Accelerate Development by getting Requirements RightSerena Software
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Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits—lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers—have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case for requirements management as an integral part of any product lifecycle. Metrics are provided to show the positive effect of requirements management, from individual developers to the business to the customer. Serena Dimensions RM and Serena Composer are examined as an example of how to bring effective requirements planning and management into product development.
5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture featuring Mandi WallsSerena Software
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The document provides 5 keys to building a successful DevOps culture:
1. Set clear and measurable goals that matter to stakeholders across teams.
2. Gain executive support by focusing on goals that benefit multiple teams and influence informal leaders.
3. Start with pilot projects on representative work to practice the cultural and technical aspects of DevOps.
4. Provide training to all teams on new tools and processes while prioritizing the learning work.
5. Continually share progress and successes through various internal and external channels to evangelize DevOps.
This document summarizes Serena Software's solutions for enabling agile online businesses. It discusses how Serena provides orchestrated IT that supports mobile, social, and cloud platforms. Key points include new mobile solutions like a service catalog and request center app, an updated release manager supporting continuous delivery, and an orchestrated IT feed bringing social capabilities to stakeholders. The document aims to showcase Serena's advancements in orchestrated IT.
This document summarizes Serena's new capabilities for change and release management to support revenue generating apps (RevApps). It discusses:
1) Four new announcements including self-serve environment provisioning and release automation for Windows Azure and VMware.
2) How RevApps are key to business success but IT struggles to meet expectations for frequent releases with new features.
3) How DevOps and Serena's change and release management tools help organizations better manage the request-to-release cycle for RevApps.
4) Two customer examples that saw significant reductions in release times and issues using Serena's solutions.
This presentation includes:
- ZMF 7.1.3 First Impressions
- New, competitive migration utility
- Looking at what’s hot for 7.2
- Share in Boston and xChange in Miami Beach
- Important changes at Serena
How to Achieve DevOps Nirvana: Stories from a Release Management ExpertSerena Software
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Noted Release Management expert, Eric Kunkel of MMA Technologies, shares his considerable DevOps experience. Over the last 15 years, Eric has designed and implemented release management processes and solutions for several different organizations. Benefits that these organizations have received include
1) reduced application deployment time by 90%,
2) reduced application failures by 80%, and
3) reduced application delivery costs.
Continuous Delivery: Integrating the Deployment Pipeline Toolchain Through Au...Serena Software
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The way software is delivered in today’s enterprise has changed dramatically. We are now required to build and deploy software that can be released into production at any time. In order to satisfy this requirement, we need to continuously integrate the software changes from development to build, deploy, test, and be ready to release into production, as the business requires it. This is a major change and organizational silos, embedded tools and existing processes make it more complex.
Come join us as Darryl Bowler and Julian Fish demonstrate how Serena Deployment Automation integrates the “end-to-end” toolchain and automates the continuous delivery deployment pipeline. You will discover how you can:
Accelerate and automate application build, deployment, installation and remediation.
Store and control your release deliverables
Gain visibility into and control of your application releases, environments and schedules.
Integrate with development version control, continuous build and integration toolsets throughout the production pipeline.
Ensure and improve compliance with internal business processes.
Micro Focus DevOps Drive-in with Gary Gruver - Starting and Scaling DevOps in...Serena Software
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In this o-demand webcast Gary presents his recommendations from his new book “Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise”. Don't miss this Q&A section with Gary where he answers questions about how to implement his pragmatic ideas and techniques in your organization's DevOps Journey.
Accelerate Development by getting Requirements RightSerena Software
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Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits—lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers—have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case for requirements management as an integral part of any product lifecycle. Metrics are provided to show the positive effect of requirements management, from individual developers to the business to the customer. Serena Dimensions RM and Serena Composer are examined as an example of how to bring effective requirements planning and management into product development.
