Meet George Jetson – Your New Chief Procurement OfficerDana Gardner
George Jetson is being introduced as the new Chief Procurement Officer. Rapid advances in AI and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement by enabling predictive and proactive processes. Procurement is well-suited to benefit from these technologies due to its transaction-intensive nature and need for real-time insights. AI can help with tasks like invoice matching and exception management, while bots can assist with decisions around supply continuity issues. Suppliers will need to provide more detailed data to buyers to remain competitive in this intelligent procurement environment.
How New Technology Trends Will Disrupt the Very Nature of Business Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how major new trends and technology are translating into disruption, and for the innovative business -- opportunity.
Using a Big Data Solution Helps Conservation International Identify and Proac...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a conservation group, partnering with HP, is bringing real-time environmental data into the hands of policy decisions-makers.
Work from Anywhere: The Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Crea...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how a bellwether UK accounting services firm has shown how consistent, secure, and efficient digital work experiences lead to heightened team collaboration and creative new workflows.
Rethinking Employee Well-Being in the New World of Digital Work: New Models D...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the current state of employee well-being and how new pressures and complexity from distance working may need new forms of employer-managed support.
Meet George Jetson – Your New Chief Procurement OfficerDana Gardner
George Jetson is being introduced as the new Chief Procurement Officer. Rapid advances in AI and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement by enabling predictive and proactive processes. Procurement is well-suited to benefit from these technologies due to its transaction-intensive nature and need for real-time insights. AI can help with tasks like invoice matching and exception management, while bots can assist with decisions around supply continuity issues. Suppliers will need to provide more detailed data to buyers to remain competitive in this intelligent procurement environment.
How New Technology Trends Will Disrupt the Very Nature of Business Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how major new trends and technology are translating into disruption, and for the innovative business -- opportunity.
Using a Big Data Solution Helps Conservation International Identify and Proac...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a conservation group, partnering with HP, is bringing real-time environmental data into the hands of policy decisions-makers.
Work from Anywhere: The Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Crea...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how a bellwether UK accounting services firm has shown how consistent, secure, and efficient digital work experiences lead to heightened team collaboration and creative new workflows.
Rethinking Employee Well-Being in the New World of Digital Work: New Models D...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on the current state of employee well-being and how new pressures and complexity from distance working may need new forms of employer-managed support.
Need for Fast Analytics Across All Kinds of Healthcare Data Spurs Converged S...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how a triumvirate of big players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
How Data Loss Prevention End-Point Agents Use HPE IDOL’s Comprehensive Data C...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how cybersecurity attacks are on the rise but new capabilities are being brought to the edge to provide for better data loss prevention.
The document provides advice on starting a company. It begins by listing reasons not to start a company, such as the high likelihood of failure and potential negative social consequences. However, it then explains that if starting a company feels right, one should pursue it despite the risks. It discusses Tradeshift's journey, including years of failure with early startups followed by success with Tradeshift after focusing on a problem and building a real product. It concludes by providing advice on teams, products, funding, and mindset for starting a successful company.
Exploring the Business Decision to Use Cloud ComputingDana Gardner
The document summarizes a panel discussion on turning cloud computing into business value. The panel explores practical cloud implementations and moving beyond hype to realize business benefits. Issues discussed include inhibitors to cloud adoption, examples of safe cloud use, and how cloud can improve business processes. A representative from Harvard Medical School provides an example of successful cloud adoption, noting how an iterative approach built trust with researchers and addressed their bursty computing needs.
How Unisys and Microsoft Team Up To Ease Complex Cloud Adoption For Governmen...Dana Gardner
A discussion how public and private sector IT organizations can ease cloud adoption using cloud-native apps, services modernization, automation, and embedded best practices.
How Analytics as a Service Changes the Game and Expands the Market for Big Da...Dana Gardner
- Analytics as a service has expanded the market for big data by making advanced analytics capabilities accessible to smaller companies and organizations without extensive data architecture experience. This "democratization" of big data allows more firms to leverage big data technologies.
- Mobility and real-time analytics have become more prevalent, allowing organizations to incorporate streaming data sources and provide insights in close to real-time rather than through batch processes. This helps companies make faster decisions.
- Dasher Technologies helps clients address big data challenges holistically by considering people, process, and technology factors and providing solutions that optimize architectures for long-term growth needs. They work with partners like HP and its Vertica platform to deliver analytics capabilities and reporting applications.
Enterprise Mobile and Client Management Demands a Rethinking of Work, Play an...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on the new landscape sculpted by the increasing use of mobile and BYOD and how Dell is helping companies navigate that terrain.
The UNIX Evolution: An Innovative History reaches a 20-Year MilestoneDana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how UNIX has evolved in the 20-year history of UNIX and the role of The Open Group in maintaining and updating the standard.
Learn “How to get your IT budget to 1 percent of Revenue” HCL Technologies
Meeting an audacious goal such as this requires intelligent outsourcing, aggressive migration to the cloud, and savvy management of change
Download this report by Andy Nallappan, CIO Avago Technologies
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Managing Cloud Computing Brings Complex Duality Between IT and BusinessDana Gardner
Podcast of a BriefingsDirect podcast in conjunction with the Open Group Conference in San Francisco. Capgemini CTO Andy Mulholland discusses the transformed enterprise.
