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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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)
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.
ISO/IEC 20000 is a worldwide service management standard that describes the implementation of an integrated process approach for the delivery of services. It consists of a set of minimum requirements to audit an organization against effective Service Management. The standard promotes the adoption of an integrated process approach to effectively deliver managed services to meet the business and customer requirements.
This white paper introduces the reader to what the standard is all about and why organizations choose to meet is requirements. It also describes the certification process and it has useful hints, tips and links.
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.
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.
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
Privacy Trends: Key practical steps on ISO/IEC 27701:2019 implementationPECB
In this session, we will go through ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO/IEC 27001 key practical implementation steps and how they can help you to be compliant with the GDPR.
Our presenters, Peter Geelen and Stefan Mathuvis, will guide you through the implementer tasks with practical hints and tips and show you how an auditor will look at your implementation, searching for evidence and compliance.
In addition, we will match the ISO/IEC 27(7)01 requirements to complete the GDPR obligations as far as possible.
Starting from executive management to privacy policies, handling notifications, setting up awareness programs, controlling user access requests, over vendor management to incident management (data breaches) and continuous updates.
The webinar will cover:
• Quick recap on general ISO components and approach
• Implementing ISO/IEC 27001 with the ISO/IEC 27701 extension for GDPR compliance
• Do's and don’ts for implementation and audit
• The importance of evidence in the audit
• Managing audit expectations and the never ending audit cycle
Recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/HL-VUiCj4Ew
ITIL and ISO 20000: Fundamentals and necessary compliance SynergiesPECB
The world of Information Technology (IT) is voluminous, fast paced, innovative and very exciting!
You have to love IT to make it work!
To love IT you must live IT, to live IT you must embrace a design for success and understand business impacts from system failures (not just the hardware). To embrace a design for success and mitigate system failures you need a formal structure and independent validation.
This webinar will introduce you to the structure and choices within the ITIL fundamentals (Information Technology Infrastructure Library fundamentals) and a mechanism to validate the performance of the implemented ITIL structure compliant with the ISO 20000 standard (Information Technology -- Service management -- Part 1: Service management system requirements). The object of this webinar is to excite you about a formal IT structure and encourage you to be fearless about independently validating your service management arrangements.
Main points covered:
- Introducing an IT structure for service delivery and a case for IT system validation
- ITIL component options for IT service provision structure
- ISO 20000 as an IT service provision validation mechanism
- Synergy of ISO 20000 requirements and mandatory ITIL components
Presenter:
Eugene is an accomplished high-calibre sustainability and resilience authority, professional engineer and Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI). With over 25 years of hands-on experience he has developed and improved corporate resilience for a number of organisations from various sectors. His accomplishments include delivery of legislative & regulatory compliance requirements, implementation of ITIL, service, business continuity, information security, quality & risk management systems. In addition Eugene has many years of experience auditing ISO management systems. Eugene has represented the UK Institute of Directors (IoD) on the British Standards Institute (BSI) technical committees responsible for developing ISO resilience standards. He has published many thought provoking articles and a book chapter endorsing the importance of standards as the foundation for good organisational practice. Eugene is an experienced design engineer, implementer, exercise facilitator, trainer and auditor with internationally gifted credentials.
Listen to the recorded webinar here:
https://youtu.be/2CmWnNtFrcY
Critical Review of Open Group IT4IT Reference ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
This reviews the Open Group’s IT4IT Reference Architecture (https://www.opengroup.org/it4it) with respect to other operational frameworks to determine its suitability and applicability to the IT operating function.
IT4IT is intended to be a reference architecture for the management of the IT function. It aims to take a value chain approach to create a model of the functions that IT performs and the services it provides to assist organisations in the identification of the activities that contribute to business competitiveness. It is intended to be an integrated framework for the management of IT that emphasises IT service lifecycles.
This paper reviews what is meant by a value-chain, with special reference to the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model (https://www.apics.org/apics-for-business/frameworks/scor). the most widely used and most comprehensive such model.
