New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate
the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is understood in the industry that cloud computing provides clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
Operations Workforce Management: A Data-Informed, Digital-First ApproachCognizant
As #WorkFromAnywhere becomes the rule rather than the exception, organizations face an important question: How can they increase their digital quotient to engage and enable a remote operations workforce to work collaboratively to deliver onclient requirements and contractual commitments?
As businesses continue through this evolution, IT begins to recognize increasingly significant benefits. In terms of value, the focus on management and automation yields a reduction of operating expenses, as automation of manual tasks enables the IT organization to operate more efficiently.
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure: The First Business-Defined IT Architecture W...Hitachi Vantara
Your world is always on – and is always changing. As a result, businesses face new challenges beyond growing application and data requirements. Users want more IT: More applications, faster time to market, and higher quality. At the same time, IT owners must support these unrelenting requirements and control costs, improve efficiency, and keep the business online 24/7. The Continuous Cloud Infrastructure (CCI) is a new architectural approach to an ever-changing business. This paper outlines the economic and business impact CCI can have on your always-on world
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
Delivering on the Promise of Digital TransformationBMC Software
IT is at the center of the digital revolution. Working with business leaders to execute a digital transformation strategy that capitalizes on cloud computing, big data, social networking and smart devices is critical for success. For more information, visit www.bmc.com
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Operations Workforce Management: A Data-Informed, Digital-First ApproachCognizant
As #WorkFromAnywhere becomes the rule rather than the exception, organizations face an important question: How can they increase their digital quotient to engage and enable a remote operations workforce to work collaboratively to deliver onclient requirements and contractual commitments?
As businesses continue through this evolution, IT begins to recognize increasingly significant benefits. In terms of value, the focus on management and automation yields a reduction of operating expenses, as automation of manual tasks enables the IT organization to operate more efficiently.
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure: The First Business-Defined IT Architecture W...Hitachi Vantara
Your world is always on – and is always changing. As a result, businesses face new challenges beyond growing application and data requirements. Users want more IT: More applications, faster time to market, and higher quality. At the same time, IT owners must support these unrelenting requirements and control costs, improve efficiency, and keep the business online 24/7. The Continuous Cloud Infrastructure (CCI) is a new architectural approach to an ever-changing business. This paper outlines the economic and business impact CCI can have on your always-on world
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
Delivering on the Promise of Digital TransformationBMC Software
IT is at the center of the digital revolution. Working with business leaders to execute a digital transformation strategy that capitalizes on cloud computing, big data, social networking and smart devices is critical for success. For more information, visit www.bmc.com
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Cognizanti Journal: XaaS, Code Halos, SMAC and the Future of WorkCognizant
This issue of Cognizanti Journal focuses on successfully transitioning to the Future of Work. Article topics include "everything as a service," the emerging world of Code Halos, anytime/anyplace models of work and how to harness social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, or the SMAC Stack.
Cracking the Data Conundrum: How Successful Companies Make #BigData OperationalCapgemini
There is little arguing the benefits and disruptive potential of Big Data. However, many organizations have not fully embedded Big Data in their operations. In fact, our research shows that only 13% have achieved full-scale production for their Big Data implementations. The most troubling development is that most organizations are failing to benefit from their investments. Only 27% of respondents described their Big Data initiatives as “successful” and only 8% described them as “very successful”.
So, how can organizations make Big Data operational? There are many factors that go into the making of a successful Big Data implementation. However, the single biggest factor that we observed in our research was that organizations that have a strong operating model stood apart. This operating model has multiple distinct elements, which include, among others, a well-defined organizational structure, systematic implementation plan, and strong leadership support. For instance, success rates for organizations with an analytics business unit are nearly 2.5 times those that have ad-hoc, isolated teams. The report highlights the key factors for successful Big Data implementations.
