This document summarizes Simon Langlois' presentation on outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It discusses the opportunities and concerns of cloud hosting, different hosting models including private, public and hybrid clouds. It also covers cloud services, licensing options, and key considerations for evaluating cloud providers like service level agreements and net promoter scores. The presentation emphasizes doing thorough total cost of ownership analyses and understanding limitations before moving to the cloud.
Outsourcing Your SharePoint Hosting - the clouds fine print magnifiedSherWeb
This document discusses outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It begins by outlining opportunities like faster upgrades and scalability as well as concerns around security and availability. It then defines different hosting models like private, public, and hybrid clouds. The document also discusses licensing options for SharePoint in cloud environments and how to evaluate a potential cloud provider through service level agreements and other metrics. It concludes by stressing the importance of understanding your needs and comparing total cost of ownership between on-premise and cloud options.
Outsourcing your share point hosting the cloud's fine print magnifiedSherWeb
This document summarizes a presentation about outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It discusses the opportunities and concerns of cloud hosting, such as increased scalability but also concerns about data security and control. It then covers the different cloud hosting models including SharePoint Online, hosted SharePoint, and on-premises. It provides details on licensing options and how to evaluate vendors using criteria like SLAs, certifications, and TCO analysis. The presentation aims to help organizations understand the various cloud hosting options and how to choose the best solution that fits their needs both currently and in the future.
The document discusses best practices for integrating ERP data with Salesforce. It outlines three steps for integration success: focus on new metrics, define integration processes, and choose an integration approach. Common integration layers are data, application logic, and user interface. Packaged integration options on the AppExchange include data integration and application integration solutions. Custom built integrations can use synchronous or asynchronous design. The document also provides an example integration project between Brady Corporation's SAP system and Salesforce to enable 360-degree customer views, automate manual processes, and reduce costs.
Conga case study: Application visibility in AWS with ExtraHopExtraHop Networks
Conga is a leading Salesforce application partner. They use the ExtraHop platform to gain new insights into their application performance in AWS as well as the real-time activities of their users.
Learn more at http://www.extrahop.com.
Building a Microsoft Teams Provisioning Process using Power Apps & Power Auto...Thomas Daly
This document advertises an event on January 22nd to build a Microsoft Teams provisioning process using Power Apps and Power Automate. It provides an outline for the session, which will introduce the tools and demonstrate how to build a process that allows users to submit Microsoft Teams requests via a SharePoint list form. This triggers automated workflows to create the Teams sites, while updating the list and notifying requestors. The process integrates SharePoint, Power Automate, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Graph and Power Apps to provision Teams sites in a governed and standardized way.
Simplify Cloud Migration to AWS with RISC Network’s Complete App AnalysisRISC Networks
This document discusses overcoming barriers to cloud migration with AWS and APN partners. It provides examples of how customers have benefited from migrating to AWS, including increased scale, security, cost effectiveness and performance. It then outlines common barriers to cloud adoption like existing investments and upfront costs. RISC Networks is presented as a partner that can help determine migration strategy, reduce timeline and risks, and keep teams focused on innovation through complete application analysis. The AWS migration process and core services are described, and RISC Networks is highlighted for its CloudScape software that provides application discovery, analytics and intelligence to inform migration plans. A case study of Turner Broadcasting's migration to AWS with assistance from RISC Networks is also presented.
This document discusses using a traditional migration design for high-volume data integration projects. It notes that transactional integration designs may not be fast enough when large amounts of data need to be integrated initially. The session agenda covers best practices for performance, an overview of integration and migration design patterns, and five migration design practices: using bulk processing when possible, upsert operations, using local resources for lookups, staging data, and multi-processing.
Outsourcing Your SharePoint Hosting - the clouds fine print magnifiedSherWeb
This document discusses outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It begins by outlining opportunities like faster upgrades and scalability as well as concerns around security and availability. It then defines different hosting models like private, public, and hybrid clouds. The document also discusses licensing options for SharePoint in cloud environments and how to evaluate a potential cloud provider through service level agreements and other metrics. It concludes by stressing the importance of understanding your needs and comparing total cost of ownership between on-premise and cloud options.
Outsourcing your share point hosting the cloud's fine print magnifiedSherWeb
This document summarizes a presentation about outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It discusses the opportunities and concerns of cloud hosting, such as increased scalability but also concerns about data security and control. It then covers the different cloud hosting models including SharePoint Online, hosted SharePoint, and on-premises. It provides details on licensing options and how to evaluate vendors using criteria like SLAs, certifications, and TCO analysis. The presentation aims to help organizations understand the various cloud hosting options and how to choose the best solution that fits their needs both currently and in the future.
The document discusses best practices for integrating ERP data with Salesforce. It outlines three steps for integration success: focus on new metrics, define integration processes, and choose an integration approach. Common integration layers are data, application logic, and user interface. Packaged integration options on the AppExchange include data integration and application integration solutions. Custom built integrations can use synchronous or asynchronous design. The document also provides an example integration project between Brady Corporation's SAP system and Salesforce to enable 360-degree customer views, automate manual processes, and reduce costs.
Conga case study: Application visibility in AWS with ExtraHopExtraHop Networks
Conga is a leading Salesforce application partner. They use the ExtraHop platform to gain new insights into their application performance in AWS as well as the real-time activities of their users.
Learn more at http://www.extrahop.com.
