Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Worst Practices in Artificial IntelligenceWilliam Tsoi
In this talk I discuss six "worst practices" in Artificial Intelligence, so that you don't make the same mistakes as you embark on your AI and Machine Learning journey!
The full talk (in cantonese) is here: https://youtu.be/NIIztmpA6Hc?t=1172
Valliappa Lakshmanan says: “Ask someone a question in Google and you are likely to receive a link to a BigQuery view or query rather than the actual answer”. That’s what we are doing at Travelstart! I’ll present our DataOps approach and a way to create a culture of DIY, avoiding the BI bottleneck.
Data Prep - A Key Ingredient for Cloud-based AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
Data for analytics comes in many forms, from many sources. This data holds invaluable insights for business, but currently business intelligence teams are spending as much as 80 percent of their time preparing and cleansing this data, rather than analyzing it. The challenge for today's BI and data science teams is to make this data preparation phase more efficient, so they can combine data from multiple sources - on premise and in the cloud - and shape it to be fully optimized for analytics. This webinar will demonstrate how new cloud applications and services can enable an ecosystem where data preparation, movement and analytics are seamless, for both the technical and non technical user within the enterprise.
Using data relationships to make connections between individual data records transforms the data you already have into something much more powerful. This webinar will explain how both young and established companies have adopted graph thinking - and how they’ve risen to dominate their fields.
How to use your data science team: Becoming a data-driven organizationYael Garten
Talk given at Strata Hadoop World conference March 2016.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/hadoop-big-data-ca/public/schedule/detail/48305
In this talk we review the culture, process and tools needed for a data driven organization. We review an example of how companies like LinkedIn use data to make business decisions, and then walk through the culture, process, and tools needed to foster this. We review the spectrum of data science used within an organization and explore organizational needs, such as the democratization of data via self-serve data platforms for experimentation, monitoring, and data exploration, as well as the challenges that come with such systems. Participants leave this session with the ability to identify opportunities for data scientists to contribute within their organization and with an understanding of what investments are needed to drive transformation into a data-driven organization.
A Perspective from the intersection Data Science, Mobility, and Mobile DevicesYael Garten
Invited talk at Stanford CSEE392I (Seminar on Trends in Computing and Communications) April 24, 2014.
Covered three topics: (1) Data science at LinkedIn. (2) Mobile data science — how is it different, challenges and opportunities. Examples of how data science impacts business and product decisions. (3) Mobile today, and LinkedIn's mobile story.
Worst Practices in Artificial IntelligenceWilliam Tsoi
In this talk I discuss six "worst practices" in Artificial Intelligence, so that you don't make the same mistakes as you embark on your AI and Machine Learning journey!
The full talk (in cantonese) is here: https://youtu.be/NIIztmpA6Hc?t=1172
Valliappa Lakshmanan says: “Ask someone a question in Google and you are likely to receive a link to a BigQuery view or query rather than the actual answer”. That’s what we are doing at Travelstart! I’ll present our DataOps approach and a way to create a culture of DIY, avoiding the BI bottleneck.
Data Prep - A Key Ingredient for Cloud-based AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
Data for analytics comes in many forms, from many sources. This data holds invaluable insights for business, but currently business intelligence teams are spending as much as 80 percent of their time preparing and cleansing this data, rather than analyzing it. The challenge for today's BI and data science teams is to make this data preparation phase more efficient, so they can combine data from multiple sources - on premise and in the cloud - and shape it to be fully optimized for analytics. This webinar will demonstrate how new cloud applications and services can enable an ecosystem where data preparation, movement and analytics are seamless, for both the technical and non technical user within the enterprise.
Using data relationships to make connections between individual data records transforms the data you already have into something much more powerful. This webinar will explain how both young and established companies have adopted graph thinking - and how they’ve risen to dominate their fields.
How to use your data science team: Becoming a data-driven organizationYael Garten
Talk given at Strata Hadoop World conference March 2016.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/hadoop-big-data-ca/public/schedule/detail/48305
In this talk we review the culture, process and tools needed for a data driven organization. We review an example of how companies like LinkedIn use data to make business decisions, and then walk through the culture, process, and tools needed to foster this. We review the spectrum of data science used within an organization and explore organizational needs, such as the democratization of data via self-serve data platforms for experimentation, monitoring, and data exploration, as well as the challenges that come with such systems. Participants leave this session with the ability to identify opportunities for data scientists to contribute within their organization and with an understanding of what investments are needed to drive transformation into a data-driven organization.
A Perspective from the intersection Data Science, Mobility, and Mobile DevicesYael Garten
Invited talk at Stanford CSEE392I (Seminar on Trends in Computing and Communications) April 24, 2014.
Covered three topics: (1) Data science at LinkedIn. (2) Mobile data science — how is it different, challenges and opportunities. Examples of how data science impacts business and product decisions. (3) Mobile today, and LinkedIn's mobile story.
Explore, analyze and interpret information for better business outcomes
IBM Watson Explorer is a cognitive exploration solution that combines search and content analytics with unique cognitive
computing capabilities to help users find and understand the information they need to work more efficiently and make better, more confident decisions.
To learn more about IBM Watson Explorer visit ibm.biz/watsonexplorer.
Knowledge Graphs for a Connected World - AI, Deep & Machine Learning MeetupBenjamin Nussbaum
We live in an era where the world is more connected than ever before and the trajectory is such that data relationships will only continue to increase with no signs of slowing down. Connected data is the key to your business succeeding and growing in today’s connected world. Leading enterprises will be the ones that utilize relationship-centric technologies to leverage connections from their internal operations and supply chain to their customer and user interactions. This ability to utilize connected data to understand all the nuanced relationships within their organization will propel them forward as they act on more holistic insights.
Every organization needs a knowledge graph because connected data is an essential foundation to advancing business. Additional reading on connected can be found here: https://www.graphgrid.com/why-connected-data-is-more-useful/
Data Infused Product Design and Insights at LinkedInYael Garten
Presentation from a talk given at Boston Big Data Innovation Summit, September 2012.
Summary: The Data Science team at LinkedIn focuses on 3 main goals: (1) providing data-driven business and product insights, (2) creating data products, and (3) extracting interesting insights from our data such as analysis of the economic status of the country or identifying hot companies in a certain geographic region. In this talk I describe how we ensure that our products are data driven -- really data infused at the core -- and share interesting insights we uncover using LinkedIn's rich data. We discuss what makes a good data scientist, and what techniques and technologies LinkedIn data scientists use to convert our rich data into actionable product and business insights, to create data-driven products that truly serve our members.
