ECM BPM Strategy With Enterprise Architecture Maturity ModelDavid Champeau
This document discusses enterprise content and business process management (ECM/BPM) architectures and operating models. It describes four operating models - coordination, diversification, unification, and replication - and provides examples of each. It emphasizes that the enterprise architecture should reflect the company's operating model and integrate business processes, data, technologies, and customer interfaces. It outlines phases of architectural maturity from business silos to optimized core business and modularity. Key aspects of developing an ECM/BPM architecture include understanding requirements, performing a gap analysis, selecting strategic technologies, and ensuring performance, scalability, integration and an integrated product suite.
This ISG white paper discusses the benefits of linking IT costs to business activity, and of analyzing the potential impact of IT investment on performance improvement
The evolution of the Architecture of Enterprises (AKA Enterprise Architecture) Leo Barella
We are in the era of competitive advantage through smart information and analytics. Process automation and leveraging transactional systems is a "thing of the past". To advance organizations need to start designing their architecture leveraging microservices and focus on data management / analytics efficiency.
Your Challenge
Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions.
Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling.
Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives.
An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns.
Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize BenefitsInfo-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech Research Group provides IT research and advice to help organizations address their full spectrum of IT concerns. The document discusses Info-Tech's services for data center consolidation, including actionable insights and templates to help plan and execute consolidation projects. It emphasizes that 12-18 months of planning is key to consolidation success in order to properly inventory equipment, address requirements, and mitigate risks and unexpected costs.
The document discusses different models of enterprise architecture and stages of maturity from business silos to optimized core to dynamic venturing. It outlines how enterprise architecture can guide decisions around operating models, technology choices, and outsourcing strategies. The goal is to establish reusable and modular business components that can seamlessly merge with partners' systems for new business ventures.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
The document provides an overview of enterprise architecture presented by Prashanth B P Panduranga, Director of Technology. Some key points include:
- Line of business workers and IT staff increasingly use unauthorized SaaS apps
- IT suppliers are targeting business users directly and line of business heads demand higher project velocity
- An enterprise architecture framework provides structures for developing architectures using common standards and building blocks
- Enterprise architecture applies principles and practices to guide business, information, process, and technology changes to execute organizational strategy
ECM BPM Strategy With Enterprise Architecture Maturity ModelDavid Champeau
This document discusses enterprise content and business process management (ECM/BPM) architectures and operating models. It describes four operating models - coordination, diversification, unification, and replication - and provides examples of each. It emphasizes that the enterprise architecture should reflect the company's operating model and integrate business processes, data, technologies, and customer interfaces. It outlines phases of architectural maturity from business silos to optimized core business and modularity. Key aspects of developing an ECM/BPM architecture include understanding requirements, performing a gap analysis, selecting strategic technologies, and ensuring performance, scalability, integration and an integrated product suite.
This ISG white paper discusses the benefits of linking IT costs to business activity, and of analyzing the potential impact of IT investment on performance improvement
The evolution of the Architecture of Enterprises (AKA Enterprise Architecture) Leo Barella
We are in the era of competitive advantage through smart information and analytics. Process automation and leveraging transactional systems is a "thing of the past". To advance organizations need to start designing their architecture leveraging microservices and focus on data management / analytics efficiency.
Your Challenge
Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions.
Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling.
Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives.
An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns.
Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize BenefitsInfo-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech Research Group provides IT research and advice to help organizations address their full spectrum of IT concerns. The document discusses Info-Tech's services for data center consolidation, including actionable insights and templates to help plan and execute consolidation projects. It emphasizes that 12-18 months of planning is key to consolidation success in order to properly inventory equipment, address requirements, and mitigate risks and unexpected costs.
