This document provides an overview of the cloud market and advice from top cloud partners on how to build a successful cloud business. It finds that cloud-focused partners significantly outperform their peers in areas like revenue growth and customer acquisition. Successful partners emphasize investing now to prepare for long-term cloud growth, developing a differentiated value proposition, rethinking sales strategies, and using metrics like recurring revenue to manage their cloud business. Interviews with 20 leading Microsoft partners provide examples of strategies around business planning, sales, marketing, services, and intellectual property.
Modern Marketing Model (M3) - 1 year onEconsultancy
A 12-month timeline of Econsultancy's Modern Marketing Model (M3) which fuses digital and classic marketing into one future-facing framework. M3 informs marketing’s remit, the required competencies and organisational design to define marketing in the digital age
The document discusses the future of advanced analytics and how increasing data volumes, varieties, and velocities are impacting business decisions. It notes that advanced analytics can help analyze trends, create predictive models, and optimize business processes. The presentation will look at current and future analytics trends, with emphasis on embedded analytics to support real-time decision making. Attendees will learn about the directions of advanced analytics.
Webinar: Revolutionize your Business with an Insights Center of ExcellenceBrandwatch
Business success is fueled by smart, data-driven decisions. It’s not just about having the right data, it’s what you do with it that makes all the difference. Bridging the chasm between data and people in a secure, visually engaging way ensures your team is prepared to avert potential crises, better understand your customers, and engage everyone across the business with your data. Join Michael Brackpool, Brandwatch VP of Product for Vizia, and featured speaker from Forrester as they explain the best approach for disseminating real-time insights throughout the enterprise so your team can take immediate action.
Gaining Competitive Advantage by Implementing the Microsoft Unified Communica...Leo Barella
This document provides best practices and lessons learned for successfully deploying a Microsoft Unified Communication platform based on the author's experience managing such deployments for large organizations. It stresses the importance of executive buy-in, branding the program, generating excitement, customizing training and communications for different user roles, identifying advocates and power users to help with adoption, and viewing the deployment as a cultural change rather than just a technology change. The author estimates that 30-50% of the total cost should be invested in organizational change management to ensure users gain productivity from the new system.
Consulting start-ups provide tremendous support to companies and assist them across various fields such as business strategy, manufacturing and supply chain, sales and marketing, human resources, and so on. These companies have to tackle many challenges, since they cater to a variety of fields.
Embrace Modular Technology and Agile Process to Deliver Business ImpactMark Hewitt
- Is your enterprise technology built in a modular way?
- Can you modify or replace a component without affecting other parts of the technology architecture?
- Is your technology platform built with plug and play elements to allow for rapid change and adaptation to business and customer forces?
- Do you employ Agile processes to make calculated changes incrementally?
Technology architecture and implementation governed by a coherent platform strategy that prioritizes flexibility and component and service independence will deliver business impact.
In this paper, we articulate technology platform and architecture requirements to support modern ways of delivering iterative value, increasing the velocity, productivity, and performance of the organization, and reducing product and service time to market.
To help the channel embrace the cloud, Ingram Micro Cloud offers Cloud University as a benefit to its resellers. Ingram Micro Cloud University is filled with educational offerings and practical business knowledge designed to support resellers as they transition to the cloud. From Sales to Service Delivery, Marketing to Operations, Ingram Micro Cloud University will help lift your business to the cloud, with confidence and ease. Hosted by Microsoft, IDC and Ingram Micro.
Your business has systems producing data. You need to get and analyse that data and report it to the right people at the right time so they can act on it. Maybe you also need to scale up your current BI, reduce costs and eliminate system bottlenecks. One thing is sure: Business Intelligence is now essential to company decision-making, it drives every business.
Some topics covered:
3 Fundamental barriers to BI.
BI Wins: Top 8 results we see from great BI.
Making your ROI case: Know your audience.
11 BI Goals to consider.
"If Business Intelligence distribution is the lifeblood of an enterprise, its absence is the equivalent of strangulation. It’s not just about producing the right stuff. It’s about getting that stuff to the right person at the right time."
Modern Marketing Model (M3) - 1 year onEconsultancy
A 12-month timeline of Econsultancy's Modern Marketing Model (M3) which fuses digital and classic marketing into one future-facing framework. M3 informs marketing’s remit, the required competencies and organisational design to define marketing in the digital age
The document discusses the future of advanced analytics and how increasing data volumes, varieties, and velocities are impacting business decisions. It notes that advanced analytics can help analyze trends, create predictive models, and optimize business processes. The presentation will look at current and future analytics trends, with emphasis on embedded analytics to support real-time decision making. Attendees will learn about the directions of advanced analytics.
