The technology landscape in the event industry is fragmented. There are lots of platforms that do lots of different things. The problem is that many don't share data and functionality, i.e. they don't work well together. Integration would be immensely helpful to change the situation, but there is still pushback and a layer of complexity that many event professionals aren't equipped to address. Read about what's going on and what needs to happen to change the situation.
Serving the long tail white-paper (how to rationalize IT yet produce more apps)Newton Day Uploads
Businesses benefit from having fewer technology tools in their 'enterprise stack'. Yet CIOs still need to encourage innovation and employ software tools as an enabler for growth and cost reduction. This white paper focuses on the role of Situational Applications platforms to reduce the number of technology platforms whilst increasing opportunities to serve the long-tail of applications demands from individuals and communities of users whose needs are unfulfilled by core enterprise platforms.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on organizations providing services and “products” to customers and other stakeholders.
The Robot and I: How New Digital Technologies Are Making Smart People and Bus...Cognizant
Our latest study shows that when enterprise robots are applied to automating core business processes, they can extend the creative problem-solving capabilities and productivity of human beings and deliver superior business results.
Digital transformation-of-business-harvard-business-reviewJerry Chen
Business value of Strategy for enterprise organizations
A Harvard Business Review report - The Digital Transformation of Business – demonstrates how leading organizations are getting creative with cloud, mobile, social and big data. Understand how 537 enterprise executives are using megatrend technologies to drive transformational impact for their business, their customers and their employees.
Serving the long tail white-paper (how to rationalize IT yet produce more apps)Newton Day Uploads
Businesses benefit from having fewer technology tools in their 'enterprise stack'. Yet CIOs still need to encourage innovation and employ software tools as an enabler for growth and cost reduction. This white paper focuses on the role of Situational Applications platforms to reduce the number of technology platforms whilst increasing opportunities to serve the long-tail of applications demands from individuals and communities of users whose needs are unfulfilled by core enterprise platforms.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on organizations providing services and “products” to customers and other stakeholders.
The Robot and I: How New Digital Technologies Are Making Smart People and Bus...Cognizant
Our latest study shows that when enterprise robots are applied to automating core business processes, they can extend the creative problem-solving capabilities and productivity of human beings and deliver superior business results.
Digital transformation-of-business-harvard-business-reviewJerry Chen
Business value of Strategy for enterprise organizations
A Harvard Business Review report - The Digital Transformation of Business – demonstrates how leading organizations are getting creative with cloud, mobile, social and big data. Understand how 537 enterprise executives are using megatrend technologies to drive transformational impact for their business, their customers and their employees.
The Internet of Things: Are Organizations Ready For A Multi-Trillion Dollar P...Capgemini
The Internet is expanding. And this is not just in terms of getting accessible to more people; it is expanding beyond humans. Machines are becoming connected. Machines are talking to humans, but increasingly, they are also talking to one another. And this interconnectedness of machines, or the Internet of Things (IoT), is a potential multi-trillion dollar market that organizations can now tap into.
However, do organizations realize the scale of the opportunity? Capgemini Consulting conducted an extensive survey of IoT products and services of over 100 leading companies across North America and Europe. We also spoke at length with several industry executives at companies developing IoT solutions to understand the challenges companies face. This article presents the results of the survey and highlights the key hurdles companies are facing.
Don't come last in a mobile first --WhitepaperAbhishek Sood
By 2020 mobile devices will outsell PC’s by a factor of 10.
Regardless of what mobility strategy your company has in place, or how you intend to execute it, the more mobile users, devices, applications and content your organization adopts, the more challenges you will have to deal with.
Download this white paper to discover how to overcome the most pressing mobility challenges including device security and management, app development, remote support, mobile data and analytics, and more.
Crafting the Modern Manufacturing Enterprise in the Post-COVID-19 WorldCognizant
To get ahead in the industrial space amid the prolonged pandemic, manufacturers must embrace holistic agility and resilience, and democratize access to applications and data. This will eliminate operational silos at last and free data to more effectively inform everything: just-in-time build and logistics decisions, operational execution, customer experience product engineering decisions and everything in between, driving innovative product launches and much-needed cost reductions.
