Part 3 - Modern Data Warehouse with Azure SynapseNilesh Gule
Slide deck of the third part of building Modern Data Warehouse using Azure. This session covered Azure Synapse, formerly SQL Data Warehouse. We look at the Azure Synapse Architecture, external files, integration with Azuer Data Factory.
The recording of the session is available on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZlu6_rFzm8&WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5003170
1 Introduction to Microsoft data platform analytics for releaseJen Stirrup
Part 1 of a conference workshop. This forms the morning session, which looks at moving from Business Intelligence to Analytics.
Topics Covered: Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, Big Data
Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data LakeBizTalk360
Big data is the new big thing where storing the data is the easy part. Gaining insights in your pile of data is something different. Based on a data dump of the well-known StackExchange websites, we will store & analyse 150+ GB of data with Azure Data Lake Store & Analytics to gain some insights about their users. After that we will use Power BI to give an at a glance overview of our learnings.
If you are a developer that is interested in big data, this is your time to shine! We will use our existing SQL & C# skills to analyse everything without having to worry about running clusters.
Part 3 - Modern Data Warehouse with Azure SynapseNilesh Gule
Slide deck of the third part of building Modern Data Warehouse using Azure. This session covered Azure Synapse, formerly SQL Data Warehouse. We look at the Azure Synapse Architecture, external files, integration with Azuer Data Factory.
The recording of the session is available on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZlu6_rFzm8&WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5003170
1 Introduction to Microsoft data platform analytics for releaseJen Stirrup
Part 1 of a conference workshop. This forms the morning session, which looks at moving from Business Intelligence to Analytics.
Topics Covered: Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, Big Data
Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data LakeBizTalk360
Big data is the new big thing where storing the data is the easy part. Gaining insights in your pile of data is something different. Based on a data dump of the well-known StackExchange websites, we will store & analyse 150+ GB of data with Azure Data Lake Store & Analytics to gain some insights about their users. After that we will use Power BI to give an at a glance overview of our learnings.
If you are a developer that is interested in big data, this is your time to shine! We will use our existing SQL & C# skills to analyse everything without having to worry about running clusters.
Microsoft Ignite AU 2017 - Orchestrating Big Data Pipelines with Azure Data F...Lace Lofranco
Data orchestration is the lifeblood of any successful data analytics solution. Take a deep dive into Azure Data Factory's data movement and transformation activities, particularly its integration with Azure's Big Data PaaS offerings such as HDInsight, SQL Data warehouse, Data Lake, and AzureML. Participants will learn how to design, build and manage big data orchestration pipelines using Azure Data Factory and how it stacks up against similar Big Data orchestration tools such as Apache Oozie.
Video of presentation:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/DA332
Develop scalable analytical solutions with Azure Data Factory & Azure SQL Dat...Microsoft Tech Community
In this session you will learn how to develop data pipelines in Azure Data Factory and build a Cloud-based analytical solution adopting modern data warehouse approaches with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and implementing incremental ETL orchestration at scale. With the multiple sources and types of data available in an enterprise today Azure Data factory enables full integration of data and enables direct storage in Azure SQL Data Warehouse for powerful and high-performance query workloads which drive a majority of enterprise applications and business intelligence applications.
Short introduction to different options for ETL & ELT in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure. This is a small accompanying set of slides for my presentations and blogs on this topic
Slidedeck related to the talk presented at the Manila Data Day event March 2020. The demo covers Azure services like Data Lake Storage (Gen 2), Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Key Vault and Active directory to build a modern data warehouse.
Build Real-Time Applications with Databricks StreamingDatabricks
In this presentation, we will study a recent use case we implemented recently. In this use case we are working with a large, metropolitan fire department. Our company has already created a complete analytics architecture for the department based upon Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure SQL and Azure SQL Server Analytics Services (SSAS). While this architecture works very well for the department, they would like to add a real-time channel to their reporting infrastructure.
This channel should serve up the following information: •The most up-to-date locations and status of equipment (fire trucks, ambulances, ladders etc.)
