When customer expectations uproot your documentation processes and PDF content offering, how do you mobilize a team that has used the same tools and processes to create book-based, unstructured content for over two decades? When new demands drive the change for structured content to support a myriad of users and multi-channel publishing, the logical choice is a DITA workflow.
Join Ciena, The Content Era and Adobe Tech Comm at LavaCon 2017 Portland for an immersive workshop that highlights how a DITA workflow is possible with familiar tools, a modest budget, and creative handling of the content.
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
GyanSys Inc. is an IT systems integrator focusing on the SAP, Microsoft & Salesforce platform. We have demonstrated steady growth over the last 10 years, with over 75 active customers and 500+ employees globally
GyanSys Inc. is a global IT systems integrator and has experienced consistent growth over the last 10 years. We have over 75 active customers and over 500 employees globally. We services encompass the SAP, Microsoft & Salesforce technology platforms
LAKKI LLC : It Is a rapidly growing, an ambitious and innovative IT consulting company. With perfection, this concern started by group of highly skilled, enthusiastic and young engineers with thorough domain knowledge and understanding plus excellent technical expertise in order to deliver wide spectrum of IT services. http://www.lakki.us/about-us/
itmWEB Group LLC - Company Overview - December 2013Russ Finney
Our network of IT professionals and experts provides advisory, research, leadership development, innovation, and project management services for medium-sized companies, similar sized corporate divisions, and mid-sized government agencies.
itmWEB has been built through decades of people-to-people association through projects, companies, events, and experiences. Many of us are speakers, writers, and thought leaders in technology. We love a challenge - and we always focus on innovative and tangible results.
Established in Austin, Texas in 1996, itmWEB has been providing white paper and research materials to the worldwide IT community for almost two decades - and our methodologies, forums, blogs, research, and white papers have been visited millions of times.
We continue to produce focused viewpoints and research for both the IT community as well as our clients - and all of these materials can be found in the various sections of our website. Currently we are focused on topics like mobile, analytics and big data, infrastructure and application rationalization, agile development, social networking and collaboration, and cloud technologies.
We deliver our services through on-site workshops, scheduled retreats, and traditional project engagements. We work either on-site or through remote means depending on scope and budget. We utilize methodologies like VBAM™ as a foundation for building our proposed solutions.
Let us help you to build your organization's strategic success!
Uploaded by: Russ Finney
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
GyanSys Inc. is an IT systems integrator focusing on the SAP, Microsoft & Salesforce platform. We have demonstrated steady growth over the last 10 years, with over 75 active customers and 500+ employees globally
GyanSys Inc. is a global IT systems integrator and has experienced consistent growth over the last 10 years. We have over 75 active customers and over 500 employees globally. We services encompass the SAP, Microsoft & Salesforce technology platforms
LAKKI LLC : It Is a rapidly growing, an ambitious and innovative IT consulting company. With perfection, this concern started by group of highly skilled, enthusiastic and young engineers with thorough domain knowledge and understanding plus excellent technical expertise in order to deliver wide spectrum of IT services. http://www.lakki.us/about-us/
itmWEB Group LLC - Company Overview - December 2013Russ Finney
Our network of IT professionals and experts provides advisory, research, leadership development, innovation, and project management services for medium-sized companies, similar sized corporate divisions, and mid-sized government agencies.
itmWEB has been built through decades of people-to-people association through projects, companies, events, and experiences. Many of us are speakers, writers, and thought leaders in technology. We love a challenge - and we always focus on innovative and tangible results.
Established in Austin, Texas in 1996, itmWEB has been providing white paper and research materials to the worldwide IT community for almost two decades - and our methodologies, forums, blogs, research, and white papers have been visited millions of times.
We continue to produce focused viewpoints and research for both the IT community as well as our clients - and all of these materials can be found in the various sections of our website. Currently we are focused on topics like mobile, analytics and big data, infrastructure and application rationalization, agile development, social networking and collaboration, and cloud technologies.
