Enterprise Architecture is essentially a strategic planning discipline for ensuring that all the strategies of an enterprise are well executed. How should we measure it and how it is performing?
The New Role of the architect - central to growing your business in todays di...Gunnar Menzel
In the digital era, the role of the architect is becoming less technical, and is more closely getting aligned to business strategy. Architects are able to help the business envision its future and integrate IT into the business, providing better value for money, faster benefit realization and improved market competitiveness.
Delivering value. Enterprise architecture MUST deliver business value and do it now. Companies understand the need for architecture in general, but what are the specific benefits? Architecture processes are sometimes perceived as slow and bureaucratic. Architects are often insufficiently connected to strategic investment decisions on the one hand, and realization processes on the other. Architects have difficulty expressing their added value..
The document discusses how the old rules of enterprise architecture are becoming irrelevant and new rules are needed. It argues that the rise of unbusiness has challenged traditional IT cycles and strategies. The new rules that should be followed are to focus on what really matters, externalize non-core functions, and reduce the cost of planning.
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
TechBlue / Dux Diligens webinar - Business Value Analysis - Enterprise Archit...Claye Greene
This document provides an overview of enterprise architecture and business value analysis. It introduces the presenters and defines enterprise architecture as a practice that can optimize business and IT alignment, transform the enterprise, and drive innovation. The document discusses how enterprise architecture can increase business value by improving areas like integration, agility, and collaboration. It also outlines potential benefits, challenges, and provides a case study example of how business value analysis was used to help a customer improve financial transaction processing.
Building Value Through Enterprise Architecturedfnewman
This document provides contact information for various Booz & Company consultants located around the world who specialize in enterprise architecture. It then discusses the key findings of a Booz & Company study on how enterprise architecture maturity impacts business value. The study found that organizations with higher EA maturity captured more business value in terms of reduced costs, complexity, risk and increased agility. It also found that the relationship between maturity and value is linked, with more mature organizations capturing value across more areas. The document provides examples of how specific organizations captured various types of value from their EA programs.
What is the Value of Architecture. Andrew L Macaulay. Global Head of Architects Community. March 2006. In collaboration with. Microsoft Architect Insight ...
The New Role of the architect - central to growing your business in todays di...Gunnar Menzel
In the digital era, the role of the architect is becoming less technical, and is more closely getting aligned to business strategy. Architects are able to help the business envision its future and integrate IT into the business, providing better value for money, faster benefit realization and improved market competitiveness.
Delivering value. Enterprise architecture MUST deliver business value and do it now. Companies understand the need for architecture in general, but what are the specific benefits? Architecture processes are sometimes perceived as slow and bureaucratic. Architects are often insufficiently connected to strategic investment decisions on the one hand, and realization processes on the other. Architects have difficulty expressing their added value..
The document discusses how the old rules of enterprise architecture are becoming irrelevant and new rules are needed. It argues that the rise of unbusiness has challenged traditional IT cycles and strategies. The new rules that should be followed are to focus on what really matters, externalize non-core functions, and reduce the cost of planning.
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
TechBlue / Dux Diligens webinar - Business Value Analysis - Enterprise Archit...Claye Greene
This document provides an overview of enterprise architecture and business value analysis. It introduces the presenters and defines enterprise architecture as a practice that can optimize business and IT alignment, transform the enterprise, and drive innovation. The document discusses how enterprise architecture can increase business value by improving areas like integration, agility, and collaboration. It also outlines potential benefits, challenges, and provides a case study example of how business value analysis was used to help a customer improve financial transaction processing.
Building Value Through Enterprise Architecturedfnewman
This document provides contact information for various Booz & Company consultants located around the world who specialize in enterprise architecture. It then discusses the key findings of a Booz & Company study on how enterprise architecture maturity impacts business value. The study found that organizations with higher EA maturity captured more business value in terms of reduced costs, complexity, risk and increased agility. It also found that the relationship between maturity and value is linked, with more mature organizations capturing value across more areas. The document provides examples of how specific organizations captured various types of value from their EA programs.
What is the Value of Architecture. Andrew L Macaulay. Global Head of Architects Community. March 2006. In collaboration with. Microsoft Architect Insight ...
