Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on organizations providing services and “products” to customers and other stakeholders.
Booz Allen brings its pioneering work in advanced analytics—and the industry-leading expertise of its more than 500-member data science team—to transform our clients’ data into actions that keep them competitive in today’s data-driven economy.
Booz Allen’s industry-leading tradecraft helps clients solve problems previously considered beyond reach. We employ groundbreaking approaches in virtually every area of data science, including analytic techniques, modeling and simulation, optimization, data visualization, and infrastructure development.
To further push that envelope, Booz Allen has made major investments in transformative technologies to help clients. For the first time ever, our Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture gives clients the ability to bring together and harness all of their available data, of all types. Our pioneering breakthroughs in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing and other capabilities are now enabling clients to drive mission and business success in new ways.
Only few organizations wise up to new digital competitors, as they usually come from outside their own sector and are not taken seriously at first. Their allegedly inferior propositions confuse prominent players, who should in fact be the very first to be fully aware of potentially disruptive innovation.
To swing into action rapidly, existing organizations would be well advised to properly analyze anything resembling digital competition. Evidently, there are clear patterns behind the startup success marking a new techno-economic reality. Ecosystems, APIs, and platforms characterize this New Normal where customers have more freedom of choice and better service at lower costs.
These successful disruptors are called two-sided market players, also known as multi-sided platform players. Companies like Uber and Airbnb are getting all the media attention, however there are over 9000 players (and counting) active in almost every industry.
The new VINT report explores the new digital competition and presents:
A analysis of the success factors of disruption
10 design principles of the new digital competition like Unbundle your organization processes, APIs first. Access over ownership and Building trust with social systems
The need for every business to develop a API-strategy
An appeal to the CIO and the IT department to use a leading digital approach and map out an offensive technological route.
SMAC - The paradigm shift : Creating future of the EnterpriseNikhil Kulkarni
The 12th edition of Express Technology Senate will focus on a subject that is holding the whole world in its thrall: SMAC—Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud. Together, these four mega-trends are reshaping how people connect with each other, how companies conduct their business, and how the boundaries between geographies, communities and individuals are melting away into a smooth continuum of existence.
In this backdrop, the theme for Express Technology Senate this year has been chosen as: Finding Value and Success through SMAC
Digital transformation-of-business-harvard-business-reviewJerry Chen
Business value of Strategy for enterprise organizations
A Harvard Business Review report - The Digital Transformation of Business – demonstrates how leading organizations are getting creative with cloud, mobile, social and big data. Understand how 537 enterprise executives are using megatrend technologies to drive transformational impact for their business, their customers and their employees.
Social networks, mobile, analytics and cloud-computing (SMAC) technologies are converging to create a new way to deliver sustaining and disruptive innovations. You are chosen to lead an initiative comprised of global resources to advance your company’s competitive advantage.
Booz Allen brings its pioneering work in advanced analytics—and the industry-leading expertise of its more than 500-member data science team—to transform our clients’ data into actions that keep them competitive in today’s data-driven economy.
Booz Allen’s industry-leading tradecraft helps clients solve problems previously considered beyond reach. We employ groundbreaking approaches in virtually every area of data science, including analytic techniques, modeling and simulation, optimization, data visualization, and infrastructure development.
To further push that envelope, Booz Allen has made major investments in transformative technologies to help clients. For the first time ever, our Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture gives clients the ability to bring together and harness all of their available data, of all types. Our pioneering breakthroughs in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing and other capabilities are now enabling clients to drive mission and business success in new ways.
Only few organizations wise up to new digital competitors, as they usually come from outside their own sector and are not taken seriously at first. Their allegedly inferior propositions confuse prominent players, who should in fact be the very first to be fully aware of potentially disruptive innovation.
To swing into action rapidly, existing organizations would be well advised to properly analyze anything resembling digital competition. Evidently, there are clear patterns behind the startup success marking a new techno-economic reality. Ecosystems, APIs, and platforms characterize this New Normal where customers have more freedom of choice and better service at lower costs.
These successful disruptors are called two-sided market players, also known as multi-sided platform players. Companies like Uber and Airbnb are getting all the media attention, however there are over 9000 players (and counting) active in almost every industry.
The new VINT report explores the new digital competition and presents:
A analysis of the success factors of disruption
10 design principles of the new digital competition like Unbundle your organization processes, APIs first. Access over ownership and Building trust with social systems
The need for every business to develop a API-strategy
An appeal to the CIO and the IT department to use a leading digital approach and map out an offensive technological route.
