Strategies to Manage Your Business Processes for Technical Communications
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
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This document is a curriculum vitae for an individual with a Ph.D. It includes sections summarizing their professional profile and achievements, professional experience at multiple organizations, societies and memberships, committees served on, publications, professional development activities, post-graduate research and training, licenses and certifications, education history, and personal details. The CV provides a comprehensive overview of the individual's qualifications and career accomplishments.
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- Three key financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
- How to evaluate business cases and opportunities using metrics like return on investment, breakeven analysis, net present value, and sensitivity analysis.
- The importance of building financial intelligence within one's team to make smarter decisions and effectively manage business performance. Regular training, meetings, and performance targets can help improve a team's financial literacy.
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Breve modelo de gestión por competenciasGrup Pitagora
El documento describe un modelo práctico de gestión por competencias en 4 fases: 1) definir el contexto organizativo, 2) identificar las competencias clave de los empleados, 3) comunicar el sistema de competencias a la organización, y 4) aplicar el sistema a las políticas de recursos humanos como la selección y evaluación. La gestión por competencias busca alinear las habilidades de los empleados con los objetivos de la organización para mejorar el desempeño.
This document is a curriculum vitae for an individual with a Ph.D. It includes sections summarizing their professional profile and achievements, professional experience at multiple organizations, societies and memberships, committees served on, publications, professional development activities, post-graduate research and training, licenses and certifications, education history, and personal details. The CV provides a comprehensive overview of the individual's qualifications and career accomplishments.
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The document discusses key financial concepts and tools that are important for product managers to understand, including:
- Three key financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
- How to evaluate business cases and opportunities using metrics like return on investment, breakeven analysis, net present value, and sensitivity analysis.
- The importance of building financial intelligence within one's team to make smarter decisions and effectively manage business performance. Regular training, meetings, and performance targets can help improve a team's financial literacy.
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Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2bvQTpB.
Jessie Frazelle talks about the differences between application sandboxes and containers. She covers all the work being done in this area including but not limited to rootless containers, custom AppArmor profiles, seccomp profiling, and the future of container security. Filmed at qconnewyork.com.
Jessie Frazelle works at Mesosphere.
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Young Desiz is a musical band composed of young Punjabi guys who want to fulfill their dreams and establish their individualities. The band has links with various universities but is a private group not belonging to any single university, community, or organization. The group welcomes new members who must fill out an application providing their name, experience with other groups, professional skills, instrument played, music style/genre, city, phone number, email, Facebook link, recording experience, and willingness to join along with an attached photograph. Specifically, the group is looking for a guitarist, keyboard player, drum player, video maker, and photo editor. Interested individuals should email their application to youngdesiz@yahoo.com.
This document proposes transforming a company's marketing from outbound to inbound strategies. It notes that consumer behavior has changed with more time spent online. An inbound approach focuses on creating helpful content to attract and engage customers through search engines, blogs, social media and other online channels. A six-month transformation plan is outlined to double web traffic and leads through content creation, search engine optimization, optimized landing pages and a proposed $10,000 annual budget.
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This document provides an overview of R+I Creative Ltd., a content marketing agency. It summarizes their services such as motion graphics, video production, branding, and social media. It explains that they help brands connect with audiences through end-to-end content solutions. The document also outlines four reasons to work with R+I Creative, including that they create successful content for leading brands, engage influential influencers, strive to exceed client expectations with excellent service, and are a creative partner for global companies.
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1. Smartphone and tablet use for news is growing significantly in all markets surveyed, with over a third now accessing news weekly on smartphones.
2. Smartphone users tend to access news via apps rather than mobile browsers. Brands with strong apps like BBC and Sky News do best on smartphones.
3. While new devices are adding to how people access news, they are not replacing television, radio or print as primary sources. Younger people access news more frequently and digitally throughout the day.
4. Newspaper brands' total reach remains high at around three quarters through print
Tenable is a cybersecurity company that provides continuous monitoring technology to secure devices from internet threats. They experienced rapid growth, increasing employees from 190 to 350 in the past 18 years. Previously, Tenable's recruiting efforts were reactive and led to long time-to-hire. They integrated with HireRight and Jobvite to streamline their background screening and recruiting processes. The integration allows single sign-on, automated workflows, reduced manual work, and ensures compliance. It helped Tenable improve their recruiting and onboarding efficiency.