This new world of technology presents an unprecedented opportunity for executives to enhance IT’s value across the enterprise. ReThink IT analyzes the five most disruptive trends in IT, and addresses the issues and challenges faced by today’s CIO and IT leaders. These disruptive trends point to a new role for IT and the CIO, and the fact that IT responsibilities have moved into the business makes the role of services integrator and advisor to the business the primary focus of the CIO.
Defining Digital Transformation - the researchTom Rieger
Everyone is talking about it but not many are doing it. Or they think they are and doing it wrong.... I am talking about defining 'digital transformation'. In working with Lane Severson we completed some great research where nearly 200 executives in the LOB and IT helped us give their take on their present state and where they WANT to go.
Hard to go on a 'digital transformation' journey if you aren't sure what it is.
IT that matters in the new machine age prioritizes cybersecurity, innovation, time-to-market and customers over cost-cutting, according to our latest study. Here’s what the future looks like for IT infrastructure, including our HEROES framework to guide you along the way.
In order to integrate intelligent automation systems with the people, processes and technology that currently keep the FS organization working, the HR function needs to drive the vision and strategy. This report explains the three criteria needed to succeed.
Read more: https://www.accenture.com/in-en/insight-intelligent-automation-financial-services
IT Integration Done Right
It may or may not surprise you, but about 70% – 90% of M&As fail, for one reason or another. The integration of two companies into one functional unit inevitably involves great change. Culture, business strategies, and many other variables need to be adapted to fit new environments, people, and goals.
Are you prepared to take on the pressure and complexity of an IT M&A? Our new M&A Playbook for IT is your roadmap to navigating the biggest IT integration challenges and driving business goals.
In this strategy brief, find out:
-The three common M&A pitfalls that CIOs must avoid
-How to improve synergy, lower costs, and shorten time to market
-How to determine the right level of IT integration for your company
Shared Service Centers: Risks & Rewards in the Time of CoronavirusCognizant
Our recent research reveals that organizations are reassessing the pros and cons of captive services. Companies are twice as likely to reduce than increase their use of shared service centers.
The increasing use of smart phones, sensors and social media is a reality across many industries today. It is not just where and how business is conducted that is changing, but the speed and scope of the business decision-making process is also transforming because of several emerging technologies – Cloud, High Performance Computing (HPC), Analytics, Social and Mobile (CHASM).
State of Cloud 2016 - WGroup Industry ReportWGroup
Cloud technology is core to delivery of services in almost every industry, but its ongoing evolution means your organization needs to be flexible and agile enough to change with it. New services and applications appear daily, and cost structures are constantly changing. This special WGroup industry report, State of Cloud, will help you understand its rapid evolution so you can refine your IT strategy and fully leverage the power of today’s cloud in your organization.
The ecosystem equation collaboration in the connected economy @harvard biz @i...Diego Alberto Tamayo
IT infrastructure will play a vital role in enabling organizations to become
connected economy leaders. With an IT infrastructure designed for cognitive workloads, you can
act at the speed of thought. It accelerates technology breakthroughs through open architectures
that foster collaborative innovation. Finally, it works with your cloud platforms to extend the value
of your systems and data. Put it all together and instead of observing change unfold, you can seize
the opportunities created by the connected economy.
Insights from the VMware 2013 Journey to IT as a Service SurveyVMware
As virtualization has evolved and matured, some companies are benefiting more than others. Why? The answer goes beyond the technology—although technology is a vital catalyst— to the way that their CIOs leverage virtualization and other innovative technologies to transform the IT organization. These CIOs have combined technology and a new way of operating to become more service oriented and
more focused on delivering business value.
VMware vSphereTM 5.0 (“vSphere”) brings many new capabilities to extend the benefits of vSphere 4.1. These new features and enhancements to core capabilities in vSphere provide more performance optimization and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the storage-specific features and enhancements that are available in vSphere 5.0 and provides an overview of how they optimize storage utilization, ease monitoring, and increase operational efficiency. Wherever possible, we will also provide use cases and requirements that might apply to these new functions.