Collaboration 3.0: 8 trends today that will define our tools tomorrowalexschiff
A lot of talk has been made of trends redefining the tools people use to collaborate and get things done: cloud computing, rise (and ubiquity) of mobile, consumerization of enterprise IT, etc. These aren't "predictions" anymore — they're well-accepted facts, and the opportunities to build large companies on this trend are getting smaller.
So, what's next? What will the third wave (details within) of collaboration look like? To answer that question, I turned to 18 product leaders and executives working in the field and asked, "What are the trends forming today that will redefine the tools we use to work together tomorrow?"
The document discusses challenges with the existing e-invoicing systems controlled by banks. It argues that banks will fail to solve the "SME problem" of getting small and medium enterprises to adopt e-invoicing because their business model focuses on controlling processes rather than collaborating in open ecosystems. It suggests that introducing new open e-invoicing ecosystems from the bottom-up, focusing on small businesses, could help connect more suppliers and solve the SME adoption problem that existing top-down solutions have faced.
The document discusses using SAP Hybris software to improve citizen engagement for governments. It describes Kathleen's difficult experience moving to Australia and having to repeatedly provide the same information to different government agencies. The presentation argues that governments need to provide citizens with a 360-degree view of services and a personalized experience. It demonstrates how SAP Hybris could allow Kathleen to manage services for her family online, share information between agencies more easily, and receive personalized assistance from chatbots or agents. The software aims to make interactions with government more simple, efficient and privacy-protecting for citizens.
The next big wave of digital disruption for consumersWard Hemeryck
Digital Transformation is very though, disruption is everywhere and new retail trends are just around the corner. What is the impact of this "new normal" for consumers and how can your company react?
Business Readiness—The Key to Surviving and Thriving in Uncertain TimesDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how companies and communities alike are adjusting to a variety of workplace threats using new ways of enabling enterprise-class access and distribution of vital data resources and applications.
Part 1: Application Transformation Case Study Dives Down to Bottom Line with ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of the first in a series of sponsored BriefingsDirect podcasts -- "Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line" -- on the rationale and strategies for application transformation.
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point to Rapid Need for Radical Application Transfor...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how consumer-driven platform variety is affecting how enterprises must adjust their approach to architecture.
Loyalty Management Innovator AIMIA's Transformation Journey to Modernized and...Dana Gardner
Loyalty management company Aimia is modernizing and consolidating its global IT infrastructure through a three-year project with HPE. This includes consolidating dozens of data centers into four standardized locations, modernizing applications, and adopting a virtual private cloud model. The goals are to improve security, simplify operations, lower costs over time, and enable a focus on analytics and new applications rather than infrastructure maintenance. Aimia sees this transformation enabling greater agility, innovation, and growth through leveraging cloud technologies and data in the future.
Democratizing Advanced Analytics Propels Instant Analysis Results to the Ubiq...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how HTI Labs in London provides the means and governance with their Schematiq tool to bring critical data to the interface that users want most.
Need for Fast Analytics Across All Kinds of Healthcare Data Spurs Converged S...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how a triumvirate of big players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
How Data Loss Prevention End-Point Agents Use HPE IDOL’s Comprehensive Data C...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how cybersecurity attacks are on the rise but new capabilities are being brought to the edge to provide for better data loss prevention.
The document provides advice on starting a company. It begins by listing reasons not to start a company, such as the high likelihood of failure and potential negative social consequences. However, it then explains that if starting a company feels right, one should pursue it despite the risks. It discusses Tradeshift's journey, including years of failure with early startups followed by success with Tradeshift after focusing on a problem and building a real product. It concludes by providing advice on teams, products, funding, and mindset for starting a successful company.
Exploring the Business Decision to Use Cloud ComputingDana Gardner
The document summarizes a panel discussion on turning cloud computing into business value. The panel explores practical cloud implementations and moving beyond hype to realize business benefits. Issues discussed include inhibitors to cloud adoption, examples of safe cloud use, and how cloud can improve business processes. A representative from Harvard Medical School provides an example of successful cloud adoption, noting how an iterative approach built trust with researchers and addressed their bursty computing needs.
How Unisys and Microsoft Team Up To Ease Complex Cloud Adoption For Governmen...Dana Gardner
A discussion how public and private sector IT organizations can ease cloud adoption using cloud-native apps, services modernization, automation, and embedded best practices.
How Analytics as a Service Changes the Game and Expands the Market for Big Da...Dana Gardner
- Analytics as a service has expanded the market for big data by making advanced analytics capabilities accessible to smaller companies and organizations without extensive data architecture experience. This "democratization" of big data allows more firms to leverage big data technologies.
- Mobility and real-time analytics have become more prevalent, allowing organizations to incorporate streaming data sources and provide insights in close to real-time rather than through batch processes. This helps companies make faster decisions.
