Dynamics AX: The Business Case for UpgradesArmanino LLP
This SlideShare provides an overview of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics AX, a list of pro's and con's to help you determine if upgrading is right for your and finally, an overview of the upgrade process.
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
COPA is one of the components of controlling modules of SAP which deals with reporting of profitability across various dimensions. CO-PA stands for controlling-profitability analysis which is commonly referred to as SAP-COPA. It enables you to evaluate your company’s profit or contribution margin by market segment or by strategic business unit (such as a sales organization or profit centre).
SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA – Moving controlling and finance closer to...John Jordan
New users have traditionally struggled to understand the way SAP separates Financial Accounting and Management Accounting where most legacy systems see the two as one. While it’s easy enough to understand how a payroll account flows from the profit and loss statement into cost center accounting because the account information stays the same, the situation becomes more challenging as a revenue account flows into profitability analysis and is transformed into a value field, or a cost of goods sold account becomes multiple value fields depending on the cost components involved. In its latest product release, SAP is bringing the two worlds closer together. In this session we’ll look at how SAP is addressing these issues with its new product SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, part of SAP Simple Finance. This presentation will delve into how the requirements for internal and external reporting are converging and how this convergence impacts SAP Controlling.
This session will cover:
*Changes to report revenue and cost of goods sold by the CO-PA dimensions and how break out the cost of goods sold into multiple accounts
*How overhead is captured and allocated either from cost centers to CO-PA dimensions (assessment) or from high-level to lower-level CO-PA dimensions (top-down distribution)
*The underlying architecture and how FI and CO line items are linked.
*New reports that visualize the transformation of expense into cost of goods sold, work in process, and assets under construction
*How the period close process has been accelerated in SAP Controlling
Get a sneak peak at the first planning applications that allow you to plan costs according to the new paradigm of SAP Simple Finance, where the account is the leading dimension for all accounting activities.
Dynamics AX: The Business Case for UpgradesArmanino LLP
This SlideShare provides an overview of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics AX, a list of pro's and con's to help you determine if upgrading is right for your and finally, an overview of the upgrade process.
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
COPA is one of the components of controlling modules of SAP which deals with reporting of profitability across various dimensions. CO-PA stands for controlling-profitability analysis which is commonly referred to as SAP-COPA. It enables you to evaluate your company’s profit or contribution margin by market segment or by strategic business unit (such as a sales organization or profit centre).
SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA – Moving controlling and finance closer to...John Jordan
New users have traditionally struggled to understand the way SAP separates Financial Accounting and Management Accounting where most legacy systems see the two as one. While it’s easy enough to understand how a payroll account flows from the profit and loss statement into cost center accounting because the account information stays the same, the situation becomes more challenging as a revenue account flows into profitability analysis and is transformed into a value field, or a cost of goods sold account becomes multiple value fields depending on the cost components involved. In its latest product release, SAP is bringing the two worlds closer together. In this session we’ll look at how SAP is addressing these issues with its new product SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, part of SAP Simple Finance. This presentation will delve into how the requirements for internal and external reporting are converging and how this convergence impacts SAP Controlling.
This session will cover:
*Changes to report revenue and cost of goods sold by the CO-PA dimensions and how break out the cost of goods sold into multiple accounts
*How overhead is captured and allocated either from cost centers to CO-PA dimensions (assessment) or from high-level to lower-level CO-PA dimensions (top-down distribution)
*The underlying architecture and how FI and CO line items are linked.
*New reports that visualize the transformation of expense into cost of goods sold, work in process, and assets under construction
*How the period close process has been accelerated in SAP Controlling
Get a sneak peak at the first planning applications that allow you to plan costs according to the new paradigm of SAP Simple Finance, where the account is the leading dimension for all accounting activities.
Engineering Product Mfg Co. Leverages Tally.ERP9 to run its Mfg Operations Im...Bhavin Shah
Tally.ERP9 customized using Tally Definition Language by team of Yesha IT Solutions the
processes unmapped for the business requirements of Powermaster Engineers was designed
and further mapped with the BI reporting tool the dynamic business MIS are achieved.
Tally.ERP9 is installed at all the locations of Powermaster Engineers and the transactions are
posted based on the user roles and then synchronized with the central unit of the
Powermaster Engineers to get the centralized view for management at any given point of
time.
