By Dale Vile
Evolution of licensing models
Virtualization related considerations
A scenario based analysis of options
Other licensing considerations
Top line recommendations
Comments and questions
SaaS is a software deployment model where applications are hosted by a vendor and made available to customers over the Internet. With SaaS, there is no software installation, reduced IT maintenance, and a subscription or pay-per-use pricing model. Key benefits of SaaS include lower upfront costs, flexible access, automatic updates, and scalability. SaaS applications are designed to be accessed from various devices through a web browser.
The document discusses Flexera Software's License Position Snapshot Service which provides organizations visibility into their current software license positions. The service delivers an on-site or remote analysis of a client's software installations compared to their purchased licenses. Flexera consultants use the FlexNet Manager Suite tool to capture inventory, license entitlement, and position data to generate a report on the client's installed versus licensed software and provide optimization recommendations. The engagement helps organizations understand and optimize their license positions for vendor audits, renewals, or reducing ongoing software costs.
FDM, ERPi, EPMA, DRM, EAL - Understanding the Alphabet Soup of IntegrationAlithya
The EPM system continues to expand and more implementations are utilizing multiple products. A myriad tools and techniques exist to manage data and metadata integration within the EPM suite. This session will explore the different options available and how they can be used independently as well as in concert with one another. The strengths and limitations of each toolset will be explored. Client examples will be used to highlight real world implementations, leading/best practices as well as lessons learned.
Colama University Edition is virtualization software that allows multiple virtual machines and operating systems to run on a single physical server. This reduces infrastructure costs through more efficient use of hardware resources. It also provides benefits like increased security, simplified asset management, remote access and management of lab computers, and cost savings of over 60 lacs for a 60 computer lab over 4 years with a college-wide deployment saving over 75 crores in 5 years.
Flex net manager for sap applications v9 1 presentationNuno Alves
FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications is a software license optimization tool that analyzes SAP usage data to recommend the optimal license type for each user. It detects idle licenses that are not being used, identifies duplicate user accounts, and allows "what if" simulations to explore license optimization scenarios. In a case study, Metro Group was able to complete an SAP expansion to 25,000 users across 31 countries while requiring 30% fewer licenses through the optimized license recommendations of FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications.
The document describes FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud, a software license optimization solution delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS). It provides key functionality including application discovery and inventory, license reconciliation between purchases and installations, software license optimization, and dashboards and reporting. Customers benefit from lower upfront costs, faster deployment, reduced software costs through optimization of license usage, and continuous license compliance. The solution is hosted and managed by Flexera Software and includes discovery, inventory, and license management functionality for major software vendors.
SAP provides various business solutions including CRM, ERP, PLM, SCM and GRC. It consists of integrated modules running on the Netweaver platform across multiple operating systems. While SAP aims to provide centralized information, weaknesses in its default security configurations and common practices like weak passwords and direct database access leave systems vulnerable to compromise. Proper security measures such as regular password changes, limiting SAP_ALL access, and disabling auto-unlocking can help address these risks.
The document discusses the Blackboard Reference Architecture, which provides a blueprint for optimizing enterprise application performance. It describes key components of the reference architecture, including platform infrastructure, web/application delivery and management, storage architectures, monitoring and management, and user performance management. The reference architecture aims to help institutions achieve a high level of performance maturity and optimize their systems to support user experiences.
SaaS is a software deployment model where applications are hosted by a vendor and made available to customers over the Internet. With SaaS, there is no software installation, reduced IT maintenance, and a subscription or pay-per-use pricing model. Key benefits of SaaS include lower upfront costs, flexible access, automatic updates, and scalability. SaaS applications are designed to be accessed from various devices through a web browser.
The document discusses Flexera Software's License Position Snapshot Service which provides organizations visibility into their current software license positions. The service delivers an on-site or remote analysis of a client's software installations compared to their purchased licenses. Flexera consultants use the FlexNet Manager Suite tool to capture inventory, license entitlement, and position data to generate a report on the client's installed versus licensed software and provide optimization recommendations. The engagement helps organizations understand and optimize their license positions for vendor audits, renewals, or reducing ongoing software costs.