5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture featuring Mandi WallsSerena Software
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The document provides 5 keys to building a successful DevOps culture:
1. Set clear and measurable goals that matter to stakeholders across teams.
2. Gain executive support by focusing on goals that benefit multiple teams and influence informal leaders.
3. Start with pilot projects on representative work to practice the cultural and technical aspects of DevOps.
4. Provide training to all teams on new tools and processes while prioritizing the learning work.
5. Continually share progress and successes through various internal and external channels to evangelize DevOps.
This document summarizes Serena Software's solutions for enabling agile online businesses. It discusses how Serena provides orchestrated IT that supports mobile, social, and cloud platforms. Key points include new mobile solutions like a service catalog and request center app, an updated release manager supporting continuous delivery, and an orchestrated IT feed bringing social capabilities to stakeholders. The document aims to showcase Serena's advancements in orchestrated IT.
This document summarizes Serena's new capabilities for change and release management to support revenue generating apps (RevApps). It discusses:
1) Four new announcements including self-serve environment provisioning and release automation for Windows Azure and VMware.
2) How RevApps are key to business success but IT struggles to meet expectations for frequent releases with new features.
3) How DevOps and Serena's change and release management tools help organizations better manage the request-to-release cycle for RevApps.
4) Two customer examples that saw significant reductions in release times and issues using Serena's solutions.
This presentation includes:
- ZMF 7.1.3 First Impressions
- New, competitive migration utility
- Looking at what’s hot for 7.2
- Share in Boston and xChange in Miami Beach
- Important changes at Serena
How to Achieve DevOps Nirvana: Stories from a Release Management ExpertSerena Software
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Noted Release Management expert, Eric Kunkel of MMA Technologies, shares his considerable DevOps experience. Over the last 15 years, Eric has designed and implemented release management processes and solutions for several different organizations. Benefits that these organizations have received include
1) reduced application deployment time by 90%,
2) reduced application failures by 80%, and
3) reduced application delivery costs.
Continuous Delivery: Integrating the Deployment Pipeline Toolchain Through Au...Serena Software
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The way software is delivered in today’s enterprise has changed dramatically. We are now required to build and deploy software that can be released into production at any time. In order to satisfy this requirement, we need to continuously integrate the software changes from development to build, deploy, test, and be ready to release into production, as the business requires it. This is a major change and organizational silos, embedded tools and existing processes make it more complex.
Come join us as Darryl Bowler and Julian Fish demonstrate how Serena Deployment Automation integrates the “end-to-end” toolchain and automates the continuous delivery deployment pipeline. You will discover how you can:
Accelerate and automate application build, deployment, installation and remediation.
Store and control your release deliverables
Gain visibility into and control of your application releases, environments and schedules.
Integrate with development version control, continuous build and integration toolsets throughout the production pipeline.
Ensure and improve compliance with internal business processes.
Micro Focus DevOps Drive-in with Gary Gruver - Starting and Scaling DevOps in...Serena Software
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In this o-demand webcast Gary presents his recommendations from his new book “Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise”. Don't miss this Q&A section with Gary where he answers questions about how to implement his pragmatic ideas and techniques in your organization's DevOps Journey.
Join the SBM team to learn about the recent innovations in Serena Business Manager (SBM) 11.1. This major release is focused on enhancements intended to modernize SBM’s infrastructure, increase security, improve integration and expand reporting capabilities.
Join us to hear and see how you can continually evaluate the quality of your code, develop collaboratively, securely and efficiently with the latest release of our proven process-based software change & configuration management (SCCM) product. We will discuss and demonstrate the latest innovations now available with Dimensions CM 14.3 release.
Slides from the recording of April Mainframe Virtual User Group with our special guest from TCF Bank. Troy Tomlinson, AVP of Operations, shares the bank's journey from legacy version control systems and lack of visibility to complete control using ChangeMan ZMF. Troy discusses the issues and challenges that drove the decision to upgrade to Serena’s solution and how the bank has benefited from implementing ChangeMan ZMF on Z/OS.
1. The document discusses orchestrations in Serena Business Manager, including alternatives like web service notifications, connectors to Dimension CM and RM, and PVCS version control.