Building a Microsoft Teams Provisioning Process using Power Apps & Power Auto...Thomas Daly
This document advertises an event on January 22nd to build a Microsoft Teams provisioning process using Power Apps and Power Automate. It provides an outline for the session, which will introduce the tools and demonstrate how to build a process that allows users to submit Microsoft Teams requests via a SharePoint list form. This triggers automated workflows to create the Teams sites, while updating the list and notifying requestors. The process integrates SharePoint, Power Automate, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Graph and Power Apps to provision Teams sites in a governed and standardized way.
Simplify Cloud Migration to AWS with RISC Network’s Complete App AnalysisRISC Networks
This document discusses overcoming barriers to cloud migration with AWS and APN partners. It provides examples of how customers have benefited from migrating to AWS, including increased scale, security, cost effectiveness and performance. It then outlines common barriers to cloud adoption like existing investments and upfront costs. RISC Networks is presented as a partner that can help determine migration strategy, reduce timeline and risks, and keep teams focused on innovation through complete application analysis. The AWS migration process and core services are described, and RISC Networks is highlighted for its CloudScape software that provides application discovery, analytics and intelligence to inform migration plans. A case study of Turner Broadcasting's migration to AWS with assistance from RISC Networks is also presented.
This document discusses using a traditional migration design for high-volume data integration projects. It notes that transactional integration designs may not be fast enough when large amounts of data need to be integrated initially. The session agenda covers best practices for performance, an overview of integration and migration design patterns, and five migration design practices: using bulk processing when possible, upsert operations, using local resources for lookups, staging data, and multi-processing.
Advanced SharePoint Integration (Azure Service Bus and Dynamics CRM)Gus Fraser
This document discusses integrating SharePoint and Dynamics CRM using the Azure Service Bus. It begins with an overview of out-of-the-box integration options and their limitations. Then it compares a point-to-point integration architecture to a service bus architecture, noting that the service bus approach is more loosely coupled, scalable, and upgrade-friendly. The bulk of the document provides an overview of the Azure Service Bus and demonstrations of creating a service bus namespace and connecting CRM to publish and subscribe to messages. It concludes by emphasizing that the Azure Service Bus provides an easy, flexible, and reliable integration option compared to native or point-to-point integration.
1) Salesforce.com's multitenant architecture allows multiple customers to use the same application instance running on the same server infrastructure, lowering costs while maintaining performance and security.
2) All customer data and configurations are stored separately in the same database using unique customer IDs to isolate each tenant's data.
3) This approach provides significant benefits including automatic upgrades, high performance at scale through query optimization, and faster innovation since all customers use the same codebase.
Salesforce Backup, Restore & Archiving- Adam Best, Senior Program Architectgemziebeth
- How Salesforce protects your data
- Backup Options
- Salesforce Native Backup Tools
- Heroku External Objects
- Archiving Options
- Where Can You Go Next To Learn More
AWS re:Invent 2016: Fueling Migration: Shortcutting your Application Portfoli...Amazon Web Services
For many large enterprises, gathering data on your applications and developing a detailed business case for an all-in migration to AWS can be a time consuming activity. Instead of waiting on a full analysis to be completed, a global healthcare company decided to take a shortcut by reinventing the portfolio assessment process in a brilliantly simple manner. This new streamlined approach enabled them to immediately take advantage of the increased speed and innovative capabilities of AWS. In this session, IT directors and enterprise architects can learn these techniques to quickly identify which of their own applications fit cloud-friendly patterns; including, how to build a prioritized and multi-threaded migration queue that maximizes velocity and business value.
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session.
Getting Started with Data Integration: FME DesktopSafe Software
It's a new year, and there is no better time to get started with data integration. Whether you've just downloaded FME Desktop or have already succeeded at integrating your data, this webinar can teach you FME Desktop basics that can be applied to any project.
Our experts will set you up for success by addressing some of the most common questions we get from new users. With topics like:
- Reading data into FME
- Visualizing data
- Manipulating data
- Writing data out from FME
Plus, with Q&A throughout the webinar (and an extended live Q&A session), you can get help specific to your data integration needs.
BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best PracticesBizTalk360
This presentation will provide you with common mapper problems and solutions, i.e., some BizTalk Mapper Patterns specifying best practices and some of the best ways to address some of your needs within the context of message transformation and also to enhance your skills when using the BizTalk Server Mapper.
SaaS architectures can be deployed onto AWS in a number of ways, and each optimizes for different factors from security to cost optimization. Come learn more about common deployment models used on AWS for SaaS architectures and how each of those models are tuned for customer specific needs. We will also review options and tradeoffs for common SaaS architectures, including cost optimization, resource optimization, performance optimization, and security and data isolation.
(ENT306) Application Portfolio Migration | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Migrating large fleets of legacy applications to AWS cloud infrastructure requires careful planning, since each phase needs to balance risk tolerance against the speed of migration.
Through participation in many large-scale migration engagements with customers, AWS Professional Services has developed a set of successful best practices, tools, and techniques that help migration factories optimize speed of delivery and success rate. In this session, we cover the complete lifecycle of an application portfolio migration with special emphasis on how to organize and conduct the assessment and how to identify elements that can benefit from cloud architecture.