Senior managers from hundreds of enterprises around the globe, in multiple industries, with a range of titles, were asked about their mobile strategies and current level of success. From this survey, only the top 14% were ranked as leaders. The complete IBM Institute for Business Value study will share with you the use of mobile by industry and highlight what the leaders have done to rise to the top.
There are five things I usually hear when talking to clients about social media and marketing. These are only 5 of 10 myths. I'll release a part II in the coming months.
Cracking the Data Conundrum: How Successful Companies Make #BigData OperationalCapgemini
There is little arguing the benefits and disruptive potential of Big Data. However, many organizations have not fully embedded Big Data in their operations. In fact, our research shows that only 13% have achieved full-scale production for their Big Data implementations. The most troubling development is that most organizations are failing to benefit from their investments. Only 27% of respondents described their Big Data initiatives as “successful” and only 8% described them as “very successful”.
So, how can organizations make Big Data operational? There are many factors that go into the making of a successful Big Data implementation. However, the single biggest factor that we observed in our research was that organizations that have a strong operating model stood apart. This operating model has multiple distinct elements, which include, among others, a well-defined organizational structure, systematic implementation plan, and strong leadership support. For instance, success rates for organizations with an analytics business unit are nearly 2.5 times those that have ad-hoc, isolated teams. The report highlights the key factors for successful Big Data implementations.
Five Priorities for Quality Engineering When Taking Banking to the CloudCognizant
As banks move to cloud-based banking platforms for lower costs and greater agility, they must seamlessly integrate technologies and workflows while ensuring security, performance and an enhanced user experience. Here are five ways cloud-focused quality assurance helps banks maximize the benefits.
Create a Birthday Wish or Cause to raise support, awareness or action around an issue you care about. The Cause can be integrated with your Facebook account or function as a stand-alone application. Recruit and engage your friends to make a difference and change the world.
The Internet of Things: Are Organizations Ready For A Multi-Trillion Dollar P...Capgemini
The Internet is expanding. And this is not just in terms of getting accessible to more people; it is expanding beyond humans. Machines are becoming connected. Machines are talking to humans, but increasingly, they are also talking to one another. And this interconnectedness of machines, or the Internet of Things (IoT), is a potential multi-trillion dollar market that organizations can now tap into.
However, do organizations realize the scale of the opportunity? Capgemini Consulting conducted an extensive survey of IoT products and services of over 100 leading companies across North America and Europe. We also spoke at length with several industry executives at companies developing IoT solutions to understand the challenges companies face. This article presents the results of the survey and highlights the key hurdles companies are facing.
Don't come last in a mobile first --WhitepaperAbhishek Sood
By 2020 mobile devices will outsell PC’s by a factor of 10.
Regardless of what mobility strategy your company has in place, or how you intend to execute it, the more mobile users, devices, applications and content your organization adopts, the more challenges you will have to deal with.
Download this white paper to discover how to overcome the most pressing mobility challenges including device security and management, app development, remote support, mobile data and analytics, and more.
Crafting the Modern Manufacturing Enterprise in the Post-COVID-19 WorldCognizant
To get ahead in the industrial space amid the prolonged pandemic, manufacturers must embrace holistic agility and resilience, and democratize access to applications and data. This will eliminate operational silos at last and free data to more effectively inform everything: just-in-time build and logistics decisions, operational execution, customer experience product engineering decisions and everything in between, driving innovative product launches and much-needed cost reductions.
Senior managers from hundreds of enterprises around the globe, in multiple industries, with a range of titles, were asked about their mobile strategies and current level of success. From this survey, only the top 14% were ranked as leaders. The complete IBM Institute for Business Value study will share with you the use of mobile by industry and highlight what the leaders have done to rise to the top.
There are five things I usually hear when talking to clients about social media and marketing. These are only 5 of 10 myths. I'll release a part II in the coming months.
Cracking the Data Conundrum: How Successful Companies Make #BigData OperationalCapgemini
There is little arguing the benefits and disruptive potential of Big Data. However, many organizations have not fully embedded Big Data in their operations. In fact, our research shows that only 13% have achieved full-scale production for their Big Data implementations. The most troubling development is that most organizations are failing to benefit from their investments. Only 27% of respondents described their Big Data initiatives as “successful” and only 8% described them as “very successful”.