SMAC - The paradigm shift : Creating future of the EnterpriseNikhil Kulkarni
The 12th edition of Express Technology Senate will focus on a subject that is holding the whole world in its thrall: SMAC—Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud. Together, these four mega-trends are reshaping how people connect with each other, how companies conduct their business, and how the boundaries between geographies, communities and individuals are melting away into a smooth continuum of existence.
In this backdrop, the theme for Express Technology Senate this year has been chosen as: Finding Value and Success through SMAC
Digital transformation-of-business-harvard-business-reviewJerry Chen
Business value of Strategy for enterprise organizations
A Harvard Business Review report - The Digital Transformation of Business – demonstrates how leading organizations are getting creative with cloud, mobile, social and big data. Understand how 537 enterprise executives are using megatrend technologies to drive transformational impact for their business, their customers and their employees.
Social networks, mobile, analytics and cloud-computing (SMAC) technologies are converging to create a new way to deliver sustaining and disruptive innovations. You are chosen to lead an initiative comprised of global resources to advance your company’s competitive advantage.
The professionals at Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, understand Cloud Computing. This model has emerged as a new computing paradigm that arrays massive numbers of computers in centralized, distributed data centers to deliver web-based
applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model.
Preparing for the Future of Enterprise Mobility -- Insights Not to MissEnterprise Mobile
Interested in knowing what CIOs and other IT executives really think about the future of enterprise mobility? Join Enterprise Mobile as we delve into the results of a survey conducted to assess the business impact of enterprise mobility based on input from technology leaders. We’ll give you tips to prepare for the future of enterprise mobility, secrets to removing barriers to mobile strategy implementation and show you how other companies are embracing mobile security.
Watch the presentation here: http://bit.ly/180vPc5
Download our BYOD Policy Template here: http://bit.ly/1aEJqd8
Securing the Internet of Things Opportunity: Putting Cybersecurity at the Hea...Capgemini
The potential trillion dollar Internet of Things (IoT) business opportunity rests precariously on one critical factor – security. 71% of executives in our survey agreed that security concerns will influence customers’ purchase decision for IoT products. However, despite increasing cyber attacks and ample warning from security experts, most organizations do not provide adequate security and privacy safeguards for their IoT products. In fact, only 33% of IoT executives in our survey believe that the IoT products in their industry are highly resilient to cyber security attacks. Further, despite rising consumer concerns regarding data privacy, 47% of organizations do not provide any privacy related information regarding their IoT products.
So, why are organizations lagging behind in securing their IoT products and systems? Key reasons for this include an expanded attack surface, inefficiencies in the IoT product development process, and the lack of specialized security skill-sets. For instance, our survey showed that only 48% of companies focus on securing their IoT products from the beginning of the product development phase. Building a secure IoT system begins with the recognition that security needs to be as much of a priority as the features and functionality of an IoT product. The report highlights the key measures that organizations must take in order to put security at the core of their IoT value proposition.
When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?Capgemini
Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative business models – is worrying traditional incumbents. Venture funding to startups is at historic highs. In just one startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion, a figure that is only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000. In recent research by GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed that businesses have to encourage creative behaviors and must disrupt their internal processes in order to do so. What does a successful strategy for responding to disruption look like? How fast have companies responded to digital disruptions? To understand more about how traditional incumbents respond to digital disruption, we conducted research spanning 100+ companies.
Top 30 Indian B2B Software Product Companies Valued at $6.2 Billion and Growi...ProductNation/iSPIRT
We believe the discussion about India’s technology industry – whether in government circles, the media or in Silicon Valley – overlooks India’s B2B software product companies which sell globally as well as into India. Instead, there is a lot of discussion about IT Services companies and E-commerce players.
When there is discussion about B2B software products, it lacks insights into product types, target markets, scaling strategies, perception of Indian vendors in India and abroad as well as the vibrant start-up ecosystem that has emerged around B2B software companies from India. These insights are important because a strong Indian B2B software product industry has the potential to drive tens of thousands of high-value jobs, enable Indian manufacturing and services companies to be globally competitive, drive large amounts of export-driven foreign exchange earnings for India as well as create billions of dollars of value for founders and investors.
We would like to shine a spotlight on these Indian B2B software products companies through the India Software Products Industry Index – B2B (iSPIxB2B), which we are launching today. The index tracks the thirty most valuable B2B software product companies headquartered in India and companies headquartered elsewhere in the world where cofounders are in India right from the creation of the company onwards.
Profitability in the Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace: A Playbook for Media and...Cognizant
Amid constant change, industry leaders need an upgraded IT infrastructure capable of adapting to audience expectations while proactively anticipating ever-evolving business requirements.
http://www.cognizant.com/smac
The SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the next generation technology stack and is already reshaping the enterprise.
