An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle.
IT4IT and DevOps Tools Landscape (2020).Rob Akershoek
Complete overview of the IT management tooling landscape 2020. Key market players / vendors in the IT4IT and DevOps tooling ecosystem. Automate and streamline your end-to-end DevOps tool chain.
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
This webinar features two IT4IT™ experts: Jim Hietala, VP Business Development at The Open Group and Michael Fulton, President Americas Division of CC and C Solutions, co-chair IT4IT Adoption Workgroup and Lead Author ITpreneurs IT4IT courseware.
Training and consulting providers looking to help your clients improve IT efficiency will enjoy this webinar. You will:
-Gain insight on how IT4IT serves the digital enterprise
-Discover its relation with Cloud, Agile, and DevOps
-Learn how it complements TOGAF®, Archimate® and ITIL®
-Find out what the training opportunities are for IT4IT
The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture provides prescriptive guidance on how to design, procure and implement the functionality needed to run IT. The training content of IT4IT will be available for licensing in the ITpreneurs courseware soon.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
IT4IT and DevOps Tools Landscape (2020).Rob Akershoek
Complete overview of the IT management tooling landscape 2020. Key market players / vendors in the IT4IT and DevOps tooling ecosystem. Automate and streamline your end-to-end DevOps tool chain.
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
This webinar features two IT4IT™ experts: Jim Hietala, VP Business Development at The Open Group and Michael Fulton, President Americas Division of CC and C Solutions, co-chair IT4IT Adoption Workgroup and Lead Author ITpreneurs IT4IT courseware.
Training and consulting providers looking to help your clients improve IT efficiency will enjoy this webinar. You will:
-Gain insight on how IT4IT serves the digital enterprise
-Discover its relation with Cloud, Agile, and DevOps
-Learn how it complements TOGAF®, Archimate® and ITIL®
-Find out what the training opportunities are for IT4IT
The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture provides prescriptive guidance on how to design, procure and implement the functionality needed to run IT. The training content of IT4IT will be available for licensing in the ITpreneurs courseware soon.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What is IT4IT framework
2. The benefits of implementation of the IT4IT framework
3. IT4IT framework components
4. IT4IT Value Streams
5. IT4IT Reference Architecture
6. About Architecture Center Ltd
7. References
History of IT Service Management Practices and StandardsRob Akershoek
Evolution of IT service management practices and standards from Top Gun 1 (around 1990) to Top Gun Maverick (2022)
How did the IT management evolve since 1990? When were key standards and practices introduced?
The IT management market has significantly evolved over the last few years e.g. introducing DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile Development, SRE and IT4IT. Managing this new multi-vendor ecosystem consisting of cloud, containers and micro-services.
Managing this new digital reality requires you to combine various practices into one integrated Digital Operating Model, to optimize end-to-end IT value streams.
The launch of ITIL4 revived Axelos presence in the Service Management scene. Although it is only the foundation material, it gives a good indication of the direction the latest framework version wants to guide you on your service management journey.
In this session, we will review how ITIL positioned itself in the new Service Management world. Both the new and renewed concepts will be analysed. What is that SVS all about? Will the SVC be supportive enough in your daily practice? And what about the openness towards other models? Does agile really fit in? Can ITIL and DevOps connect
Overview of the IT4IT tooling market in 2022.
Key trends in the IT4IT / DevOps tooling market are:
- Strategic portfolio management / portfolio backlog management (scaling agile on the enterprise level integrating with Enterprise architecture and Application / Product Portfolio Management)
- On-line collaboration & communication tools supporting team of team planning, problem solving, etc.
- Value stream management (an emerging tooling category) providing visibility across the end-to-end IT value streams
- Multi-cloud discovery & visibility on usage, costs and compliance
- Integrating DevOps tool chain (e.g. CICD pipeline) with the ITSM platform and CMDB
- Integrating security, risk and compliance management into the DevOps tool chain
- AIOps and observability management, consoliding metrics, logs, events mapped to a real-time service model
- Security operations, integrating security monitoring, vulnerability scanning, etc. into end-to-end detect to correct value streams
- Enterprise Service Management (ITSM vendors providing omni-channel services across IT, HR, Facilities, Finance, etc.)
