John Stover presented at a technology conference on SharePoint: the good, the bad, and the ugly. He began by explaining what SharePoint is and how it is commonly used today. He then discussed how to plan for SharePoint success by defining objectives, requirements, workloads, and technical environments. Stover also provided recommendations on training, support, and governance. He wrapped up by emphasizing the importance of testing and providing examples of how not to implement SharePoint and ensure failure.
Through numerous years of eating, drinking and sleeping SharePoint I have come to realize that there is 1 thing that has never changed. That 1 thing is a question and the answer to that question is the most important thing in all of SharePoint. That question is "What direction should my organization be going and how do we get there?". The question or a very close form of that question is asked anytime something bad happens to the current environment or software, the current environment or software is up for renewal, new technology is introduced and last but not least, during yearly budget planning. Most companies will fall into one of the following categories:
• Current application is no longer suitable due to company growth, lack of functionality or
• Current application company that created & supported it no longer exists.
• Starting from scratch and SharePoint has been chosen now deciding which way to go and where to start?
• Currently utilizing SharePoint but not exactly the way Microsoft intended
• Need to upgrade to continue support
Regardless of the current situation your organization is in the end goal for all is success and success is measured by the usage of the application. Yes folks user adoption IS more important than being on time or under budget. Otherwise, what was the point of the entire project that I am sure took months and sometimes years to plan and implement. In this session I will take you through where to start, keys to choosing the right path for your organization and most importantly implement SharePoint in a way user adoption meets your goals and of course come in on time and on par with the budget.
Is your organization looking to move your email to the cloud in order to get more space, better access and improved uptime? There are two big players the cloud space: Office 365 and Google Apps. Both are enterprise level systems with a range of features and benefits, but which one is the right for your organization?
Matthew Eshleman, Director of Professional Services at Community IT Innovators, provided an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Office 365 and Google Apps. He will also share case studies of organizations that have moved to both platforms, issues they faced in the transition, and costs involved with moving to these cloud platforms.
This webinar covered the following topics.
- Understanding the fine print in the service level agreement
- Staff training and buy-in required
- Costs involved in setting it up
- Moving data in and how to move data out in the future
Join us as we review the pros and cons of SharePoint Online for nonprofit organizations. It can be a powerful tool with the right planning and setting of expectations.
Join us for our monthly webinar series as we review our best practices for successfully implementing SharePoint Online as a nonprofit document management solution.
As organizations consider SharePoint Online as an option for hosting their SharePoint environments, you may ask yourself how an enterprise can actually move a large number of SharePoint sites to the cloud. In this session we will discuss a large scale SharePoint migration to Office 365 which starts with several highly customized sites and multiple versions of SharePoint. We will look at the project structure and plan, staffing, benefits and pitfalls, technical considerations, lessons learned, and how you can plan for a successful move to SharePoint Online.
Put away your flip charts and markers. When results really matter engage your technology. In this workshop you will explore and experience the benefits of connected facilitation as it applies to facilitating a product strategy session. Bring your laptop or tablet to this session to experience the benefits firsthand. You’ll also learn about other applications for Connected Facilitation, and about your options to set up one of these amazingly productive work sessions.
Through numerous years of eating, drinking and sleeping SharePoint I have come to realize that there is 1 thing that has never changed. That 1 thing is a question and the answer to that question is the most important thing in all of SharePoint. That question is "What direction should my organization be going and how do we get there?". The question or a very close form of that question is asked anytime something bad happens to the current environment or software, the current environment or software is up for renewal, new technology is introduced and last but not least, during yearly budget planning. Most companies will fall into one of the following categories:
• Current application is no longer suitable due to company growth, lack of functionality or
• Current application company that created & supported it no longer exists.
• Starting from scratch and SharePoint has been chosen now deciding which way to go and where to start?