Talk from the first O'Reilly Strata, Feb 2011. Learn how to leverage data exhaust, the digital byproduct of our online activities, to solve problems and discover insights about the world around you. We will walk through a real world example which combines several datasets and statistical techniques to discover insights and make predictions about attendees at O'Reilly Strata.
Includes a preview of some of the technology behind LinkedIn Skills, which I launched in a Keynote with DJ Patil the following day.
Video: http://blip.tv/oreilly-promos/distilling-data-exhaust-4780870
Software Analytics for Pragmatists [DevOps Camp 2017]Markus Harrer
Talk at DevOps Camp 2017, Nürnberg, 13.05.2017
Each step in the development or use of software leaves valuable, digital tracks. The analysis of this "software data" (such as runtime measures, log files or commits) refines our gut feeling to facts with sound evidence.
I'll show how questions that arise in software development can be answered automated, data-driven and reproducible. I demonstrate the interaction of open source analysis tools (such as jQAssistant, Neo4j, Pandas, and Jupyter) for the analysis of data from different sources (such as JProfiler, Jenkins, and Git). Together, we have a look at how we can develop solutions to optimize performance, identify build breaker or make knowledge gaps in our source code visible.
In this security solution demo, we have integrated Oracle NoSQL DB with InfiniteGraph to demonstrate the power of using the right tools for the solution. By integrating the key value technology of Oracle with the InfiniteGraph distributed graph database, we are able to create new views of existing Call Detail Record (CDR) details to enable discovery of connections, paths and behaviors that may otherwise be missed.
Discover how to add value to your existing Big Data to increase revenues and performance!
This talk was given at SEMANTiCS 2014 in Leipzig. It gives an overview how to develop an enterprise linked data strategy around controlled vocabularies based on SKOS. It discusses how knowledge graphs based on SKOS can extended step by step due to the needs of the organization.
Chief Data Officer Agenda Webinar: How CDOs Should Work with LawyersDATAVERSITY
Legal risks, rights and obligations are among the most important emerging issues in enterprise data management today, and yet are not well understood, especially considering most CDOs come to the role with a business or IT background, rather than legal training. Bill Tanenbaum is one of the leading technology and intellectual property attorneys in the country, and is joining us on this edition of the CDO Agenda to provide a legal perspective on the issues that organizations should be dealing with today, from the standpoint of data management policy. Among the topics he will address are:
Security and Data Breaches
Data Vulnerability in Contracts
The CDO’s Role in ITS Contracts
Privacy is Contextual
Data Ownership vs License rights
Data as Intellectual Property
Data Sharing
Is Data an Asset?
How Long Should you Keep Data?
Building a New Platform for Customer Analytics Caserta
Caserta Concepts and Databricks partner up to bring you this insightful webinar on how a business can choose from all of the emerging big data technologies to figure out which one best fits their needs.
As new technologies emerge, it can be difficult to identify the benefits of the many different options available. In an effort to understand the NOSQL options better, specifically graph databases, Objectivity, Inc. has formed an internal Performance Center to evaluate the features, performance and functionality of different graph database solutions that are available today. This webinar will focus on understanding the complementary nature, use cases and value of graph databases for “Big Data” solutions. Please join us with guest speaker Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester Research Inc, for an overview of the NOSQL market and Brian Clark, Vice President Objectivity, presenting an overview of initial Performance Center Findings.
Guest Speaker:
Noel Yuhanna
Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester Research, Inc.
Noel serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He primarily covers database management systems (DBMSes), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information life-cycle management, open source databases, and other emerging database technologies.
Presenter:
Brian Clark
Corporate Vice President, Objectivity
Brian Clark has nearly 30 years of software and technology experience, and was one of the early architects of Objectivity/DB. Before joining Objectivity, Brian worked at Automation Technology Products, providing leading tools in the MCAD market. Prior to that, he was with Project Management Services at International Computers Limited, one of Europe’s leading computer companies at the time. Brian holds a B.S
View the webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5730303120063488770
Objectivity/DB: A Multipurpose NoSQL DatabaseInfiniteGraph
The speakers will describe the flexible configuration possibilities that Objectivity/DB provides, with an emphasis on how best to distribute data across multiple storage nodes. The session will start by describing the distributed processing architecture of Objectivity/DB before covering the new Placement Manager features. The speakers will also describe how Objectivity/DB compares and contrasts with other NoSQL solutions.
IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. We aggregated the results into following major themes: Strategy vs Reality, Agility & Technology Readiness, and Culture, Structure & People.
Strata 2016 - Architecting for Change: LinkedIn's new data ecosystemShirshanka Das
Shirshanka Das and Yael Garten describe how LinkedIn redesigned its data analytics ecosystem in the face of a significant product rewrite, covering the infrastructure changes that enable LinkedIn to roll out future product innovations with minimal downstream impact. Shirshanka and Yael explore the motivations and the building blocks for this reimagined data analytics ecosystem, the technical details of LinkedIn’s new client-side tracking infrastructure, its unified reporting platform, and its data virtualization layer on top of Hadoop and share lessons learned from data producers and consumers that are participating in this governance model. Along the way, they offer some anecdotal evidence during the rollout that validated some of their decisions and are also shaping the future roadmap of these efforts.
Webinar 3/12/14: Using Social Media to Drive ValueInfiniteGraph
Social networks are everywhere. Realize value from publicly available social relationships and connections to understand customer preferences, behaviors and buying patterns. This webinar presentation explores key consumer analytics use-cases and the connection platform enabling real-time, relevant customer analytics data.
Maximize the Value of Your Data: Neo4j Graph Data PlatformNeo4j
In this 60-minute conversation with IDC, we will highlight the momentum and reasons why a graph data platform is a breakthrough solution for businesses in need of a flexible data model.
Please join Mohit Sagar, Group Managing Director of CIO Network, as he hosts the conversation with Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall, Associate VP at IDC, and Nik Vora, Vice President of APAC at Neo4. During this very exciting discussion, you'll discover the insights and knowledge unlocked with the graph data platform.
Superweek 2022 - Solid & Digital Analytics TrackingJente De Ridder
Our industry is changing rapidly: tracking standards are under pressure, consumers are more privacy conscious and legislators are trying to regain control of big tech.