We deliver our services through on-site workshops, scheduled retreats, and traditional project engagements. We work either on-site or through remote means depending on scope and budget. We utilize methodologies like VBAM™ as a foundation for building our proposed solutions.
Let us help you to build your organization's strategic success!
Uploaded by: Russ Finney
Presentation by Mobile Business Developer Stijn Wijndaele (ACA IT-Solutions) - I was asked by Agoria , Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association , to give a presentation on what it takes for enterprises to start their 'mobile first’ journey.
As you will notice through the slides, I decided to present this journey as a mobile lifecycle with the following aspects :
- SPOT: Spotting mobile opportunities
- STORM: Facilitate innovation in your company by applying the STORM methodology (derived from the 'Product Design Sprint' principle)
- BUILD: What development approach should we choose for ? Should we go native , hybrid , … ?
- DEPLOY: How to automate your deployment cycle ?
- GUARD: How to maintain and protect the quality of our mobile solution ?
- SUPPORT: How to give our solution the attention it deserves ?
In case you would be interested to retrieve more information on this lifecycle, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn and/or Email.
Digital Transformation through Product and Service InnovationAmazon Web Services
Today large enterprises are under pressure to innovate faster than ever, drive down costs, and deliver increased value to their organisations through more responsive and flexible IT. Organisations that are shifting to a data-driven, insight-powered culture will be in the best position to defend, differentiate and disrupt in their respective industries, potentially expanding their business with new products and revenue sources. Learn how some leading companies are leveraging data – from IoT sources, social sources, enterprise, partners, competitors, and consumers – to unlock new sources of insight.
Derek Ewell, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, ASEAN
Senthil Ramani, Managing Director, APAC Resources, Digital Business Lead, Accenture
This special event takes place with Keynote speaker Paul Gainham, Senior Director, EMEA Marketing at Juniper Networks. Paul will be joining the panel discussion to discuss the following;
Building the Relationship between Sales and Marketing
Hosted by: Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG), in partnership with The Sales Professionals Network from regionalskills.ie.
OpenText Professional Services – Managed Services, Consulting Services and Le...OpenText
Whether is it Managed Services, Consulting Services or Learning Services, OpenText has your EIM needs covered on-premises, in the cloud or in Hybrid environments.
OpenText Optimize Services – Optimizing the use, productivity and adoption of...OpenText
Optimize Services programs provide a wide range of services for your EIM solution post implementation to deliver continuity and stability for on premises, in the cloud or hybrid environments.
Alexander Lum - Breaking the Mold: How to Build a Wickedly Effective Business...LavaConConference
In this keynote, Alexander will discuss an alternative way beside typical ROI business case to obtain funding for your key content development strategy initiative.
Building an Effective Business Case in a Real Practical World? | Alexander LumLavaConConference
Can’t get funding for your key Content Development Strategic initiative?
Business case is an integral part of the planning and securing funds/resources for your initiatives. It becomes more important as the cost and complexity of the project increases.
Why your proposal to proceed is DEAD before it even gets off the ground; perhaps due to poor business case?
Alexander will discuss an alternative way beside typical ROI business case to obtain funding for your key content development strategy initiative.
The Business Case provides evidence that the project is a good investment.
The attendees will learn:
– How to make your Business Case properly?
– Why do you need a Business Case?
– When should you write a Business Case?
– What is in a Business Case?
– What angle should you consider for your Strategic Business Case?
– How Your Ecosystem impact your Business Case?
– What is Important to consider in your research data analysis?
– What do you need to consider gaining corporate backing and budget?
At the end of this session, you will gain some insights on some elements that you will need to consider for an effective Business Case that matches the purpose and the funding to secure your Strategic Initiatives.
In short, an effective business case justifies:
– Why a project should be undertaken,
– Why a stakeholder partner should invest in it, and
– Why the project represents a worthy expenditure of funds.
