Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen has experienced significant growth over recent years, requiring investments in core business systems. Intergen implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV for finance and Microsoft CRM for client management, which integrate together. Intergen also implemented Microsoft Project Server for project management and SharePoint for reporting, tasks, and their intranet. Intergen continues evolving their systems to support ongoing business growth and provide insights for customer solutions.
Cevn Vibert is an experienced MES, SCADA, and industrial networks consultant with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with many major companies to implement automation and information solutions. The document provides an overview of his skills and experience along with testimonials praising his technical expertise, project management abilities, and professional demeanor.
Used for Graduate Recruitment 2013. As the famous Louis Pasteur once said, fortune favours the prepared mind – and if you’re fortunate enough to come across us, and prepared to show us what you’re made of, then you’re on your way to becoming an IT star.
This presentation was given at a conference in November 2014. It addresses the future of IT and takes 2020 as a milestone. My take is that IT will still exist, but will be very different. If you are interested in how this was discussed, take a look at www.hp.com/cloud/blog where a blog entry with the same title should appear in a couple days.
The document discusses how IT will change and adapt by 2020. It notes that the world is changing rapidly with huge amounts of digital data being created every minute. Both employees and customers are also changing as younger digital native generations enter the workforce. The document argues that IT needs to focus on its core functions that differentiate the business, while outsourcing non-critical contextual functions. It also stresses that IT needs to work more closely with business units to help drive innovation using new technologies like cloud, mobile, social, and big data.
Our vision is to occupy a strong regional and overseas market position which serves as a framework for our road map and guides every aspect of our business. We thrive to deliver excellent services to our clients on time and within budget.
BI Think! Event: The Master of Your DomainIntergen
Claim the power of accurate data.
Sally works for your organisation. She recently got married and changed her name and address. How many systems do you need to update? What happens if you don't get them all changed?
In a world that is becoming increasingly distributed and interdependent, a world where we are communicating more often and using more systems, the importance of having your data correct has never been higher. Learn how to identify your core data items and overcome the challenges of keeping them correct. Determine how to identify high risk areas, prioritise them, and implement a methodology that will allow you to reap the rewards of keeping those items accurate.
Whether it is an employee, a customer, a contract or something else, making sure your systems accurately reflect the changes improves operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, reduces the risk of legal liability and increases the ease of regulatory compliance.
Join us to learn how claim the power you can have through accurate data and be the master of your domain.
Intergen Twilight - Empowering Marketing and Sales using CRM and ClickDimensionsIntergen
Marketing automation solutions help organisations better understand and target prospective customers, providing email marketing, web tracking, form capture, surveys and more.
ClickDimensions is an email marketing and web analytics add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that joins together marketing automation with your CRM system. Steven Foster, Intergen's CRM Product Manager showed attendees how this single marketing solution can help their organisation's identify who is interested in their products or services, their level of interest and help you take action.
He also showed how you can use ClickDimensions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to identify customers, generate compelling newsletters, deliver rich email content, manage web content with smart forms, create landing pages and surveys and generate qualified leads through intelligent web analytics.
Intergen has experienced significant growth over recent years, requiring investments in core business systems. Intergen implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV for finance and Microsoft CRM for client management, which integrate together. Intergen also implemented Microsoft Project Server for project management and SharePoint for reporting, tasks, and their intranet. Intergen continues evolving their systems to support ongoing business growth and provide insights for customer solutions.
Cevn Vibert is an experienced MES, SCADA, and industrial networks consultant with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with many major companies to implement automation and information solutions. The document provides an overview of his skills and experience along with testimonials praising his technical expertise, project management abilities, and professional demeanor.
Used for Graduate Recruitment 2013. As the famous Louis Pasteur once said, fortune favours the prepared mind – and if you’re fortunate enough to come across us, and prepared to show us what you’re made of, then you’re on your way to becoming an IT star.
This presentation was given at a conference in November 2014. It addresses the future of IT and takes 2020 as a milestone. My take is that IT will still exist, but will be very different. If you are interested in how this was discussed, take a look at www.hp.com/cloud/blog where a blog entry with the same title should appear in a couple days.
The document discusses how IT will change and adapt by 2020. It notes that the world is changing rapidly with huge amounts of digital data being created every minute. Both employees and customers are also changing as younger digital native generations enter the workforce. The document argues that IT needs to focus on its core functions that differentiate the business, while outsourcing non-critical contextual functions. It also stresses that IT needs to work more closely with business units to help drive innovation using new technologies like cloud, mobile, social, and big data.
Our vision is to occupy a strong regional and overseas market position which serves as a framework for our road map and guides every aspect of our business. We thrive to deliver excellent services to our clients on time and within budget.
BI Think! Event: The Master of Your DomainIntergen
Claim the power of accurate data.
Sally works for your organisation. She recently got married and changed her name and address. How many systems do you need to update? What happens if you don't get them all changed?
In a world that is becoming increasingly distributed and interdependent, a world where we are communicating more often and using more systems, the importance of having your data correct has never been higher. Learn how to identify your core data items and overcome the challenges of keeping them correct. Determine how to identify high risk areas, prioritise them, and implement a methodology that will allow you to reap the rewards of keeping those items accurate.
Whether it is an employee, a customer, a contract or something else, making sure your systems accurately reflect the changes improves operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, reduces the risk of legal liability and increases the ease of regulatory compliance.
Join us to learn how claim the power you can have through accurate data and be the master of your domain.
Intergen Twilight - Empowering Marketing and Sales using CRM and ClickDimensionsIntergen
Marketing automation solutions help organisations better understand and target prospective customers, providing email marketing, web tracking, form capture, surveys and more.
ClickDimensions is an email marketing and web analytics add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that joins together marketing automation with your CRM system. Steven Foster, Intergen's CRM Product Manager showed attendees how this single marketing solution can help their organisation's identify who is interested in their products or services, their level of interest and help you take action.
He also showed how you can use ClickDimensions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to identify customers, generate compelling newsletters, deliver rich email content, manage web content with smart forms, create landing pages and surveys and generate qualified leads through intelligent web analytics.
Dynamics Day 2012: Enterprise Projects - Setting up for SuccessIntergen
The document discusses setting up enterprise projects for success. It outlines Intergen's approach to implementing enterprise solutions like Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, focusing on business processes, requirements gathering, customization needs, and change management. The presentation then shares the customer perspective from ASSA ABLOY New Zealand's ERP implementation project, covering their challenges with stakeholder buy-in, testing, governance, and data conversion. Key takeaways stress the importance of planning, selecting experienced team members, allowing contingency, and ensuring management owns the organizational change.
This document is the first issue of Intergen's company newsletter called "SMARTS". It provides an overview of Intergen as a company that offers a full range of Microsoft services and solutions. It highlights Intergen being awarded Microsoft Gold Partner status and recapping their recent launch party event. It also includes articles on various projects, technologies and staff profiles. The goal of the newsletter is to provide informative and entertaining content that demonstrates Intergen's approach of intelligent business solutions.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This document discusses several employees and the classic cars they own. Tony Stewart owns a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth that he raced in the past but now enjoys for sentimental reasons. Mark Trotter owns a Subaru WRX, his second car but first hot hatch, and is a fan of fast four-door cars like his father. John Jameson owns a Mitsubishi GTO, an unusual choice that stands out from the ordinary.