Webinar: Revolutionize your Business with an Insights Center of ExcellenceBrandwatch
Business success is fueled by smart, data-driven decisions. It’s not just about having the right data, it’s what you do with it that makes all the difference. Bridging the chasm between data and people in a secure, visually engaging way ensures your team is prepared to avert potential crises, better understand your customers, and engage everyone across the business with your data. Join Michael Brackpool, Brandwatch VP of Product for Vizia, and featured speaker from Forrester as they explain the best approach for disseminating real-time insights throughout the enterprise so your team can take immediate action.
Gaining Competitive Advantage by Implementing the Microsoft Unified Communica...Leo Barella
This document provides best practices and lessons learned for successfully deploying a Microsoft Unified Communication platform based on the author's experience managing such deployments for large organizations. It stresses the importance of executive buy-in, branding the program, generating excitement, customizing training and communications for different user roles, identifying advocates and power users to help with adoption, and viewing the deployment as a cultural change rather than just a technology change. The author estimates that 30-50% of the total cost should be invested in organizational change management to ensure users gain productivity from the new system.
Consulting start-ups provide tremendous support to companies and assist them across various fields such as business strategy, manufacturing and supply chain, sales and marketing, human resources, and so on. These companies have to tackle many challenges, since they cater to a variety of fields.
Embrace Modular Technology and Agile Process to Deliver Business ImpactMark Hewitt
- Is your enterprise technology built in a modular way?
- Can you modify or replace a component without affecting other parts of the technology architecture?
- Is your technology platform built with plug and play elements to allow for rapid change and adaptation to business and customer forces?
- Do you employ Agile processes to make calculated changes incrementally?
Technology architecture and implementation governed by a coherent platform strategy that prioritizes flexibility and component and service independence will deliver business impact.
In this paper, we articulate technology platform and architecture requirements to support modern ways of delivering iterative value, increasing the velocity, productivity, and performance of the organization, and reducing product and service time to market.
To help the channel embrace the cloud, Ingram Micro Cloud offers Cloud University as a benefit to its resellers. Ingram Micro Cloud University is filled with educational offerings and practical business knowledge designed to support resellers as they transition to the cloud. From Sales to Service Delivery, Marketing to Operations, Ingram Micro Cloud University will help lift your business to the cloud, with confidence and ease. Hosted by Microsoft, IDC and Ingram Micro.
Your business has systems producing data. You need to get and analyse that data and report it to the right people at the right time so they can act on it. Maybe you also need to scale up your current BI, reduce costs and eliminate system bottlenecks. One thing is sure: Business Intelligence is now essential to company decision-making, it drives every business.
Some topics covered:
3 Fundamental barriers to BI.
BI Wins: Top 8 results we see from great BI.
Making your ROI case: Know your audience.
11 BI Goals to consider.
"If Business Intelligence distribution is the lifeblood of an enterprise, its absence is the equivalent of strangulation. It’s not just about producing the right stuff. It’s about getting that stuff to the right person at the right time."
Accenture is a global management consulting and services company that began in 1942. It became independent in 2000 after separating from its parent company. Accenture focuses on strategy, consulting, technology, digital, and operations services. It has a strong branding strategy targeting CEOs and other C-level executives with campaigns like "Be a Tiger" and "High Performance. Delivered." While Tiger Woods was previously a major brand ambassador, Accenture dropped him after a scandal and redesigned its campaigns. Going forward, Accenture aims to consolidate clients, encourage buying alliances, focus on lead generation, build trust, and innovate through tools like newsletters, podcasts, and webinars.
7 Steps for Applying Big Data Patterns to Decision MakingWiley
The document outlines a seven step method for applying big data patterns to decision making: 1) Understand existing data assets, 2) Explore the data to find patterns, 3) Design new decisions or business models based on patterns, 4) Design a data-driven business model if useful, 5) Transform business processes to leverage new insights, 6) Consider governance and security implications, and 7) Develop metrics and incentives to encourage fact-based decision making. The method involves building on each step with the goal of better decisions, new business models, or optimized processes.