Cognizanti Journal: XaaS, Code Halos, SMAC and the Future of WorkCognizant
This issue of Cognizanti Journal focuses on successfully transitioning to the Future of Work. Article topics include "everything as a service," the emerging world of Code Halos, anytime/anyplace models of work and how to harness social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, or the SMAC Stack.
Cracking the Data Conundrum: How Successful Companies Make #BigData OperationalCapgemini
There is little arguing the benefits and disruptive potential of Big Data. However, many organizations have not fully embedded Big Data in their operations. In fact, our research shows that only 13% have achieved full-scale production for their Big Data implementations. The most troubling development is that most organizations are failing to benefit from their investments. Only 27% of respondents described their Big Data initiatives as “successful” and only 8% described them as “very successful”.
So, how can organizations make Big Data operational? There are many factors that go into the making of a successful Big Data implementation. However, the single biggest factor that we observed in our research was that organizations that have a strong operating model stood apart. This operating model has multiple distinct elements, which include, among others, a well-defined organizational structure, systematic implementation plan, and strong leadership support. For instance, success rates for organizations with an analytics business unit are nearly 2.5 times those that have ad-hoc, isolated teams. The report highlights the key factors for successful Big Data implementations.
This new world of technology presents an unprecedented opportunity for executives to enhance IT’s value across the enterprise. ReThink IT analyzes the five most disruptive trends in IT, and addresses the issues and challenges faced by today’s CIO and IT leaders. These disruptive trends point to a new role for IT and the CIO, and the fact that IT responsibilities have moved into the business makes the role of services integrator and advisor to the business the primary focus of the CIO.
Defining Digital Transformation - the researchTom Rieger
Everyone is talking about it but not many are doing it. Or they think they are and doing it wrong.... I am talking about defining 'digital transformation'. In working with Lane Severson we completed some great research where nearly 200 executives in the LOB and IT helped us give their take on their present state and where they WANT to go.
Hard to go on a 'digital transformation' journey if you aren't sure what it is.
IT that matters in the new machine age prioritizes cybersecurity, innovation, time-to-market and customers over cost-cutting, according to our latest study. Here’s what the future looks like for IT infrastructure, including our HEROES framework to guide you along the way.
In order to integrate intelligent automation systems with the people, processes and technology that currently keep the FS organization working, the HR function needs to drive the vision and strategy. This report explains the three criteria needed to succeed.
Read more: https://www.accenture.com/in-en/insight-intelligent-automation-financial-services
IT Integration Done Right
It may or may not surprise you, but about 70% – 90% of M&As fail, for one reason or another. The integration of two companies into one functional unit inevitably involves great change. Culture, business strategies, and many other variables need to be adapted to fit new environments, people, and goals.
Are you prepared to take on the pressure and complexity of an IT M&A? Our new M&A Playbook for IT is your roadmap to navigating the biggest IT integration challenges and driving business goals.
In this strategy brief, find out:
-The three common M&A pitfalls that CIOs must avoid
-How to improve synergy, lower costs, and shorten time to market
-How to determine the right level of IT integration for your company
Shared Service Centers: Risks & Rewards in the Time of CoronavirusCognizant
Our recent research reveals that organizations are reassessing the pros and cons of captive services. Companies are twice as likely to reduce than increase their use of shared service centers.
The increasing use of smart phones, sensors and social media is a reality across many industries today. It is not just where and how business is conducted that is changing, but the speed and scope of the business decision-making process is also transforming because of several emerging technologies – Cloud, High Performance Computing (HPC), Analytics, Social and Mobile (CHASM).
State of Cloud 2016 - WGroup Industry ReportWGroup
Cloud technology is core to delivery of services in almost every industry, but its ongoing evolution means your organization needs to be flexible and agile enough to change with it. New services and applications appear daily, and cost structures are constantly changing. This special WGroup industry report, State of Cloud, will help you understand its rapid evolution so you can refine your IT strategy and fully leverage the power of today’s cloud in your organization.