SRV209 Introducing Amazon Connect: Create an Amazon Scale Cloud Contact Cent...Amazon Web Services
Utilizing the same technology used worldwide by Amazon Customer Service associates, Amazon Connect is a self-service cloud-based contact center offering from Amazon Web Services. Attend this session and see for yourself how easy it is create your own cloud-based contact center. We’ll show you how to set up contact center flows, manage your agent utilization, and track overall performance of your contact center. Learn how Amazon Connect works with other AWS services, like AWS Lambda, to leverage your existing systems for a personalized customer experience. Join us and walk away knowing how to build a virtual contact center in minutes with Amazon Connect.
#SPFestDC Migrate your custom solutions to the modern stackVincent Biret
The document discusses transitioning custom SharePoint components to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). It provides an overview of SPFx and demonstrates how to build various types of extensions and components using SPFx, including web parts, provisioning templates, workflows, and accessing data. It also discusses other modern tools that can be used alongside SPFx, such as PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Azure Functions. The conclusion encourages developers to leverage the new tools available to build modern solutions for SharePoint that will have improved performance, security, and developer experience compared to previous methods.
This document discusses how PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and the Common Data Service work together to connect apps and data. It explains that PowerApps allows users to build apps that connect to various data sources through the Common Data Service. Microsoft Flow can then be used to automate workflows and integrate apps. The document provides examples of how custom connectors in Flow can integrate with third party systems like K2 to enable monitoring and processing workflows.
1) The presentation provides an overview and analysis of two outages that impacted Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2021.
2) Key technical concepts are explained such as availability zones, AWS services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and API Gateway.
3) The timelines of the outages are examined based on observations from ThousandEyes and Amazon's root cause analysis, identifying issues with server responses, DNS, and APIs.
Blazing new trails with salesforce data nov 16, 2021Safe Software
Ever needed to integrate data from systems into Salesforce, but find yourself stuck? Salesforce is a powerful CRM tool that enables your organization to manage your customer relationships all in one place, but getting data integrated with this platform can feel intimidating. This webinar will teach you how to get started with Salesforce and FME.
After you've created a workflow with FME Desktop, we don't want you stuck with just doing a one-time sync into Salesforce: automate it with FME Server. During this webinar, we’ll show you how you can make this possible, taking you through:
- Connecting Salesforce to your other applications
- Learning how to use the Salesforce Connector and writing SOQL statements
- Getting started with the Salesforce REST API
Join us to learn how you can let your data blaze its own trail into Salesforce with FME, and never have to perform a one-time sync into Salesforce ever again.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Choosing the Right Partner for Your AWS Journey (ENT310)Amazon Web Services
You have decided to shut down a data center and move your applications to AWS, and you know you’ll need some help. Whether you need just tools, boots on the ground to move those applications, or someone to teach you how, you can find help among the group of elite partners that the AWS Partner Network has assembled to assist customers with meeting their business objectives. In this session, you will discover the variety of services our partners provide, learn how to select the appropriate partner for your needs, and hear about the experiences of customers who used partners to accomplish big objectives on AWS.
Application Integration for Smart CitiesSafe Software
Smart Cities want to provide a better quality of life for citizens. To accomplish this, their staff need to be enabled to focus on innovation rather than repetitive enterprise integration tasks.
Whether you work for a city or support local government clients, this webinar will provide an overview of why application integration is valuable, and set you on the path to success.
We’ll start by exploring how FME, the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data, enables your data to flow freely between the applications you’ve chosen. You’ll see examples including Cityworks and Esri, and discover tips & tricks for leveraging your applications’ APIs.
Whether you’re creating work orders, enabling citizens to report potholes, or delivering open data, information needs to flow automatically. This webinar will help you get started.
The documents provide information about the history and materials used for Irish kilts. Kilts originated as the traditional dress of men in Scotland and Ireland. Over time, they evolved from simple garments made of one piece of plaid fabric wrapped around the body into tailored outfits incorporating pleats. Modern Irish kilts are typically made from heavy wool tartan cloth, though linen was sometimes used historically.
Advanced SharePoint Integration (Azure Service Bus and Dynamics CRM)Gus Fraser
This document discusses integrating SharePoint and Dynamics CRM using the Azure Service Bus. It begins with an overview of out-of-the-box integration options and their limitations. Then it compares a point-to-point integration architecture to a service bus architecture, noting that the service bus approach is more loosely coupled, scalable, and upgrade-friendly. The bulk of the document provides an overview of the Azure Service Bus and demonstrations of creating a service bus namespace and connecting CRM to publish and subscribe to messages. It concludes by emphasizing that the Azure Service Bus provides an easy, flexible, and reliable integration option compared to native or point-to-point integration.
1) Salesforce.com's multitenant architecture allows multiple customers to use the same application instance running on the same server infrastructure, lowering costs while maintaining performance and security.
2) All customer data and configurations are stored separately in the same database using unique customer IDs to isolate each tenant's data.
3) This approach provides significant benefits including automatic upgrades, high performance at scale through query optimization, and faster innovation since all customers use the same codebase.
Salesforce Backup, Restore & Archiving- Adam Best, Senior Program Architectgemziebeth
- How Salesforce protects your data
- Backup Options
- Salesforce Native Backup Tools
- Heroku External Objects
- Archiving Options
- Where Can You Go Next To Learn More
AWS re:Invent 2016: Fueling Migration: Shortcutting your Application Portfoli...Amazon Web Services
For many large enterprises, gathering data on your applications and developing a detailed business case for an all-in migration to AWS can be a time consuming activity. Instead of waiting on a full analysis to be completed, a global healthcare company decided to take a shortcut by reinventing the portfolio assessment process in a brilliantly simple manner. This new streamlined approach enabled them to immediately take advantage of the increased speed and innovative capabilities of AWS. In this session, IT directors and enterprise architects can learn these techniques to quickly identify which of their own applications fit cloud-friendly patterns; including, how to build a prioritized and multi-threaded migration queue that maximizes velocity and business value.