The document discusses different models of enterprise architecture and stages of maturity from business silos to optimized core to dynamic venturing. It outlines how enterprise architecture can guide decisions around operating models, technology choices, and outsourcing strategies. The goal is to establish reusable and modular business components that can seamlessly merge with partners' systems for new business ventures.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
The document provides an overview of enterprise architecture presented by Prashanth B P Panduranga, Director of Technology. Some key points include:
- Line of business workers and IT staff increasingly use unauthorized SaaS apps
- IT suppliers are targeting business users directly and line of business heads demand higher project velocity
- An enterprise architecture framework provides structures for developing architectures using common standards and building blocks
- Enterprise architecture applies principles and practices to guide business, information, process, and technology changes to execute organizational strategy
Flex mode framework architectural overview v 2.1 19-08-2013Sukumar Daniel
This document discusses navigating economic turmoil through adopting smarter ways of doing things using IT service management. It recommends adopting automation-assisted approaches to manage the software development lifecycle and integrate it with service management systems. Continual executive sponsorship is needed for programs managing iterative projects as transformation initiatives impacting people, processes, tools, and partnerships. Collaborative relationships and data analysis capabilities are required to build an automation layer managing business services and processes. Effective governance is also needed from business, IT service management, and third-party provider executives.
Your Challenge
Infrastructure, by focusing on the reliability, availability, and serviceability of existing platforms, is perceived as a cost center rather than a business enabler.
Business stakeholders look to external vendors, rather than Infrastructure, to exploit emerging technologies. This leads to duplication of effort, inconsistent standards, and ineffective IT governance.
Infrastructure directors are unable to draw a line showing how their activities directly support the overall business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Think of the roadmap as a service, not a product. Its value is inversely proportional to the time since its last update.
Alignment perception issues can be addressed by having the infrastructure practice formally engage and communicate with business stakeholders.
Shadow IT can provide business-ready initiatives that need only to be tweaked to align with Infrastructure’s internal goals.
Impact and Result
This blueprint will help you build:
A formal channel and way of communicating value bottom-up and top-down between IT and the executive team.
A methodology to prioritize and create projects that generate business value.
A tool that can produce multiple outputs of value for different audiences using the same data.
An ongoing roadmap process, rather than a static document, that is able to adjust and react to evolving business circumstances.
Enterprise architecture (EA) defines an organization's current and desired future state in terms of business processes, information systems, and technologies. EA aims to align IT with business goals and provide a roadmap for transitioning from the current to future state. Common EA frameworks include Zachman Framework and TOGAF, which provide categories and processes for documenting EA artifacts like business processes, applications, data, and infrastructure. Implementing EA allows organizations to better align IT with business strategy, reduce redundancies, reuse solutions, and make more informed decisions.
The document discusses Ernst & Young's (EY) transformation of their global HR contact center. EY implemented a new global HR contact center using ServiceNow to provide a more consistent service experience for employees. Key aspects of the transformation included streamlining processes and technologies, deploying solutions rapidly on a global scale, and achieving benefits such as reduced case volumes and time to resolve issues. Lessons learned included the importance of global consensus, building solutions once and deploying rapidly, and keeping process and technology design aligned. The new contact center provides EY employees with a more consumer-like HR service experience.
The document discusses IT governance and the challenges faced by SMB CIOs in managing IT. It summarizes that IT governance aims to ensure IT dollars are spent on the right projects at the right time. However, the tools and processes typically used by large enterprises are too expensive, complex, and specialized for SMBs. The document then introduces the concept of on-demand CIO services as a more cost-effective solution for SMBs to access expert guidance and management of their IT operations and projects.
The document summarizes a presentation about driving cloud strategy and planning. It discusses:
1) How enterprise architects must drive cloud strategy and planning to connect business strategy to implementation through cloud.
2) An end-to-end cloud strategy and planning framework that takes a business value driven methodology to enable selection of the right cloud investments.
3) How the framework embraces and extends proven cloud practices, provides tools and guidance, and is based on real-world customer engagements.
The Changing Data Quality & Data Governance LandscapeTrillium Software
The document discusses how new technologies like big data, cloud computing, and data virtualization are changing the data quality and data governance landscape. It provides information on each of these emerging trends, including how they generate and utilize large amounts of diverse data sources, provide data and analytic services remotely over the internet, and create virtual integrated views of distributed data. It also notes that these new approaches increase the need for strong data governance and high quality data to ensure proper control, integration, and use of data across organizations.
