&channelId=5502&srcId=null
This presentation provides an overview of the One Page Strategic Planning process and why you should consider this framework for planning in your mid-sized firm. Growing businesses must ensure that 4 key decisions are correct in order to grow - People, Strategy, Execution and Cash as outlined in Verne Harnish's books Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and The New Rockefeller Habits.
http://au.linkedin.com/in/bradleygiles/
http://www.evolutionpartners.com.au/
Gartner Study Jurisdictional Comparisons to Inform Future State VisionFairfax County
Fairfax County hired Gartner to conduct an independent review of the county's land use and development procedures and processes in order to improve their speed, consistency and effectiveness. This report looks at ideas from best practices used by other jurisdictions.
Achieving Asset Optimization: A Strategic Approach To Aligning Assets With Mi...Huron Consulting Group
Huron Healthcare managing director Curt Whelan and Advisory Council member Jamie Orlikoff present new tools, processes, frameworks, and data points to enable healthcare executives to strategically align their assets to their mission and market needs. This resource, from the 2014 ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership, utilizes recent statistics and the presenters’ years of experience to advise on how to implement a strategic framework shift, leverage board support, and avoid asset rationalization in favor of asset optimization.
Gartner analysts will discuss latest BPM trends at the Gartner Business Process Summit 2011, 7-8 March in London. For further information about the event please visit europe.gartner.com
Driving marketing performance in financial services is subject to unique considerations. Diverse set of distribution channels, complex customer segments, a need to balance branding and promotion, and multiple outcome measures impacting customer value are factors to consider.
Two Tools for Switching from EnergyCAP Enterprise to EnergyCAP OnlineEnergyCAP, Inc.
If your organization is currently running EnergyCAP Enterprise, but are interested in efficiently switching to EnergyCAP Online, two tools to help are Distributions and Audit 52. Presented by David Ulmer at the Catalyst Training Conference by EnergyCAP, Inc.
With greater dependency on external providers due to factors such as outsourcing, off-shoring, and cloud computing, vendor relationships have become more complex in recent years. Vendor management can be one of your company’s strengths, or if done poorly, a weakness. Having the right processes and the necessary tools will guarantee that your vendor management is an asset, not a liability. This presentation will explain how to build, maintain, and use a supporting “toolbox” for all vendor management-related activities such as recruiting, evaluating, performance tracking, and training.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
As the IT footprint expands in the organization, CIOs budgets keep growing, some having multi-billion annual budgets in the case of large organizations.
CXOs require CIOs to provide cost transparency, control, as well as cost optimization and efficiency. We offer a unique combination of consulting service and an application to enhance your visibility on IT costs and ease communication.
In a fast-paced economy, IT organizations must have the ability to continuously acquire and integrate new capabilities in order to support the business strategy, increase flexibility and improve efficiency. An organization, IT in particular, can no longer rely on internal capabilities to stay competitive; IT needs to become an agile service integrator that can manage and govern a portfolio of ever-changing and evolving internal and external capabilities.
In this whitepaper, 3gamma is exploring how IT can support cost reduction and innovation strategies through a business-oriented, agile approach to IT sourcing. The IT sourcing strategy needs to be viewed as an enabler of the overall corporate strategy. IT sourcing is not something that can be isolated to IT.
Acquity Group is a business process and technology consulting firm. We are and end to end provider of strategy, process and technology solutions. This deck highlights our key competencies around IT Strategy, IT Governance & IT Operations
One of the most daunting challenges organizations face in making decisions on what technology is needed to fully enable the business to achieve its strategy and objectives. The key is ALIGNMENT.
David Beard
CRM Evangelist - Sage CRM Solutions
"With over 10 years involvement in business analyst & project management roles for a variety of companies in the IT, telecommunications & banking sectors, David brings a wealth of experience in helping companies define what a customer means and how best to interact - across both cultural & systemic contexts"
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail: implementing ERP and CRM systemsSageukofficial
David Beard, from the business software company Sage UK, looks at market place trends driving the thoughts of software vendors. He then considers why businesses often fail to realise the measurable benefits from ERP and CRM software implementations and what they can do to widen, and thus, improve their approach.