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session.
Getting Started with Data Integration: FME DesktopSafe Software
It's a new year, and there is no better time to get started with data integration. Whether you've just downloaded FME Desktop or have already succeeded at integrating your data, this webinar can teach you FME Desktop basics that can be applied to any project.
Our experts will set you up for success by addressing some of the most common questions we get from new users. With topics like:
- Reading data into FME
- Visualizing data
- Manipulating data
- Writing data out from FME
Plus, with Q&A throughout the webinar (and an extended live Q&A session), you can get help specific to your data integration needs.
BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best PracticesBizTalk360
This presentation will provide you with common mapper problems and solutions, i.e., some BizTalk Mapper Patterns specifying best practices and some of the best ways to address some of your needs within the context of message transformation and also to enhance your skills when using the BizTalk Server Mapper.
SaaS architectures can be deployed onto AWS in a number of ways, and each optimizes for different factors from security to cost optimization. Come learn more about common deployment models used on AWS for SaaS architectures and how each of those models are tuned for customer specific needs. We will also review options and tradeoffs for common SaaS architectures, including cost optimization, resource optimization, performance optimization, and security and data isolation.
(ENT306) Application Portfolio Migration | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Migrating large fleets of legacy applications to AWS cloud infrastructure requires careful planning, since each phase needs to balance risk tolerance against the speed of migration.
Through participation in many large-scale migration engagements with customers, AWS Professional Services has developed a set of successful best practices, tools, and techniques that help migration factories optimize speed of delivery and success rate. In this session, we cover the complete lifecycle of an application portfolio migration with special emphasis on how to organize and conduct the assessment and how to identify elements that can benefit from cloud architecture.
SRV209 Introducing Amazon Connect: Create an Amazon Scale Cloud Contact Cent...Amazon Web Services
Utilizing the same technology used worldwide by Amazon Customer Service associates, Amazon Connect is a self-service cloud-based contact center offering from Amazon Web Services. Attend this session and see for yourself how easy it is create your own cloud-based contact center. We’ll show you how to set up contact center flows, manage your agent utilization, and track overall performance of your contact center. Learn how Amazon Connect works with other AWS services, like AWS Lambda, to leverage your existing systems for a personalized customer experience. Join us and walk away knowing how to build a virtual contact center in minutes with Amazon Connect.
#SPFestDC Migrate your custom solutions to the modern stackVincent Biret
The document discusses transitioning custom SharePoint components to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). It provides an overview of SPFx and demonstrates how to build various types of extensions and components using SPFx, including web parts, provisioning templates, workflows, and accessing data. It also discusses other modern tools that can be used alongside SPFx, such as PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Azure Functions. The conclusion encourages developers to leverage the new tools available to build modern solutions for SharePoint that will have improved performance, security, and developer experience compared to previous methods.
This document discusses how PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and the Common Data Service work together to connect apps and data. It explains that PowerApps allows users to build apps that connect to various data sources through the Common Data Service. Microsoft Flow can then be used to automate workflows and integrate apps. The document provides examples of how custom connectors in Flow can integrate with third party systems like K2 to enable monitoring and processing workflows.
1) The presentation provides an overview and analysis of two outages that impacted Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2021.
2) Key technical concepts are explained such as availability zones, AWS services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and API Gateway.
3) The timelines of the outages are examined based on observations from ThousandEyes and Amazon's root cause analysis, identifying issues with server responses, DNS, and APIs.
Blazing new trails with salesforce data nov 16, 2021Safe Software
Ever needed to integrate data from systems into Salesforce, but find yourself stuck? Salesforce is a powerful CRM tool that enables your organization to manage your customer relationships all in one place, but getting data integrated with this platform can feel intimidating. This webinar will teach you how to get started with Salesforce and FME.
After you've created a workflow with FME Desktop, we don't want you stuck with just doing a one-time sync into Salesforce: automate it with FME Server. During this webinar, we’ll show you how you can make this possible, taking you through:
- Connecting Salesforce to your other applications
- Learning how to use the Salesforce Connector and writing SOQL statements
- Getting started with the Salesforce REST API
Join us to learn how you can let your data blaze its own trail into Salesforce with FME, and never have to perform a one-time sync into Salesforce ever again.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Choosing the Right Partner for Your AWS Journey (ENT310)Amazon Web Services
You have decided to shut down a data center and move your applications to AWS, and you know you’ll need some help. Whether you need just tools, boots on the ground to move those applications, or someone to teach you how, you can find help among the group of elite partners that the AWS Partner Network has assembled to assist customers with meeting their business objectives. In this session, you will discover the variety of services our partners provide, learn how to select the appropriate partner for your needs, and hear about the experiences of customers who used partners to accomplish big objectives on AWS.
Application Integration for Smart CitiesSafe Software
Smart Cities want to provide a better quality of life for citizens. To accomplish this, their staff need to be enabled to focus on innovation rather than repetitive enterprise integration tasks.
Whether you work for a city or support local government clients, this webinar will provide an overview of why application integration is valuable, and set you on the path to success.