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There is a great developer story with the introduction of Apps now in SharePoint Online. However, what if you are not a code developer? What options do you have to 'develop solutions' in SharePoint Online (Office 365)?
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The document discusses augmented reality and provides examples of companies that have used augmented reality in their marketing campaigns. It includes charts tracking search volume trends for various brands using augmented reality for automobiles, apparel, and other sectors from 2008-2010. The charts indicate varying levels of search volume interest over time for brands like BMW, Nissan, Adidas, Nike, and others that incorporated augmented reality features.
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Change up your conference routine. This slideshare shows you ten reasons why you should attend the newest technology and business conference, PCMC. Put on by Aragon Research, PCMC will be held in March, 2015 in beautiful San Diego.
Development Management System (DMS) – The New ERP for L&D
The development management system (DMS) is the missing piece to the toolset used by L&D. For many years, talent management systems and learning management systems help you plan and deliver solutions. However, there has never been a tool to support your development operations. Every other profession—accounting, sales, manufacturing, HR, IT, and so on—has supporting toolsets to manage the day-to-day operations (ERP, HRIS, CRM, and so on); yet for decades the L&D industry has had to rely on spreadsheets and homemade database solutions. New to the learning technology landscape is the DMS, an integrated platform that automates production management and business processes for increased productivity while providing the development teams the tools and collaborative environment to produce outstanding results. The DMS is the missing link between the planning processes and solution delivery.
The DMS facilitates the development process and automates the day-to-day operations across the entire enterprise. A fully functional DMS can help implement uniform processes, deploy methodologies and standards, facilitate effective SME relationships, manage the deliverable review process, facilitate user tests, balance and optimize staff resources, forecast production needs, manage vendors, manage the operational budgets, and measure your overall efficiency.
To the leadership, this means a more efficient workforce, a higher quality product, visibility into their (global) operations, and optimal utilization of their budget dollars. If you’re an outsourcing provider using a DMS, that means a reliable profitability on every project. This extends beyond L&D as a good DMS should be able to manage a wide range of projects; anything that involves many people over a period of time trying to build an effective project.
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BUZZ Ordina - APS - Software Development Jobs - Meet Kris Van MarckeOrdina Belgium
APS VACANCIES
“The Ordina APS unit designs and develops solutions
to support, optimize and integrate planning processes
in complex and demanding operational environments,
in sectors as diverse as service providers, logistics
providers or manufacturing processes.
Due to our growth, we are currently looking for some
experts to join our team.”
- Kris Van Marcke, Business Unit Manager APS
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Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2bvQTpB.
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The document summarizes key findings from the Digital News Report 2014 on online news habits in 10 countries. It finds:
1. Smartphone and tablet use for news is growing significantly in all markets surveyed, with over a third now accessing news weekly on smartphones.
2. Smartphone users tend to access news via apps rather than mobile browsers. Brands with strong apps like BBC and Sky News do best on smartphones.
3. While new devices are adding to how people access news, they are not replacing television, radio or print as primary sources. Younger people access news more frequently and digitally throughout the day.
4. Newspaper brands' total reach remains high at around three quarters through print
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This document discusses the passionate environment for next generation mobile services. It notes that mobile is about people, communication, targeting, money, passion and services. It envisions a future where application providers are central, and users have freedom of choice between different manufacturers and content providers. For this passionate environment to grow, content and mobile operators need to work together to lower data costs and remove caps in order to empower developers and users.
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The DMS facilitates the development process and automates the day-to-day operations across the entire enterprise. A fully functional DMS can help implement uniform processes, deploy methodologies and standards, facilitate effective SME relationships, manage the deliverable review process, facilitate user tests, balance and optimize staff resources, forecast production needs, manage vendors, manage the operational budgets, and measure your overall efficiency.
To the leadership, this means a more efficient workforce, a higher quality product, visibility into their (global) operations, and optimal utilization of their budget dollars. If you’re an outsourcing provider using a DMS, that means a reliable profitability on every project. This extends beyond L&D as a good DMS should be able to manage a wide range of projects; anything that involves many people over a period of time trying to build an effective project.