Solid offers an answer to all these challenges. It is a framework initiated by Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the world wide web. And it is clear that this will be a game changer for how personal data will be handled in the future.
The question is how we as an industry will prepare ourselves for this and how we all can contribute to the adoption of this new standard?
7 Big Data Challenges and How to Overcome ThemQubole
Implementing a big data project is difficult. Hadoop is complex, and data governance is crucial. Learn common big data challenges and how to overcome them.
SPT 104 Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Fest Denver 2016
SPT 104 - Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365
Brian Culver, MCM - Invited Speaker
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
SPS Utah 2016 - Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Saturday Utah has begun with a great crowd. I presented my session "Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365" which is a Level 200 class. In my session I discuss how companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights (Microsoft's Hadoop cluster solution in partnership with Nortonworks) you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites empowers users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Explore, analyze and interpret information for better business outcomes
IBM Watson Explorer is a cognitive exploration solution that combines search and content analytics with unique cognitive
computing capabilities to help users find and understand the information they need to work more efficiently and make better, more confident decisions.
To learn more about IBM Watson Explorer visit ibm.biz/watsonexplorer.
Knowledge Graphs for a Connected World - AI, Deep & Machine Learning MeetupBenjamin Nussbaum
We live in an era where the world is more connected than ever before and the trajectory is such that data relationships will only continue to increase with no signs of slowing down. Connected data is the key to your business succeeding and growing in today’s connected world. Leading enterprises will be the ones that utilize relationship-centric technologies to leverage connections from their internal operations and supply chain to their customer and user interactions. This ability to utilize connected data to understand all the nuanced relationships within their organization will propel them forward as they act on more holistic insights.
Every organization needs a knowledge graph because connected data is an essential foundation to advancing business. Additional reading on connected can be found here: https://www.graphgrid.com/why-connected-data-is-more-useful/
Data Infused Product Design and Insights at LinkedInYael Garten
Presentation from a talk given at Boston Big Data Innovation Summit, September 2012.
Summary: The Data Science team at LinkedIn focuses on 3 main goals: (1) providing data-driven business and product insights, (2) creating data products, and (3) extracting interesting insights from our data such as analysis of the economic status of the country or identifying hot companies in a certain geographic region. In this talk I describe how we ensure that our products are data driven -- really data infused at the core -- and share interesting insights we uncover using LinkedIn's rich data. We discuss what makes a good data scientist, and what techniques and technologies LinkedIn data scientists use to convert our rich data into actionable product and business insights, to create data-driven products that truly serve our members.
Talk from the first O'Reilly Strata, Feb 2011. Learn how to leverage data exhaust, the digital byproduct of our online activities, to solve problems and discover insights about the world around you. We will walk through a real world example which combines several datasets and statistical techniques to discover insights and make predictions about attendees at O'Reilly Strata.
Includes a preview of some of the technology behind LinkedIn Skills, which I launched in a Keynote with DJ Patil the following day.
Video: http://blip.tv/oreilly-promos/distilling-data-exhaust-4780870
Software Analytics for Pragmatists [DevOps Camp 2017]Markus Harrer
Talk at DevOps Camp 2017, Nürnberg, 13.05.2017
Each step in the development or use of software leaves valuable, digital tracks. The analysis of this "software data" (such as runtime measures, log files or commits) refines our gut feeling to facts with sound evidence.
I'll show how questions that arise in software development can be answered automated, data-driven and reproducible. I demonstrate the interaction of open source analysis tools (such as jQAssistant, Neo4j, Pandas, and Jupyter) for the analysis of data from different sources (such as JProfiler, Jenkins, and Git). Together, we have a look at how we can develop solutions to optimize performance, identify build breaker or make knowledge gaps in our source code visible.
In this security solution demo, we have integrated Oracle NoSQL DB with InfiniteGraph to demonstrate the power of using the right tools for the solution. By integrating the key value technology of Oracle with the InfiniteGraph distributed graph database, we are able to create new views of existing Call Detail Record (CDR) details to enable discovery of connections, paths and behaviors that may otherwise be missed.
Discover how to add value to your existing Big Data to increase revenues and performance!
This talk was given at SEMANTiCS 2014 in Leipzig. It gives an overview how to develop an enterprise linked data strategy around controlled vocabularies based on SKOS. It discusses how knowledge graphs based on SKOS can extended step by step due to the needs of the organization.
Chief Data Officer Agenda Webinar: How CDOs Should Work with LawyersDATAVERSITY
Legal risks, rights and obligations are among the most important emerging issues in enterprise data management today, and yet are not well understood, especially considering most CDOs come to the role with a business or IT background, rather than legal training. Bill Tanenbaum is one of the leading technology and intellectual property attorneys in the country, and is joining us on this edition of the CDO Agenda to provide a legal perspective on the issues that organizations should be dealing with today, from the standpoint of data management policy. Among the topics he will address are:
Security and Data Breaches
Data Vulnerability in Contracts
The CDO’s Role in ITS Contracts
Privacy is Contextual
Data Ownership vs License rights
Data as Intellectual Property
Data Sharing
Is Data an Asset?
How Long Should you Keep Data?
Building a New Platform for Customer Analytics Caserta
Caserta Concepts and Databricks partner up to bring you this insightful webinar on how a business can choose from all of the emerging big data technologies to figure out which one best fits their needs.
As new technologies emerge, it can be difficult to identify the benefits of the many different options available. In an effort to understand the NOSQL options better, specifically graph databases, Objectivity, Inc. has formed an internal Performance Center to evaluate the features, performance and functionality of different graph database solutions that are available today. This webinar will focus on understanding the complementary nature, use cases and value of graph databases for “Big Data” solutions. Please join us with guest speaker Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester Research Inc, for an overview of the NOSQL market and Brian Clark, Vice President Objectivity, presenting an overview of initial Performance Center Findings.
Guest Speaker:
Noel Yuhanna
Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester Research, Inc.
Noel serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He primarily covers database management systems (DBMSes), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information life-cycle management, open source databases, and other emerging database technologies.
Presenter:
Brian Clark
Corporate Vice President, Objectivity
Brian Clark has nearly 30 years of software and technology experience, and was one of the early architects of Objectivity/DB. Before joining Objectivity, Brian worked at Automation Technology Products, providing leading tools in the MCAD market. Prior to that, he was with Project Management Services at International Computers Limited, one of Europe’s leading computer companies at the time. Brian holds a B.S
View the webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5730303120063488770
Objectivity/DB: A Multipurpose NoSQL DatabaseInfiniteGraph
The speakers will describe the flexible configuration possibilities that Objectivity/DB provides, with an emphasis on how best to distribute data across multiple storage nodes. The session will start by describing the distributed processing architecture of Objectivity/DB before covering the new Placement Manager features. The speakers will also describe how Objectivity/DB compares and contrasts with other NoSQL solutions.
IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. We aggregated the results into following major themes: Strategy vs Reality, Agility & Technology Readiness, and Culture, Structure & People.
Strata 2016 - Architecting for Change: LinkedIn's new data ecosystemShirshanka Das
Shirshanka Das and Yael Garten describe how LinkedIn redesigned its data analytics ecosystem in the face of a significant product rewrite, covering the infrastructure changes that enable LinkedIn to roll out future product innovations with minimal downstream impact. Shirshanka and Yael explore the motivations and the building blocks for this reimagined data analytics ecosystem, the technical details of LinkedIn’s new client-side tracking infrastructure, its unified reporting platform, and its data virtualization layer on top of Hadoop and share lessons learned from data producers and consumers that are participating in this governance model. Along the way, they offer some anecdotal evidence during the rollout that validated some of their decisions and are also shaping the future roadmap of these efforts.
Webinar 3/12/14: Using Social Media to Drive ValueInfiniteGraph
Social networks are everywhere. Realize value from publicly available social relationships and connections to understand customer preferences, behaviors and buying patterns. This webinar presentation explores key consumer analytics use-cases and the connection platform enabling real-time, relevant customer analytics data.
Maximize the Value of Your Data: Neo4j Graph Data PlatformNeo4j
In this 60-minute conversation with IDC, we will highlight the momentum and reasons why a graph data platform is a breakthrough solution for businesses in need of a flexible data model.
Please join Mohit Sagar, Group Managing Director of CIO Network, as he hosts the conversation with Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall, Associate VP at IDC, and Nik Vora, Vice President of APAC at Neo4. During this very exciting discussion, you'll discover the insights and knowledge unlocked with the graph data platform.
Superweek 2022 - Solid & Digital Analytics TrackingJente De Ridder
Our industry is changing rapidly: tracking standards are under pressure, consumers are more privacy conscious and legislators are trying to regain control of big tech.
Solid offers an answer to all these challenges. It is a framework initiated by Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the world wide web. And it is clear that this will be a game changer for how personal data will be handled in the future.
The question is how we as an industry will prepare ourselves for this and how we all can contribute to the adoption of this new standard?
7 Big Data Challenges and How to Overcome ThemQubole
Implementing a big data project is difficult. Hadoop is complex, and data governance is crucial. Learn common big data challenges and how to overcome them.
SPT 104 Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Fest Denver 2016
SPT 104 - Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365
Brian Culver, MCM - Invited Speaker
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
SPS Utah 2016 - Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Saturday Utah has begun with a great crowd. I presented my session "Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365" which is a Level 200 class. In my session I discuss how companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights (Microsoft's Hadoop cluster solution in partnership with Nortonworks) you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites empowers users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Accelerate Self-Service Analytics with Data Virtualization and VisualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3fpitC3
Enterprise organizations are shifting to self-service analytics as business users need real-time access to holistic and consistent views of data regardless of its location, source or type for arriving at critical decisions.
Data Virtualization and Data Visualization work together through a universal semantic layer. Learn how they enable self-service data discovery and improve performance of your reports and dashboards.
In this session, you will learn:
- Challenges faced by business users
- How data virtualization enables self-service analytics
- Use case and lessons from customer success
- Overview of the highlight features in Tableau
The Agile Analyst: Solving the Data Problem with VirtualizationInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Radiant Advisors and Cisco
Live Webcast Jan. 21, 2014
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=05e9d4ccbd2505ce15bc8de699f9c961
Today’s business analyst needs data from all kinds of places: the data warehouse, data marts, web services as well as local and departmental files and spreadsheets. The fact is, even seasoned analysts typically spend more than half their time hunting and gathering data, which impedes analytical insights and limits time to value. Increasingly, innovative organizations are turning to data virtualization as a faster path to analytics, thus expediting business impact.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear Analysts Lindy Ryan and John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors explain how analytical sandboxes and data virtualization can enable true analytic agility. They will be briefed by Marc Breissinger of Cisco Data Virtualization Business Unit, who will tout his company’s upcoming analytic platform Data Collage, a desktop tool for designed for analysts who need agile access to enterprise data. He will discuss how Data Collage allows users to easily combine data and accelerate the development of new analytics.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.
A fresh new experience
Project offers a redesigned user experience that is simple and intuitive. Teams can quickly add new members and set up tasks, and then easily switch between grids, boards, or timeline (Gantt) charts to track progress. And because Project is part of the Microsoft 365 family, project teams can save time and do more with built-in connections to familiar apps like Microsoft Teams and Office.
Animated image of a timeline being worked on in Microsoft Project.
Collaboration made easy
Designed to do much more than just track progress, Project works with Teams to support collaboration and make it easy to manage all aspects of a team project, including file sharing, chats, meetings, and much more. Team members in scattered locations can even edit tasks simultaneously, so they can get more done together, no matter where they are. To help teams stay on track, Project offers an automated scheduling engine based on effort, duration, and resources.
Age of Exploration: How to Achieve Enterprise-Wide DiscoveryInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and IBM Information Management
Live Webcast Nov. 19, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7808847&rKey=73cc8052da2d9962
The bigger data volumes get, the wider the range of sources available, the more companies need to secure a strategic view of their information assets. This is no small challenge for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is access to the growing array of valuable data sets available. Today's most innovative companies are using creative solutions to ride the information wave.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor, as he explains how the unbridled growth of data and information systems requires a holistic approach to information access. He will be briefed by Mark Myers and Scott Parker of IBM, who will showcase the company’s InfoSphere Data Explorer product, a solution aimed squarely at the need to gain a cohesive view of enterprise data, wherever it may be. Myers and Parker will discuss how Data Explorer can help organizations to get more from their SharePoint investments, enabling them to deliver information to front-line employees regardless of where it is managed.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information
Bridging the Gap: Analyzing Data in and Below the CloudInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dean Abbott and Tableau Software
Live Webcast July 23, 2013
http://www.insideanalysis.com
Today’s desire for analytics extends well beyond the traditional domain of Business Intelligence. That’s partly because business users are realizing the value of mixing and matching all kinds of data, from all kinds of sources. One emerging market driver is Cloud-based data, and the desire companies have to analyze this data cohesively with their on-premise data sets.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Dean Abbott, who will explain how the ability to access data in the cloud can play a critical role for generating business value from analytics. He’ll be briefed by Ellie Fields of Tableau Software who will tout Tableau’s latest release, which includes native connectors to cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com, Amazon Redshift, Google Analytics and BigQuery. She’ll also demonstrate how Tableau can combine cloud data with other data sources, including spreadsheets, databases, cubes and even Big Data.