• The current locations and status of firefighters, EMT personnel and other relevant fire department employees
• The current list of active incidents within the city The above information should be visualized through an automatically updating dashboard. The central component of the dashboard will be map which automatically updates with the locations and incidents. This view should be as real-time as possible and will be used by the fire chiefs to assist with real-time decision-making on resource and equipment deployments.
In this presentation, we will leverage Databricks, Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lake and the Azure platform to create this real-time delivery channel.
This presentation covers some of the major data science and AI announcements from the May 2020 Microsoft Build conference. Included in this talk are 1) Azure Synapse Link, 2) Responsible AI, 3) Project Bonsai & Project Moab, and 4) AI Models at Scale (deep learning with billions of parameters).
Modern business is fast and needs to take decisions immediatly. It cannot wait that a traditional BI task that works on data snapshots at some time. Social data, Internet of Things, Just in Time don't undestand "snapshot" and needs working on streaming, live data. Microsoft offers a PaaS solution to satisfy this need with Azure Stream Analytics. Let's see how it works.
Introducing the Hub for Data OrchestrationAlluxio, Inc.
Data Orchestration Summit 2020 organized by Alluxio
https://www.alluxio.io/data-orchestration-summit-2020/
Introducing the Hub for Data Orchestration
Danny Linden, Chapter Lead Software Engineer (Ryte)
About Alluxio: alluxio.io
Engage with the open source community on slack: alluxio.io/slack
Hello All,
It is time for the second Tokyo Azure Meetup!
As a natural continuation of our first topic, we will proceed with Big Data.
Until recently you needed to learn new language or master new concepts in order get started with Big Data.
Moreover, you needed to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure that will meet the business demands for Big Data processing.
Not any more!
If you know C# and T-SQL you are ready to become Big Data master!
Public cloud and especially Microsoft Azure are very well suited for working with Big Data.
Join us for our next event and and I can assure you that after the session you will be ready to start working with Big Data.
And maybe you are asking why this is important.
I believe that we don't have choice but build smart applications and get as much possible insights from the data we collect from various sources in order to take the best business decisions and please our customers.
Today we have so much data available publicly or coming from our customers and it is very challenging to process it and turn it into valuable business asset.
Not any more!
Join for our next meetup and you will see how Microsoft create amazing opportunity for each .Net developer to become Big Data expert and every company to start using Big Data to accelerate its growth.
I have been working closely with the product team developing U-SQL language that empower Azure Data Lake Analytics, which is one of the processing engines for Azure Data Lake and I will be very happy to share my experience with you!
See you very soon!
Kanio
Running cost effective big data workloads with Azure Synapse and ADLS (MS Ign...Michael Rys
Presentation by James Baker and myself on Running cost effective big data workloads with Azure Synapse and Azure Datalake Storage (ADLS) at Microsoft Ignite 2020. Covers Modern Data warehouse architecture supported by Azure Synapse, integration benefits with ADLS and some features that reduce cost such as Query Acceleration, integration of Spark and SQL processing with integrated meta data and .NET For Apache Spark support.
Azure Synapse is Microsoft's new cloud analytics service offering that combines enterprise data warehouse and Big Data analytics capabilities. It offers a powerful and streamlined platform to facilitate the process of consolidating, storing, curating and analysing your data to generate reliable and actionable business insights.
Intro to User Journey Mapping for Building Better Websites - WordCamp Ottawa...Anthony D. Paul
You’ve asked the right questions and maybe you have some personas. There’s a heap of feature requests from your client and a whole lot of content to organize into a sitemap (IA) document and wireframes. However, something’s not sitting right and you wonder how your WordPress site fits into the bigger customer journey with the client’s brand, business, and products. In this talk, I’ll show you how to get started with taking all of that subject matter expertise you’ve been collecting in your mind, and to convert it into one of several useful types of journey maps. I’ll share process, examples, context on how they fit into a larger project, and share how they help bring agreement among your client decision-makers.
Microsoft Ignite AU 2017 - Orchestrating Big Data Pipelines with Azure Data F...Lace Lofranco
Data orchestration is the lifeblood of any successful data analytics solution. Take a deep dive into Azure Data Factory's data movement and transformation activities, particularly its integration with Azure's Big Data PaaS offerings such as HDInsight, SQL Data warehouse, Data Lake, and AzureML. Participants will learn how to design, build and manage big data orchestration pipelines using Azure Data Factory and how it stacks up against similar Big Data orchestration tools such as Apache Oozie.