• Currently utilizing SharePoint but not exactly the way Microsoft intended
• Need to upgrade to continue support
Regardless of the current situation your organization is in the end goal for all is success and success is measured by the usage of the application. Yes folks user adoption IS more important than being on time or under budget. Otherwise, what was the point of the entire project that I am sure took months and sometimes years to plan and implement. In this session I will take you through where to start, keys to choosing the right path for your organization and most importantly implement SharePoint in a way user adoption meets your goals and of course come in on time and on par with the budget.
Is your organization looking to move your email to the cloud in order to get more space, better access and improved uptime? There are two big players the cloud space: Office 365 and Google Apps. Both are enterprise level systems with a range of features and benefits, but which one is the right for your organization?
Matthew Eshleman, Director of Professional Services at Community IT Innovators, provided an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Office 365 and Google Apps. He will also share case studies of organizations that have moved to both platforms, issues they faced in the transition, and costs involved with moving to these cloud platforms.
This webinar covered the following topics.
- Understanding the fine print in the service level agreement
- Staff training and buy-in required
- Costs involved in setting it up
- Moving data in and how to move data out in the future
Join us as we review the pros and cons of SharePoint Online for nonprofit organizations. It can be a powerful tool with the right planning and setting of expectations.
Join us for our monthly webinar series as we review our best practices for successfully implementing SharePoint Online as a nonprofit document management solution.
As organizations consider SharePoint Online as an option for hosting their SharePoint environments, you may ask yourself how an enterprise can actually move a large number of SharePoint sites to the cloud. In this session we will discuss a large scale SharePoint migration to Office 365 which starts with several highly customized sites and multiple versions of SharePoint. We will look at the project structure and plan, staffing, benefits and pitfalls, technical considerations, lessons learned, and how you can plan for a successful move to SharePoint Online.
Put away your flip charts and markers. When results really matter engage your technology. In this workshop you will explore and experience the benefits of connected facilitation as it applies to facilitating a product strategy session. Bring your laptop or tablet to this session to experience the benefits firsthand. You’ll also learn about other applications for Connected Facilitation, and about your options to set up one of these amazingly productive work sessions.
Sharepoint for Nonprofits: Introduction501 Commons
A Walkthrough of Real World Deployment
Now that you are up and running on Office365, are you wondering if SharePoint can help your organization better collaborate? Is email your org's primary means of sharing files? Not quite sure what SharePoint is? Wondering what it takes to build a useful SharePoint site? Hoping to decommission your local file server or Dropbox shared accounts? This presentation will walk through the business and technical steps taken at Habitat for Humanity SKC to deploy SharePoint in a mid-sized nonprofit.
Topics to be covered:
SharePoint functional overview. What is it and what can it do for me? Brief comparison with similar products.
Structuring sites and subsites.
Security considerations. Internal and external sharing. How do I control and monitor access?
Document libraries. Custom views. Using folders vs. search.
Data preservation.
Syncing files locally. Limits and tradeoffs.
Reaching nirvana – any document on any device, anywhere in a secure environment?
How to involve your team in design and deployment. How to manage a deployment.
Project overview at Habitat for Humanity. What worked? What didn't work?
Hidden costs? Training? Internet upgrade? Storage fees? Local PC upgrades?
Benefit from the experience of a recent deployment, and make a more informed decision about whether SharePoint is a good fit for your organizational needs.
About the presenter:
Kevin Phaup is an independent software consultant who has advised dozens of local non-profits in Seattle and Portland over the years primarily as a volunteer. He works closely with Social Venture Partners. He enjoys providing targeted technical and business advice, and hands-on work building successful IT solutions.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
From fundraising to programs, from advocacy to evaluation, Tableau Foundation helps nonprofits make a bigger impact with their data. Thanks to the new Tableau for Non-profits program, most small nonprofits qualify for free copies of Tableau Desktop.
All organizations – even small ones! – have a vast amount of data at their disposal. But this data doesn't have to be confusing or useless. It can help you make informed decisions on program development, fundraising campaigns, reporting, and strategic planning. Tableau helps nonprofits use their data to change communities.