The ecosystem equation collaboration in the connected economy @harvard biz @i...Diego Alberto Tamayo
IT infrastructure will play a vital role in enabling organizations to become
connected economy leaders. With an IT infrastructure designed for cognitive workloads, you can
act at the speed of thought. It accelerates technology breakthroughs through open architectures
that foster collaborative innovation. Finally, it works with your cloud platforms to extend the value
of your systems and data. Put it all together and instead of observing change unfold, you can seize
the opportunities created by the connected economy.
Insights from the VMware 2013 Journey to IT as a Service SurveyVMware
As virtualization has evolved and matured, some companies are benefiting more than others. Why? The answer goes beyond the technology—although technology is a vital catalyst— to the way that their CIOs leverage virtualization and other innovative technologies to transform the IT organization. These CIOs have combined technology and a new way of operating to become more service oriented and
more focused on delivering business value.
VMware vSphereTM 5.0 (“vSphere”) brings many new capabilities to extend the benefits of vSphere 4.1. These new features and enhancements to core capabilities in vSphere provide more performance optimization and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the storage-specific features and enhancements that are available in vSphere 5.0 and provides an overview of how they optimize storage utilization, ease monitoring, and increase operational efficiency. Wherever possible, we will also provide use cases and requirements that might apply to these new functions.
VMware: Innovate and Thrive in the Mobile-Cloud EraVMware
Journey to IT as a Service
Deliver new products and services faster. Get closer to customers. Make increasingly mobile workers more productive. The pressure on your business to innovate has never been greater. But is your existing IT infrastructure capable of advancing your business goals?
As we enter the mobile-cloud era, your IT model must be able to accommodate more users, more applications, and more data. According to IDC, delivering the third platform for IT growth and innovation1—beyond mainframes and client-server—requires investment in cloud computing, social, mobile, and big-data technologies. It also means making fundamental changes to your IT operations to enable self-service access to information and applications—anytime, anywhere, on any device.
VMware’s Private Cloud has grown to be one of the world’s largest private clouds with over 100K virtual machines! Come and join us and discover how EVO SDDC is shaping the future of our private cloud and why we’ve made key decisions at various inflection points through our journey to SDDC. We’ll provide you an operations perspective of the pains and gains that EVO SDDC can bring to your private cloud. The session speakers are directly responsible for the day-to-day management of building and operating VMware’s internal private cloud. The session’s commentary is based on recent, real world experiences in dealing with the practicalities of managing a large and complex private cloud to allow for agility to meet today’s IT challenges.
VMWare on VMWare - How VMware IT Implemented Micro-Segmentation and Deployed ...VMware
VMware IT implemented micro-segmentation using NSX Distributed Firewall to secure production applications and deployed NSX in a large-scale internal private cloud environment. We will review use cases for micro-segmentation such as SAP and discuss design considerations. We will outline our approach for finalizing the firewall policy model using Log Insight for firewall traffic monitoring and analytics and discuss roles and responsibilities and lessons learned. Please join us to learn how VMware secured its business services by leveraging NSX and scaled its internal private cloud deployment using NSX features. We will discuss the design, technical and organizational considerations of one of the world’s largest deployments of NSX for vSphere (hosting over 20,000 VMs). We will review the decisions involved in deploying new NSX environments and how VMware’s internal private cloud leverages NSX edge firewalling to achieve a scalable, multi-tenant security model.
The power of Cloud - Driving business model innovationIBM Software India
Although businesses today are leveraging the power of Cloud to transform the way they function, they are yet to realize its potential when it comes to driving innovation in the organisation. When utilised effectively, Cloud capabilities offer numerous advantages to drive business innovation. Read through or download the study to find out more.
Digital Transformation and Application Decommissioning - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
The resulting research paper from the August 2020 market surveying of 1000s of IT professionals around the current state of affairs and what is happening over the next 18-14 months.
DRIVERS AND IMPEDIMENTS TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - THE RESEARCHTom Rieger
In August 2020 EnterpriseDB and Platform 3 jointly asked 1000s of IT professionals their perspectives and priorities. This paper is a detailed view of those results.