Using the Zachman’s Architecture framework to realise ITSM Transformation at ...Sukumar Daniel
This document summarizes Tesco's journey to implement an IT Service Management (ITSM) transformation using the Zachman framework and ITIL best practices. It discusses how Tesco established transparency into its IT operations, identified top incident generators, and drove improvements across key services and processes. Through establishing service-oriented metrics, streamlining workflows, and instituting proactive problem management, Tesco was able to significantly improve first time fix rates, reduce incident occurrence and turnaround times, and better align IT to business needs.
The document provides an overview of an IT operating model case study. It discusses building blocks for developing an IT operating model, including business context, business architecture, application architecture, technology architecture, IT organization structure, IT governance, IT valuation, IT budget plan, IT portfolio management, and IT roadmap. It also describes potential deliverables from an IT operating model project such as an enterprise architecture document, IT organization structure, IT governance framework, and IT investment analysis. The case study methodology involves assessing current IT effectiveness, developing an optimal IT organization structure, and aligning IT investment with business planning.
Robert Winter - Enterprise Wide Information Logistics - Data Quality Summit 2008DataValueTalk
The document discusses the concept of information logistics (IL), which takes a managerial view of cross-unit data flows and synergies. It notes that while data warehousing and business intelligence focus on local utilization, IL focuses on exploiting synergies across units. IL aims to supply the right information with appropriate quality to cover all relevant demand. The document outlines challenges in IL operations management after 20 years of research and discusses the importance of quality management for IL.
The document proposes an enterprise architecture and IT engagement model for Ohio's infrastructure and environment agencies. It summarizes the current decentralized IT environment, lack of standards, and security risks. The proposed model shifts to a coordinated operating model with shared solutions and standardized technology. Key elements include a technology board to prioritize projects, an architecture team to define standards, and a project success center to ensure project delivery and benefits realization. The goals are improved efficiency, cost savings, security, and reduced duplication through greater coordination and data sharing across agencies.
As High performing businesses need to respond quickly to market changes, improve operational efficiency and accelerate growth. know more about how netmagic’s IT infrastructure services can help.
Augmenting IT strategy with Enterprise architecture assessmentPrashanth Panduranga
IT strategy drives the organizations roadmap,.This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture assessments which includes, Portfolio assessment, Cloud fitment analysis,
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Leo Shuster
Enterprise architecture is a discipline for proactively managing organizational change and complexity by aligning business strategy, goals, and processes with information technology solutions. It provides a framework for governing technology decisions and guiding the organization from its current to future state. Benefits include improved business-IT alignment, increased agility, standardization, and cost savings. Enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF provide common vocabulary, models, and processes to develop the current and target architecture states and transition plans.
http://www.csm-corp.com/it-consulting-services-company-it-consultants/
For over 30 years, our IT Consultants have helped some of the world’s most demanding organizations solve their most difficult technology challenges. Our IT Consulting Services Professionals are 100% committed to delivering Relentless IT Support. Every one of our employees is dedicated to delivering an outstanding customer experience.
Info-Tech is the most innovative firm in the industry, and we pride ourselves on delivering better research than anyone.
Become a member and unlock a range of data-driven tools and resources to drive systematic IT improvement.
Evolution of IT Consulting, Indian BPO industry, categorization, globalization, Green IT Consulting, Mobile App development, Health care consulting, Financial consulting, Management consulting
The document discusses the evolution of IT management over four eras from the 1960s to present. It describes Cash and McFarlan's strategic grid model which categorizes IT management environments based on dependence on existing vs planned applications. Various generic IS strategies and principles of developing killer apps are outlined. Challenges of digital transformation and leveraging IT for competitive advantage are also summarized.
The document discusses strategic IT management and the evolution of IT over different eras from the 1960s to present. It outlines different IT management environments including strategic, turnaround, factory, and support based on an organization's dependence on existing and planned applications. Different IT strategies and challenges of implementation are also summarized.