The SCOR model is part of wider set of operations reference models that describe a view of the critical elements in a value chain:
• Product Life Cycle Operations Reference model (PLCOR) - Manages the activities for product innovation and product and portfolio management
• Customer Chain Operations Reference model (CCOR) - Manages the customer interaction processes
• Design Chain Operations Reference model (DCOR) - Manages the product and service development processes
• Managing for Supply Chain Performance (M4SC) - Translates business strategies into supply chain execution plans and policies
It also compares the IT4IT Reference Architecture and its 32 functional components to other frameworks that purport to identify the critical capabilities of the IT function:
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL IT Service Management https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
S&OP RFP 101: Evaluating Your ERP Vendor’s Solution vs. the Best-of-BreedSteelwedge
Your company may be running SAP, Oracle or other legacy ERP systems, but are their collaborative S&OP modules really the right choice for your company? Put another way: ERP systems create a solid “body” for your company, but the “brains” may be lacking.
In this webinar, we will discuss how the Steelwedge Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions provide the brainpower for SAP and Oracle offerings. Join us to learn the key criteria to use when choosing an S&OP solution.
This webinar is designed for companies considering implementing collaborative S&OP technology who need to understand how to overcome common business, technical and organizational challenges. Join us to learn from our S&OP experts about the recommended project phase components and key project milestones, as well as the inherent value found in the newest features and functionality.
We will also discuss the primary function of S&OP: to ensure adherence to strategic business objectives. Doing this will provide demonstrable results, including:
Reduction of planning cycle times
Improvements in forecast accuracy
Reduction in stock-outs
Increase in revenue and/or margin
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.
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!
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)
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.
ISO/IEC 20000 is a worldwide service management standard that describes the implementation of an integrated process approach for the delivery of services. It consists of a set of minimum requirements to audit an organization against effective Service Management. The standard promotes the adoption of an integrated process approach to effectively deliver managed services to meet the business and customer requirements.
This white paper introduces the reader to what the standard is all about and why organizations choose to meet is requirements. It also describes the certification process and it has useful hints, tips and links.
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.
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.
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
Privacy Trends: Key practical steps on ISO/IEC 27701:2019 implementationPECB
In this session, we will go through ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO/IEC 27001 key practical implementation steps and how they can help you to be compliant with the GDPR.
Our presenters, Peter Geelen and Stefan Mathuvis, will guide you through the implementer tasks with practical hints and tips and show you how an auditor will look at your implementation, searching for evidence and compliance.
In addition, we will match the ISO/IEC 27(7)01 requirements to complete the GDPR obligations as far as possible.
Starting from executive management to privacy policies, handling notifications, setting up awareness programs, controlling user access requests, over vendor management to incident management (data breaches) and continuous updates.
The webinar will cover:
• Quick recap on general ISO components and approach
• Implementing ISO/IEC 27001 with the ISO/IEC 27701 extension for GDPR compliance
• Do's and don’ts for implementation and audit
• The importance of evidence in the audit
• Managing audit expectations and the never ending audit cycle
Recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/HL-VUiCj4Ew
ITIL and ISO 20000: Fundamentals and necessary compliance SynergiesPECB
The world of Information Technology (IT) is voluminous, fast paced, innovative and very exciting!
You have to love IT to make it work!
To love IT you must live IT, to live IT you must embrace a design for success and understand business impacts from system failures (not just the hardware). To embrace a design for success and mitigate system failures you need a formal structure and independent validation.
This webinar will introduce you to the structure and choices within the ITIL fundamentals (Information Technology Infrastructure Library fundamentals) and a mechanism to validate the performance of the implemented ITIL structure compliant with the ISO 20000 standard (Information Technology -- Service management -- Part 1: Service management system requirements). The object of this webinar is to excite you about a formal IT structure and encourage you to be fearless about independently validating your service management arrangements.