Are Harmonics Still a Problem in Data Centers ?Edarat Group
Harmonics are a mathematical way of describing distortion to a voltage or current waveform. The term
harmonic refers to a component of a wave form that occurs at an integer multiple of the fundamental
frequency. Fourier theory tells us that any repetitive waveform can be defined in terms of summing sinusoidal
wave-forms which are integer multiples (or harmonics) of the fundamental frequency.
Since its introduction, the Fuel Polishing System (FPS) has proved to be a reliable, electro-mechanical solution to the problems related to storing diesel.
When compared to the cost of managing the stored diesel, the FPS is a highly effective solution. In comparison with the cost of performing the correct maintenance as specified by best industry practices, the FPS is a valuable and efficient cleaning system for enhancing the fuel management procedures and protocols.
The FPS establishes a system for filtering the contents of the main storage tank through a re-circulating filter system. This can be made automatic and will reduce the risks during operation by removing sediment/gums and will maintain the stored fuel in optimum condition.
The influence of EMF (electro magnetic field) on data centerEdarat Group
Why EMF?
World population growth and its trend to computerize everything in the globe, which can be easily noticed from the quantity and type of internet-dependent appliances i.e. smart phones, tablets, many type of laptops and personal computers are invading our normal life, where most of known manufacturers are racing to provide the globe markets with the highest technology, and all of these devices are power-dependent which found their way to the end users with high demand.
تأثير انعدام الاستقرار السياسي على استراتيجيات استمرارية الأعمالEdarat Group
الرصد، والتفهّم، والتكيّف مع الوضع السياسي هي أمور حيوية لكل الأعمال. من شأن برنامج استمرارية الأعمال أن يتأثر بشدّة في حال وقوع مأساة، كانعدام الاستقرار السياسي.
Impact of political instability on business continuityEdarat Group
Political instability can seriously impact business continuity strategies. It affects decision-making, supply chains, expansion plans, and employee and resource safety. It is important for businesses to have a business continuity management program that involves all levels of management in preparing contingency plans through risk assessments, impact analyses, and continuity strategies. These strategies should be tested and audited regularly to adapt to changing political conditions and minimize disruptions from crises like government changes, economic policy shifts, or social unrest.
شركات الاتصالات – فوائد تقييم منشأة الاتصالاتمركز البيانات Edarat Group
ثمّة عديد من التوجيهات حول كيفية تصميم مركز بيانات لمنشآت تكنولوجيا المعلومات، لكنّ التوجيهات المتوفّرة هي أقلّ بالنسبة إلى منشآت الاتصالات. وينبغي الحذر، لأنّ الاختلافات كثيرة بين منشأة تكنولوجيا المعلومات ومنشأة الاتصالات.
Problem is, most businesses don’t follow a methodical way to calculate true cost of business downtime. It indicates the period when the business is not available. Manual errors, outages, failures or overloads are some of the causes behind unscheduled downtime.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like servers, storage, databases, networking, software and analytics over the internet which can help businesses lower costs and improve scalability and flexibility compared to maintaining their own on-premise IT infrastructure, however some argue that cloud may not be as cost effective long-term as colocation and that hardware issues in the cloud cannot be directly addressed. Overall, cloud appears to offer more advantages than colocation for businesses seeking efficient IT management in a business-to-business framework.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
1) Businesses are implementing infrastructure management strategies to keep their IT functioning effectively as business acceleration requires better management of information and resources.
2) For IT organizations, better infrastructure management results in high performance, seamless configuration, and strong security.
3) Non-IT companies can also benefit from effective infrastructure management through meeting business needs, ensuring operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and adopting new technologies.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
Visit: https://www.mydbops.com/
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/mydbops
For more details and updates, please follow up the below links.
Meetup Page : https://www.meetup.com/mydbops-databa...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mydbopsofficial
Blogs: https://www.mydbops.com/blog/
Facebook(Meta): https://www.facebook.com/mydbops/
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
Are Harmonics Still a Problem in Data Centers ?Edarat Group
Harmonics are a mathematical way of describing distortion to a voltage or current waveform. The term
harmonic refers to a component of a wave form that occurs at an integer multiple of the fundamental
frequency. Fourier theory tells us that any repetitive waveform can be defined in terms of summing sinusoidal
wave-forms which are integer multiples (or harmonics) of the fundamental frequency.