FDM, ERPi, EPMA, DRM, EAL - Understanding the Alphabet Soup of IntegrationAlithya
The EPM system continues to expand and more implementations are utilizing multiple products. A myriad tools and techniques exist to manage data and metadata integration within the EPM suite. This session will explore the different options available and how they can be used independently as well as in concert with one another. The strengths and limitations of each toolset will be explored. Client examples will be used to highlight real world implementations, leading/best practices as well as lessons learned.
Colama University Edition is virtualization software that allows multiple virtual machines and operating systems to run on a single physical server. This reduces infrastructure costs through more efficient use of hardware resources. It also provides benefits like increased security, simplified asset management, remote access and management of lab computers, and cost savings of over 60 lacs for a 60 computer lab over 4 years with a college-wide deployment saving over 75 crores in 5 years.
Flex net manager for sap applications v9 1 presentationNuno Alves
FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications is a software license optimization tool that analyzes SAP usage data to recommend the optimal license type for each user. It detects idle licenses that are not being used, identifies duplicate user accounts, and allows "what if" simulations to explore license optimization scenarios. In a case study, Metro Group was able to complete an SAP expansion to 25,000 users across 31 countries while requiring 30% fewer licenses through the optimized license recommendations of FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications.
The document describes FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud, a software license optimization solution delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS). It provides key functionality including application discovery and inventory, license reconciliation between purchases and installations, software license optimization, and dashboards and reporting. Customers benefit from lower upfront costs, faster deployment, reduced software costs through optimization of license usage, and continuous license compliance. The solution is hosted and managed by Flexera Software and includes discovery, inventory, and license management functionality for major software vendors.
SAP provides various business solutions including CRM, ERP, PLM, SCM and GRC. It consists of integrated modules running on the Netweaver platform across multiple operating systems. While SAP aims to provide centralized information, weaknesses in its default security configurations and common practices like weak passwords and direct database access leave systems vulnerable to compromise. Proper security measures such as regular password changes, limiting SAP_ALL access, and disabling auto-unlocking can help address these risks.
The document discusses the Blackboard Reference Architecture, which provides a blueprint for optimizing enterprise application performance. It describes key components of the reference architecture, including platform infrastructure, web/application delivery and management, storage architectures, monitoring and management, and user performance management. The reference architecture aims to help institutions achieve a high level of performance maturity and optimize their systems to support user experiences.
Are You remember "Sliders"? In my opinion Licensing World is similar to this series. How many time You tried to understand licensing? How many times You heard different opinions about same question? I'm sure, that You know what is CPU, CORE, SOCKET. Are You familiar with Processor / User / Device? And CAL / SAL/ SA too? Are You use SPLA program or just OEM or MOLP? Physical Instance, Virtual Instance, 90 Days, EULA, SPUR, LAR, Multiplexing, 5 Dollars (not 5 Cents)... It's not all the possibilities, if we are talking about licenses. Let's talk about it, from the Licensing Point of View
Application developers are the customers of your API. Success is measured by how quickly those developers enjoy success using your API in their applications. And rapid adoption of an API by your internal, partner, or external developers is all about design.
Building upon their prior work in API design, Marsh Gardiner and Brian Mulloy unveil RV, a style of API design that embraces developer adoption as its guiding principle. They explore the constraints and opportunities introduced by RV and discuss RV's place in the context of other design approaches like REST and Hypermedia.
See the youtube video of this webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-bGz9HQIuo
Este documento describe dos sitios web 2.0: YouTube, un sitio para compartir videos donde los usuarios pueden subir y compartir clips de películas, programas y música usando un reproductor basado en Adobe Flash o HTML5, y SlideShare, un sitio para compartir presentaciones donde los usuarios pueden subir y compartir presentaciones en formatos como PowerPoint, PDF y Word.
This document defines and explains the concepts of value-based pricing. It discusses that value-based pricing sets the price based on the value an offering delivers to customers compared to their next best alternative. It notes that value is customer-specific, measured in currency, and relative to the next best alternative. The document also discusses how understanding value is important for proper customer segmentation, targeting the right segments, and developing products customers are willing to buy. It provides an example of how willingness to pay is driven by the sense of loss if a customer's need is not resolved. Finally, it states that once value is defined, customers' willingness to pay is determined, and there is interest in a segment, an offering can be designed to deliver
This executive summary explains why we released an updated version of the Platform Design Toolkit - The definitive set of design thinking and system modeling tools to design digital and non digital Platforms to access powerful Ecosystems and reach objectives way beyond the boundaries of your firm.