IT Financial Management Series - Part 1: Defining a Model to Effectively Run ...UMT
"This is the first part of the IT financial management series. In this webinar, Charlie Curcio, IT CFO shares his experience in defining what it means to Run the Business of IT.
On average companies spend 5% of the total operating budget on IT, increasing pressure on executives to reduce costs, communicate value and align IT investments with business priorities to drive a competitive advantage.
Today, many high performing IT organizations are adopting Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis (IIPA) best practices to effectively Run the Business of IT. Developing a holistic data model and financial framework is key to driving transparency across disparate IT domains and providing accurate and reliable metrics to enhance decision making."
Similar to How Gartner Helps Across the Entire IT Cost Optimization Life Cycle (20)
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
2. Key Initiative Overview for IT Cost Optimization
DEFINITION
IT Cost Optimization includes the practices, capabilities and
behaviors taken by IT organizations and enterprises to balance
the constraints of reducing costs, managing service levels and
showing the business value of IT in pursuit of enterprise
financial imperatives.
2
SCOPE
• IT procurement: Getting the
best pricing and terms for IT
contracts
• Cost savings within IT:
Identifying opportunities to
reduce IT costs
• Joint business and IT cost
savings: Implementing cost-saving
technologies in
conjunction with the business
• Enabling innovation and
business restructuring:
Implementing process
improvement, business
restructuring and innovation
3. How Gartner Delivers Value for IT Cost
Optimization
• Gartner helps clients reduce costs while maintaining service levels and
demonstrating the business value of IT.
• Gartner’s cost reduction recommendations can reduce an organization’s
infrastructure and operations costs by 10% or more in the first year, and by 25%
or more longer term (1). On average, Gartner clients save between 10% and
30% on their sourcing and procurement costs (2).
• A large multinational firm reduced its IBM Lotus Notes/Domino operating costs
by more than $11 million over two years (3).
• We have a number of analysts researching IT cost optimization and more than
500 savings-oriented research notes.
3
4. Typical Hurdles Clients Face in Pursuing
IT Cost Optimization
Hurdles Organizations Typically Face Examples of Recent Research
How can I be sure I’m getting the best deals
on my sourcing contracts?
• Top 10 Extreme Negotiation Tactics for Problematic Vendors
• Understand Outsourcing Evaluation, Selection and Transition
Costs to Lower Risk
• Renegotiate Outsourcing Contracts Early to Cut Costs
4
How can I save money with shared services
while still being responsive to varying
stakeholder needs?
• Centralizing IT: Assess Benefits and Barriers in Cost-Optimizing
Times
• Use Shared Services to Control Enterprise Content Management
Costs
• Implementing Finance Shared Services: Benefits and Best
Practices
How do I balance long-term imperatives with
pressing short-term demands?
• IT and Business Performance Goals for Cost Optimization (2)
• Use Benchmarking to Identify IT Cost Optimization Opportunities
• Five Principles Underpin IT Cost Optimization Success
• IT Cost Optimization Should Be an Ongoing Discipline
How can I save money on implementation
costs without increasing my implementation
risks?
• Toolkit: I&O Cost Optimization Tracking Tool
• Customization: The Cost That Keeps on Costing
• Toolkit: Prioritizing IT Cost Optimization Projects
How do I balance the need to reduce costs
with the need to position the business for
future growth?
