How Web Sites & Tools Enhance a Love of BooksMark Moran
The document discusses how educators can use various online tools and websites to promote reading books and foster a love of reading among students. It provides examples of websites that allow students to interact with authors through video interviews, live chats, and Skype sessions. Other sites are presented that read books aloud, bring books to life through multimedia, discuss books and their film adaptations, and allow students to publish their own book reviews and trailers. The goal is to leverage digital technologies to enhance traditional reading and make it a more social and engaging experience for students.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Glympse Retail Gains Productivity & Agility Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
Glympse is a location-sharing mobile app that allows users to share their location in real-time. They were previously using Amazon Web Services but wanted a solution with less management burden and better integration. Glympse tested the Windows Azure platform and found it offered integrated development tools, automatic scaling, and less downtime than AWS. Migrating to Windows Azure reduced Glympse's management workload, improved developer productivity, and enabled the company to focus on new features rather than infrastructure maintenance. Glympse also gains credibility by using Microsoft's trusted cloud platform.
There are many misconceptions surrounding Cloud Computing and what it has to offer.
Tell apart the facts from the myths with Cloud Computing Myth Busters and develop a deeper understanding of the Cloud.
Download Myth Busters >>
Rentthatbook.com is a proposed book rental business that aims to provide college students an affordable alternative to purchasing textbooks from campus bookstores. The business plan outlines objectives to focus on customer satisfaction through competitive pricing and availability of required course materials. Key aspects include renting books to students for a fraction of the retail price and allowing returns at the end of the semester. The plan requests funding to cover startup costs such as inventory, equipment, and advertising to launch stores near college campuses and an online retail website.
The document summarizes IBM's messaging and collaboration strategy and recent product releases. It discusses the steady position of Lotus Notes and Domino in 2010. It also summarizes new features and milestones of Notes and Domino 8.5.2, Lotus Symphony 3, and LotusLive Notes. Plans for future releases of these products in 2011-2014 are outlined, including a conceptual "Next" version of Notes and Domino with a new user experience and focus on cloud and mobile delivery.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, characteristics, service models, deployment models and examples. It defines cloud computing according to NIST as a model for enabling network access to configurable computing resources that can be provisioned with minimal management effort. The key characteristics are on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The common service models are SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Deployment models include private, public and hybrid clouds. Examples of applications and potential benefits are also provided.
Migrating its entire virtualized environment from VMware to Hyper-V has helped Miele & Cie, an appliance manufacturer shrink its server space by more than 50 percent and improve productivity.
To add to the new flexible and energy-efficient data center, Miele has also ‘saved an estimated 35 percent in licensing costs by going with a Microsoft virtualization solution’.
Hyper-V has helped AcXess fill that much needed virtualization gap with an improvised and more competent functionality and reduced data center and hardware costs.
According to Tom Elowson, President and Cofounder, AcXess, “Hyper-V has made all the difference. It is amazing to think we have grown our business 300 percent over the last few years with Hyper-V. ”
How Web Sites & Tools Enhance a Love of BooksMark Moran
The document discusses how educators can use various online tools and websites to promote reading books and foster a love of reading among students. It provides examples of websites that allow students to interact with authors through video interviews, live chats, and Skype sessions. Other sites are presented that read books aloud, bring books to life through multimedia, discuss books and their film adaptations, and allow students to publish their own book reviews and trailers. The goal is to leverage digital technologies to enhance traditional reading and make it a more social and engaging experience for students.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Glympse Retail Gains Productivity & Agility Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
Glympse is a location-sharing mobile app that allows users to share their location in real-time. They were previously using Amazon Web Services but wanted a solution with less management burden and better integration. Glympse tested the Windows Azure platform and found it offered integrated development tools, automatic scaling, and less downtime than AWS. Migrating to Windows Azure reduced Glympse's management workload, improved developer productivity, and enabled the company to focus on new features rather than infrastructure maintenance. Glympse also gains credibility by using Microsoft's trusted cloud platform.
There are many misconceptions surrounding Cloud Computing and what it has to offer.
Tell apart the facts from the myths with Cloud Computing Myth Busters and develop a deeper understanding of the Cloud.