This presentation was delivered at one of Intergen's Twilight sessions during 2008. It provides an overview of the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and is targeted at both business and IT users.
EPiServer and Intergen spoke to attendees about what’s new with the latest version of the EPiServer CMS Content Management System as well as their other offerings for Commerce and Communities.
This session is designed as an update for any existing non-technical EPiServer customers or anyone interested in looking at the EPiServer offerings.
EPiServer in Australia/New Zealand: Developments in the past year, the team, purchase of Media Chase, corporate growth, new EPiServer.world and community for editors
What’s new with EPiServer Software: EPiServer as a platform, EPiServer CMS 7 release, CMO, Google Analytics, SEO, Find, Commerce, Relate, Social Pack, Mobile (short demo & slides)
Upgrade to EPiServer CMS7: What’s involved and why you should consider it
Upcoming events: EPiServer Customer Day 2013, seminar/webinar series
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Smarts 31 - All for one and one for all (New Zealand)Intergen
Microsoft aims to create consistency of experience across devices through its software and platforms. With Dynamics AX, Microsoft is developing a unified experience for end users with apps for expenses, timesheets, approvals and point of sale that will work across Windows, iOS and Android devices. Microsoft is also innovating Dynamics AX solutions for retail with a new cloud-enabled Retail Server and integrating third party services. While improving its flagship ERP software, Dynamics AX can also act as a hub to connect other applications and keep business processes coordinated without additional middleware. These developments aim to keep IT able to deliver the functionality users expect from consumer devices.
Boost loyalty and bottom line results by putting customers firstIntergen
This document discusses customer experience management (CEM) and its importance. CEM involves tracking and managing all customer interactions throughout the customer lifecycle to optimize experiences from the customer's perspective and foster loyalty. The goal of CEM is to provide consistent experiences across all customer touchpoints. Poor customer experiences can significantly impact revenues, while better experiences correlate with increased future business and word-of-mouth. The document provides strategies for practical CEM, including mapping customer journeys, insights, ecosystem, measurement, and process improvement.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Break down silos with SharePoint Collaboration and...Intergen
Improving collaboration and communication is a goal for virtually all organisations – there are always opportunities to improve the flow of communication between and across teams.
As a leading collaboration solution, Microsoft SharePoint provides a number of features and functions that combine to improve collaboration and break down the silos that exist within many organisations.
When implementing SharePoint we find our customers often come back to two key objectives: achieving findability and ensuring integrity. How can we create, classify and store information so that it can be easily retrieved? And how do we ensure that the information we do find is correct, up to date and gives users confidence?
Intergen Think! Seminar: Assesing your fit for ERP cloudIntergen
Organisations that embrace cloud computing can experience significant cost reductions when it comes to the on-going operation of their solutions.
With Dynamics NAV 2013 now available as a cloud-based solution, Microsoft is one of the few vendors about to provide organisations with options when it comes to ERP deployment.
Is your organisation ready to embrace ERP in the cloud? What are the key business factors you should be considering? What should we, as New Zealand-based organisations, be looking for? Does an on-premise deployment make more sense?
This Think! Seminar explored the value proposition of ERP in the cloud, incorporating the latest information from Microsoft Convergence, Microsoft’s global conference for users of Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: What's shaping the Business Systems of the FutureIntergen
What’s shaping the Business Systems of the Future
With the abundance of desktop and mobile devices and platforms, there are now numerous ways for consumers and information workers alike to create and consume applications and services. Enterprise applications are having to evolve to keep up, and your ERP system is no exception – like all other applications, they too need to move with the times.
The session focussed on emerging trends in business solutions from Microsoft and a forward looking view on what Microsoft Dynamics ERP might look like in the future. In this session, we covered:
- How business processes can be embedded into users’ own devices
- How social systems are influencing business system design – how Microsoft Dynamics is responding to the growing influence of social systems
- Previewing design concepts for the future versions of Dynamics ERP applications, including a Metro-based application
Presented by James Page and Nick Johnson of Intergen along with Sue Driscoll of Microsoft, this session provided an exclusive behind the scenes look at how Microsoft’s ERP solutions could evolve in the future. While the focus of the session was on Microsoft Dynamics, this session could also be of interest to those people who want an insight into how enterprise systems in general are having to evolve to keep up with new devices and interaction methods.
Featuring Craig Dewar, Director of Product Management for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at Microsoft Corporation; Chris Auld, Chief Technology Officer from Intergen; and Simon Bright, Chief Operating Officer from Intergen. This multifaceted keynote will look at the current state of Microsoft and its Dynamics offerings, and what lies ahead over the next few years.
The Benefits of Social Collaboration in the EnterpriseIntergen
According to Forrester, growth in software investment is shifting to people centric and collaborative software with 37% of IT decision-makers planning to implement or expand the use of collaboration tools, compared with 25% or less who are planning investments in traditional software such as enterprise resource planning, human capital management or product life-cycle management.
The drivers for this change include:
• A greater desire for organisations to capture and re-use knowledge.
• The need to maintain connections throughout a distributed workforce.
• The need to align software systems to meet new workforce demands.
This event discussed Microsoft's vision for social collaboration in the enterprise and see how you can extend your SharePoint platform with Yammer to foster greater team collaboration, empower your employees and drive business agility.
How to make the most out of Lead Management and CRMIntergen
You’ve implemented Dynamics CRM, you “kind of” manage leads, but you either have no real process or a process that regularly fails. In this session we will find out how to take advantage of Dynamics CRM to manage your leads more effectively and track the conversion of leads to actual opportunities and sales.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen has had a successful first half of the year, completing several significant projects and beginning new projects. One of the most significant projects was developing an online vehicle re-licensing system with Unisys that allows New Zealanders to re-license their vehicles online. Intergen has also grown, opening a new office in Christchurch and moving their Auckland office to larger premises. They are excited about new tools from Microsoft that will help improve the software development process.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This document provides summaries of events at Intergen and discusses technologies the company has been working on with Microsoft. It includes:
1. An update on Intergen's Christchurch office after the earthquake, which is temporarily operating from portacoms on site while the new office is under construction.
2. A summary of keynote demos Intergen has built for Microsoft conferences, including a demo for 9,300 people at Microsoft Convergence 2011 highlighting new CRM and AX technologies.
3. An overview of accessibility technologies Intergen has been developing with Microsoft, including tools to make Office documents and PowerPoint presentations more accessible to those with disabilities.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Dynamics Day 2012: Enterprise Projects - Setting up for SuccessIntergen
The document discusses setting up enterprise projects for success. It outlines Intergen's approach to implementing enterprise solutions like Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, focusing on business processes, requirements gathering, customization needs, and change management. The presentation then shares the customer perspective from ASSA ABLOY New Zealand's ERP implementation project, covering their challenges with stakeholder buy-in, testing, governance, and data conversion. Key takeaways stress the importance of planning, selecting experienced team members, allowing contingency, and ensuring management owns the organizational change.