IBM's Watson is a machine-learning platform that’s been built to mirror the same learning process that humans have: Observe, Interpret, Evaluate and Decide. Through the use of this cognitive framework, Watson can search through a database of information and pull out key insights to bridge gaps in human knowledge. It’s expertise scaling for enterprise.
Watson has already helped businesses across a variety of industries increase their customer engagement, data discovery and informed decision making abilities. Is your business next?
The Analytic Platform: Empowering the Business NowInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and Actuate
Live Webcast on October 7, 2014
Watch the archive:
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=475312d15f46d095797f5842de84925f
As businesses grapple with more and more data, analysts and data consumers have a growing expectation to get at those assets fast. All too often, business users are stymied by governance and performance roadblocks, making time-to-insight a relatively slow process. One solution is to leverage the power of an analytic platform, one that keeps data management in IT’s hands, and lets business analysts jump right in without the need for modeling and provisioning.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains the principles behind a meaningful analytic platform. He’ll be briefed by Peter Hoopes and Allen Bonde of Actuate, who will tout their company’s BIRT Analytics, a solution that combines columnar database technology with pre-built algorithms and puts analytics in the hands of the business user in minutes, not days. They will show how their platform makes it easy to perform complex analytics on enterprise data and visualize results, without slowing down other systems or interfering with governance needs.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
Accelerate Self-Service Analytics with Data Virtualization and VisualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/39AhUB7
Enterprise organizations are shifting to self-service analytics as business users need real-time access to holistic and consistent views of data regardless of its location, source or type for arriving at critical decisions.
Data Virtualization and Data Visualization work together through a universal semantic layer. Learn how they enable self-service data discovery and improve performance of your reports and dashboards.
In this session, you will learn:
- Challenges faced by business users
- How data virtualization enables self-service analytics
- Use case and lessons from customer success
- Overview of the highlight features in Tableau
Understanding What’s Possible: Getting Business Value from Big Data QuicklyInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with David Loshin and OpenText
Live Webcast April 14, 2015
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/onstage/g.php?MTID=e079dc562543a394c5c5d0588e7cd9152
To be successful and practical in delivering meaningful insights, companies must embrace the three pillars of enterprise analytics: scalability, open standards, and speed to value. In doing so, organizations enable a range of options that can satisfy both data scientists and self-service business users alike. But getting there requires a thoughtful approach -- and some enterprise knowledge of statistical modeling. How can your company stay ahead of the game?
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst David Loshin, as he explains why the fundamentals will always apply to the high-stakes game of analytics. He’ll be briefed by Allen Bonde of Actuate, now part of OpenText, who will showcase his company’s intelligence platform, which was designed from the ground up to embrace open standards and was purpose-built to serve large enterprises with a wide range of data needs. He'll demonstrate recent success stories using a number of Big Data sources, including device and machine data.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
Time Difference: How Tomorrow's Companies Will Outpace Today'sInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Mark Madsen and WebAction
Live Webcast Feb. 10, 2015
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=fa83c6283de99dfb6f38b9d7199cb452
In our increasingly interconnected world, the windows of opportunity for meaningful action are shrinking. Where hours once sufficed, minutes are now the norm. For some transactions, seconds make all the difference, even sub-seconds. Meeting these demands requires a new approach to information architecture, one that embraces the many innovations that are fundamentally changing the data-driven economy.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Mark Madsen of Third Nature as he explains how a confluence of advances are changing the nature of data management. He'll be briefed by Sami Akbay of WebAction, who will showcase his company's real-time data platform, designed from the ground up to meet the challenges of leveraging Big Data in concert with all manner of operational enterprise systems.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.
Shared at "Data-Driven Design for User Experience" with Le Wagon Tokyo, 25 Aug
https://www.meetup.com/ja-JP/Le-Wagon-Tokyo-Coding-Station/events/280067831/
In UX design, data means the voice of users (customers) and actionable insights that are beyond just numbers. Hearing these voices through user research and usage analytics is a critical process of building a human-centric design. Based on data-driven design, UX designers, product managers, and even senior management can listen to the inner voice of users and extrapolate those to discover a user journey for clear call-to-action and unwavering customer loyalty.
At this webinar, our guest speaker Emi Kwon, UX Design Director at Metlife, will walk you through the basics of data-driven design as well as share some tips and tricks for making data-driven design your value proposition as a product manager/ UX specialist.
Agenda:
✔️ Data ecosystem — Data lake, data warehouse…what does it mean for UX?
✔️ Small data and big data — the opportunities and pitfalls
✔️ Research method basics — qualitative, quantitative or triangulated
✔️ Usage analytics and A/B testing
✔️ What about COVID-19 and remote usability testing?
Choctaw Nation - Power bi dashboard, report server report in DayVishal Pawar
This document has two main sections:
• Power BI Desktop: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Desktop and walks the user through the process of bringing in data from the data source, modeling and creating visualizations.
• Power BI Service: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Service including the ability to publish the Power BI Desktop model to the web, creating and sharing dashboard and Q & A.
The document flow is in a table format. On the left panel are steps the user needs to follow and in the right panel are screenshots to provide a visual aid for the users. In the screenshots, sections are highlighted with red boxes to highlight the action/area user needs to focus on.
Data Discovery and BI - Is there Really a Difference?Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with John O'Brien and Birst
Live Webcast Dec. 3, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7869542&rKey=1f6574abc879ca42
While the disciplines of business intelligence and discovery certainly overlap, there are key distinctions between the two, both in terms of design point and user interface. While traditionally it is believed different architectures are required to address these differing analytic needs, is that really the case? Or is discovery simply another key capability within an overall BI platform?