As the rise in sophisticated digital technologies drives an exponential change in online customer behaviour, the need for businesses to embrace digital transformation has never been greater.
In this presentation, Danish introduces the SMAC stack and talks about how SMAC deployments are transforming businesses. Confirmatory data analytics is what he is interested in.
It Takes an Ecosystem: How Technology Companies Deliver Exceptional ExperiencesCognizant
Experience is evolving into a strategy that reaches across technology companies. We offer guidance on the rise of experience and its role in business modernization, with details on how orgnizations can build the ecosystem to support it.
Fjord Trends 2020: Emerging Trends in Business | Accentureaccenture
Accenture's Fjord Trends 2020 provides insight on business trends impacting business, tech & design to help brands thrive in a changing world. Read more.
The Digital Culture Challenge: Closing the Employee-Leadership GapCapgemini
Is company culture a roadblock or a catalyst for digital transformation? Does the big moment for an organization arrive when they have embraced the fact that the prerequisite to digital transformation isn’t a technical issue, but a cultural change?
Unfortunately, it’s a pre-requisite that is beyond the grasp of many companies as they look to drive innovation and change through smart technologies and data. For most, cultural issues continue to block digital transformation and it’s a problem that’s worsening. In 2011, a majority of respondents (55%) said that culture was the number one hurdle to digital transformation1 but in our latest research, this figure has actually risen to 62%
Download the report to understand why organizations are struggling and what they can do about it, we undertook an extensive research program based on a clear definition of digital culture. We surveyed 1,700 people—including not only senior executives, but also managers and employees—in 340 organizations across eight countries and five sectors. We also interviewed senior business executives from a range of organizations across industries, as well as academic experts.
As senior managers assess the fallout of the pandemic, top priorities range from accelerating digital initiatives amid cost-cutting pressures, to ensuring health and well-being, according to our recent study.
Telecommunications is at the heart of the digital economy, driving and enabling the changing consumer behaviors and demands that have transformed how people consume products and services across many sectors. However, digitization is as much a struggle for Telcos as it is for traditional organizations in many industries.
Our latest survey of over 5700 mobile consumers in the US and Europe has found, for example, that consumers are discontented with their operators.
Vehicle Cyber Security: What Every Automotive Executive Needs to KnowBooz Allen Hamilton
Security is integral to developing a high-quality, high-performing vehicle. Automotive executives have begun to realize the critical ties between cyber and vehicle security, but there’s more work to do. Booz Allen experts provide four organizational changes organizations must make to get ahead of cyber challenges.
The Government's Effective Migration to a Cloud Computing EnvironmentBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen recognized early on the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on how the government procures, implements, and manages its IT investments. This article discusses Booz Allen's approach on transitioning to a Cloud Computing environment.
The professionals at Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, understand Cloud Computing. This model has emerged as a new computing paradigm that arrays massive numbers of computers in centralized, distributed data centers to deliver web-based
applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model.
Preparing for the Future of Enterprise Mobility -- Insights Not to MissEnterprise Mobile
Interested in knowing what CIOs and other IT executives really think about the future of enterprise mobility? Join Enterprise Mobile as we delve into the results of a survey conducted to assess the business impact of enterprise mobility based on input from technology leaders. We’ll give you tips to prepare for the future of enterprise mobility, secrets to removing barriers to mobile strategy implementation and show you how other companies are embracing mobile security.
Watch the presentation here: http://bit.ly/180vPc5
Download our BYOD Policy Template here: http://bit.ly/1aEJqd8
Securing the Internet of Things Opportunity: Putting Cybersecurity at the Hea...Capgemini
The potential trillion dollar Internet of Things (IoT) business opportunity rests precariously on one critical factor – security. 71% of executives in our survey agreed that security concerns will influence customers’ purchase decision for IoT products. However, despite increasing cyber attacks and ample warning from security experts, most organizations do not provide adequate security and privacy safeguards for their IoT products. In fact, only 33% of IoT executives in our survey believe that the IoT products in their industry are highly resilient to cyber security attacks. Further, despite rising consumer concerns regarding data privacy, 47% of organizations do not provide any privacy related information regarding their IoT products.
So, why are organizations lagging behind in securing their IoT products and systems? Key reasons for this include an expanded attack surface, inefficiencies in the IoT product development process, and the lack of specialized security skill-sets. For instance, our survey showed that only 48% of companies focus on securing their IoT products from the beginning of the product development phase. Building a secure IoT system begins with the recognition that security needs to be as much of a priority as the features and functionality of an IoT product. The report highlights the key measures that organizations must take in order to put security at the core of their IoT value proposition.