Demonstrating Big Value in Big Data with New Analytics ApproachesJulie Severance
This document discusses IBM's journey to establishing an Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) to overcome challenges with big data analytics. It describes how IBM previously had siloed analytics groups across its 400,000 employees and 200 locations. To address this, IBM developed a strategic plan through organizational readiness. This included standing up a virtual ACE team to develop standards, provide services, and align analytics with business strategy across the enterprise. The ACE also focused on quickly enabling a cloud prototype and user community to start realizing value from big data.
Business leaders are engaging labor differently - Is your IT ready?JoAnna Cheshire
The document discusses how business leaders are engaging labor differently and whether IT is ready to support these changes. It notes that research finds C-suite executives want the CIO to play an active advisory role in business strategy. The document then outlines several new approaches organizations are taking to engage labor, such as hackathons, crowdsourcing, and more flexible work styles. It argues that IT needs to enable, facilitate and accelerate the changes businesses want to make through strategic foresight, architecture for innovation, and new workforce models.
Here in a single document is a compilation of my learnings and observations working with real customers over the past couple of years. My thought in consolidating these posts from LinkedIn was to provide an easy hyperlinked reference for leaders interested in breaking through the clutter to learn ways to leverage data for competitive advantage into 2017 and beyond.
The Total Economic Impact of Adobe Document CloudAdobe
Digitally transform every department in your organization while delivering standout customer experiences with Adobe Document Cloud. Through interviews with Adobe enterprise customers, Forrester concluded that Adobe Document Cloud (including Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Sign) has the following three-year impact, helping organizations save time, costs, and improve employee efficiency.
Making the business case for your intranetSam Marshall
How to make a winning business case for your intranet.
Slides from a workshop given for Ark Group. If you'd like a similar in-house session or help on this topic please contact sam@clearboxconsulting.co.uk
* What a business case looks like
* Understanding who you're trying to influence
* The benefits of an intranet
* Assessing options, priorities and costs
* Identifying risks
* ROI and why it can be a red herring
* Representing intangible benefits
* The case for re-launches or intranet consolidation
The document discusses a presentation on data discovery tools and the current market landscape. It summarizes research from Gartner and IDC on trends in business intelligence, analytics platforms, and data discovery vendors. The main points are that data discovery tools are gaining popularity and market share as they are easier for business users to use and implement compared to traditional top-down BI platforms. However, the document notes that ensuring proper governance of data as these bottom-up tools proliferate remains a challenge. It provides an overview of various vendors and market predictions on the growth of data discovery tools.
Improving the customer experience using big data customer-centric measurement...Business Over Broadway
This presentation provides an overview of some of the content of my new book, TCE: Total Customer Experience. In the presentation, I discuss customer experience management, customer loyalty, the optimal customer survey, the value of analytics and using a Big Data customer-centric approach to improve the value of all your business data
TOOLKIT: Templates for Powerpoint, Excel Tools & Spreadsheet TemplatesAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Download and Reuse Now a Toolkit including 100+ Templates for Powerpoint, Excel Tools & Spreadsheet Templates| Created By ex-McKinsey & Deloitte Consultants.
Gartner - The art of the one page strategyDeepak Kamboj
The document is a transcript from a Gartner webinar on developing one-page strategies. It provides examples of one-page strategies from various companies and industries. It outlines the process for building a one-page strategy, including understanding how the company wins in the marketplace, identifying differentiators, choosing a viewpoint, and answering a question. It emphasizes that the strategy should tell a story and be refined through an iterative process. The webinar recommends related Gartner research on effective communications and one-page strategies.
With the emergence of new operating models, the office of procurement has changed from a cost-management function to a key player in mitigating risk, unlocking insight, and enabling agility. This slide deck explores the Workday vision for elevating procurement to the level of a strategic partner in driving business transformation.
The CIOs new role as core strategy enabler, Stockholm Nov 28 2013Søren Helsted
The document discusses the changing role of the CIO from an internal IT manager to a strategic business leader. It summarizes the results of a survey of nearly 700 IT leaders. The survey found that 66% of CIOs want to create value through innovation and 64% are involved in directing core business strategy. Additionally, the report discusses emerging technologies like mobility, cloud computing, big data and their impact on IT departments and businesses. It concludes that CIOs will need to take an outside-in approach and embrace new technologies like apps to revolutionize how work gets done and become an enabler of core business strategy.