De informatie die verzameld, opgeslagen, beheerd en gedeeld wordt met collaboration en social media applicaties zoals SharePoint en Yammer kan waardevolle inzichten opleveren voor managers. Zo kunnen zij inzicht krijgen in het gebruik en beheer van applicaties, of de standaarden gebruikt worden en/of welke thema’s leven onder medewerkers. Deze informatie kan gebruikt worden voor het nemen van slimme beslissingen die zorgen voor meer efficiëntie, kostenreductie, medewerkerstevredenheid en de naleving van wet en regelgeving.
Design makeover of a sample corporate presentation introducing company to stakeholders. This makeover uses PowerPoint 2013 and templates from All PPT Templates site to make the slides more visual, engaging and meaningful.
Een nieuwe manier van werken verdient een nieuwe manier om business cases te maken.
Realistisch, gespecificeerd, meetbaar, haalbaar en passend binnen de doelstellingen van de organisatie. In deze webinar bespreken we de verschillende stappen om tot een business case te komen, hoe we de scope en beoogde resultaten duidelijk definiëren en hoe we de verschillende belanghebbenden kunnen overtuigen om zo draagvlak en budget te krijgen.
List solutions PMX Agency direct mail capabilities agenciesDan Marcelis
PMX AGENCY is a leading, independent direct mail, offline and digital marketing agency. We partner with our clients to identify, acquire, and retain their best customers across channels. We combine best-of-breed solutions along with the business strategy, media and creative expertise, and analytical insights necessary to deliver superior results that positively impact our client’s brands.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers share, and that all customers should strive for.
Using Agile methods and practices for the management of work does not necessarily lead to an adaptive business.
So what do Lean and Agile principles tell us about the way we need to design, build and operate modern businesses? Can we design organisations that are adaptive, innovative and engaging for customers, employees, managers and leaders alike? The presentation will demonstrate the importance of creating the right work-climate for Agile to manage work more effectively and to go further ensuring the business as a whole can become highly adaptive to their customers and the marketplace.
Description: Lean and Agile workplaces depend heavily on the management choices for work design, measurement, rewards, team structures, working practices, methods and approaches to management and staff relationships.
These choices combine in complex ways to create a perception of ‘how it feels to work here’, which we call the ‘work-climate’. Research has demonstrated that work-climate is a proven predictor of long-term business performance.
By examining the ‘work-climate’, we can then ask the following questions:
What are the best choices for managers and staff to make?
What needs to be eradicated?
What needs to be redesigned?
How do we put the customer and our employees at the heart of the business?
The survey provides direction and demonstrable evidence the work-climate is moving in the right direction to support Lean and Agile working.
Presentation by Mobile Business Developer Stijn Wijndaele (ACA IT-Solutions) - I was asked by Agoria , Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association , to give a presentation on what it takes for enterprises to start their 'mobile first’ journey.
As you will notice through the slides, I decided to present this journey as a mobile lifecycle with the following aspects :
- SPOT: Spotting mobile opportunities
- STORM: Facilitate innovation in your company by applying the STORM methodology (derived from the 'Product Design Sprint' principle)
- BUILD: What development approach should we choose for ? Should we go native , hybrid , … ?
- DEPLOY: How to automate your deployment cycle ?
- GUARD: How to maintain and protect the quality of our mobile solution ?
- SUPPORT: How to give our solution the attention it deserves ?
In case you would be interested to retrieve more information on this lifecycle, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn and/or Email.
Digital Transformation through Product and Service InnovationAmazon Web Services
Today large enterprises are under pressure to innovate faster than ever, drive down costs, and deliver increased value to their organisations through more responsive and flexible IT. Organisations that are shifting to a data-driven, insight-powered culture will be in the best position to defend, differentiate and disrupt in their respective industries, potentially expanding their business with new products and revenue sources. Learn how some leading companies are leveraging data – from IoT sources, social sources, enterprise, partners, competitors, and consumers – to unlock new sources of insight.