This document is the first issue of Intergen's company newsletter called "SMARTS". It provides an overview of Intergen as a company that offers a full range of Microsoft services and solutions. It highlights Intergen being awarded Microsoft Gold Partner status and recapping their recent launch party event. It also includes articles on various projects, technologies and staff profiles. The goal of the newsletter is to provide informative and entertaining content that demonstrates Intergen's approach of intelligent business solutions.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This document discusses several employees and the classic cars they own. Tony Stewart owns a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth that he raced in the past but now enjoys for sentimental reasons. Mark Trotter owns a Subaru WRX, his second car but first hot hatch, and is a fan of fast four-door cars like his father. John Jameson owns a Mitsubishi GTO, an unusual choice that stands out from the ordinary.
This presentation was delivered at one of Intergen's Twilight sessions during 2008. It provides an overview of the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and is targeted at both business and IT users.
EPiServer and Intergen spoke to attendees about what’s new with the latest version of the EPiServer CMS Content Management System as well as their other offerings for Commerce and Communities.
This session is designed as an update for any existing non-technical EPiServer customers or anyone interested in looking at the EPiServer offerings.
EPiServer in Australia/New Zealand: Developments in the past year, the team, purchase of Media Chase, corporate growth, new EPiServer.world and community for editors
What’s new with EPiServer Software: EPiServer as a platform, EPiServer CMS 7 release, CMO, Google Analytics, SEO, Find, Commerce, Relate, Social Pack, Mobile (short demo & slides)
Upgrade to EPiServer CMS7: What’s involved and why you should consider it
Upcoming events: EPiServer Customer Day 2013, seminar/webinar series
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Smarts 31 - All for one and one for all (New Zealand)Intergen
Microsoft aims to create consistency of experience across devices through its software and platforms. With Dynamics AX, Microsoft is developing a unified experience for end users with apps for expenses, timesheets, approvals and point of sale that will work across Windows, iOS and Android devices. Microsoft is also innovating Dynamics AX solutions for retail with a new cloud-enabled Retail Server and integrating third party services. While improving its flagship ERP software, Dynamics AX can also act as a hub to connect other applications and keep business processes coordinated without additional middleware. These developments aim to keep IT able to deliver the functionality users expect from consumer devices.
Boost loyalty and bottom line results by putting customers firstIntergen
This document discusses customer experience management (CEM) and its importance. CEM involves tracking and managing all customer interactions throughout the customer lifecycle to optimize experiences from the customer's perspective and foster loyalty. The goal of CEM is to provide consistent experiences across all customer touchpoints. Poor customer experiences can significantly impact revenues, while better experiences correlate with increased future business and word-of-mouth. The document provides strategies for practical CEM, including mapping customer journeys, insights, ecosystem, measurement, and process improvement.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Break down silos with SharePoint Collaboration and...Intergen
Improving collaboration and communication is a goal for virtually all organisations – there are always opportunities to improve the flow of communication between and across teams.
As a leading collaboration solution, Microsoft SharePoint provides a number of features and functions that combine to improve collaboration and break down the silos that exist within many organisations.
When implementing SharePoint we find our customers often come back to two key objectives: achieving findability and ensuring integrity. How can we create, classify and store information so that it can be easily retrieved? And how do we ensure that the information we do find is correct, up to date and gives users confidence?
Intergen Think! Seminar: Assesing your fit for ERP cloudIntergen
Organisations that embrace cloud computing can experience significant cost reductions when it comes to the on-going operation of their solutions.
With Dynamics NAV 2013 now available as a cloud-based solution, Microsoft is one of the few vendors about to provide organisations with options when it comes to ERP deployment.
Is your organisation ready to embrace ERP in the cloud? What are the key business factors you should be considering? What should we, as New Zealand-based organisations, be looking for? Does an on-premise deployment make more sense?
This Think! Seminar explored the value proposition of ERP in the cloud, incorporating the latest information from Microsoft Convergence, Microsoft’s global conference for users of Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: What's shaping the Business Systems of the FutureIntergen
What’s shaping the Business Systems of the Future
With the abundance of desktop and mobile devices and platforms, there are now numerous ways for consumers and information workers alike to create and consume applications and services. Enterprise applications are having to evolve to keep up, and your ERP system is no exception – like all other applications, they too need to move with the times.
The session focussed on emerging trends in business solutions from Microsoft and a forward looking view on what Microsoft Dynamics ERP might look like in the future. In this session, we covered:
- How business processes can be embedded into users’ own devices
- How social systems are influencing business system design – how Microsoft Dynamics is responding to the growing influence of social systems
- Previewing design concepts for the future versions of Dynamics ERP applications, including a Metro-based application
Presented by James Page and Nick Johnson of Intergen along with Sue Driscoll of Microsoft, this session provided an exclusive behind the scenes look at how Microsoft’s ERP solutions could evolve in the future. While the focus of the session was on Microsoft Dynamics, this session could also be of interest to those people who want an insight into how enterprise systems in general are having to evolve to keep up with new devices and interaction methods.
Featuring Craig Dewar, Director of Product Management for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at Microsoft Corporation; Chris Auld, Chief Technology Officer from Intergen; and Simon Bright, Chief Operating Officer from Intergen. This multifaceted keynote will look at the current state of Microsoft and its Dynamics offerings, and what lies ahead over the next few years.
The Benefits of Social Collaboration in the EnterpriseIntergen
According to Forrester, growth in software investment is shifting to people centric and collaborative software with 37% of IT decision-makers planning to implement or expand the use of collaboration tools, compared with 25% or less who are planning investments in traditional software such as enterprise resource planning, human capital management or product life-cycle management.
The drivers for this change include:
• A greater desire for organisations to capture and re-use knowledge.
• The need to maintain connections throughout a distributed workforce.
• The need to align software systems to meet new workforce demands.
This event discussed Microsoft's vision for social collaboration in the enterprise and see how you can extend your SharePoint platform with Yammer to foster greater team collaboration, empower your employees and drive business agility.
How to make the most out of Lead Management and CRMIntergen
You’ve implemented Dynamics CRM, you “kind of” manage leads, but you either have no real process or a process that regularly fails. In this session we will find out how to take advantage of Dynamics CRM to manage your leads more effectively and track the conversion of leads to actual opportunities and sales.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen has had a successful first half of the year, completing several significant projects and beginning new projects. One of the most significant projects was developing an online vehicle re-licensing system with Unisys that allows New Zealanders to re-license their vehicles online. Intergen has also grown, opening a new office in Christchurch and moving their Auckland office to larger premises. They are excited about new tools from Microsoft that will help improve the software development process.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This document provides summaries of events at Intergen and discusses technologies the company has been working on with Microsoft. It includes:
1. An update on Intergen's Christchurch office after the earthquake, which is temporarily operating from portacoms on site while the new office is under construction.
2. A summary of keynote demos Intergen has built for Microsoft conferences, including a demo for 9,300 people at Microsoft Convergence 2011 highlighting new CRM and AX technologies.
