How to Collaboratively Manage Excel-Based Process Data in SQL Server
Your organization probably uses Excel for a variety of business processes including budgeting, sales revenue forecasting, product demand planning, and project management.
You'll learn how to set up and manage multi-user collaborative processes using Excel as the data form and SQL Server as the data store and process engine.
You'll learn:
* How to enable cell-level collaboration between multiple users using Excel and SQL Server.
* How to effectively integrate desktop Excel-based process data with enterprise applications.
* How to mitigate the limitations normally associated with Excel-to-database connections including record locking (check-in/out), conflict management, and change management and versioning.
Change Manager’s compare, synchronization, data masking, and auditing capabilities let you track and report on changes, roll out new releases, and pinpoint performance problems resulting from changes at the data, schema and database configuration levels.
Our Data Exchanger Solution allows any company using Sage ERP x3 to receive and send information to another company electronically rather than with paper. It converts the information communicated in electronic business documents, such as sales orders, purchase orders, work orders…
The process improvements that our Data Exchanger Solution offers are significant and can be dramatic.
Change Manager’s compare, synchronization, data masking, and auditing capabilities let you track and report on changes, roll out new releases, and pinpoint performance problems resulting from changes at the data, schema and database configuration levels.
Our Data Exchanger Solution allows any company using Sage ERP x3 to receive and send information to another company electronically rather than with paper. It converts the information communicated in electronic business documents, such as sales orders, purchase orders, work orders…
The process improvements that our Data Exchanger Solution offers are significant and can be dramatic.
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/change_manager
Embarcadero Technologies is the leader in database tools and developer software. Embarcadero® Change Manager™ offers database administrators and developers a powerful set of tools to simplify and automate the database change management lifecycle. Change Manager is a database comparison, alter, and synchronization tool that generates reports and reconciles differences between databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
Introducing Open XDX Technology for Open Data API developmentBizagi Inc
Introduction to the concepts of Open-XDX for building Open Data APIs using the CAMeditor toolkit. See also http://www.verifyXML.org for working online demonstration site.
For online demonstration site please see: http://www.verifyxml.org
SAP Business Objects Architecture
SAP Business Objects Universe Design
SAP Business Objects 12 Reporting Tools
SAP Business Objects Web intelligence Reporting Strength and limitations
SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports Architecture, Strength and limitations
SAP Business Objects Issues, performance Tuning.
SAP Business Objects Xcelcius Architecture, strength and weakness.
SAP Business Objects Universe Design Issues, performance tunning
SAP Business Objects SAP source Vs Non SAP source
SAP Business Objects Security
SAP Business Objects Application security lifecycle
SAP Business Objects Data Integrator, MDX, Cube
Overview SAP BO components, SAP BO Architecture, 16 reporting flavour of SAP BO,
More details: (blog: http://sandyclassic.wordpress.com ,
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandepsharma )
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/change_manager
Embarcadero Technologies is the leader in database tools and developer software. Embarcadero® Change Manager™ offers database administrators and developers a powerful set of tools to simplify and automate the database change management lifecycle. Change Manager is a database comparison, alter, and synchronization tool that generates reports and reconciles differences between databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
Introducing Open XDX Technology for Open Data API developmentBizagi Inc
Introduction to the concepts of Open-XDX for building Open Data APIs using the CAMeditor toolkit. See also http://www.verifyXML.org for working online demonstration site.
For online demonstration site please see: http://www.verifyxml.org
SAP Business Objects Architecture
SAP Business Objects Universe Design
SAP Business Objects 12 Reporting Tools
SAP Business Objects Web intelligence Reporting Strength and limitations
SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports Architecture, Strength and limitations
SAP Business Objects Issues, performance Tuning.
SAP Business Objects Xcelcius Architecture, strength and weakness.