When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?Capgemini
Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative business models – is worrying traditional incumbents. Venture funding to startups is at historic highs. In just one startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion, a figure that is only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000. In recent research by GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed that businesses have to encourage creative behaviors and must disrupt their internal processes in order to do so. What does a successful strategy for responding to disruption look like? How fast have companies responded to digital disruptions? To understand more about how traditional incumbents respond to digital disruption, we conducted research spanning 100+ companies.
Top 30 Indian B2B Software Product Companies Valued at $6.2 Billion and Growi...ProductNation/iSPIRT
We believe the discussion about India’s technology industry – whether in government circles, the media or in Silicon Valley – overlooks India’s B2B software product companies which sell globally as well as into India. Instead, there is a lot of discussion about IT Services companies and E-commerce players.
When there is discussion about B2B software products, it lacks insights into product types, target markets, scaling strategies, perception of Indian vendors in India and abroad as well as the vibrant start-up ecosystem that has emerged around B2B software companies from India. These insights are important because a strong Indian B2B software product industry has the potential to drive tens of thousands of high-value jobs, enable Indian manufacturing and services companies to be globally competitive, drive large amounts of export-driven foreign exchange earnings for India as well as create billions of dollars of value for founders and investors.
We would like to shine a spotlight on these Indian B2B software products companies through the India Software Products Industry Index – B2B (iSPIxB2B), which we are launching today. The index tracks the thirty most valuable B2B software product companies headquartered in India and companies headquartered elsewhere in the world where cofounders are in India right from the creation of the company onwards.
Profitability in the Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace: A Playbook for Media and...Cognizant
Amid constant change, industry leaders need an upgraded IT infrastructure capable of adapting to audience expectations while proactively anticipating ever-evolving business requirements.
http://www.cognizant.com/smac
The SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the next generation technology stack and is already reshaping the enterprise.
As the rise in sophisticated digital technologies drives an exponential change in online customer behaviour, the need for businesses to embrace digital transformation has never been greater.
In this presentation, Danish introduces the SMAC stack and talks about how SMAC deployments are transforming businesses. Confirmatory data analytics is what he is interested in.
It Takes an Ecosystem: How Technology Companies Deliver Exceptional ExperiencesCognizant
Experience is evolving into a strategy that reaches across technology companies. We offer guidance on the rise of experience and its role in business modernization, with details on how orgnizations can build the ecosystem to support it.
Fjord Trends 2020: Emerging Trends in Business | Accentureaccenture
Accenture's Fjord Trends 2020 provides insight on business trends impacting business, tech & design to help brands thrive in a changing world. Read more.
The Digital Culture Challenge: Closing the Employee-Leadership GapCapgemini
Is company culture a roadblock or a catalyst for digital transformation? Does the big moment for an organization arrive when they have embraced the fact that the prerequisite to digital transformation isn’t a technical issue, but a cultural change?
Unfortunately, it’s a pre-requisite that is beyond the grasp of many companies as they look to drive innovation and change through smart technologies and data. For most, cultural issues continue to block digital transformation and it’s a problem that’s worsening. In 2011, a majority of respondents (55%) said that culture was the number one hurdle to digital transformation1 but in our latest research, this figure has actually risen to 62%
Download the report to understand why organizations are struggling and what they can do about it, we undertook an extensive research program based on a clear definition of digital culture. We surveyed 1,700 people—including not only senior executives, but also managers and employees—in 340 organizations across eight countries and five sectors. We also interviewed senior business executives from a range of organizations across industries, as well as academic experts.
As senior managers assess the fallout of the pandemic, top priorities range from accelerating digital initiatives amid cost-cutting pressures, to ensuring health and well-being, according to our recent study.
Telecommunications is at the heart of the digital economy, driving and enabling the changing consumer behaviors and demands that have transformed how people consume products and services across many sectors. However, digitization is as much a struggle for Telcos as it is for traditional organizations in many industries.
Our latest survey of over 5700 mobile consumers in the US and Europe has found, for example, that consumers are discontented with their operators.
Vehicle Cyber Security: What Every Automotive Executive Needs to KnowBooz Allen Hamilton
Security is integral to developing a high-quality, high-performing vehicle. Automotive executives have begun to realize the critical ties between cyber and vehicle security, but there’s more work to do. Booz Allen experts provide four organizational changes organizations must make to get ahead of cyber challenges.
The Government's Effective Migration to a Cloud Computing EnvironmentBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen recognized early on the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on how the government procures, implements, and manages its IT investments. This article discusses Booz Allen's approach on transitioning to a Cloud Computing environment.
Booz Allen Mission Engineering® enables clients to reduce costs by eliminating redundant and irrelevant systems, while enhancing mission capabilities through enterprise system integration.