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors as he outlines best practices for enabling high-quality business intelligence and discovery, and the architectural capabilities to enable both. He'll be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst who will tout his company's cloud BI platform. In particular, Peters will demonstrate how the Birst architecture was especially designed for enterprise-caliber BI and argue for a more inclusive future BI architecture.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information
Real World SharePoint Framework and Azure ServicesBrian Culver
Building Solution in Office 365 requires leveraging other cloud services, such as Azure Services. For those new to SharePoint and all SharePoint veterans, building cloud ready “Full Trust” solutions for Office 365 introduces a huge paradigm shift over the traditional on-premise full-trust development model.
In this session, we will look at a couple common full trust solutions and move them to Office365 and Azure. We will leverage various Azure services such as Azure Functions, Event Grids and WebJobs. See demonstrations on how event receivers become Azure Function and Event Grids, and timer jobs become Azure WebJobs. Learn about other useful Azure services for replacing full trust functionality. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn skills and knowledge you need to build Office 365 Solutions leveraging Cloud Services
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand how to take Full Trust solutions from On-premise to the Office365.
2. Learn how to use Azure Functions, Event Grids, WebJobs and several other Azure Services.
3. See demonstrations of a couple common Full Trust Solutions converted to cloud solutions on Office365 and Azure.
Real World SharePoint Framework and Azure ServicesBrian Culver
Building Solution in Office 365 requires leveraging other cloud services, such as Azure Services. For those new to SharePoint and all SharePoint veterans, building cloud ready “Full Trust” solutions for Office 365 introduces a huge paradigm shift over the traditional on-premise full-trust development model.
In this session, we will look at a couple common full trust solutions and move them to Office365 and Azure. We will leverage various Azure services such as Azure Functions, Event Grids and WebJobs. See demonstrations on how event receivers become Azure Function and Event Grids, and timer jobs become Azure WebJobs. Learn about other useful Azure services for replacing full trust functionality. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn skills and knowledge you need to build Office 365 Solutions leveraging Cloud Services
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand how to take Full Trust solutions from On-premise to the Office365.
2. Learn how to use Azure Functions, Event Grids, WebJobs and several other Azure Services.
3. See demonstrations of a couple common Full Trust Solutions converted to cloud solutions on Office365 and Azure.
How to convert your Full Trust Solutions to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)Brian Culver
This is a walkthrough on the tools, steps and process for converting common full trust solution to SharePoint Framework solutions. We will cover several scenariosn and discuss how to handle each appropriately. We have established a general workflow for converting your full trust solutions to SPFx solutions that I will share. We also will cover the proper configuration for your development environment. Lastly I will quickly highlight and show the process for building an SPFx solution and deploying it to Office 365. Lots of DO’s and DON’Ts will be shared. I’ll show you some of my scars too. From this session forward, you will want to hone your skills in modern SharePoint and convert everything to SPFx solutions.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the why, the how, and what make up the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
2. A demonstration where we take a common Full Trust Solutions and covert it to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
3. I share lots of tips, DO’s and DON’Ts to save you hours and days of your life
Convert your Full Trust Solutions to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)Brian Culver
This is a walkthrough where we convert a common full trust solution to a SharePoint Framework solution. I will show you the general workflow for converting your full trust solutions to SPFx solutions. I show you the proper configuration for your development environment. We walk through building the SPFx solutions and deploying it to Office 365. Lots of DO’s and DON’Ts will be shared. I’ll show you some of my scars too. From this session forward, you will want to hone your skills in modern SharePoint and convert everything to SPFx solutions.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the why, the how, and what make up the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
2. A demonstration where we take a common Full Trust Solutions and covert it to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in less than 1 hour.
3. I share lots of tips, DO’s and DON’Ts to save you hours and days of your life. Yes, you are welcome :)
Share Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2016 Like a ProBrian Culver
SharePoint 2016 is finally out and it brings tons of new features that continue to make SharePoint an amazing collaboration tool for companies. Many companies are still on SharePoint 2010, maybe even earlier versions. In this session, I discuss and show you the approach for upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016. It’s time to get with the times and upgrade your farm. I will shares best practices and lots of tips as we upgrade our sample farm. I will include some troubleshooting and custom solutions based on real world scenarios to make sure this isn’t another “simple” upgrade. Best of all, we will have fun doing this.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn how to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 from various SharePoint versions.
2. Learn best practices for upgrading smoothly and properly.
3. Learn some tips and tricks to making the upgrade faster, less error prone and efficient to reduce downtime.
4. Learn how to troubleshooting and deal with upgrade issues.
How to convert your Full Trust Solutions to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)Brian Culver
This is a walkthrough on the tools, steps and process for converting common full trust solution to SharePoint Framework solutions. We will cover several scenariosn and discuss how to handle each appropriately. We have established a general workflow for converting your full trust solutions to SPFx solutions that I will share. We also will cover the proper configuration for your development environment. Lastly I will quickly highlight and show the process for building an SPFx solution and deploying it to Office 365. Lots of DO’s and DON’Ts will be shared. I’ll show you some of my scars too. From this session forward, you will want to hone your skills in modern SharePoint and convert everything to SPFx solutions.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the why, the how, and what make up the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
2. A demonstration where we take a common Full Trust Solutions and covert it to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
3. I share lots of tips, DO’s and DON’Ts to save you hours and days of your life. You’re welcome :)
Convert your Full Trust Solutions to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)Brian Culver
This is a live walkthrough where we convert a common full trust solution to a SharePoint Framework solution. May the demo Gods be kind to me. Really, we will do it. Does not cover all possible scenarios, but I will show you the general workflow for converting your full trust solutions to SPFx solutions. I show you the proper configuration for your development environment. We walk through building the SPFx solutions and deploying it to Office 365. Lots of DO’s and DON’Ts will be shared. I’ll show you some of my scars too. From this session forward, you will want to hone your skills in modern SharePoint and convert everything to SPFx solutions.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the why, the how, and what make up the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
2. Discussion where we compare common Full Trust Solutions and options for converting to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in less than 1 hour.
Convert your Full Trust Solutions to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in 1 hourBrian Culver
This is a live walkthrough where we convert a common full trust solution to a SharePoint Framework solution. May the demo Gods be kind to me. Really, we will do it. Does not cover all possible scenarios, but I will show you the general workflow for converting your full trust solutions to SPFx solutions. I show you the proper configuration for your development environment. We walk through building the SPFx solutions and deploying it to Office 365. Lots of DO’s and DON’Ts will be shared. I’ll show you some of my scars too. From this session forward, you will want to hone your skills in modern SharePoint and convert everything to SPFx solutions.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the why, the how, and what make up the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).