- Dasher Technologies helps clients address big data challenges holistically by considering people, process, and technology factors and providing solutions that optimize architectures for long-term growth needs. They work with partners like HP and its Vertica platform to deliver analytics capabilities and reporting applications.
Enterprise Mobile and Client Management Demands a Rethinking of Work, Play an...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on the new landscape sculpted by the increasing use of mobile and BYOD and how Dell is helping companies navigate that terrain.
The UNIX Evolution: An Innovative History reaches a 20-Year MilestoneDana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how UNIX has evolved in the 20-year history of UNIX and the role of The Open Group in maintaining and updating the standard.
Learn “How to get your IT budget to 1 percent of Revenue” HCL Technologies
Meeting an audacious goal such as this requires intelligent outsourcing, aggressive migration to the cloud, and savvy management of change
Download this report by Andy Nallappan, CIO Avago Technologies
Download Tab
Managing Cloud Computing Brings Complex Duality Between IT and BusinessDana Gardner
Podcast of a BriefingsDirect podcast in conjunction with the Open Group Conference in San Francisco. Capgemini CTO Andy Mulholland discusses the transformed enterprise.
Collaboration 3.0: 8 trends today that will define our tools tomorrowalexschiff
A lot of talk has been made of trends redefining the tools people use to collaborate and get things done: cloud computing, rise (and ubiquity) of mobile, consumerization of enterprise IT, etc. These aren't "predictions" anymore — they're well-accepted facts, and the opportunities to build large companies on this trend are getting smaller.
So, what's next? What will the third wave (details within) of collaboration look like? To answer that question, I turned to 18 product leaders and executives working in the field and asked, "What are the trends forming today that will redefine the tools we use to work together tomorrow?"
The document discusses challenges with the existing e-invoicing systems controlled by banks. It argues that banks will fail to solve the "SME problem" of getting small and medium enterprises to adopt e-invoicing because their business model focuses on controlling processes rather than collaborating in open ecosystems. It suggests that introducing new open e-invoicing ecosystems from the bottom-up, focusing on small businesses, could help connect more suppliers and solve the SME adoption problem that existing top-down solutions have faced.
The document discusses using SAP Hybris software to improve citizen engagement for governments. It describes Kathleen's difficult experience moving to Australia and having to repeatedly provide the same information to different government agencies. The presentation argues that governments need to provide citizens with a 360-degree view of services and a personalized experience. It demonstrates how SAP Hybris could allow Kathleen to manage services for her family online, share information between agencies more easily, and receive personalized assistance from chatbots or agents. The software aims to make interactions with government more simple, efficient and privacy-protecting for citizens.
The next big wave of digital disruption for consumersWard Hemeryck
Digital Transformation is very though, disruption is everywhere and new retail trends are just around the corner. What is the impact of this "new normal" for consumers and how can your company react?
Business Readiness—The Key to Surviving and Thriving in Uncertain TimesDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how companies and communities alike are adjusting to a variety of workplace threats using new ways of enabling enterprise-class access and distribution of vital data resources and applications.
Part 1: Application Transformation Case Study Dives Down to Bottom Line with ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of the first in a series of sponsored BriefingsDirect podcasts -- "Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line" -- on the rationale and strategies for application transformation.
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point to Rapid Need for Radical Application Transfor...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how consumer-driven platform variety is affecting how enterprises must adjust their approach to architecture.
Loyalty Management Innovator AIMIA's Transformation Journey to Modernized and...Dana Gardner
Loyalty management company Aimia is modernizing and consolidating its global IT infrastructure through a three-year project with HPE. This includes consolidating dozens of data centers into four standardized locations, modernizing applications, and adopting a virtual private cloud model. The goals are to improve security, simplify operations, lower costs over time, and enable a focus on analytics and new applications rather than infrastructure maintenance. Aimia sees this transformation enabling greater agility, innovation, and growth through leveraging cloud technologies and data in the future.
Democratizing Advanced Analytics Propels Instant Analysis Results to the Ubiq...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how HTI Labs in London provides the means and governance with their Schematiq tool to bring critical data to the interface that users want most.
How Big Data Deep Analysis and Agile SQL Querying Give 2016 Campaigners an Ed...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how data analysis services startup BlueLabs in Washington, helps presidential campaigns better know and engage with potential voters.
How Governments Gain Economic Benefits from Inter-Public-Cloud Interoperabili...Dana Gardner
- The panel discussed how governments can gain economic benefits from interoperability and standardization between public cloud providers. While the private sector has widely adopted cloud computing, public sector adoption is more complicated with some agencies lagging behind.
- Large government contracts represent significant opportunities for major cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to expand their government and federal business. However, they need to ensure adequate security, interoperability and customization to meet public sector needs.
- For governments, a lack of standardization makes it harder to show taxpayers they are getting the best value. While open source platforms can help enable interoperability, APIs will be more important for interoperability between cloud providers.
- Both Europe
Infrastructure as Destiny — How Purdue Builds a Support Fabric for Big Data E...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Purdue University provides IT as a service, using big data and the IoT technologies, to support such worthy goals as student retention analysis.