Learn about how Enterprise systems have long defined the core value proposition of business computing, as well as the IT infrastructures that large organizations depend on to support both day to day operational processes and long term strategic initiatives.
Charles King, Pund-It, Inc believes that the term 'enterprise system' has to be redefined to meet the today business process, application and workload.To know more about the IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Increasing Business Productivity in Connected Enterprises and an Always-On Di...Cognizant
To remain competitive, businesses must enhance productivity through a connected enterprise set of solutions. We offer a roadmap and set of tools for insuring that Gen-Now workers obtain the stateless, limitless and boundaryless computing that they need and expect in an always-on digital business world.
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
EMC Perspective: What Customers Seek from Cloud Services ProvidersEMC
This EMC Perspective elaborates on how service providers can capitalize on the fast-growing cloud services market by being responsive to customers' goals, concerns, and performance and support requirements.
Digital disruption is a top-of-mind issue in the C-suites of every industry. Senior executives of traditional firms are looking over their shoulders and wondering if they are in the crosshairs of a digital insurgent.
VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security across virtual, physical and multiple-clouds with micro-segmentation planning, 360 visibility and NSX operations.
An overview of Whats New in VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.4. vRealize Network Insight provides micro-segmentation planning, 360 visibility and troubleshooting and VMware NSX day 2 operations management.
Not all security is the same. Only VMware provides a SDDC solution with end-to-end integrated security. Learn more at http://vmware.com/products/vsphere
Infographic: Supercharge your Networking CareerVMware
Making network virtualization a core competency will be a tremendous addition to your professional skills. Credentials in network virtualization will make you more valuable in your organization and industry.
Moving Forward with Network Virtualization (VMware NSX)VMware
The most agile, secure and scalable networks have moved intelligence from hardware into software using network virtualization. If you’re ready to evolve your network towards the future, we can help.
Get the details on network virtualization in our comprehensive, easy-to-read book: Network Virtualization For Dummies. Download your copy: vmware.com/go/nvdummies
VMware Virtual SAN™ is a new approach to storage. Virtual SAN applies the principles of the software-defined data center to storage to provide a high-performance, cost-effective storage alternative for virtualized environments. http://vmw.re/1NymVf1
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center OperationsVMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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Business Agility and the True
Economics of Cloud Computing
Executive Summary
New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate
the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is
understood in the industry that cloud computing provides
clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix
on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost
reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between
cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes
are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies
and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
Rebalancing the IT Equation
What drives IT in your organization—cost or agility? In
economics, it is a supply-and-demand equation. Within the IT
organization, it is a cost-agility equation with most discussions
today focused on cost controls rather than the greater potential
benefit—business agility. We hear “How much capital and
operational expense can I cut with cloud?” more often than
we hear “How will cloud improve revenue or my company’s
competitiveness?” Yet business decision makers outside of
the IT organization have a different perspective.
In a newly released business-agility survey, corporate decision
makers linked cloud computing directly to business agility. This
data is helpful in reevaluating the IT cost-agility equation,
looking at cloud approaches and reframing assessments of IT’s
value to the enterprise. It shows that the hype around cloud
computing is maturing into facts about what cloud can really
deliver to both IT and the business. Game-changing CIOs think
business transformation first, then how technology enables it.
They are the ones strategizing with their CEOs and other
business leaders to look beyond simple cost calculations to
the business agility that cloud computing can enable.
Defining Business Agility
Business agility is the ability of a business to adapt rapidly
and cost-efficiently in response to changes in the business
environment. According to McKinsey & Company, the leading
global management consulting firm, the benefits of agility include
faster revenue growth, greater and more lasting cost reduction,
and more effective management of risks and reputational threats.
Direct Link from Cloud to Business Agility
Forward-thinking CIOs are deploying cloud computing as a strategic
weapon—not just for IT, but to enable full business transformation,
eventually changing how they operate their business.
In a couple of years, many companies will talk about how
cloud helped them create a much tighter connection between
IT transformation and business transformation. That will be the
win in this cloud era.