Derek Ewell, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, ASEAN
Senthil Ramani, Managing Director, APAC Resources, Digital Business Lead, Accenture
This special event takes place with Keynote speaker Paul Gainham, Senior Director, EMEA Marketing at Juniper Networks. Paul will be joining the panel discussion to discuss the following;
Building the Relationship between Sales and Marketing
Hosted by: Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG), in partnership with The Sales Professionals Network from regionalskills.ie.
OpenText Professional Services – Managed Services, Consulting Services and Le...OpenText
Whether is it Managed Services, Consulting Services or Learning Services, OpenText has your EIM needs covered on-premises, in the cloud or in Hybrid environments.
OpenText Optimize Services – Optimizing the use, productivity and adoption of...OpenText
Optimize Services programs provide a wide range of services for your EIM solution post implementation to deliver continuity and stability for on premises, in the cloud or hybrid environments.
Alexander Lum - Breaking the Mold: How to Build a Wickedly Effective Business...LavaConConference
In this keynote, Alexander will discuss an alternative way beside typical ROI business case to obtain funding for your key content development strategy initiative.
Building an Effective Business Case in a Real Practical World? | Alexander LumLavaConConference
Can’t get funding for your key Content Development Strategic initiative?
Business case is an integral part of the planning and securing funds/resources for your initiatives. It becomes more important as the cost and complexity of the project increases.
Why your proposal to proceed is DEAD before it even gets off the ground; perhaps due to poor business case?
Alexander will discuss an alternative way beside typical ROI business case to obtain funding for your key content development strategy initiative.
The Business Case provides evidence that the project is a good investment.
The attendees will learn:
– How to make your Business Case properly?
– Why do you need a Business Case?
– When should you write a Business Case?
– What is in a Business Case?
– What angle should you consider for your Strategic Business Case?
– How Your Ecosystem impact your Business Case?
– What is Important to consider in your research data analysis?
– What do you need to consider gaining corporate backing and budget?
At the end of this session, you will gain some insights on some elements that you will need to consider for an effective Business Case that matches the purpose and the funding to secure your Strategic Initiatives.
In short, an effective business case justifies:
– Why a project should be undertaken,
– Why a stakeholder partner should invest in it, and
– Why the project represents a worthy expenditure of funds.
De informatie die verzameld, opgeslagen, beheerd en gedeeld wordt met collaboration en social media applicaties zoals SharePoint en Yammer kan waardevolle inzichten opleveren voor managers. Zo kunnen zij inzicht krijgen in het gebruik en beheer van applicaties, of de standaarden gebruikt worden en/of welke thema’s leven onder medewerkers. Deze informatie kan gebruikt worden voor het nemen van slimme beslissingen die zorgen voor meer efficiëntie, kostenreductie, medewerkerstevredenheid en de naleving van wet en regelgeving.
Design makeover of a sample corporate presentation introducing company to stakeholders. This makeover uses PowerPoint 2013 and templates from All PPT Templates site to make the slides more visual, engaging and meaningful.
Een nieuwe manier van werken verdient een nieuwe manier om business cases te maken.
Realistisch, gespecificeerd, meetbaar, haalbaar en passend binnen de doelstellingen van de organisatie. In deze webinar bespreken we de verschillende stappen om tot een business case te komen, hoe we de scope en beoogde resultaten duidelijk definiëren en hoe we de verschillende belanghebbenden kunnen overtuigen om zo draagvlak en budget te krijgen.
List solutions PMX Agency direct mail capabilities agenciesDan Marcelis
PMX AGENCY is a leading, independent direct mail, offline and digital marketing agency. We partner with our clients to identify, acquire, and retain their best customers across channels. We combine best-of-breed solutions along with the business strategy, media and creative expertise, and analytical insights necessary to deliver superior results that positively impact our client’s brands.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers share, and that all customers should strive for.
Using Agile methods and practices for the management of work does not necessarily lead to an adaptive business.