So, how can organizations make Big Data operational? There are many factors that go into the making of a successful Big Data implementation. However, the single biggest factor that we observed in our research was that organizations that have a strong operating model stood apart. This operating model has multiple distinct elements, which include, among others, a well-defined organizational structure, systematic implementation plan, and strong leadership support. For instance, success rates for organizations with an analytics business unit are nearly 2.5 times those that have ad-hoc, isolated teams. The report highlights the key factors for successful Big Data implementations.
Five Priorities for Quality Engineering When Taking Banking to the CloudCognizant
As banks move to cloud-based banking platforms for lower costs and greater agility, they must seamlessly integrate technologies and workflows while ensuring security, performance and an enhanced user experience. Here are five ways cloud-focused quality assurance helps banks maximize the benefits.
Create a Birthday Wish or Cause to raise support, awareness or action around an issue you care about. The Cause can be integrated with your Facebook account or function as a stand-alone application. Recruit and engage your friends to make a difference and change the world.
The Technology of Tension | EventTechBrief.comMichelle Bruno
A visual summary of the latest EventTechBrief.com article, "The Technology of Tension" by Autumn Thatcher. Read the full article and subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.eventtechbrief.com.
Michael Swit -- Perspectives on the Future of Generic BiologicsMichael Swit
Presentation reviews legal, regulatory and marketplace challenges to implementing an abbreviated pathway for "generic biologics" in the United States.
A beginner's guide to getting the most out of talking to strangers. For journalism students and anyone who's interested in how to talk with people and come away with a story.
A Quick Guide to Application IntegrationDennis Kelley
Sales, Marketing, HR and IT all have tools, which they use to carry out their work. However, in order for these teams to work well together and collaborate on business-wide activities, their tools need to be quick and easy to integrate. Next Generation Integration (iPaaS) provides the much-needed connectivity to make this happen.
In this presentation, Achyuth introduces SMAC and associated trends. Achyuth opines that Analytics is the brain that enabled SMAC to happen and he wants to develop a solution to help Small and Medium businesses to have their own analytics brain.
I have been drinking from a virtual fire hose since joining my most recent technology company, Anametrix, a cloud-based digital analytics innovator. A whole new book opened for me on how digital analytics can both increase top line revenue and reduce spend by shining a very bright flashlight into marketing efforts.
We are all painfully aware of the data explosion problem. In 2011, the Gartner Group stated that information volume collected by businesses today is growing at a minimum 59% annually. The rapid adoption of social media has also caused customer data to explode in the last few years, creating entirely new challenges for marketers. It is now imperative for organizations to think differently to accommodate the variety, volume, and velocity of their growing customer-related data.
This is where my recent experiences come in: I have personally seen how digital analytics can harness the power of massive amounts customer-related data. It can literally simplify the accelerating complexity by providing deep visibility – as well as clarity – into the effectiveness of various marketing efforts, across both online and offline channels.
I will now outline the role of IT and CFO in adopting cloud-based digital analytics solutions, discuss the benefits as well as challenges of moving to this emerging category, and provide some illustrative examples on how digital analytics can transform your marketing organization.
A Seat at the Table: The Case for Making Professional Services a Strategic Fu...JoshuaWalovitch
As the cloud becomes more ubiquitous, software purchasing becomes more decentralized. Individual business units purchase point solutions to solve specific, department-related problems that don't always support the organization's overall efficiency.
Learn how companies can generate efficient sales processes by prioritizing professional services teams in the latest whitepaper from WorkRails.
Integration is a crucial part of your organization’s digital transformation journey. With an integrated digital business, you can connect your business processes with one another for better collaboration and communication.
The Five Essential Truths of the Application EconomyCA Technologies
We’re in the midst of a business revolution – one where customers interact with businesses via software. Where apps have become the primary face of the business. Where JPMorgan Chase has more software developers than Google and more technologists than Microsoft. Welcome to the Application Economy.
This SlideShare outlines five things IT professionals should know about the Application Economy and how it will affect their business, their industry, and their careers. In some industries, the number of software jobs has doubled over the past ten years.