Download Myth Busters >>
Rentthatbook.com is a proposed book rental business that aims to provide college students an affordable alternative to purchasing textbooks from campus bookstores. The business plan outlines objectives to focus on customer satisfaction through competitive pricing and availability of required course materials. Key aspects include renting books to students for a fraction of the retail price and allowing returns at the end of the semester. The plan requests funding to cover startup costs such as inventory, equipment, and advertising to launch stores near college campuses and an online retail website.
The document summarizes IBM's messaging and collaboration strategy and recent product releases. It discusses the steady position of Lotus Notes and Domino in 2010. It also summarizes new features and milestones of Notes and Domino 8.5.2, Lotus Symphony 3, and LotusLive Notes. Plans for future releases of these products in 2011-2014 are outlined, including a conceptual "Next" version of Notes and Domino with a new user experience and focus on cloud and mobile delivery.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, characteristics, service models, deployment models and examples. It defines cloud computing according to NIST as a model for enabling network access to configurable computing resources that can be provisioned with minimal management effort. The key characteristics are on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The common service models are SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Deployment models include private, public and hybrid clouds. Examples of applications and potential benefits are also provided.
Migrating its entire virtualized environment from VMware to Hyper-V has helped Miele & Cie, an appliance manufacturer shrink its server space by more than 50 percent and improve productivity.
To add to the new flexible and energy-efficient data center, Miele has also ‘saved an estimated 35 percent in licensing costs by going with a Microsoft virtualization solution’.
Hyper-V has helped AcXess fill that much needed virtualization gap with an improvised and more competent functionality and reduced data center and hardware costs.
According to Tom Elowson, President and Cofounder, AcXess, “Hyper-V has made all the difference. It is amazing to think we have grown our business 300 percent over the last few years with Hyper-V. ”
The article discusses a new data analysis tool called Data Quest that was released in February 2011. Data Quest allows users to easily visualize, analyze, and share insights from their data through an intuitive web interface without needing any specialized programming skills. It aims to make big data accessible to all users by handling complex analytics tasks behind the scenes and presenting results in a simple, visual format.
The document is a report on a survey of CFOs and senior finance professionals regarding their perceptions of cloud computing. Some key findings of the survey include:
- Over 30% of respondents are already using or considering using cloud computing, seeing benefits like reduced upfront costs, increased flexibility, and competitive advantage. However, security and compliance concerns remain an impediment.
- While cloud computing can offer savings and process flexibility, CFOs need to be convinced it is proven and addresses issues like security, compliance, and loss of control.
- Responsibility for implementing cloud solutions is seen as both the CFO's role for costs and the CIO's role for technology. More education is needed on cloud
The document discusses the economics driving the shift from client/server computing to cloud computing. It argues that large-scale cloud data centers can achieve significant economies of scale through supply-side factors like lower electricity costs and labor costs, as well as demand-side factors like smoothing variability in resource demand through aggregation of multiple variable workloads. By pooling server resources and standardizing hardware, cloud computing can improve utilization rates and lower costs compared to traditional client/server models with dispersed data centers.
The document provides an overview of Microsoft's cloud computing solutions and how they can help businesses navigate technological change. It discusses how Microsoft's cloud services allow businesses to scale applications, connect employees virtually, create collaboration hubs, and transform IT services. The document invites readers to explore more about how Microsoft's cloud solutions can help businesses be ready for change and take control through "cloud power".
TicTacTi Advertising Improves by 400% by Adopting to Cloud Computing Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
TicTacTi is an Israeli advertising technology company that provides interactive advertising solutions for games and videos. To meet increasing demand and improve performance, TicTacTi implemented its technology on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. This allowed TicTacTi to scale on demand, reduced its IT workload, and eliminated infrastructure costs. TicTacTi now benefits from faster time-to-market, improved product performance, and significant cost savings due to Windows Azure's scalability, redundancy, and Microsoft development tools.
REEDS Jeweller Moves to Online Services to Boost Productivity and Cut Costs b...Microsoft Private Cloud
REEDS Jewelers, a jewelry retailer with 67 stores, moved its communications infrastructure to Microsoft Online Services to boost productivity and reduce costs. This transition allowed REEDS to [1] reduce hosting costs by 90% and email support by 80%, [2] provide employees access to communications tools anywhere to collaborate more efficiently, and [3] free up corporate and store employee time previously spent on communications to instead focus on marketing, sales, and other strategic priorities. The transition involved migrating email and collaboration tools to the cloud-based Microsoft Online Services and took only 3 months to complete with assistance from Microsoft partners.