So what do Lean and Agile principles tell us about the way we need to design, build and operate modern businesses? Can we design organisations that are adaptive, innovative and engaging for customers, employees, managers and leaders alike? The presentation will demonstrate the importance of creating the right work-climate for Agile to manage work more effectively and to go further ensuring the business as a whole can become highly adaptive to their customers and the marketplace.
Description: Lean and Agile workplaces depend heavily on the management choices for work design, measurement, rewards, team structures, working practices, methods and approaches to management and staff relationships.
These choices combine in complex ways to create a perception of ‘how it feels to work here’, which we call the ‘work-climate’. Research has demonstrated that work-climate is a proven predictor of long-term business performance.
By examining the ‘work-climate’, we can then ask the following questions:
What are the best choices for managers and staff to make?
What needs to be eradicated?
What needs to be redesigned?
How do we put the customer and our employees at the heart of the business?
The survey provides direction and demonstrable evidence the work-climate is moving in the right direction to support Lean and Agile working.
How to Bring Suppliers to the Ariba NetworkSAP Ariba
Every great transformation starts with the end in mind. Enabling suppliers on the Ariba Network is no different. Join this session and learn from the experts as they share how they have successfully enabled suppliers and achieved great results in getting their spend and documents digitized on the Ariba Network. You'll hear the perspective of suppliers, buyers, and the SAP Ariba team – starting with the up-front business case and diving into the details of the actual enablement. You will also learn about exciting new Ariba Network developments that support SAP Ariba’s vision to help buyers and suppliers simplify commerce with a single platform, including a new, free supplier enablement option and improved supplier packaging and pricing.
Keith Schengili-Roberts - DITA Worst PracticesJack Molisani
While people are interested in hearing about successes, we can actually learn more from failure. Not only do we discover what not to do, but also how to avoid the circumstances that led to it. Presenter Keith Schengili-Roberts has seen a lot of good and bad things happen to DITA implementations over the years, and part of his job at IXIASOFT is to investigate what works, what doesn’t, and why. Listen to his stories on the best (worst) DITA practices!
LavaCon 2017 - Developing Your Edge: Getting a Seat at the Customer’s TableJack Molisani
In many businesses, Sales account teams closely guard and regulate contact with customers. I have heard of, and have experienced situations where technical communications staff are refused access to customers unless there is a major issue. Customer engagement is the linchpin to understanding requirements and delivering value. It is the critical factor between celebrating success and wasting cycles. My session explores the idea of getting communications professionals to overcome the trust and perception deficits we often face.
A large part of the problem is the perception of how we communicate and a fear of what we’ll say. This mentality impedes and undermines our value proposition. I’ll share ideas and anecdotes about what can we do to:
LavaCon 2017 - How Modern Analytics Will Turn Your Technical Content Into a R...Jack Molisani
Understanding how product documentation is consumed can fuel your company with data that has the potential to transform operations and impact decisions. To gain this insight, you need to change the way you track and mine the behavior of users when they search, read and interact with your technical content. By combining the latest delivery, text-mining and analytics technologies, you will transform tech content into a sensor and its delivery into a data generator.
After reviewing the flaws of the “old” approaches to content analytics, we will study how to properly capture the interactions of users with content. We will also explore the different levels of value that we can derive from modern delivery, text-mining and analytics. We will see how those new technologies can multiply the value of tech content. And we will learn how tech content can be impactful for many different activities and constituencies of the company, gathering more support and becoming more strategic.
LavaCon 2017 - Agile Localization: Building Bridges Between Translation Quali...Jack Molisani
Staying in sync with the rapid cycles of Agile software development can be a challenge for any technical communicator, and even more so when localization is involved. Localization includes both the technical and linguistic aspects of translating software and documentation into other languages. You can be a hero in your organization by creating a smooth process to build a bridge between the seemingly incompatible processes of agile development and localization.