2. It provides an overview of using orchestrations for process enforcement, automation, and integration across the SDLC from development to operations.
3. The document outlines how to build orchestrations using concepts like processes, loops, variables, and calls to web services, and recommends best practices like creating orchestrations from transitions.
The document summarizes new features and enhancements planned for Serena Business Manager in 2016. Key highlights include:
1) The "Aurora" release in July 2016 will focus on improving participation in Agile environments with a new Kanban board view, enhanced backlog view, and device responsive UI.
2) Enhancements to REST interfaces and a new mobile client are also planned.
3) The "Babylon" release in October 2016 will enable migration from the classic workspace UI and improve integration capabilities through a new "Serena Data Server" and integration framework.
4) Additional enhancements include improved searching, reporting, and analytics of application usage.
This document provides an overview of automation and release management in federal organizations. It discusses trends in DevOps including an increasing focus on containers and microservices. Serena software is positioned as providing capabilities across the DevOps toolchain including source control, build automation, testing, artifact management, release management, and deployment automation. Serena deployment automation is highlighted as being vendor neutral and able to reliably deploy applications and their components, such as databases and containers, across development, test, and production environments. The benefits of containers for customers are discussed as including environment consistency, simplicity, security, leveraging existing architecture and investments.
Leveraging DevOps Principles for Release and DeploySerena Software
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This document discusses leveraging DevOps principles for improving software release and deployment processes. It notes that while agile development has increased innovation speed, it has pushed bottlenecks to IT operations due to differing goals between development and operations teams. To address this, the document recommends applying DevOps principles such as automating processes, keeping all code and configurations in version control, integrating release and deployment tools, and establishing continuous delivery practices to create repeatable, reliable processes that improve responsiveness to business needs.
This document outlines the agenda for the FUG 2016 conference, including sessions, speakers, locations and times. Key sessions include welcome remarks, breakout sessions on various Serena products (Dimensions, Release, Service Manager etc.), training sessions, and a Q&A panel with Kevin Parker. The conference will take place over two days and include opportunities for networking during breaks.
This document discusses agile requirements management and how it can be implemented using Serena Dimensions RM. Some of the key challenges discussed include handling requirements from both agile and waterfall projects, maintaining a single source of truth for requirements, and providing end-to-end visibility. The document outlines how Serena Dimensions RM allows for a bi-modal approach that supports both traditional and agile requirements within the same data model. It provides examples of agile artifacts like product and sprint backlogs that can be implemented using flexible class definitions. Traceability is also maintained between agile and traditional requirements.
The document discusses security breaches that occur through third party systems and vendors. It describes how attackers were able to access Target's corporate network by compromising a refrigeration contractor called Fazio Mechanical through a phishing email. This allowed malware called Citadel to be installed on Fazio computers. The document also discusses the importance of implementing a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) and using tools like Dimensions CM to integrate code reviews, continuous inspection, and maintain a centralized secure vault for source code repositories.
The document discusses shifting development processes left to improve quality and reduce costs. It outlines five simple steps to achieve this: 1) build every change, 2) code review every change, 3) use static analysis regularly, 4) be aware of third-party vulnerabilities, and 5) provide visibility of changes. Continuous inspection is presented as a way to put code changes through expert reviews to rapidly identify issues. The benefits of practices like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps for regulated industries are also discussed.
The document discusses modernizing agile software engineering practices, including managing code changes, feature-based development, and peer reviewing changes. It recommends adopting copy/modify/merge development using streams rather than check-out/check-in to enable parallel development. Features should be developed in separate streams for isolation. Peer review is important to find defects early, improve quality, and develop skills. Regular merging and rebasing of streams is advised to integrate changes.