This document discusses an agenda for a presentation on IT project management best practices and risk management. The agenda includes introductions, discussing IT project management basics and industry best practices, IT risk management thought leadership, managing application support risks using Management 3.0 principles, an application management case study, and managing project risks. It also provides background on the presenting organization, Computer Aid Inc., which is an IT consulting firm.
BUZZ Ordina - APS - Software Development Jobs - Meet Kris Van MarckeOrdina Belgium
APS VACANCIES
“The Ordina APS unit designs and develops solutions
to support, optimize and integrate planning processes
in complex and demanding operational environments,
in sectors as diverse as service providers, logistics
providers or manufacturing processes.
Due to our growth, we are currently looking for some
experts to join our team.”
- Kris Van Marcke, Business Unit Manager APS
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During the hands on work-shop each participant will have the opportunity to work with their actual business problems and walk away with a clear roadmap on what to improve and why.
Takeaways:
work-shop participants will be able to find ways in their organisation to:
- improve efficiency
- build transparency
- increase the quality of the output and customer satisfaction
- set strategies for future improvements
- create accountabilities
Sprinting Ahead – How RunKeeper Uses Atlassian Tools in a Fast-Paced Agile Wo...Atlassian
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- The document provides information about an individual with a Ph.D. in Management Science and experience in supply chain and manufacturing roles.
- They have founded an organization called kreativekrowd and blog about supply chain topics on their website muddassirism.com.
- The document includes an example of a supply chain SWOT analysis and discusses various aspects of developing a supply chain strategy including people, systems, core processes, and execution.
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Accenture Quick Document Builder is a software that automates the creation and distribution of HR correspondence documents. It integrates relevant employee data from SAP systems to populate documents, allows users to create templates in Microsoft Word, and standardizes the document creation process. This saves HR staff significant time and reduces costs associated with manual document production. The software can realize up to 50% savings in HR staff time spent on correspondence documentation tasks.
The document discusses the benefits of effective application lifecycle management (ALM), which integrates requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management using tools. It notes that ALM enables better quality, customer satisfaction, compliance, business-IT alignment, lower costs, better predictability, and faster time-to-market. The document then shares perspectives from different roles on a project who needed various capabilities from ALM like documentation sharing, work tracking, release management, code quality, and test coverage. It promotes Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System as an ALM tool that brings these capabilities together and highlights additional benefits like customization, reporting, integration, and collaboration it provides.
Nancy McPheeters has extensive experience managing finances and human resources to improve performance. She developed tools to track costs, workload forecasts, and staffing plans that helped reduce budgets while maintaining or improving productivity. Feedback from clients praised her organization, knowledge, and ability to distill complex information clearly.
The document describes the services offered by Procedure Solutions Management for outsourced technical procedure writing and document maintenance, including industry leading training, procedure development consulting, recruiting technical writers and subject matter experts, conducting procedure assessments, and providing secure document storage and transfer using cloud technology to streamline processes, reduce time and costs for clients, and ensure accuracy and compliance of procedures.
This document discusses challenges with product development in distributed scrum environments. It outlines issues with scaling processes when cooking for a family versus a large celebration. It also discusses the importance of organizational climate, identifying smells in products, processes and people. Steps taken to address these issues included applying a 4P lean transformation model, empowering teams, using dashboards to increase visibility, gamifying work, collaborating across teams, and focusing on customer and product requirements. Key lessons included having knowledgeable product managers, customer visits, centralized tools, cross-team travel, problem-solving skills, daily stand-ups to remove impediments, and celebrating successes.
This document discusses challenges with product development in distributed scrum environments. It outlines issues with scaling processes when cooking for a family versus a large celebration. It also discusses the importance of organizational climate, identifying smells in products, processes and people. Steps taken to address these issues included applying a 4P lean transformation model, empowering teams, using dashboards to increase visibility, gamifying work, collaborating across teams, and focusing on customer and product requirements. Key lessons included having knowledgeable product managers, customer visits, centralized tools, cross-team travel, problem-solving skills, daily stand-ups to remove impediments, and celebrating successes.