Godiva Chocolatier Saves $250,000 Annually by Moving Email to Cloud Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
Godiva Chocolatier migrated its 1,400 employees from an aging IBM Lotus Notes email system to Microsoft Online Services to reduce costs and improve user experience. By moving to cloud-based email hosted by Microsoft, Godiva saved $250,000 annually in email maintenance and support fees. Users also gained a more modern interface using Outlook that improved productivity. The IT team's workload was reduced as Microsoft handled software upgrades and infrastructure scaling.
Aviva Insurance Enhanced its Global Communication and Collaboration with Micr...Microsoft Private Cloud
Aviva, a global insurance company with 54,000 employees, implemented Microsoft Office SharePoint Online to improve global collaboration and knowledge sharing. Working with Microsoft Services, Aviva deployed the solution across 28 countries in just 142 days, half of the original projected time and budget. The new platform provides a user-friendly social intranet, centralized information access, and a foundation for future applications to further unite Aviva's global organization.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - Upgrading from Windows 2000 to Server 2008...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document provides an overview of migrating from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2008 R2. It discusses the benefits of upgrading such as improved security, compliance with standards, new capabilities like virtualization and DirectAccess. It recommends choosing an edition equivalent to Windows 2000 Server, like Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. Special considerations for Active Directory include upgrading domain controllers and raising domain/forest functional levels.
Simplify Your IT Management with Microsoft SharePoint Online: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
Microsoft SharePoint Online Standard provides collaboration and content management capabilities through a hosted web-based platform. It includes 250MB of storage per user with a maximum of 1TB per tenant. Key features include team sites, document libraries, lists, workflows, and integration with Microsoft Office. It also offers mobile access and a deskless worker license for limited functionality without a desktop PC.
Engage Customers through Real Time Meetings with Microsoft Office Live Meetin...Microsoft Private Cloud
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a web conferencing service available to Microsoft Online Services customers. It allows organizations to conduct online meetings, training sessions, and events.
- The service provides reliable, enterprise-class web conferencing with 99.9% uptime availability and always-on SSL encryption. It enables connected organizations through online collaboration.
- Live Meeting offers engagement features like integrated audio, video, and media capabilities to keep attendees engaged in meetings and presentations. It provides a choice of Windows-based or web-based client access.
Get Instant Messaging and Presence Functionality with Microsoft Office Commun...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document provides an overview of the Office Communications Online Standard service from Microsoft. It allows users to securely instant message and see presence information indicating availability of other users. Key features include instant messaging, presence integration with Microsoft Office applications, remote access, and service administration through a web interface. The service is hosted by Microsoft and provides business-class reliability without the burden of managing on-premise infrastructure.
Deployment Guide for Business Productivity Online Standard Suite: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
The Diagnostics Assistant is an interactive tool that helps troubleshoot common issues with
Microsoft Online Services. It guides you through a series of questions to help identify the root cause of
the issue and provides recommendations for resolution.
Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit
The Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit (DLST) is a command-line tool that collects diagnostic
information from Microsoft Online Services. It helps support engineers diagnose issues by collecting logs
and configuration details without requiring direct access to your tenant.
To use the DLST, your service administrator must download the toolkit executable to a client computer
and run it. The DLST prompts for credentials to authenticate to your Microsoft Online Services tenant. It
then collects logs and other diagnostic
Communicate Easily with Others in Different Locations with Microsoft Office C...Microsoft Private Cloud
Microsoft Office Communications Online Dedicated provides businesses with a secure alternative to public instant messaging tools. It allows users to take advantage of instant messaging, presence, voice, and collaboration capabilities without having to manage their own infrastructure. The solution provides unified communications across different programs and devices to help dispersed teams communicate easily. Servers are dedicated to each customer and located in Microsoft data centers worldwide for high availability.
Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Online Capabilities, Security, Deploymen...Microsoft Private Cloud
SharePoint Online Standard Technical Overview provides details on Microsoft's SharePoint Online Standard offering, including:
- Key capabilities like collaboration, portal, search, content management, forms, and business intelligence features available in both the online and on-premises versions.