2. A live demonstration where we take a common Full Trust Solutions and covert it to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in less than 1 hour.
3. I share lots of tips, DO’s and DON’Ts to save you hours and days of your life. Yes, you are welcome :)
Houston TechFest 2017- Migrate and Upgrade to 2016 SuccesfullyBrian Culver
SharePoint 2016 is finally out and it brings tons of new features that continue to make SharePoint an amazing collaboration tool for companies. Many companies are still on SharePoint 2010, maybe even earlier versions. In this session, I discuss and show you the approach for upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016. Its time to get with the times and upgrade your farm. I will shares best practices and lots of tips as we upgrade our sample farm. I will include some troubleshooting and custom solutions based on real world scenarios to make sure this isn’t another “simple” upgrade. Best of all, we will have fun doing this.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn how to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 from various SharePoint versions.
2. Learn best practices for upgrading smoothly and properly.
3. Learn some tips and tricks to making the upgrade faster, less error prone and efficient to reduce downtime.
4. Learn how to troubleshooting and deal with upgrade issues.
Real World Add-in Development for Office365Brian Culver
Building Add-ins for Office 365 requires many new skills and knowledge. For those new to SharePoint and all SharePoint veterans, building add-ins and apps for Office 365 introduces a huge paradigm shift over the full-trust development model. Full-trust development is on its way out whether we like it or not. In this session, we will learn how to create real world add-ins and apps deployable on Office 365. Learn to build SharePoint-Hosted add-ins/apps and Provider-Hosted add-ins/apps that will leverage various Azure services to create robust solutions, including Azure Web Sites, Azure Web Jobs and more. We will demonstrate and build a couple apps to explain and demonstrate many of the key Azure Services. The future is today. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge you need to build SharePoint Add-ins and App solutions for Office 365.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand the difference between full-trust solutions, sandbox solutions and add-ins/app solutions.
2. Create real world add-ins and apps deployable on Office 365 and On-premise SharePoint.
3. Build SharePoint-Hosted add-ins/apps and Provider-Hosted add-ins/apps.
Building SharePoint 2016 Hybrid the right wayBrian Culver
Let’s build a SharePoint 2016 Hybrid farm following best practices on Azure in real time. During the build process we will discuss how the new features in 2016 affect the farm architecture and what new features need to be configured. We will also configure the farm to enable a hybrid farm with Office365. Following the session, the attendees will receive all scripts used during the demos.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Tips and shortcuts to how to build a SharePoint 2016 farm.
2. Learn about many of the new SharePoint 2016 features.
3. Learn how to enable hybrid scenarios between On-premise SharePoint 2016 and Office 365.
Presented at Houston TechFest 2016
SPSHOU - Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2016 like a ProBrian Culver
SharePoint Saturday Houston #SPSHOU
Level: 300
Track: Administrator, Development / SharePoint App
SharePoint 2016 is finally out and it brings tons of new features that continue to make SharePoint an amazing collaboration tool for companies. Many companies are still on SharePoint 2010, maybe even earlier versions. In this session, I discuss and show you the approach for upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016. Its time to get with the times and upgrade your farm. I will shares best practices and lots of tips as we upgrade our sample farm. I will include some troubleshooting and custom solutions based on real world scenarios to make sure this isn’t another “simple” upgrade. Best of all, we will have fun doing this.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn how to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 from various SharePoint versions.
2. Learn best practices for upgrading smoothly and properly.
3. Learn some tips and tricks to making the upgrade faster, less error prone and efficient to reduce downtime.
4. Learn how to troubleshooting and deal with upgrade issues.
HSPUG Loving one drive for business as a productivity toolBrian Culver
Presentation for Houston SharePoint User Group on March 16, 2016
The Cloud is changing everything very quickly. We started out with MySites, SkyDrive and now the OneDrive. OneDrive for Business offers many Enterprise class feature that are easy to miss and confuse. For example, OneDrive for Business provides you with 1 TB of space in the cloud. Who doesn’t love that? You can share files from anywhere with anyone anywhere securely. All your devices can synchronize and allow you to transition from one to the next seamlessly without shuffling through several thumb drives. Come out and learn how OneDrive for Business can make you more productive at work and collaborate better.
Attendee Takeaways:
Understand what OneDrive for Business offers.
Using OneDrive for Business to improve file sharing experiences anywhere.
Leverage the Enterprise features of OneDrive for Business.
OneDrive for Business benefits in SharePoint 2016 over SharePoint 2013
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Spt 101 Loving Onedrive for business as a productivity toolBrian Culver
SharePoint Fest Denver 2016
SPT 101 - Loving OneDrive for Business as a Productivity Tool
Brian Culver, MCM - Invited Speaker
The Cloud is changing everything very quickly. We started out with MySites, SkyDrive and now the OneDrive. OneDrive for Business offers many Enterprise class feature that are easy to miss and confuse. For example, OneDrive for Business provides you with 1 TB of space in the cloud. Who doesn’t love that? You can share files from anywhere with anyone anywhere securely. All your devices can synchronize and allow you to transition from one to the next seamlessly without shuffling through several thumb drives. Come out and learn how OneDrive for Business can make you more productive at work and collaborate better.
Attendee Takeaways:
Understand what OneDrive for Business offers.
Using OneDrive for Business to improve file sharing experiences anywhere.
Leverage the Enterprise features of OneDrive for Business.
OneDrive for Business benefits in SharePoint 2016 over SharePoint 2013
Loving OneDrive for Business as a Productivity ToolBrian Culver
The Cloud is changing everything very quickly. We started out with MySites, SkyDrive and now the OneDrive. OneDrive for Business offers many Enterprise class feature that are easy to miss and confuse. For example, OneDrive for Business provides you with 1 TB of space in the cloud. Who doesn’t love that? You can share files from anywhere with anyone anywhere securely. All your devices can synchronize and allow you to transition from one to the next seamlessly without shuffling through several thumb drives. Come out and learn how OneDrive for Business can make you more productive at work and collaborate better.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understand what OneDrive for Business offers.