Overview and Demonstration of Dimensions CM 14.2 (FUG presentation track 2)Serena Software
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This document provides an overview and demonstration of new features in Dimensions CM 14.2, including developer usability improvements, stream merging enhancements, and changesets and stream versions. It discusses personal streams, shelving, stream organization tools, cherry pick merging, 3-way merging benefits, lock-free delivering, and how the Dimensions CM Bridge allows clients that integrate with SVN to connect directly to Dimensions CM. The presentation agenda includes demonstrations of developer usability, stream merging, and changesets and stream versions.
DevOps CD and Multispeed IT in regulated industries (FUG Presentation)Serena Software
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This document discusses DevOps, continuous delivery, and multi-speed IT in regulated environments. It addresses how organizations can drive competitive advantage through faster delivery while still maintaining stability, security, and compliance. DevOps aims to align development and operations goals, continuous delivery ensures software is always production-ready, and multi-speed IT understands different approaches and speeds for different applications and contexts. The document outlines challenges in regulated industries and provides recommendations around people, process, and technology to support DevOps adoption.
Creating High Performance teams by using a DevOps culture (FUG presentation)Serena Software
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DevOps aims to foster collaboration between development and operations teams through shared culture, automation, measurement, and sharing. A DevOps transformation requires setting goals, gaining executive support, building pilot projects to test new processes, providing training to teams, and evangelizing the benefits of DevOps through communication. Key aspects include establishing a culture of open communication, shared risk, and failure leading to inquiry rather than blame. Starting small with pilot projects allows issues to be addressed before wide adoption.
Serena DevOps Drive-in: Leading the Agile and DevOps transformation with Gary...Serena Software
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DevOps is not just for start-ups! However, scaling DevOps in large enterprises requires shifting of culture, coordination of work across teams, reinvention of legacy applications and much more. Before you undertake any change to improve your software development processes, you would want to learn from the person who has gone before you and tasted success. Join the conversation with Gary Gruver on our next DevOps drive-in webcast. Gary will share his best practices and recommendations from his groundbreaking work at HP and Macy's and talk about how to lead a successful DevOps transformation.
Integrated Requirements Management with Serena Dimensions RM 02-2016Serena Software
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You work in an environment where requirements must be known, validated and tracked through the Application Development and Delivery lifecycle. The webinar presentation talks about
how you can streamline your requirements management process
overcome the challenges of achieving centralized management and visibility of requirements
ensure efficient collaboration and communication among stakeholders,
and achieve comprehensive end-to-end traceability with reporting and metrics.
Join Kay Fuhrmann and Ashley Owen as they talk about integrated Requirements Management and how to overcome the challenges of achieving end-to-end traceability within your complex application development lifecycle.
Sneak Peek into the New ChangeMan ZMF ReleaseSerena Software
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Mainframe Virtual User Group January 28 2016
Peek behind the Serena development curtain and check out the latest features of our new release, ChangeMan ZMF 8.1.1. Last year, we delivered ChangeMan ZMF version 8 which provided innovative release management, unmatched development support, and superior scalability and extendibility.
The Top 5 Practices of a Highly Successful ChangeMan ZMF AdministratorSerena Software
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The summary provides an overview of the Serena Software mainframe virtual user group meeting in October 2015. It discusses product updates to ChangeMan ZMF, Comparex, and ChangeMan SSM. It also covers best practices for highly successful ChangeMan ZMF administrators, including saying no to processes outside of ChangeMan, treating ChangeMan like a production system, taking upgrades seriously as projects, communicating with development, and continuing education. The meeting concluded with an opportunity for questions.
Join the SBM team to learn about the recent innovations in Serena Business Manager (SBM) 11.1. This major release is focused on enhancements intended to modernize SBM’s infrastructure, increase security, improve integration and expand reporting capabilities.
Join us to hear and see how you can continually evaluate the quality of your code, develop collaboratively, securely and efficiently with the latest release of our proven process-based software change & configuration management (SCCM) product. We will discuss and demonstrate the latest innovations now available with Dimensions CM 14.3 release.