SAP Business Objects Universe Design Issues, performance tunning
SAP Business Objects SAP source Vs Non SAP source
SAP Business Objects Security
SAP Business Objects Application security lifecycle
SAP Business Objects Data Integrator, MDX, Cube
Overview SAP BO components, SAP BO Architecture, 16 reporting flavour of SAP BO,
More details: (blog: http://sandyclassic.wordpress.com ,
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandepsharma )
Self service BI with sql server 2008 R2 and microsoft power pivot shortEduardo Castro
In this presentation we summarize BI improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2 and PowerPivot.
Regards,
Dr. Eduardo Castro
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)James Serra
Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.
Building a business intelligence architecture fit for the 21st century by Jon...Mark Tapley
Objectives of the presentation:
To record some history –what has happened in the past that makes the future quite challenging.
To provide real examples of BI at work –good and bad.
To illustrate the nature of data and why it has become so important in driving forward
the business in the 21stcentury.
To outline a way to align technology with the business so that efforts and budget are spent
in a way that will enable the future rather that support the past.
To propose a set of principles and ideas that can guide a company in a way to make data available to all who have the penchant to turn it into useful and valuable information.
To describe the new organisation unit that will be needed to realise the dream.
Architecting for Massive Scalability - St. Louis Day of .NET 2011 - Aug 6, 2011Eric D. Boyd
The Cloud now makes seemingly infinite amounts of computing power accessible to everyone. However, to maximize this power, your applications need to scale. In this session, we will explore patterns that enable massive scalability. We will examine Brewer’s CAP Theorem and contrast it to the ACID principles that guide traditional LOB applications. And finally, we will explore how to apply these patterns when building applications for the Cloud using Windows Azure.
The Business Value of Business IntelligenceSenturus
Learn about various BI architectures and approaches, as well as a comparison of different vendors’ BI offerings. See a demonstration of OLAP cube building. View the video recording and download this deck: http://www.senturus.com/resources/the-business-value-of-business-intelligence/
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
What's New with BI in SQL Server Denali (SQL11)Dan English
During this session we are going to go over some of the new BI features that have been enhanced and added in SQL Server "Denali" (SQL11). We will look at new features that have been added into Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Along with this we will talk about and go over the new report authoring tool "Crescent" showing how this tool will provide you the ability to access, explore, and visualize your data in a whole new way and have fun at the same time.
21st Century Service Oriented ArchitectureBob Rhubart
Service Oriented Architecture has evolved from concept to reality in the last decade. The right methodology coupled with mature SOA technologies has helped customers demonstrate success in both innovation and ROI. In this session you will learn how Oracle SOA Suite’s orchestration, virtualization, and governance capabilities provide the infrastructure to run mission critical business and system applications. And we’ll take a special look at the convergence of SOA & BPM using Oracle’s Unified technology stack.
(As presented by Samrat Ray at Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Chicago, October 24, 2011.)
Extending the reach of the business application to more users in the organization leads to better data management and better access to information.
After a short intro on Microsoft Dynamics AX you will learn about the new MS Office Add-ins for Microsoft Dynamics AX and discover the mobile capabilities for end users within the travel and expense module.
Learn how to create state-of-the-art, self-service BI solutions for Dynamics AX 2012 using SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for SharePoint, BISM and Power View.
Angel Abundez of DesignMind explains how to build and automate data sets and data models in Excel using the Power BI toolset. You'll see how to pull data from a variety of on-premise and cloud data sources to familiarize yourself with the latest capabilities of Power Query and Power Pivot. Then you'll learn about the software required to automate your Power BI analysis whether you are trying to refresh your Excel workbooks on a file server, in SharePoint Online, or SharePoint. on-premise.
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) - A Practical Introduction Mark Ginnebaugh
Patrick Sheehan of Microsoft covers platform architecture, data warehousing methodology, and multi-dimensional cube development.
You will learn:
* How to develop and deploy data cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
* Optimal data warehouse methodology for use with SSAS
* Tips/tricks for designing & building cubes over no warehouse/suboptimal source system (it happens)
* Cube processing types - How/why to use each
* Cube design practices + How to build and deploy cubes!