3. An overview of accessibility technologies Intergen has been developing with Microsoft, including tools to make Office documents and PowerPoint presentations more accessible to those with disabilities.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Speedflow is a UK-based VoIP provider established in 2004 with over 100 employees. It provides VoIP and software solutions including call termination, wholesale VoIP, and software for traffic routing and billing. Speedflow prides itself on innovation, quality, and a talented team, and aims to improve its services and expand into new markets through strategic partnerships.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
This document discusses outsourcing IT services to NashTech in Vietnam. It provides testimonials from satisfied clients and details NashTech's capabilities in software development, IT infrastructure support, business process outsourcing, and their global presence. NashTech aims to reduce costs while maintaining quality and has over 4,600 staff in Vietnam, an educated workforce, and a stable business environment.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
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Attune Infocom is an open source consulting and software development company based in India and the US. They provide services including open source portal development, enterprise content management, and training. Their areas of expertise include service-oriented architecture, business process management, and learning management systems. Their vision is to be a globally respected provider of open source and IT services. They have experience developing websites and applications for industries like manufacturing, IT, and retail.
Closing keynote by James Robertson at Intranets2011 (Sydney, May 11-13). Outlines three "life stages" for intranets, and shows what "essential" intranets look like.
500+ Customers from over 30 countries worldwide have already taken benefit of the outsourcing services rendered by Itransition. Take a look at our Corporate Profile to get to know us better.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
Connecting Software creates synchronization and integration solutions and innovates in the area of the Industrial Internet of Things. The Connect Bridge platform with 100+ prebuilt connectors allows to solve biggest synchronization challenges and learn to become an integration expert within only three hours.
The team of Connecting Software is a multicultural and multilingual community which shares two major values: top quality of our products and ultimate care for customers.
Ge ta closer look at Connecting Software, and you will meet kind enthusiastic people and devoted caretakers of your IT business needs.
Reincubate is a UK-based company that provides data access and recovery software for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT devices. It was founded in 2008 and has since grown, now employing a diverse team across offices in London and Bucharest. The company aims to provide a creative and fun work environment while solving hard technical problems and delighting customers. Key aspects of working at Reincubate include flexible core hours, daily stand-ups, product meetings on Fridays, using various collaboration tools, and a casual dress code and holiday policy.
Creating intelligent content: How to automate personalised, one-to-one market...Intergen
Now more than ever as organisations we need to accelerate our digital engagement and use our content intelligently, sensitively and helpfully.
One of the only ways to connect with customers is digitally, and so the challenge for us as brands is how do we deliver a relevant and engaging experience at scale? And, within that, how do we make sure that we're tailoring the right content, to reach our audiences in the right ways, at the right time?
In this webinar, we'll discuss the importance of personalisation in delivering an outstanding customer experience and the challenges marketers face when it comes to delivering true one-to-one personalised journeys. We will then look how Episerver's new Content Intelligence and Content Recommendations can, through the power of AI, help marketers gain deep content insights and automate true one-to-one, personalised marketing at scale.
The Coronavirus pandemic had a profound impact on the way we work. Almost overnight, organisations have had to learn how to work remotely – and collaborate effectively – often by the most expedient means possible.
The good news is that the flexible, remote working practices and tools that always seemed like a good idea in principle, have now been tested under extreme conditions and, in many cases, have been proven to be highly effective. To maintain the momentum and continue to realise the benefits, it's essential that we balance that flexibility and immediacy with governance and management. This is particularly true with 'easy to use' tools designed with user empowerment at their heart, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and others.
In this webinar, we explore common pain points and problems arising from the explosive growth of these tools and potential solutions to those problems. We will hear from Anthony Martino, IT Operations Manager at flybuys (Australia), on how they plan to balance user empowerment with effective governance and management. We will look at practical approaches available to all customers, to continue realising the benefits of flexible working in a secure, streamlined and controlled manner.
For more information visit https://www.intergen.co.nz/ReimagineWork/ #ReimagineWork
Customer Insights: It's time to get personalIntergen
During this webinar, Qassem Naim, Head of Data and Tech at FCB NZ (one of the largest global advertising agencies) joined us to discuss how excellent customer experience starts by getting personal. To do this right, it is important to understand how each customer interacts with your business. We then looked at how the Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform can help you unify customer data from any touchpoint and personalise the buying experience for each customer through AI-driven insights and recommendations.
For more information visit https://www.intergen.co.nz/ReimagineWork/ #ReimagineWork
Working Remotely with Microsoft TechnologiesIntergen
This document summarizes working remotely with Microsoft technologies like Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Microsoft Teams. It introduces the speakers and provides an agenda for the presentation. The presentation will demonstrate WVD and discuss its security, management and licensing. It will also focus on staying productive while working remotely using Microsoft Teams and Empired's Teams Rapid Enablement offer.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Digital workplaceIntergen
Keep pace with new technology demands while ensuring data security and meeting expectations. The document discusses challenges of keeping up with multiple new platforms, cloud services, market entrants and customer/staff needs. It introduces Success Factors toolkit to help, including Dynamics 365 Field Service, Intelligent Services, a chatbot, modern apps and case studies. Upcoming sessions will provide starting steps like evaluations, quick wins and strategic planning to get started.
(1) Keeping pace with changing technology and customer expectations is challenging for Toyota, as platforms, cloud services, and competitors constantly evolve while staff and customers demand more.
(2) Safety of customer data and intellectual property must be maintained while adapting to new digital opportunities in the car buying process, as dealer visits decline but online research increases.
(3) Toyota seeks to balance its leadership position in New Zealand with understanding the customer journey, which involves both emotional and practical considerations from initial interest to ongoing ownership.
This document discusses the challenges of keeping pace with new technologies and demands across multiple areas for an organization. It mentions keeping up with new platforms, cloud services, market entrants, staff expectations, customer demands, data security, and engagement while transforming services.
This document discusses the importance of customer engagement and keeping pace with customer needs. It emphasizes understanding customers at multiple levels, from the end users to various partners in the value chain. It promotes taking a holistic approach to customer engagement by aligning the entire organization around the shared purpose of enhancing lives. Breaking large goals into smaller, more manageable pieces is recommended to make progress without becoming overwhelmed. Different tools and approaches can be used, but the focus should remain on solving customer problems. Internal customer engagement is also important to help the various groups work together successfully.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Business transformation across the enterprise (NZ...Intergen
The document discusses business transformation across New Zealand Police. It notes that New Zealand Police has approximately 12,500 staff including 9,000 sworn officers, and has deployed 7,000 mobility devices and 4,100 tablets to frontline officers across its 12 police districts and 371 stations. It also discusses the Realtime Intelligence and Operational Deployment (RIOD) system which provides situational awareness, an Integrated Safety Response program, and collaboration between agencies with a focus on better outcomes for individuals.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Bringing your people on the change journeyIntergen
This document discusses taking people on a change journey and the challenges of keeping pace with change. It emphasizes the importance of creating a shared vision with one's team first when undergoing transformation. While projects may be completed on time and under budget, truly embedding change and evolving culture takes significantly more time. Lastly, it notes that breaking old habits and fully embracing new ways of working can take individuals 21 days.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Why digital transformationIntergen
Keep pace with new technologies and changing customer demands while maintaining data security. Convergence allows for faster learning and adaptation compared to competitors through empowering employees with technology to better serve customers.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Unleash your digital enterpriseIntergen
The document discusses how every organization needs to transform into a digital business to enable future growth. It highlights that most New Zealand business leaders agree on this need for transformation but that many organizations still have limited strategies. The top barriers to transformation include lack of digital skills and leadership. While CIOs currently lead most transformation efforts, respondents felt CEOs and chief digital officers should also provide leadership.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - The future is hereIntergen
The document discusses how businesses can keep pace with changing technology and customer demands. It mentions the need to keep up with new platforms, cloud services, market entrants, staff expectations, and customer demands while also keeping data and intellectual property safe. It then discusses using learning analytics and artificial intelligence to gain insights from educational data to improve learning experiences and student outcomes.