For More information on the Toolkit visit: www.platformdesigntoolkit.com
For more complete presentation and context post see: http://meedabyte.com/2015/11/06/platform-design-toolkit-2-0-open-for-comments/
This is an updated release:
First, I released the Platform Design Canvas alone, then I added the Platform Motivations Matrix to a newly born "toolkit" made of different tools (most of them are still in the making).
Here you can find a context post with a step by step guide to using this preliminary version of the toolkit: http://bit.ly/PDToolkitGuide
The document defines variances as differences between standard and actual costs. It discusses computing variances for material costs, including material cost, price, usage, mix, and yield variances. It also discusses labor cost and rate variances. Variances are classified and examples are provided to demonstrate how to calculate different types of variances based on standard and actual data. The key information is on defining and calculating different types of variances to identify reasons for deviations between actual and standard performance.
Virtualizing SAP implementations can significantly reduce hardware costs, increase server utilization rates, and ease the burden of system upgrades and platform migrations. Virtualization allows organizations to streamline testing environments, accelerate upgrade planning, and meet availability and performance SLAs. It enables dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources to build a more flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure.
Aligning Business Models And Technology Architectures Ore Dev Conferenc...Enthiosys Inc
Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO, on the many ways to match customer value to software pricing and value exchange mechanisms. How can we match what customers need with appropriate models and units?
The document discusses strategies for hosting providers to offer Software as a Service (SaaS). It describes the growth of SaaS and opportunities for hosting providers, ISVs, and end users. It outlines different SaaS application types and how SWsoft's OPEN FUSION platform and PEM automation can help deliver SaaS through virtualization and multi-tenant architectures.
My presentation on MMS2011 in Las Vegas. Would you like to gain additional insight to the various best practices that other Application Virtualization customers are doing? This session will provide you with an opportunity to obtain insight from Application Virtualization MVPs with over 10 years of experience in the field. The objective of the session is to expose you to the numerous best practices, challenges and solutions that have been witnessed in the field in Application Virtualization.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and xRM were presented as platforms for managing relationships across various entities through a flexible and customizable application framework. xRM allows building industry-specific or line-of-business applications more quickly and at a lower cost than custom development by providing reusable components, a consistent user experience, and a shared environment and resources. Examples of government and commercial organizations successfully using xRM for tasks, grants, and other relationship management were described.
Service-now.com SaaS vs. ASP vs. traditional softwareRhett Glauser
The document discusses the evolution of software delivery models from on-premise to ASP to SaaS. It notes that while ASPs aimed to address limitations of on-premise, they still relied on outdated client-server technologies. True SaaS delivers advantages like instant implementations and upgrades, lower TCO through predictable subscription pricing, and the ability for customers to customize without vendor involvement. ServiceNow is highlighted as an example of a SaaS provider that allows full customization, automated upgrades, and a low-cost and flexible financial model.
Critical Preflight Checks for Your EPM ApplicationsDatavail
The environment which houses your business critical EPM applications is complex.
Maybe as complex as the cockpit of an aircraft. Just as a pilot might not be able to build or fix everything on their plane, you might be using applications but not know how to build or fix everything that’s being used. This shouldn’t stop you from doing a pre-flight check to ensure that all your Hyperion systems are running properly and set for you and your end users.
Let’s talk about some different strategies to achieve this and give you the confidence in your systems so that you can know when things are running well—or more importantly, when they need attention before takeoff.
May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shorehamwebhostingguy
The document discusses how service providers can generate more revenue through software-as-a-service (SaaS). It outlines the SaaS opportunity and challenges, how Parallels' open platform can help providers offer SaaS applications, and revenue models like direct hosting, upselling existing plans, and single upgrades. Key points include utilizing virtualization and automation to simplify SaaS, the APS standard and catalog to integrate applications, and examples of potential revenue from popular SaaS applications.