Platfora - An Analytics Sandbox In A World Of Big DataMark Ginnebaugh
As Big Data becomes the norm in dealing with data volume, variety, and velocity, it becomes increasingly harder for the Data Analyst to understand and work with data sets. To overcome this we introduce Platfora, a Hadoop backed data analysis framework which nicely complements more traditional data warehousing and BI solutions. This presentation covers ingestion of new data and building of data sets and visualizations,in a system that requires no more work than interacting with a graphical interface. You'll see examples of peer-to-peer lending and how insights on loan applicants and their risk profiles can be quickly revealed with no ETL development or demanding data transformation.
Microsoft SQL Server Relational Databases and Primary KeysMark Ginnebaugh
SQL Server guru Ami Levin explains some of the fundamental design principles of relational databases: normalization rules, key selection, and the controversies associated with these issues from a practical perspective.
This presentation hits on the benefits and challenges of using different types of keys - natural, surrogates, artificial, and others.
Each key offers benefits from multiple aspects: data consistency, application development, maintenance, portability and performance.
Ami Levin is a Microsoft MVP and a consultant with SolidQ. Last fall he moved to California from Israel, where he led the Israeli SQL Server User Group.
DesignMind Microsoft Business Intelligence SQL ServerMark Ginnebaugh
DesignMind is a custom software firm in San Francisco specializing in SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, and Microsoft Business Intelligence.
We're a Microsoft Certified Partner with expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Platform, Portals and Collaboration, and Custom Development. Our Business Intelligence team specializes in Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Mobile Business Intelligence, and Self-Service BI.
San Francisco Bay Area SQL Server July 2013 meetingsMark Ginnebaugh
San Francisco Bay Area July 2013 Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence meetings.
Learn more:
www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-SQL-Server-Meetup-Group
www.meetup.com/The-SiliconValley-SQL-Server-User-Group
www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Microsoft-BI-User-Group
Presenter: Ernest Hwang of Practice Fusion > This presentation shows how to simplify your database deployments, ensure that no database changes are overlooked, and implement unit tests using the suite of Red Gate developer tools.
You'll see how Practice Fusion streamlines database deployments in their Integration, Testing, Staging, and Production environments. This frees developers from the burden of maintaining deployment scripts, while reducing the number of overlooked breaking changes to zero.
The demo uses a Windows Azure box as the Jenkins (Continuous Integration) server and several SQL Azure databases (representing Integration and QA environments). The entire repository is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/CF9/Databases.RGDemo), for anyone to download.
You'll learn how to:
* Add your database to source control in under five minutes
* Create a CI Job to validate your database “build”
* Deploy database changes to your environments with a mouse click
* Set up database unit testing using tSQLt
* Avoid problems when implementing Database CI in the “real-world”
Ernest Hwang is a Principal Software Engineer at Practice Fusion in San Francisco. He uses Red Gate SQL Source Control, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, and SQL Test to automate Practice Fusion's Continuous Integration efforts and instrument database deployments.
Presenter: Ofer Mendelevitch of Hortonworks > Learn the benefits of big data for data scientists, and how Hadoop and HDInsight fit into the modern data architecture and enable data-driven products.
You'll learn:
* What data science actually means
* The term "data products"
* The benefits of using big data for data scientists
* How Hadoop helps data scientists work with big data
* About HDInsight, the big data platform from Microsoft and Hortonworks
SQL Server implements three different physical operators to perform joins. In this presentation you'll see how each of these operators work plus its advantages and challenges.
You'll learn:
* The logic behind the optimizer's decisions
* Which operator to use for various joins using (semi) real life examples
* How to avoid common join-related pitfalls
Ami Levin is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a Mentor with SolidQ. For the past 14 years, he has been consulting, teaching, writing, and speaking about SQL Server worldwide.
Levin’s areas of expertise are data modeling, database design, T-SQL and performance tuning.
Before moving to California, he led the Israeli SQL Server user group (ISUG) and moderated the Hebrew MSDN SQL Server support forum. Ami is a regular speaker at Microsoft Tech-Ed Israel, Dev Academy, and other SQL Server conferences. He blogs at SQL Server Tuning Blog.