Figure 1. Corporate decision makers linked cloud computing directly to business agility in a recent survey.
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The survey results show:
• More than 80 percent of respondents agree that agility is
moderately or more than moderately linked to improving
corporate revenue, cost and risk profiles, with 66 percent
identifying business agility as a priority.
• “Extremely agile,” companies outperform others across all
business-agility dimensions, particularly “recognizing shifts
in customer trends/demand,“ “launching new products or
functionalities,” “managing the execution of programs” and
“scaling resources in order to meet demand.”
Agility Critical to Achieving Key Business Outcomes
In February 2011, 600 corporate decision makers participated
in a business-agility survey conducted for VMware® by independent
market-research firm AbsolutData. The majority of respondents
(67 percent) came from companies with more than 5,000
employees, while 30 percent had more than 30,000
employees. The respondents participated from around the
world—37 percent from the United States, 27 percent from
Europe and 36 percent from Asia—and from 18 different
industries. Sixty-two percent of those surveyed were in
business management and 38 percent in IT management.
Figure 2. ‘Extremely agile’ companies perform better across all business agility strengths. (Based on McKinsey & Company’s Business Agility Framework.)
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Strong Links Between IT Agility and Agile Companies
It is often difficult to tell whether companies are agile because
IT is agile, or whether an agile business culture already in the
company is influencing IT. Regardless of origins, leaders in agile
companies understand the importance of tightly coupling
business agility and IT agility.
• ‘Extremely agile’ companies report IT is one of their top
two agile business functions.
• Companies that are not agile report IT is among the two least
agile of their business functions.
Cloud Computing Enabling IT Agility
For companies with agile IT functions, business and IT leaders
agree that infrastructure and technology are the primary
drivers of that agility. The survey shows that agile companies
that have already adopted enterprise-wide cloud deployments
are paving the way for their IT organizations to become more
responsive and flexible to the demands of the business. In
contrast, in companies with non-agile IT organizations, a
fundamental disconnect exists between what IT and business
stakeholders see as the problem: IT cites money and skill sets,
while business cites a lack of infrastructure and technology to
meet its needs.
• Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents believe that
cloud computing plays a key role in increasing IT agility.
• Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of respondents who
have already deployed cloud enterprise-wide believe cloud
plays a key role in IT agility.
• The majority of survey respondents (65 percent) agree that
cloud computing could help their organizations maintain a
flexible architecture to support changes
Business Leaders Linking Cloud Directly
to Business Outcomes
Software as a service (SaaS) grew quickly in popularity because
of its ability to rapidly satisfy the needs of business users, not CIOs
or IT teams. When line-of-business leaders had difficulty getting
into IT’s priority queue, they went to the cloud for software
solutions. Now cloud is fulfilling its promise to be more than just
SaaS, but also infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a
service (PaaS), and business users are taking advantage of these
new capabilities and going around IT again. Line-of-business
leaders now have good alternatives, and they are choosing
them because their businesses demand greater agility.
Business Transformation Across Industries
The importance of agility strengths can be seen in
different industries:
Healthcare organizations are in the midst of a major
business transformation as they adopt electronic health
records (EHR/EMR) to reduce risk of accidental deaths
and lawsuits, and to improve patient engagement with
improved safety and quality of care. To support those
business requirements, IT undertakes an overall IT
modernization effort to safely accelerate the EHR/EMR
transition from manual paper-based file systems to
computerized physician order entry (CPOE), so digital
information can follow the patient. With cloud
computing, healthcare organizations gain on-demand and
cost-effective delivery of patient records to any clinician,
in any hospital, in any location, with greater reliability,
resiliency and security of patient information.
Similarly, governments, schools and other public-sector
entities are being mandated to transformtheir cost
structures. In addition, they must respond to risk and crisis,
supporting citizens and providing services for disasters and
unforeseen events such as H1/N1, and adapt to external
constraints (e.g., dynamic changes in policy and
budgets). To support agency needs, IT begins a
transition that will enable it to rapidly deliver and scale
citizen services, as well as efficiently adapt to the
changing demands of government. Cloud computing
provides a variety of agencies with a dynamic, secure
and compliant solution that dramatically reduces IT
services delivery time.