AMB420: Data Center Licensing with License OptimizerIvanti
This document discusses software asset management challenges organizations face and how License Optimizer can help solve problems. It mentions increased legal challenges around licensing from court cases. It discusses challenges like legacy applications, application redundancy, and lack of visibility into connected assets. It presents License Optimizer as having capabilities like entitlement management, discovery, normalization, reconciliation, and compliance to provide visibility, optimization, and control over software licensing. Demo sections show how License Optimizer can track Microsoft Office 365 and Oracle licensing usage and ensure compliance.
A Journey to Enterprise Agility: Migrating 15 Atlassian Instances to Data CenterAtlassian
How do you coordinate the work of thousands of users, balance the need for teams to innovate, optimize performance, and comply with reporting standards and industry regulations?
At Johnson & Johnson we were faced with such a challenge. With 15 Atlassian application instances and tens of thousands of users, we needed to find a viable way to manage applications and our users efficiently. Come hear about our journey—the challenges, best practices, lessons learned, and ROI during one of the largest data transformation migrations we've ever embarked on.
The document summarizes a presentation about evaluating commercial embedded Linux operating systems for use in products. It discusses:
- An overview of various commercial Linux vendors and flavors.
- Factors to consider in the evaluation such as functional requirements, support needs, and technical criteria like performance, security and portability.
- The evaluation process involving stakeholders, requirements definition, comparing options and selecting a solution.
- Typical architecture of products using embedded Linux including components like user applications, core OS, hardware drivers and connectivity modules.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Identifying Your Migration Options: the 6 Rs (ENT311)Amazon Web Services
The document discusses the 6 Rs migration strategy for identifying migration options to AWS: Retain, Retire, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, and Rearchitect (Replace). It provides descriptions and considerations for each option. It also discusses Scholastic's use of various migration strategies like Retain, Rehost/Replatform, Rearchitect, and Refactor for different applications. The document emphasizes using an assessment-based approach and mapping business drivers to the appropriate migration strategy.
Are You remember "Sliders"? In my opinion Licensing World is similar to this series. How many time You tried to understand licensing? How many times You heard different opinions about same question? I'm sure, that You know what is CPU, CORE, SOCKET. Are You familiar with Processor / User / Device? And CAL / SAL/ SA too? Are You use SPLA program or just OEM or MOLP? Physical Instance, Virtual Instance, 90 Days, EULA, SPUR, LAR, Multiplexing, 5 Dollars (not 5 Cents)... It's not all the possibilities, if we are talking about licenses. Let's talk about it, from the Licensing Point of View
Application developers are the customers of your API. Success is measured by how quickly those developers enjoy success using your API in their applications. And rapid adoption of an API by your internal, partner, or external developers is all about design.
Building upon their prior work in API design, Marsh Gardiner and Brian Mulloy unveil RV, a style of API design that embraces developer adoption as its guiding principle. They explore the constraints and opportunities introduced by RV and discuss RV's place in the context of other design approaches like REST and Hypermedia.
See the youtube video of this webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-bGz9HQIuo
Este documento describe dos sitios web 2.0: YouTube, un sitio para compartir videos donde los usuarios pueden subir y compartir clips de películas, programas y música usando un reproductor basado en Adobe Flash o HTML5, y SlideShare, un sitio para compartir presentaciones donde los usuarios pueden subir y compartir presentaciones en formatos como PowerPoint, PDF y Word.
This document defines and explains the concepts of value-based pricing. It discusses that value-based pricing sets the price based on the value an offering delivers to customers compared to their next best alternative. It notes that value is customer-specific, measured in currency, and relative to the next best alternative. The document also discusses how understanding value is important for proper customer segmentation, targeting the right segments, and developing products customers are willing to buy. It provides an example of how willingness to pay is driven by the sense of loss if a customer's need is not resolved. Finally, it states that once value is defined, customers' willingness to pay is determined, and there is interest in a segment, an offering can be designed to deliver
This executive summary explains why we released an updated version of the Platform Design Toolkit - The definitive set of design thinking and system modeling tools to design digital and non digital Platforms to access powerful Ecosystems and reach objectives way beyond the boundaries of your firm.