- Leveraging AI/ML in various capabilities such test management, security operations, incident management, etc.
- Sustainability management integrated in IRM/GRC platforms
And last but not least:
- Service / Product portfolio management (managing the portfolio of service/applications, supporting product centric operating models, linked to business capabilities, product owners and teams)
Itil 4 "management practices as sets of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective"
The mindmap includes links to posts where the practice is explained in more detail.
ITIL® is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited.
https://www.axelos.com/
General management practices
Strategy management
Portfolio management
Architecture management
Service financial management
Workforce and talent management
Continual improvement
Measurement and reporting
Risk management
Information security management
Knowledge management
Organizational change management
Project management
Relationship management
Supplier management
Service management practices
Business analysis
Service catalogue management
Service design
Service level management
Availability management
Capacity and performance management
Service continuity management
Monitoring and event management
Service desk
Incident management
Service request management
Problem management
Release management
Change enablement
Service validation and testing
Service configuration management
IT asset management
Technical management practices
Deployment management
Infrastructure and platform management
Software development and management
Architecting Next Generatio IT Operating Models Using IT4IT and SFIASukumar Daniel
A case study of a Transformation Initiative to move a Third Party from Traditional Mechanic Shop Mentality to a Customisation Studio Mentality by causing a paradigm Shift in Ways of Working
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
ITIL® 4 will be hitting shelves in February 2019, but how is it different from ITIL V3? We joined forces with AXELOS in this webinar to break down what's changing with ITIL 4, how this can benefit you and your organisation, and how you can book onto a course.
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Mario Vivas, CEO, River Horse
ITIL4 is out and everyone is eager to learn about the updates this release introduces. This session will summarize the key changes that ITIL4 presents with a focus on the more operational processes that organizations deliver on a day to day basis (Incident, Problem, Change and so on). The ServiceNow platform has a powerful set of baseline features and optional plugin functions that can help an organization align with the recommendations of ITIL4.
Please join us and Mario to learn about how you can start applying ITIL4 concepts in your ServiceNow implementations!
Digital Transformation: Using Open Standards to Accelerate the JourneySriram Sabesan
Extract of slides used in the Webinar. This reflects our management consulting practice and how we use Open Group standards. We fill-in with public research from CISR, Stanford, and SABSA. Full recording available at : https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/D191
Frameworks to drive value from your investment in Information TechnologyJohn Halliday
This PDF presentation aims to assist the C-Suite (CEO, CIO, CRO, CSO), Board Members and Audit and Risk Committees to be aware of good IT governance frameworks and references and thereby have Value conversations with IT professionals (and assist IT professionals to drive, and prepare for these conversations). It will cover a wide range of frameworks and references. Enjoy!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What is IT4IT framework
2. The benefits of implementation of the IT4IT framework
3. IT4IT framework components
4. IT4IT Value Streams
5. IT4IT Reference Architecture
6. About Architecture Center Ltd
7. References
History of IT Service Management Practices and StandardsRob Akershoek
Evolution of IT service management practices and standards from Top Gun 1 (around 1990) to Top Gun Maverick (2022)
How did the IT management evolve since 1990? When were key standards and practices introduced?
The IT management market has significantly evolved over the last few years e.g. introducing DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile Development, SRE and IT4IT. Managing this new multi-vendor ecosystem consisting of cloud, containers and micro-services.
Managing this new digital reality requires you to combine various practices into one integrated Digital Operating Model, to optimize end-to-end IT value streams.
The launch of ITIL4 revived Axelos presence in the Service Management scene. Although it is only the foundation material, it gives a good indication of the direction the latest framework version wants to guide you on your service management journey.
In this session, we will review how ITIL positioned itself in the new Service Management world. Both the new and renewed concepts will be analysed. What is that SVS all about? Will the SVC be supportive enough in your daily practice? And what about the openness towards other models? Does agile really fit in? Can ITIL and DevOps connect
Overview of the IT4IT tooling market in 2022.