World of Watson 2016: Journey to Cognitive Excellence - Harness the Force of ...Julie Severance
Becoming a cognitive business is a journey, not a destination. A cognitive analytics culture is not something you can just buy or install. Although the right technology is crucial, its true value arises when the organizational mindset changes. Many organizations have learned to embrace analytics, but embracing cognitive is another step entirely, and it’s one that may be even more challenging. However, the possibilities are endless and the potential rewards make it worthwhile.
Email Marketing Census 2011 PresentationEconsultancy
This document summarizes the findings of an annual email marketing census conducted in 2011. Key findings include:
- Many companies are sending more emails and spending more on email marketing compared to 2007. However, integration with other channels remains a challenge.
- Email consistently provides high returns on investment but many companies still fail to implement best practices like testing.
- Barriers to effective email include outdated lists, lack of focus on deliverability, and disconnected systems between email and other channels.
Building a Data-Driven Culture by Olof Hoverfält discusses how to build a data-driven culture at Sanoma Games. Key points include:
1) Being data-driven requires an organization that supports lean development, a data-driven culture with accessible tools, shared goals, and management that fosters self-direction.
2) A data-driven culture is built through intrinsic motivation by making the benefits of data visible, not through coercion. Transparency, autonomy and ownership are important.
3) Continuous hypothesis-driven testing should be the standard approach across functions to gain insights and steer development initiatives toward business goals.
The Path Forward: Getting started with Analytics QuotientJulie Severance
The document discusses strategies for achieving success with business analytics. It introduces the concept of an Analytics Quotient (AQ) which measures an organization's analytics maturity. It describes the four stages of AQ maturity - Novice, Builder, Leader, and Master. Higher AQ organizations are found to outperform others. The document recommends measuring an organization's current AQ, addressing key strategy perspectives like people, process, and technology, and implementing an Analytics Center of Excellence to organize strategies and raise the AQ to the next stage of maturity.
5 Steps to Effectively Handle Digital Transformation and Business Disruption:...SVRTechnologies
Digital technology continues to change the business world dramatically. This article provides business and IT leaders’ helpful tools to drive and manage digital transformation effectively.
5 Steps to Help Your Organization Succeed This YearMicrosoft
If you could drive a transformation what would it be? The answers to these questions probably depend on a variety of factors, including the current product or service line-up, the competitive environment, and the direction set by senior leadership. What’s your Big Idea?
The document discusses the market opportunity for cloud services and solutions. It finds that the cloud market is growing 5 times faster than the overall IT industry, and cloud spending is expected to reach $98 billion by 2016. While public cloud growth is high, many customers will continue to rely on on-premise IT as well, so a hybrid cloud approach is important. Top-performing partners have embraced cloud trends early and incorporated cloud into their business models. The document advises partners to aim for 50% or more of their revenue to come from cloud-related offerings to take advantage of the cloud opportunity.
The document discusses the growing cloud opportunity for partners. It notes that public cloud spending is growing at a compound annual rate of 19.4%, which is almost six times the rate of overall IT spending growth. The total cloud market, including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions as well as related services, is projected to exceed $500 billion by 2020. The cloud represents a major opportunity for partners to grow their businesses.
Accenture is a global management consulting and services company that began in 1942. It became independent in 2000 after separating from its parent company. Accenture focuses on strategy, consulting, technology, digital, and operations services. It has a strong branding strategy targeting CEOs and other C-level executives with campaigns like "Be a Tiger" and "High Performance. Delivered." While Tiger Woods was previously a major brand ambassador, Accenture dropped him after a scandal and redesigned its campaigns. Going forward, Accenture aims to consolidate clients, encourage buying alliances, focus on lead generation, build trust, and innovate through tools like newsletters, podcasts, and webinars.
7 Steps for Applying Big Data Patterns to Decision MakingWiley
The document outlines a seven step method for applying big data patterns to decision making: 1) Understand existing data assets, 2) Explore the data to find patterns, 3) Design new decisions or business models based on patterns, 4) Design a data-driven business model if useful, 5) Transform business processes to leverage new insights, 6) Consider governance and security implications, and 7) Develop metrics and incentives to encourage fact-based decision making. The method involves building on each step with the goal of better decisions, new business models, or optimized processes.
Demonstrating Big Value in Big Data with New Analytics ApproachesJulie Severance
This document discusses IBM's journey to establishing an Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) to overcome challenges with big data analytics. It describes how IBM previously had siloed analytics groups across its 400,000 employees and 200 locations. To address this, IBM developed a strategic plan through organizational readiness. This included standing up a virtual ACE team to develop standards, provide services, and align analytics with business strategy across the enterprise. The ACE also focused on quickly enabling a cloud prototype and user community to start realizing value from big data.