Main points covered:
- Introducing an IT structure for service delivery and a case for IT system validation
- ITIL component options for IT service provision structure
- ISO 20000 as an IT service provision validation mechanism
- Synergy of ISO 20000 requirements and mandatory ITIL components
Presenter:
Eugene is an accomplished high-calibre sustainability and resilience authority, professional engineer and Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI). With over 25 years of hands-on experience he has developed and improved corporate resilience for a number of organisations from various sectors. His accomplishments include delivery of legislative & regulatory compliance requirements, implementation of ITIL, service, business continuity, information security, quality & risk management systems. In addition Eugene has many years of experience auditing ISO management systems. Eugene has represented the UK Institute of Directors (IoD) on the British Standards Institute (BSI) technical committees responsible for developing ISO resilience standards. He has published many thought provoking articles and a book chapter endorsing the importance of standards as the foundation for good organisational practice. Eugene is an experienced design engineer, implementer, exercise facilitator, trainer and auditor with internationally gifted credentials.
Listen to the recorded webinar here:
https://youtu.be/2CmWnNtFrcY
Critical Review of Open Group IT4IT Reference ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
This reviews the Open Group’s IT4IT Reference Architecture (https://www.opengroup.org/it4it) with respect to other operational frameworks to determine its suitability and applicability to the IT operating function.
IT4IT is intended to be a reference architecture for the management of the IT function. It aims to take a value chain approach to create a model of the functions that IT performs and the services it provides to assist organisations in the identification of the activities that contribute to business competitiveness. It is intended to be an integrated framework for the management of IT that emphasises IT service lifecycles.
This paper reviews what is meant by a value-chain, with special reference to the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model (https://www.apics.org/apics-for-business/frameworks/scor). the most widely used and most comprehensive such model.
The SCOR model is part of wider set of operations reference models that describe a view of the critical elements in a value chain:
• Product Life Cycle Operations Reference model (PLCOR) - Manages the activities for product innovation and product and portfolio management
• Customer Chain Operations Reference model (CCOR) - Manages the customer interaction processes
• Design Chain Operations Reference model (DCOR) - Manages the product and service development processes
• Managing for Supply Chain Performance (M4SC) - Translates business strategies into supply chain execution plans and policies
It also compares the IT4IT Reference Architecture and its 32 functional components to other frameworks that purport to identify the critical capabilities of the IT function:
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL IT Service Management https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
S&OP RFP 101: Evaluating Your ERP Vendor’s Solution vs. the Best-of-BreedSteelwedge
Your company may be running SAP, Oracle or other legacy ERP systems, but are their collaborative S&OP modules really the right choice for your company? Put another way: ERP systems create a solid “body” for your company, but the “brains” may be lacking.
In this webinar, we will discuss how the Steelwedge Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions provide the brainpower for SAP and Oracle offerings. Join us to learn the key criteria to use when choosing an S&OP solution.
This webinar is designed for companies considering implementing collaborative S&OP technology who need to understand how to overcome common business, technical and organizational challenges. Join us to learn from our S&OP experts about the recommended project phase components and key project milestones, as well as the inherent value found in the newest features and functionality.
We will also discuss the primary function of S&OP: to ensure adherence to strategic business objectives. Doing this will provide demonstrable results, including:
Reduction of planning cycle times
Improvements in forecast accuracy
Reduction in stock-outs
Increase in revenue and/or margin
Roadmap provide ready/custom-fit ERP solution on Oracle platform for both On-Premise and Cloud options to address the unique business process requirements of all industry types.
Analysis of recent transactions in Internet Software & Services Industry detailing on Transaction Multiples (Revenue & EBITDA), Multiples Chart, Active Buyers & Transaction Data. A goldmine of resource for Entrepreneurs.
SplunkLive! Amsterdam 2015 - IT Ops breakoutSplunk
Learn about ways to improve you IT Operational Intelligence by using Splunk for troubleshooting, monitoring and service-level visibility. In this hands-on session we will cover recommended approaches for end-to-end troubleshooting and monitoring across applications, OSes, and devices to resolve problems faster, reduce downtime and improve user satisfaction and customer retention. Topics will include: monitoring critical services, using commonly deployed apps and TAs to gather data for IT infrastructure uses, and using of pre-made dashboard panels to quickly build dashboards for monitoring your environment.
These slides based on the research webinar hosted by leading IT analyst firm EMA provides results of research on artificial intelligence and machine learning and their impact on DevOps, workload automation, and event and incident management.