Video of presentation:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2017/DA332
Develop scalable analytical solutions with Azure Data Factory & Azure SQL Dat...Microsoft Tech Community
In this session you will learn how to develop data pipelines in Azure Data Factory and build a Cloud-based analytical solution adopting modern data warehouse approaches with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and implementing incremental ETL orchestration at scale. With the multiple sources and types of data available in an enterprise today Azure Data factory enables full integration of data and enables direct storage in Azure SQL Data Warehouse for powerful and high-performance query workloads which drive a majority of enterprise applications and business intelligence applications.
Short introduction to different options for ETL & ELT in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure. This is a small accompanying set of slides for my presentations and blogs on this topic
Slidedeck related to the talk presented at the Manila Data Day event March 2020. The demo covers Azure services like Data Lake Storage (Gen 2), Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Key Vault and Active directory to build a modern data warehouse.
Build Real-Time Applications with Databricks StreamingDatabricks
In this presentation, we will study a recent use case we implemented recently. In this use case we are working with a large, metropolitan fire department. Our company has already created a complete analytics architecture for the department based upon Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure SQL and Azure SQL Server Analytics Services (SSAS). While this architecture works very well for the department, they would like to add a real-time channel to their reporting infrastructure.
This channel should serve up the following information: •The most up-to-date locations and status of equipment (fire trucks, ambulances, ladders etc.)
• The current locations and status of firefighters, EMT personnel and other relevant fire department employees
• The current list of active incidents within the city The above information should be visualized through an automatically updating dashboard. The central component of the dashboard will be map which automatically updates with the locations and incidents. This view should be as real-time as possible and will be used by the fire chiefs to assist with real-time decision-making on resource and equipment deployments.
In this presentation, we will leverage Databricks, Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lake and the Azure platform to create this real-time delivery channel.
This presentation covers some of the major data science and AI announcements from the May 2020 Microsoft Build conference. Included in this talk are 1) Azure Synapse Link, 2) Responsible AI, 3) Project Bonsai & Project Moab, and 4) AI Models at Scale (deep learning with billions of parameters).
Modern business is fast and needs to take decisions immediatly. It cannot wait that a traditional BI task that works on data snapshots at some time. Social data, Internet of Things, Just in Time don't undestand "snapshot" and needs working on streaming, live data. Microsoft offers a PaaS solution to satisfy this need with Azure Stream Analytics. Let's see how it works.
Introducing the Hub for Data OrchestrationAlluxio, Inc.
Data Orchestration Summit 2020 organized by Alluxio
https://www.alluxio.io/data-orchestration-summit-2020/
Introducing the Hub for Data Orchestration
Danny Linden, Chapter Lead Software Engineer (Ryte)
About Alluxio: alluxio.io
Engage with the open source community on slack: alluxio.io/slack
Hello All,
It is time for the second Tokyo Azure Meetup!
As a natural continuation of our first topic, we will proceed with Big Data.
Until recently you needed to learn new language or master new concepts in order get started with Big Data.
Moreover, you needed to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure that will meet the business demands for Big Data processing.
Not any more!
If you know C# and T-SQL you are ready to become Big Data master!
Public cloud and especially Microsoft Azure are very well suited for working with Big Data.
Join us for our next event and and I can assure you that after the session you will be ready to start working with Big Data.
And maybe you are asking why this is important.
I believe that we don't have choice but build smart applications and get as much possible insights from the data we collect from various sources in order to take the best business decisions and please our customers.
Today we have so much data available publicly or coming from our customers and it is very challenging to process it and turn it into valuable business asset.
Not any more!
Join for our next meetup and you will see how Microsoft create amazing opportunity for each .Net developer to become Big Data expert and every company to start using Big Data to accelerate its growth.
I have been working closely with the product team developing U-SQL language that empower Azure Data Lake Analytics, which is one of the processing engines for Azure Data Lake and I will be very happy to share my experience with you!
