The document summarizes a survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit on the decentralization of IT across enterprises. Some key findings include:
1) Over 40% of IT executives say technology activities are becoming decentralized as business units develop their own IT solutions like devices, apps, and cloud networks.
2) This is driven by IT departments' limited bandwidth and staff shortages, as well as business units' need for domain expertise.
3) Decentralization is proliferating the number of technologies used across enterprises and fragmenting standards and purchasing power.
4) IT departments say decentralization is making their jobs more challenging, straining personnel, and reducing their ability to protect the company from cyberattacks
Forrester: How Organizations Are Improving Business Resiliency with Continuou...EMC
This analyst report describes reasons why adoption of continuous availability is rapidly increasing, citing research on benefits they believe they can realize in their IT environment.
CIO Advisory Services Guide | White Paper from Brittenford SystemsBrittenford Systems
IT departments are under stress as the need for financial resources becomes overwhelming and technology departments are required to do more with less, using existing IT systems while having to also move or keep systems online. This white paper serves as a guide to CIO advisory services and discusses the current stress on the IT industry.
Explore some of the biggest takeaways from our, “2020 Insight Intelligent Technology™ Index: The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Sector Organizational Readiness” report. You’ll learn how prepared public sector agencies felt when they first started adapting to the changes brought on by the pandemic — and how they’re preparing for a new way forward.
More: http://ms.spr.ly/6006TaHGp
Forrester: How Organizations Are Improving Business Resiliency with Continuou...EMC
This analyst report describes reasons why adoption of continuous availability is rapidly increasing, citing research on benefits they believe they can realize in their IT environment.
CIO Advisory Services Guide | White Paper from Brittenford SystemsBrittenford Systems
IT departments are under stress as the need for financial resources becomes overwhelming and technology departments are required to do more with less, using existing IT systems while having to also move or keep systems online. This white paper serves as a guide to CIO advisory services and discusses the current stress on the IT industry.
Explore some of the biggest takeaways from our, “2020 Insight Intelligent Technology™ Index: The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Sector Organizational Readiness” report. You’ll learn how prepared public sector agencies felt when they first started adapting to the changes brought on by the pandemic — and how they’re preparing for a new way forward.
More: http://ms.spr.ly/6006TaHGp
If you thought that the “war room” was a thing of the past—it turns out, you’re wrong. The digital war room is on the rise. It’s growing in both size and relevance, including critical support for DevOps and growing support for areas such as SecOps and IoT.
These slides--based on the webinar featuring Dennis Drogseth, VP of Research at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)--provide insights into the hows, whys and wherefores behind digital war room success in terms of organization, process, technology adoption, and best practices
All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
Sharing the blame: How companies are collaborating on data security breaches, is an Economist Intelligence Unit research project, sponsored by Akamai Technologies, exploring the ways in which organisations are collaborating to deal with the disclosure of data security breaches. How are they co-operating with governments, other companies and third parties in areas such as requirements for the public disclosure of such breaches? Do they have consistent cyber security policies? To what extent are they sharing best practices?
Research by AVG shows that although most small businesses understand the need to protect their IT systems, fewer are willing to put it into practice. Out of 2000 SMBs surveyed in the US and UK for the "SMB Landscape Report", more than half (52%) have no IT security guidelines for their staff, while 1 in 7 have no Internet security software or solutions in place at all.
Leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed 208 respondents to gauge interest in, usage of, and concerns about deception technology from users of the technology, as well as those interested in it.
These slides from the webinar explore the results of this study.
Highlights from the EMC & VMware CIO Summit | ATLANTA 2013, where 50 CIOs discussed topics such as the Software-defined Data Center, Cloud, Converged Infrastructure, Big Data, Security, and IT in 2020.
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Maturity Model, Business Potential, Services Structures Areas that analytics can be applied to
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Platforms for Growth:Technology Innovations in the Insurance IndustryState Street
On behalf of State Street, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 321 senior executives at insurance companies (June and July 2014), to examine the technology challenges facing the sector.