Microsoft PowerPivot & Power View in Excel 2013Mark Ginnebaugh
PowerPivot is an add-in for Excel that empowers business users to create their own tabular data models. Power View is also available in the Excel 2013 client. It was first released as a server-based report authoring tool with SQL Server 2012 and is available in SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise.
You'll learn:
* How to work with the add-in in the Excel 2013 client
* How compelling interactive reports can be created quickly and easily
* The new PowerPivot features - including pie charts, maps, KPIs, hierarchies, drill down/drill up, and report styles
Peter Myers specializes in Microsoft Business Intelligence, and provides mentoring, technical training and course content authoring for SQL Server and Office. Peter has current SQL Server and MCT certifications, and has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) since 2007.
Microsoft Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Lifecycle - The Kimball ApproachMark Ginnebaugh
Data Warehouse - Business Intelligence Lifecycle Overview by Warren Thronthwaite
This slide deck describes the Kimball approach from the best-selling Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition. It was presented to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group in October 2012.
Starting with business requirements and project definition, the lifecycle branches out into three tracks: Technical, Data and Applications. You will learn:
* The major steps in the Lifecycle and what needs to happen in each one.
* Why business requirements are so important and how they influence all major decisions across the entire DW/BI system.
* Key tools for prioritizing business requirements and creating an enterprise information framework.
* How to break up a DW/BI system into doable increments that add real business value and can be completed in a reasonable time frame.
Fusion-io Memory Flash for Microsoft SQL Server 2012Mark Ginnebaugh
You've heard about Solid State Drives (SSDs), and might be using them now. To get dramatically improved IO performance, you need Flash Memory – storage that can be connected to your server’s Bus, and really maximize IO.
Fusion-io is an industry leader in this area, and Sumeet Bansal explains how to best employ this powerful technology. You'll learn:
* The many ways Flash can help your SQL Server performance, while at the same time lowering costs
* How you can use Flash optimally for your SQL Server deployment
* Easy, low risk ways to introduce ioMemory into SQL Server environments to instantly realize significant benefits.
* How to implement ioMemory optimally for the most pervasive configurations of SQL Server
Author: William Brown, Microsoft BI Specialist > This slide presentation covers Microsoft Data Mining functionality from the developer to the end user. In the past, data mining belonged to the deep technical specialist, but the current Microsoft stack allows anyone to create very powerful data mining models. Data mining allows users to find insights that are difficult or impossible to discover with traditional analysis.
You'll learn
* How to get started with Data mining
* The various data mining models and where they can be applied
* How to create models and surface the data to users
* How to use the new Excel Data mining add-in
This presentation lists upcoming events and summer 2012 virtual chapter meetings of the Professional Association for SQL Server. You will find meetings about data warehousing, Big Data, Master Data, Powershell, and virtualization.
Learn more about PASS at www.sqlpass.org
Business Intelligence Dashboard Design Best PracticesMark Ginnebaugh
Microsoft BI expert Dan Bulos spoke on Dashboard Design Best Practices to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group.
This presentation shows techniques for displaying data in a dashboard for maximum impact. Dan also discusses various tools available in the Microsoft BI stack – Reporting Services, Excel, PerformancePoint and the new entry, Power View.
Take a look at Mobile BI on iPad, Windows Phone, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SharePoint with emphasis on data visualization best practices. Angel Abundez explains how design approaches change when launching mission-critical dashboards and reports on smaller screen sizes using touch-screen technology.
Presenter Angel Abundez is a Business Intelligence consultant with DesignMind in San Francisco. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Visualization, and improving business processes using Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. He also works with the new visualizations coming out with PowerPivot, Power View, and SharePoint. Angel is Co-Lead of the Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group and is an active speaker in the SQL Server community.
SQL Server 2012 is the most crucial release of SQL Server to-date. In this slideshow, you'll see how SQL Server 2012 supports mission critical applications 24x7 and gives significant insight into business operations. Presented by Subhash Jawahrani of Microsoft to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group in March 2012.