Design Operations aims to amplify the value of design and increase investment in design through establishing the right tools, processes, and culture. It focuses on setting teams up for success, increasing organizational value, and continuous improvement. Key aspects of Design Operations include establishing principles and goals aligned with organizational strategy, defining an organizational structure that scales with design's impact, developing teams through resources like training, using tools and workflows to streamline collaboration, and appointing a Design Operations Leader. The overall goal is to justify further investment in design by clearly communicating and measuring its value.
Michael Hammer is the pioneer of the Process Management concept. He developed Process Enterprise Maturity Model (PEMM). He helped many organisation to go lean and efficient by his concept of Process Re-engineering.
The Store Manager is a Mexican-Argentinian company focused on opportunities, growth, simplicity, and new beginnings. Their goal is to deliver efficient and innovative training solutions to clients using technology. Their mission is to offer integrated virtual training and communication solutions to increase productivity and reduce costs. Their vision is to be the most efficient provider of virtual training and communication solutions for each customer. Their tool allows for virtual and interactive training, information consolidation, and communication across a company in real time. It has benefits like just-in-time information, improved visibility of training, generated dashboards, consolidated information, reduced training time and costs, accelerated learning, and improved people capabilities.
VertexPlus Group is a leading business conglomerate providing innovative technology solutions and digital marketing services across various industries. It has expertise in areas like software consulting, IT solutions, and digital marketing. The group operates various subsidiary companies focused on different technology domains and services. VertexPlus aims to provide cost-effective solutions using latest technologies to help businesses gain competitive advantages.
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In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
7. The Reality of Publishing
• 1 product = 1 user guide
– X 30 products = 30 user guides
8. The Reality of Publishing
• 1 product = 1 user guide
– X 30 products = 30 user guides
– X 10 media channels = 300 user guides
9. The Reality of Publishing
• 1 product = 1 user guide
– X 30 products = 30 user guides
– X 10 media channels = 300 user guides
– X 20 languages = 6000 user guides
20. Project Management is…
• Planning, organizing and managing resources
to meet your goals
• Measured by quality, schedule and budget
parameters
• Need managerial planning and technical
solutions
21. Build a strong core team
Experience
+ Enthusiasm
+ Adaptable
+ Smarts
+ Leadership
= Strong team
Introduce myselfThe volume of projects that technical communications managers must monitor can be enormous. In this session, we will discuss how managers can rely on a content management system to not only manage content, but also manage the business processes surrounding it.
How many people are cooking dinner next week?It’s one of the hardest holiday meals to make, because there are many dishes to prepare and try to get them all on the table while they’re still hot at the same time.Suppose you have a house full of people, say 20 people are coming
You may have had help from kids in the past, but they now they are grown up and live out of town.They won’t arrive until the last minute.
Your mom and mother-in-law, who hate each other, will be there to help you, along with an aunt.You plan the menu and go to the grocery store to buy the food, but it comes out more expensive than you planned. How can you manage the costs?Ask everyone to bring something so you have fewer items to buy; ask the remote people to bring wine or something they can pick up along the way without cooking and trying to transport itFind shortcuts – buy a ready-made pie instead of all the ingredients to make one from scratchYou plan a schedule, but obviously you can’t do it all at the last minute in order to get it on the table while it’s still hot. What can you do?Work ahead – make some items the day before or early that morning that can be refrigerated (cranberry salad, pies) so you can work at a more relaxed pace and don’t take shortcuts that may result in poor quality food (lumpy potatoes!)Put mashed potatoes in a crock pot to keep them warm while you work on the last minute itemsAsk for help - Assign tasks to the MIL, mom and aunt to get things done and get them to work together (or keep them apart!) Have MIL fill water glasses in the dining room while mom makes gravy in the kitchen
Dinner is just about ready. Your hubby is supposed to be carving turkey, but he is too engrossed in a football game and forgets to do his duty…How can you set his priorities?Change the channel and hide the remote!