We’ll start by exploring how FME, the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data, enables your data to flow freely between the applications you’ve chosen. You’ll see examples including Cityworks and Esri, and discover tips & tricks for leveraging your applications’ APIs.
Whether you’re creating work orders, enabling citizens to report potholes, or delivering open data, information needs to flow automatically. This webinar will help you get started.
The documents provide information about the history and materials used for Irish kilts. Kilts originated as the traditional dress of men in Scotland and Ireland. Over time, they evolved from simple garments made of one piece of plaid fabric wrapped around the body into tailored outfits incorporating pleats. Modern Irish kilts are typically made from heavy wool tartan cloth, though linen was sometimes used historically.
Florence has a long history as a center of fashion dating back to the Middle Ages and Renaissance period. The textile industry in nearby Prato supported wool, silk, and textile production since the 14th century. In the early 20th century, Florence was home to pioneering designers like Salvatore Ferragamo who chose the city to establish his headquarters and produce his renowned shoes. Iconic brands like Gucci and Pucci originated in Florence in the 1950s-60s, helping to establish Italian fashion worldwide. Major shows like Pitti Imagine Uomo continue to spotlight Florence as an international fashion capital.
Thompson Brothers has over 60 years of experience providing pest control and termite services in South Carolina and Western North Carolina. They have been in business since 1957 and offer services to control pests and prevent termite damage. Their website is ThompsonExterminating.com where more information can be found about their pest control and termite services.
- Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, recognizing it as an opportunity to monetize the large amount of user-uploaded video content on the site through online advertising.
- A challenge for Google is how to introduce advertising to YouTube without disrupting the user experience, as YouTube had previously refused to insert ads directly into videos.
- Google is experimenting with different advertising formats like short video ads that play before YouTube videos, and contextually targeted text ads based on video keywords. However, copyright issues and offensive content uploaded by users pose risks for advertisers.
This document summarizes a study on the preparation and photoluminescent properties of Si nanocrystal-SiOX films deposited by reactive evaporation. Specifically:
- Films with varying oxygen concentration and Si crystallite size were produced by changing substrate temperature and oxygen partial pressure during Si or SiO evaporation.
- Only films prepared by evaporating SiO in an oxygen atmosphere exhibited room-temperature photoluminescence.
- X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze the film structures and compositions.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and both of his parents died by the time he was 3 years old. He was adopted by a tobacco merchant but wanted to pursue poetry instead of business. Poe attended the University of Virginia but had to leave due to lack of funds. He then attended West Point military academy but was kicked out after 8 months. After publishing some works, Poe married his wife Virginia when he was 27 and she was 14, which was common at the time. Poe and Virginia later moved to New York where he continued writing and publishing until Virginia's death in 1845, which left him unable to write. Poe is known for inventing the modern detective story and themes of death in
Annuity and Life Insurance Product Update - Q1 2015Corporate Insight
Our quarterly Annuity and Life Insurance Product Update reviews new products released by annuity carriers and life insurers over the last quarter. This slide deck reviews the new annuity and life insurance products introduced in the first quarter of 2015.
The document outlines 12 things Filipinos can do to help the country, including following traffic laws, asking for receipts, not buying smuggled goods, speaking positively about the Philippines, respecting authority figures, properly disposing of garbage, supporting local churches, voting in elections, paying employees and taxes fairly, adopting children in need, and teaching children to obey laws and love the country.
Sps chicago suburbs outsourcing your share point hosting - the clouds fine ...SherWeb
This document discusses outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It begins by outlining opportunities like faster upgrades and scalability as well as concerns around data security and availability. It then defines different hosting models like private, public, and hybrid clouds. The rest of the document provides advice on evaluating cloud providers, including looking at service level agreements, data security certifications, customer satisfaction metrics, and licensing options. It emphasizes understanding requirements before moving to the cloud and choosing a provider that meets both current and future needs.
Sps chicago suburbs outsourcing your share point hosting - the clouds fine ...SherWeb
This document discusses outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It begins by outlining opportunities like faster upgrades and scalability as well as concerns around data security and availability. It then defines different hosting models like private, public, and hybrid clouds. The rest of the document provides advice on evaluating cloud providers, including looking at service level agreements, data security certifications, customer satisfaction metrics, business continuity policies, and licensing options and costs. It concludes by stressing the importance of understanding your needs before moving to the cloud and choosing a provider that meets your requirements.
Outsourcing your share point hosting the cloud’s fine print magnifiedSherWeb
This document summarizes an presentation about outsourcing SharePoint hosting to the cloud. It discusses opportunities and concerns with cloud hosting, different cloud hosting models including private, public and hybrid clouds. It also covers important considerations for choosing a cloud provider like service level agreements, data security certifications, licensing options, and total cost of ownership analyses. The presentation aims to help organizations understand what to look for in a cloud hosting provider to meet their SharePoint needs.
It is well known that with the release of SharePoint 2013, Microsoft is shifting its recommended method for customizing and building applications to a client side “App Model” development paradigm.
This has caused many organizations to invest large amounts of time and energy in rewriting solutions or to stop customizing SharePoint and building solutions altogether.
In this session we will cover:
- The current limitations with developing enterprise solutions using the App Model and only client side technologies
- The key decision points when architecting your solutions
- How to determine when the App Model approach is the right solution for your project, when it may NOT be the right solution.