This “Getting Started” session will introduce nonprofit staff and leadership to Tableau’s powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence software. Through the session, attendees will learn how to:
- Understand the importance of data visualization for evaluation and storytelling purposes
- Connect to their organization's data on a PC, a server, in the cloud, or on the web
- Build compelling visualizations, dashboards, and storypoints
- Use quick filters to explore the intricacies of their data
- Share their data both inside and outside their organization
This is designed to be a beginner’s workshop, but if you’d like to get a head start on finding out why understanding data can be the key to building a stronger organization, check out Tableau's training videos at tableau.com/learn/training.
Meet the Presenter
Jason Schumacher is the Tableau Foundation’s program manager. He runs the Tableau Service Corps, the Foundation’s skilled volunteering initiative, as well as licensing programs for nonprofits. Previously, Jason ran Tableau’s academic programs, acting as a PM, trainer, and marketer. Before joining Tableau in 2012, Jason worked with data at a healthcare marketing agency, while asking himself the question “why am I not using Tableau for this?”
Sydney Microsoft 365 Meetup Microsoft teamsAnupam Ranku
Microsoft Team is the hub for teamwork in Office 365 that brings together conversations, files and tools. Teams give people a single place to communicate and collaborate and also allows the team members to customise Team with apps, bots (T-Bot, Who-Bot), tabs, Planner, Forms, Flow etc. as per their needs. There is an enormous number of out-of-the-box extensibilities exist within Team. But what if you need more features that are not in the MS Team but is essential for your company, team, or project? - this is what we will discuss during the session.
The session will include some updates on the newest additions to the development and extension for the MS Team. We will also demonstrate how you can leverage the existing resources from Microsoft and build the app you need for your business
VisualSP is the SharePoint Help System. Help delivered to the users through a Help tab in the ribbon.
This presentation describes the need and then presents the solution.
A mashup application can provide a view to a wealth of related data from different origins. Mark Jordan demonstrates the creation of such a mashup page in SharePoint that shows related data from an external database, a web service, and other data origins.
SharePoint Lists: Used, Abused and UnderappreciatedWes Preston
Lists are used as the core of many things SharePoint but they are rarely used as well as they can be. Learn the top tips and tricks for getting the most of your lists: How to build them smarter, how to display them more clearly, and how to use them in your environment for effectively. Also see how these practices evolve from 2007 to 2010.
Demystifying SharePoint Governance and User AdoptionWes Preston
Governance and User Adoption continue to be hot topics in the SharePoint community and are still adapting as the community matures. So, what do these buzzwords mean to you and your organization? In this session we'll explain what they mean, why they shouldn't be something to fear or over-think, and how to approach these topics as a part of your SharePoint planning, implementations and ongoing management.
So You Signed Up for Office 365 - Now What??TechSoup
Have you signed up for an Office 365 cloud subscription but are not sure how to move forward? We talk to nonprofits all day, every day about their challenges with Office 365. In this webinar, we will walk you through what license types are most appropriate for your organization, what steps to take to get started, and how TechSoup can help you get set up and on your way!
This webinar is best suited for organizations that already have an Office 365 license or that already have a Microsoft nonprofit cloud account.
Topics:
- What features come with the different Office 365 licenses
- Specific steps to set up Office 365 and create user accounts
- How to start accessing your email through Office 365
- Key training for your staff on using Office 365 features
- How to get help with migrating to Office 365 from your old system's services
SharePoint Governance: stories, myths, legends and real lifeToni Frankola
SharePoint governance starts with a 600-page document. At our 30-person company, we need a 40-person SharePoint Governance committee, and nobody can determine why a housekeeper has access to the governance document.