See you very soon!
Kanio
Running cost effective big data workloads with Azure Synapse and ADLS (MS Ign...Michael Rys
Presentation by James Baker and myself on Running cost effective big data workloads with Azure Synapse and Azure Datalake Storage (ADLS) at Microsoft Ignite 2020. Covers Modern Data warehouse architecture supported by Azure Synapse, integration benefits with ADLS and some features that reduce cost such as Query Acceleration, integration of Spark and SQL processing with integrated meta data and .NET For Apache Spark support.
Azure Synapse is Microsoft's new cloud analytics service offering that combines enterprise data warehouse and Big Data analytics capabilities. It offers a powerful and streamlined platform to facilitate the process of consolidating, storing, curating and analysing your data to generate reliable and actionable business insights.
Intro to User Journey Mapping for Building Better Websites - WordCamp Ottawa...Anthony D. Paul
You’ve asked the right questions and maybe you have some personas. There’s a heap of feature requests from your client and a whole lot of content to organize into a sitemap (IA) document and wireframes. However, something’s not sitting right and you wonder how your WordPress site fits into the bigger customer journey with the client’s brand, business, and products. In this talk, I’ll show you how to get started with taking all of that subject matter expertise you’ve been collecting in your mind, and to convert it into one of several useful types of journey maps. I’ll share process, examples, context on how they fit into a larger project, and share how they help bring agreement among your client decision-makers.
During my time in this agency in over two and a half years, I have been trying to ensure that our clients have a more positive and enhanced experience of accessing our prototypes such as website designs, mock-up prototypes and so on. So far I have been using After effect, Indesign and Flash and other applications to certain success. I have found that designing prototypes using those applications to be a lengthy and complex process.
Usability testing – Just Do It. Five methods for improving usability in-houseVolkside
Introduction to usability testing and five methods you can use to improve usability in your own projects.
Read more: http://www.volkside.com/2011/05/usability-testing-just-do-it-5-methods-for-improving-usability-inhouse
This deck was created as part of a Webinar with UI Breakfast.
This is a guide to conducting your own workshop with your client, or customers on User Experience Journey Mapping
Lean Design Thinking: Where product, design and development converge in an ag...Alex Sherman
No one likes to build things that people won't use. Two years into using the Design thinking approach, I'm going to share what one team has learned trying to make a product people actually want to use in a lean and agile environment. We'll go through the basic steps taken along with some take-aways and approaches to make qualitative and quantitative product decisions.
Blog post here: https://medium.com/@alex_sherman/lean-design-thinking-968af935fc85#.9pdatucl8
The Startup Design Toolkit - a design-thinking approach to startups and produ...Alejandro Rios Peña
When PMs or entrepreneurs tackle a new product venture, they need to acquire and combine skills and tools from the Development, Business and Design fields. In this session, the following topics will be introduced:
- Is there really a formula for new product or startup success?
- What is Design-Thinking and how it is driving innovation around the world?
- Building a Toolkit: a subset of practical tools curated from the Lean Startup, Customer Development, Design-Thinking and other methods, to really help entrepreneurs to accelerate and find a scalable business model.
http://productcampsf.com/proposed-session-a-design-thinking-approach-to-pm-and-startups/
User Interface Prototyping - Low- and High-Fidelity Prototyping TodayThomas Memmel
Zühlke offers various usability engineering services – get in touch at www.zuehlke.com/usability
User Studies, User Profiling & User Modeling (e.g. Personas), User-Centered Requirements Engineering, Usability Concepts & Modeling (e.g. Scenarios, Storyboards), Agile Development & User Experience (e.g. User Stories combined with elements of Interaction Design), User Interface Prototyping (Low- & High-Fidelity), User Interface Engineering (Integration of Usability Methodology in the Software Development Process), Usability Testing (e.g. with Mobile Usability Lab), User Interface Specification.