The document discusses the challenges of keeping pace with new technologies like cloud services, platforms, and customer expectations while also keeping data and intellectual property safe. It notes that boundaries are becoming less defined as people use personal devices, cloud services, and collaboration tools in many different places. It raises questions about how to keep pace with changes while maintaining security, what is different now compared to before, whether the cloud makes things cheaper, how to learn about new technologies, and how to ensure an organization is keeping up with changes safely.
This document discusses the importance of user experience (UX) design for businesses. It notes that UX may be one of the only ways left for brands to differentiate themselves. It emphasizes that technology alone is not disruptive - not being customer-centric is the biggest threat. The document advises that to build great products, companies must focus on user behavior through UX design. It suggests evaluating teams and budgets to integrate UX practices and mindset throughout organizations.
Intergen Convergence 2017 - Data as your most important assetIntergen
This document discusses how data is an organization's most strategic asset and how to bring data to life. It outlines the organization's data journey from having data that was hard to prepare, untimely and inconsistent, to developing governance and bringing granularity, timeliness and the right metrics to measure success. The document emphasizes understanding an organization's purpose or "WHY", and how leadership can read that WHY to determine how to adjust their actions and take the right actions to achieve their goals.
Business Change Management is more than just sending out a few emails, doing a bit of training and writing a new policy. It is about understanding the things that make the business unique, working with people to find out how the change will actually affect them and how they feel about it. You can then provide them with the right information and tools to comfortably and confidently transition to the new system.
Equally, it’s not a one off, hit and run activity. Supporting people as they transition to new ways of working should be ongoing throughout the life of a project and beyond.
This approach leads to the development of a change strategy, creation and delivery of communications and training resources, and the facilitation of all staff training.
Working with people to understand their needs and then coming up with practical and creative ways to address them allows you to come up with targeted approaches to getting people on board.
It’s hard not to be inspired by someone who is actually excited and committed to change. Alternatively, change is never successful when a solution is thrown in and people feel that leaders are ‘doing it to them, not with or for them’.
Enters InterConnect, a proven approach that focuses on what your business wants to achieve and then works with your people leaders to give them the skills and confidence to support their teams through the transition. The approach is based on having conversations, providing an open forum for teams to discuss the changes and giving your leaders the knowledge and skills to maintain the drive for change.
With more than 50,000 new malware created every day organisations can no longer afford to risk the financial and reputational impacts of a security or data breach, which can be too much for a business to recover from. Because of this, IT managers face increasing scrutiny and pressure from CEOs, managing directors and boards to prove that they are keeping the organisation secure.
The changing threat landscape means organisations need to be vigilant and smarter about security. While businesses still face threats from infected devices and malware, attackers have also moved beyond that. For example, there is an increasing number of targeted email attacks with cyber criminals spending time to monitor communications so they can imitate emails that are so sophisticated that even relatively savvy users will open them.
This webinar will explore the building blocks required to ensure you have the roadmap required to best protection against cyber attacks. We will provide you with a high level view of the following topics:
· Audit and discovery – What are your weaknesses and are you compliant?
· Education – Do your employees know when not to open that attachment?
· Policy – Do you have the right policies for your industry?
· Technology – Where to start and what has changed?
Dynamics Day 2016: Microsoft Dynamics 365 first lookIntergen
The document discusses Microsoft Dynamics 365 and its features. It describes how Dynamics 365 provides a common application platform with PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and a common data model. It can connect different business systems and data sources. Dynamics 365 includes solutions for sales, customer service, field service, operations, and more. It also discusses how users can consume Dynamics 365 through different pricing plans and licences. For existing Dynamics users, it explains they have a choice to stay on their current version or transition to Dynamics 365.
Dynamics Day 2016: CRM Field Service and Project ServiceIntergen
Steven Foster and Microsoft’s Scott Smedley look at how Field Service and Dynamics Portals can change the way you serve your customers, ensuring you provide an intelligent and data-driven engagement that empowers employees and customers.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
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!
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.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
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.
A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
Ready to take your DeFi project to the next level? Partner with Intelisync for expert DeFi development services today!
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
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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.
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.
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>> HOT NEWS:
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Standing still isn’t an option
TechEd
At Intergen, August is all about the ever-
popular TechEd - Microsoft’s annual forum
for developers. Intergen brings a splash of
yellow to the event each year, as a supporting
sponsor, sponsor of the Hands on Labs and
as an exhibitor, with staff members not so
incognito in their yellow attire. To find out
more or to register for 2008, watch
www.microsoft.co.nz/teched07
for updates.
EPiServer founder visits
New Zealand
Michael Runhem, Swedish founder of
EPiServer, Europe’s leading content
management product, is coming to
New Zealand in late August. Intergen will
be hosting events for existing customers
and those who would like to know more
about EPiServer. To register your interest,
email waynef@intergen.co.nz
INTERGENITE NEWS >>
DEVELOPMENT
& INTEGRATION >>
LOCAL GOVERNMENT >>
NEW TECHNOLOGY >>
INTERACTIVE DESIGN >>
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Intergen is very proud to have experienced continued
growth. We now have 160 staff between our four
offices in New Zealand and one in Australia, but
what’s behind the growth is more important.
This planned growth is necessary in order for us to proactively keep up with demand
and continue to offer our clients the depth of expertise and skill that they have come
to expect of us.
Clients are increasingly demanding our core services but, as expectations of technology
increase, the breadth of services we offer has expanded to reflect and meet these demands.
With the broadening of Microsoft’s solution set, we are expanding the solutions we offer.
We have recently added capability in the business-oriented Microsoft solutions such as
Dynamics CRM and Dynamics NAV. We are also adding
more consulting capability to meet the demands that
Microsoft SharePoint is generating in areas such as
Document Management, Content Management,
Workflow, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search.
The skills required to implement Microsoft Solutions
are becoming increasingly specialised, while the
demand for them is becoming increasingly
widespread. Having achieved the scale we have is
a very important factor in our ability to continue
to rapidly add new capability and services around the expanding solution set. We are
also investing heavily in future technologies such as Silverlight.
We have been very busy with Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations this year,
including a very large project for an organisation with more than 400 users. We have
recently achieved Microsoft Gold Certification in the CRM competency and have more
than 15 staff with Microsoft CRM implementation experience.
In the last issue of SMARTS we introduced a significant product development we are
investing in. ActionThis has now been established as a separate company with two
members of the Intergen leadership team leading the business. Ed Robinson is Chief
Executive Officer and Derek Watson is Chief Technology Officer. They are joined by
Tim Howell, Chief Marketing Officer, formerly of Quest Software.
ActionThis is an exciting new productivity tool that leverages the Software plus Services
model (S+S), combining the familiarity of Outlook with a hosted service that helps people
and organisations to work more effectively together to ‘get stuff done and go home early’.
Learn more at www.actionthis.com.
Intergen will be both a reseller of the ActionThis product and
also a significant supplier of development and other services.