How HudsonAlpha Innovates on IT for Research-Driven Education, Genomic Medici...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how HudsonAlpha leverages modern IT infrastructure and big data analytics to power research projects as well as pioneering genomic medicine findings.
es una relatoria que cautiva a sus lectores, porque trata de que para tener éxito debemos hacernos preguntas en nuestras vidas, una mente no cuestionada es una mente muerta intelectualmente.
How Allegiant Air Solved Their PCI Problem and Got a Whole Lot Better Securit...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how security technology can lead to a better posture maturity and then ultimately to cultural transformation and many added business benefits.
Playtika Bets on Big Data Analytics to Deliver Captivating Social Gaming Expe...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how Playtika is using data science going and an architectural approach to conquer some of these hurdles around volume, velocity, and variety of data.
Gaining Digital Business Strategic View Across More Data Gives AmeriPride Cul...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how improved data allows for more types of work in an improved organization to become even more intelligent, and to find new efficiencies and benefits.
Este documento presenta un taller práctico sobre 10 claves para la implementación de tendencias y enfoques innovadores en educación. El taller busca que los docentes identifiquen los cambios necesarios para incorporar las TIC al aula y currículo. El taller se desarrolla de forma teórico-práctica y cubre temas como nuevas habilidades del siglo XXI, políticas de acceso a TIC e innovación educativa. Los docentes analizan tendencias pedagógicas actuales y cómo estas se reflejan en su práctica, con el
O documento descreve a programação do Carnaval de Olinda em 2017, valorizando artistas locais. A festa começa oficialmente na quinta-feira com um cortejo de agremiações que se concentram no Largo do Amparo e desfilam pela cidade, encerrando no Palácio dos Governadores com show de Alceu Valença. Os dez polos oficiais da festa são descritos, com atrações musicais para cada dia.
El futuro de la tecnología pasa por esta nueva concepción de ordenadores que nos acompaña a todas partes. Indudablemente la tecnología wearable ha llegado para quedarse entre nosotros.
Este documento resume tres redes sociales principales: Facebook, Badoo y Twitter. Facebook permite comunicarse y compartir contenido con personas de todo el mundo. Badoo es una red social popular para encuentros y conversaciones, con más de 100 millones de usuarios en 2010. Twitter es una red diferente donde los usuarios comparten información constantemente y las empresas pueden promocionarse.
How Modern Operational Services Leads to More Self-Managing, Self-Healing, an...Dana Gardner
A discussion on how Hewlett Packard Enterprise Pointnext Services is reinventing the experience of IT support to increasingly rely on automation, analytics, and agility.
How Digital Transformation Navigates Disruption to Chart A Better Course to t...Dana Gardner
A discussion on how HPE Pointnext Services advises organizations on using digital transformation to take advantage of new and emerging market opportunities.
The Path to a Digital-First Enterprise Is Paved with an Emergence Model And D...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how open standards help support a playbook approach for organizations to improve and accelerate their digital transformation.
How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Across IT Supply...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Bruce Auto Group gained deep insights into their systems, apps, and data to manage and reduce risks across their entire IT and services supply chain.
SAP Ariba Chief Strategy Officer on The Digitization of Business and the Futu...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how advancements in business applications and the modern infrastructure that supports them portends new and higher degrees of business innovation.
Platform 3.0 Ripe to Give Standard Access to Advanced Intelligence and Automa...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how The Open Group is working to stay ahead of challenges organization face with an increase in data volume and sources.
2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together To Enable Continu...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how technology will improve the ways businesses operate and enable employees to remain productive and content in the coming year.
How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Producti...Dana Gardner
The document discusses how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions through intelligent automation can provide businesses several benefits. It can improve control over cash flow, payables, and financial situational awareness. This allows for better management during times of economic uncertainty. Automating AP processes can increase productivity, reduce processing times, and unlock billions in potential working capital benefits. It also enables skills shifts toward roles requiring more data analytics and strategic thinking to capitalize on insights from invoice data. Companies implementing AP automation solutions have seen over 40% reductions in invoice processing costs and gains in touchless invoice processing.
This document summarizes a podcast discussion about the rise of business networks and how it requires new models of doing business. Some key points:
- Business networks enabled by cloud, mobile, big data are disrupting industries by allowing unprecedented connectivity and data sharing across supply chains and customers.
- This connectivity provides opportunities for data-driven innovation but also requires balancing consumer simplicity with enterprise needs for security, controls and compliance.
- Viewing the supplier as a customer too and building networks that connect buyers and suppliers can create network effects that make the platform more valuable for all participants.
- Leveraging combined data insights across an entire business network, rather than isolated systems, allows for more context and advantages in analysis
HP Discover 2012 Case Study: McKesson Redirects IT to Become a Services Provi...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingDirect podcast from HP Discover 2012 on how health-care giant McKesson has revamped it's IT approach and instituted a cultural shift toward services.