Learn more at http://rewrite.ca.com/us/default.aspx?mfm=425887
The goal of this white paper is to demonstrate why the only successful way to approach a major ecommerce project today is to pursue a rigorous "integration first" strategy, rather than relying on traditional procurement methods. Based on our experience helping hundreds of companies achieve their online commerce goals, we'll also provide you with practical, hands-on advice for managing your project and evaluating software using this approach.
Five Key Focus Areas for New-Age CollaborationCognizant
Virtually any enterprise can benefit greatly from deploying new-age organizations' collaboration technologies and systems. We review the tools and activities available for collaborating on five levels: within a program, within an organization, between channels, within the extended enterprise and with the external world.
The ecosystem equation collaboration in the connected economy @harvard biz @i...Diego Alberto Tamayo
IT infrastructure will play a vital role in enabling organizations to become
connected economy leaders. With an IT infrastructure designed for cognitive workloads, you can
act at the speed of thought. It accelerates technology breakthroughs through open architectures
that foster collaborative innovation. Finally, it works with your cloud platforms to extend the value
of your systems and data. Put it all together and instead of observing change unfold, you can seize
the opportunities created by the connected economy.
Artificial Intelligence: Competitive Edge for Business Solutions & Applications9 series
The growth of Artificial Intelligence in recent years brought forth a major challenge for brands in deploying such AI solutions. Many brands lack the clarity regarding where to start the AI integration process and profitably deploy these solutions in the most effective manner.
Make your Strategy Work for Your Mobile App SuccessKaspar Lavik
Portability has changed business until the end of time. It has expanded the sorts of gadgets (telephones, tablets, wearables) and the volume of gadgets that join with an organization's undertaking assets.
Say Hello To Your New Best Fiend, the General Services ContractorMichelle Bruno
In an industry that can appear to be evolving slowly, a lot has changed. While the grid-style floor plans, pipe and drape, and PowerPoint presentations at some events could be candidates for #ThrowbackThursday, new technologies, competitors, and magnets for attendee attention surface daily. As organizers work toward addressing these new realities, they may have an unexpected ally. General service contractors are moving into a new role—that of official service contractor, strategist, collaborator, and investor
In an industry in which nearly 80 percent of the workforce is female, why are there still pay and opportunity gaps and what is the event industry doing about it?
Got Gamification? Meeting Event Goals With GamesMichelle Bruno
After Pokemon GO, a lot of event professionals renewed their interest in games. This article from The Meeting Professional magazine gives some examples and discusses strategies for using gameplay in business events.
In the exhibitions and events industry, opinions differ on whether and how the industry should innovate, what aspects of the business require refurbishment and whether or not change should come in the form of incremental tweaking or a complete overhaul. No matter what, some long-held assumptions and sacred cows might have to go. Here's an overview of the topic.
Is the Trade Show Industry Ready for Uberization?Michelle Bruno
A visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "Is the Trade Show Industry Ready for Uberization?"
Read the full article and subscribe to the newsletter at www.eventtechbrief.com
Getting Hacked is a Nasty Business. Events are in for a Rude Awakening.Michelle Bruno
The latest ETB visual summary of the article, "Getting Hacked is a Nasty Business. Events are in for a Rude Awakening." You can read the full article at: http://www.eventtechbrief.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=3/libEntryID=72/listID=1
Subscribe to the EventTechBrief.com newsletter at: http://www.eventtechbrief.com/page.cfm/Action=Form/FormID=1/t=m/goSection=3
There’s More Value to Event Social Walls Than Projecting Awesome SelfiesMichelle Bruno
Learn all about Event Social Walls in this visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "There’s More Value to Event Social Walls Than Projecting Awesome Selfies."
Read the full article and subscribe today at www.EventTechBrief.com
The Blessing and The Curse of Online Ticketing SolutionsMichelle Bruno
Visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "The Blessing and The Curse of Online Ticketing Solutions." Read the full article and subscribe to the newsletter by visiting www.Eventtechbrief.com.
The Event Industry’s Evangelist of Open SourceMichelle Bruno
Visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "The Event Industry’s Evangelist of Open Source." Read the full article or subscribe to the e-newsletter at EventTechBrief.com.