So, preparing a Thanksgiving dinner has many of the same challenges as managing a project at workHowever, at work, you’re not just managing one project at a time.You may be managing large volumes of projects at any given time.For example, …
That’s a lot of projects to manage!You can see how multichannel publishing and international business can boost a technical doc department’s workload dramatically!So, you’ve got a lot of work to do, but…
ChallengesLess staff – layoffs leave you short staffed, but same (or more) workloadDinner – less help since daughter moved away
ChallengesHow to find content to update for new releases – too many storage spots on people’s hard driveson the network, but where?On a home computerOn removable media – flash drive
ChallengesFinding the right content You might find the content, but there’s too many versions…which one is the most current? Just like finding the white golf ball, but the wrong brand – not yoursHas the right content been coordinated and updated in all the proper places? Or is your content/messaging inconsistent?
ChallengesWhat are people working on? priorities – are they correct? Or are they working on stuff that they shouldn’t be?Some people only want to work on project they like, and not things that are the priorityDinner - Hubby watching football instead of carving the turkey – wrong priority
ChallengesAre projects on schedule? ramifications of late docs – missed product releases or releases go out without docs
ChallengesAre all the steps in the process happening? what if QC or testing is missed? People taking shortcuts to make datesWhat if people are doing things differently? Following different processes?Dinner – mashed potatoes lumpy? Gravy not smooth? Due to shortcuts to meet deadline
ChallengesAre people working effectively?Are they collaborating and coordinating efforts, duplicating work that someone else already did, or are they working in silos?Will you be profitable or will you lose money due to inefficiencies? Spending too much time on a projectDinner - Working together or crashing into each other or helping?
ChallengesAs new releases/products are created and working simultaneously with other releases/products, are they being properly coordinated?Small example: Suppose you have 4 releases running at the same time. (run through flowchart branches and merges) Dinner - Multitasking, simultaneous projects – getting everything done and on the table while it’s still hot
ChallengesCoordinating staff around the worldContent reviewers and SMEs may be located anywhere in the world – different time zones and countriesHow to make assignments and maintain a schedule?Dinner - Include the remote guests
ChallengesCost of translations – the biggie – thousands, even millions of dollars spent each year – this is an area with a potential for big savingsAvoid paying for duplicate translationsTake advantage of translation memoryWithout sacrificing qualityDinner – how to stay within budget at the grocery store?
Project management is the process of planning and organizing resourcesThe volume of work is highYou’re pressured to meet schedules, budgets and quality requirements (BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER)Stress levels are highYou just can’t track and manage it all on Excel spreadsheets anymoreGood strategies for improving project management for tech docs is upfront managerial planning and technical solutions to help you balance the loadLet’s look at some managerial planning techniques
As a manager, you need to:Build a strong core teamPut someone from each area on the team (IT, writing, production)Pick people who are knowledgeablePick people who are enthusiastic and willing to changePick people who will be capable of learning quicklyPick people who will be able to train and lead others – respected by others – the go-to people
Plan a process that works for your scenario – create a blueprint for your processesKeep it simple – too much detail can bog you down – detail can be increased later as you progressIdentify the roles needed – categorize staff into roles for simpler maintenanceIdentify areas where automation can replace busy workYes, you can implement tools to manage your processes, but they will only work as well as the process you put into it.
Gather input from staffCommunicate with them on progress – keep them in the loop so they feel like a part of the processTrain the staff at the appropriate time (not too soon or too late), and provide ongoing trainingMotorola story – sent out a weekly newsletter just for the changeover project with one tidbit a week to get people excited and keep them informed about the upcoming changes
When implementing new processes or technologies, you need to measure your progress/improvementWhat stats will you need to report your success to upper management?How will you measure it?Take measurements of your current process for a baseline to compare against later after you implement the new process – management will want to know that their investment in new processes and technologies is paying offHow do you measure success?Defects: This includes conformance to standards and guidelines, inconsistencies, outdated content, spelling errors, incorrect values, incomplete data, duplicate information, and translation errors due to writing methods.Usability: This includes the accessibility of the content (is it readily available in the right formats?); the organization, navigation and design (is it easy to find the information needed?); and the clarity of the content (are there definitions, tutorials or other helpful context that make the content easy to understand?).Measurements may include:Quality of docs:monitor the call volume to technical support/help desk: Ask the customer if their issue is due to confusing or incomplete documentation.Measure the time it takes to find information: Test a focus group of people on the usability of the content and see how long it takes them to work through it. Process:Count the number of steps it takes to complete a processMeasure the time and/or cost to produce a doc or do translationsShow where redundancies have been eliminatedGE story – put in a new process…working well….took measurements…but forgot to take measurements of the old process, so they had nothing to compare against to show the progress
Technical solution:What’s the cost to buy multiple tools? (scheduling tools, business process management tools, production tools, review tools)Cost to integrate multiple tools to make them talk to each other?Is it even possible?Will you end up doing manual input from one tool to another to get the info you need?