You'll learn about:
* Mission Critical Apps
* New Business Intelligence features
* Improving business agility with Cloud computing
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data ServicesMark Ginnebaugh
Author: Mark Gschwind, DesignMind
San Francisco, California
Master Data Services had a major upgrade in the SQL Server 2012 release. BI Consultant Mark Gschwind takes you through the new Excel interface, the new Silverlight look and feel, and integration improvements.
Knowing how to use this tool can be a valuable addition to your repertoire as a BI professional, allowing you to address data quality and other challenges.
Mark will show how to create a model, add columns and rows, manage security, and create hierarchies. He demos the new Excel interface and discuss how to allow you to manage master data yourself. He'll touch on how to integrate with a DW, migrating from Dev to Production.
You'll learn:
* How to let users manage dimensions and hierarchies for your DW
* How to create workflows to improve data quality in your DW
* Tips from real-life implementations to help you achieve a successful implementation
Mark Gschwind, Partner at DesignMind, is an expert on data warehousing, OLAP, and ERP migration. He has authored three enterprise data warehouses and over 80 OLAP cubes for 46 clients in a wide range of industries. Mark has certifications in SQL Server and Oracle Essbase.
This slideshow is for IT professionals, data analysts, managers, and anyone looking to drive more productivity from Excel. You will learn how you can effectively leverage the add-ins with your own data and analysis requirements.
One of the pillars of the SQL Server 2008 R2 release is Managed Self-Service BI.
Peter Myers of SolidQ will introduce:
* SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
* SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
The SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel add-in is a key offering in this pillar, and delivers an entirely new analytic experience to Excel 2010. This add-in allows analysts to load and prepare large volumes of data from various sources to create a multidimensional model. The model can be enriched with sophisticated calculations. Then the model can then be used as the source for PivotTable and PivotChart reports.
With the SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint add-in, the Excel workbooks that host the PowerPivot model can be cataloged in SharePoint and exposed as a data source for other Excel and Reporting Services reports. These SharePoint hosted models can then be managed by IT with scheduled data refreshes from the originating data stores.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
2. JB Kuppe
Jb.kuppe@boardwalktech.com
Collaboratively Manage Excel‐Based
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Process Data in SQL Server
Enabling companies to build and maintain competitive advantage through
business process innovation in the collaborative planning space
3. Founded in 2004 ‐ HQ in Palo Alto, CA
Origins in MCAD PDM
Patented Positional Database Technology
Patented “Positional” Database Technology
Product: The Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP)
Application Focus: Collaborative Planning Processes
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Enterprise Reality
IT Perception
IT Perception
Desktop Applications
Business GAP
Intelligence
Data Warehouse
OLAP Reporting
Specialty /Edge Business Intelligence
Applications
Financials
CRM SCM
Edge Apps
Core ERP
Core ERP
“80% of the work”
5. X Denormalized Tables Business Intelligence
Business Focus
Information Reporting Cubes $$$
collection
Can’t contribute to Iteration A: Cleansing and
the Denormalized View schema design
Mapping and Transformation
EAI , BI $$$ Iteration B: Cleansing and
schema changes
Technology Focus
$$ Expensive Iterations
Normalized
Normalized Normalized
Normalized
Table Table
7. Export to
Excel
Email to
Change everyone
history
Maintain data
connection ‐ data
location changes
location changes
Merge in Create multiple views Create dependent
other data for different users data calculation
8. Create
Define schema (create from Excel)
Create a database schema, define entity relationship
Create a database schema, define entity relationship
Manage
Create UI in Excel to match database schema
Create a J2EE or .Net data update layer
Program ability to create new record from Excel
Program access control and consolidation rules into every sheet
connected to RDBMS
Versioning for all schemas has to be programmed
Versioning for all schemas has to be programmed
Change management has to be programmed
Formula support needs to be programmed
Check‐out/in mechanism used to work on data
Only “latest” change wins
Report
For every report, run a SQL query to filter the data, paste it in Excel,
t i t il t
create pivots, email reports
Do process again if data changes/version “old” reports
10. Rows of Data
• Product
Columns of Data
• Customer
• Time
• User
• Business variable
How to Collaborate?