Set up and utilize internal orders as standard SAP® functionalityJohn Jordan
Internal orders are an often overlooked part of standard controlling functionality. They offer broad and detailed functionality ranging from planning and budgeting' to cost and revenue analysis. In this whiteboard session, we will cover:
-Internal order configuration basics for statistical orders
-Usage of statistical internal orders
-Standard reporting options for internal orders
-Using internal order hierarchies to support reporting for groups of orders
-Leveraging internal orders for planning
Walk away from this interactive session with a clear understanding of how you can utilize internal orders, and a better understanding of how to track costs and revenues for a specific job, service, task, or event.
Enhancement Packages 5 & 6 – Where to find the business functions that matter...John Jordan
When SAP introduced the concept of enhancement packages and packaged functionality in business functions, administrators were relieved that they would not have to test everything when they upgraded. However, it made some business functions difficult to locate.
In this session from Controlling 2014, Janet Salmon dives into hard to find functionality important to Controllers including:
1. FIN_CO_COGM: Parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured allows for different costing approaches for each accounting principle your company follows
2. LOG_MM_SIT: Actual costing and stock in transit allows you to pass production variances to other plants, even if they are assigned to other company codes
3. LOG_EAM_OLC: Operation level costing provides a more detailed view of your service and maintenance costs
4. FIN_CO_CCMGMT: New user interfaces for cost center, order and activity type master data and first planning applications
5. FIN_CO_CCPLAN and FIN_CO_ORPLAN: New user interfaces for cost center planning, order planning, and project planning
Leave this session with the ability to go back to the office and quickly identify and use the business functions that benefit you.
Combined COPA allows organizations to analyze profit-related transactions (such as the invoicing of a customer or consumption through delivery), both in the form of value fields and also in the form of accounts to which posting takes place in financial accounting.
SAP Innovations:Are you overlooking important functionality in SAP ControllingAlice Adams
While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
SAP recently started to bundle software solutions with pre-packaged consulting. The result is called RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solutions. There are currently close to one hundred offerings available. In this webcast, you will first get a better understanding of how the RDS methodology can save customers time and money and minimize risk. Then, we will navigate through the RDS portal and learn more specific RDS packages. Last, we will dive into some of the RDS projects recommended for the SAP Controlling community.
To reduce dependencies on email communication and delay in correspondence, assign individual portals to vendors in their website accounts. So, you can send RFQs directly to the vendor portal and communicate instantly. vendors can check the status of their quotations from the vendor portal.
SAP FICO Overview, This Slide provides you the Basic Overview of SAP FICO ,Finance and Controlling module deals with the Financial Management of an Organisation. SAP Provides an ERP Solution to handle Accounts for Major Enterprises
5 tips for sap material master buyer and planner functionsJohn Jordan
On January 31, 2014 SAP Material Master – A Practical Guide author Matt Johnson shared his top 5 tips for buyer and planner functions in SAP Material Master.
Topics discussed included::
Key buyer and planner concepts in SAP Material Master
How to leverage buying power on economies of scale
Benefits of the automatic reordering mrp types
If you are an Accounting professional looking for a career change, please look no further. We are going to recommend the best alternative career to leverage on your Accounting knowledge and start earning more than what you have been earning now in your profession.
SYSPRO is a fully-integrated business software solution that provides complete control over the planning and management of all facets of business including accounting, manufacturing and distribution operations in a variety of industries
GPUG Summit Partner Solutions Showcase: Propel Your Company to Profitability ...Journyx, Inc
Journyx's presentation from the 2016 GPUG Summit / Dynamic Communities Summit. Find out how to increase the bottom line through better project accounting and time tracking methods that make accounting, payroll, and project estimation/costing easier.
Engineering Product Mfg Co. Leverages Tally.ERP9 to run its Mfg Operations Im...Bhavin Shah
Tally.ERP9 customized using Tally Definition Language by team of Yesha IT Solutions the
processes unmapped for the business requirements of Powermaster Engineers was designed
and further mapped with the BI reporting tool the dynamic business MIS are achieved.
Tally.ERP9 is installed at all the locations of Powermaster Engineers and the transactions are
posted based on the user roles and then synchronized with the central unit of the
Powermaster Engineers to get the centralized view for management at any given point of
time.
Set up and utilize internal orders as standard SAP® functionalityJohn Jordan
Internal orders are an often overlooked part of standard controlling functionality. They offer broad and detailed functionality ranging from planning and budgeting' to cost and revenue analysis. In this whiteboard session, we will cover:
-Internal order configuration basics for statistical orders
-Usage of statistical internal orders
-Standard reporting options for internal orders
-Using internal order hierarchies to support reporting for groups of orders
-Leveraging internal orders for planning
Walk away from this interactive session with a clear understanding of how you can utilize internal orders, and a better understanding of how to track costs and revenues for a specific job, service, task, or event.