ARC's Bob Mick Asset Performance Management Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum...ARC Advisory Group
ARC's Bob Mick Asset Performance Management Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Aligning IT Strategies with Asset Performance Management
How do I Start Improving AIM?
You Can Start Small – Build Artifacts for the Long Term
What asset performance do I want to impact?
How do I determine that performance?
What roles influence that performance?
What processes are involved?
What information needed?
Share Information
may be used in is What info is shared?
• Where does it come from?
Local Processes
as well as Cross-
Functional Processes
• Who owns it (create, transform, change …)?
What is required to manage quality?
How can technology help?
Performance Specific Metrics, Roles and Processes
Are a Great Place to Start
Cardtronics, the global leader in ATM deployment and management, decided to retire its on-premises Hyperion solution to gain the operational efficiencies, features, and functionality provided by a best-in-class cloud solution.
Cardtronics chose Oracle EPM Cloud including Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Management Reporting, Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, as well as Oracle Analytics Cloud.
In this video, project owner Richard Ng, director, financial systems, Cardtronics, discusses the migration to Oracle EPM Cloud including:
Multi-release 18-month deployment schedule across multiple countries
Benefits of a global Chart of Accounts for ERP and EPM
Seamless integration across ERP Cloud, HCM Cloud, and EPM Cloud
The role of WLA is expanding as organizations increase use of all forms of automation to become more efficient and competitive. Digital transformation, DevOps, and microservices architectures are increasing the pressure on workload automation systems.
Building on previous research from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the 2018 study revisits many important questions to monitor trends while exploring this expanding role and the convergence of workload automation with other automation disciplines.
De IT organisatie staat in de steigers...maar waar is het bouwplan?Rob Akershoek
Artikel in CIO Magazine (2018). De IT-afdeling wordt momenteel flink verbouwd om de digitale ambities van de business waar te maken. Vele initiatieven worden opgestart zoals Agile development, DevOps, Continuous Delivery en vele anderen om de IT-functie te verbeteren. Er ontbreekt echter een belangrijk ingrediënt: een plan en bouwplan (of IT4IT architectuur) om sturing te geven hoe alle puzzelstukjes aan elkaar moeten passen om tot een nieuwe slagvaardige en gestroomlijnde IT-functie te komen.
Gebruik IT of IT-management te automatiseren (Boardroom IT)Rob Akershoek
Artikel in Boardroom IT over het professionaliseren en automatiseren van de IT-activiteiten van de IT-organisatie. De IT-organisatie wordt nog steeds gekenmerkt door veel handmatige activiteiten met een gefragmenteerde aanpak t.a.v. de IT-dienstverlening. De nieuwe IT organisatie 3.0 zal de gehele IT-voortbrengingsketen vergaand moeten automatiseren om kosten te verlagen en de time-to-market te verlagen.
Koppelen van project- en applicatie portfoliomanagement (Informatie 2013)Rob Akershoek
Grip krijgen op investeringen door het integreren van projectportfolio (en portfoliobacklog) met het service/applicatieportfolio. Traditioneel staan projecten centraal bij investeringen - maar het zou moeten draaien op welke investeringen in welke producten. In de meeste PPM systemen ontbreekt de link tussen een project (of initiatief) en de bijbehorende diensten/producten.
Article (in Dutch) in the AG Connect about automating your IT organization across the entire IT value chain. Most IT organization typically lack a sophisticated plan and approach of how to automated IT activities across the service life cycle from plan, code, build, test, deploy, monitor, etc. Use the IT4IT Reference Architecture from The Open Group to guide this transformation journey.