Key trends in the IT4IT / DevOps tooling market are:
- Strategic portfolio management / portfolio backlog management (scaling agile on the enterprise level integrating with Enterprise architecture and Application / Product Portfolio Management)
- On-line collaboration & communication tools supporting team of team planning, problem solving, etc.
- Value stream management (an emerging tooling category) providing visibility across the end-to-end IT value streams
- Multi-cloud discovery & visibility on usage, costs and compliance
- Integrating DevOps tool chain (e.g. CICD pipeline) with the ITSM platform and CMDB
- Integrating security, risk and compliance management into the DevOps tool chain
- AIOps and observability management, consoliding metrics, logs, events mapped to a real-time service model
- Security operations, integrating security monitoring, vulnerability scanning, etc. into end-to-end detect to correct value streams
- Enterprise Service Management (ITSM vendors providing omni-channel services across IT, HR, Facilities, Finance, etc.)
- Leveraging AI/ML in various capabilities such test management, security operations, incident management, etc.
- Sustainability management integrated in IRM/GRC platforms
And last but not least:
- Service / Product portfolio management (managing the portfolio of service/applications, supporting product centric operating models, linked to business capabilities, product owners and teams)
Itil 4 "management practices as sets of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective"
The mindmap includes links to posts where the practice is explained in more detail.
ITIL® is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited.
https://www.axelos.com/
General management practices
Strategy management
Portfolio management
Architecture management
Service financial management
Workforce and talent management
Continual improvement
Measurement and reporting
Risk management
Information security management
Knowledge management
Organizational change management
Project management
Relationship management
Supplier management
Service management practices
Business analysis
Service catalogue management
Service design
Service level management
Availability management
Capacity and performance management
Service continuity management
Monitoring and event management
Service desk
Incident management
Service request management
Problem management
Release management
Change enablement
Service validation and testing
Service configuration management
IT asset management
Technical management practices
Deployment management
Infrastructure and platform management
Software development and management
Architecting Next Generatio IT Operating Models Using IT4IT and SFIASukumar Daniel
A case study of a Transformation Initiative to move a Third Party from Traditional Mechanic Shop Mentality to a Customisation Studio Mentality by causing a paradigm Shift in Ways of Working
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
ITIL® 4 will be hitting shelves in February 2019, but how is it different from ITIL V3? We joined forces with AXELOS in this webinar to break down what's changing with ITIL 4, how this can benefit you and your organisation, and how you can book onto a course.
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Mario Vivas, CEO, River Horse
ITIL4 is out and everyone is eager to learn about the updates this release introduces. This session will summarize the key changes that ITIL4 presents with a focus on the more operational processes that organizations deliver on a day to day basis (Incident, Problem, Change and so on). The ServiceNow platform has a powerful set of baseline features and optional plugin functions that can help an organization align with the recommendations of ITIL4.
Please join us and Mario to learn about how you can start applying ITIL4 concepts in your ServiceNow implementations!
Digital Transformation: Using Open Standards to Accelerate the JourneySriram Sabesan
Extract of slides used in the Webinar. This reflects our management consulting practice and how we use Open Group standards. We fill-in with public research from CISR, Stanford, and SABSA. Full recording available at : https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/D191
Frameworks to drive value from your investment in Information TechnologyJohn Halliday
This PDF presentation aims to assist the C-Suite (CEO, CIO, CRO, CSO), Board Members and Audit and Risk Committees to be aware of good IT governance frameworks and references and thereby have Value conversations with IT professionals (and assist IT professionals to drive, and prepare for these conversations). It will cover a wide range of frameworks and references. Enjoy!
The success of any transformation efforts depending on the best practices followed over the transformation and beyond. Enterprise Architecture practice helps to execute the transformation efforts seamlessly. This presentation discover more details.
Provides overview of various standards adopted by Telecom ISP/ISV in Management and Monetization space. These standards provides open framework for OSS/BSS business processes to support interoperability and to avoid vendor lock-in
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
Prezentacja autorstwa Aleksandra Wyki przedstawiona na I Panelu BizDevOps. Omawia:
- Business Architecture - jak Business Capabilities, Value Streams, Business Model I Operating Model mogą wspomóc wdrażanie koncepcji BizDevOps
- Agile Architecture a koncepcja BizDevOps
Are you looking for a better strategy to retire your legacy Lotus Notes applications and migrate them seamlessly to the cloud?