The Impact of Cloud Computing and the Event Industry's Cloud KillerMichelle Bruno
A visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "The Impact of Cloud Computing and the Event Industry's Cloud Killer." Read the full article and subscribe to the enewsletter at www.eventtechbrief.com
Using Second Screen To Connect With Your Audience (and People Who Like to Wat...Michelle Bruno
In this visual summary of the EventTechBrief article, "Using Second Screen To Connect With Your Audience (and People Who Like to Watch Zombies)" learn about how to use Second screens at your events to increase audience engagement. -- Want to stay up-t
Digital Marketplaces Could Solve a Huge Problem For Wholesale Buyers at Live ...Michelle Bruno
Visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "Digital Marketplaces Could Solve a Huge Problem For Wholesale Buyers at Live Trade Shows." To read the full article or subscribe to the newsletter, visit EventTechBrief.com
ASP Labs is Opening Eyes with Glass & RiftMichelle Bruno
A visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "ASP Labs is Opening Eyes with Glass & Rift." Read the full article or subscribe to receive the latest news about event technology at EventTechBrief.com.
EventTechBrief.com | The Power of Two FeetMichelle Bruno
A visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "The Power of Two Feet" about Energy Floors, a company which produces flooring for events which can convert energy into electricity.
Read the full article at EventTechBrief.com and be sure to subscribe to the enewsletter so you can stay on top of Event Technology news!
Going Once, Twice... Tech that Brings in More Money for CharityMichelle Bruno
A visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "Going Once, Twice... Tech that Brings in More Money for Charity" - Read the full article at: http://bit.ly/1qPsDiv OR Subscribe to the enewsletter at: http://bit.ly/1ku7TZS
This presentation by Michelle Bruno covers 3 emerging technology trends that will impact the trade show industry as well as the micro trends (mobile, virtual, social) that continue to affect exhibitions.
Would You Like Fries with that Virtual 10 x 10?Michelle Bruno
Based on the blog posts as Midcourse Corrections and articles in Convene, this presentation presents the case for selling online interactive trade show booth upgrades.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...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 the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Assuring Contact Center Experiences for Your Customers With ThousandEyes
Why Can't All Of Our Data Silos Just Get Along?
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What Integration Looks Like
Pat Pathade, CEO of Fantail Consulting & Technologies, a
solutions development and integration firm specializing in
b-to-b events, describes integration as “the process of get-
ting two or more technology applications to work together
holistically. When something happens in one application, it
reflects in the others and vice versa. When you have multiple
applications exchanging data and generating new data auto-
matically, you create an ecosystem that has value greater
than the sum of its parts.”
Integration is at the center of smart events. When an
attendee registers for a meeting and her profile and session
selections also appear in the event mobile app, integration
made it happen. As she walks across the exhibit floor and
receives messages from exhibitors whose Bluetooth readers
have detected her wearable beacon and associated it with
her registration details, integration is responsible. When
she returns to her hotel room that evening and accesses an
online summary of all her activities during the day, thank the
connected ecosystem for that too.
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n the future, data will automatically flow from one event application to
another. It will always be up-to-date and easily accessible no matter what
combination of technology vendors is in the stack. Event organizers and
planners will be able to craft frictionless customer experiences and build
datadynastiesthatwillkeepthemleanandcompetitive.Alothastohappen
before those dreams come true. Organizers will have to invest in integration and
technology companies will have to build applications with connection in mind.
It’s not going to be easy.
BYMICHELLEBRUNO
WhyCan’tAllofOurDataSilos
JustGetAlong?
Event organizers have a lot to gain from integration. For
starters, it eliminates the need to download a list of regis-
trants from the registration application, upload it to the
mobile application, download the enhanced attendee data
from the mobile app and upload it to the marketing auto-
mation platform every time there is a change in a record. It
provides organizers with a view of the customer—what he
likes, sees, wants, does—from every technology touch point
and delivers data to help them develop personalized expe-
riences, discover hidden audience segments, market with
precision and realize new revenue streams.
From Smorgasbord to à la Carte
It’s not that integrated systems don’t already exist. They do.