We are need to obtain information from several local or external sources, Each source may be built in different ways, so we will face many various conflicts in the meaning or structure and other conflicts. We'll see also examples show why need data integration .
User Experience Strategy for Lean Startups & UX Designers - London Tour April...Jaime Levy Consulting
User Experience Strategy for Lean Startups & UX Designers (London, England)
Lecture tour by Jaime Levy, a User Experience Strategist based in Los Angeles, CA USA
With the surge in online startups, entrepreneurs and their teams need a User Experience Strategy to differentiate their product from the competition. Through business cases and current work samples, students will learn to how to conduct a UX Gap Analysis (on the online marketplace), perform Guerilla User Researcher (for your MVP), and scope a product's feature set using a Feature Value Matrix. This class will expose how online success can be achieved by focusing on disruptive innovation coupled with a customer acquisition strategy. Google cloud-based spreadsheet templates will be made accessible so students can implement these techniques immediately in their daily practice.
Booz Allen Hamilton has a clear understanding of and models for effective Cloud Computing-based life-cycle cost and economic modeling. This article focuses on Booz Allen's approach to using Cloud Computing as a "game changer" in IT-related financial planning.
Balancing the tension between Lean and AgileJames Coplien
Many people equate Lean and agile or claim that one is a subset of the other. In fact, they have almost opposite emphases: thinking versus doing; teams versus individuals; planning versus reacting; and many more. This talk will help you clarify the distinction in a way that will help you focus soberly on how to improve your environment, team, product and process, by going beyond the buzzwords to the fundamental building blocks.
Pre-Con Education: Effective Change/Configuration Management With CA Service...CA Technologies
Learn important IT service management (ITSM) tips and best practices for how to implement CA Service Management's CMDB for maximum change benefit. The session will include such topics as service modeling, discovery, change audit control, federation, reconciliation and synchronization, and will be taught by CA experts in CMDB.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
" I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." ~Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion and one of sport's most influential individuals dies leaving a legacy.
The Rise and Fall of Ellen Pao. Perpetrator or Victim?Sage HR
There’s always been an old adage in the advertising world – “All publicity is good publicity” – however the sheer stupidity of that statement is enough to give old PR hands heartburn.
And the prime examples to prove its invalidity are the ups and downs of ex-Reddit interim CEO, Ellen Pao.
Since 2012, Ellen Pao has gone through an unbelievable series of highs and lows worthy of earning its own mini-series, starting with her $16 million case against former employer – Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers.
Her current peak ended on Friday with her resignation from her post at Reddit, in the face of overwhelming negative responses from Redditors’ hivemind, a roughly 213,000 signature-strong petition demanding her resignation on Change.org, and the official reason of differences with higher ups over the future growth rate of the website.
And now, the statements coming in from Reddit Board of Directors and ex-head honchos possibly suggest that Pao may have simply ended up being a patsy for the decisions of others, rendering her pain and humiliation at the hands of disgruntled Redditors entirely pointless.
One obvious fact visible to anyone who followed this high-octane drama over the last month is that none of Pao’s decisions were evaluated at face value, and instead she faced constant uphill battles due to her sexual discrimination (not harassment; there’s a difference, people) lawsuit against KPCB, with accusations of everything from “suing her way to the top” to gilding her own comments on Reddit (the ultimate taboo) flying around left and right.
Over the last few months, we’ve seen this story unfold and encompass everything from gender discrimination in big-money Silicon Valley, to the insidious power of trolls on the Internet.
So, let’s take a quick look at the past few years of Ellen Pao, and let you readers evaluate facts as you would.
Ten Things You Should not Forget in Mainframe Security CA Technologies
Given the current state of security and breaches in the news every day, you won’t want to miss this session. We will cover the top 10 areas that you should be reviewing as a security practitioner that most organizations overlook. With the knowledge taken from this session, you will be able to better educate your staff and auditors about how to take security to the next level for your business and protect z/OS®.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
In the new omni-channel environment, retailers are facing demands for convenience, value, and connected solutions—all to create the ultimate consumer experience. The opportunity for game-changing success is stunning, but the benefits are matched by some daunting challenges. From cyber security to privacy, retail leaders must understand this revolution to reap its rewards while minimizing business threats. In this viewpoint, Booz Allen's experts explain the elements of the retail revolution as well as what retailers must do to thrive amid disruption.
India Vs Australia - A Social Media AnalysisGermin8
One of the world cup’s most anticipated matches and an HR nightmare! Even though India didn’t win the match, the social media was abuzz with support for the Men in Blue. We take a look at how the viewed and related to the #IndVsAus semifinals.