Office 365 & Azure brings best of both the worlds together to simplify and enhance the cloud experience. Office 365 with Azure allows more flexibility and greater business agility. It helps leveraging familiar tools for simple deployment, and user experiences as well as a leaner, controlled model for enterprises. Migration of legacy applications to the cloud gets you and your enterprise out of the business of hosting, supporting and maintaining the applications on your infrastructure.
Aqeel Haider, Vice President of Technology Solutions, WinWire Technologies shares an in-depth view of WinWire’s capabilities to retire and re-platform legacy Lotus applications to Office 365 & Azure.
Webinar Agenda:
An overview of WinWire’s approach in performing an assessment of legacy Lotus Notes applications
How to classify multiple Lotus Notes applications and our methodology around archiving, replacing, or consolidation of such applications
From Our Experience – Lessons Learnt
Optimizing your new application in the cloud
PECB Webinar: Aligning ITIL/ISO 20000 Service Design and TOGAF Enterprise Arc...PECB
Summary:
The ITIL Service Design stage specifies 8 key IT processes that organizations need to excel at, if they are to develop effective designs for their IT ecosystem.
TOGAF is an Enterprise Architecture Model that takes a holistic and integrated look at how architectures are conceptualized and implemented.
To get Service Design right means the individual/organizations has to have some sort of knowledge and experience in the use and adoption of TOGAF.
IT Projects go wrong in the Service Design stage and they further go wrong because they lack the rigor that an enterprise architecture brings into play.
In this webinar we will explore the following:
• The very heart of ITIL Service Design
• The 8 Design Process
• TOGAF Introduction
• Architecture Development Lifecycle
• IT Infrastructure and Application Design Issues
• The Link between Service Design, Enterprise Architecture and IT Implementation
Presenter:
Orlando is an Enterprise Architect and Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Computing and Information Technology Consulting. He has an excellent technical background and has carried out Project Management, Service Management, Assurance, Advisory and System Integration Projects within SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Cisco and other solution areas of Information Technology. He has led more than 100 successful engagements for clients over the past 15 years. Orlando has developed various documentation for Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, CRM Implementation and Information Security. He has also trained over 2, 000 Professionals on (ITIL, TOGAF, Business Analysis, COBIT, CMMI, XBRL, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301).
IT4IT: Realize a Digital Strategy with ServiceNowZenoss
ServiceNow's Senior Product Manager, Mark Bodman, presents IT4IT: Realize a Digital Strategy with ServiceNow.
Access the full presentation recordings for GalaxZ17 here: http://ow.ly/WyBu30cakk0
Will They Blend? - Agile, TOGAF and Enterprise ArchitectureITpreneurs
Do you offer TOGAF / EA / Agile training or consulting?
Is TOGAF really the best approach for enterprise architecture? Danny Greefhorst will provide insight into these questions by showing how agile, enterprise architecture and TOGAF relate and overlap.
Content by Danny Greefhorst
What's covered:
- The TOGAF Approach to EA
- Do Agile, EA and TOGAF Relate?
- Do Agile, EA and TOGAF Overlap?
- When to Use Which Framework
- How to Generate More Business by using Agile, EA and TOGAF
In November, IT4IT(TM) 2.0 was released to the IT industry. In this webinar, Michael Fulton, President, CC&C Americas and member of Open Group IT4IT Forum Steering Committee, will share his perspective on IT4IT and what it means to the IT industry and how you as an individual can take advantage of it within your career
Establishing an Enterprise Architecture practice is a challenging proposition in any organization. Here is how I introduced it to CIOs in State Government in Arizona. Tailor it to your needs and feel free to share.
Slides from the October MuleSoft London User Community meetup that was held after the MuleSoft Summit at London Brewry.
Read about the evolution of the connected enterprise and details of the next meetup. For those that missed it we had MuleSoft CTO Uri Sarid doing a Q&A with the audience - so be sure to join the next meetup for more interactive discussion, debate and not to mention pizza!