Have you heard this type of statement? We most certainly have. In this session, Toni will bust myths like these by providing a workable approach to SharePoint governance in small and large enterprises. We will talk about setting policies as well as what makes sense and what doesn’t. We will break down the governance plan and examine its pieces. Most importantly, we will talk about implementing these policies based on real-life use cases, where no one reads 600-page documents.
Session highlights:
- Developing a workable governance plan
- Setting realistic governance policies
- Automatizing policies implementation
Nuts and Bolts of Building Compliance Process with Nintex and SharePoint 2013Netwoven Inc.
Compliance has become very rigorous and you need a system that can handle all the old processes, as well as any new ones that are initiated. Watch the webinar presented by the experts at Netwoven and Nintex. Here are some key takeaways from the session:
• Critical corporate compliance issues you can address today
• Overview of Microsoft SharePoint & Nintex software compliance features
• Get insights on how to make your applications include compliance reporting
• Best practices for common corporate compliance solutions development
11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint MigrationsChristian Buckley
Presentation given 9/11/2010 at SharePoint Saturday East Bay in San Ramon, California.
The majority of a migration effort has nothing to do with the actual technical move of content and bits, but is a planning activity. This presentation walks through 11 areas of focus, sharing best practices.
SharePoint, as a platform, is a robust offering for your business needs, yet how many times have you said, "I wish I could do this", only to find SharePoint does not offer that particular solution "out-of-the-box"?
Presentation for the Knowledge Management Institute about how lightweight tools can be used to get bottom-up ideas from customers, employees, and/or partners
Sharepoint for Nonprofits: Introduction501 Commons
A Walkthrough of Real World Deployment
Now that you are up and running on Office365, are you wondering if SharePoint can help your organization better collaborate? Is email your org's primary means of sharing files? Not quite sure what SharePoint is? Wondering what it takes to build a useful SharePoint site? Hoping to decommission your local file server or Dropbox shared accounts? This presentation will walk through the business and technical steps taken at Habitat for Humanity SKC to deploy SharePoint in a mid-sized nonprofit.
Topics to be covered:
SharePoint functional overview. What is it and what can it do for me? Brief comparison with similar products.
Structuring sites and subsites.
Security considerations. Internal and external sharing. How do I control and monitor access?
Document libraries. Custom views. Using folders vs. search.
Data preservation.
Syncing files locally. Limits and tradeoffs.
Reaching nirvana – any document on any device, anywhere in a secure environment?
How to involve your team in design and deployment. How to manage a deployment.
Project overview at Habitat for Humanity. What worked? What didn't work?
Hidden costs? Training? Internet upgrade? Storage fees? Local PC upgrades?
Benefit from the experience of a recent deployment, and make a more informed decision about whether SharePoint is a good fit for your organizational needs.
About the presenter:
Kevin Phaup is an independent software consultant who has advised dozens of local non-profits in Seattle and Portland over the years primarily as a volunteer. He works closely with Social Venture Partners. He enjoys providing targeted technical and business advice, and hands-on work building successful IT solutions.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
From fundraising to programs, from advocacy to evaluation, Tableau Foundation helps nonprofits make a bigger impact with their data. Thanks to the new Tableau for Non-profits program, most small nonprofits qualify for free copies of Tableau Desktop.
All organizations – even small ones! – have a vast amount of data at their disposal. But this data doesn't have to be confusing or useless. It can help you make informed decisions on program development, fundraising campaigns, reporting, and strategic planning. Tableau helps nonprofits use their data to change communities.
This “Getting Started” session will introduce nonprofit staff and leadership to Tableau’s powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence software. Through the session, attendees will learn how to:
- Understand the importance of data visualization for evaluation and storytelling purposes
- Connect to their organization's data on a PC, a server, in the cloud, or on the web
- Build compelling visualizations, dashboards, and storypoints
- Use quick filters to explore the intricacies of their data
- Share their data both inside and outside their organization
This is designed to be a beginner’s workshop, but if you’d like to get a head start on finding out why understanding data can be the key to building a stronger organization, check out Tableau's training videos at tableau.com/learn/training.