Since its introduction, the Fuel Polishing System (FPS) has proved to be a reliable, electro-mechanical solution to the problems related to storing diesel.
When compared to the cost of managing the stored diesel, the FPS is a highly effective solution. In comparison with the cost of performing the correct maintenance as specified by best industry practices, the FPS is a valuable and efficient cleaning system for enhancing the fuel management procedures and protocols.
The FPS establishes a system for filtering the contents of the main storage tank through a re-circulating filter system. This can be made automatic and will reduce the risks during operation by removing sediment/gums and will maintain the stored fuel in optimum condition.
The influence of EMF (electro magnetic field) on data centerEdarat Group
Why EMF?
World population growth and its trend to computerize everything in the globe, which can be easily noticed from the quantity and type of internet-dependent appliances i.e. smart phones, tablets, many type of laptops and personal computers are invading our normal life, where most of known manufacturers are racing to provide the globe markets with the highest technology, and all of these devices are power-dependent which found their way to the end users with high demand.
تأثير انعدام الاستقرار السياسي على استراتيجيات استمرارية الأعمالEdarat Group
الرصد، والتفهّم، والتكيّف مع الوضع السياسي هي أمور حيوية لكل الأعمال. من شأن برنامج استمرارية الأعمال أن يتأثر بشدّة في حال وقوع مأساة، كانعدام الاستقرار السياسي.
Impact of political instability on business continuityEdarat Group
Political instability can seriously impact business continuity strategies. It affects decision-making, supply chains, expansion plans, and employee and resource safety. It is important for businesses to have a business continuity management program that involves all levels of management in preparing contingency plans through risk assessments, impact analyses, and continuity strategies. These strategies should be tested and audited regularly to adapt to changing political conditions and minimize disruptions from crises like government changes, economic policy shifts, or social unrest.
شركات الاتصالات – فوائد تقييم منشأة الاتصالاتمركز البيانات Edarat Group
ثمّة عديد من التوجيهات حول كيفية تصميم مركز بيانات لمنشآت تكنولوجيا المعلومات، لكنّ التوجيهات المتوفّرة هي أقلّ بالنسبة إلى منشآت الاتصالات. وينبغي الحذر، لأنّ الاختلافات كثيرة بين منشأة تكنولوجيا المعلومات ومنشأة الاتصالات.
Problem is, most businesses don’t follow a methodical way to calculate true cost of business downtime. It indicates the period when the business is not available. Manual errors, outages, failures or overloads are some of the causes behind unscheduled downtime.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like servers, storage, databases, networking, software and analytics over the internet which can help businesses lower costs and improve scalability and flexibility compared to maintaining their own on-premise IT infrastructure, however some argue that cloud may not be as cost effective long-term as colocation and that hardware issues in the cloud cannot be directly addressed. Overall, cloud appears to offer more advantages than colocation for businesses seeking efficient IT management in a business-to-business framework.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
1) Businesses are implementing infrastructure management strategies to keep their IT functioning effectively as business acceleration requires better management of information and resources.
2) For IT organizations, better infrastructure management results in high performance, seamless configuration, and strong security.
3) Non-IT companies can also benefit from effective infrastructure management through meeting business needs, ensuring operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and adopting new technologies.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
Visit: https://www.mydbops.com/
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/mydbops
For more details and updates, please follow up the below links.
Meetup Page : https://www.meetup.com/mydbops-databa...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mydbopsofficial
Blogs: https://www.mydbops.com/blog/
Facebook(Meta): https://www.facebook.com/mydbops/
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
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What is Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture is essentially a strategic planning discipline for ensuring that all the strategies of an enterprise are well exe-
cuted. How should we measure it and how it is performing?
First it’s best to clearly understand what Enterprise Architecture is and who it is for.
Enterprise Architecture bridges the gap between those decision makers who come up with new strategies and objectives and
those who are involved in enterprise transformation and investments in change. It is about what the enterprise can do now
(baseline capabilities) and what it wants to be able to do in the future (target capabilities).
Enterprise Architecture is all about keeping an organisation robust, viable and continuing to satisfy all its stakeholders in
the future, who are interested in the enterprise succeeding and continuing to succeed i.e. the CxOs, Shareholders, Customers,
Partners, Suppliers etc.