Enhancement Packages 5 & 6 – Where to find the business functions that matter...John Jordan
When SAP introduced the concept of enhancement packages and packaged functionality in business functions, administrators were relieved that they would not have to test everything when they upgraded. However, it made some business functions difficult to locate.
In this session from Controlling 2014, Janet Salmon dives into hard to find functionality important to Controllers including:
1. FIN_CO_COGM: Parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured allows for different costing approaches for each accounting principle your company follows
2. LOG_MM_SIT: Actual costing and stock in transit allows you to pass production variances to other plants, even if they are assigned to other company codes
3. LOG_EAM_OLC: Operation level costing provides a more detailed view of your service and maintenance costs
4. FIN_CO_CCMGMT: New user interfaces for cost center, order and activity type master data and first planning applications
5. FIN_CO_CCPLAN and FIN_CO_ORPLAN: New user interfaces for cost center planning, order planning, and project planning
Leave this session with the ability to go back to the office and quickly identify and use the business functions that benefit you.
Combined COPA allows organizations to analyze profit-related transactions (such as the invoicing of a customer or consumption through delivery), both in the form of value fields and also in the form of accounts to which posting takes place in financial accounting.
SAP Innovations:Are you overlooking important functionality in SAP ControllingAlice Adams
While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
SAP recently started to bundle software solutions with pre-packaged consulting. The result is called RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solutions. There are currently close to one hundred offerings available. In this webcast, you will first get a better understanding of how the RDS methodology can save customers time and money and minimize risk. Then, we will navigate through the RDS portal and learn more specific RDS packages. Last, we will dive into some of the RDS projects recommended for the SAP Controlling community.
To reduce dependencies on email communication and delay in correspondence, assign individual portals to vendors in their website accounts. So, you can send RFQs directly to the vendor portal and communicate instantly. vendors can check the status of their quotations from the vendor portal.
SAP FICO Overview, This Slide provides you the Basic Overview of SAP FICO ,Finance and Controlling module deals with the Financial Management of an Organisation. SAP Provides an ERP Solution to handle Accounts for Major Enterprises
5 tips for sap material master buyer and planner functionsJohn Jordan
On January 31, 2014 SAP Material Master – A Practical Guide author Matt Johnson shared his top 5 tips for buyer and planner functions in SAP Material Master.
Topics discussed included::
Key buyer and planner concepts in SAP Material Master
How to leverage buying power on economies of scale
Benefits of the automatic reordering mrp types
If you are an Accounting professional looking for a career change, please look no further. We are going to recommend the best alternative career to leverage on your Accounting knowledge and start earning more than what you have been earning now in your profession.
SYSPRO is a fully-integrated business software solution that provides complete control over the planning and management of all facets of business including accounting, manufacturing and distribution operations in a variety of industries
GPUG Summit Partner Solutions Showcase: Propel Your Company to Profitability ...Journyx, Inc
Journyx's presentation from the 2016 GPUG Summit / Dynamic Communities Summit. Find out how to increase the bottom line through better project accounting and time tracking methods that make accounting, payroll, and project estimation/costing easier.
Intacct Project Accounting and Financials for your Services BusinessIntacct Corporation
Services and project-based companies are focused on capturing 100% of client billable time and expenses, developing accurate budgets and forecasts, and improving cash flow management. Intacct understands your business challenges and has features and functionality uniquely suited to project-based businesses.
Learn how Intacct can help:
--Streamline the entire order-to-cash process
--Automate project and resource management
--Manage time and expenses with ease for both billable and non-billable items
--Speed time to invoice and payment through automated project billing
--Gain unprecedented visibility through real-time dashboards and reports
This best billing practices document describe all about practice challenges and solutions. It gives expertise information in healthcare delivery and revenue management.
Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Stabilization Case Studiesmeritweb
Learn about the risks, challenges, and best practices for implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX in enterprise manufacturing and supply chain environments. Hear about a couple of our Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation stabilization case studies.
Principes fondamentaux du Revenue ManagementAvailpro
Cette conférence va présenter les fondements du Yield Management puis une première initiation à sa pratique. L’objectif est de montrer comment analyser le remplissage de son hôtel et utiliser la veille concurrentielle pour décider d’un prix. Enfin, Olivier Martin exposera une situation réelle issue de ses interventions chez les clients.