Meet the Presenter
Jason Schumacher is the Tableau Foundation’s program manager. He runs the Tableau Service Corps, the Foundation’s skilled volunteering initiative, as well as licensing programs for nonprofits. Previously, Jason ran Tableau’s academic programs, acting as a PM, trainer, and marketer. Before joining Tableau in 2012, Jason worked with data at a healthcare marketing agency, while asking himself the question “why am I not using Tableau for this?”
Sydney Microsoft 365 Meetup Microsoft teamsAnupam Ranku
Microsoft Team is the hub for teamwork in Office 365 that brings together conversations, files and tools. Teams give people a single place to communicate and collaborate and also allows the team members to customise Team with apps, bots (T-Bot, Who-Bot), tabs, Planner, Forms, Flow etc. as per their needs. There is an enormous number of out-of-the-box extensibilities exist within Team. But what if you need more features that are not in the MS Team but is essential for your company, team, or project? - this is what we will discuss during the session.
The session will include some updates on the newest additions to the development and extension for the MS Team. We will also demonstrate how you can leverage the existing resources from Microsoft and build the app you need for your business
VisualSP is the SharePoint Help System. Help delivered to the users through a Help tab in the ribbon.
This presentation describes the need and then presents the solution.
A mashup application can provide a view to a wealth of related data from different origins. Mark Jordan demonstrates the creation of such a mashup page in SharePoint that shows related data from an external database, a web service, and other data origins.
SharePoint Lists: Used, Abused and UnderappreciatedWes Preston
Lists are used as the core of many things SharePoint but they are rarely used as well as they can be. Learn the top tips and tricks for getting the most of your lists: How to build them smarter, how to display them more clearly, and how to use them in your environment for effectively. Also see how these practices evolve from 2007 to 2010.
Demystifying SharePoint Governance and User AdoptionWes Preston
Governance and User Adoption continue to be hot topics in the SharePoint community and are still adapting as the community matures. So, what do these buzzwords mean to you and your organization? In this session we'll explain what they mean, why they shouldn't be something to fear or over-think, and how to approach these topics as a part of your SharePoint planning, implementations and ongoing management.
So You Signed Up for Office 365 - Now What??TechSoup
Have you signed up for an Office 365 cloud subscription but are not sure how to move forward? We talk to nonprofits all day, every day about their challenges with Office 365. In this webinar, we will walk you through what license types are most appropriate for your organization, what steps to take to get started, and how TechSoup can help you get set up and on your way!
This webinar is best suited for organizations that already have an Office 365 license or that already have a Microsoft nonprofit cloud account.
Topics:
- What features come with the different Office 365 licenses
- Specific steps to set up Office 365 and create user accounts
- How to start accessing your email through Office 365
- Key training for your staff on using Office 365 features
- How to get help with migrating to Office 365 from your old system's services
SharePoint Governance: stories, myths, legends and real lifeToni Frankola
SharePoint governance starts with a 600-page document. At our 30-person company, we need a 40-person SharePoint Governance committee, and nobody can determine why a housekeeper has access to the governance document.
Have you heard this type of statement? We most certainly have. In this session, Toni will bust myths like these by providing a workable approach to SharePoint governance in small and large enterprises. We will talk about setting policies as well as what makes sense and what doesn’t. We will break down the governance plan and examine its pieces. Most importantly, we will talk about implementing these policies based on real-life use cases, where no one reads 600-page documents.
Session highlights:
- Developing a workable governance plan
- Setting realistic governance policies
- Automatizing policies implementation
Nuts and Bolts of Building Compliance Process with Nintex and SharePoint 2013Netwoven Inc.