Flex mode framework architectural overview v 2.1 19-08-2013Sukumar Daniel
This document discusses navigating economic turmoil through adopting smarter ways of doing things using IT service management. It recommends adopting automation-assisted approaches to manage the software development lifecycle and integrate it with service management systems. Continual executive sponsorship is needed for programs managing iterative projects as transformation initiatives impacting people, processes, tools, and partnerships. Collaborative relationships and data analysis capabilities are required to build an automation layer managing business services and processes. Effective governance is also needed from business, IT service management, and third-party provider executives.
Your Challenge
Infrastructure, by focusing on the reliability, availability, and serviceability of existing platforms, is perceived as a cost center rather than a business enabler.
Business stakeholders look to external vendors, rather than Infrastructure, to exploit emerging technologies. This leads to duplication of effort, inconsistent standards, and ineffective IT governance.
Infrastructure directors are unable to draw a line showing how their activities directly support the overall business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Think of the roadmap as a service, not a product. Its value is inversely proportional to the time since its last update.
Alignment perception issues can be addressed by having the infrastructure practice formally engage and communicate with business stakeholders.
Shadow IT can provide business-ready initiatives that need only to be tweaked to align with Infrastructure’s internal goals.
Impact and Result
This blueprint will help you build:
A formal channel and way of communicating value bottom-up and top-down between IT and the executive team.
A methodology to prioritize and create projects that generate business value.
A tool that can produce multiple outputs of value for different audiences using the same data.
An ongoing roadmap process, rather than a static document, that is able to adjust and react to evolving business circumstances.
Enterprise architecture (EA) defines an organization's current and desired future state in terms of business processes, information systems, and technologies. EA aims to align IT with business goals and provide a roadmap for transitioning from the current to future state. Common EA frameworks include Zachman Framework and TOGAF, which provide categories and processes for documenting EA artifacts like business processes, applications, data, and infrastructure. Implementing EA allows organizations to better align IT with business strategy, reduce redundancies, reuse solutions, and make more informed decisions.
The document discusses Ernst & Young's (EY) transformation of their global HR contact center. EY implemented a new global HR contact center using ServiceNow to provide a more consistent service experience for employees. Key aspects of the transformation included streamlining processes and technologies, deploying solutions rapidly on a global scale, and achieving benefits such as reduced case volumes and time to resolve issues. Lessons learned included the importance of global consensus, building solutions once and deploying rapidly, and keeping process and technology design aligned. The new contact center provides EY employees with a more consumer-like HR service experience.
The document discusses IT governance and the challenges faced by SMB CIOs in managing IT. It summarizes that IT governance aims to ensure IT dollars are spent on the right projects at the right time. However, the tools and processes typically used by large enterprises are too expensive, complex, and specialized for SMBs. The document then introduces the concept of on-demand CIO services as a more cost-effective solution for SMBs to access expert guidance and management of their IT operations and projects.
The document summarizes a presentation about driving cloud strategy and planning. It discusses:
1) How enterprise architects must drive cloud strategy and planning to connect business strategy to implementation through cloud.
2) An end-to-end cloud strategy and planning framework that takes a business value driven methodology to enable selection of the right cloud investments.
3) How the framework embraces and extends proven cloud practices, provides tools and guidance, and is based on real-world customer engagements.
The Changing Data Quality & Data Governance LandscapeTrillium Software
The document discusses how new technologies like big data, cloud computing, and data virtualization are changing the data quality and data governance landscape. It provides information on each of these emerging trends, including how they generate and utilize large amounts of diverse data sources, provide data and analytic services remotely over the internet, and create virtual integrated views of distributed data. It also notes that these new approaches increase the need for strong data governance and high quality data to ensure proper control, integration, and use of data across organizations.
Using the Zachman’s Architecture framework to realise ITSM Transformation at ...Sukumar Daniel
This document summarizes Tesco's journey to implement an IT Service Management (ITSM) transformation using the Zachman framework and ITIL best practices. It discusses how Tesco established transparency into its IT operations, identified top incident generators, and drove improvements across key services and processes. Through establishing service-oriented metrics, streamlining workflows, and instituting proactive problem management, Tesco was able to significantly improve first time fix rates, reduce incident occurrence and turnaround times, and better align IT to business needs.