There are a handful of robust, multi-feature technology plat-
forms that perform a variety of tasks from website creation
to online booth sales to registration—and everything works
well together out of the box. But no existing system can ever
do it all. There is an explosion of best-of-breed applications
that solve niche problems, and organizers want those too. In
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fact, organizers want the full-featured plat-
forms and the one-off applications to work
together and for the best of breeds to work
with each other.
The Association of Equipment Manu-
facturers (AEM), organizers of several trade
shows, made a decision to integrate their
existing event technologies. They hired an
event technology manager to oversee the
solutions, data strategy and integrations
across their show portfolio. A year-and-a-
half ago, Bobby Hoffman was tasked with
bringing AEM’s existing vendor group to
the table and doing the hard work of deter-
mining standards, mapping data fields and
moving the process continuously forward.
During Hoffman’s tenure, AEM has
transformed the exhibitor experience.
Companies can now use a single exhibitor
dashboard to access multiple services from
multiple vendors—housing, lead retrieval,
marketing services, attendee list rental,
sponsorship purchases and registration—
with one login. The organization has imple-
mented a two-way integration between the
online exhibitor directory and mobile app
and is headed toward bi-directional inte-
grations between the exhibitor directory,
mobile app and registration.
Hoffman began his organization’s trek
down the integration road with a face-to-
face meeting of the group’s technology
companies. “The purpose of the tech sum-
mit was to bring people together, build
relationships and get them to understand
that they are all on the AEM team, and they
have to act like team members,” he says.
Each vendor brought its account manager,
technology lead and project manager. The
discussion wasn’t always smooth sailing.
“Sometimes, it was a little bit of a battle, but
a good battle, the same thing you would
want from an internal team,”he adds.
Organizer Apprehension
Therearelotsofreasonswhysomeorganizers
might shy away from integration. The invest-
ment required is potentially massive. “We’re
talking about getting the management team
onboard to buy into it, getting the board to
finance it and getting attendees to opt into
allowing organizers to use their data,”says Joe
Colangelo, CEO and co-founder of Bear Ana-
lytics, a data analytics firm for event produc-
ers, associations and professional societies.“It
requires a lot of folks to change how they’re
going to do their day jobs.”
The return on investment of large-scale
integration isn’t always clear or big enough
for some event planers. Despite the across-
the-board value that an integrated appli-
cation ecosystem can bring to an orga-
nization, much of the data gleaned from
technology today is only being plowed
back into marketing initiatives, Colangelo
explains. So, the data insights and gains
in net new attendees and exhibitors that
could come from integration have to be
absolute game changers in order for the
potentially large investment to pay off.
Even if senior management is open to
the possibility of integrating all of the event
technology the organization currently uti-
lizes, there simply aren’t many case stud-
ies to use as reference points. “The CEO is
going to find out that the list of comparable
events that have accomplished a big inte-
gration is either extremely small or non-ex-
istent,” Colangelo says. “He is going to have
to think about whether he wants his orga-
nization to be first or wait for some other
group with deeper pockets to do it.”
Vendor Resistance
From the vendor’s perspective, there are
costs associated with integration. Some of
the newer application developers are busy
perfecting their features and don’t have
funding to also work on standardizing their
data exchange capabilities. Established ven-
dors with open application programming
interfaces (APIs) are reluctant to work with
best-of-breed newcomers over fears about
data security. “We’re dealing with really
important data, sometimes addresses and
phone numbers,” explains Terence Donnelly,
CMP, vice president of sales for Experient.
“We’re not going to integrate with companies
that aren’t following accepted standards.”
Some legacy technology vendors are
bearish on integration for other reasons.
“Making it easy for other technology pro-
viders to access your app is a business deci-
sion,” says Fantail’s Pathade. “By allowing
other companies to build new capabilities
on top of your existing software, you’re
potentially shut out of any opportunities to
develop those capabilities yourself.” Drop-
ping everything to integrate with a com-
pany that might not even be in business
the next day is another reason why some
solution providers aren’t flinging open their
data doors.
Not all members of a proposed eco-
system are aligned with a single service
category. For example, some mobile app
providers also offer lead retrieval services.