2. Using OneDrive for Business to improve file sharing experiences anywhere.
3. Leverage the Enterprise features of OneDrive for Business.
SharePoint 2013 has FAST search built into its core fabric. New site templates and web parts have been added to allow you to build search driven applications. Through these search web parts, we can cross site collection boundaries to surface information, improve navigation and create a seamless experience across the different sites, site collection and web application. We will also demonstrate how to use cross site publishing to leverage multiple content sources. We also discuss several approaches for publishing internet sites.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding how to work with the Product Catalog site template in SharePoint 2013
2. Learn to setup and configure cross site publishing
3. Learn to add responsive design to your site
Building Scalable SharePoint 2013 Workflows - WF101 - SPFestDCBrian Culver
SharePoint 2013 now supports two workflow platforms. We will walk through using the two workflow platforms and how they are different. We will configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager and build a workflow that can run locally and in the Azure cloud seamlessly.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding both of the SharePoint 2013 Workflow architectures.
2. Learn to setup and configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager.
3. Learn to build staged workflows and run them in the local or the Microsoft Azure cloud
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer
SharePoint 2013 has FAST search built into its core fabric. New site templates and web parts have been added to allow you to build search driven applications. Through these search web parts, we can cross site collection boundaries to surface information, improve navigation and create a seamless experience across the different sites, site collection and web application. We will also demonstrate how to use cross site publishing to leverage multiple content sources. We also discuss several approaches for publishing internet sites.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding how to work with the Product Catalog site template in SharePoint 2013
2. Learn to setup and configure cross site publishing
3. Learn to add responsive design to your site
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer
SharePoint 2013 has FAST search built into its core fabric. New site templates and web parts have been added to allow you to build search driven applications. Through these search web parts, we can cross site collection boundaries to surface information, improve navigation and create a seamless experience across the different sites, site collection and web application. We will also demonstrate how to use cross site publishing to leverage multiple content sources. We also discuss several approaches for publishing internet sites.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding how to work with the Product Catalog site template in SharePoint 2013
2. Learn to setup and configure cross site publishing
3. Learn to add responsive design to your site
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
2. About Brian Culver
SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in
Houston, Texas.
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD).
Brian has worked in the Information Technology industry for
since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since
2005. His deep expertise includes Azure, Office365,
SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He
has been involved in many large SharePoint
implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner
Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance,
and much custom application integration and development.
Author, Speaker and Blogger
Email : brian.culver(at)expertpointsolutions.com
Twitter : @spbrianculver
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/bculver
Blog : http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com
3. Session Agenda
What is Big Data?
Understanding Sentiment Analysis
Connecting Big Data and Business Intelligence
Create an Azure HDInsight Cluster
Load data into Blob Storage
Validate data via HDInsight
Hadoop and C#
Visualizing Results via PowerView
Closing comments
4. What is Big Data?
Big Data is about personalization and knowledge.
Understanding our customers and relationships to the
world.
• 27% of customers have seen Personalization online
• 86% of those say Personalization influenced what they
purchased to some extent
• 31% want a more Personalized experience
• 59% of customers who have experienced Personalization believe
it has a noticeable influence on purchasing
• 58% prefer product recommendations from previous purchases
over other forms of personalization
8. What is Big Data?
Big Data is data that is “too” complex, large, and/or fast.
Big Data offers a new set of approaches for analyzing data sets that
were not previously accessible which posed challenges across one or
more of the “3 V’s”:
Volume - too big and large - Terabytes (and more) of credit card
transactions, web usage data, system logs, etc.
Variety - too Complex - Unstructured data such as social media,
customer reviews, call center records, etc.
Velocity - too Fast - Sensor data, live web traffic, mobile phone usage,
GPS data, etc.
10. What is Big Data?
Web app
optimization
Smart meter
monitoring
Advertising
analysis
Fraud
detection
Healthcare
outcomes
Weather
forecasting
Natural resource
exploration
Social network
analysis
Traffic flow
optimization
IT infrastructure
optimization
Legal
discovery
COMMON BIG DATA CUSTOMER SCENARIOS
GAIN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BY MOVING FIRST
AND FAST IN YOUR INDUSTRY
Internet of
Things (IoT)
11. What is Big Data?
How are customers using HDInsight?
Azure HDInsight + Machine Learning
How Pier 1 uses HDInsight to improve and customize
customer experience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN8Cixcc5yg
12. What is Big Data?
Ambari - Cluster provisioning, management, and monitoring.
Avro (Microsoft .NET Library for Avro) - Data serialization for the
Microsoft .NET environment.
Hive - Structured Query Language (SQL)-like querying.
Mahout - Machine learning.
MapReduce and YARN - Distributed processing and resource
management.
Oozie - Workflow management.
Pig - Simpler scripting for MapReduce transformations.
Sqoop - Data import and export.
ZooKeeper - Coordination of processes in distributed systems.
13. REDUCEMAP
Map + Reduce = Extract, Load + Transform
Raw Data Raw Data Raw Data Raw Data
Mapper Mapper Mapper Mapper
Data Data Data Data
Reducer
Output
What is Big Data?
15. Understanding Sentiment Analysis
For example:
Free Form Text
I had a fantastic time on holiday at your resort. The service was
excellent and awesome. My family really enjoyed themselves.
We look forward to next year. One thing though, the pool was
closed which sucked.
Hotel Feedback
16. Understanding Sentiment Analysis
Take a list of positive and negative words
Positive
Good
Great
Fantastic
Excellent
Friendly
Awesome
Enjoyed
Negative
Bad
Worse
Rubbish
Sucked
Awful
Terrible
Bogus
17. Understanding Sentiment Analysis
I had a fantastic time on holiday at your resort. The
service was excellent and awesome. My family
really enjoyed themselves. We look forward to next
year. One thing though, the pool was closed which
sucked.
Hotel Feedback
21. Big Data & Business Intelligence
In the following demo, we will cover the following:
1. [If you don’t have one] Create an Azure Account
2. Go to https://portal.azure.com/
3. Create Storage
4. Create HDInsight Cluster
5. Load data into Blob Storage
6. Validate data via HDInsight
7. Hadoop and C#
8. Visualizing Results via Excel PowerView
23. Closing Comments
Big Data is about understanding what your customers are saying and
thinking.
Anything can be understood and processed but it requires time to
analyze and understand.
Any device that creates data can produce valuable information.
Try different things and let the patterns emerge.
But Where Is Big Data’s ROI?
Collecting data - the kind of data that provides valuable insights into
customer preferences, cost savings and revenue generation.
Roughly 40% of companies are unsure whether they’ll receive any return—
and that includes 38% of companies that have already made some
investment in big data, according to Gartner data (437 large companies
surveyed in June 2015).
“Gartner has also warned that the majority of big data projects in the short
term are likely to fail.”
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