Daisy CTO, Nathan Marke, talks digital technology and how it's affecting businesses across all industries. This is the speech Nathan gave at Daisy Communications' flagship event 'Daisy Wired? 2014'. For more info, visit www.daisygroupplc.com
The document summarizes the key learnings from a trip to Silicon Valley by two authors to understand entrepreneurship and customer-centric approaches. They visited many successful startups and companies like Google, Apple, LinkedIn, and Salesforce. Their main conclusions are that modern organizations must put the customer first without compromise through a flexible, networked structure driven by a strong sense of purpose. Details and passion are also vital to satisfying customers.
The document summarizes the key learnings from a trip to Silicon Valley by two authors to understand the methods of entrepreneurship and customer focus. They visited many successful startups and companies like Google, Apple, LinkedIn, and Salesforce. Their main conclusions are that modern organizations must put the customer first without any compromise, even if it impacts short-term profits. They also emphasize building network organizations where information can flow freely across departments to better serve customers. Finally, companies need a strong, shared sense of purpose that inspires employees to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
VC Michael Skok on the State of Cloud Based on Latest North Bridge Annual Sur...Dana Gardner
The document summarizes the key findings from a survey on the state of cloud computing conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners. Some of the main results are that confidence in cloud computing has grown significantly over the past year, with 50% of respondents now having complete confidence compared to 13% previously. However, there remains a gap between vendor confidence (56% complete confidence) and customer confidence (37% complete confidence). Barriers to greater adoption include a need for more complete business cases and ROI analysis. Areas seen as big opportunities for cloud include Platform as a Service (PaaS), big data/analytics, and eCommerce.
Nunit vs XUnit vs MSTest Differences Between These Unit Testing Frameworks.pdfflufftailshop
When it comes to unit testing in the .NET ecosystem, developers have a wide range of options available. Among the most popular choices are NUnit, XUnit, and MSTest. These unit testing frameworks provide essential tools and features to help ensure the quality and reliability of code. However, understanding the differences between these frameworks is crucial for selecting the most suitable one for your projects.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
Interested in deploying an integration with Salesforce for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
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How IT Innovators Turned Digital Disruption into a Business Productivity Multiplier
1. How IT Innovators Turned Digital Disruption into a
Business Productivity Multiplier
Transcript of a discussion on digital business transformation and how that’s been accomplished
by several prominent enterprises.
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Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're
listening to BriefingsDirect.
Our next innovation thought leadership panel discussion examines how
digital business transformation has been accomplished by several prominent
enterprises. We'll explore how the convergence of cloud, mobility, and big-
data analytics has prompted companies to innovate and produce new levels
of productivity.
We're now joined by some finalists from the Citrix Synergy 2016 Innovation
Awards Program. So, please join me in welcoming our panel. We're here with
Olaf Romer, Head of Corporate IT and group CIO at Bâloise in Basel, Switzerland. Welcome.
Olaf Romer: Hi, Dana. Thank you very much for your invitation.
Gardner: We're also here with Alan Crawford, CIO of Action for Children in London. Hello,
Alan.
Alan Crawford: Hello, Dana. Great to join you.
Gardner: And we're here with Craig Patterson, CEO of Patterson and
Associates in San Antonio, Texas. Welcome, Craig.
Craig Patterson: Thank you very much for letting me be here.
Gardner: Let’s start with you, Olaf. What are some of the major trends that drove you to
reexamine the workplace conceptually, and how did you arrive at your technology direction for
innovating in that regard?
Becoming more modern
Romer: First of all, we're Swiss traditional insurance. So, our driver was to become a little bit
more modern to get the new generation of people in our company. In Switzerland, this is s a little
bit of problem. We also have big companies in Zurich, for example. So, it’s very important for
us.
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Gardner
2. We did this in two directions. One direction is on the IT side, and the other direction is on the
real-estate side. We changed from the traditional office boxes to a flex office with open space,
like Google has. Nobody has their own desk, not even me. We can go anywhere
in our office and sit with whom we think it’s necessary. This is also on the IT
side. We go in this direction to go for more mobility, an easier way to work in
our company.
Gardner: And because you’re an insurance organization, you have a borderless
type of enterprise, where you need to interact with field offices, other payers,
suppliers, and customers, of course. Was that ability to deal with many different
types of end-point environments also a concern, and how did you solve that?
Romer: We started with this point. The first step was inside our company, and now, we want to
go outside to our brokers and to our customers. The security aspect is very, very important. We're
still working on being absolutely secure, because we're handling sensitive customer data. We're
still in the process of opening our ecosystem outwards to the brokers and customers, but also to
other companies we work with.
Gardner: Alan, tell us about Action for Children and what you’ve been doing in terms of
increasing the mobile style of interactions in business?
Crawford: Action for Children is a UK charity. It helps 300,000 children, families, and young
people every year. About 5,000 staff, operate from between 300 and 500 branches. So, 300 are
our own and a couple of hundred locations are with our partner agencies.
When I started there, the big driver was around security and mobility. A lot of the
XP computers were running out of support, and the staff outside the office was
working on paper.