Slides from the recording of April Mainframe Virtual User Group with our special guest from TCF Bank. Troy Tomlinson, AVP of Operations, shares the bank's journey from legacy version control systems and lack of visibility to complete control using ChangeMan ZMF. Troy discusses the issues and challenges that drove the decision to upgrade to Serena’s solution and how the bank has benefited from implementing ChangeMan ZMF on Z/OS.
1. The document discusses orchestrations in Serena Business Manager, including alternatives like web service notifications, connectors to Dimension CM and RM, and PVCS version control.
2. It provides an overview of using orchestrations for process enforcement, automation, and integration across the SDLC from development to operations.
3. The document outlines how to build orchestrations using concepts like processes, loops, variables, and calls to web services, and recommends best practices like creating orchestrations from transitions.
The document summarizes new features and enhancements planned for Serena Business Manager in 2016. Key highlights include:
1) The "Aurora" release in July 2016 will focus on improving participation in Agile environments with a new Kanban board view, enhanced backlog view, and device responsive UI.
2) Enhancements to REST interfaces and a new mobile client are also planned.
3) The "Babylon" release in October 2016 will enable migration from the classic workspace UI and improve integration capabilities through a new "Serena Data Server" and integration framework.
4) Additional enhancements include improved searching, reporting, and analytics of application usage.
This document provides an overview of automation and release management in federal organizations. It discusses trends in DevOps including an increasing focus on containers and microservices. Serena software is positioned as providing capabilities across the DevOps toolchain including source control, build automation, testing, artifact management, release management, and deployment automation. Serena deployment automation is highlighted as being vendor neutral and able to reliably deploy applications and their components, such as databases and containers, across development, test, and production environments. The benefits of containers for customers are discussed as including environment consistency, simplicity, security, leveraging existing architecture and investments.
Leveraging DevOps Principles for Release and DeploySerena Software
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This document discusses leveraging DevOps principles for improving software release and deployment processes. It notes that while agile development has increased innovation speed, it has pushed bottlenecks to IT operations due to differing goals between development and operations teams. To address this, the document recommends applying DevOps principles such as automating processes, keeping all code and configurations in version control, integrating release and deployment tools, and establishing continuous delivery practices to create repeatable, reliable processes that improve responsiveness to business needs.
This document outlines the agenda for the FUG 2016 conference, including sessions, speakers, locations and times. Key sessions include welcome remarks, breakout sessions on various Serena products (Dimensions, Release, Service Manager etc.), training sessions, and a Q&A panel with Kevin Parker. The conference will take place over two days and include opportunities for networking during breaks.
This document discusses agile requirements management and how it can be implemented using Serena Dimensions RM. Some of the key challenges discussed include handling requirements from both agile and waterfall projects, maintaining a single source of truth for requirements, and providing end-to-end visibility. The document outlines how Serena Dimensions RM allows for a bi-modal approach that supports both traditional and agile requirements within the same data model. It provides examples of agile artifacts like product and sprint backlogs that can be implemented using flexible class definitions. Traceability is also maintained between agile and traditional requirements.
The document discusses security breaches that occur through third party systems and vendors. It describes how attackers were able to access Target's corporate network by compromising a refrigeration contractor called Fazio Mechanical through a phishing email. This allowed malware called Citadel to be installed on Fazio computers. The document also discusses the importance of implementing a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) and using tools like Dimensions CM to integrate code reviews, continuous inspection, and maintain a centralized secure vault for source code repositories.
The document discusses shifting development processes left to improve quality and reduce costs. It outlines five simple steps to achieve this: 1) build every change, 2) code review every change, 3) use static analysis regularly, 4) be aware of third-party vulnerabilities, and 5) provide visibility of changes. Continuous inspection is presented as a way to put code changes through expert reviews to rapidly identify issues. The benefits of practices like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps for regulated industries are also discussed.
The document discusses modernizing agile software engineering practices, including managing code changes, feature-based development, and peer reviewing changes. It recommends adopting copy/modify/merge development using streams rather than check-out/check-in to enable parallel development. Features should be developed in separate streams for isolation. Peer review is important to find defects early, improve quality, and develop skills. Regular merging and rebasing of streams is advised to integrate changes.