Content moves around. It passes back and forth between authoring, editing, reviewing, and publishing before ever reaching its intended audience. Each touch point creates change, but often that change is elusive or unknown. In regulated industries such as healthcare, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals, proving that you have control over content change is a vital capability. How can you gain and demonstrate that control and how do you present an audit trail of change to the relevant audiences in an appropriate format?
LavaCon 2017 - Much Ado About Templates: Reduce the Learning Curve and Increa...Jack Molisani
How did our team of five information specialists and 100 SMEs, who provide content for a worldwide audience of 3,500 service technicians in a regulated industry, move from Word to XML? We adapted – and used templates! Since we were used to Word templates, it made sense to mimic that for simplicity in training and transition. Templates provide a built-in structure and allow customization of the user experience. Please join us as we expose our experiences with templates in XML.
LavaCon 2017 - Building an Enterprisewide Content Platform—and Why DITA will ...Jack Molisani
Breaking down content silos requires an enterprise-wide strategy that serves a number of distinct departments, creators, reviewers, and consumers. However, an enterprise-wide strategy that requires an enterprise-wide deployment of DITA will very likely fail. DITA simply is not made for ALL the content types and workflows within an organization, which usually span support, marketing, product documentation, legal, and more. In this session, we’ll focus on why an enterprise-wide content strategy is important, alternatives to DITA, and how to get started.
LavaCon 2017 - Take the Risk, Embrace the Change!Jack Molisani
Hoa Aldous has made many difficult choices throughout her life. From escaping Vietnam to opting out of an arranged marriage, she’s had to risk it all on more than one occasion.
In this keynote, Hoa will share her life experiences, how she assessed the risks she’s faced, and that embracing the resulting changes can often lead to the experience you were looking for all along.
LavaCon 2017 - Structured Content Authoring For All!Jack Molisani
Many say “Structured Content Authoring is too complex.” But organizations have no choice: to keep content consistent, findable and manageable, we simply must write and store in a structured format. Semantic tagging, re-use, targeting, conditions, references, all are essential and valuable features that form the essence of Structured Content schemas. If we simply ‘strip complexity’ –for ‘lightweight authoring’- chances are fair that we lose much of this value. The question is: how to make Structured Content Authoring a mainstream activity?
LavaCon 2017 - Building Catwalks Between Silos: Using Taxonomy to Drive Engag...Jack Molisani
While content marketing can improve brand preference, it’s hard to link it to product information directly while maintaining an authentic voice. Conversely, product documentation is perceived as authentic and trustworthy — a potentially powerful marketing asset itself — but can be hard to find and hard work to read. This live use case shows how content marketing can link customers to docs in a relevant, contextual, and scalable way by combining taxonomy and minimalist structured content.
LavaCon 2017 - Getting Dragged Along? Start Charting Your Team’s Course with ...Jack Molisani
To meet the demand for content, do you take a “peanut butter” approach and spread your resources evenly – but thinly – across the whole product? Or do you grease the squeakiest wheel, which means you neglect a wheel that’s more vital to the business? Either way, outside forces dictate how you’ll use your resources. Soon you’ll have a lot of mediocre content that doesn’t represent your team’s value. And that makes it hard to get headcount and funding.
LavaCon 2017 - DITA: Start Small, Grow Big Using Open Source ToolsJack Molisani
You’re considering using DITA and would like to try it out without incurring significant upfront costs, but also keeping your options open longer-term. Where do you start? How will you approach the challenges of content creation, content management, and publishing your content? There are in fact plenty of options. The good news is that XML and DITA are open standards. This has led to a healthy ecosystem with quality commercial and inter-operable open source tools, that do away with vendor lock-in and keep operating costs down. We will discuss the three challenges, show an example of how end-to-end solutions can be built based upon Git and other open source tools. In fact, the result may be better than you’d expect.
LavaCon 2017 - Feed the Goldfish in 19 Minutes and 52 SecondsJack Molisani
Content consumption patterns have dramatically changed over the last decade. The maximum selective sustained attention span of a human being is about 20 minutes. The length of this talk. Latest research shows that the transient attention span of human beings has even gone down from 12 to 8 seconds over the last decade – even a goldfish has a longer attention span.