For More information on the Toolkit visit: www.platformdesigntoolkit.com
For more complete presentation and context post see: http://meedabyte.com/2015/11/06/platform-design-toolkit-2-0-open-for-comments/
This is an updated release:
First, I released the Platform Design Canvas alone, then I added the Platform Motivations Matrix to a newly born "toolkit" made of different tools (most of them are still in the making).
Here you can find a context post with a step by step guide to using this preliminary version of the toolkit: http://bit.ly/PDToolkitGuide
The document defines variances as differences between standard and actual costs. It discusses computing variances for material costs, including material cost, price, usage, mix, and yield variances. It also discusses labor cost and rate variances. Variances are classified and examples are provided to demonstrate how to calculate different types of variances based on standard and actual data. The key information is on defining and calculating different types of variances to identify reasons for deviations between actual and standard performance.
Virtualizing SAP implementations can significantly reduce hardware costs, increase server utilization rates, and ease the burden of system upgrades and platform migrations. Virtualization allows organizations to streamline testing environments, accelerate upgrade planning, and meet availability and performance SLAs. It enables dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources to build a more flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure.
Aligning Business Models And Technology Architectures Ore Dev Conferenc...Enthiosys Inc
Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO, on the many ways to match customer value to software pricing and value exchange mechanisms. How can we match what customers need with appropriate models and units?
The document discusses strategies for hosting providers to offer Software as a Service (SaaS). It describes the growth of SaaS and opportunities for hosting providers, ISVs, and end users. It outlines different SaaS application types and how SWsoft's OPEN FUSION platform and PEM automation can help deliver SaaS through virtualization and multi-tenant architectures.
My presentation on MMS2011 in Las Vegas. Would you like to gain additional insight to the various best practices that other Application Virtualization customers are doing? This session will provide you with an opportunity to obtain insight from Application Virtualization MVPs with over 10 years of experience in the field. The objective of the session is to expose you to the numerous best practices, challenges and solutions that have been witnessed in the field in Application Virtualization.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and xRM were presented as platforms for managing relationships across various entities through a flexible and customizable application framework. xRM allows building industry-specific or line-of-business applications more quickly and at a lower cost than custom development by providing reusable components, a consistent user experience, and a shared environment and resources. Examples of government and commercial organizations successfully using xRM for tasks, grants, and other relationship management were described.
Service-now.com SaaS vs. ASP vs. traditional softwareRhett Glauser
The document discusses the evolution of software delivery models from on-premise to ASP to SaaS. It notes that while ASPs aimed to address limitations of on-premise, they still relied on outdated client-server technologies. True SaaS delivers advantages like instant implementations and upgrades, lower TCO through predictable subscription pricing, and the ability for customers to customize without vendor involvement. ServiceNow is highlighted as an example of a SaaS provider that allows full customization, automated upgrades, and a low-cost and flexible financial model.
Critical Preflight Checks for Your EPM ApplicationsDatavail
The environment which houses your business critical EPM applications is complex.
Maybe as complex as the cockpit of an aircraft. Just as a pilot might not be able to build or fix everything on their plane, you might be using applications but not know how to build or fix everything that’s being used. This shouldn’t stop you from doing a pre-flight check to ensure that all your Hyperion systems are running properly and set for you and your end users.
Let’s talk about some different strategies to achieve this and give you the confidence in your systems so that you can know when things are running well—or more importantly, when they need attention before takeoff.
May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shorehamwebhostingguy
The document discusses how service providers can generate more revenue through software-as-a-service (SaaS). It outlines the SaaS opportunity and challenges, how Parallels' open platform can help providers offer SaaS applications, and revenue models like direct hosting, upselling existing plans, and single upgrades. Key points include utilizing virtualization and automation to simplify SaaS, the APS standard and catalog to integrate applications, and examples of potential revenue from popular SaaS applications.
AMB420: Data Center Licensing with License OptimizerIvanti
This document discusses software asset management challenges organizations face and how License Optimizer can help solve problems. It mentions increased legal challenges around licensing from court cases. It discusses challenges like legacy applications, application redundancy, and lack of visibility into connected assets. It presents License Optimizer as having capabilities like entitlement management, discovery, normalization, reconciliation, and compliance to provide visibility, optimization, and control over software licensing. Demo sections show how License Optimizer can track Microsoft Office 365 and Oracle licensing usage and ensure compliance.