There was a great opportunity in giving modern tablets to staff to improve the
productivity. Productivity in our case means that if you spend less time doing
unnecessary visits or do something in one visit instead of three, you can spend
more quality time with the family to improve the outcomes for the children.
Gardner: And, of course, as a non-profit organization, costs are always a concern. We’ve heard
an awful lot here at Citrix Synergy about lower cost client and endpoint devices. Has that been a
good news to your ears?
Productivity improvements
Crawford: It has. We started with security and productivity as being the main drivers, but
actually, as we’ve rolled out, we’ve seen those productivity improvements arise. Now, we're
looking at the cost, about the savings we can make on travel, print, and stationery. Our starting
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Romer
Crawford
3. budget this year is £1.3 million ($1.7 million) less than it was the year before we introduced
tablets for those things. We're trying to work out exactly how much of that we can attribute to the
mobile technology and how much of that is due to other factors.
Gardner: Craig, you're working with a number of public sector organizations. Tell us about
what they are facing and what mobility as a style of work means to them.
Patterson: Absolutely. I'm working with a lot of public housing authorities. One is Lucas
Metropolitan, and other is Hampton Redevelopment Agency. What they're facing is declining
budgets and a need to do more with less.
When we look at traditional housing-authority and government-service
agencies that are paper-based, paper just continues to multiply. You put one
piece in the copier and 20 pieces come out. So, being able to take the
documents that contain secure private information of our clients and connect
those with the clients out in the field is why we need mobility and efficiency
and workflows.
And the cloud is what came to mind with that. With content management, we can capture data
out in the field. We can move our staff out in the field. We don’t have to bring all of the clients
into the office, which can sometimes pose a hardship, especially for elderly, disabled, and many
of those in the greatest need. Mobility and efficiency with the cloud and the security have
become paramount in how we perform our business.
Gardner: I suppose another aspect of mobility is the ability to bring data in analytics to the very
edge. Have you yet to take advantage of that or do you see that it’s something that you’re going
to be working toward?
Patterson: We know that it’s something we're working towards. We know from the analytics that
we’ve been able to see so far that mobility is the key. For some time, people have thought that
we can’t put online things like applications for affordable housing, because people don’t have
access to the Internet.
Our analytics prove that entirely wrong. Age groups of 75 and 80 were accessing it on mobile
devices faster than the younger group was. What it means is that they find a relative, a grandchild
or whoever they need that allows them to access the Internet. It’s been our mindset that has kept
us from making the internet and those mobility avenues into our systems available on a broader
scale. So, we're moving in that direction so that self service to that community can be displayed
more in a broader context.
Gardner: Alan?
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Patterson
4. Measuring outcomes
Crawford: Yes on the analytics and how that’s helped by the mobile working. We had a very
similar result in Action for Children in the same year we brought out tablets. We started to do
outcome measures with the children we were with. To reach a child, we do a baseline measure
when we first meet the family, and then maybe three months later, whatever the period of the
intervention, we do a further measure.
Doing that directly on a tablet with the family present has really enhanced the outcome measures.
We now have measures on 50,000 children and we can aggregate that, see what the trends are,
see what the patterns are geographically by types of service and types of intervention.
Gardner: So it’s that two-way street; the more data and analytics you can bring down to the
edge, the more you can actually capture and reapply, and that creates a virtuous cycle of
improvement in productivity.
Crawford: Absolutely. In this case, we're looking at the data and learning lessons about what
works better to improve the outcomes for disadvantaged children, which is really what we're
about.
Gardner: Olaf, user experience is a big topic these days, and insurance, going right to the very
edge of where there might be a settlement event of some sort, back to the broker, back to the
enterprise. User experience improvements at every step of that means ultimately a better
productive outcome for your end customers.
How does user experience factor into this mobility and data in an analytics equation?
Romer: First of all, the insurance business is a little bit different business than the others here.
The problem is that our customers normally don’t want to touch us during the year. They get a
one-time invoice from us and they have to pay the premium. Then, they hope, and we also hope,
that they will not have a claim.
We have only one touch a year, and this is little bit of problem. We try to do everything to be
more attractive for the customer to get them to us, so that for them it’s clear if they have a
problem or need a new insurance, they go to Bâloise Insurance.
We're working on it to bring a little bit of consumerization. In former years the insurance
business was very difficult and it wasn’t transparent. The customers have to answer 67 questions
before they can take out insurance with us, and this is the point. To make it as simple as possible
and to work with a new technology, we have to be attractive for the customers, like taking out
insurance through an iPhone. That’s not so easy.
If you talk with a core insurance guy to calculate the premiums, they won’t already have the 67
answers from the customers. So, it's not only the technology, but working a little bit in a
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5. differently in the insurance business. The technology will also help us there. For me, the
buzzword is big data, and now we have to bring out the value of the data we have in our
business, so that we can go directly with the right user interface to the right customer area.
Gardner: Another concept that we have heard quite a bit here at Synergy is the need to allow IT
to say yes more often. Starting with you Craig, what are you seeing in the trends and in the
technology that is perhaps most impactful for you to be able to say yes to the requests and the
need for agility in these businesses, in these public sector organizations?