The document provides an overview of an IT operating model case study. It discusses building blocks for developing an IT operating model, including business context, business architecture, application architecture, technology architecture, IT organization structure, IT governance, IT valuation, IT budget plan, IT portfolio management, and IT roadmap. It also describes potential deliverables from an IT operating model project such as an enterprise architecture document, IT organization structure, IT governance framework, and IT investment analysis. The case study methodology involves assessing current IT effectiveness, developing an optimal IT organization structure, and aligning IT investment with business planning.
Robert Winter - Enterprise Wide Information Logistics - Data Quality Summit 2008DataValueTalk
The document discusses the concept of information logistics (IL), which takes a managerial view of cross-unit data flows and synergies. It notes that while data warehousing and business intelligence focus on local utilization, IL focuses on exploiting synergies across units. IL aims to supply the right information with appropriate quality to cover all relevant demand. The document outlines challenges in IL operations management after 20 years of research and discusses the importance of quality management for IL.
The document proposes an enterprise architecture and IT engagement model for Ohio's infrastructure and environment agencies. It summarizes the current decentralized IT environment, lack of standards, and security risks. The proposed model shifts to a coordinated operating model with shared solutions and standardized technology. Key elements include a technology board to prioritize projects, an architecture team to define standards, and a project success center to ensure project delivery and benefits realization. The goals are improved efficiency, cost savings, security, and reduced duplication through greater coordination and data sharing across agencies.
As High performing businesses need to respond quickly to market changes, improve operational efficiency and accelerate growth. know more about how netmagic’s IT infrastructure services can help.
Augmenting IT strategy with Enterprise architecture assessmentPrashanth Panduranga
IT strategy drives the organizations roadmap,.This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture assessments which includes, Portfolio assessment, Cloud fitment analysis,
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Leo Shuster
Enterprise architecture is a discipline for proactively managing organizational change and complexity by aligning business strategy, goals, and processes with information technology solutions. It provides a framework for governing technology decisions and guiding the organization from its current to future state. Benefits include improved business-IT alignment, increased agility, standardization, and cost savings. Enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF provide common vocabulary, models, and processes to develop the current and target architecture states and transition plans.
http://www.csm-corp.com/it-consulting-services-company-it-consultants/
For over 30 years, our IT Consultants have helped some of the world’s most demanding organizations solve their most difficult technology challenges. Our IT Consulting Services Professionals are 100% committed to delivering Relentless IT Support. Every one of our employees is dedicated to delivering an outstanding customer experience.
Info-Tech is the most innovative firm in the industry, and we pride ourselves on delivering better research than anyone.
Become a member and unlock a range of data-driven tools and resources to drive systematic IT improvement.
Evolution of IT Consulting, Indian BPO industry, categorization, globalization, Green IT Consulting, Mobile App development, Health care consulting, Financial consulting, Management consulting
The document discusses the evolution of IT management over four eras from the 1960s to present. It describes Cash and McFarlan's strategic grid model which categorizes IT management environments based on dependence on existing vs planned applications. Various generic IS strategies and principles of developing killer apps are outlined. Challenges of digital transformation and leveraging IT for competitive advantage are also summarized.
The document discusses strategic IT management and the evolution of IT over different eras from the 1960s to present. It outlines different IT management environments including strategic, turnaround, factory, and support based on an organization's dependence on existing and planned applications. Different IT strategies and challenges of implementation are also summarized.
Management Imperatives To Make IT Business-Smartvinaya.hs
The document discusses several case studies of how companies managed their IT functions and projects, including both successes and failures. It provides lessons for treating IT as a business system aligned with corporate strategy, ensuring executive oversight of major projects, and setting IT priorities based on business needs rather than technology alone. It also summarizes the factors that contributed to Nike's failed global supply chain project and Cisco's large inventory write-off despite having sophisticated IT systems.
This document discusses the importance of information technology and information systems for management and business. It makes three key points:
1. IT is a major capital investment for most companies, comparable to manufacturing plants and machinery, and IT investment decisions can determine a business's future success.