A Journey to Enterprise Agility: Migrating 15 Atlassian Instances to Data CenterAtlassian
How do you coordinate the work of thousands of users, balance the need for teams to innovate, optimize performance, and comply with reporting standards and industry regulations?
At Johnson & Johnson we were faced with such a challenge. With 15 Atlassian application instances and tens of thousands of users, we needed to find a viable way to manage applications and our users efficiently. Come hear about our journey—the challenges, best practices, lessons learned, and ROI during one of the largest data transformation migrations we've ever embarked on.
The document summarizes a presentation about evaluating commercial embedded Linux operating systems for use in products. It discusses:
- An overview of various commercial Linux vendors and flavors.
- Factors to consider in the evaluation such as functional requirements, support needs, and technical criteria like performance, security and portability.
- The evaluation process involving stakeholders, requirements definition, comparing options and selecting a solution.
- Typical architecture of products using embedded Linux including components like user applications, core OS, hardware drivers and connectivity modules.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Identifying Your Migration Options: the 6 Rs (ENT311)Amazon Web Services
The document discusses the 6 Rs migration strategy for identifying migration options to AWS: Retain, Retire, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, and Rearchitect (Replace). It provides descriptions and considerations for each option. It also discusses Scholastic's use of various migration strategies like Retain, Rehost/Replatform, Rearchitect, and Refactor for different applications. The document emphasizes using an assessment-based approach and mapping business drivers to the appropriate migration strategy.
The adoption rate for on-demand Learning Management Systems is skyrocketing. Compared to traditional “on premises” LMS software, the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model is appealing to HR and training professionals for several reasons, including its lower start-up costs, reduced total cost of ownership and rapid deployment. Many traditional LMS software vendors are jumping on the bandwagon and claim to have a SaaS offering. But what exactly is SaaS and how is it changing corporate learning? Is all SaaS the same? This session will help you separate the hype from reality, and provide an objective litmus test you can apply as you search for, compare and evaluate on-demand Learning Management Systems.
Best Practices In Load And Stress Testing Cmg Seminar[1]Munirathnam Naidu
The document discusses best practices for performance testing. It provides an overview of the typical performance testing process, including defining goals, planning tests, scripting tests, executing tests, analyzing results, and delivering findings. It also discusses considerations for choosing testing tools and resources as well as common pitfalls to avoid, such as not testing, poor planning, relying on customers to find issues, using the wrong tools, and failing to properly isolate variables.
This document provides an overview of Software as a Service (SaaS) including:
- Key differences between SaaS and traditional software such as delivery model, pricing structure, and updates.
- Benefits of SaaS including low upfront costs, accessibility, and minimal training requirements.
- Challenges of SaaS including limited customization options and reliance on a stable internet connection.
- Different maturity levels for SaaS applications and examples of large SaaS companies like Salesforce.com.
Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model where applications are hosted by a vendor and accessed online by customers. With SaaS, software is deployed as an online service rather than installed locally. This reduces upfront costs for customers and allows vendors to easily update applications for all users. Key considerations for SaaS include enabling applications to securely serve multiple customers simultaneously and facilitating some level of customization.
PART I of III: Advanced Authorization for SAP Global Deployments: September ...NextLabs, Inc.
Part 1: The SAP authorization toolbox and models for access control
In Part 1, we provide an overview of the existing SAP authorization mechanism – the SAP Authorization Toolbox, and introduce an authorization framework for applying access control.
The document discusses the challenges of managing large, diverse data sources known as "Big Data". It notes that while data volumes are growing, not all data has high value. It also outlines the emerging ecosystem of tools for distributed storage, analytics and search that are helping organizations extract value from both structured and unstructured data sources. The document concludes that both traditional and new approaches to data management and analytics have important roles to play as organizations tackle new data-driven challenges.
The document discusses consumerization of IT, which refers to employees using their personal devices and internet services for work purposes. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,600 IT professionals on consumerization trends. Key findings include that about half of organizations now encourage, accept, or tolerate the use of personal equipment for work. The majority of employees, around 85%, are estimated to be using their own devices for work activities. Senior managers and executives are often early adopters. Personal smartphones, notebooks, and tablets are commonly used both officially and unofficially. Potential benefits discussed include improved productivity and job satisfaction.