Business leaders are engaging labor differently - Is your IT ready?JoAnna Cheshire
The document discusses how business leaders are engaging labor differently and whether IT is ready to support these changes. It notes that research finds C-suite executives want the CIO to play an active advisory role in business strategy. The document then outlines several new approaches organizations are taking to engage labor, such as hackathons, crowdsourcing, and more flexible work styles. It argues that IT needs to enable, facilitate and accelerate the changes businesses want to make through strategic foresight, architecture for innovation, and new workforce models.
Here in a single document is a compilation of my learnings and observations working with real customers over the past couple of years. My thought in consolidating these posts from LinkedIn was to provide an easy hyperlinked reference for leaders interested in breaking through the clutter to learn ways to leverage data for competitive advantage into 2017 and beyond.
The Total Economic Impact of Adobe Document CloudAdobe
Digitally transform every department in your organization while delivering standout customer experiences with Adobe Document Cloud. Through interviews with Adobe enterprise customers, Forrester concluded that Adobe Document Cloud (including Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Sign) has the following three-year impact, helping organizations save time, costs, and improve employee efficiency.
Making the business case for your intranetSam Marshall
How to make a winning business case for your intranet.
Slides from a workshop given for Ark Group. If you'd like a similar in-house session or help on this topic please contact sam@clearboxconsulting.co.uk
* What a business case looks like
* Understanding who you're trying to influence
* The benefits of an intranet
* Assessing options, priorities and costs
* Identifying risks
* ROI and why it can be a red herring
* Representing intangible benefits
* The case for re-launches or intranet consolidation
The document discusses a presentation on data discovery tools and the current market landscape. It summarizes research from Gartner and IDC on trends in business intelligence, analytics platforms, and data discovery vendors. The main points are that data discovery tools are gaining popularity and market share as they are easier for business users to use and implement compared to traditional top-down BI platforms. However, the document notes that ensuring proper governance of data as these bottom-up tools proliferate remains a challenge. It provides an overview of various vendors and market predictions on the growth of data discovery tools.
Improving the customer experience using big data customer-centric measurement...Business Over Broadway
This presentation provides an overview of some of the content of my new book, TCE: Total Customer Experience. In the presentation, I discuss customer experience management, customer loyalty, the optimal customer survey, the value of analytics and using a Big Data customer-centric approach to improve the value of all your business data
TOOLKIT: Templates for Powerpoint, Excel Tools & Spreadsheet TemplatesAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Download and Reuse Now a Toolkit including 100+ Templates for Powerpoint, Excel Tools & Spreadsheet Templates| Created By ex-McKinsey & Deloitte Consultants.
Gartner - The art of the one page strategyDeepak Kamboj
The document is a transcript from a Gartner webinar on developing one-page strategies. It provides examples of one-page strategies from various companies and industries. It outlines the process for building a one-page strategy, including understanding how the company wins in the marketplace, identifying differentiators, choosing a viewpoint, and answering a question. It emphasizes that the strategy should tell a story and be refined through an iterative process. The webinar recommends related Gartner research on effective communications and one-page strategies.
With the emergence of new operating models, the office of procurement has changed from a cost-management function to a key player in mitigating risk, unlocking insight, and enabling agility. This slide deck explores the Workday vision for elevating procurement to the level of a strategic partner in driving business transformation.
The CIOs new role as core strategy enabler, Stockholm Nov 28 2013Søren Helsted
The document discusses the changing role of the CIO from an internal IT manager to a strategic business leader. It summarizes the results of a survey of nearly 700 IT leaders. The survey found that 66% of CIOs want to create value through innovation and 64% are involved in directing core business strategy. Additionally, the report discusses emerging technologies like mobility, cloud computing, big data and their impact on IT departments and businesses. It concludes that CIOs will need to take an outside-in approach and embrace new technologies like apps to revolutionize how work gets done and become an enabler of core business strategy.
World of Watson 2016: Journey to Cognitive Excellence - Harness the Force of ...Julie Severance
Becoming a cognitive business is a journey, not a destination. A cognitive analytics culture is not something you can just buy or install. Although the right technology is crucial, its true value arises when the organizational mindset changes. Many organizations have learned to embrace analytics, but embracing cognitive is another step entirely, and it’s one that may be even more challenging. However, the possibilities are endless and the potential rewards make it worthwhile.