- Security and availability features including multi-layer data protection across geo-redundant data centers, backup and restore, and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
- Simplified management through a unified administration center and always up-to-date software.
- Flexible deployment options including standard and dedicated instances, online and on-premises coexistence, and data migration tools.
This document discusses Microsoft's cloud-based communications solutions, including Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. It describes the key capabilities available today, such as instant messaging, presence, and online meetings. It also outlines new features and capabilities that will be introduced in the next version, including an improved unified user experience across IM, calling, and meetings. Finally, it discusses deployment options for organizations, whether using Communications Online fully in the cloud or with an on-premises Communications Server deployment for full enterprise voice functionality.
Reduce Capital & Operational Expenses with Business Productivity Online SuiteMicrosoft Private Cloud
The document introduces Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (Dedicated), which provides enterprise software like Exchange, SharePoint, and Communications hosted by Microsoft via subscription. Key benefits include rich familiar features, choice in on-premises or cloud deployments, and enterprise-class security and services. The suite offers capabilities like email, document sharing, web conferencing, and mobility across devices at a predictable monthly cost while maintaining integration with on-premises systems.
Exchange Online provides cloud-based email and calendaring services with benefits of lower costs, simplified management, and increased security and reliability compared to on-premises email. Key features include business-class messaging, 24/7 support, Active Directory integration, large mailbox sizes up to 25GB, and geo-redundant data centers. Optional services include archiving, coexistence with on-premises email, and a low-cost subscription for deskless users. The presentation provides an overview of Exchange Online and its capabilities.
This document summarizes why customers are embracing cloud services from Microsoft. It provides key benefits like reducing costs through predictable pay-per-use subscriptions and focusing on core business rather than IT. Survey results show top benefits are eliminating in-house maintenance and faster deployment. Microsoft's approach is to extend existing enterprise software to the cloud at large scale while also developing new innovative cloud-based services. They invest heavily in innovation to drive technology and businesses forward with choices between on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
Avail Advanced Email Features with Microsoft Exchange Online: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document provides a summary of Microsoft Exchange Online Standard, including key features such as mailbox size, message size limits, virus and spam filtering, access via Outlook and mobile devices, administration tools, and a comparison to Exchange Server 2007 features. Exchange Online is a hosted messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that offers email, calendaring, contacts and tasks. It provides business-class reliability and reduces IT management burdens.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
The article discusses a new data analysis tool called Data Quest that was released in February 2011. Data Quest allows users to easily visualize, analyze, and share insights from their data through an intuitive web interface without needing any specialized programming skills. It aims to make big data accessible to all users by handling complex analytics tasks behind the scenes and presenting results in a simple, visual format.
The document is a report on a survey of CFOs and senior finance professionals regarding their perceptions of cloud computing. Some key findings of the survey include:
- Over 30% of respondents are already using or considering using cloud computing, seeing benefits like reduced upfront costs, increased flexibility, and competitive advantage. However, security and compliance concerns remain an impediment.
- While cloud computing can offer savings and process flexibility, CFOs need to be convinced it is proven and addresses issues like security, compliance, and loss of control.
- Responsibility for implementing cloud solutions is seen as both the CFO's role for costs and the CIO's role for technology. More education is needed on cloud
The document discusses the economics driving the shift from client/server computing to cloud computing. It argues that large-scale cloud data centers can achieve significant economies of scale through supply-side factors like lower electricity costs and labor costs, as well as demand-side factors like smoothing variability in resource demand through aggregation of multiple variable workloads. By pooling server resources and standardizing hardware, cloud computing can improve utilization rates and lower costs compared to traditional client/server models with dispersed data centers.
The document provides an overview of Microsoft's cloud computing solutions and how they can help businesses navigate technological change. It discusses how Microsoft's cloud services allow businesses to scale applications, connect employees virtually, create collaboration hubs, and transform IT services. The document invites readers to explore more about how Microsoft's cloud solutions can help businesses be ready for change and take control through "cloud power".
TicTacTi Advertising Improves by 400% by Adopting to Cloud Computing Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
TicTacTi is an Israeli advertising technology company that provides interactive advertising solutions for games and videos. To meet increasing demand and improve performance, TicTacTi implemented its technology on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. This allowed TicTacTi to scale on demand, reduced its IT workload, and eliminated infrastructure costs. TicTacTi now benefits from faster time-to-market, improved product performance, and significant cost savings due to Windows Azure's scalability, redundancy, and Microsoft development tools.