- How to architect and deliver full trust solutions in a way that will allow you to convert your solution and move to the cloud in a seamless and low impact way.
SharePoint Online vs. On-Premise document compares Microsoft SharePoint Online to an on-premise SharePoint implementation. Some key differences include SharePoint Online having higher security but more limited customization options compared to on-premise which has more robust features but requires managing security. Migrating to SharePoint Online can provide cost savings on licensing and infrastructure but requires planning to address limitations in areas like search and administration interfaces. The document provides considerations for law firms evaluating moving to SharePoint Online.
This document introduces a managed service framework called CloudSmart that IT service providers can use to monitor their customers' network performance and help them transition services to the cloud. CloudSmart includes continuous remote monitoring tools, baseline assessments, monthly reporting, and problem resolution. It is presented as a way for providers to generate recurring revenue, differentiate their services, and help customers adopt cloud-based solutions. Key stages of the CloudSmart service include initial scoping, baseline assessments, ongoing monitoring and reporting, and addressing any issues that arise. Suggested pricing guidelines are also provided.
This document provides an overview of cloud services and considerations for choosing and using cloud services with SharePoint. It discusses the types of cloud architectures including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Common cloud services for SharePoint are examined. Key factors for choosing cloud services are outlined such as compliance, strategic alignment, service providers, and value. The document also shares StoneShare's real-world journey of migrating infrastructure and services to the cloud and important aspects of managing cloud services including evaluations, setup, testing, branding, usability, governance, compliance, integration, customization, and switching costs.
Browser Diagnostics using dynatrace Ajax EditionDeepak Kaul
Compuware provides application performance monitoring (APM) software called dynaTrace that helps optimize the performance and value of business-critical applications. It provides rapid issue notification and diagnostics to give insight into how performance impacts business metrics. dynaTrace has over 4,000 customers worldwide and offers both cloud-based and on-premises options. It is recognized as an industry leader in APM by analysts like Gartner.
Although the Cloud is now mainstream for many large Enterprises, organisations who truly aim to maximise the value of their cloud platform also focus on refactoring the model by which they operate their IT. In this session you will learn about the latest developments in operations within the cloud, including operational processes, architecture, governance, organisation structure, and monitoring tools to maximise agility. This session will highlight the features of a Cloud-enabled IT operating model and how AWS customers benefit from delivering a new approach to IT.
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - NAB
Ojoconsulting Oy Nimbus Monitoring Service description v1.2 publicOjoconsulting Oy
The document discusses corporate service management challenges and introduces NimbusMonitoring Service. It notes that monitoring infrastructure and services is complicated due to many information sources and dependencies. The service aims to offer simple traffic light status overviews and correlate monitoring across network, server, and quality metrics. It also seeks to automate recovery processes and control cloud costs through monitoring.
Are your clients asking you about the costs and benefits of cloud based accounting and financial management systems? Are they asking you about the risks of cloud computing? Are you curious to know why there is so much buzz about the cloud?
As a trusted advisor, it is your responsibility to be informed about available (and exceptional) accounting and financial management software options. So, have you informed your client-base about the power of the cloud? Have you shared the rewards and possible risks of cloud computing? What, exactly, do they need to know to make the best financial decision for their organizations? This webcast will provide you with the nuts and bolts of cloud computing so you will be better able to answer your client’s questions.
In this webcast you will learn:
How to evaluate the available cloud options provided by various software vendors.
How cloud accounting complies with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley?
Why cloud computing is relevant to CPAs in public practice?
What are the cost saving opportunities that arise from cloud computing.
- The document discusses the transition of LEGO.com from a monolithic architecture to an event-driven architecture (EDA) on AWS.
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Definitions
• Private Cloud
• …is a form of cloud computing that is used by only one organization,
or that ensures that an organization is completely isolated from
others.
• Public Cloud
• …is a style of cloud computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled
capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using
Internet technologies.
• Hybrid Cloud
• …refers to policy-based and coordinated service provisioning, use
and management across a mixture of internal and external cloud
services.
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Definitions
• SaaS
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivers a complete application over
the internet, owned by the service provider to centralize resources
and data
• PaaS
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) delivers a cloud-based development
environment with everything required to support the complete lifecycle
of building and delivering web-based (cloud) applications
• IaaS
• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) delivers computing resources, which
includes servers, networking and storage with virtualization
technologies.
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Integration with LOB
Custom Development
3rd Party Tools
NO YES
OOTB Features
Dedicated
SharePoint
Instance
SaaS
Specific data
constraints
to respect
YES
Internal IT
Infrastructure
Internal
IT Staff
Local IaaSPaaS
YES NO Internal
IT Staff
YES
YES
NO
NO
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Replication Strategy
High-level hybrid strategies Pros Cons
Completely isolated farms • Low complexity
• Low cost
• Fast deployment
• No integration
• Reduced usability for hybrid end-
users (ex: 2 credentials)
Replication of user profiles • Easy to use for end-user
• Moderate complexity
• Fast deployment
• No real added value
• Necessary evil
Replication of SharePoint Services • Leverage past and future
investments in Search, Metadata,
BI, Workflows and more services
on both farms
• Requires domain federation,
configurations and in most cases,
expensive 3rd party tools (ex:
AvePoint Replicator)
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What is the SLA?