You need tools to support your processesUsing a CMS to manage Business ProcessesMultilingual Content, at the component level if you have a CCMSBusiness processes (workflow, collaboration, review, translation mgmt)Project management All in one place for easier PM
Obviously, a CMS manages content.Maintains quality and consistency with content reuse and terminology managementManages multiple simultaneous releases with branching so you know which version is whichStores all content – multilingual, documents, content components, multimedia – all in one spot Powerful searching and easy retrievalProvides an audit trail with tracked historical records
But did you know that a CMS can also manage the business processes surrounding your content?Extend the use of the CMS by taking advantage of more features (depending on the CMS you select, features may include):Integrated Workflow manages the project tasks and schedules, at the module level in a CCMS – content and workflow are directly linked – take your blueprint of your processes and implement it using the CMS’s workflowWorkflow prioritizes workload automatically by due dates for staffWorkflow ensures all steps are occurring in the process – no one is skipped, no shortcuts are taken to meet schedules and sacrifice qualityAutomates processes – find areas of busy work and let the CMS do the work (when content is approved, workflow will kick off an automated translation or publishing process) – this can lessen the workload of your staff, especially if your staff was cut and is now doing more with less
Integrated Collaborative review Manages internal and remote contributions from SMEs and reviewersProvides notification of assignmentsEnforces schedulesProvides remote collaboration between reviewers and prevents people working in silosAutomates updates to the contentTracks suggestions, accepts and rejects for managing the review process and for an audit trail after the review
For companies dealing in international business, translations are a huge management issueA CMS with translation management capabilities can:Track and coordinate updates to translated contentManage translation project schedulingManage translation reuse in the CMS when translations are stored thereManage translation costs since only reused content is sent outMonitor costs – compare and analyze costs charged by each vendorManage vendors – tracks who translated which content for future use, TM purposes
Notifications provide information for users:Alert staff when important events happen (ie, when new release is started, when a project is approved, etc)Automatic communications: Keep staff or mgmt in the loop without chasing people for infoAccurate info: no mis-info due to forgetfulness or confusion
TRACKINGof entire projects and its sub-projectsBy date – are we on schedule? When is it due?By user – who is working on the project? Who performed previous tasks?By task – which task are we on; where are we in the process?Great information for project status meetings and daily management of projects and sub-projects
PROJECT STATUS & PROJECTIONSA good CMS alerts you to late projectsBetter yet, alerts for potentially late projects; before they become an issue, you can address it and get it back on track – how? [next screen]
ADJUSTMENTSProject management functionality in a good CMS provides flexibility to reassign users or reschedule projects as needed.If Sandy is backlogged with work, her tasks can be reassigned to Linda, who isn’t as busy.If a project is just plagued with problems that should not be released, then reschedule the project so it doesn’t go out the door as a mess.On-the-fly flexibility to adjust projects as needed.
DETAILED REPORTINGAdvanced CMSs give detailed project information that is sortable and filterable for reportingInformation that will give guidance for future decisions – provides enlightenmentSort information to analyze:Which tasks always seem to run late or become a bottleneck?Which employees or teams seem to always fall behind? Or always get tasks looped back to them for rework/poor quality?Which content gets updated most often?
A CMS archives historical project and process informationBy datesBy staffBy contentBy processIf you work in a regulated environment, a CMS’s project management tool can provide the detailed audit trail required.
In summary:Strategies for better project management of tech docs include:Forward thinking managerial planning+ Smart choice of technical solutions= easier, integrated project management without adding cost or additional manual work