Overview and Demonstration of Dimensions CM 14.2 (FUG presentation track 2)Serena Software
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This document provides an overview and demonstration of new features in Dimensions CM 14.2, including developer usability improvements, stream merging enhancements, and changesets and stream versions. It discusses personal streams, shelving, stream organization tools, cherry pick merging, 3-way merging benefits, lock-free delivering, and how the Dimensions CM Bridge allows clients that integrate with SVN to connect directly to Dimensions CM. The presentation agenda includes demonstrations of developer usability, stream merging, and changesets and stream versions.
DevOps CD and Multispeed IT in regulated industries (FUG Presentation)Serena Software
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This document discusses DevOps, continuous delivery, and multi-speed IT in regulated environments. It addresses how organizations can drive competitive advantage through faster delivery while still maintaining stability, security, and compliance. DevOps aims to align development and operations goals, continuous delivery ensures software is always production-ready, and multi-speed IT understands different approaches and speeds for different applications and contexts. The document outlines challenges in regulated industries and provides recommendations around people, process, and technology to support DevOps adoption.
Creating High Performance teams by using a DevOps culture (FUG presentation)Serena Software
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DevOps aims to foster collaboration between development and operations teams through shared culture, automation, measurement, and sharing. A DevOps transformation requires setting goals, gaining executive support, building pilot projects to test new processes, providing training to teams, and evangelizing the benefits of DevOps through communication. Key aspects include establishing a culture of open communication, shared risk, and failure leading to inquiry rather than blame. Starting small with pilot projects allows issues to be addressed before wide adoption.
Serena DevOps Drive-in: Leading the Agile and DevOps transformation with Gary...Serena Software
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DevOps is not just for start-ups! However, scaling DevOps in large enterprises requires shifting of culture, coordination of work across teams, reinvention of legacy applications and much more. Before you undertake any change to improve your software development processes, you would want to learn from the person who has gone before you and tasted success. Join the conversation with Gary Gruver on our next DevOps drive-in webcast. Gary will share his best practices and recommendations from his groundbreaking work at HP and Macy's and talk about how to lead a successful DevOps transformation.
Integrated Requirements Management with Serena Dimensions RM 02-2016Serena Software
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You work in an environment where requirements must be known, validated and tracked through the Application Development and Delivery lifecycle. The webinar presentation talks about
how you can streamline your requirements management process
overcome the challenges of achieving centralized management and visibility of requirements
ensure efficient collaboration and communication among stakeholders,
and achieve comprehensive end-to-end traceability with reporting and metrics.
Join Kay Fuhrmann and Ashley Owen as they talk about integrated Requirements Management and how to overcome the challenges of achieving end-to-end traceability within your complex application development lifecycle.
Sneak Peek into the New ChangeMan ZMF ReleaseSerena Software
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Mainframe Virtual User Group January 28 2016
Peek behind the Serena development curtain and check out the latest features of our new release, ChangeMan ZMF 8.1.1. Last year, we delivered ChangeMan ZMF version 8 which provided innovative release management, unmatched development support, and superior scalability and extendibility.
The Top 5 Practices of a Highly Successful ChangeMan ZMF AdministratorSerena Software
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The summary provides an overview of the Serena Software mainframe virtual user group meeting in October 2015. It discusses product updates to ChangeMan ZMF, Comparex, and ChangeMan SSM. It also covers best practices for highly successful ChangeMan ZMF administrators, including saying no to processes outside of ChangeMan, treating ChangeMan like a production system, taking upgrades seriously as projects, communicating with development, and continuing education. The meeting concluded with an opportunity for questions.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
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Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
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Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
“Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transfor...Edge AI and Vision Alliance
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For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
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The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
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Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
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Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
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Top 10 reasons to upgrade to SBM
1. Solution Brief
TOP TEN REASONS TO UPGRADE
TO SBM
Rapidly Create & Adapt Process Apps with SBM
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