Beyond commodities: Gulf investors and the new Africa is a
report by The Economist Intelligence Unit examining Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth trends outside of the natural resource
and commodities sectors, and maps the existing and potential
role of Gulf-based investors. The findings are based on desk
research and interviews with experts, conducted by The
Economist Intelligence Unit. This research was commissioned
by Dubai Chamber.
The potential impact of climate-related change on the assets owned and managed by institutional
investors is significant. Asset managers can expect present-day losses of US$4.2trn to the US$143trn of current manageable assets as a result of climate change by 2100. Find out more>> http://bit.ly/1GJIL7Q
The world of higher education is changing quickly and dramatically. An Economist Intelligence Unit research program explores the changes shaping the higher-education market and identify the steps that institutions are taking to flourish and remain relevant in the 21st century.
The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed consumers to ask what they want from companies and how they rate companies for customer service. And we asked company executives about their attitudes to customer service and how well they think they are doing in joining up all of the new technologies in use today.
If you thought that the “war room” was a thing of the past—it turns out, you’re wrong. The digital war room is on the rise. It’s growing in both size and relevance, including critical support for DevOps and growing support for areas such as SecOps and IoT.
These slides--based on the webinar featuring Dennis Drogseth, VP of Research at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)--provide insights into the hows, whys and wherefores behind digital war room success in terms of organization, process, technology adoption, and best practices
All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
Sharing the blame: How companies are collaborating on data security breaches, is an Economist Intelligence Unit research project, sponsored by Akamai Technologies, exploring the ways in which organisations are collaborating to deal with the disclosure of data security breaches. How are they co-operating with governments, other companies and third parties in areas such as requirements for the public disclosure of such breaches? Do they have consistent cyber security policies? To what extent are they sharing best practices?
Research by AVG shows that although most small businesses understand the need to protect their IT systems, fewer are willing to put it into practice. Out of 2000 SMBs surveyed in the US and UK for the "SMB Landscape Report", more than half (52%) have no IT security guidelines for their staff, while 1 in 7 have no Internet security software or solutions in place at all.
Leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed 208 respondents to gauge interest in, usage of, and concerns about deception technology from users of the technology, as well as those interested in it.
These slides from the webinar explore the results of this study.
Highlights from the EMC & VMware CIO Summit | ATLANTA 2013, where 50 CIOs discussed topics such as the Software-defined Data Center, Cloud, Converged Infrastructure, Big Data, Security, and IT in 2020.
how i managed to Develop a Analytics story for services about 4 years back. Contains
Maturity Model, Business Potential, Services Structures Areas that analytics can be applied to
20150108 create time stamp
Platforms for Growth:Technology Innovations in the Insurance IndustryState Street
On behalf of State Street, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 321 senior executives at insurance companies (June and July 2014), to examine the technology challenges facing the sector.
Beyond commodities: Gulf investors and the new Africa is a
report by The Economist Intelligence Unit examining Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth trends outside of the natural resource
and commodities sectors, and maps the existing and potential
role of Gulf-based investors. The findings are based on desk
research and interviews with experts, conducted by The
Economist Intelligence Unit. This research was commissioned
by Dubai Chamber.
The potential impact of climate-related change on the assets owned and managed by institutional
investors is significant. Asset managers can expect present-day losses of US$4.2trn to the US$143trn of current manageable assets as a result of climate change by 2100. Find out more>> http://bit.ly/1GJIL7Q
The world of higher education is changing quickly and dramatically. An Economist Intelligence Unit research program explores the changes shaping the higher-education market and identify the steps that institutions are taking to flourish and remain relevant in the 21st century.
The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed consumers to ask what they want from companies and how they rate companies for customer service. And we asked company executives about their attitudes to customer service and how well they think they are doing in joining up all of the new technologies in use today.
The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched a new index measuring urban safety and security. Get the full report on http://safecities.economist.com
The Safe Cities Index 2015, sponsored by NEC, ranks 50 cities worldwide across five continents.
The Index introduces a new definition of urban safety. Every city’s ranking is based on an average score across four categories: digital security, health security, infrastructure safety and personal safety.
People in the world’s most populated continent are living longer, but not necessarily healthier, lives with overburdened, provider-led healthcare systems. As life expectancy across Asia-Pacific continues to rise, the region now carries a huge global burden of non-communicable diseases such as cancer and mental illnesses. As a result, governments in the Asia-Pacific region will need to consider policies and initiatives that prioritise improvements in care for people with a wide range of chronic conditions—but they must maintain vigilance against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
These are among the findings of a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): The shifting landscape of healthcare in Asia-Pacific: A look at Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea, sponsored by Janssen. Through in-depth desk research and interviews with healthcare experts, the study examines the disease-burden challenges facing healthcare systems in these countries.
For more information, please visit: http://www.economistinsights.com/healthcare/analysis/shifting-landscape-healthcare-asia-pacific
This case study looks at the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
The perspectives of the banks.
In June of 2015, The Economist Intelligence Unit (sponsored by HP) conducted in-depth surveys of over 100 global bankers and Fintech executives on the future of retail banking. This is what we found.
The ten Balkan countries examined in this report—Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia—continue to make slow progress in modernising their health systems.
we explore the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
This EIU report has been commissioned by Gilead Sciences. It looks at health outcomes of treatment relative to cost and at the structure of Spanish healthcare delivery, the process of making healthcare more accountable in Spain, and the growth and adoption of value-based measures.
By 2020 more than 7 billion people will be communicating and performing transactions over the web on over 35 billion devices. So how can companies effectively create a digital identity that promises security, ease and comfort for its customers? This study, sponsored by Oracle, assesses the role identity plays in the digital economy. Visit hub: http://bit.ly/1LKqXfN
NFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION REVIEW
Analyze the issues
Hardware
Over-running volume of data is a problem that should be addressed by data management and storage management. Data is being constantly collected but poorly analyzed which leads to excessive amounts of data occupying storage and delay in operations which inevitably affect production, sales and profits. If this remains unresolved, current data may have to be moved to external storage and recovered if needed. There is also the risk of data not being encoded into computers and thus will remain in manual state. This can be a case of redundant or extraneous data that is not yet cleaned and normalized by operations managers with the guidance of IT. This situation is known as data overload where companies actually use only a fraction of the data they capture and store. Many companies simply hoard data to make sure that they are readily available when they are needed. This negatively impacts the Corporation when assessing data relevance, accuracies and timeliness (Marr, 2016).
Software
The Largo Corporation (LC) seems to running on an enterprise resource planning system that is probably as long as 20 years old. Initially, LC has had success with the old system because they were able to establish themselves in various industries such as healthcare, media, government, etc. But due to various concerns, the Corporation is currently running on an outdated system because it is unable to provide services that keeps the Corporation a float. The LC is losing revenue and customers. Complete data without analysis is invaluable because, no information and insights can be produced that will support decisions. Customer data should lead to the best marketing and sales campaigns. The Corporation needs to recognize its weaknesses and implement changes to their software by incorporating funding for a new system that is reliable, secure, and has the ability to run on integrated systems; all of which will streamline data organization and analysis for the enterprise. (Rouse, n.d).
Network/Telecommunications
The network that was built in the 1980’s has become slow and unreliable affecting business operations. The problems caused by the old network are; lack of integration and communication between departments affecting the work flow, supply vs. demand, and inability to analyze data to carry out these operations. The Corporation should have taken into consideration the growth of the company by expanding and upgrading their networks along with their services. They should also take into consideration the number of departments, the number of users and their skill level, storage and bandwidth, and budget (Rasmussen, 2011). The current network does not allow employees to connect on their mobile devices which restricts flexibility and places limitations on productivity and portability.
Management
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Industry 4.0 is the name of the next industrial revolution which is fueled by the advancement of digital technologies. It
is dramatically changing how companies engage in business activities. As a result, the disruptive nature of Industry 4.0
demands a reassessment of the requirements for IT. On the one hand, there is the possibility that the responsibilities of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) could be taken over by other executives such as the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) or the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). On the other hand, this
recent development creates entirely new perspectives for positioning themselves and their IT departments
within the business.
The impact of digital technologies is reaching a magnitude at which IT is considered a substantial
business driver, potentially placing CIOs in the driver’s seat.
The global networks of economic wealth, political power and media will depend more and more on knowledge generation. Society will become more and more symbolic - that is, the capacity to produce and distribute goods and services will become increasingly dependent on the ability to create and manipulate electronic symbols. Companies will have to adapt to this new environment, although the process will not be easy. Companies will have to conceive of themselves as located within a shifting network of suppliers, competitors and consumers; their boundaries will accordingly be highly fluid. Permanent flexibility will be the key to survival in the new economy.
8 BIGGEST MISTAKES IT PRACTITIONERS MAKE AND HOW TO AVOID THEMAbuSyeedRaihan
Imagine you’re the mythological character Sisyphus, forced to roll a boulder up a hill. When it gets near the top, it always rolls back down, so you have to keep repeating the same futile exercise over and over. If you’re an IT professional in charge of a complex, hybrid environment, this scenario probably sounds familiar. Instead of helping move your organization forward, you spend most of your time constantly trying to pinpoint and fix one problem after another (eternally rolling boulders uphill).
Adding to the stress, all the pressure is on you to maintain
system availability and performance to keep business leaders and customers happy.
Executives would like to see IT take the lead in improving organisational agility, but to do so requires the ability to manage change in the face of complexity.
The cumulative effect of decades of IT infrastructure investment around a diverse set of technologies and processes has stifled innovation at organizations around the globe. Layer upon layer of complexity to accommodate a staggering array of applications has created hardened processes that make changes to systems difficult and cumbersome.
EMA research consistently tracks IT service management (ITSM) as a hub of digital transformation and change.
What’s new are the ways artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and analytics are redefining ITSM’s role in
business innovation, services, and organizational reinvention. Although potentially game-changing, these
advances are not challenge-free. Technological complexity, functional understanding, resource allocation, and
simple resistance to change all exert a drag on adoption
Outsourcing became an emerging trend in the late 1980s/early 1990s. In the subsequent 30 years, it became a strategic business imperative for businesses in the USA and Europe.
In the 1990s, outsourcing consisted of hardware and networking-related work. However, in the internet era of the late 90s and heavy digitalization of industries in the early 2000s, outsourcing started taking a more evident shape. Business process outsourcing, software development, and full-fledged IT function outsourcing gained rapid pace during this period. The business of outsourcing became more client-oriented and just not an internal business process anymore.
Challenges and opportunities for European MSPsKaspersky
With ongoing digital transformation and transition to cloud infrastructure, outsourcing of IT services and IT security in particular is on the rise. To get a better picture of current challenges and opportunities for Manages Service Providers (MSPs) across Europe, our experts conducted a survey of European MSP employees from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and Denmark. From this survey as well as the analytics of our annual online survey of business IT decision-makers, “Kaspersky Corporate IT Security and Risks Survey 2019,” they compiled “Maintaining MSP Momentum: Challenges and opportunities in an evolving IT security landscape.”
Decades of economic growth and development along with better governance and nutrition-specific programmes had lifted hundreds of millions of people in Asia out of poverty, as well as starvation and malnutrition. However, due to the uneven development, while a large segment of Asian's population had changed their eating habits to over-nutrition diets and worrying about lifestyle diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart diseases, there are still some countries and regions suffering from lack of nutrition. For example, childhood malnutrition and stunting is still prevalent in South Asia, one Indian survey found that 21% of children suffer wasting, and a further 7.5% of children suffer it severely.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/fixing-asias-food-system/white-paper/food-thought-eating-better?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Digital platforms and services stimulate economic growth and development. Countries are looking to the “internet economy” to provide new market opportunities and help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as promoting economic growth and sustainable industralisation, a process often relying on an increase in online access rates and smartphone penetration.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/technology-innovation/digital-platforms-and-services-development-opportunity-asean?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
The world’s top 100 asset owners (AOs) represent about US$19trn in assets under management. The largest, and potentially most influential, proportion is in Asia—more than a third of the total. Out of the top 20 largest funds, three out of the first five and nearly half of the total are in Asia.
For more insights, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/sustainable-and-actionable-study-asset-owner-priorities-esg-investing-asia?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Internet connectivity has proven to be one of the most profound enablers of social change and economic growth of our time. Beginning with fixed narrowband internet connections and moving through successive generations of increasingly pervasive and powerful networks, connectivity has come to underpin our working and personal lives, empowering businesses to operate more efficiently and with wider reach. In turn, connectivity has sparked and fuelled countless new industries, products and services that are coming to define our modern age. Connectivity has proven to be a vital ingredient for business success.
This report examines the burden of lung cancer in Latin America and how well countries in the region are addressing the challenge. Its particular focus is on 12 countries in Central and South America, chosen for various factors including size and level of economic development: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
In the cyber world, many are attacked but not all are victims. Some organisations emerge stronger. The most cyber-resilient organisations can respond to an incident, fix the vulnerabilities and apply the lessons to strategies for the future. A key element of their resilience is governance, a task that falls to the board of directors.
To learn more about the challenges of governing a cyber-resilient organisation, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) conducted a global survey, sponsored by Willis Towers Watson, of 452 large-company board members, C-suite executives and directors with responsibility for cyber-resilience.
Among the findings:
-In the past year, a third of the companies surveyed experienced a serious cyber-incident — one that disrupted operations, impaired financials and damaged reputations — and most placed high odds on another one in the next 12 months.
-Many companies lack confidence in their ability to source talent and develop a cyber-savvy workforce.
-Executives cite the size of the financial and reputational risk as the most important reason for board oversight.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will profoundly affect the ways in which businesses and governments engage with consumers and citizens alike. From advances in genetic diagnostics to industrial automation, these widespread changes will have significant economic, social and civic implications. As such, Intelligent Economies explores the transformative potential of AI on markets and societies across the developed and developing worlds.
This report, developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Microsoft, draws on a survey of more than 400 senior executives working in various industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing,
retail and the public sector. Survey respondents operate in eight markets: France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and the US.
As businesses generate and manage vast amounts of data, companies have more opportunities to gather data, incorporate insights into business strategy and continuously expand access to data across the organisation. Doing so effectively—leveraging data for strategic objectives—is often easier said
than done, however. This report, Transforming data into action: the business outlook for data governance, explores the business contributions of data governance at organisations globally and across industries, the challenges faced in creating useful data governance policies and the opportunities to improve such programmes.
It wasn’t long ago that a work meeting meant gathering around a table to discuss an agenda. These days you may be using Slack, Hangouts or other digital collaboration platforms that blend messaging with video and allow real-time editing of
documents. Even with these tools, communication at work can still break down, potentially endangering careers, creating stressful work environments and slowing growth.
A survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Lucidchart reveals some of the perceived causes and effects of these communication breakdowns. The survey, conducted from November 2017 to January 2018, included 403 senior executives, managers and junior staff at US companies divided equally and from companies with annual revenue of less than
US$10m, between US$10m and US$1bn and more than US$1bn. The survey research provides insights about what employees see as the biggest barriers to workplace communication, the causes of the barriers and their impact on work life. Complete survey results are included at the end of
this report.
Successful young entrepreneurial innovators have achieved something akin to rockstar status. They grace magazine covers and keynote global conferences, inspiring burgeoning
start-ups and Fortune 50 companies alike.
Collectively, young entrepreneurs are innovative by nature and their thinking is an important source of growth and job creation across the world. Today, with digital tools in hand, leaders are better positioned to expand their businesses across borders, seize niche opportunities and shape the global economic future.
Yet, most of today’s young entrepreneurs want more than status and a global corporate footprint. Their ideas of success arise from powerful social, political and economic convictions.
To find out what really makes young innovators tick, The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by FedEx, surveyed more than 500 of these young entrepreneurs around the globe about their motivations, ideals and priorities. Our survey respondents were between 25 and 50 years of age and all founders, owners or partners of firms with fewer than 500 employees. They are living in North America, Europe, Middle
East, India and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. We surveyed them on matters of globalization, technology and social values.
We then compared their views with a similar survey of the general public in the same regions. Side by side, these surveys enabled us to differentiate the outlooks of today’s young and innovative entrepreneurs.
Our surveys identified four key mindsets that guide young entrepreneurs: leading with passion; thinking globally; embracing social responsibility; and banking on connectivity. This report explores the similarities and divergences of today’s young entrepreneurs and the general public. It seeks insights into the elements of the business environment that matter most to entrepreneurs, as well as their views on a variety of issues including free trade and social responsibility.
Education systems across the world are grappling with the challenge of preparing their students for the rapid changes they will experience during their lifetimes. To this end, schools have a critical role in equipping students with the requisite skills and
competencies that will be in demand, particularly as digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly transform businesses and influence economies. In this report, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) discusses the results of a study that explores how to best prepare primary and
secondary school (referred to in this report as “K-12”) students for the 21st century workplace (“the modern workplace”), where
a mix of hard and soft skills are crucial for success. The research, sponsored by Google for Education, draws on a survey of 1,200 educators in 16 countries.1 It looks at the
strategies most effective in developing 21st century skills and how technology can support such efforts.
Gone are the days when marketing chiefs focused solely on the classic 4Ps: Product, Price, Promotions and Place - they now must take an integrated approach to drive company goals.
Corporate and shareholder sentiment towards MA has rebounded since the dark days of 2008. Low borrowing costs have coaxed many new buyers, including acquisitive Chinese conglomerates, into the market. The prices of prized assets have risen accordingly. It remains a sellers market in technology-driven deals, particularly in the consumer-goods, financial services, and media and telecommunications sectors.
Corporate treasury is now a top target for cyber-criminals. Treasury’s trove of personal and corporate data, its authority to make payments and move large amounts of cash quickly, and its often complicated structure make it an appealing choice for discerning fraudsters.
Corporate treasury is now a top target for cyber-criminals. Treasury’s trove of personal and corporate data, its authority to make payments and move large amounts of cash quickly, and its often complicated structure make it an appealing choice for discerning fraudsters.
In today’s low-yield and regulated environment, many Asia-Pacific investors are more actively monitoring their portfolios with a willingness to increase turnover and shift asset allocations for higher returns.
Asia-Pacific institutional investors are struggling to balance long-term liabilities with the need to secure yield in a world where it is increasingly scarce. They are also in the world’s fastest-growing region that has no shortage of volatility. How are they achieving returns while managing risks?
How are institutional investors in North America adapting to increasingly complex risks? Are these risks driving investors to make portfolio changes based on short-term goals or are they making tactical moves to stay focused on long-term objectives?
Political risks and the search for yield are pushing some North American institutional investors toward more tactical decisions. Investors are focused on reallocating to equities and using alternative investments to mitigate risks.
How are EMEA investors responding to changing macroeconomic and regulatory environments, stakeholder objectives and pressures, and market conditions? Based on a survey of 200 institutional investors in the region, this report takes a detailed look.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
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.
"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.