Device agnosticism
Patterson: It’s the device agnosticism, where you bring your own device (BYOD). It’s a device
that the individuals are already familiar with. I'm going to take it from two angles. It could be the
employee that’s delivering a service out to a customer in the field that can bring their own device,
or a partner or contractor, so that we can integrate and shrink-wrap certain data. We will still
have data security while they're deploying or doing something out in the field for us. It could be
inspections, customer service, medical, etc.
But then, on the client end, they have their own device. By our being able to deliver products
through portals that don’t care what device they have, it’s based on mobile protocols and
security. Those are the types of trends that are going to allow us to collect the big analytics, know
what we think we know, and find out whether we really know it or not and find it, get the facts
for it.
The other piece of it though is to make it easy to access the services that we provide to the
community, because now it’s a digital community; it’s not just the hardcore community. To see
people in a waiting line now for applications hurts my feelings. We want to see them online,
accessing it 24×7, when it makes sense for them. Those are the types of services that I see
becoming the greater trends in our industry.
Gardner: Alan, what allows you to say “yes” more often?
Crawford: When I started with the XP laptops, we were saying no. So doing lot of comparisons
in program within our center now, they're using the tablets and the technology. You have closed
Facebook groups with those families. There's now peer support outside hours, when children are
going to bed, which is often when they have issues in a family.
They use Eventbrite, the booking app. There are some standard off-the-shelf apps, but the real
enterprise in our service in a rural community currently tells everybody in that community what
services they're running through posters and flyers that were printed off. That moved to
developing our own app. The prototypes are already out there, and the full app will be out there
in a few weeks time. We're saying yes to all of those things. We want to support them. It is not
just yes, but yes and how can we help you do that.
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6. Gardner: Olaf, of course, productivity is only as good as the metrics that we need to convince
the higher-ups in the board room that we need more investment or that we're doing good work
with our technology. Do you have any measurements, metrics, even anecdotes about how you
measure productivity and what you've done to modernize your workspaces?
Romer: Yes, for us it’s the feedback from the people. It’s very difficult to measure it on a clear
technology level, but feedback from the people is very good and very important for us. You can
see with the BYOD we introduced one and a half years ago, a stronger cultural change in
collaboration. We work together much more efficiently in the company and in the different
departments.
In former times, we had closed file shares, and I couldn't see the files of the department next to
me. Now, we're working completely in a modern collaboration way. Still, on traditional
insurances, let’s say with the government, it’s very hard for them to work in the new style..
In the beginning, there were very strong concerns about that, and now we're in a cultural shift on
this. We get a lot of good feedback that in project teams, or in the case of some problems or
issues, we can work much better and faster together.
Metrics of success
Gardner: Craig, of course it’s great to say yes to your constituents, but it’s also good to say
that we're doing more with less to your higher-ups and those that control the budget. Any metrics
of success that you can recall in some of the public-sector organizations you're working with?
Craig Paterson: Absolutely. I'll talk about files in workflow. When a document comes into the
organization before, we mapped how much time and money it took to get it in a file folder,
having been viewed by everyone that it needs to get viewed by. To give quick context, before, a
document took a file folder, a label maker, copy machine, and every time a person needed to put
a document in that folder, someone had to get it there. Now, the term "file clerk" is actually
becoming obsolete.
When a document come in, it gets scanned, it’s instantaneously put in the correct order in the
right electronic folder, and an electronic notification is sent to the person who needs to know.
That happens in seconds. When you look at each month, it amounts to savings; before, we were
managing files, rather than assisting people.
The metrics are in the neighborhood of just about 75 percent paper reduction, because people
aren’t making copies. This means they're not going to the copy machine and along the way, the
water-cooler and conversation pits. That also abates some of the efficiencies. We can now see
how many file folders you looked at, how many documents you actually touched, read, and
reviewed in comparison with somebody else.
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7. We had as many as 5 documents, in comparison with 1,700 in a month. That starts to tell you
some things about where your workload is shifting. Not everyone likes that. They might consider
it a little bit "big brother," but we need those analytics to know how best to change our
workflows to serve our customer, and that’s the community.
Gardner: I don’t know if this is a metric that’s easy to measure, but less bureaucracy would be
something that I think just about everyone would be in favor of. Can you point to something that
says we're able to reduce bureaucracy through technology?
Craig Paterson: When you look at bureaucracy and unnecessary paper flows, there are certain
yes-and-no questions that are part of bureaucracy. Somebody has it go their desk and their job is
to stamp yes or no on it. What decision do you have to make? Well they really don’t; they just
have to stamp yes. To me, that’s classic bureaucracy.
Well, if the document hits that person’s desk and it meets a certain criteria or threshold, the
computer automatically and instantaneously approves it and it has a documented audit trail. That
saves some of our clients in the housing-authority industry, when the auditors come and review
things. But if you had to make a decision, it forced you to know how long it took you to make it.
So, we can look at why is it taking so long or there are questions that you don’t need to be
answering.
Gardner: So let the systems do what they do best and let the people do the exception
management and the value-added activities. Alan, you had some thoughts about metrics of
success of bureaucracy or both?