Email Marketing Census 2011 PresentationEconsultancy
This document summarizes the findings of an annual email marketing census conducted in 2011. Key findings include:
- Many companies are sending more emails and spending more on email marketing compared to 2007. However, integration with other channels remains a challenge.
- Email consistently provides high returns on investment but many companies still fail to implement best practices like testing.
- Barriers to effective email include outdated lists, lack of focus on deliverability, and disconnected systems between email and other channels.
Building a Data-Driven Culture by Olof Hoverfält discusses how to build a data-driven culture at Sanoma Games. Key points include:
1) Being data-driven requires an organization that supports lean development, a data-driven culture with accessible tools, shared goals, and management that fosters self-direction.
2) A data-driven culture is built through intrinsic motivation by making the benefits of data visible, not through coercion. Transparency, autonomy and ownership are important.
3) Continuous hypothesis-driven testing should be the standard approach across functions to gain insights and steer development initiatives toward business goals.
The Path Forward: Getting started with Analytics QuotientJulie Severance
The document discusses strategies for achieving success with business analytics. It introduces the concept of an Analytics Quotient (AQ) which measures an organization's analytics maturity. It describes the four stages of AQ maturity - Novice, Builder, Leader, and Master. Higher AQ organizations are found to outperform others. The document recommends measuring an organization's current AQ, addressing key strategy perspectives like people, process, and technology, and implementing an Analytics Center of Excellence to organize strategies and raise the AQ to the next stage of maturity.
5 Steps to Effectively Handle Digital Transformation and Business Disruption:...SVRTechnologies
Digital technology continues to change the business world dramatically. This article provides business and IT leaders’ helpful tools to drive and manage digital transformation effectively.
5 Steps to Help Your Organization Succeed This YearMicrosoft
If you could drive a transformation what would it be? The answers to these questions probably depend on a variety of factors, including the current product or service line-up, the competitive environment, and the direction set by senior leadership. What’s your Big Idea?
The document discusses the market opportunity for cloud services and solutions. It finds that the cloud market is growing 5 times faster than the overall IT industry, and cloud spending is expected to reach $98 billion by 2016. While public cloud growth is high, many customers will continue to rely on on-premise IT as well, so a hybrid cloud approach is important. Top-performing partners have embraced cloud trends early and incorporated cloud into their business models. The document advises partners to aim for 50% or more of their revenue to come from cloud-related offerings to take advantage of the cloud opportunity.
The document discusses the growing cloud opportunity for partners. It notes that public cloud spending is growing at a compound annual rate of 19.4%, which is almost six times the rate of overall IT spending growth. The total cloud market, including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions as well as related services, is projected to exceed $500 billion by 2020. The cloud represents a major opportunity for partners to grow their businesses.
Can partners make monday from the cloudJoel Martin
The survey found that most partners see the cloud as key to growing their business and that profits come from complementing on-premise offerings with cloud-based offerings. Currently, 41% of partners offer cloud-based solutions. Vendors like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are seen as most able to support cloud initiatives due to existing technologies and skills. Partners indicated that new technical skills like data integration and new sales skills are needed to offer cloud solutions successfully.
Brightalk Cloud and the marketing minefieldIan Moyse ☁
This document discusses how marketing cloud services has become a "minefield" due to overhyping and mismarketing of cloud concepts. It emphasizes the need for clear, jargon-free messaging in cloud marketing. The document also covers how end users perceive cloud differently and have various concerns. It suggests cloud marketers should focus on transparency, understanding their audience, and targeting specific opportunities through research. The importance of social media, content creation, search engine optimization, and developing strong channel partners are also discussed as effective cloud marketing practices.
Slides from IDC analyst Darren Bibby and Microsoft partner Alex Brown, CEO of 10th Magnitude, on how partners can build successful cloud practices with Microsoft Azure.
The 10 Most Scalable Cloud Solution Providers of 2019Mirror Review
The article discusses Shane Mahon's experience with 3D printing and his search for a better entry-level solution. As a product designer who races bicycles, Shane originally used an FDM 3D printer but found limitations in detail and support structures ruining prints. An SLA printer provided higher resolution but many print failures. This led Shane to question if there was a better entry-level SLS 3D printer option that could overcome these limitations and allow him to continue his projects. The article explores Shane's journey to find a more suitable 3D printing solution.