REVENUE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND ONLINE DISTRIBUTIONErhan KAYA, MBA
Understanding Importance of Data & Education, Basics of Revenue Management & Building a Hotel Budget, Forecasting Demand, Market Segmentation & Hotel Competitive Analysis, Pricing Strategy, How to Increase direct sales, A Day in Hotel – What GM expects from Revenue Management Practice, Guest Satisfaction & Revenue, Latest Trends in Online Distribution Technologies, Revenue Management Education, How does usage of PMS affect Revenue Management Systems, Workshop – Revenue Management Software, Workshop - Online Distribution Technologies in Action
This plan provides any parties interested in implementing Oracle Applications with a framework for doing so. It contains the detailed tasks involved and lists the associated resources that may be needed. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes tie back in to the Oracle AIM documents that should be prepared for each task and phase.
Overcoming the Top 7 Intercompany Accounting Challenges in SAP ERP FinancialsSAPinsider Events
View this session from Financials 2015 in Las Vegas. Coming to Europe! www.Financials2015.com
Overcoming the Top 7 Intercompany Accounting Challenges in SAP ERP Financials by David Cohen, EY
This session will outline and provide resolutions for the seven most common intercompany accounting challenges that companies face within the areas of sale of products, charge of services, AP/AR reconciliation, profit elimination, assets transactions, and month-end closings. By attending you will receive:
- Practical examples on the most effective ways to use standard functionality of SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects BI, and SAP HANA to alleviate these issues
- Examples of overcoming difficulties in implementing asset transactions across borders, such as purchase and leasing
- Alternatives to performing inter-company profit elimination
- Lessons for configuring and running your month-end close
Unleash the motivational power of incentive compensation.
CRMIT Solutions provides a complete set of services, from transition through go live, to post go-live. This also includes modelling, design, administration and analysis of incentive compensation programs ranging from hundreds to thousands of direct or indirect sales professionals.
Amwal ERP enterprise resource planning for Nonprofit and Government Organiza...Ahmad Saheb
General Ledger Module
Accounts Receivable Module
Accounts Payable Module
Humane Resource Management Module
Billing Module
Assets Managements Module
Inventory, Supplies Order and Purchase Module
Budget Module
Hospitals, Municipalities and Charities Organizations
Workflow
segments : Account fund fund source activity cost center seg
Financial Accounting theory
Amwal ERP enterprise resource planning for Nonprofit and Government Organiza...Ahmad Saheb
Amwal ERP gives a very high competitive advantages
for its clients, because of the uniqueness of its Financial
Accounting theory ‘Fund Accounting Theory‘.
General Ledger Module
Accounts Receivable Module
Accounts Payable Module
Humane Resource Management Module
Billing Module
Assets Managements Module
Budget Module
Revenues Management Information System
Inventory, Supplies Order and Purchase Module
Fixed Assets Module
The challenges faced by the Fleet Industry started witnessing rapid changes with the advent of eresource's Fleet Management ERP. This user-friendly business application helped many small and medium sized fleet management organizations gain a lot of advantage and grow into a full-fledged, profit-making enterprises. This is the first time ever such an extensive and well integrated software for Fleet and Transport Industry is made. eresource ERP for Fleet Management is the number one Fleet/Transport Management ERP that will help your business grow with guaranteed return on investment.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Year End Close - Armanino Webinar PresentationArmanino LLP
An important note for any CFO/Controller, Accountant or Dynamics GP user, this presentation reviews the process and procedures to performing a worry-free Year-End close in Dynamics GP.
We will explain the importance of closing the year in Dynamics GP, how to prepare for the year-end close activities, and guide you through the process of performing a year-end close in Dynamics GP. We will also provide you with tools, tips and tricks to make this a smooth process.
Feel free to check out the accompanying webinar as well for additional details: http://youtu.be/pI7imP9eFA0
Armanino's High Tech Solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERPArmanino LLP
An ERP solution to address the top challenges of high tech & semiconductor manufacturers. Learn more at: armaninollp.com/industries/fabless-semiconductor
High tech and semiconductor companies struggle with a wide range of operational, financial and regulatory issues. The following 15 areas demonstrate how Armanino’s Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solution for High Tech Industries enables manufacturers to overcome these challenges.