Proxy measure
Crawford: Yes, it’s the metrics. The Citrix CEO [Kirill Tatarinov] talked at Citrix Synergy
about productivity actually going down in the last few years. We’ve put all these tablets out there
and we have individual case studies where we know a particular family-support worker has
driven 1,700 miles in the year with the tablet, and it was 3,400 miles in the year without. That’s a
proxy measure of how much time they're spending on the road, and we have all the associated
cost of fuel and wasted time and effort.
We've just installed an app -- actually I have rolled it out in the last month or so -- that measures
how many tablets have been switched on in the month, how much they're been used in the day,
and what they've been used for. We can break that down by the geographical areas and give that
information back to the line managers, because they're the people to whom it will actually make
sense.
I'm right at a stage where it’s great information. It’s really powerful, but it’s actually to
understand how many hours a day they should be using that tablet. We're not quite sure, and it
probably varies from one type of service to another.
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8. We look at those trends over a period of months. We can tell managers that, yes, total staff used
them 90 percent, but it’s 85 percent in yours. All managers, I find, are fairly competitive.
Gardner: Well, that may be a hallmark of business agility, when you can try things out, A/B
testing. We’ll try this, we’ll try that, we don’t pay a penalty for doing that. We can simply learn
from it and immediately apply our lesson back to the process.
Crawford: It’s all about how we support those areas where we identify that they're not making
the most of the technology they’ve been given. And it might be human factors. The staff or even
the managers are very fearful. Or it might be technical factors. There are inhibitors around
mobile network coverage and even broadband coverage in some rural areas. We just follow up on
all of those user experience information we get back and try and proactively improve them.
Gardner: Olaf, when we ask enterprises where they are in their digital transformation, many are
saying they're just at the beginning. For you, who are obviously well into a digital transformation
process, what lessons learned could you share; any words of advice for others as they embark on
this journey?
Romer: The first digital transformation in the insurance business was in the middle of 1990s,
when we started to go paperless and work with a digital system. Today, more than 90 percent of
our new insurance contracts are completely paperless. In Germany, for example, you can give a
digital signature. It’s not allowed for the moment in Switzerland, but from a technical
perspective, we can do this.
My advice would be that digitalization gives you a good situation to think about to make it
simple. We built up great complexity over the years, and now we're able to bring this down and
make it as simple as possible. We created the slogan, “Simply Safe,” for us to rethink everything
that we're doing to make it simple and safe. Again, for insurance, it's very important that the
digitalization brings us not more complexity, but reduces it.
Gardner: Craig, same question. Digital transformation, lessons learned, what advice can you
offer others as they embark?
Document and workflow
Patterson: In digital transformation, I’ll just use document and workflow. Start with the higher-
end items; there's low-hanging fruit there. I don’t know if we'll ever be totally paperless, which
would really allow us to go mobile, but at the same time, know what not to scan. Know what to
archive and just get rid off. And don't hang on to old technologies for too long. That’s something
else that’s starting to happen. The technological revolution in lifecycle of technology is shorter
and we need to plan our strategies along those lines.
Gardner: Alan, words of advice on those also interested in digital transformation?
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9. Crawford: For us, it started about connecting with our cause. We’ve got social care staff and
since we’re going to do digital transformation, it's not going to really enthuse them. However, if
you explain that this is about actually improving the lives of children with technology, then they
start to get interested. So, there is a bit about using your cause and relating the change to your
cause.
A lot of our people factors are on how to engage and train. It's no longer IT saying, "Here’s the
solution, and we expect you to do ABC." I was working with those social-care workers, and here
are the options, what will work for you and how should we approach that, but then it’s never
letting up.
Actually, you’ve got to follow through on all this change to get the real benefits out of it. You’ve
got to be a bit tenacious with it to really see the benefits in the end.
Gardner: Tie your digital transformation and the organization’s mission that there is no daylight
between them.
Crawford: We’ve got the project digitally enabling Action for Children and that was to try and
link the two together inextricably
Gardner: Very good. I'm afraid we’ll have to leave it there. You’ve been listening to a
BriefingsDirect discussion, focused on digital business transformation and how that’s been
accomplished by several prominent enterprises.
We’ve heard how the convergence of cloud, mobility and big-data analytics has prompted these
companies to innovate and produce new levels of productivity. And some of them are finalists
from this year’s Citrix Synergy 2016 Innovation Awards program.
So please join me now in thanking our guests. We’ve been here with Olaf Romer, Head of
Corporate IT and group CIO at Bâloise in Basel, Switzerland. Alan Crawford, CIO of Action for
Children in London, and Craig Patterson, CEO of Patterson & Associate in San Antonio,
Texas.
And a big think you to our audience as well for joining this Citrix sponsored business,
innovation, thought leadership discussion.
I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator. Thanks
again for listening, and do come back next time.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Get the mobile app. Sponsor: Citrix.
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by several prominent enterprises. Copyright Interarbor Solutions, LLC, 2005-2016. All rights
reserved.
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