Data science is blending with emerging technology to create the ultimate customer experience. While these innovations are turning the fantastic into reality, there are hidden risks that lurk behind such new technologies. Booz Allen's commercial retail experts provide cybersecurity guidance for retailers in this new digital world.
It's no secret that Marketing Automation is being adopted by many organizations as an essential tool to nurture and manage leads, and streamline many marketing activities.
However, there seems to be ample room to improve so that marketers can make the most of their investments in this technology.
This infographic illustrates the undeniable growth of marketing automation over the years and the potential that still exists for the future of these platforms to further enable marketers.
Paper Jam: Why Documents are Dragging Us DownAdobe
Professionals are eager to find a better way to work, but documents and processes are stuck in the past. See the full report: www.adobe.com/go/paperjam
Social Data Intelligence: Integrating Social and Enterprise Data for Competit...Susan Etlinger
This report lays out a mandate for enterprise organizations to integrate social data into other enterprise data streams, or risk building a "social silo." Includes best practices, frameworks, and a social data maturity map.
An animated infographic with interesting statistics and facts about the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil, both, on the field and on the internet. See the infographic come alive here - http://bit.ly/world-cup-comes-alive
Booz Allen Hamilton offers an integrated suite of cloud capabilities, deep subject matter expertise, and unparalleled hands-on experience with a broad range of cloud technology products.
Booz Allen is at the leading edge of cloud computing technology and its applications. From applications using a few minutes of computer time on a public cloud, to massive data warehousing and data-mining of highly sensitive data on a privately owned cloud, we can integrate cloud technology into your enterprise architecture for immediate impact.
What are the advantages of adopting public cloudNicole Khoo
Public cloud computing brought a fundamental change from the conventional norms of an organizational data center to a parameterized open environment to use by adversaries.
Download Free Complete Guide to Cloud Migration to LearnJennifer Lawrence
Ready to elevate your business to new heights in the digital realm? Look no further! Download Free comprehensive "Complete Guide to Cloud Migration" and embark on a transformative journey towards a more agile and efficient future. Download the Free eBook from here - https://www.compunnel.com/complete-guide-to-cloud-migration/
How a Business-First, Agile Cloud Migration Factory Approach Powers Digital S...Cognizant
By embracing a “factory” approach to hybrid cloud migration, IT organizations can more easily deliver enhanced operational agility and cost efficiencies, while widening the scope for business innovation.
The cloud has come a long way since it was first introduced as a computing utility, being paid for only when and in the amount it was used.
While the cloud's future is wide open, but with the variety of workload types growing with no end in sight, the hybrid cloud is going to be the dominant option over the next couple of years.
This white paper discusses why open source is going to be a key component of cloud computing as a gateway to innovation.
MODAClouds - Underpinning the Leap to DevOps Movement on Clouds scenariosOliver Barreto Rodríguez
MODAClouds - Underpinning the Leap to DevOps Movement on Clouds scenarios is a white paper made with the intention to provide insights of MODAClouds project and easily identify valueble usage by cloud players
Piloting The Cloud: Acting on OMB's Mandate - RightNow TechnologiesNitin Badjatia
The Federal Government is in the process of modernizing technologies across all agencies. As part of a new mandate issued by the OMB [2009], a major emphasis is being placed on cloud computing technology. This presentation was made to cabinet level agencies across the civilian sector of the Federal Government. The primary goal was to educate department, program and agency leaders on the basics of cloud computing and present some examples of success stories with RightNow's cloud computing based customer experience management products.
Application Modernization With Cloud Native Approach_ An in-depth Guide.pdfbasilmph
Taking outdated applications and upgrading its platform infrastructure, internal
systems, and the way of using is known as application modernization. The
advantages of application modernization can be summarized as increasing the
speed with which new features are delivered, exposing the functionality of existing
applications to be consumed via API by other services, and re-platforming applications from on-premises to cloud-native application modernization.
Booz Allen's Cloud cost model offers a total-value perspective on IT cost that evaluates the explicit and implicit value of a migration to cloud-based services.
The Benefits of Cloud Computing for Application Modernizationbasilmph
Application modernization is the process of updating outdated software to harness the potential of new computing approaches. This includes adapting to modern languages, tech frameworks, and cutting-edge infrastructure platforms. Sometimes referred to as legacy modernization, it bears a remarkable similarity to renovating an old home - it's all about capitalizing on enhancements in efficiency, safety, structural integrity, and more.
CIS13: Cloud, Identity Bridges, and ITSM: Three is Not a CrowdCloudIDSummit
Halim Cho, Director of Product Marketing, Covisint
The rapid adoption of cloud-based services and the increasingly compelling business advantages of a hybrid cloud strategy are presenting IT with new and unforeseen challenges around ITSM. In this session, Halim Cho will discuss these trends, technologies and challenges, plus he’ll share his thoughts on how identity bridges can help transform ITSM in a hybrid cloud environment. His presentation will cover three main topics:
1. The challenges: an overview of the most common architectural patterns seen in cloud adoption and the technical and operational challenges that each pattern raises.