REEDS Jeweller Moves to Online Services to Boost Productivity and Cut Costs b...Microsoft Private Cloud
REEDS Jewelers, a jewelry retailer with 67 stores, moved its communications infrastructure to Microsoft Online Services to boost productivity and reduce costs. This transition allowed REEDS to [1] reduce hosting costs by 90% and email support by 80%, [2] provide employees access to communications tools anywhere to collaborate more efficiently, and [3] free up corporate and store employee time previously spent on communications to instead focus on marketing, sales, and other strategic priorities. The transition involved migrating email and collaboration tools to the cloud-based Microsoft Online Services and took only 3 months to complete with assistance from Microsoft partners.
Godiva Chocolatier Saves $250,000 Annually by Moving Email to Cloud Case StudyMicrosoft Private Cloud
Godiva Chocolatier migrated its 1,400 employees from an aging IBM Lotus Notes email system to Microsoft Online Services to reduce costs and improve user experience. By moving to cloud-based email hosted by Microsoft, Godiva saved $250,000 annually in email maintenance and support fees. Users also gained a more modern interface using Outlook that improved productivity. The IT team's workload was reduced as Microsoft handled software upgrades and infrastructure scaling.
Aviva Insurance Enhanced its Global Communication and Collaboration with Micr...Microsoft Private Cloud
Aviva, a global insurance company with 54,000 employees, implemented Microsoft Office SharePoint Online to improve global collaboration and knowledge sharing. Working with Microsoft Services, Aviva deployed the solution across 28 countries in just 142 days, half of the original projected time and budget. The new platform provides a user-friendly social intranet, centralized information access, and a foundation for future applications to further unite Aviva's global organization.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - Upgrading from Windows 2000 to Server 2008...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document provides an overview of migrating from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2008 R2. It discusses the benefits of upgrading such as improved security, compliance with standards, new capabilities like virtualization and DirectAccess. It recommends choosing an edition equivalent to Windows 2000 Server, like Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. Special considerations for Active Directory include upgrading domain controllers and raising domain/forest functional levels.
Simplify Your IT Management with Microsoft SharePoint Online: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
Microsoft SharePoint Online Standard provides collaboration and content management capabilities through a hosted web-based platform. It includes 250MB of storage per user with a maximum of 1TB per tenant. Key features include team sites, document libraries, lists, workflows, and integration with Microsoft Office. It also offers mobile access and a deskless worker license for limited functionality without a desktop PC.
Engage Customers through Real Time Meetings with Microsoft Office Live Meetin...Microsoft Private Cloud
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a web conferencing service available to Microsoft Online Services customers. It allows organizations to conduct online meetings, training sessions, and events.
- The service provides reliable, enterprise-class web conferencing with 99.9% uptime availability and always-on SSL encryption. It enables connected organizations through online collaboration.
- Live Meeting offers engagement features like integrated audio, video, and media capabilities to keep attendees engaged in meetings and presentations. It provides a choice of Windows-based or web-based client access.
Get Instant Messaging and Presence Functionality with Microsoft Office Commun...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document provides an overview of the Office Communications Online Standard service from Microsoft. It allows users to securely instant message and see presence information indicating availability of other users. Key features include instant messaging, presence integration with Microsoft Office applications, remote access, and service administration through a web interface. The service is hosted by Microsoft and provides business-class reliability without the burden of managing on-premise infrastructure.
Deployment Guide for Business Productivity Online Standard Suite: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
The Diagnostics Assistant is an interactive tool that helps troubleshoot common issues with
Microsoft Online Services. It guides you through a series of questions to help identify the root cause of
the issue and provides recommendations for resolution.
Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit
The Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit (DLST) is a command-line tool that collects diagnostic
information from Microsoft Online Services. It helps support engineers diagnose issues by collecting logs
and configuration details without requiring direct access to your tenant.
To use the DLST, your service administrator must download the toolkit executable to a client computer
and run it. The DLST prompts for credentials to authenticate to your Microsoft Online Services tenant. It
then collects logs and other diagnostic
Communicate Easily with Others in Different Locations with Microsoft Office C...Microsoft Private Cloud
Microsoft Office Communications Online Dedicated provides businesses with a secure alternative to public instant messaging tools. It allows users to take advantage of instant messaging, presence, voice, and collaboration capabilities without having to manage their own infrastructure. The solution provides unified communications across different programs and devices to help dispersed teams communicate easily. Servers are dedicated to each customer and located in Microsoft data centers worldwide for high availability.
Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Online Capabilities, Security, Deploymen...Microsoft Private Cloud
SharePoint Online Standard Technical Overview provides details on Microsoft's SharePoint Online Standard offering, including:
- Key capabilities like collaboration, portal, search, content management, forms, and business intelligence features available in both the online and on-premises versions.
- Security and availability features including multi-layer data protection across geo-redundant data centers, backup and restore, and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
- Simplified management through a unified administration center and always up-to-date software.
- Flexible deployment options including standard and dedicated instances, online and on-premises coexistence, and data migration tools.
This document discusses Microsoft's cloud-based communications solutions, including Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. It describes the key capabilities available today, such as instant messaging, presence, and online meetings. It also outlines new features and capabilities that will be introduced in the next version, including an improved unified user experience across IM, calling, and meetings. Finally, it discusses deployment options for organizations, whether using Communications Online fully in the cloud or with an on-premises Communications Server deployment for full enterprise voice functionality.
Reduce Capital & Operational Expenses with Business Productivity Online SuiteMicrosoft Private Cloud
The document introduces Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (Dedicated), which provides enterprise software like Exchange, SharePoint, and Communications hosted by Microsoft via subscription. Key benefits include rich familiar features, choice in on-premises or cloud deployments, and enterprise-class security and services. The suite offers capabilities like email, document sharing, web conferencing, and mobility across devices at a predictable monthly cost while maintaining integration with on-premises systems.
Exchange Online provides cloud-based email and calendaring services with benefits of lower costs, simplified management, and increased security and reliability compared to on-premises email. Key features include business-class messaging, 24/7 support, Active Directory integration, large mailbox sizes up to 25GB, and geo-redundant data centers. Optional services include archiving, coexistence with on-premises email, and a low-cost subscription for deskless users. The presentation provides an overview of Exchange Online and its capabilities.
This document summarizes why customers are embracing cloud services from Microsoft. It provides key benefits like reducing costs through predictable pay-per-use subscriptions and focusing on core business rather than IT. Survey results show top benefits are eliminating in-house maintenance and faster deployment. Microsoft's approach is to extend existing enterprise software to the cloud at large scale while also developing new innovative cloud-based services. They invest heavily in innovation to drive technology and businesses forward with choices between on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
Avail Advanced Email Features with Microsoft Exchange Online: WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document provides a summary of Microsoft Exchange Online Standard, including key features such as mailbox size, message size limits, virus and spam filtering, access via Outlook and mobile devices, administration tools, and a comparison to Exchange Server 2007 features. Exchange Online is a hosted messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that offers email, calendaring, contacts and tasks. It provides business-class reliability and reduces IT management burdens.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
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!
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
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Microsoft Windows Azure - Holtl Retail Solutions Gains More Customers Case Study
1. Windows AzureCustomer Solution Case Study00German Retail Solutions Firm Gains New Customers with Cloud Computing Solution <br />OverviewCountry or Region: GermanyIndustry: Retail and consumer goodsCustomer Profilehöltl Retail Solutions offers innovative products for optimizing retail processes for the clothing and nonfood industries. Headquartered in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, the company has 85 employees.Business SituationWhen customers upgraded or installed a new höltl POSFlow point-of-sale system, the company’s technicians had to travel onsite to configure it, which increased costs and wasted customers’ time.SolutionThe company moved POSFlow to Windows Azure and designed the interface using Microsoft Silverlight 3 so that customers could set up the solution themselves in just minutes.BenefitsSaves customers time with self-service setupReduces costs, opens new business opportunitiesOffers flexible, scalable operation, minimizes impact of outages“By basing our POSFlow software on Windows Azure and Silverlight, customers can implement this key retail solution quickly and by themselves. It’s now easy to use and financially viable even for the smallest retailer.”Johannes Schick, CEO, höltl Retail SolutionsPOSFlow from höltl Retail Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the point-of-sale (POS) system of choice for more than 50,000 users in several European countries and is especially popular with midsize retailers. To