The Enterprise Architecture deliverables are a conceptual blueprint or Target Operating Model that explicitly defines the mission,
vision, strategies, objectives, principles, standards and business capabilities at the strategic level, as well as all the other elements
(component types) in the enterprise that define how the business operates. These elements include business functions, business
services, business processes, scenarios, value chains, value streams, products, application services, applications, technology and
infrastructure and are defined within the following Architecture domains:
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Architecture Domain Typical object types in the domain
Market/Environment Supplier, Partner, Shareholder, Stakeholder, Regulator, Custom-
er, Contact, Prospect etc.
Strategy and Motivation Drivers, Mission, Vision, Strategy, Objective, Measure, Metrics,
Principle, Standard etc.
Business Business Capabilities, Business Functions (Value Chains), Business
Process, Strategic Scenarios (Value Streams), Events, Products,
Business Services, Organisation Units, Persons and Roles etc.
Information Business Information, Application Data, Stored data (Databases,
Files etc.)
Applications Application Services, Applications (Suites, Packages, Compo-
nents etc.)
Infrastructure IT Infrastructure (Hardware, Nodes, Networks, Devices, Appli-
ances, Servers etc.
Physical Infrastructure (Buildings, Facilities, Vehicles, Machinery,
etc.)
Enterprise Architecture also provides several different views of how an enterprise operates and changes, by maintaining a base-
line enterprise (operating) model, target enterprise (operating) model(s) and a roadmap of changes to the enterprise’s business
capabilities and investments in change ordered within an enterprise transformation roadmap.
Measures and metrics
A large number of organizations use Enterprise Architecture approach in order to plan strategic changes and manage enterprise
transformations. Enterprise Architecture is not directly linked to a direct outcome but is usually indirectly related.
One of the major concerns is the failure of many enterprises to actually measure the value of their current or baseline Enterprise
Architecture. One is reminded of the old adage 'What you don't measure, you can't manage'. When changes occur as a result of
new strategies and target enterprise models, the subsequent enterprise transformation may well be many months or years into
the future. Changes are delivered by other groups inside the enterprise or external solution delivery partners. If measures and
metrics are not used and actively managed then it becomes rather difficult to compare the old baseline with the new baseline to
see what value has been achieved.
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Identify the Metrics
The measuring metrics will vary from one enterprise to another. As Enterprise Architecture exists to support the CxOs and deci-
sion makers within the enterprise then it is important to define the metrics from their perspective.
Metrics can be identified form a number of perspectives.
Broadly these can be grouped into:
More detailed metrics can defined for each Architecture Domain. Here below is a discussion of some of some potential metrics
used for measurement of their enterprise architecture’s value.
CxO’s Metrics
The Enterprise Architecture is by definition the architecture of the enterprise, so the metrics also need to be defined from the
enterprise or business perspective. The CEO and other CxOs are responsible for managing the enterprise so the metrics need to
be ones that they are interested in and keen to measure. These may include:
Completed transactions
Revenues
Operating expenses
Profit
Revenue per dollar of operating cost
Profit per completed transaction
Productivity
Profits per investment
The trends and rates of change in the numbers are often more important than the actual numbers.
If the enterprise strategies and therefore the target Enterprise Architecture are not having an effect (directly or indirectly) on the
numbers that the CEO is interested in, then the Enterprise Architecture is not being effective.
Customer experience metrics
One of the biggest contributions to Enterprise success and profits is the overall customer experience and satisfaction. There are
three categories of Customer experience metrics:
Categories Description examples
Internal (Inside Out) met-
rics
Metrics that measure the internal efficiency of the
enterprise’s functions, processes, applications, infra-
structure
Cost of business processes
Business Process efficiency
Operating expenses
Productivity
External (Outside In)
metrics
Metrics that measure the way the enterprise operates
from the perspective of those stakeholders outside
the enterprise.
Customer Satisfaction
Sales per customer
Profits per transaction
Change related metrics Metrics that measure how well the enterprise trans-
formations are being achieved
Profits per Investment in change
Percentage of the target EA Model that has
been implemented
Percentage strategies realised
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These metrics measures how happy a customer or prospective customer is with the enterprise's value proposition (their prod-
ucts and business services). What value is provided to the customer? This measure is becoming common with value based pric-
ing approaches. How easy is it for the customers to do business with you? Do the enterprise business services provide for the
needs of the customer’s own internal processes? Customer Satisfaction can be increased by better communication with them
through their preferred channel, so a measure of Customer communications (messages and interactions, social media) can be
useful.