Around the world, retail banks are seeking to grow their
customer bases and revenue by delivering new mobile
services to market faster, so that end users have greater
control of their finances. IT is aligning with business’s
goals, getting business-critical, customer facing mobile
applications into production faster, so that customers can
access them sooner. IT is enabling the transformation
using a cloud computing approach. This includes a
compliant, secure and controlled test and development
environment that IT can leverage quickly to provide
production applications that end users can access on
any device, at any time, anywhere.
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• Cloud can make the entire organization more “business
agile” and “responsive,” according to 63 percent of
business leaders that responded.
• Companies with enterprise-wide deployments believe cloud
can help achieve 10 percent greater business agility outcomes,
such as key revenue growth and cost reduction.
• Companies with enterprise-wide cloud deployments are
three times more likely to achieve business agility that is
“much better than the competition.”
Cloud Economics
With business agility established as the primary business
driver, the other half of the IT equation is cost. Virtualization—
the foundation for cloud—is well-documented to provide IT
cost savings. Funds can be redirected to IT innovation that
accelerates business, such as cloud.
Today, the availability of on-demand, inexpensive, self-service
computing capacity via public clouds is creating new
competition for internal IT organizations. Public cloud providers
provide a pay-per-use model for IT and publish upfront rate
cards on using compute and storage resources. The cloud
industry rate card is so attractive that it is driving IT
organizations to try to improve services and service level
agreements (SLAs) at lower costs than those at which they
offer IT services today. In a sense, the public cloud has been a
wake-up call for IT organizations. They must now consider the
variety of cloud models—public, private and hybrid—with
different cost savings.
The beginning of the cloud era is the right time for IT to change
its own understanding and measurement of IT. This change is
long overdue, as many IT departments today do not know the
cost of IT for specific applications or line-of-business usage.
Costs are assumed to be “corporate taxes” spread across the
entire business. The cloud era dictates that IT departments will
have to become much more knowledgeable and accountable
for knowing, exact costs, allocation models, accurate
chargebacks, etc. This is an impossible task in an environment
of heterogeneous silos of technology.
Survey responses indicate that companies that hesitate to
embrace cloud because of perceived risks may actually be
hindering faster revenue growth, greater and more lasting
cost reduction, and more effective management of risks and
reputational threats. Looking ahead, many future business
leaders will be determined by how they embrace the cloud.
Figure 3. The majority of respondents agree that cloud can help businesses improve the customer experience, accelerate the operational execution of projects and quickly adapt to
market opportunities. Based on McKinsey & Company’s Business Agility Framework
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For most enterprises, the hybrid cloud is the most economical
model. According to recent VMware and EMC research, hybrid
cloud deployment would reduce typical total IT spend by
approximately 20 to 30 percent.
Hybrid clouds offer lower IT spend through virtualization
and consolidation, optimized workload sourcing, optimized
provisioning and higher productivity in application
development and maintenance
More than Economics: The Value of Hybrid Cloud
If you remember, not long ago IT decision makers had to
choose between deploying applications on an intranet or
extranet, and then most applications just ran on the internet. In
three years, the distinction between private and public clouds
will slowly dissipate, and the two will complement each other in
a way that leverages the best of both worlds—a hybrid cloud
that may simply be called the cloud. But the need for both will
remain, because there is so much investment in legacy
environments within the datacenter. That is not going away. It
would be nice to have it just run better and be more cost-
effective in someone else’s datacenter, but if that could
happen, everyone would have outsourced IT by now.