enlarge the product’s customer base and make POSFlow a cost-effective option for smaller businesses, höltl migrated the software to the Windows Azure platform. The company also designed an easy-to-use interface by using Microsoft Silverlight 3. Before, a höltl technician needed four hours to set up POSFlow onsite and to train the customer in how to use it; now, even the smallest retail customers can set it up themselves in just four minutes. The efficient cloud-based infrastructure further contains costs, and its flexibility, scalability, and reliability will make POSFlow a suitable POS choice for large retail chains as well. <br />Situation<br />From its small beginnings as a three-person company in 1972, höltl Retail Solutions has grown into a strong retail-systems provider with more than 85 employees and is on track for even greater expansion. The company’s recipe for success includes creating innovative and practical solutions for customers in the nonfood and clothing retail sectors. <br />“Set it up, download, and sell. Within minutes, retailers can start using our up-to-date POS solution running on Windows Azure.”Johannes Schick, CEO, höltl Retail Solutions <br />Each year, höltl delivers more than 1,500 cutting-edge cash registers and other front-end and mobile point-of-sale (POS) products. The company’s solutions support key retail requirements, such as payment and discount processing, multiclient capacity, accepting different forms of payment, support for multiple cashiers and salespeople, customized register layout, and mixed online and offline operation. <br />True to the höltl motto, “Understanding from day one,” the company strives to make POS solutions that not only exactly reflect customers’ business processes but are also easy to use. The most popular of these is the POSFlow chain solution for midsize retailers, which has more than 50,000 users throughout Europe. POSFlow software is usually shipped along with cash registers and other support hardware. It works with the 50 best-selling POS peripherals on the international market, including specialized printers and bar-code scanners, and it can be integrated with these devices without any special configuration. The software is available in several different languages, and it supports each country’s different standards for electronic funds transfer and tax regulations. <br />However, for POSFlow to be an ideal solution for small retail stores, höltl needed to make a less expensive version of it. “Unfortunately, up to now, our POSFlow product had significant costs that we had to pass on to the customer,” explains Johannes Schick, CEO of höltl Retail Solutions. “For upgraded or new installations, we had to send a technician onsite to set up, install, and configure the system and to brief employees on how to use it. That usually took three or four hours, plus travel time.” <br />The company sought a way to reduce deployment time and effort and make the product a more compelling choice for small businesses. <br />Solution<br />To minimize the labor, training, and maintenance requirements of POSFlow and their related costs, höltl migrated the solution to the Windows Azure platform, an Internet-scale cloud services platform that is hosted in Microsoft data centers (Figure 1). The company selected Windows Azure because it supports easily deployed, highly available, and scalable Web sites, Web services, and Web-based applications—like POSFlow—in Microsoft data centers, which reduces IT investment overhead.<br />In migrating POSFlow to the new technology, höltl took advantage of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric as part of a Microsoft Community Technology Preview. AppFabric provides more secure connectivity as a service to help höltl developers bridge the cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments. The company also used Microsoft SQL Azure to support POSFlow with a highly available relational database in the cloud. <br />höltl developed the new version of POSFlow with the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 using the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server development systems. höltl chose Microsoft Visual C# as the programming language. To drive the POSFlow visual interface, the company used Microsoft Silverlight 3, a browser plug-in powered by the .NET Framework, which is compatible across multiple browsers, devices, and operating systems.<br /> <br />With the migration complete, the company expects an enthusiastic market reaction as it introduces the new version of its solution to small businesses.<br />Benefits<br />Because POSFlow runs in the cloud on the Windows Azure platform, customers can now handle routine setup and upgrades themselves, minimizing costs and saving time. The flexibility and scalability of the platform make POSFlow appropriate for retailers of all sizes and helps minimize the impact on customers when network outages occur. <br />Saves Customers Time with Self-Service Setup<br />Today, customers no longer have to wait for a technician to set up POSFlow, because they receive the cash register shipped via express delivery and connect it to the Internet themselves. In a pinch, it can even be started on a personal computer, without the cash register hardware. After starting the system and entering the provided URL in a browser, customers are ready to ring up their first sale. <br />Figure 1. The new POSFlow solution takes advantage of the Windows Azure platform to deliver cloud-based POS services.The time from unpacking the register to using it now takes customers about four minutes, versus about four hours before. Schick summarizes the process as, “Set it up, download, and sell. Within minutes, retailers can start using our up-to-date POS solution running on Windows Azure.” Also, the quick setup applies to customers worldwide because POSFlow uses language settings from the Windows Internet Explorer browser to localize the software instantly.