Our involvement with the development of ActionThis has
allowed many of the team to develop real experience with
Web 2.0 techniques that will flow through and benefit
our clients. We are very much looking forward to
continuing to assist an international software company
in taking New Zealand innovation to the world.
Intergen directors Paddy Payne, Wayne Forgesson,
Tony Stewart and Chris Auld.
DEVELOPMENT
& INTEGRATION >>
tony.stewart@intergen.co.nz
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2. It has been a little over two years since Intergen introduced EPiServer to the
Australasian marketplaces, yet it seems just like yesterday. Any risks associated
with a foray into the Southern Hemisphere by a Swedish based organisation
were soon put to the sword. As we predicted, EPiServer is an ideal solution for
Australasian organisations and we have proved that with a number of successful
EPiServer implementations, including: Turners & Growers, Rembrandt Suits, IAG,
AMP, Tertiary Education Commission, AMI, Ngai Tahu, Department of
Conservation, Northland Regional Council, Whakatane District
Council, Hutt City Council, Association of Surfing Professionals
and Ministry of Research Science and Technology.
In addition to these local successes, the EPiServer product
continues to go from strength to strength, having recently
exceeded 2000 installed solutions around the world. The soon
to be released EPiServer CMS version will include a number
of key improvements including an upgrade to .NET 3.
This significant release will enable organisations to gain benefits
from several key features, including the Windows Workflow
Foundation. This will make it possible for developers to add
custom workflows in Visual Studio. EPiServer CMS will ship
with four custom workflows: Sequential Workflow, Parallel
Workflow, Translation Workflow and Request Feedback.
These will be able to be used as is or be modified.
Intergen is planning a local release of EPiServer CMS, so keep
an eye out for this event.
We have also launched an online local user community for EPiServer customers
in New Zealand and Australia to enable knowledge and information sharing.
For more information on the latest EPiServer news and offerings, email Wayne
Forgesson at waynef@intergen.co.nz
EDGY EPiSERVER SITE WORKS FOR MODERN APPRENTICESHIPS
The Modern Apprenticeships programme enables young New Zealanders to gain
nationally recognised industry qualifications while they work. It’s about putting
the talent of a new generation to work, and over 9400 modern apprentices are
currently in training in over 32 industries, ranging from building to engineering.
For many, the first step has been through information spotted on
www.modernapprenticeships.co.nz, created under the umbrella of the Tertiary
Education Commission.
The existing Modern Apprenticeships website was out of date
and it was difficult to update content. There was no multi-lingual
capacity to suit its audience, 16 to 24 year olds and potential
employers, and it lacked imagery that would give it a motivational
edge. It needed a voice that would create action and it needed
to be user friendly and engaging.
TEC engaged Intergen to implement EPiServer as a consistent
platform that would not only meet this challenge but also provide
a platform to improve the timeliness and format of their own
TEC website in due course.
TEC’s Web Team Leader, Kate Clode, highlights the reasons for
deciding on EPiServer:
“EPiServer was able to give us more freedom to manage content
when and where we liked on the site. The ability to forward
publish content has become a major time saving tool and, likewise,
expired content is now taken care of efficiently. Our publishers
are more hands on, with all the control they need, compared to the technical
challenges that faced them before when they wanted to manipulate content. To
sum up how far we’ve come, I feel we’ve gained 100% control.”
The end result is funky, youthful and appealing, and the site was turned around
in a matter of weeks – on time and on budget.
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Andrew Watson
What do you do?
I’m the new guy in Business Development
in Wellington. I joined in May after eight
years at Microsoft, where I was also an
Account Manager.
How do you make a difference?
I help to ensure that my clients’ satisfaction
with Intergen remains high and that we
continue to be more and more valued
by them.
What do you love about your job?
Everything about my job is client-focused,
so it is always very ‘real’. It is great working
with all the different people within
Intergen as we work to satisfy our clients.
A bit about yourself
I am a proud Wellingtonian and live in
Khandallah. I am very active with junior
football and cricket as an administrator
and coach. I am also a keen player…
tennis, squash, football and skiing. The
football team I play for is the Fabulous
Turtles (www.soccer.net.nz). We have been
going strong for 26 years, and counting!
I am married to Fiona and our two
teenaged sons are James and Michael.
EPiServer update EPiServer in action
Phillip Newport, the 300th Modern Apprentice
3. As those of you who are familiar with the Intergen
way might know, we’re not ones for sitting back
and watching the days go by.
It’s been another action-packed year so far, and hard to believe that we’re two
thirds of the way through it already. Before the year has gone completely, we
thought we should share with you some of the Intergen activities that have been
keeping us busy over the last couple of months. It goes without saying that there’s
always plenty happening on the work front, but we thought we’d let you in on
some of the extra-curricular fun and games that have been taking place – along
with some interesting developments on the work front, too. Never a dull moment…
Back in May we took the GOVIS conference by storm. There was no mistaking
the Intergen mob in their bright yellow cammo pants and bandannas. In fact,
the cammo pants have taken off here at Intergen and have become the official
costume for our excursions out into the world. In May our HR team also hit
universities around the country (dressed in cammos, of course) to attract upcoming
graduates to apply for the 2008 Intergen graduate programme. The yellow
crusaders made such a splash that they even made it to the pages of the
Dominion Post and the New Zealand Herald. All the signs are looking positive
for a strong graduate intake next year. And August is the month for TechEd,
where every year Intergen is out in force in all its yellow glory.
The word on everyone’s lips at Intergen at the moment is Silverlight. See page
7 for more details.
You may be aware that the Wellington office moved premises at the beginning
of this year– literally right across the road from our old offices. We’ve settled in
nicely and had a ‘crossing the road’ house warming party to celebrate the
successful transition. Lots of yellow, but no chickens…
Intergen’s Twilight series for 2007 has been an extremely busy and popular one,
with several venue changes required due to numbers. Topics this year have
included Usability, Mobile Business Solutions, Web 2.0, Search Engine Marketing,
Agile Methodology, Business Intelligence, CRM and ECM. To find out more about
upcoming Twilights, visit www.intergen.co.nz/twilights
If you want to know more about what is topical in the Intergen
realms, or on the technology front in general, we’ve started up
an Intergen blog in order to share our thoughts and create
dialogue and debate around some salient subjects that are
particularly relevant to us here at Intergen, and to the ICT
sector at large. Visit www.intergen.co.nz/blog to see what
we’ve been talking about lately.
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Intergen out and about
Intergen graduate
recruitment in action
A Twilight seminar
Wellington’s office warming party
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More householders than ever are eligible for a rates rebate as a result of the
Government increasing the rates rebate threshold from $7,400 to $20,000
on 1 July 2006.
Rates Rebates applications go
through the roof
The Rates Rebates system (RRS) consists of a
number of application and system interfaces that
communicate with a central transactional database
to enable the completion of the business processes
governing rates rebates claims.
The core business logic of the system is exposed by a web services layer to provide
a business level abstraction of these processes and to enable Councils themselves
to integrate directly from their existing rebates systems.
All user interfaces are web-based applications built upon ASP.NET 2.0, and adhere
to the Government Web Guidelines for accessibility. The user experience is highly
customised around the completion of the Council rebate claim and DIA claims
management process, making the interface simple and intuitive to use for a
diverse user audience completing a complex workflow. An implementation of the
model view presenter (MVP) design pattern provides a separation of concerns
between the user interface and the business domain.