Start with what is important to you
• Set min and max acceptable requirements and objectives
• Try to assign a dollar ($) value to them
SLA parameters Measures to look for
System availability % of uptime during a given period
Data security SOC 2 Type II report
Tier 3+ datacenters
Functional capabilities Complete list of available features
Complete list of supported and included services
Regulatory compliance Encryption bits, HIPAA, PCI
Response time Time before ticket taken
Average ticket close time
Other performance levels Customer Satisfaction: Net Promoter Score
RPO and RTO
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How Can I Evaluate Data Security?
Data Center Primary Site Attributes
Tier Requirements TIER I TIER II TIER III TIER IV
Number of power
delivery paths
Only 1 Only 1
1 Active
1 Passive
2 Active
Redundant components N N+1 N+1
2 (N+1) or
S+S
Compartmentalization No No No Yes
Concurrently
maintainable
No No Yes Yes
Fault tolerance to worst event None None None Yes
Other attributes
Power
distribution,
cooling
Raised floor, UPS,
generator
Raised floor, UPS,
generator
Raised floor, UPS,
generator
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How Can I Evaluate Data Security?
Certification SOC II Type 2
Security
Accessibility
Process integrity
Confidentiality
Privacy For more
information,
download this
detail document
from KPMG.
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How Can I Evaluate a NPS?
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
It’s the most widely used KPI to measure
customer support satisfaction amongst cloud and
hosting services providers
It’s measured with one simple question after
each ticket resolution
How likely are you to recommend COMPANY X
to a colleague or a friend?
• <20 = HORRIBLE
• 20< X <40 = BAD
• 40< X <60 = GOOD
• >60 = EXCELLENT
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Business Continuity
RPO et RTO
What are your required standards?
• Establish the value for YOUR company in at least 2 scenarios before
requesting prices
Weekly Backup
OK OK OK
IT Pro
Restore
RPO
(Recovery Point Objective)
RTO
(Recovery Time
Objective)
Weekly Backup Weekly Backup
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Licensing Options
On-premise
Open License, Open Value and Open Value Subscription
• Small to midsize organization: 5-250 employees
• Corporate, academic, charitable, or government organization
Enterprise Agreement, Enterprise Agreement
Subscription
• 250+ emp.
Hosted SharePoint
Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA)
SharePoint Online
Microsoft terms for cloud subscription P1, P2, E1, E2, E3, E4…
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License Mobility Program (LM)
Some important details
You must acquire and maintain Server and Client
Access Licenses (CALs)
You must acquire and maintain Software Assurance
(SA)
If you don’t have SA, you need dedicated hardware
hosting services
Same CALs can be used with other environments with
same users, but server licenses are TRANSFERRED
so can’t be reused
You CAN’T mix LM and SPLA licenses for the same
software
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Licensing Net Present Value 3 years
License program Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3
SharePoint Servers 1 3 4
Standard users 250 500 0
Enterprise users 0 1000 2500
Interest 2% 2% 2%
$-
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
$1,400,000
NPV 1 NPV 2 NPV 3
NetPresentValue
SharePoint License Cost Analysis
Open Licenses +
SA
Open Value 3yr
Spread (per year)
Open Value 3yr
Up-front
SPLA
SharePoint Online
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Licensing Net Present Value 5 years
License program Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3
SharePoint Servers 1 3 4
Standard users 250 500 0
Enterprise users 0 1000 2500
Interest 2% 2% 2%
$-
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
$1,400,000
NPV 1 NPV 2 NPV 3
NetPresentValue
SharePoint Licenses Cost Analyses
Open Licenses +
SA
Open Value 3yr
Spread (per year)
Open Value 3yr
Up-front
SPLA
SharePoint Online
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Conclusion
1. Know why you are going and what could stop
you from going to the cloud
2. Understand and choose from the different
hosting models
3. Make sure you choose a partner that fits your
needs for current and future services and
guaranties
4. Take the time to do a TCO analysis including
labor and licenses
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SharePoint Summit web site a few days after the event.
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Editor's Notes
Start: 0:00
Duration: 1:00
Hello everyone, and welcome to my session called outsourcing your SharePoint Hosting: the cloud print magnified which will cover one of today’s most trending topic in IT industry.
I hope you have a great experience so far at the SharPoint Summit.
I am really excited to be part of this conference.
And more specifically that you connected to my session
Of course, it’s a really generalized topic in the IT sector but I will focus exclusively on the SharePoint and pinpoint some of the key parameters to consider and evaluate when building your cloud strategy.
Start: 1:00
Duration: 1:45
First, let me introduce myself
My name is Simon
I live in Sherbrooke, Canada and I work for SherWeb.
SherWeb a world renown cloud services provider
We started back in the 90’s as a web hoster,
But rapidly got into the business application hosting with a big focus Microsoft productivity suite
And finally got awarded Microsoft worldwide partner of the year at the last summer WPC
So we are highly qualified and experienced with Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, hyper-v hosting challenges.
More personally, I hold a Master degree in Marketing Science, so my background is more business than IT,
But as you can see, I have been evolving in the IT space for more than 8 years
And I can tell you without a doubt that understanding how market trends like cloud, social, mobile and big data are influencing organisational changes in todays companies is as important as understanding the technology itself for those who seeks to build effective IT strategies and make the right decisions when it comes to cloud opportunities.
I am interested in everything that touches both SharePoint and the cloud looking for the next big innovation to build the product roadmap, or just to know what people do to generate value
So don’t hesitate to add me on twitter or LinkedIn and reach out to me for a chat after the session.