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.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
1. Version 1.0 May 2019
Rob Akershoek Mapping of ITIL 4 practices (34 practices) to the COBIT 2019 governance and management objectives / processes
EDM01EnsuredGovernanceFrameworkSettingandMaintenance
EDM02EnsuredBenefitsDelivery
EDM03EnsuredRiskOptimisation
EDM04EnsuredResourceOptimisation
EDM05EnsuredStakeholderTransparency
APO01ManagedI&TManagementFramework
APO02ManagedStrategy
APO03ManagedEnterpriseArchitecture
APO04ManagedInnovation
APO05ManagedPortfolio
APO06ManagedBudgetandCosts
AP007ManagedHumanResources
APO08ManagedRelationships
APO09ManagedServiceAgreements
APO10ManagedVendors
APO11ManagedQuality
APO12ManagedRisk
APO13ManagedSecurity
APO14ManagedData
BAI01ManagedPrograms
BAI02ManagedRequirementsDefinition
BAI03ManagedSolutionsIdentificationandBuild
BAI04ManagedAvailabilityandCapacity
BAI05ManagedOrganisationalChange
BAI06ManagedITChanges
BAI07ManagedITChangeAcceptanceandTransitioning
BAI08ManagedKnowledge
BAI09ManagedAssets
BAI10ManagedConfiguration
BAI11ManagedProjects
DSS01ManagedOperations
DSS02ManagedServiceRequestsandIncidents
DSS03ManagedProblems
DSS04ManagedContinuity
DSS05ManagedSecurityServices
DSS06ManagedBusinessProcessControls
MEA01ManagedPerformanceandConformanceReporting
MEA02ManagedSystemofInternalControl
MEA03ManagedCompliancewithExternalRequirements
MEA04ManagedAssurance
Architecture management P S
Continual improvement S
Information security management P P
Knowledge management P
Measurement and reporting
Organizational change management P
Portfolio management S S S S P
Project management P
Relationship management P P
Risk management S S P S S
Service financial management P
Strategy management P S
Supplier management S S P S
Workforce and talent management S P
Availability management P S
Business analysis S S S S
Capacity and performance management S P
Change control P P
Incident management P
IT asset management P S
Monitoring and event management S S S S S S
Problem management P
Release management S S
Service catalogue management S P
Service configuration management S P
Service continuity management P
Service design S S P S
Service desk P
Service level management P
Service request management P
Service validation and testing P
Deployment management S S S
Infrastructure and platform management S S S S
Software development and management S P
P P=Primary mapping (main relationship)
S S=Secundary mapping (partically supported or partially enables the practice)
General Practices
Service Management Practices
Technical Practices
ITILManagementPractices
ITIL 4 Practices Mapping table to COBIT 2019 Governance Objectives
COBIT 2019
Evaluate, Direct
and Monitor
Align, Plan and Organise Build, Acquire and Implement
Deliver, Service and
Support
Monitor,
Evaluate and
Assess
2. Version 1.0 May 2019
Rob Akershoek Mapping of what ITIL 4 practices can be used to enable the IT4IT functional components.
Architecturemanagement
Continualimprovement
Informationsecuritymanagement
Knowledgemanagement
Measurementandreporting
Organizationalchangemanagement
Portfoliomanagement
Projectmanagement
Relationshipmanagement
Riskmanagement
Servicefinancialmanagement
Strategymanagement
Suppliermanagement
Workforceandtalentmanagement
Availabilitymanagement
Businessanalysis
Capacityandperformancemanagement
Changecontrol
Incidentmanagement
ITassetmanagement
Monitoringandeventmanagement
Problemmanagement
Releasemanagement
Servicecataloguemanagement
Serviceconfigurationmanagement
Servicecontinuitymanagement
Servicedesign
Servicedesk
Servicelevelmanagement
Servicerequestmanagement
Servicevalidationandtesting
Deploymentmanagement
Infrastructureandplatformmanagement
Softwaredevelopmentandmanagement
Strategy to Portfolio
Enterprise Architecture P S S
Policy S S S
Proposal S P S
Portfolio Demand S P S S S
Service Portfolio S P S S S S S
IT Investment Portfolio P S S S S S S
Requirement to Deploy
Project P
Requirement S S S S S S S S S S S
Service Design S S S S S P S P
Source Control S S P
Build S P
Build Package S P
Release Composition P S S S
Test S S P S
Defect S S P
Request to Fulfill
Engagement Experience Portal S S S S
Offer Consumption S S P
Offer Management P P S
Catalog Composition P P S
Request Rationalization S S P
Fulfillment Execution P P P S
Usage S
Chargeback/ Showback S
Knowledge & Collaboration P
Detect to Correct
Service Monitoring S S S P S
Event S S S P S
Incident S S S S P S S
Problem S S S S P
Change Control P
Configuration Management S S P
Diagnostics and Remediation S
Service Level S S P
Supporting Activities
Governance, Risk and, Compliance S P S S
Sourcing & Vendor P S S S
Intelligence & Reporting S P
Finance & Assets P S S
Resource Management P
P P=Primary mapping (main relationship)
S S=Secundary mapping (partically supported or partially enables the practice)
IT4ITValueStreamsandFunctionalComponents Mapping table IT4IT to ITIL 4 practices.