In this presentation Michael Payne debates the merits of placing Business Architecture within an organisation’s Business, IT or Enterprise Architecture departments. He examines some of the options available to organisations starting out with Business Architecture, and touches on Business Architecture engagement models. In addition, Michael provides a sneak peak into the new developments in the Open-BA Framework.
In this presentation Bruno Vandenborre, The Open Group accredited trainer at Real IRM, explores the purpose and utility of the new version of the ArchiMate standard. As well as a look at the updates and changes to the new version, he discusses the various responses and critiques to ArchiMate, and provide insight into how ArchiMate benefits the South African market.
This presentation provides an overview of the Open Certified Architect (Open CA) and Open Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS) programmes from The Open Group. These globally recognised, vendor-neutral certification programmes require candidates to submit a portfolio of evidence that details their skills and experience. Suitable for a variety of IT professionals, the Open CA certification has IT Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture streams, and the Open CITS certification caters to IT specialists including Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Security Specialists, Network Specialists and Service Support Specialists.
Follow our blog and download this presentation(and more) at http://www.realirm.com/blog
You can lead a horse to water… (Managing the Human Aspects of Change in EA Im...Real IRM
Many Enterprise Architecture (EA) implementations do not succeed in realising their full potential due to a failure in managing the “fuzzy” human aspects of organisational transformation. Change management is, or should be, an integral part of EA implementations. This presentation explores the role and composition of EA Change Management and examines how it differs from change leadership. It reviews John Kotter’s 8 steps for leading change and provides an overview of the process of managing human change in EA implementations and organisational transformations. The presentation also includes a consideration of the psychology of change - what psychological factors, change strategies and organisation conditions increase the individual’s motivation to change, and which merely exacerbate normal resistance to change?
Follow our blog and download this presentation(and more) at http://www.realirm.com/blog
Enterprise Architecture - The Linchpin between Corporate Governance & IT Gove...Real IRM
Stuart Macgregor's presentation (updated to version 2 with new slides and information) focuses on how a synergistic approach between Corporate Governance, IT Governance, and Enterprise Architecture can increase an organisation’s value while reducing cost. He includes a look at how King III and COBIT 5 make enterprise architecture the CEO’s accountability.
Benefits of a Standardised Modelling Method
Meet our speakers and download this presentation(and more) at http://www.realirm.com/about-us/speakers-forum
A Mapping of Current Vendor Solutions to the EMMM Business Capability ModelReal IRM
Application Portfolio Management in Mining
Application Classification Model Development
Using the Classification Reference Model
EMMM Business Capability Model Mapping
Meet our speakers and download this presentation(and more) at http://www.realirm.com/about-us/speakers-forum
Reference models a case study for healthcareReal IRM
This presentation is focused on the Healthcare Reference Framework which The Norwegian Healthcare Authority is sponsoring. Sarina looks at the Healthcare vision and business motivation driving the development and adoption of industry reference models and includes the business case for increased South African participation.
Meet our speakers and download this presentation(and more) at http://www.realirm.com/about-us/speakers-forum
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
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4. Louw Labuschagne is a specialist consultant and trainer at Real IRM. As an experienced professional in the
field of Enterprise Architecture, he has developed a reputation over the past 20 years as a thought-leader in
this field. Louw has operated in a broad range of disciplines: including strategist, architect, modeller, analyst,
speaker and trainer.
He holds an M. Tech from the Tshwane University of Technology, a B. Tech from Pretoria Technikon, and an
MBA from Bond University. He’s also certified as a practitioner in TOGAF™ 9, ArchiMate™ 2, and Zachman.
With his active contribution to a number of standards, and by publishing several whitepapers, Louw has
played a key role in the development of the EA profession in South Africa and across the world.
And by leading teams that have established and grown EA practices within many of SA’s large organisations
– including some of the major banks – Louw has helped these organisations to transform their operations.
Louw’s passion for sharing, collaborating and guiding others is reflected in his training and speaking roles –
to build strong relationships in the industry and among clients, and become a trusted business partner that
guides organisations towards EA transformation.
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