2. IT increases productivity, reduces costs through efficiencies, and enables competitive advantages like new business models, customization, and differentiating products/services.
3. As technologies converge and the business environment changes, the digital transformation of firms is creating opportunities for new products/services and knowledge-based economies. Information systems are critical for processing data into useful information and knowledge to support decision making.
With the rise of globalization and new technologies, businesses and IT departments face changes and increased expectations. For businesses, finding new opportunities and markets is important alongside reducing costs. For IT, providing basic services is no longer enough - they must think like businesses and enable new opportunities. Effective metrics focus on business outcomes like revenue and customer relationships, not just IT efficiency. Building partnerships between IT and business areas helps IT understand customer needs and supports common goals. IT departments need to communicate in business terms and focus on improving the business, not just infrastructure impacts. Businesses with innovative, flexible IT integrated with their goals will have an advantage implementing new ideas over those where IT only focuses on cost optimization.
The rapid rate of technological change can be overwhelming. Everyone sometimes needs to have a virtual CIO on call.
A virtual CIO can help the CIO, IT director, or business owner evaluate new technology, translate between IT and the business units, motivate and mentor effectively, and keep the big picture in focus. This holistic approach helps to create value, integrate systems, save costs, lower risks, increase innovation and produce successful outcomes.
IT Consultation — Expert, unbiased advice on a breadth of operational and strategic areas. This is tailored to the organization’s need, size, culture, and cost preferences. It may consist of providing a second opinion; briefing on industry best practices (e.g., for disaster recovery); building a support infrastructure (e.g., for mobile device support); or doing the problem analysis, plan, cost justification and presentations to the Board, among other possibilities.
Cloud Readiness Audits — Assessment of existing systems architecture, recommendations on which operational, financial, and accounting processes that could be moved to the cloud, and how to do so.
Rescue Assessments — Highly focused, impartial review of breakdowns in systems, applications, infrastructure and more. No finger-pointing, just a solid plan to fix the problem and get you back on track.
Support for Relocations — Experienced and thorough guidance in planning and executing the relocation of servers, networking and other computing assets to ensure efficiency, safety and continuity of operations.
Mentoring — Skills assessment and development; executive coaching; linking business and technology objectives to team performance; and requirements definition for strategic staffing.
The document discusses the challenges facing IT leaders in aligning technology with business strategy. It argues that IT must adopt the language of business, demonstrate value through credible data, and engage early in strategic discussions to be seen as a trusted advisor rather than just an order taker. The document recommends that IT leaders develop leadership skills, move technology investment decisions out of IT, and focus on developing people to successfully partner with the business.
The document discusses trends in the Israeli IT market and technology adoption based on surveys of IT departments and vendors. It covers methodology, disruptive technologies driving innovation, the effect of cheap technologies, architectural trends, vendor-user relations, and forecasts for user budgets and the market in 2007-2008.
- Infrastructure management is facing challenges in keeping up with user expectations of 24/7 availability as well as new technologies like virtualization.
- There is a growing need for sophisticated IT service management solutions to handle asset/change management, service level monitoring, root cause analysis, and reporting to both support processes and demonstrate business value.
- While systems management tools are developing rapidly to address these needs, effective implementation of the new solutions also requires advancement of support processes.
7 Steps to Transform Your Enterprise Architecture Practicepenni333
Enterprise architecture has a critical role in driving business success. But enterprise architects often find that they must create a better understanding for IT and business leaders of the function’s place in strategic planning, application rationalization, and business/IT alignment.
In this slidecast, author Beth Bacheldor explains what steps enterprise architects can take to transform their practice and give colleagues a greater appreciation of its value. The result? The business will have a greater opportunity to profit from enterprise architecture as an essential component of its operations.
Originally posted on: http://smartenterpriseexchange.com/groups/smart-architect
This document discusses the top IT management concerns in Kenya. It identifies several key concerns, including IT strategic alignment, cost reduction, business productivity, business agility, and generating revenue from IT investments. It also notes Africa-specific challenges such as developing IT infrastructure, improving IT governance, and developing IT human resources and skills. The document provides context on the IT management concerns through references and background on the author.