The connection with the web services layer is through an ASMX web service
facade that uses the Web Service Contract First (WSCF) code generation tool.
WSCF provides a robust approach for defining and sharing schema between client
and service, and accelerates the development of web services where contract has
been defined ahead of a concrete implementation, as was done in the case of
the RRS. Controlling access to these web services is a Security Token Service (STS)
that signs, issues and verifies tokens that the systems integrating with the services
present when calling a particular business operation.
All code is written in C# 2.0, with the greatest volume of code existing within a
class library that encapsulates a model of the business domain. The web services
layer in turn orchestrates these business objects to perform the major functions
Under the hood: DIA Rates R
Treasury forecasted a 40% increase in
applications for the $500 rates rebate
from local Councils. The realisation hit
home that the existing paper-based
application system using Microsoft
Access would not be equal to the task.
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)
began looking for a partner to
implement a Council-facing electronic
management system that could deliver
on many fronts – efficiency in data capture and processing, data integrity,
detailed reporting and analysis, and also prove to be simple and intuitive for
over 73 councils with varying degrees of exposure to IT systems.
Building a workflow system that would draw approval from many different
councils with varying levels of IT readiness (many with their own rates rebate
systems, others still paper-based) meant that it needed to be highly usable. This
proved to be the case, being robust, reliable and flexible. Councils and territorial
authorities are fully informed and have a process that can cope with extreme
peak volumes with no increase in staffing requirements.
The feedback from council staff around the country
has been positive. After six weeks in operation
60,000 applications totalling $17 million were
processed. The system is continuing to keep pace,
with councils receiving reimbursement within a
week, compared to several weeks in the past.
There is now complete visibility throughout,
validation is easier, and this new information
process ensures better forecasting, clearer analysis
and means less potential for fraudulent claims.
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Lee Herd
What do you do?
I am a senior developer, team lead and
counsellor in the Intergen Development
and Integration Team.
How do you make a difference?
I bring an outrageous sense of humour
to work. To me having fun is the most
important aspect of the work place, having
fun while taking pride in your work and
getting the job done.
What do you love about your job?
The people. We have a good bunch of
people at Intergen and they put up with
my theatrics. Of course I enjoy the problem
solving and the team leadership aspects
as well, but at the end of the day it is the
fun I have with my peers that keeps me
coming back.
A bit about yourself
I graduated from Victoria University in
1994 and have worked in IT ever since,
including stints in Sydney, Texas and
London. I married my lovely wife Kirsten
in Rome two years ago and we had Tessa
last October. I enjoy travelling, sport, the
odd game of poker and putting hammer
to nail. Plans for the future include
reducing my golf handicap, continuing to
be a valuable member of the Intergen
team and trying to add more than just
Hush Little Baby to my guitar repertoire.
of the system. Since the administration application is internally accessible only
to a small group of users and there is no desire to expose these functions in any
other way, it is built directly over the business domain rather than operating
through a web services interface.
All data is stored in a SQL Server 2005 relational database that is highly normalised
to cope with the volume of transactions that occur in the system. Interaction with
this database is through a data gateway pattern that leverages the Microsoft
Enterprise Library Data Access block, and audits the key business actions that
take place. Status summary information is derived from this database in real-time
for users managing the rebate claims process, but a completely separate data
mart provides the source of most reporting information. This data mart is built
using an ETL process in SQL Integration Services that de-normalises the data and
presents it in a structure that users may more readily understand for reporting
purposes. SQL Reporting Services is used to build canned operational reports that
users may view at any time, and power users may build ad-hoc reports over the
data mart using the SQL Report Builder tool.
The Rates Rebates System also communicates with the Finance system through
an integration agent that ships data via an internal FTP drop location. The EDI
files exported from the Finance system are reconciled with the financial model
that sits at the heart of the rebates system, and in turn new rebate claims that
are to be paid are pushed to the Finance system.
The Enterprise Library application blocks were leveraged throughout the solution
to provide robust exception handling, logging and data caching.
The project was delivered by the team using an agile development methodology
over three iterations, and, despite a reasonable amount of technical and logistical
complexity, was delivered on time and on budget in the very tight timeframe that
was required.
derek.watson@intergen.co.nz
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There is now a blueprint for the promotion of good management
practices in Local Government through an online resource.
LGMA New South Wales launches
the Good Practice Toolkit …
At its many levels, Government touches the
lives of us all in a variety of ways on a daily
basis. To most of us, the most visible and
active face of Government is our Local Council.
They provide a wide variety of services that
we have come to take for granted - from the
provision and upkeep of our local parks
through to the regular collection of rubbish,
and, in some areas, the provision of essential
services such as water and sewerage. For
many of us, these things happen
without us even thinking about them.
Your local Council, on the other
hand, faces the daily challenge
of planning and managing that
wide variety of services. Delivery is
people-driven and involves highly
visible community-based services.
Services which are on a daily basis
subject to regular, ongoing scrutiny. It
should therefore be no surprise that Councils
rate quality and customer-centric service
delivery highly and are constantly striving
to improve. However, Council services need
to be delivered within the context of tight
budgets and a complex web of legislation
and regulation.
The business of Council is a complex management challenge.
As an organisation established for the benefit of local government managers with
a goal of improving management practices, the Local Government Managers
Association (LGMA) NSW has undertaken and sponsored many initiatives to support
its members in their daily activities. With some 700 members in over 138 Councils
throughout NSW, LGMA faces the significant and ongoing challenge of reaching its
members and delivering relevant support to a varied and widely distributed community.
For some time, Local Government organisations have
recognised that the similarities in their business are far greater
than their differences. Sure, each has its local community and
culture which influences how it operates and sets its priorities.
But at the end of the day, in most respects, their
core business is very similar. It should be no surprise,
then, that Councils have a history of collaboration and
LGMA has played its part in facilitating that cooperation.
Not content with meeting the challenge through traditional
forums such as conferences and working groups alone, LGMA
was attracted to an online solution originally conceived and deployed
in New Zealand by the Society of Local Government Managers.
The internet offered a means to beat the tyranny of distance and to deliver a
solution that provided relevant and accessible real-time advice and guidance to
members. With the assistance of Business Analytics and Intergen, LGMA embarked
on a project to design, build and deploy an online toolkit to promote and support
good practices for its members. Positive results from Councils confirmed early on that
the uptake from Councils would be high and defined which business processes would
benefit most from such a tool.
An extensive collaborative design process was the next step in the exercise. Regular
feedback to the participating Councils and the broader community of Councils served
to both inform and refine the design and in November 2006 the site went live with
the first module, ‘Procurement’.
The solution is offered to Councils on a subscriber basis and is accessed directly by
Council staff from within their local intranets. A phased development and roll-out
was planned for the content of modules and by the end of June a further two modules,
‘Development Assessment’ and ‘Asset Management’, were deployed, with two further
modules, ‘Work Force Planning’ and ‘Information Management’, scheduled for the
second half of 2007. More modules will follow. There are now 80 subscribing councils.
Modules are designed for use by staff at the coal face. They provide an overview of
the major activities involved and support the drill down as required into progressively
lower levels of detail, covering work steps, interdependencies, legislative requirements,
anticipated timeframes, and providing sample outputs and hot tips from practitioners.