• Spend IT Wisely with a Three-Layer Strategy for Cost Optimization
• Predicts: Taking a 360-Degree View of IT Optimization Will Deliver
Increased Value
• Improve IT Yield by Investing in the Right Things While Developing
the ‘Investment Gene’
5. How Gartner Helps Across the Entire IT Cost
Optimization Life Cycle
5
IT Cost Optimization Should Be an
Ongoing Discipline
'New Normal' Business Demands New
Focus on Innovation, Cost, Risk
Management and Governance
A Checklist for Cost Optimization (1)
Decision Framework for Prioritizing
Cost Optimization Ideas
Reducing Costs for Global Mobile
Voice and Data Roaming
Five Critical Success Factors for
Advanced IT Asset Management
and Successful IT
Critical Practices for Success in IT
Execute
Procurement: Build Teamwork With
Project, Program and Portfolio
Management
Evaluate Opportunity Cost When
Deciding to Buy, Lease, Rent or
Subscribe
Get an unbiased reference
from peer leaders who
have already undertaken
IT Cost Optimization
initiatives
New Realities of IT Investment
Chargeback Cost Recovery: Moment of
Truth
Chargeback Methods That Will Change IT
Competitiveness and Effectiveness
One Company Cuts Lotus Domino Costs by
$11 Million Over Two Years (3)
IT Metrics: New Economic Rules of IT
Spending and Staffing Metrics
Learn from peer leaders who want to
share their experiences in deploying
and operating new IT Cost
Optimization initiatives and systems
– Change Management
– Metrics
– Pitfalls to Avoid
Gartner analysts can review
your strategy and planning
documents, and provide
valuable insights using
knowledge they have
gathered through interactions
with hundreds of clients
Gartner analysts can help
you be successful in your
initiative by providing best
practices and case studies
that have worked for other
clients to help run and evolve
your Initiative
Gartner analysts can help you deploy this
initiative, using models and frameworks
crafted through interactions with
hundreds of clients
Advice from analysts will help you
implement and govern your initiative the
right way, to optimize business benefits
and avoid risks
Architect
Solution
Measure
and Improve
Develop
Governance
Strategize
and Plan
Drive Change
Management
Examples
of Written
Research
Analysts
Peers
6. Gartner has 65 Subject Matter Experts for IT Cost
Optimization
Representative analysts include 1:
Kurt Potter, VP Distinguished Analyst
27 years IT industry
Kurt Potter is a research vice president within the Gartner CIO Research group, where he creates actionable fact-based
research focused on IT financial management. This includes drivers and trends related to IT spending and staffing, IT cost
transparency, IT performance management, and IT benchmarking and measurement. Mr. Potter specializes in advice for
clients who have goals for significant change or big shifts in IT management practices.
Jim McGittigan, Research Director
18 years IT industry
Jim McGittigan is a research director within the Gartner CIO Research group, where he focuses on delivering value to Gartner
clients through his insight and experience in IT financial management. This includes cost transparency, budgeting,
chargeback, service pricing, cost optimization, benchmarking, project financial management, and performance metrics.
Sanil Solanki, Research Director
6 years IT industry
Sanil Solanki is a Research Director with Gartner Research. His focus is on IT cost optimization practices, business case
review for outsourcing, IT project finance, project benefits realization, IT chargebacks/showbacks and the business value of IT.
1 Indicates Gartner for IT Leaders Advisor Level of Service
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7. Gartner Consulting Provides Customized Support
Across the IT Cost Optimization Life Cycle
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Architect
Solution
Implement
Gain
Approval
Operate
and Evolve
Assess
Current State
Strategize
and Plan
Assess
Competencies
Execute IT cost
optimization
plan
Execute
communication
plan
Track metrics
and measure
progress
Develop budget
to support plan
Implement
organizational
changes
Manage IT cost
optimization
workstreams
Monitor metrics
and measure
progress
Conduct milestone
benefit realization
reviews and make
necessary
adjustments
Review IT cost
optimization
strategy with key
stakeholders
Develop a 6- to 18-
month cost
realization plan
Develop
communication
plan
Develop benefit
tracking metrics
Design IT cost
optimization team
Define current IT cost baseline
Link key IT cost initiatives to business value
Define IT cost optimization Principles
Determine IT requirements to support IT cost
optimization initiatives
Develop IT cost optimization Program Office
Define the following tools for the IT cost optimization :
– Benefit tracking model
– Governance model
– Recover model
– Strategy and options
Define funding strategies and management
Clarify scope and
purpose of the IT
Cost Optimization
Identify and
prioritize key
initiatives
Develop IT cost
optimization
strategy
Establish size of
the prize
Develop IT cost
optimization road
map
IT cost optimization plan that is aligned with business needs and objectives
Current IT cost that has been accurately assessed and identification of size
of the prize
Clear process for ensuring IT is optimizing the right cost (“cutting fat, not
muscle”)
Benefits realization model
Clear plan that outlines all workstreams
and activities necessary to realize IT
cost optimization
Process to track benefits and impact
Process and
metrics to
measure IT
contribution to the
business
Customized to your requirements + context of your industry + experienced practitioners + supported by data and metrics =
Customized Engagements that create Actionable and Credible Deliverables
How
Gartner
Consulting
Can Help
Benefits