2. The future: technical and operational reasons why the hybrid cloud is the most likely path enterprises will take.
3. The technology: a technical overview of the top technologies that identity bridges will be required to manage and integrate in order to meet the ITSM challenges of hybrid cloud adoption.
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You Can Hack That: How to Use Hackathons to Solve Your Toughest ChallengesBooz Allen Hamilton
“Hackathon” has become a trendy word in today’s business vernacular, and for good reason. The word “hackathon” comes from both “hack” and “marathon.” If you think of a “hack” as a creative solution and “marathon” as a continuous, often competitive event, you’re at the heart of what a hackathon is about. Hackathons enable creative problem solving through an innovative and often competitive structure that engages stakeholders to come up with unconventional solutions to pressing challenges. Hackathons can be used to develop new processes, products, ways of thinking, or ways of engaging stakeholders and partners, with benefits ranging from solving tough problems to broader cultural and organizational improvements.
This playbook was designed to make hackathons accessible to everyone. That means not only can all kinds of organizations benefit from hackathons, but that all kinds of employees inside those groups—executives, project managers, designers, or engineers—should participate and can benefit, too. Use this playbook as a reference and allow the best practices we outline to guide you in designing a hackathon structure that works for you and enables your organization to achieve its desired outcomes. Give yourself anywhere from six weeks to a few months to plan your hackathon, depending on the components, approach, number of participants, and desired outcomes.
Contact Director Brian MacCarthy at MacCarthy_Brian2@bah.com for more information about Booz Allen’s hackathon offering.
Booz Allen's U.S. Commercial Leader and Executive Vice President, Bill Phelps, recently released his list of 10 Cyber Priorities for Boards of Directors. As we peer into how business, technology, regulatory, and cyber threat realities are evolving in the coming year, here is a reference guide for board members to use in validating their company's cybersecurity approach.
We looked at the data. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics about the nation’s incoming presidents’ addresses, how long they spoke, how well, and more.
Our Military Spouse Forum built a roadmap to help you navigate your career between deployments, moves, and the unpredictable. Interested in how Booz Allen can help you navigate your career? Check out our opportunities at www.boozallen.com/careers
In August 2016, Booz Allen partnered with Market Connections to conduct a survey of National Security Leaders and the General Public to understand their perspectives on the current threats. Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, we wanted to know what keeps them up at night today, and what they will be worried about in 15 years. This infographic provides the high-level results of our survey and we will be releasing a more detailed report later in the month of September – so stay tuned. #NationalSecurity2031
Booz Allen convened some of the smartest minds to explore making healthcare more accessible. This report shares the latest healthcare payment trends and what policy experts discovered when planning for different health reform scenarios.
An interactive workshop that guides you through the many relationships that exist in an agile team, with a business value emphasis. Team members gain empathy, discover expectations of others and the importance of these agile team relationships.
An immersive environment allows students to be completely “immersed” in a self-contained simulated or artificial environment while experiencing it as real. With immersive learning, you can show realistic visual and training environments to teach complex tasks and concepts.
Nuclear Promise: Reducing Cost While Improving PerformanceBooz Allen Hamilton
To remain competitive, nuclear operators must take aim at all addressable costs, ensuring maintenance is optimized, taking proactive steps to minimize unplanned outages and, where possible, reducing administrative and other overhead costs. There are multiple opportunities to reduce capital and operational spending, while improving safety and reliability.
General Motors and Lyft; Target and Walmart; Netflix and Amazon - we call these “frenemies”. A strange trend is emerging as unlikely partner companies join forces, and they’re transforming industries around the world. Understanding what's driving the frenemies trend, knowing what options best fit your needs, and making yourself an effective partner are all critical to success.
Threats to industrial control systems are on the rise. This briefing explores potential threats and vulnerabilities as well as what organizations can do to guard against them.
Booz Allen Hamilton and Market Connections: C4ISR Survey ReportBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton partnered with government market research firm Market Connections, Inc. to conduct the survey of military decision-makers. The research examined the main features of Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration: engineering, operations and acquisition. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) agree agile incremental delivery of modular systems with integrated capabilities can enable rapid insertion of new technologies.