Rapid Interactive Prototyping – How Designers can Embrace the Need for SpeedFITC
Rapid Interactive Prototyping – How Designers can Embrace the Need for Speed
with Mike Costanzo
Presented on September 18 2014 in Toronto at
FITC's Web Unleashed 2014
More info at www.fitc.ca
OVERVIEW
Designing for the Web has become increasingly complex; the rise of HTML5 web apps, responsive design, adaptive design, etc. has made static mock-ups redundant and the trend toward lean and agile development methodologies can create a hostile environment for designers who are often left feeling rushed, disorganized and overwhelmed.
But there is hope.
Many new tools are now available to deal with designing in this dynamic landscape. Mike Costanzo will look at some and evaluate the advantages and limitations of each while discussing how they can be integrated into the workflow. These tools not only allow for faster design but also facilitate rapid iteration, concept evaluation and the creation of clear deliverables to distribute to product owners and team members, in turn, leaving more time to design a holistic product.
OBJECTIVE
Present and demonstrate rapid interactive prototyping applications and workflows
TARGET AUDIENCE
Designers interested in learning about new applications that quickly build, iterate and distribute interactive application prototypes.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Design application knowledge i.e. Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Balsamiq, ect…
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
1. Various applications to create rapid interactive prototypes
2. Integrating the workflow into an Agile team (however not exclusive to Agile)
3. How designing for interaction differs from traditional static mock-ups
4. The importance of delivering the right level of prototype fidelity
5. Methods of delivering the prototypes to clients and users for testing
Over the past several years, the lean startup movement has made the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) a key approach to incrementally discovering effective products and services. In this talk, Levent Gurses will discuss a 5 step MVP process for building great minimum viable products that's been used in real client engagements. His process has been developed working with more than 20 enterprise full-stack and mobile clients over the course of several years. Topics will include the challenges of creating the MVP vision, scoping the activity, what should an MVP cost in time and money, and what should you have when you are “done”. Not only sharing his tales of MVP development, he will provide insights in how he's developed methods to effectively drive vision and development execution.
What is an MVP?
A product that has the absolute minimal set of core features necessary to prove a hypothesis, generally linked to commercial success or market validation. The MVP seeks the highest return on investment versus risk.
The Rise of the Lean Startup Movement
The lean startup movement came about as a result of analysis of many startup successes and failures. Development timeframes have become shorter and customer engagement has increased, which is helping companies better product-market fit and a path to success.
Presentation Outline:
• The MVP Vision (What will I have at the end of the effort?)
• Brief history of the lean startup movement
• Scoping
• Budgeting for MVP
• Features: The MVP Way
• Essential vs. peripheral features
• Must have to prove a hypothesis vs. nice to have
• Assembling a team
• Hiring contractors or vendor firms to build the MVP
• Choosing a technology
• Fake it until you make it: How to create mock features for an MVP
Presenter
Levent Gurses - Developer, speaker, and entrepreneur, Levent is the founder www.movel.co, an enterprise mobility company based in Virginia. He’s a nationally-recognized leader in mobile technologies and is a frequent speaker at tech communities on mobile and full-stack development. Levent holds a BS in Computer Engineering and is a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Product Owner.
2 Speed IT powered by Microsoft Azure and MinecraftSriram Hariharan
In this session, Mike will show how a model reference architecture in Azure and Minecraft can be used by architects to visualize solutions that you want your teams to build.
2 Speed IT powered by Microsoft Azure and MinecraftBizTalk360
In this session, Mike will show how a model reference architecture in Azure and Minecraft can be used by architects to visualize solutions that you want your teams to build.
In this presentation, Michael Stephenson talks about the Citizen Integrator, Microsoft Flow and also Power Apps.
The Azure-Citizen Integrator is a newer role to organizations but is expected to play an important part in the future of organizations currently going through digital transformations. He also explains how Azure Citizen Integrator can be empowered by Microsoft to deliver value to the business in a way that can be complimentary to IT strategy rather than being considered shadow IT.
Get an Insight on Our Portfolio which concentrated mainly on the Industry Specific. For each Industry we will develop a new solution that helps them to increase their revenues, and reduce the Human efforts.
estrat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) breakfast in Perth with presenters from MINEMAN, Present Group, AWS and estrat. An informative session on cloud adoption as the new normal in IT strategy.