Compliance has become very rigorous and you need a system that can handle all the old processes, as well as any new ones that are initiated. Watch the webinar presented by the experts at Netwoven and Nintex. Here are some key takeaways from the session:
• Critical corporate compliance issues you can address today
• Overview of Microsoft SharePoint & Nintex software compliance features
• Get insights on how to make your applications include compliance reporting
• Best practices for common corporate compliance solutions development
11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint MigrationsChristian Buckley
Presentation given 9/11/2010 at SharePoint Saturday East Bay in San Ramon, California.
The majority of a migration effort has nothing to do with the actual technical move of content and bits, but is a planning activity. This presentation walks through 11 areas of focus, sharing best practices.
SharePoint, as a platform, is a robust offering for your business needs, yet how many times have you said, "I wish I could do this", only to find SharePoint does not offer that particular solution "out-of-the-box"?
Presentation for the Knowledge Management Institute about how lightweight tools can be used to get bottom-up ideas from customers, employees, and/or partners
Dan Gordon's presentation from the TAG B&TA Leading Edge series. in our first annual “Leading Edge Series”. Dan gave us an overview of his perspective of the future of technology across Georgia, the US and the world.
SharePoint 2013 Migration - Your 5 Rules for SuccessChristian Buckley
An overview of SharePoint 2013, and best practices for organizing and orchestrating your migration to the latest version of SharePoint -- whether on prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid. Includes a quick overview of PointBeyond's migration planning services.
What You Need to Know Before Upgrading to SharePoint 2013Perficient, Inc.
Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure what is involved? Are you in the middle of a migration that is behind schedule? This presentation walks you through general guidelines and common pitfalls to avoid so your transition to SharePoint 2013 will be successful.
Speaker Suzanne George discusses tips and tricks to ensure a successful SharePoint 2013 implementation and describe common mistakes that organizations make during the transition.
Whether you are in the middle of migrating to SharePoint 2013 or you are just thinking about implementation, this session will give you tools that will help you successfully deploy SharePoint within your organization.
Presenter Suzanne George, MCTS, is a Senior Technical Architect a Perficient. She has developed, administered, and architected website applications since 1995 and has worked with top 100 companies such as Netscape, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Verio. Her experience includes custom applications and SharePoint integration with applications such as ESRI, Deltek Accounting Software, and SAP. Suzanne sits on the MSL IT Manager Advisory Council, was a contributing author for SharePoint 2010 Administrators and presents at SharePoint Saturdays around the country.
Presentation given in San Francisco in January 2013 by myself and Paul Lawbaugh from Webtrends on the importance of capturing robust metrics to better understand the end user experience, build out strong KPIs and metrics, and optimize/improve based on data.
How to Manage and Troubleshoot Search: A Practical GuideSPC Adriatics
Speaker: Agnes Molnar;
SharePoint 2013 introduces a lot of improvements when it comes to managing all aspects of a search deployment. In this session I will cover the most common methods for troubleshooting issues related to databases, crawl error’s and warnings, entity extraction and content processing, query processing and query rules.
We live in a world of silos - separate systems each with data essential to our daily work. No organization has all its important information in one place - 61% of knowledge workers regularly access 4 or more systems to get the information they need to do their jobs, and 15% need 11 or more systems. Integration to provide a unified view across these systems is very valuable, but it has been difficult to accomplish - even between different Microsoft products. This seminar will show you how to bridge across these silos using a search-based approach that is both quick and powerful.
SharePoint as a Business Platform Why, What and How? – No Codedox42
"SharePoint as a Business Platform
Why, What and How? – No Code"
Im Vortrag von Jean-François Saint-Pierre von Evolusys erfahren Sie mehr über das nahtlose Zusammenspiel von SharePoint und dox42.
24.09.2014, Swiss SharePoint Club Genf
158 - Product Management for Enterprise-Grade platforms ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston is the world's largest and most exciting crowd-sourced one-day event for product people. It's organized by and for product managers, product marketers and entrepreneurs, so attendees get the most out of the day.