So, when a planner requires the registra-
tion system to integrate with a mobile app
vendor—the former knowing full well that
the latter is a would-be competitor—it
doesn’t sit well with the registration vendor.
In these instances, registration companies
are not only resistant to integration, but are
contractually bound to thwart it when pric-
ing structures are potentially compromised.
The State of Integration
Two issues have to be addressed before
applications can be integrated: connec-
tions and data storage. Connection is messy
in the event industry, according to Pathade.
Many application providers still don’t have
standard, well-documented and published
APIs—the set of rules and instructions an
application developer establishes to allow
other software developers to access its
data. Without standard or open APIs, orga-
nizers have to initiate discussions with the
vendors about how to connect.
The discourse around data integration
focuses on three main approaches to data
storage. In the first scenario, one existing
application in the ecosystem, an association
management system (AMS) or a customer
relationship management system (CRM), is
designated as the “master” application and
tasked with storing the most updated and
enriched versions of data produced by all
the other apps. While it’s a more available
When you have multiple applications
exchanging data and generating new data
automatically, you create an ecosystem that
has value greater than the sum of its parts.
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4. approach, it’s also potentially more costly
because it usually requires customization.
A second approach gaining momen-
tum involves the creation of an indepen-
dent database separate from any of the
other applications in the ecosystem. Some,
not all, of the data from each application
is automatically pulled into a smaller, pur-
pose-built data warehouse. The indepen-
dent application is easier to manage and
maintain than a master application, which
was originally conceived for a different
purpose.“Keeping it simple by storing your
most critical data from a variety of sources
in the same language and in the same loca-
tion lowers the barriers to data access and
heightens usability,”Colangelo says.
Athirdapproachisdistributeddatastor-
age. In this scenario, when data changes in
one app it’s updated in all of the apps to
which it’s connected. Mechanisms are put
in place to ensure the security and integrity
of the data, and when an organizer wants
to change an application in the ecosystem,
he migrates data from the previous vendor
over to the new vendor. In a distributed
system, the organizer and every ecosystem
member can benefit collectively from the
data enhancements made by others.
The HardWork Ahead
Pathade says that it’s more about the will of
the industry than it is about available tools
and best practices for integration, which
are commonplace outside the industry.
“Even your smartphone is an example of an
integrated ecosystem—all of the individual
applications are connected,” he says. “If you
want to take a picture and email it or post it
to Facebook, you can do it easily. Facebook,
Google, Salesforce and others have open,
available and standard APIs. They even
publish step-by step instructions and demo
applications for use in connecting to them.
Unlike a decade ago, questions about
data standards or programming language
compatibilities no longer exist. Data stan-
dards have been defined and the computer
languages for reading, writing, storing and
reporting data are commonly available and
well documented. There are even tools
(middleware) for facilitating data exchange
between applications when vendors don’t
offer standard APIs or the languages used
across the ecosystem differ. “This is not the
wild west. We have the capabilities. It’s a
non-issue,”Pathade says.
It’s becoming clearer that event plan-
ners are in a unique position to drive inte-
gration. AEM’s Hoffman addresses integra-
tion in his RFPs and contracts.“In every RFP
you write, ask the vendor who they have
worked with, what kind of integrations
they have done and whether they have an
open API,” he says. “Write the expectations
and deliverables into the contract so that
it’s legal. In our contract, we require atten-
dance at a tech summit with other vendors
where we will go through the processes
we’re going to follow and map the [integra-
tion] out.”
Not all event technology companies
will be on board with integration. But the
alternative is equally untenable. As orga-
nizers hone their internal processes, dedi-
cate resources and achieve milestones one
by one, the pressure will be on for solutions
providers to capitulate lest they be left out
of consideration entirely. Hoffman con-
soles them with a little heart-to-heart talk.
He tells his technology vendors, “I’m going
to demand a lot from you because I want
to make you better. I want you to push me
because I want to be better. That’s what a
partnership is.” n
Michelle Bruno is a writer, blogger and
technology journalist. She publishes Event
TechBrief, a weekly newsletter and website
on event technology. You can reach her at
michelle@brunogroup.com or on Twitter
@michellebruno.
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