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics Ltd, gave a presentation on cloud computing trends and perspectives. He discussed how cloud computing has evolved from hype to emerging clarity, with confusion persisting over definitions. Vile outlined different views of cloud, including technology vs services and the service stack. He noted that cloud will have a significant impact on IT delivery and management, but that a hybrid model is emerging. Looking ahead, Vile argued organizations should focus on business services rather than aiming to "move to the cloud," and that cloud represents a shift to a service-centric view of IT.
The document discusses the "consumerisation of IT" where trends and technologies originating from consumer markets are increasingly being used in business settings. This is driven by factors like improved mobile devices, cloud services, and changing user expectations of consumer technologies in their personal and professional lives. While this poses risks to corporate IT like security and manageability issues, it also presents opportunities if IT can understand and adapt to these trends rather than fight them. The document provides examples of consumer technologies entering businesses and survey results on the extent companies are seeing this occur independently of IT strategy. It also outlines a balancing act for IT in addressing concerns while embracing opportunities and tips for policies, processes and skills to help manage the consumerisation of IT.
- The document discusses cloud computing and provides perspectives from IT professionals on what qualifies as cloud computing. It addresses different cloud models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Survey results show that IT professionals view hosted services as legitimate examples of cloud computing, rather than just the enabling technology. Factors like elastic scaling of resources and pay-per-use models are also seen as important.
- There is no single definition and different workloads may be suited to different deployment models between on-premise, hosted, dedicated, or shared/dynamic environments. The key is understanding individual requirements.
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government.
Occasion – Annual channel partners of Thales – April 2010
Presenter – Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
The document discusses the need for enterprises to have a mobile strategy to address the growing use of mobility in businesses. It outlines four grades of enterprise mobile strategies that most companies currently sit at and discusses the challenges of a piecemeal approach that results in isolated "wireless islands". An effective enterprise mobility strategy needs to go beyond just mobile and should include assessing current networks and devices, user access needs, security requirements, cost minimization, and future proofing to account for new technologies and partner strategies.
- Infrastructure management is facing challenges in keeping up with user expectations of 24/7 availability as well as new technologies like virtualization.
- There is a growing need for sophisticated IT service management solutions to handle asset/change management, service level monitoring, root cause analysis, and reporting to both support processes and demonstrate business value.
- While systems management tools are developing rapidly to address these needs, effective implementation of the new solutions also requires advancement of support processes.
This document discusses how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach can help organizations respond to economic pressures. While SOA is often touted for cost and efficiency benefits, these are not always realized. To be effective during downturns, SOA requires a balanced approach that streamlines application development and maintenance, enhances business visibility and responsiveness, and drives process automation and optimization, rather than just focusing on cost cutting. The document provides advice on taking a strategic yet tactical approach to SOA adoption by beginning with real project requirements, reviewing existing initiatives, managing expectations, and ensuring business impact is considered.
The document discusses ways for companies to optimize their use of IT during an economic downturn. It recommends 3 ways to optimize the IT infrastructure, 3 ways to optimize how IT is used in the business, and 3 ways to enable the business to be more efficient. Some specific recommendations include server virtualization, desktop management, systems management, application training, mobile access, unified communications, and making smarter use of data through business intelligence. The overall message is that during tough economic times, companies should take a balanced approach to IT and focus on using IT to help drive revenue and business objectives.
The document discusses key stakeholders in financial services and the challenges they face regarding availability of management and performance information. It also discusses trends around empowering employees and shifting to broader, more continuous information delivery. Common challenges included fragmentation of systems and a lack of structured and inclusive approaches to meeting information needs.
The document discusses a survey of organizations and their commitment to green IT initiatives to reduce power consumption and environmental impact. The survey found that larger organizations have broader green policies and are further along in implementing initiatives. Respondents believe that reducing power consumption and enabling more efficient business operations through IT are important goals. However, many organizations do not accurately track or measure IT power usage at a granular level, which could help identify opportunities to minimize power consumption through solutions like server virtualization and desktop power management features. Overall green considerations are still not a prominent part of IT strategies for many organizations.