RightScale Webinar: Get Your App To AzureRightScale
Looking for guidance with Windows Azure? RightScale has a dedicated “Get Your App to Azure” program for customers evaluating Microsoft’s Windows Azure IaaS. Enterprises come to us at all stages of cloud adoption for expert end-to-end assistance, ranging from high level strategic decision making to designing and implementing application architectures.
In this webinar, speakers from RightScale and Microsoft share best practices for migration and deployment in the Azure cloud.
Key Topics:
1. Why Infrastructure as a Service.
2. How to identify applications for migration or when to initially build on Windows Azure.
3. Prioritize applications by cloud readiness.
4. Develop an end-to-end plan from strategy to implementation.
5. RightScale Services for Azure.
For enterprises trying to stay ahead of the game, having a robust and fast application development program can make or break their market presence. The challenge for developers, however, is to build responsive, devise-agnostic applications in days, not months.
Azure is the Latest technology and it is going to be the future, Katpro Technologies help you to Migrate your on-Premise Environment to Azure Cloud Solutions, and also help you to develop the Cloud solutions/Applications in the less span of time.
#Techorama belgium 2018 vincent biret deep dive with the #MicrosoftGraphVincent Biret
Slides supporting the session deep dive with the Microsoft Graph at Techorama Belgium 2018. Talking about authentication, authorization, integrations with azure functions and the SharePoint Framework.
Are you jumping on the microservices bandwagon? When and when not to adopt micro services architecture? If you must, what are the considerations? This slidedeck will help answer a few of those questions...
I did a session at the LeedsSharp about azure integration services and where to use which technology
- Azure Functions
- Logic Apps
- Synapse
- Data Factory
- Event Grid
- Service Bus
- Event Hub
- API Management
a talk about azure synapse aimed to help people who are not data experts understand what synapse is and how you can integrate it with other technologies
This slide deck is about automated testing of BizTalk HL7 solutions and showing how you can use behaviour driven acceptance tests to automate your testing
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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/
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
2. Michael Stephenson
About
• Azure and Integration Architect
• Community Activities
• Microsoft MVP for 7+ years
• Pluralsight Author
• Azure Insider/Advisor
• Integration Monday
• Worked on 30+ projects that have
leveraged Azure
Contact
• Personal Blog:
http://microsoftintegration.guru
• Twitter: @michael_Stephen
• Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelst
ephensonuk1
4. Today
Agenda
• 2 Speed IT
• Example Projects
• Thoughts
Outcomes
• Make you think about some
Azure features
• Show some cool demo’s
• Take home some ideas to inspire
the kids
5. IT’s Customer Satisfaction
Perception
• 15% of business users completely satisfied
with IT department
• 33% of business users think IT is important to
business innovation
• 60% of business users think IT department is
integral to the business
Effect
• Stealth IT
• IT perceived to be holding the business in the
past
• Business doesn’t value IT
(Perception) Source: Information Week IT Perception Survey
6. “By 2017, 75% of organisations will have a 2
speed IT capability”
7. The 2 Modes of IT
Marathon Runner – Mode 1
• Mission Critical Systems
• Conventional Approaches
• Stability
• Reliability
• Low Risk
• Slow & Safe
Sprinter – Mode 2
• Take Risks / Safe Enough
• Agility & embrace change
• Remove bureaucracy
• Deliver Value Fast
• Fail Fast
• Aggressive customer focus
8. Cloud Relationship to 2 Speed IT
Mode 1 – Traditional Mode 2 - Agile
IT Leadership IT Operations Enterprise Architect
Drivers • Cost Reduction
• Risk Mitigation
• Keep the operation running
• Protect the assets
• Protect the customer
• Developer Productivity
• Deliver Business Change
• Keep the customer happy
• Innovate
• Beat competitors
• Take risks
Cloud Opportunities • Move commodity servers off site
• Turn off when not in use
• Off Premise Test environments
• Cloud Disaster Recovery
• Quick & Cheap IT Provisioning
• Delivery Empowerment
• Delete resources if project fails
• Reduce operations requirements
10. Mode 2 Architects
“As an architect, the cloud offers me new ways to solve problems and opportunities
to excite the business and super charge my mode 2 IT teams”
12. The Challenge
Business Context
• Current State
• SAP is the system of record for Staff
• Staff do not use SAP the HR system directly,
only HR
• SAP changes are difficult and expensive
• SAP is complex to train users
• Desired Outcome
• Create a Staff Portal system of engagement
• Portal should be within SharePoint based
intranet
Technical Challenge
• If we host services in the cloud to increase
our agility can we use hybrid integration to
connect to services on premise?