<br />Reduces Costs, Opens New Business Opportunities<br />The savings in technician time translates directly into lower costs. Combining this savings with the cost-effective infrastructure model that Windows Azure supports enables höltl to target POSFlow at a new market—small retail stores. The solution’s subscription fees are low enough to make the company’s cutting-edge POS system attractive to this segment. <br />Small businesses also have access to customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning capabilities that are normally available only to much larger businesses. höltl can provide these services as needed through its powerful POS back office. <br />Additionally, with the Microsoft Silverlight–based interface, POSFlow is easier and more intuitive than ever, and this ease of use offers a competitive advantage against better-known but more complicated enterprise resource planning systems (Figure 2). Schick says, “By basing our POSFlow software on Windows Azure and Silverlight, customers can implement this key retail solution quickly and by themselves. It’s now easy to use and financially viable even for the smallest retailer. Using these Microsoft technologies, we’re moving much closer to our goal of reducing costs and completely eliminating the need for a customer briefing on how to use POSFlow.”<br />Offers Flexible, Scalable Operation, Minimizes Impact of Outages <br />“The high scalability of Windows Azure services and the built-in protection against outages make our high-tech solutions especially appealing to large chains and purchasing associations.”Johannes Schick, CEO, höltl Retail Solutions<br />Schick explains how the flexibility of the Windows Azure platform helps the company’s POS systems continue to work seamlessly even during prolonged network outages. “The high scalability of Windows Azure services and the built-in protection against outages make our high-tech solutions especially appealing to large chains and purchasing associations, since we can combine communications streams from several thousand registers.” Additionally, during start up, key functionality and a minimum dataset are downloaded from the cloud into the cash register. Schick continues, “This means that the register can work offline for a longer period if the Internet connection fails, unlike a purely online solution, which doesn’t allow for ringing up sales when the network connection is down.” <br />Figure 2. Built using Silverlight, the POSFlow interface is attractive and easy for employees to use.Another advantage of the cloud-based approach is that all master and transaction data and configuration settings are immediately available for downloading when stores set up new or replacement cash registers. Similarly, höltl no longer needs to worry about the operating system updates that retailers have installed because, from the solution provider’s point of view, it doesn’t matter which Windows operating system or hardware is used at the register itself.<br />Schick concludes, “Supported by Windows Azure, we’re sure that our high-end solution, with its excellent human factors, will attract many customers, and as a result, höltl Retail Solutions will continue to grow.” <br />Software and ServicesWindows Azure PlatformWindows AzureMicrosoft SQL AzureWindows Azure Platform AppFabric Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team SuiteMicrosoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation ServerTechnologiesMicrosoft .NET Framework 3.5Microsoft Silverlight 3Microsoft Visual C#This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY.Document published June 2010For More InformationFor more information about Microsoft products and services, call the Microsoft Sales Information Center at (800) 426-9400. In Canada, call the Microsoft Canada Information Centre at (877) 568-2495. Customers in the United States and Canada who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can reach Microsoft text telephone (TTY/TDD) services at (800) 892-5234. Outside the 50 United States and Canada, please contact your local Microsoft subsidiary. To access information using the World Wide Web, go to:www.microsoft.comFor more information about höltl Retail Solutions, call +49 (0) 6621 92 00 0 or visit the Web site at:www.hoeltl.com orhttp://rentapos.comWindows Azure Platform<br />The Windows Azure platform provides an excellent foundation for expanding online product and service offerings. The main components include:<br />Windows Azure. Windows Azure is the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.<br />Microsoft SQL Azure. Microsoft SQL Azure offers the first cloud-based relational and self-managed database service built on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 technologies.<br />Windows Azure platform AppFabric. With Windows Azure platform AppFabric, developers can build and manage applications more easily both on-premises and in the cloud.<br />AppFabric Service Bus connects services and applications across network boundaries to help developers build distributed applications.<br />AppFabric Access Control provides federated, claims-based access control for REST Web services.<br />Microsoft quot;
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