Cost Benefit
Cost/Benefit ratio to measure the value of any new or changed business capability. This is used to compares the amount of mon-
ey spent on the transformation (costs) to the amount of money that is being saved after the implementation of the changes
(Benefits). These metrics are often measured in terms of money, but in fact the benefits may be non-monetary values such as
increased sales, improved customer satisfaction, reduction of risks, increased flexibility, and improved platform for future change.
Productivity and Effectiveness
CEOs will be concerned with the effects of Enterprise Architecture and new investments on production, efficiency and effec-
tiveness. Metrics in this area can focus on:
Reducing time to market for new investments in change
Integrating and improving business processes across the enterprise (including with partners)
Improving the ability to integrate data and interfaces across the enterprise (including with external partners)
Improving the ability to reuse business functions, business processes and application services
Increasing agility, flexibility and ability to rapidly change in the event of new strategic scenarios occurring
Increasing standardization
Reducing the time taken to develop solutions by maximizing reuse of enterprise architecture models
Governance and compliance
Enterprise Architecture ensures that the strategies of the enterprise are realised.
How many business capabilities are being created, updated or removed? What capability increments are being turned into in-
vestment proposals and providing the mandates for new programmes and projects? How many capability increments are being
delivered by the solutions that have been subsequently designed and developed? How well are the solutions in compliance
with the target enterprise architecture model?
Category Description Examples
Descriptive Met-
rics
About what happened when a contact, pro-
spect or customer engages with the enterprise
Call and email volume
Average call time
Calls lost
Website visits
Average transaction values
Average calls per customer
Perception Met-
rics
What did the contact, prospect or customer
think about what happened
Customer satisfaction with their experience
Goal completion rate
Complaint resolution rate
Outcome Met-
rics
What will the customer do as a result of what
happened
Likelihood of recommending
Likelihood to purchase
Actual purchases made
Returning customers
Churn rates
Value provided
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Knowledge
The Enterprise Architecture function will create a well-populated repository of knowledge about the current state of an enter-
prise and its planned future state vision. The enterprise Architecture models provide a knowledge base for CEOs, CxOs and
other decision makers that provides answers to their questions. In essence an enterprise architecture model needs to be de-
signed to answer all their potential questions. How well does it achieve that?
These questions can be about gaps, impacts, dependencies, probabilities of success and failure, risks, costs etc. One of the
major concerns of Enterprise Architecture is to reuse the knowledge, information and data as required by various processes and
applications throughout the enterprise. Metrics can include the percentage completeness of this knowledge base. How easily
and readily available is this knowledge throughout the enterprise to those stakeholders who need it?
A Common Vision of the future state
The whole purpose of Enterprise Architecture is to align investments in change with the strategies for the future of the enterprise.
The target Enterprise Architecture Model is the target operating model that provides a common vision for all parts of the enter-
prise, including internal business units and external partners. How complete is this model and all the associated diagrams and
documentation? Is it readily available?
Enterprise Transformation
The target enterprise architecture model will reduce the time it takes to conduct a particular enterprise transformation, implement
new and changed business capabilities and reduce solution design and delivery time and development costs by maximising
reuse of the enterprise level models. It will provide standard components and ensure maximum reuse of them across the whole
enterprise. Over time the enterprise architecture will ensure faster development, fewer failures and better alignment to strategic
enterprise level requirements and continual improvement.
Qualities
The Enterprise Architecture is often focused on improving or enabling various characteristics and qualities in the future.
Metrics can be based on these qualities can include:
Efficiency
Robustness
Reliability
Viability (ability to remain viable in a changed environment)
Flexibility (ability to automatically adapt when unexpected external changes occur)
Complexity
Agility (Ability to adapt to changing business needs)
Adaptability
Ease of integration
Amount of reuse
Support for innovation
Service level
Quality
Accuracy
In conclusion
Enterprises need to measure Enterprise Architecture by how well it improves the performance of the whole enterprise, meets its
business needs, and supports its strategies and investments in change.