ITIL 4 Management Practices
General Practices TechnicalService Management
3. Version 1.0 May 2019
Rob Akershoek Mapping of COBIT 2019 governance and management objectives / processes to IT4IT functional components
EDM01EnsuredGovernanceFrameworkSettingandMaintenance
EDM02EnsuredBenefitsDelivery
EDM03EnsuredRiskOptimisation
EDM04EnsuredResourceOptimisation
EDM05EnsuredStakeholderTransparency
APO01ManagedI&TManagementFramework
APO02ManagedStrategy
APO03ManagedEnterpriseArchitecture
APO04ManagedInnovation
APO05ManagedPortfolio
APO06ManagedBudgetandCosts
AP007ManagedHumanResources
APO08ManagedRelationships
APO09ManagedServiceAgreements
APO10ManagedVendors
APO11ManagedQuality
APO12ManagedRisk
APO13ManagedSecurity
APO14ManagedData
BAI01ManagedPrograms
BAI02ManagedRequirementsDefinition
BAI03ManagedSolutionsIdentificationandBuild
BAI04ManagedAvailabilityandCapacity
BAI05ManagedOrganisationalChange
BAI06ManagedITChanges
BAI07ManagedITChangeAcceptanceandTransitioning
BAI08ManagedKnowledge
BAI09ManagedAssets
BAI10ManagedConfiguration
BAI11ManagedProjects
DSS01ManagedOperations
DSS02ManagedServiceRequestsandIncidents
DSS03ManagedProblems
DSS04ManagedContinuity
DSS05ManagedSecurityServices
DSS06ManagedBusinessProcessControls
MEA01ManagedPerformanceandConformanceReporting
MEA02ManagedSystemofInternalControl
MEA03ManagedCompliancewithExternalRequirements
MEA04ManagedAssurance
Strategy to Portfolio
Enterprise Architecture S P P S
Policy P S S S S S S
Proposal S S S S S S
Portfolio Demand P S S S P S S S
Service Portfolio S S S S S S P
IT Investment Portfolio S P
Requirement to Deploy
Project S P
Requirement S S S S P S
Service Design S S S P S
Source Control P
Build P
Build Package P
Release Composition P
Test P S S S
Defect P S S
Request to Fulfill
Engagement Experience Portal S
Offer Consumption P
Offer Management P
Catalog Composition P
Request Rationalization P S
Fulfillment Execution P
Usage P
Chargeback/ Showback P S S
Knowledge & Collaboration P S
Detect to Correct
Service Monitoring S S S S S S S S S
Event S S P S S
Incident S P S S
Problem S P
Change Control P S S
Configuration Management S P S
Diagnostics and Remediation S S S
Service Level P S
Supporting Activities
Governance, Risk and, Compliance S P S P S S S S P P P P
Sourcing & Vendor S S S S S P S S
Intelligence & Reporting S P
Finance & Assets S S S P P
Resource Management P P
P P=Primary mapping (main relationship)
P S=Secundary mapping (partically supported or partially enables the practice)
Capability / Practice mapping table IT4IT to COBIT 2019.
IT4ITValueStreamsandFunctionalComponents
Evaluate, Direct and
Monitor
Align, Plan and Organise Build, Acquire and Implement
Deliver, Service and
Support
Monitor,
Evaluate and
Assess
COBIT 2019