Partner Program for Tech Startups - and not onlyJustyna Bak
The vast majority of the world’s most successful Tech companies have a thriving ecosystem of partners, ranging from systems integrators, consultancies, independent software vendors, developer communities to value added resellers and distributors.
“Partner Program Template” helps you prepare a compelling partnership pitch:
- Demonstrate understanding of your partner business and position your company as a valuable asset
- Scope out collaboration areas with concrete milestones
- Define success metrics and strategies to achieve them
This document summarizes a webinar on cloud computing hosted by Sand Hill Group on September 16, 2010. It features presentations from cloud computing leaders M.R. Rangaswami and Kamesh Pemmaraju of Sand Hill Group, Otavio Freire of openQ, and Neil Fox of Ness Technologies. The webinar discusses identifying the business value of cloud computing for customers and vendors based on research including a survey of 511 IT executives and 40 confidential interviews. It also summarizes Ness Technologies' cloud assessment process to help companies determine their cloud readiness and considerations for moving applications and workloads to the cloud.
InsideView success story Knowledge Lake InsideView
http://learnmore.insideview.com/Microsoft.html
“ With InsideView, we were able to replace two vendors with one solution that works much better. This has saved us thousands of dollars and provided an immediate return on investment. “
KnowledgeLake learned about InsideView during a conversation with another CRM vendor. After gathering more information and feedback, KnowledgeLake implemented a proof of concept for Sales to test the solution in a live environment. The feedback was very positive. In fact, the Sales team preferred InsideView over Hoovers which was also being used at the time.
“In addition to everything we needed to add, InsideView gave us what has become one of the most beneficial components of our CRM system—social sales intelligence,” said Barb Potter, Director of Marketing for KnowledgeLake.
“With InsideView, we were able to replace two vendors with one solution that works much better. This has saved us thousands of dollars and provided an immediate return on investment.”
InsideView is now deployed throughout KnowledgeLake’s entire Sales and Marketing departments.
This presentation covers the 6 steps we (DIgJourney) use in the process of creating a SOLID* transformation strategy.
*Strategy based on empowering the Organization through Leadership, Innovation and Digital maturity.
This In-Company Project had two main objectives. The first one was to come up with a business case on how to make a profitable business with industry-specific intellectual property (IP) on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM3. This business case was made for partners having an existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services practice, not yet being an Independent Software Vendor (ISV4), and interested in investing in IP on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. A market research was conducted, mainly by using an online survey5, to get some insights and numerical data to be used in the business case. All partner data was clustered in three groups around profitability: Top Performer (> 75% margin), Average Performer (between 75 and 35% margin) and Bad Performer (below 35% margin).
The second objective was to define the success factors on how to become a Top Performer. These learnings came out of the survey, by analyzing all questions where the Top Performers cluster had unique survey-results compared to the other 2 clusters.
The power of Cloud - Driving business model innovationIBM Software India
This document discusses how cloud computing can drive business model innovation. It provides an overview of key findings from a survey of 572 business and technology executives. The survey found that while cloud is widely recognized as an important technology, few organizations currently use it to drive major business model changes. However, many expect to leverage cloud's potential over the next three years to transform operations, customer relationships and industry value chains. The document identifies six "business enablers" that cloud provides: cost flexibility, business scalability, market adaptability, masked complexity, context-driven variability, and ecosystem connectivity. It provides examples of companies innovating their business models around these enablers. The document concludes that cloud has significant untapped potential to power
Customer feedback is when a customer tells you something about what they want or need. This information can be good or bad. It helps keep track of the quality and often forces the company to come up with new products to meet customer needs. Digital software has replaced the old ways of putting together feedback. Procedures for getting feedback help small businesses grow, manage their internal structures better, and use their resources at the right time.
In order to grow a business, you need to know how important customer feedback is. Since the current market is driven by what customers want, their thoughts and ideas are important if you want to stay in business. It helps businesses run more smoothly and make better products. Getting feedback from customers or collecting data in a passive way has been around for a very long time. With the development of the Internet, especially after the end of the Cold War, getting feedback is now easy and cheap.
Media industry solution structured and unstructured data - social media et ...ebreger
A media agency helps clients communicate with consumers through channels like advertising, PR, and digital media. The agency collects data from many sources to analyze campaign performance, but current reporting processes are labor-intensive. Corbus proposes automating data collection and reporting through a centralized data warehouse and business intelligence solution to save time and improve insights. This would allow the agency to be more strategic and provide better client service.