Modern C4ISR Integrates, Innovates and Secures Military NetworksBooz Allen Hamilton
A majority of the military believe Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration would provide utility to their organization. Check out other key findings from our study in this infographic http://bit.ly/1OZOjG2
Agile and Open C4ISR Systems - Helping the Military Integrate, Innovate and S...Booz Allen Hamilton
Integrated C4ISR is a force multiplier that significantly improves situational awareness and decision making to give warfighters a decisive battlefield advantage. This advantage stems from Booz Allen Hamilton’s Enterprise Integration approach http://bit.ly/25nDBRg: bringing together three disciplines and their communities—engineering, operations, and acquisition.
Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
By Design, not by Accident - Agile Venture Bolzano 2024
Cloud Computing Technology Framework
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As the government moves to a Cloud Computing environment, agencies will face a new form
of technology over which they will only have indirect control—via a service-level agreement.
Although much of the technology in the cloud is new, some aspects have roots in the
1960s with “virtual machines.” Some of the technologies will be transparent to the buyer
community. Buyers will have some say over the products that are needed and why. Buyers
will also have input on how current systems not migrating to the cloud and future systems not
moving to the cloud will interface and interoperate with migrated and cloud-hosted systems.
Cloud Computing creates a dynamic technological framework.
Booz Allen: utilizing cloud-based technological frameworks for
customer success
Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, has long recognized
the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on organizations providing services and
“products” to customers and other stakeholders. This impact involves two primary types of
technology that exist in the cloud. One type is the hardware and software technology used
to create the virtual servers, storage, and computational resources used in the cloud to run
applications. The second type comprises “enabling” technologies, which provide tools and
other software platforms that support application development, application management,
and basic-to-advanced data management. The cloud encompasses these technologies in a
six-layer “stack”: clients, services, applications, platforms, storage, and infrastructure. This
stack produces a variety of cloud services through virtual systems created for customers
based on their needs and specifications.
Virtual systems, per se, are not new. In computing, platform virtualization is a virtualization
of computers or operating systems that hides the physical characteristics of a computing
platform from users. Cloud Computing is similar. Users care only about the service—
compute cycles, data availability, integrity, and security. Users’ only concerns are that their
applications can run in the cloud environment and that they can access their applications
and data. The nature of the
resources users ultimately
consume is a function of what
they move to the cloud and
what they will do over time.
The cloud is simply a path,
not an endpoint, organizations
can use to meet changing and
enhanced mission needs.
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on a broad and deep pool of
technical staff and extensive
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2. tools and approaches for requirements analysis, system design, system development,
testing, implementation, and the overall management of the entire system development
life cycle. The firm has enhanced these tools dramatically to reflect the complexities of a
cloud-based computing environment transformation. Tailored implementation and use of
these tools and functionally rich innovative processes allows Booz Allen to effectively help
customers plan, manage resources, and ensure the timely and cost-effective achievement
of client priorities and deliverables. Booz Allen assists with both basic migration to the cloud
and advanced use of comprehensive services and capabilities.
Booz Allen’s approach: helping customers enjoy high cloud
maturation levels
The firm’s Cloud Computing services span five key areas: IT infrastructure, information
sharing, innovation, elastic rapid surge support, and massive ad-hoc analytics. Clouds have
many important differences and are all supported by the basic Cloud Computing layers. Booz
Allen believes the four primary types of clouds are private (serving a specific program or
organization sub-group), internal (serving the majority or all of an organization), community
(serving a total community of interest, such as defense or intelligence), and public (serving
all users). Organizations’ use of the cloud to meet requirements and achieve the cloud’s
benefits is an iterative evolutionary process, and they move to increasing levels of cloud
functionality to meet expanding requirements.
Booz Allen’s Cloud Computing
transition methodology spans
a broad range of organizational
and technical areas and skill
sets to maximize the initial and
life-cycle evolution of systems
and applications. This evolution
covers classic internal IT
environments and full cloud
utilization—or somewhere
in between. Through cloud
evolution, users achieve a
new level of IT/operational
maturation and enjoy greater
Cloud Computing benefits and
capabilities, such as value, stakeholder satisfaction, and operational satisfaction.
Booz Allen experience and expertise
The momentum behind the government’s adoption of Cloud Computing is significant and
driven by multiple inter-related factors, such as mission; need for speed, flexibility, and
agility in meeting stakeholder requirements; and cost. Booz Allen has achieved a position of
thought and action leadership in the government’s adoption of Cloud Computing. From the
firm’s earliest testing of Cloud Computing constructs and vendors, transition planning, and
technological methodologies to the highly regarded Cloud Computing Summit hosted by Booz
Allen in October 2008, the firm has been at the forefront in understanding and developing
effective tools and methodologies and processes so government agencies can rapidly
migrate to, and effectively use, this new technology.
Whether you’re managing today’s issues or looking beyond the horizon, count on us to help
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