14. Relay powered Hybrid SAP Integration
SharePoint Provider Hosted App
In Azure Web App
Microservices Router
Service Bus Relay
API
SAP Microservices
Other Microservices
Linq To SAP
15. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• Application Insights Monitoring
• Azure Web App
• Azure Service Bus Relay
• VS Online Automated Build & Deploy
Info
• Key Points
• Light weight API based integration
• Duration
• End to end features developed in hours/days
• Project focusing on features not plumbing
• Architecture from POC suitable for production and
used by real project
• Costs
• Cloud cost approx. $10 per month (dev, test & prod)
17. The Challenge
Business Context
• Find a free PC
• We have 3 locations and 20+ buildings
• In these buildings are 5000+ computers
• How can a student know where is best to
go to get a PC to use
• Drivers
• Positive Student Experience
Business Context 2
• How utilised are our Rooms
• We have hundreds of rooms
• How do we know how utilised they are
• How do we track how energy efficient
they are
• Drivers
• Reduce Costs
18. Proof of Concept
The building has a sensor which detects
When you enter the building
Stream Analytics processes
Event Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of useful
Information via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
20. Telemetry
Agent on PC pushes PC usage
And application telemetry to cloud
Sensor/Reader telemetry
sent to cloud
Stream Analytics processes
Event Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of useful
Information via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
21. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• Azure Service Bus Event Hubs
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Power BI
Info
• Key Points
• Cloud back end would support high scale
production usage “as is”
• POC is something the sprinters could easily take
forwards
• Duration
• Demo created in < 3 hours
• Costs
• Cloud Approx. < $40 per month
23. The Challenge
Business Context
• We have an existing business process
which is reliable and has been around for
ages
• We need to feedback status to customers
quicker or risk losing them to competitors
• We are not 100% sure the business idea
will work but we want to try it
Desired Outcome
• Minimize risk to existing process
• Avoid extensive re-testing or existing
processes (potentially expensive)
• Win or fail fast
• Use Reference Architecture to evaluate the
impact of the project
24. Enrolment Process
BizTalk orchestrates across line of business
Systems to process enrolment
Line of Business
Systems
Student can enrol for a course via multiple
channels
API in Azure
Service Bus Messaging
API solution has exposed existing process
To new channels
26. Notifications
BizTalk Server
Line of Business
Systems
Student gets an alert in near-realtime when their
Enrolment is approved
API in Azure
Service Bus
Messaging
SQL
Twilio Connector
SQL Connector
Logic App
28. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• New Channels
• Azure Service Bus Messaging
• Azure Web Apps
• Application Insights
• Notifications
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure API App Connectors
• SQL
• Twilio
Info
• Key Points
• Notification feature had no impact to existing
process
• Notification feature very low cost
• Alert drives student to re-engage with us
• Reference Architecture
• Used to evaluate solution options
• Used to simulate and demo to business
• Costs
• Reference Architecture Approx. < $100 per month
• Notification Feature = $0
• No additional cost uses existing App Service
30. Hold on you cant
start the next
race yet…..
Challenges of 2 Speed IT
• At some point the Marathon Runners need to look after the thing the sprinters built
• Sprinters become too externally customer focused and lose sight of IT Strategy or IT Operations
• Sprinters make significant stealth architecture changes
• Can the organisation really afford 2 IT departments? We need to be able to do sprint projects
within an organisational journey
32. Embracing the Cloud
I have a platform
with loads of
features to help me
build awesome
Apps
I’m comfortable
we can govern
solutions because
Azure is core to
our architecture
Many of our
solutions use Azure
so I have lots of
reusable
troubleshooting
skills
Managing
Azure is
Business as
Usual
We get great
visibility of our
actual costs and
have enterprise
agreements