Now that we are done with the introductions, let’s jump right into it
Start: 2:45
Duration: 1:30
So in todays session, I will start by introducing the subject with some revealing numbers about SharePoint actual deployments and future cloud strategies.
We will then explore all possible hosting scenarios available to an organisation planning an upgrade or a migration and provide a simple and high-level decision framework for choosing the right model. I also cover the impacts of each choice on various critical topic like infrastructure, human resources, development, upgrades, compliance and more.
We will continue by looking at services surrounding the cloud offering these days because we will see that these services might be as important as the hosting itself for some organisation. So amounts other things we will expose the different component of an SLA and highlight some key concept you might want to read before making a move.
And finally, I well explain the various licensing options you have when moving to the cloud for SharePoint. For this, I included a revealing cost analysis for 3 scenarios with different licensing models.
Start: 3:00
Duration: 3:45
If you are interested in the cloud, you must be looking to improve at least one of the following elements of your IT department.
So first, fastraking and simplifying your SharePoint related projects. Is it me or is in today’s reality, every project is starting with 3 to 6 months delays already. It seems like everyone wants everything for yesterday. You probably want to go faster. Which ever solution you are choosing, there is a good chance that your cloud service provider have more experience with SharePoint upgrades and migrations than you own team, so it will undoubtedly accelerate the process.
You might also want to reduce your capital expenditure and trade it for a operational expenditure model, to control cost. Cause we all know how large IT project can get out of control with cost overrun. There is also the finance concept of capital fast depreciation, and this trend is even more dominant in the IT sector because it has the biggest depreciation rate than any other sector.
With an aging population and the fast technology evolution, finding and retaining SharePoint expertise is certainly one of todays IT department biggest challenge for maintaining a SharePoint environments.
Organizations with sensitive data might be looking for of site backup or replication to ensure business continuity in case of a disaster.
Except for very large firms, hosting SharePoint in the cloud will most probably increase its availability simply due to the top-of-the line infrastructure most providers is able to deploy with large scale economies. But we will see further in this presentation that availability is also a results of expertise and specifically when it comes to SharePoint.
Scalability is also a great yet very general value of the cloud, almost a given nowadays. Anyone can see this value of the cloud as opposed to an on-premises deployment where you need to plan a lot more for hardware consideration. I think it has an even bigger value when looking specifically at SharePoint. SharePoint projects are always in separate phases. Some want to start with few users and onboard employees. Others want to start with everyone but have a plan to add use cases over several months and years. For instance, make an intranet with collaborative site in the first 6 month, document management in a year and extranet year two.
And finally, we all know that mobility of the work force is a big issue that organisations need to address right now. We might ask how would the cloud address that. Well, simply by allowing you to have an internet facing intranet or extranet. So with a tablet or mobile, there connectivity experience at home or on the road is a lot more enhance than with the VPN connection required to connect to you local network.
So again really high level opportunities, but a good summary that will hopefully help you sell the idea to the upper management.
Start: 6:45
Duration: 0:00
So now lets look at the concerns or challenges that cloud consideration brought up. I decided to show you this graph from the 2012 Global KPMG survey because except the fact comfort increased a little since then, the priority concerns havent really changed.
The first one is related to the lost of control. Related to ownership of the data. What will be my exit strategy. Will the provider have to right to sniff my data for information about my company? These are all valuable questions.
But I also think that first element is tightly related to the second one, which refer the integration concept.
Business are concern about the integration possibilities of a 3rd party managed platform
3rd most important challenge, is about the data loss and privacy risks. Not a surprise when we think about all the recent news or should I say scandal related to gouvernament agencies spying on there citizens.
We can observe that these top 3 are significantly more important from the others but before moving on, I would like to direct your attention to the 4th one which put some lights on an important subject that is affecting cloud providers reputation and I will try to give you good tips on how to evaluate that later on in this presentation.
Here are some interesting numbers comparing actual and future intention in regards to SharePoint deployment strategies. Both studies where conducted by Osman reaseach with one year interval. On the left are the results of 2012 survey and on the right are the 2013 survey result.
First, most dominant observation is the rapid reduction of on-premises deployment. Respondant Average of 1000 employee, in SharePoint Conference in las vegas March, a lot of pool on this subject was conducting in session and I can tell you that in large organisation on-premises is more than 56%.
My second observation would be the difference between the high 18% intention to move to a public cloud, and the 2013 low 12% result after a year as opposed to the difference between the low 14% intention to move to the private cloud and the 2013 36% result of privte cloud deployment.
I explain this as the level of complexity and customisation SharePoint project require. Most organisation, before doing any deep analysis wants to move to a shared platform like Office365, but when confronted to le limitation decide to deploy in a private cloud environment. We will dig deeper into these considerations later on.
Finally, you most probably realised that the Hybrid option has been removed from the options in the 2013 survey. It must after the differences, but it was a redundant option so it needed to be removed.
I also wanted to show you these results you probably already saw on the SharePoint Community web site that I found interesting. It support the idea we just talked about when you see that the vast majority, 67%, think that even in 10 years there will still be at least 25% of deployment on-premises. But I wouldn’t have ask the question like this because I am amongst the one who thinks most SharePoint deployment will be in the cloud, but I think there will be a fair split between dedicated deployment in Infrastructure services like azure, amazon web services and other providers like SherWeb, platform as a service, where you have a managed but dedicated SharePoint instance and software as a service like Office365.