To communicate technical content in the future successfully, we need to move from drops to drips, deliver smaller content chunks, improve findability and searchability and tailor content to the content consumer’s role and context automatically.
LavaCon 2017 - How UX and Content Can (and Should) Work TogetherJack Molisani
The Farmer and the Cowhand Should Be Friends, or, How UX and Content Can (and Should) Work Together.
Let’s be frank: If UX designers had their way, the only words you’d ever see on the web are lorem ipsum. And yet, words — from interfaces to microcopy to long narratives — are integral to the usability and delight of any web product. Based on his years of UX experience and love of good content, Dylan will talk about ways to bring the two sides together to make better things on the web.
LavaCon 2017 - Implementing a Customer-driven Transition to DITA Content: A S...Jack Molisani
When customer expectations uproot your documentation processes and PDF content offering, how do you mobilize a team that has used the same tools and processes to create book-based, unstructured content for over two decades? When new demands drive the change for structured content to support a myriad of users and multi-channel publishing, the logical choice is a DITA workflow.
Join Ciena, The Content Era and Adobe Tech Comm at LavaCon 2017 Portland for an immersive workshop that highlights how a DITA workflow is possible with familiar tools, a modest budget, and creative handling of the content.
LavaCon 2017 - Evolving the New Content OrderJack Molisani
We are at a critical moment in history, with knowledge bursting at the seams of our organizations. Many of us still struggle to manage numerous modes of omnichannel content engagement: published, interactive, and automated. The solution requires vision to move towards a new order of content intelligence encompassing our organization’s entire knowledge graph. It requires spanning silos, especially between marcomm and techcomm. Join Cruce Saunders as he explores the new content stack, and how to future proof content assets to meet the demands of ever-evolving customer experiences.
LavaCon 2017 - Managing Stakeholders Across the Content Ecosystem: The Key to...Jack Molisani
Trying to implement an content strategy that supports your customers across their entire journey–or even just sell the idea to decision makers? Having problems getting it to fly? More than any other single aspect, stakeholder management is critical to getting support for and implementing a unified content strategy (or ANY project, for that matter). You need to understand THEIR needs and ensure that you’re communicating continually to quiet objections and move your project forward. And it’s not always easy–especially when you’re leading initiatives across silos and teams with no direct authority. Influencing those stakeholders is key!
In this session, Andrea will discuss the success factors to aim for, and the behaviors that can trip you up, when managing stakeholders to successfully support your clients, solve business problems, and drive revenue and customer loyalty!
LavaCon 2017 - Future-proof Your Content: Beyond Traditional Publishing for S...Jack Molisani
This session delineates why the most common publishing methods in today’s technical space cannot survive into the middle of the next decade. Tools and methodologies are required that are scalable for vast increases of “atomic” content and to dozens of more language targets. Discover what the minimum ingredients are for survival in terms of tools, workflows and content strategies.
LavaCon 2017 - Silos. (And other concepts that make us average)Jack Molisani
Content crosses silos, giving content developers a unique perspective of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Years of experience leads to insight, but can also paralyze innovative ideas.
Has your experience given you tribal knowledge and wisdom, or preconceived notions that are no longer true or helpful?
In this keynote, Megan Gilhooly discusses new ways of thinking that challenge common business trends. She will provide examples highlighting how your ability to think critically and your passion for forging new trends can help you throughout your content career.
LavaCon 2017 - Management Workshop Part 1: Leadership and Management in Techn...Jack Molisani
Some of the unique challenges that Tech Comms managers face are offshoring, outsourcing, vendor management, managing across countries, justification of resources etc. In this workshop we will work with real life scenarios and learn from solutions that have been implemented in organizations to manage and lead effective content management teams. You will be exposed to ideas and and handy tools that we to build your team with a varied set of skills for scalability and longevity.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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
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.