The future for the toolkit is one of ongoing evolution and refinement for the benefit
of subscribing members but also in the ongoing uptake from within New South Wales
and LGMA sister organisations in other states. The bar for what is good practice will
be continually lifted and, with that in mind, the toolkit has been designed with
flexibility and adaptability.
We’re off to a good start but the hard work doesn’t stop here.
If you’d like to know more about LG Good Practice Toolkit, visit the public area of
the site at www.lgtoolkit.com.au, or contact Martin Johnston in Intergen’s Sydney
office at +61 414 489000, email martinj@intergen.com.au
7. They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,
but I thought I’d bring just a little bit of Vegas back
to share with my team and clients. I attended the
MIX07 conference in Las Vegas, NV, in early May.
The key announcement for Microsoft for this event was their new
Silverlight platform. Silverlight is a cross-platform browser plug-in for
delivering rich interactive applications. It allows aspects of the new
Microsoft graphic presentation platform, Windows Presentation
Foundation, to be exposed to web users on both Windows and
Macintosh systems.
At Intergen we see this as an exciting opportunity to deliver
rich end user experiences through web applications.
Silverlight will allow us to deliver rich graphics, audio and even
video enhancing, not only for consumers but also business
focused applications. It is fast, easy to use and install and allows
seamless integration of graphics and effects into any existing
web application.
Intergen Hosting has over two years’ experience in streaming rich media
content and we are excited about leveraging our hosting capability to deliver
Silverlight content.
Over the months of May and June, Intergen ran a competition for our team to
build cool things with Silverlight. We’re speaking about some of the exciting
things we built and challenges we faced at sessions in Auckland and Queenstown
soon. If you’d like to know more about Silverlight, please email me at
chris.auld@intergen.co.nz
Leading the way for developers working on flexible business solutions, Intergen
recently completed two technical samples and a covering white paper for Microsoft’s
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), one of the four new technologies in .NET
3.0. These samples are published by Microsoft on their global site as training
materials for organisations around the world.
This technology allows IT systems that define their core business-logic
using workflow to be changed and migrated seamlessly using real-
world terms and clear process visualisations.
The first of our samples offers an integrated website solution
for a work approval process. Workflow drives this process
by structuring tasks for employees such as the worker seeking
approval and the manager that can provide the approval.
It allows these to be processed in sequence and as options
based on the results of previous workflow activity.
The second sample delves into a more complex business
environment with multiple workflow systems. A business rule-
oriented insurance policy and claim workflow system drives tasks
out to a people-oriented call centre management workflow system.
With Workflow included in SharePoint 2007 and the upcoming version of Biztalk,
it will integrate seamlessly with a large portion of the Microsoft business platform.
Having worked with Windows Workflow Foundation since well before it was
publicly announced, and as a key Microsoft partner in providing Workflow training,
Intergen is ideally suited to assisting our clients with their first ventures into this
exciting technology.
For more information please contact Intergen’s Workflow expert, Seth Veale.
seth.veale@intergen.co.nz
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Seth Veale
What do you do?
I am a developer in the Dunedin office.
I work on most of the technologies we use
from .Net 1.1 through to 3.0 and provide
rudimentary requirements and plans for
projects that are refined and realised with
the rest of the team.
How do you make a difference?
I identify problems, potential solutions
and alternative approaches in a form
that can be assessed and utilised by
our development process. Inside this
process, I aim to create well designed
implementations and provide a touch
of technical leadership.
What do you love about your job?
The people, the location, the challenges.
A bit about me
I came to Intergen having started my
full-time career with Kognition after
graduating from Otago's computer
science course.
I might call myself an independent,
irreverent idealist with an often conflicting
affinity for systems and form.
My personal interests are sports, games
and entertaining media.
Intergen contributes
to Windows Workflow
Foundation
The latest from Microsoft’s
bag of tricks – Silverlight
8. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT INTERGEN:
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Wellington: 04 472 2021
Christchurch: 03 964 0017
Dunedin 03 479 4099
Sydney: 02 9904 0443
info@intergen.co.nz
www.intergen.co.nz
www.intergen.com.au
Hutt Valley takes the high ground
Eamon and Olmec have seen the birth of their latest creation with
www.huttvalleynz.com finally superseding its Hutt City predecessor and taking
in the tourist needs of the entire Hutt Valley. The new website is architected
around persona-based needs and presents a plethora of sites and activities for
tourists and locals alike as a direct complement and extension of the Positively
Wellington Tourism website. Based on our EPiServer CMS platform, the website
is a huge leap forward for Hutt City Council as well as their customers!
Usability-centred redesign for jobs.govt
We are proud to reveal that the State Services Commission jobs.govt redesign
launched in July. Not only has Sue revitalised the look and feel, but also solved
some recurring usability issues for job seekers visiting the website. Key elements
of the new design are the vivid photographs of real government employees that
are featured on the home page and in career profiles. Their genuine faces and
career stories humanise the website and add warmth and appeal to the job
search experience. By the time you read this, Prime Minister Helen Clark will
have launched the new site in person in late July! Check it out at www.jobs.govt.nz.
Taking it to the people - it’s
a user-centred world!
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It’s all go in the Interactive team with new faces bringing the head count up to
eight, spread from Auckland to Christchurch. Our national series of Web 2.0 and
User Experience Twilight seminars have finally drawn to a close with Eamon and
Trent Mankelow from Optimal Usability delivering the last one in Wellington.
Thank you to all who have attended this series of seminars; it’s been a fabulous
opportunity to meet you all in a non-project driven space and discuss the bigger
picture challenges and opportunities facing your businesses going forward. This
has been extremely encouraging and has probably given us as much food for
thought as we gave you!
Ramping it up for Roost
We’ve been working with Dunedin-based Roost to completely re-architect, re-
design and re-engineer their website at www.roost.co.nz. Roost wanted to position
themselves above a myriad of other competitors in the mortgage broking market
and cut through the clutter with a bold online statement and brand. The new
brand has effortlessly secured their position as one of New Zealand’s top two
providers. Now based on the MoST CMS product, the new site is a dramatic leap
forward too, blending their gutsy and fresh communication style with the online
demands of a rapidly growing customer base. We’re confident the Roost site sets
a new benchmark in the mortgage and insurance brokerage space in New Zealand,
reflecting the passionate essence of their brand and giving them real advantage
in meeting the increasing expectations of demanding customers like you ...or us!
Microsoft pushes into the design space
Microsoft has at long last realised its foray into the design tools space with the
release of their Expressions Studio suite, which enables creatives to effectively
operate in the space created by the development of the new presentation
technologies, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and its subset, Silverlight.
We welcome this competition in the Adobe dominated market (since the acquisition
of Macromedia) and hope these new tools gain acceptance. Whilst it’s still early
days, Dave and Sjef are already integrating the technologies into several projects
with encouraging results. More on that in the next issue!
New additions to the Wellington
Interactive line-up are Aaron Sinclair,
Dave Keyes and Sjef van Gaalen
To find out how Intergen’s User-Centred
Design approach can benefit your web
or application project, contact our
Creative Director Eamon O’Rourke at
eamono@intergen.co.nz
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