David Tebbutt discusses the context for, and the central role of, IT in an organisation's power management. He takes the listener from sustainability, through the link between climate change and energy use, all the time stressing the cost benefits of taking action. The presentation includes quick IT-powered wins for the enterprise, quick wins for IT itself and finishes with longer term suggestions which can deliver even bigger savings.
1. The document discusses topics related to IT, including the impact of the global financial crisis, virtualization, and what organizations are planning to buy.
2. It explores user perceptions of IT and virtualization adoption across different company sizes. Significant drivers for implementing virtualization include scale, geography, and compliance.
3. Challenges and barriers to desktop virtualization adoption are discussed, along with the effect of virtualization on hardware acquisition strategies and operating system selection. The need for improved virtualization management and licensing models is also examined.
This document discusses the benefits of asset management for businesses. It notes that today businesses want to reduce costs, increase agility, manage risk, and be good corporate citizens. Asset management provides visibility into IT assets which helps reduce spending and risk. The costs of not doing asset management include wasted time, money, and poor utilization of resources. Effective asset management leads to maximum return on investment, improved decision making, increased flexibility, cost savings, and supports compliance. It directly impacts financial and operational performance.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
AI in the Workplace Reskilling, Upskilling, and Future Work.pptxSunil Jagani
Discover how AI is transforming the workplace and learn strategies for reskilling and upskilling employees to stay ahead. This comprehensive guide covers the impact of AI on jobs, essential skills for the future, and successful case studies from industry leaders. Embrace AI-driven changes, foster continuous learning, and build a future-ready workforce.
Read More - https://bit.ly/3VKly70
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
1. Virtualization The Licensing Lottery Dale Vile Freeform Dynamics Ltd [email_address] www.freeformdynamics.com
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3. Roots of modern licensing planted firmly in the past Data App Interface Data App Interface Data App Interface Data App Interface Data App Interface
4. Traditional licensing options Maintenance included? Support included? Use by third-parties? Per server Per cpu Per core Per named user Per concurrent user By number of employees Enterprise license Open source
5. More choice, or confusion? Maintenance included? Support included? Use by third-parties? Per server Per cpu Per core Per named user Per concurrent user By number of employees Enterprise license Open source Per instance Per virtual cpu By allocated resource
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7. Are you happy with existing licensing models as applied to virtual systems? Source Freeform Dynamics and The Register, Oct 2007 Percentages relate to respondents offering an opinion Operating systems
8. Are you happy with existing licensing models as applied to virtual systems? Source Freeform Dynamics and The Register, Oct 2007 Percentages relate to respondents offering an opinion Other infrastructure software (middleware, DBMS, etc)
9. Are you happy with existing licensing models as applied to virtual systems? Source Freeform Dynamics and The Register, Oct 2007 Percentages relate to respondents offering an opinion Application software (ERP, CRM, etc)
10. Are you happy with existing licensing models as applied to virtual systems? Source Freeform Dynamics and The Register, Oct 2007 Percentages relate to respondents offering an opinion Middleware, DBMS, etc
11. Some common scenarios PHYSICAL SERVER Replicated single platform stack Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Business Application Business Application
12. Some common scenarios PHYSICAL SERVER PHYSICAL SERVER Replicated single platform stack Replicated OS with mixed AS/DBMS Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Business Application Business Application Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Business Application Business Application
13. Some common scenarios PHYSICAL SERVER PHYSICAL SERVER PHYSICAL SERVER Replicated single platform stack Replicated OS with mixed AS/DBMS Mixed platform stack (OS/AS/DBMS) Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Business Application Business Application Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Hypervisor Operating System Operating System App Server or DBMS App Server or DBMS Business Application Business Application Business Application Business Application
15. Scenario & licensing matrix * Licensing models and tools to implement these approaches are currently rare or not available Licensed by Replicated single platform stack Applications and mixed platform stacks Dynamic execution environment Physical server OK Check Beware Physical CPU or core OK OK Check Fractional CPU or core OK OK Check Installed instance Beware Check Beware Concurrent instance* Beware Check Check Named user Check Check Check Concurrent user Check Check Check Average utilisation* OK OK OK Metering approach* OK OK OK