1 - Supports M&A Activity
2 - New Product Introductions
3 - True Inverse Bill of Materials Management & Planning
4 - Subcontracting and Pay Point Management
5 - Robust Split, Route and End Item Support
6 - Pricing and Distribution Complexities
7 - Yield Planning
8 - Design Win Routing, Tracking and Planning
9 - Sampling & Evaluation Units
10 - Supplier Performance Monitoring
11 - Export Compliance/ Regulatory Controls
12 - Supply Chain Integration and Real-Time WIP Visibility
13 - Integration with PLM Systems & MES
14 - Complex Lot, Serial Traceability and Inheritance
15 - Binning and Substitutions
Armanino is a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM Partner with a reputation for developing innovative solutions for electronics, semiconductor and fabless semiconductor manufacturers. Let us bring industry knowledge, Microsoft Dynamics expertise and business strategy to your next project. At Armanino, we deliver the tools you need to focus on your customers and grow.
Learn more at: armaninollp.com/industries/fabless-semiconductor
Microsoft AX7: Taking Business to the Next LevelArmanino LLP
Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics AX7 (aka "the New Dynamics") and schedule a demo using your data by visiting: http://learn.armaninollp.com/ax7-upgrade
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Azure SLA
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SaaS Revenue Recognition Principles: How to Treat Setup and Implementation Fe...Armanino LLP
Our latest survey of SaaS companies reveals two compelling shifts in revenue recognition.
As SaaS business models and GAAP revenue rules have evolved, companies have adapted their revenue recognition practice, especially in light of the new FASB/IASB revenue recognition standards (effective for public companies in 2017 and private companies in 2018).
Our new SaaS survey analyzes these changing practices and offers insights that can help you evaluate your company’s revenue recognition policies and disclosures.
The results revealed two compelling trends around non-subscription revenues.
Non-subscription revenue recognition remains a moving target for many SaaS companies, which means finance teams must continue to revisit the accuracy, transparency and completeness of their own rev rec policies and disclosures. How do your revenue best practices compare to your peers?
Come to Dynamics GRC Day in Atlanta after Convergence! Armanino's own Governance, Risk, and Compliance Partner, Jeremy Sucharski, will be the opening keynote speaker.
Learn more and register today: dynamicsgrc.com
Whats New in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015Armanino LLP
Take a look at important new features in the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 & GP 2013 R2, such as:
- Control
- Reporting
- Productivity
- System Administration
This presentation also covers:
- New features by module in GP 2015 & GP 2013 R2
- Important Microsoft support cut-off dates
- Upgrade paths and processes from earlier versions of Dynamics GP.
Learn more at: http://learn.amllp.com/upgrade-to-microsoft-dynamics-gp-2015
Case Study - Microsemi Uses Microsoft Dynamics AX to Reduce Costs and Improve...Armanino LLP
Microsemi, a semiconductor company, selected Microsoft Dynamics AX to reduce spending on IT resources and improve efficiency by combining disparate systems.
Cloud computing has become ubiquitous in our personal and professional lives with must-have applications like iTunes for entertainment, Google for document management and ADP for payroll. Research from the Cloud Accounting Institute reveals that after major growth in adoption rates over the past several years, cloud solutions are now considered mainstream and are in wide usage, with 73 percent of survey respondents indicating their companies currently use Software as a Service (SaaS) or Cloud solutions. With the public Cloud Solutions market expected to reach $210 billion by 2016 according to Gartner, more companies are taking advantage of the cost-savings and efficiencies offered by a Cloud Solution.
At Armanino, we know you don’t check-out of life when you check-in at work. That’s why we’ve created a unique work environment where your passions, your work, and your family and friends can overlap to help you:
• Achieve growth through a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas
• Combine your career with your passions by maintaining a flexible career path
• Make your family, friends and passions as much of a priority as your work
We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career.
Learn more at www.amllp.com and www.amllp.com/careers
Managing the Transformation of Technological ChangeArmanino LLP
Brian Kinion, VP Finance at Marketo, gives a keynote address at Armanino's Sixth Annual Technology Forum. He discussed moving from IPO to acquisition, the growing pains, the IT challenges and other topics pertinent to the financial organization.
SaaS Revenue Recognition Principles: How a SaaS Company Should Treat Setu...Armanino LLP
In 2010, when the new revenue standards1 were issued by the FASB, Armanino McKenna surveyed the early adopting public SaaS companies to see if implementation/setup fees were being recognized as delivered, rather than deferred, as allowed under the new rules.
SaaS Companies: What Costs Should Be Capitalized?Armanino LLP
Armanino McKenna conducted a survey of 47 public SaaS companies to examine their accounting policies for certain expenses. The results showed 70% of those SaaS companies are capitalizing expenses - the two most common expenses capitalized are software development expenses and sales commissions. To understand the diversity in capitalization practices, we examined the rules for capitalizing these and other SaaS expenses.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.