Attendees learn about and discuss topics in product management and product marketing, product discovery, product development & design, go-to-market, product strategy and lifecycle management, and product management 101, startups, and career development.
www.ProductCampBoston.org
Patching is Your Friend in the New World Order of EPM and ERP CloudDatavail
Historically, patching was an IT effort to stay on the support path or remove vulnerabilities. Today, in the EPM Cloud market, patching is so much more. This presentation will review several case studies of how clients received free capacities in their patches. Be a hero and make business change.
How Celtra Optimizes its Advertising Platform with DatabricksGrega Kespret
Leading brands such as Pepsi and Macy’s use Celtra’s technology platform for brand advertising. To inform better product design and resolve issues faster, Celtra relies on Databricks to gather insights from large-scale, diverse, and complex raw event data. Learn how Celtra uses Databricks to simplify their Spark deployment, achieve faster project turnaround time, and empower people to make data-driven decisions.
In this webinar, you will learn how Databricks helps Celtra to:
- Utilize Apache Spark to power their production analytics pipeline.
- Build a “Just-in-Time” data warehouse to analyze diverse data sources such as Elastic Load Balancer access logs, raw tracking events, operational data, and reportable metrics.
- Go beyond simple counting and group events into sequences (i.e., sessionization) and perform more complex analysis such as funnel analytics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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.
5. What is SharePoint?
This is still a question I get asked when out
visiting customers… It’s kind of magical in a
certain way. It’s a really special kind of
product… It’s kind of like an operating
system…
- Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
6. [SharePoint is] a general purpose infrastructure
that connects people to people and people to
information.
- Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
18. Bad Requirement
REQ 301.1: The system's
capacities shall meet or exceed
minimum system capacity
requirements set forth in REQ
290.45 of this title (relating to
Minimum System Capacity)
21. More Bad Requirements
• Support multiple languages
• Provide workflows
• Provide distributed content
authoring
• Provide robust security
• Include Social
• Must Be Mobile
22. Better Requirements
• Provide a Project Calendar with high-level
deadlines and deliverables
• Visually display task assignments and
deadlines
• Email alerts of major document revisions to
executive team
26. Calculate Workload?
• Average daily RPS (Requests Per • Web Browser - Social Interaction
Second) • Web Browser - General Interaction
• Average RPS at peak time • Web Browser - Office Web Apps
• Number of unique users per day • Office Clients
• Average daily concurrent users • OneNote Client
• Peak concurrent users at peak time • SharePoint Workspace
• Total number of requests per day • Outlook RSS Sync
• Expected workload distribution • Outlook Social Connector
• Web Browser - Search Crawl • Other interactions(Custom
• Web Browser - General Collaboration Applications/Web services)
Interaction
27.
28. Audience Considerations
• Staff Only – Internal
• Staff Only – Remote Access
• Partners Customers Members
• Internet Sites
• Hybrid? Staff, Members, Customers, and
Anonymous Users?
• Browser Types?
• Mobile?
29. Performance and Reliability
• Availability?
–99.9%, 99.99%, 99.999%
• Responsiveness?
–3 seconds?
• Resource Utilization?
–CPU and Available Memory
32. Virtual or Physical
SQL Server performance tests indicate that the
same throughput (compared to a physical
server) can be achieved in a guest virtual
machine at a cost of slightly increased CPU
usage
- Plan Virtual Architectures, Microsoft TechNet
38. Typical Training
A significant volume of
information is transmitted from
one to many in a short time with
limited opportunity to apply and
limited personalization.
46. SharePoint can
start simple…
and can turn into an
enterprise project.
47. If you still need ideas to FAIL
• Don’t Use Roles
• Don’t Use SharePoint Security
Groups
• Make Everyone an Owner
• Don’t Test. Better yet, rely on others
to test.
• Migrate EVERYTHING
48. Even more ways to FAIL!
• Duplicate Content
• Ignore Content Types
• Ignore Metadata
• Don’t use Templates
• SharePoint exists in a vacuum