How To Identify The Data Opportunities For Every Business?Bernard Marr
Today, what differentiates a market-leading company from an also-ran is often the way that it is using data. Data is often referred to as “the oil of the information age” as it powers revolutionary concepts such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the
BIG Data & Hadoop Applications in FinanceSkillspeed
Explore the applications of BIG Data & Hadoop in Finance via Skillspeed.
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How to build an it transformation roadmapInnesGerrard
An estimated 80 percent of #businesses will need to transform their current IT efforts to keep up with new business expectations and technological developments. These include investments such as cloud computing, IoT and BigData projects.
A Look at US & European Cloud Adoption TrendsCarbonite
A Look at US & European Cloud Adoption Trends: Presented by Carbonite SVP, Sales & Marketing Pete Lamson at the Global Technology Distribution Council's European Summit, June 2014.
IDC Infobrief- Unleash the opportunities in the Cloud with SAP Partner Manage...SAPPartnerCloud
Software as a service is the new normal. IDC believes that by 2019, 40% of all software revenue will be on a subscription basis. Customers are embracing cloud because they recognize the traditional technology ownership model is inadequate for agility and because they appreciate financial flexibility.
This IDC study, commissioned by SAP, looks at partner managed cloud, an opportunity for solution providers to deliver SAP solutions by OpEx consumption model through a private hosted cloud. Via insights gained through in-depth conversations with partners currently offering managed cloud solutions, it provides a summary of the key benefits partners have experienced, and the major value propositions for their customers
This document provides an agenda and summaries for an insurance industry breakfast briefing on changing operating models with cloud technologies. The agenda includes introductions from various companies, a discussion of myths and misinterpretations about cloud delivery from Microstrategy, and a presentation on digital strategy and innovation from 360 Globalnet. The briefing aims to provide insight into public and private cloud solutions and discuss common concerns, and how a cloud strategy can evolve an operating model.
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Microsoft StaffHub is a tool designed to help staff workers manage their workday. It allows them to view and manage schedules, share information, and connect to other apps. Specifically, it enables schedule management by allowing staff to create, publish, and request changes to shifts. It facilitates information sharing by allowing messages, documents, and media to be sent to workgroups. It also connects to other workforce management systems and internal apps. The tool aims to address issues like being disconnected from teams and outdated tools by providing a centralized hub for scheduling and communication accessible via web and mobile.
Hybrid cloud flexibility. You're only as agile as your platform.
The Microsoft Cloud, with Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, and Microsoft System Center, offers a platform that can span your on premises datacenter and the cloud. So you’re free to scale up, scale down, and innovate at the speed you need.
1. Microsoft Azure StorSimple provides a hybrid cloud storage solution that connects on-premises servers to Azure Storage with no application changes, allowing inactive data to be automatically tiered to the cloud.
2. It offers benefits like 40-60% lower storage costs, simplified data protection and disaster recovery, and increased business agility.
3. The solution includes StorSimple hybrid storage arrays, StorSimple Manager for consolidated management, and StorSimple Virtual Appliance for accessing enterprise data from Azure.
This document provides examples of hybrid cloud architectures and scenarios. It describes using a hybrid cloud approach for encrypted backups, replication between two sites, orchestrated recovery in the event of an outage, and remote access through a VPN. Specific solutions mentioned include System Center, Hyper-V, StorSimple, and Azure. The document also discusses migration strategies for different types of servers and applications to a hybrid cloud model.
The document discusses strategies for building scalable applications on Windows Azure Cloud Services. Key points include:
- Designing applications using "scale units" which are groups of roles and supporting services that can be easily duplicated and deployed to scale out an application.
- Taking advantage of Azure services like SQL Database, storage, and caching to build scalable applications.
- Implementing patterns like caching, retries, and decoupled communications to provide performance and fault tolerance in large-scale systems.
The document discusses how the business landscape and customer expectations are changing with more devices, internet penetration, and demand for reliable, secure products and services that can be accessed from anywhere. It summarizes that Office 365 addresses these changes and enables customers to work from any location, on any device, with secure data and globally. It then promotes becoming a Microsoft Cloud Partner to benefit from increasing customer base, selling across geographies, becoming an advisor, building an annuity-based business, selling a wide range of offerings, higher retention, training, support, resources, and more. Partner testimonials provide examples of revenue opportunities, eliminating infrastructure barriers, and focusing on consultancy.
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).
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.