This document outlines Tri ICT's services for improving IT operational excellence. It discusses Tri ICT's culture of being practitioner-focused, coaching-driven professionals. It also summarizes Tri ICT's areas of expertise including IT optimization, enterprise applications, decision systems, and continuous improvement frameworks. Additionally, it provides examples of Tri ICT's quickscan service, mission to deliver high-value IT services, and philosophy of building knowledge and skills through assignments and mentoring. The document concludes with an overview of Tri ICT's customer cases across different industries.
A survey of over 2,200 IT leaders found:
- IT teams are increasingly developing apps for customers, partners, and employees, with 42% creating customer-facing apps.
- Top priorities for IT include increasing worker productivity, data visibility, and automating business processes.
- The top areas for increased IT spending over the next two years are mobile apps, cloud migration, and cybersecurity/incident response.
- High-performing IT organizations are more likely to report excelling at digital transformation and staying ahead of technology trends.
1) The document discusses how IT operating models are evolving to meet new challenges from disruptive technologies and increased business dependency on IT.
2) Key themes of evolution include a focus on business outcomes, speed of delivery, and treating IT as a business to deliver products and services that create value.
3) IT departments need to embrace innovation, encourage risk-taking, and define their work by the value delivered to the business through end-to-end service delivery and integration across business units and channels.
Ilta 2005 successful technology begins outside the computer room by dave cu...David Cunningham
The document discusses 10 drivers of successful IT in law firms, including leadership, understanding the business environment, creating a vision, managing expectations, governance, aligning business and IT strategies, and building the right IT organization. It emphasizes translating business goals into measurable IT initiatives and priorities through a governance process involving senior business and IT stakeholders. Overall strategies are compiled into an IT portfolio that balances initiatives and resources according to their business impact.
Abhishek Rungta Workshop Digital Innovation - A Practical Guide For BusinessesIndus Net Technologies
Digital innovation is failing to provide desired results for many firms despite significant investments. While 40% of companies surveyed spent money acquiring digital startups and setting up Digital Units (DUs), only 10% of companies generated over 5% of revenue from their DUs. Fewer than 8% of companies with DUs were able to successfully scale their digital ideas into launched products. Common reasons for this failure include DUs operating in silos and struggling to connect with legacy businesses, as well as difficulties scaling innovation projects within core business and IT units. The document provides recommendations for establishing an effective DU structure and approach to promote successful digital innovation.
Enterprise Architecture - Why it is needed, now Dennis Layton
There are a lot of presentations about What EA does, and I wanted to say something about Why we do it. While there is a lot of discussion around the scope of EA, this is an unapologetic IT-centric perspective, because that is where many EA organizations have emerged. My only instructions on how to present this material is to do it with some passion.
Dennis Layton 2010
The document discusses disruptive technologies and trends impacting Israeli CIOs in 2006 according to interviews and surveys conducted by the author. Some key points include:
1) Most CIOs saw increases in their 2006 budgets compared to 2005 and report directly to the CEO. Outsourcing and temporary staffing were common.
2) Emerging technologies of interest included SOA, enterprise architecture, analytics, and open source software. CIOs wanted skills in these areas.
3) Survey results found that asset management, business process mapping, and integrating systems were priorities to improve operations and decision making. This creates opportunities for vendors in these areas.
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Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
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.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
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
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Things to Consider When Choosing a Website Developer for your Website | FODUUFODUU
Choosing the right website developer is crucial for your business. This article covers essential factors to consider, including experience, portfolio, technical skills, communication, pricing, reputation & reviews, cost and budget considerations and post-launch support. Make an informed decision to ensure your website meets your business goals.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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.
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAU
Pursuing Versatile IT Architecture to Effectively Respond to Economic Expansion and Contraction
1. Pursuing Versatile IT Architecture to Effectively Respond to Economic Expansion and Contraction Marcus Evans Asia CIO Summit 2009 Macau Lui Sieh, Area Head of IT, Greater China
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3. “ Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb