The Digital Enterprise - Alfresco Summit Keynote 2014John Newton
US Fed Reserve says that productivity growth been declining in the 21st Century and IT has not necessarily been the solution. In Europe, growth has stalled completely and economies are facing the prospect of deflation. Business and operational models from the 20th Century no longer scale as we face exponential growth in information, activity and connections. We no longer give workers the scope or space to get work done. Waste and ad hoc process are killing us. We must reorganise how the company works and the way we do work. We must eliminate the waste of unnecessary paperwork, busy work and communication by digitising, automating and measuring that work into a Digital Enterprise. We must allow The Digital Enterprise will integrate information, processes, work and people to collaborate more efficiently and effectively to produce more valuable products and services.
Reducing Image Hide & Seek with AI for In-House AgenciesNuxeo
Most designers spend a lot of time (too much, in fact) searching for images. The thing is, finding what you’re looking for assumes the image was tagged with the appropriate terms up front. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful aid to identify image attributes. And, applying AI using machine learning (ML) models that can be trained on your specific business data can add real value by reducing tedious manual tagging while increasing search effectiveness.
In this webinar, we walk through a practical example from an apparel manufacturer of how business-trained AI is being used to identify and label creative assets during mass image uploads.
The Digital Enterprise - Alfresco Summit Keynote 2014John Newton
US Fed Reserve says that productivity growth been declining in the 21st Century and IT has not necessarily been the solution. In Europe, growth has stalled completely and economies are facing the prospect of deflation. Business and operational models from the 20th Century no longer scale as we face exponential growth in information, activity and connections. We no longer give workers the scope or space to get work done. Waste and ad hoc process are killing us. We must reorganise how the company works and the way we do work. We must eliminate the waste of unnecessary paperwork, busy work and communication by digitising, automating and measuring that work into a Digital Enterprise. We must allow The Digital Enterprise will integrate information, processes, work and people to collaborate more efficiently and effectively to produce more valuable products and services.
Reducing Image Hide & Seek with AI for In-House AgenciesNuxeo
Most designers spend a lot of time (too much, in fact) searching for images. The thing is, finding what you’re looking for assumes the image was tagged with the appropriate terms up front. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful aid to identify image attributes. And, applying AI using machine learning (ML) models that can be trained on your specific business data can add real value by reducing tedious manual tagging while increasing search effectiveness.
In this webinar, we walk through a practical example from an apparel manufacturer of how business-trained AI is being used to identify and label creative assets during mass image uploads.
Do you want to optimise your processes? Increase efficiency? Enhance your Customer Experience?
To manage the increasing volume of data facing by modern organisations today, Artificial Intelligence technologies (AI) offers a new way to ease the ingestion, enrichment and exploitation of their information.
Automatic image recognition creates personalised customer experiences, delivering a true competitive advantage.
Adding context to your information, AI can bring the right data, to the right person at the right time, delivering superior benefits for companies: happier and more productive teams, increased ROI and a personalised experience for your customers.
Wolters Kluwer and Risk.Net present the current challenges, priorities and trends influencing banks’ investment in risktech and assesses how they can drive better value in the future. Survey report.
The professionals at Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, understand Cloud Computing. This model has emerged as a new computing paradigm that arrays massive numbers of computers in centralized, distributed data centers to deliver web-based
applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model.
Purpose: The slides provide an overview on the Cognitive Computing trend for IBM clients and external stakeholders
Content: Summary information about the Cognitive Computing trend is provided along with many links to additional resources.
How To Use This Report: This report is best read/studied and used as a learning document. You may want to view the slides in slideshow mode so you can easily follow the links
Available on Slideshare: This presentation (and other HorizonWatch Trend Reports for 2015) will be available publically on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/horizonwatching
Please Note: This report is based on internal IBM analysis and is not meant to be a statement of direction by IBM nor is IBM committing to any particular technology or solution.
8 Reasons to Modernize Legacy Information SystemsJodi Rosenblum
In this webinar, discover how top insurers and financial services organizations have successfully modernized their information management infrastructures.
What you’ll learn:
- Why current information management strategies make insurers less competitive
How to bridge information silos to enhance your customer experience
- Methods to improve decision-making with intelligent information
- How AI can provide greater automation and insight to claims and underwriting processes
- New ways to comply with regulations like CCPA and GDPR
Our panelists will discuss common information management challenges that legacy systems pose, and how to intelligently modernize existing systems to support digital transformation, take advantage of new cloud technologies, and gain a competitive advantage in today’s insurance market.
Today’s insurers are under tremendous competitive pressure, both from digital-native, Insuretech start-ups and Bigtech companies entering the market. Join us to learn what carriers are doing to meet the challenge.
Cloud & Big Data - Digital Transformation in Banking Sutedjo Tjahjadi
Datacomm Cloud Business Overview
Making Indonesia 4.0
Digital Transformation in Banking Industry
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Big Data Analytics Introduction
Big Data Analytics Application in Banking
How to Solve 4 Common Challenges of Legacy Information ManagementNuxeo
After 20 years of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), businesses still face many of the same challenges with finding and managing information. Many modern organizations find themselves at the same fork in the road: either continue down the path they’re on, applying band-aid after band-aid to outdated ECM systems, or choose a new path with a modern Content Services Platform.
Join Chris McLaughlin, CMO and CPO of Nuxeo, as he examines four common business challenges that these legacy ECM systems pose, and how they can be addressed with a more modern approach. He will share compelling stories from customers that have chosen a different path, and best practices for Information Management professionals to help them along their way.
You'll come away from the webinar understanding:
- Why ECM still poses business challenges
- How a platform-based approach can solve modern content challenges
- Strategies to avoid the risks of modernization by future-proofing your organizational infrastructure
...IT leaders discussed how they can collaborate with their peer executives from marketing and other departments to improve their businesses’ innovation ...
Big data is being implemented or on the mind of majority of the enterprises. Though getting into Big data is neither cheap nor a easy task. Having a step-by-step path for this journey based on experience from other implementation play a crucial role in the success of the initiative. This session provide a 7 Steps Big Data Journey for Enterprises based on past successful implementations.
How a Top Bank Improved Customer Experience Through Digital TransformationNuxeo
As competition from BigTech enters the financial services market, banks are struggling to deliver added value to their customers.
When the Technology & Operations Department, at one of the top banks in the world, set out to improve customer experience, decrease time to market, and reduce technology costs, they knew they had to transform the business.
Discover how they modernised their legacy systems to use data in new and innovative ways that deliver value to the customer and discover lessons learned about:
- Challenges with competition, regulation, and customer satisfaction
- Common obstacles to success
- The realities of culture and technology change
Digital Transformation and Innovation on http://denreymer.com
- Merging the Real World and the Virtual World
- Intelligence Everywhere
- The New IT Reality Emerges
http://www.gartner.com//it/content/2940400/2940420/january_15_top_10_technology_trends_2015_dcearley.pdf
How Insurers Fueled Transformation During a PandemicNuxeo
For many insurers, the past year has accelerated strategic investments to manage remote workforces, support virtual claims handling, and face off with FinTech upstarts.
In this webinar, we look at how leading insurers not only addressed the immediate challenges caused by global lockdowns but also found new efficiencies along the way. Get insights into some of the emerging technologies that are driving innovation in insurance, including the Cloud, artificial intelligence, and low-code. We also explore how these technologies reduce claims leakage while improving claims accuracy, employee productivity, and customer satisfaction.
The wealth management industry has been facing a number of profound challenges after the financial crisis, making it difficult to serve the needs of HNWIs. A combination of structural and cyclical headwinds has put significant pressure on revenues, margins, and costs, leading to the emergence of trends aimed at augmenting revenues and controlling costs. This document lists the top 10 wealth management trends that are expected to impact the wealth management industry in 2016.
Paul Hermelin Capgemini Chairman and CEO at the Capgemini Infrastructure Summit last January highlighted the conflicting tensions within IT organizations, particularly in light of the fact that IT system limitations are among the top three most significant barriers to business digitization.
IT departments have a short window to become “ sexy” again in the eyes of their clients. To overcome challenges by shadow IT and the rapid pace of business change, CIOs must pull two triggers simultaneously—technological innovation and organizational transformation.
To overcome those challenges this paper illustrates:
- The need for IT organizations to accelerate their move to the Cloud to deliver value in the digital age
- Use cases where IT can act as a business partner for digital innovation
- Principles to shape your next IT delivery model
- Key success factors on how to get there
Learn how you can generate revenue, reduce risk and save costs by monetizing your organisations data. Apply advanced machine learning and AI techniques to get insights and generate actions out of your data. Build the robust IT systems to get started with the data and AI.
Next Generation Customer Communications ManagementNuxeo
Each year, banks and insurers generate billions of customer communications with one simple goal: a more personalized experience for customers. And yet, they are being held back by legacy technologies that are expensive, outmoded, and cannot address new delivery channels or modern privacy and security regulations. Learn how to modernize your customer communications.
Do you want to optimise your processes? Increase efficiency? Enhance your Customer Experience?
To manage the increasing volume of data facing by modern organisations today, Artificial Intelligence technologies (AI) offers a new way to ease the ingestion, enrichment and exploitation of their information.
Automatic image recognition creates personalised customer experiences, delivering a true competitive advantage.
Adding context to your information, AI can bring the right data, to the right person at the right time, delivering superior benefits for companies: happier and more productive teams, increased ROI and a personalised experience for your customers.
Wolters Kluwer and Risk.Net present the current challenges, priorities and trends influencing banks’ investment in risktech and assesses how they can drive better value in the future. Survey report.
The professionals at Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, understand Cloud Computing. This model has emerged as a new computing paradigm that arrays massive numbers of computers in centralized, distributed data centers to deliver web-based
applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model.
Purpose: The slides provide an overview on the Cognitive Computing trend for IBM clients and external stakeholders
Content: Summary information about the Cognitive Computing trend is provided along with many links to additional resources.
How To Use This Report: This report is best read/studied and used as a learning document. You may want to view the slides in slideshow mode so you can easily follow the links
Available on Slideshare: This presentation (and other HorizonWatch Trend Reports for 2015) will be available publically on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/horizonwatching
Please Note: This report is based on internal IBM analysis and is not meant to be a statement of direction by IBM nor is IBM committing to any particular technology or solution.
8 Reasons to Modernize Legacy Information SystemsJodi Rosenblum
In this webinar, discover how top insurers and financial services organizations have successfully modernized their information management infrastructures.
What you’ll learn:
- Why current information management strategies make insurers less competitive
How to bridge information silos to enhance your customer experience
- Methods to improve decision-making with intelligent information
- How AI can provide greater automation and insight to claims and underwriting processes
- New ways to comply with regulations like CCPA and GDPR
Our panelists will discuss common information management challenges that legacy systems pose, and how to intelligently modernize existing systems to support digital transformation, take advantage of new cloud technologies, and gain a competitive advantage in today’s insurance market.
Today’s insurers are under tremendous competitive pressure, both from digital-native, Insuretech start-ups and Bigtech companies entering the market. Join us to learn what carriers are doing to meet the challenge.
Cloud & Big Data - Digital Transformation in Banking Sutedjo Tjahjadi
Datacomm Cloud Business Overview
Making Indonesia 4.0
Digital Transformation in Banking Industry
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Big Data Analytics Introduction
Big Data Analytics Application in Banking
How to Solve 4 Common Challenges of Legacy Information ManagementNuxeo
After 20 years of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), businesses still face many of the same challenges with finding and managing information. Many modern organizations find themselves at the same fork in the road: either continue down the path they’re on, applying band-aid after band-aid to outdated ECM systems, or choose a new path with a modern Content Services Platform.
Join Chris McLaughlin, CMO and CPO of Nuxeo, as he examines four common business challenges that these legacy ECM systems pose, and how they can be addressed with a more modern approach. He will share compelling stories from customers that have chosen a different path, and best practices for Information Management professionals to help them along their way.
You'll come away from the webinar understanding:
- Why ECM still poses business challenges
- How a platform-based approach can solve modern content challenges
- Strategies to avoid the risks of modernization by future-proofing your organizational infrastructure
...IT leaders discussed how they can collaborate with their peer executives from marketing and other departments to improve their businesses’ innovation ...
Big data is being implemented or on the mind of majority of the enterprises. Though getting into Big data is neither cheap nor a easy task. Having a step-by-step path for this journey based on experience from other implementation play a crucial role in the success of the initiative. This session provide a 7 Steps Big Data Journey for Enterprises based on past successful implementations.
How a Top Bank Improved Customer Experience Through Digital TransformationNuxeo
As competition from BigTech enters the financial services market, banks are struggling to deliver added value to their customers.
When the Technology & Operations Department, at one of the top banks in the world, set out to improve customer experience, decrease time to market, and reduce technology costs, they knew they had to transform the business.
Discover how they modernised their legacy systems to use data in new and innovative ways that deliver value to the customer and discover lessons learned about:
- Challenges with competition, regulation, and customer satisfaction
- Common obstacles to success
- The realities of culture and technology change
Digital Transformation and Innovation on http://denreymer.com
- Merging the Real World and the Virtual World
- Intelligence Everywhere
- The New IT Reality Emerges
http://www.gartner.com//it/content/2940400/2940420/january_15_top_10_technology_trends_2015_dcearley.pdf
How Insurers Fueled Transformation During a PandemicNuxeo
For many insurers, the past year has accelerated strategic investments to manage remote workforces, support virtual claims handling, and face off with FinTech upstarts.
In this webinar, we look at how leading insurers not only addressed the immediate challenges caused by global lockdowns but also found new efficiencies along the way. Get insights into some of the emerging technologies that are driving innovation in insurance, including the Cloud, artificial intelligence, and low-code. We also explore how these technologies reduce claims leakage while improving claims accuracy, employee productivity, and customer satisfaction.
The wealth management industry has been facing a number of profound challenges after the financial crisis, making it difficult to serve the needs of HNWIs. A combination of structural and cyclical headwinds has put significant pressure on revenues, margins, and costs, leading to the emergence of trends aimed at augmenting revenues and controlling costs. This document lists the top 10 wealth management trends that are expected to impact the wealth management industry in 2016.
Paul Hermelin Capgemini Chairman and CEO at the Capgemini Infrastructure Summit last January highlighted the conflicting tensions within IT organizations, particularly in light of the fact that IT system limitations are among the top three most significant barriers to business digitization.
IT departments have a short window to become “ sexy” again in the eyes of their clients. To overcome challenges by shadow IT and the rapid pace of business change, CIOs must pull two triggers simultaneously—technological innovation and organizational transformation.
To overcome those challenges this paper illustrates:
- The need for IT organizations to accelerate their move to the Cloud to deliver value in the digital age
- Use cases where IT can act as a business partner for digital innovation
- Principles to shape your next IT delivery model
- Key success factors on how to get there
Learn how you can generate revenue, reduce risk and save costs by monetizing your organisations data. Apply advanced machine learning and AI techniques to get insights and generate actions out of your data. Build the robust IT systems to get started with the data and AI.
Next Generation Customer Communications ManagementNuxeo
Each year, banks and insurers generate billions of customer communications with one simple goal: a more personalized experience for customers. And yet, they are being held back by legacy technologies that are expensive, outmoded, and cannot address new delivery channels or modern privacy and security regulations. Learn how to modernize your customer communications.
What is m-CASH?
m-CASH is an innovative mobile payment solution that enables customers to complete simple financial transactions including person to person money transfer. It is aimed at mobile customers who do not have a bank account, either by choice, because they do not have access to a bank or because they do not have sufficient income to justify a bank account.
Le web pour tous, que les internautes soient handicapés (moteur, sensoriel ou intellectuel) ou non, est un des fondements du credo de Tim Berners-Lee, l'inventeur du web.accessiweb
Mais qu'est-ce que le handicap ?
Comment le web est-il perçu par les handicapés eux-mêmes ?
A quoi sert qu'un site web soit accessible aux handicapés ?
Comment mesure-t-on l'accessibilité d'un site web et avec quels outils ?
Et Joomla! dans tout ça ?
Autant de questions auxquelles j'ai tenté d'apporter une réponse avec la conférence "L'accessibilité du web" qui a eu lieu au Joomladay de Strasbourg le 25 mars 2012
Dr Christoph Nieuwoudt- AI in Financial Servicesitnewsafrica
Dr. Christoff Nieuwoudt delivered a keynote on AI in Financial Services at Digital Finance Africa 2023 on the 2nd of August 2023 at Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, Midrand.
I delivered a guest lecture for the students of the one-year Post Graduate program in Global Supply Chain Management offered by IIM Udaipur. In this talk, I focused on three dimensions of digital journey - technology, process (rather business models) and people.
Consumers will increasingly expect retailers to offer highly customized buying recommendations at the right time through the right device.
Being able to follow these through with seamless and secure e-commerce transactions.
The potential of Data blending in every area from automotive telemetry to medical science to national security is enormous.
Enterprises that are embracing cloud computing are interested in driving fundamental changes in their business so they can compete in the future. IT transformation, enabled by cloud adoption, is a key component of this future success—from tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increased agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to support transformation in your organization.
IW14 Keynote, Michelle Shuttleworth, Deloitte ConsultingSoftware AG
Presentation Title: Tech Trends 2014; Inspiring Disruption
Michelle Shuttleworth, Director, Deloitte Consulting
Innovation World 2014 conference, Oct 13-15, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, produced by Software AG. Three days of vision, inspiration and insight. Innovation World is THE global event for digital leaders who are driven to leverage the Software AG Suite: Alfabet, Apama, ARIS, webMethods, Software AG Live, Terracotta and Adabas-Natural.
In an effort to support the community of early-stage founders, Angular Ventures surveyed 128 founders in Europe, Israel, and the United States.
We asked them how the Coronavirus has impacted their businesses and how they are responding.
This report is the result of that work.
Europe & Israel - VC Investment Trends 2015-2018 - Angular VenturesGil Dibner
A data-driven look at venture capital investment trends across Europe and Israel. By Angular Ventures, a specialist seed-stage enterprise tech VC firm investing across the region.
Europe & Israel 3Q17 Venture Capital ReviewGil Dibner
Today, I’m happy to release a data-driven review of VC investment trends in Europe and Israel in the third quarter of 2017.
Some key highlights:
Overall, dealflow volume continues to hit new highs
Total VC investment volume into Europe and Israel was $5.5B in 3Q17 and $5.8B in 2Q17 (a record)
The number of deals peaked in 1Q17 at over 500 and has been trending gently downward, but still at very high levels.
Deal size is trending up again
In the past two quarters, there were 13 mega-deals (over $100M)
There is still zero evidence that Brexit has impacted the UK venture environment. Both deal numbers and investment volumes are up since the Brexit vote
In both 3Q and 2Q, the UK led the region in investment volume. Israel was in second place
France continues to boom, with 4 quarters of consecutive growth in investment volume
After six quarters of consecutive growth, Swedish VC investment volume declined in 3Q
Fintech was the yet again most frequently funded vertical, with 48 investments in 3Q. Marketing was second (31) and Electronics tied with Lifestyle for third (26)
The categories that showed the most growth in frequency from 3Q16 to 3Q17 were Entertainment (+171%), Health (+133%), and Employment/HR (+111%)
The categories that showed the most decrease in frequency from 3Q16 to 3Q17 were industrial (-50%), communication (-46%), and Fashion and Adtech (both down 43%).
You’ll find all that and more in the 52-page report, so download it here or view it on Slideshare below. I’d recommend also taking a look at the more detailed 2016 year in review report, which can be found here.
As always, I welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. Please let me know if there are additional slices of data you think I should add into the report.
Europe & Israel 1Q17 Venture Capital ReviewGil Dibner
A review of Venture Capital investment trends across Europe and Israel in 1Q17. Breakdowns by country, sector, stage, business model, and target market.
Today, I’m happy to release a data-driven review of VC investment trends in Europe and Israel in 2016. I’ve tried to put some new and useful data points into the deck, so let me know what you think of the new stuff. And please let me know what else you think I should be tracking and showing in the deck next time.
Some key highlights:
Overall, investment volume was up in 4Q, but still below 2Q’s record high
Total VC investment volume into Europe and Israel in 2016 was $14.5B, up from $12.1B in 2015, and increase of 20%
There were six mega-deals (over $100M) in 4Q, and 15 in total in 2016
Excluding the megadeals, investment volume declined in 4Q, the second quarterly decline in a row
Israel saw more VC investment activity than any other country in Europe with $3.9B in 2016. The UK and Germany were next with $3.0B and $2.3B, respectively
US VCs invested in around 11% of European/Israeli venture rounds. Israel, the UK, and Germany led in terms of US VC participation
Fintech was the most frequently funded vertical, with 178 investments. Marketing was second with 109
The categories that showed the most growth in frequency from 2015 to 2016 were Imagining (+400%), Agtech (+475%), and Automotive (+1100%)
You’ll find all that and more in the 61-page report
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
From Siloed Products to Connected Ecosystem: Building a Sustainable and Scala...
Thinking about VC themes
1. Thinking about themes
Gil Dibner
Partner, DFJ Esprit LLP
@gdibner | gil.dibner@dfjesprit.com | www.dfjesprit.com
http://yankeesabralimey.tumblr.com/
2. What is a VC investment theme?
• A unifying idea that underlies the investment thesis for
multiple potential investments
• Each theme arises from a set of “drivers”
• Theme gives rise to a set of “opportunities” – a sub-grouping
of potential investments
• Broad enough to capture a meaningful portion of an
individual’s/firm’s activities (perhaps 5%-30% at any given
time)
• Narrow enough to serve as effective filters and hang together
tightly as an area of expertise
• One investment may reflect multiple themes
Drivers
(eg. proliferation of
smartphones)
Themes
(enterprise mobility)
Opportunities
(BYOD management,
app mobilization)
Investments
(MobileSpaces,
Enterproid)
3. How would we (loosely) score a theme?
Category of
assessment
Individual
investment criteria
Theme assessment
criteria Examples
People
Existing team’s abilities to execute?
Ability to recruit necessary talent?
How difficult is it to recruit talent
within this thematic area?
Experienced data scientists are
expensive and difficult to find.
Technology
Technological barriers to entry?
Technological significance?
Roadmap development risk?
How significant is technology to
customers and acquirers in this
area?
Technological factors are significant
value drivers for database
customers and acquirers.
Market potential How big is the specific opportunity?
How big is the aggregate set of
opportunities within the theme?
The financial sector is a major
component of GDP that has not
been sufficiently brought online.
Ability to penetrate
Strategy for winning initial
customers and generating
credibility?
Do industry dynamics allow start-
ups to capture market share from
incumbents?
Innovators in the offline retail
technology industry face very long
sales and deployment cycles.
Ability to scale
Strategy for replicating revenue,
economies of scale, and margin
leverage?
Do industry dynamics allow start-
ups to scale revenues and expand
margins?
Data aggregators benefit from
economies of scale and significant
margin leverage.
Exit outlook IPO viability and likely acquirers?
What is the history of IPOs & M&A
in the space? Are there many active
acquirers?
Lack of broad base of acquirers in
the developer tools market.
Geography
Where does the company need to
be located in order to maximize
success?
How does this theme map to a
particular geography’s HR pool and
tech eco-system?
Fraud detection companies in Israel
can draw on a very deep talent pool.
Valuation
Potential for venture returns given
investment valuation?
Where is the theme on the hype
cycle? Is it over-invested or under-
invested?
Hadoop/NoSQL has been massively
over-invested over the past 3 years.
Timing
Is the venture’s roadmap in sync
with the market’s maturation
trajectory?
Is the market ready / almost ready
for companies of this category?
Increased cord-cutting and online
video explosion may drive jump in
interactive video advertising.
4. Applying the hype cycle to VC investment themes
Time
Expectations
Technology
trigger
Peak of
over-
investment
Trough of
disillusionment
Slope of
enlightenment
Plateau of
rationality
Descent into
irrelevance
Digital Society
Online Finance
BI Infrastructure
Data
Science
Data
Pipeline
Software is eating
the world
Mobility
Cloud
infrastructure
E-Commerce
New advertising
battlegrounds
Sustainability
Education
Legal tech
Pervasive
computing
Reinvention
of retail
PV generation
technologies
Social media
monitoring
Heightened
valuation risk
Heightened
general risk Unlikely to
generate
return
Zone of
balanced
risk/return
3D printing
5. A framework for scoring themes
• Generalizations upon generalizations – but potentially directionally useful
• Offers a general sense of potential headwinds and tailwinds faced by companies in each theme
Theme
Ease of
recruiting
talent
Potential for
technical
barriers
Typical
opportunity
size
Ability to
penetrate
Scalability
of models
Exit
potential (#
acquirors)
Hype cycle
status &
maturity Overall
Cloud infrastructure +1 +1 +1 +1 4
Online finance +1 +1 -1 +1 +1 +1 4
Mobility +1 +1 +1 3
BI Infrastructure -1 +1 +1 +1 2
Digital society +1 +1 2
Data pipeline -1 +1 +1 +1 -1 1
Data science -1 +1 +1 +1 -1 1
New advertising battlegrounds +1 1
Software is eating the world +1 -1 +1 +1 -1 -1 0
E-commerce +1 -1 +1 -1 +1 -1 0
Reinvention of Retail -1 -1 +1 -1
Sustainability +1 +1 -1 -1 -1 -1
3D Printing / Hacking hardware -1 +1 -1 -1 -2
Legal services -1 +1 -1 -1 -2
Pervasive computing -1 +1 +1 -1 -1 -1 -2
Education -1 -1 -1 -3
6. SaaS/Cloud Infrastructure
Commoditization of
hardware and IT
stack management
Meaningful cost, time
savings associated
with on-demand
infrastructure
Digital native
employees look to
cloud services
naturally
Cloud security
concerns transformed
from barrier to
opportunity
Secular trends
towards
infrastructure
abstraction and
hybrid architecture
Cloud security
Cloud-based IT
service providers
Cloud-based business
infrastructure
Cloud IT management
solutions
7. Online Finance
Digital natives willing
to trust online
challenger brands.
Growing volumes of
social data available
online
Existing fee structures
too high to be
sustainable; fraud
costs remain high
Financial products are
an ideal “digitally
delivered” service.
Increasing
centralization and
automation of
financial controls and
processes.
Digital banking,
payments, & wallets
Innovative asset
management and
insurance companies
Fraud & credit
analytics
Digitally enabled
credit: lending &
factoring
New currencies and
value-stores
(Bitcoin?)
8. Mobility
Proliferation of
mobile devices and
operating systems
Drive towards
outsourcing and
porous enterprise
boundaries
Mobile device is
becoming a preferred
data consumption
device
Consumerization of IT
by digital native
generation
Increasingly mobile
workforce operating
from home and from
the road
Enterprise application
mobilization
Website mobilization,
refactoring
BYOD / mobile device
management
Dedicated mobile
security providers
9. The digital society
Growing population
of digital natives
Rising structural
unemployment,
particularly among
youth
Coding and web admin
becoming second
languages
Online trust:
Willingness to
communicate,
transact, and relate
via digital means
Societal trend
towards self-reliance,
entrepreneurship,
and “making.”
Everyone is a web
master, e-commerce
shop owner
The P2P economy
Enabling digital cottage
industries
The maker movement
Digital intimacy and
relationships
10. The Data Pipeline
Enterprises are
increasingly
leveraging structured
data from multiple
3rd party sources
Massive quantities of
data exist
unstructured on the
public web
Storage is getting
cheaper, but preparing
data for analytical
applications remains a
challenge
Business users
increasingly demand
access to data and
analytics
Data complexity
keeps rising
Dataset creation
tools & platforms
Data marketplaces Data integration
API management
tools
Next-generational
departmental and
enterprise reporting
and visualization
11. Data Science
New sources of data:
APIs, public web,
social data, etc.
Cheaper storage and
compute
Data analytics is in
fashion
Proliferation of
analytical DBs
Success of data-
driven businesses
Data science as a
service
Democratization:
Making it easier for
more users to apply
data science.
Verticalization:
Industry-specific
applications of data
science techniques
Machine learning
platforms
Embedded data
science applications
12. New advertising battlegrounds
Proliferation of
smartphones, tablets,
smart TVs, wearable
computing, and cord-
cutting.
“Online” attention
fragmenting across
identities /devices
Proliferation of “walled
garden” online
environments (istore)
& failure of traditional
tracking tech.
Increasing new data
types (location,
usage, social, etc.)
and analytical power
Inevitable shift of
brand-oriented
advertising online
Interactive television
and TV advertising
Statistical attribution
Automated campaign
and landing page
optimization
Traffic arbitrage
13. “Software is eating the world”
Increasing number of
enterprises and
individuals are
writing code
Commoditization of
basic (cloud)
computing
infrastructure
Recognition that
“software/IT” can
drive value creation
across many industries
Continuous
deployment &
integration are
widespread
Greater use of open-
source and third-
party code & binaries.
CI/CD/Devops: Tools
to help deploy code
faster, better,
cheaper
Developer tools::
Tools to help
developers create
value faster
Analytics:
“BI for the software
production process”
14. Reinvention of (Online/Offline) Retail
Ubiquity of
smartphones; e-mail,
and other digital
channels
Consumers expect
personalization
Online retail taking
greater wallet share
Availability of big data
analytics
Every physical retailer
is now an online
retailer as well
Highly personalized
CRM
Enhanced in-store
experience
Next-generation
loyalty programs
Next-gen point of sale Social commerce
15. Sustainability
Expanding global
middle class with
higher expectations
Widespread
recognition of
sustainability and
environmental issues
Rising commodity
prices
Increased consumer
interest in organic
and locally sourced
food
Approach of grid
parity in some
alternative energy
areas
Agricultural efficiency
SW
Food-tech: New food
production
technologies and
delivery systems
Locally-sourced food
retail
Renewable
generation tech
Power consumption
efficiency
technologies and
solution
16. Pervasive Computing
Rapid prototyping
and crowd-funding of
hardware
WiFi and GSM
connectivity is
everywhere
Sensors and processors
are getting more
varied and cheaper
Consumers and
workers are carrying
powerful devices with
them everywhere
Manufacturers
increasingly seek the
benefits of devices
that “phone home.”
Infrastructure for the
“Internet of things”
Networked Consumer
Electronics
Wearable computing,
quantified self
Smart cars, drones,
and other vehicles
Connected home