How to Collaborate?
Excel is a business process platform
Emailing does not work
• Position of data drives business logic Excel “Connectors” do not work
• Complex relationships (formulas)
• No change management • Rigid model pushed to spreadsheet
• Flexibility
• Versioning nightmaremanagement UI (colors
Versioning nightmare
• Powerful data management UI (colors,
Powerful data • No persistence
No persistence
• conditional format, picklists)
No central version • No change/audit
• Offline environment/mature data RDBMS
• No access control • No access control
• “Save‐as” local versioning=scenarios
• Data consistency • No positional integrity
12. • Patent awarded 2008
“Positional” Data Structure
‒ Positional cell data management
Versions (R/C Position, Structure, Net Change, User, Time) ‒ Range vs record transaction control
Columns ‒ Single flexible schema
• Excel range creates/drives shareable
database model
database model
User Access 1
Data
Row User Access 2 Data
Range2
• Scalable multi‐user collaboration
User Access 3 Range1
‒ Work “off‐line,” no check‐in/out
‒ Dynamic access control
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‒ “Submit/Refresh” sharing
Business Column
Logic ‒ Centrally manage collaborative data
‒ Net‐change versions vs. overwrite
‒ Cell‐level change tracking
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• Integration with any App/DB
• Application flexibility
‒ One platform, many solutions
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13. Addressability to Business Objects (Table, Row, Column)
Data Ordering (Row, Column)
Referential Integrity limits growth
Referential Integrity limits growth
No Locking – High Concurrency
No Data Overwrite ‐ Versioning
Persistent Transactions
Persistent Transactions
WYSWYG Data Update
14. Sharing data &
formulas
Manager Rep
Refresh Submit
Firewall
Other ERP…
15. Form Interface Model Tabular User Interface Model and Business Logic
Communication Technology Communication Technology Communication Technology Communication Technology
Centralized Business Model and Logic Positional Data Management
Relational Relational Relational Relational
Rigid Data Models Abstract Tabular Data Model
Persistence w/o history Persistence w/o history Persistence with history Persistence with history
1. Business person defines requirements 1. Business person expresses requirements in a
2. Each technology layer looses information Tabular model
3. Each layer introduces rigidity 2. The Model is translated WYSIWYG to the tabular
4. y
Each layer adds cost database so no loss of information
5. Each layer adds latency to change 3. Changes in the Model at UI layer directly drive the
flexible tabular database
6. Every one confirms to centralized model and logic
4. Cost of change is zero
7. Business Person at the top has no control over the
Data Models 5. There is no latency to change
6. Business Logic is embedded in the UI and doesn’t
require conformance by all parties
7. Business person is in full control over the data
model and is fully empowered
17. • General forecasting • Tax platform
o Periodic shift
Periodic shift o Multi entity tax environment (corporate, partnership)
Multi‐entity tax environment (corporate, partnership)
o Aggregation/disaggregation o SME template authoring, management, and
o Re‐alignment propagation
o Exceptions o Tax formula library
o Notifications
N tifi ti o Tax business rules library
Tax business rules library
o Scenario planning o Dynamic taxonomy management
• New product introductions o Rollover services
o Tax item allocation and consolidation
o Product attribute
o Project tax data consolidation
o Phase in/out
o Document management integration
o Plan‐o‐gram driven forecasting
o External data query/integration
o Product master management
• EDI collaboration
EDI collaboration
o Outsourced retail supply planning
o Supplier collaboration
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18. BCP Powered Enterprise Solutions
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Demand Planning/Supply Planning
Sales manager adjustments can be done
at the customer/SKU level or at the
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t i /t it level
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Spreadsheet-based measures &
calculations
Measures & applicable SKUs from
planning SOR
Cell-level, two-way
collaboration
Access control