There are reasons (security, compliance, operational control,
etc.) why companies are continuing to maintain their
datacenters. So, we need to maintain those characteristics and
bring the benefits of cloud computing to the datacenter, or
we’re missing a large piece of the opportunity to drive greater
agility. That is why the emphasis on private cloud. But why
stop there? There is always going to be the need for more
resources. Think about demand that is spike-based by season
or event, or an acquisition requiring a company to ramp up and
then ramp down. Another case may be that the company just
does not know what the demand will be, so it needs to make
sure it has capacity for unpredictable situations. So stopping
at the boundaries of the datacenter does not make sense when
you have the rich public cloud option available that can be
integrated into the enterprise IT strategy. That is why hybrid
is such a valuable solution
The key to hybrid cloud is the standardization of frameworks
and infrastructure across public and private cloud, including
• A common platform
• Common management
• Common security
Standardization is what makes applications and data portable
and accessible across clouds. Given both the business and cost
benefits, it is clear that hybrid clouds are the deployment
model of the future.
Why VMware for Your Cloud?
By allowing enterprise IT to intelligently and dynamically
anticipate and respond to business needs, cloud computing
creates competitive advantage. If your business is thinking
about building for the cloud, why not build for your cloud?
Although true cloud computing is a standardized approach,
the way every individual business approaches cloud computing
is not. VMware is here to help you move beyond the limitations
of a one-cloud-fits-all approach.
How you will want to approach cloud computing depends on
your business. Do you want to begin with an internal (private)
cloud? Do you want to leverage public cloud services? Do you
want a combination?
In other words, it is not about the cloud, it is about your cloud.
With its unrivaled experience, large customer base and partner
ecosystem. VMware can help you move beyond current IT
limitations, to your cloud—where you can accelerate IT, which
in turn accelerates meaningful results for your business.
Your Cloud.
Accelerate IT. Accelerate Your Business.
Contact VMware today to accelerate IT and your organization’s
transformation to business agility through the cloud.
Resources: Download the Business Agility Survey, Feb 2011 at
http://www.vmware.com/your-cloud.
Figure 4. The hybrid cloud is more economical than pure public cloud or pure private
cloud models.
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Customer Profile: Global Financial Services Company
This global asset management and advisory firm manages over USD $50 billion in assets across five distinct asset classes:
commercial real estate, corporate loans, derivatives and capital markets, private equity and principal investments, and
residential mortgages. Using VMware cloud solutions to drive its IT transformation and cloud infrastructure, the company
recovered $20B+ in assets. The company’s IT organization is recognized for fueling business responsiveness and the
company has saved $1M a month in IT costs
BUSINESS AGILITY
FOCUS AREA
BUSINESS AGILITY
STRENGTHS
AGILE BUSINESS
REQUIREMENTS
IT AGILITY REQUIREMENTS AND
CLOUD SOLUTION CAPABILITIES
Grow revenue Launch new products
or services
New portfolios for pricing, plus
flexibility in pricing and
management techniques
To accommodate extreme uncertainty,
company needed
- Highly elastic capacity, capable of rapidly scaling
up or down
- Public/private cloud integration for more
capacity on demand and to support workload
shifts for latency reasons
Reduce costs Execute programs
and projects
Quickly unwind 1.2M derivative
transactions. Accurate
intelligence and pricing.
Rapidly and efficiently establish
book value and dispose of
assets, under scrutiny
To deploy greenfield IT and reduce lead time
for deal closure, company needed
- Immediate access to IT infrastructure from
cloud services provider BlueLock (a certified
VMware vCloud™ Datacenter Services
partner); complete infrastructure and
application support planned in eight months,
rolled out in four
- Cloud-based data and applications hosting
for all workloads
To reduce lead time, company needed
- Dynamic provisioning enabling it to rapidly
scale resources to accelerate deal execution
Scale resources
with demand
Shed 50 percent of asset base
and scale operation over
unknown period.
To minimize expenditures, company began to
- Immediately reduce $1M in IT expenses
each month
- Outsource support personnel, managing with
a team of three what hundreds did before
- Use a pay-as-you-grow, OpEx-based
procurement model with minimal upfront
capital required
To increase transparency, company began
- Metering and chargeback to attribute
expenses
To further accommodate extreme uncertainty
in capacity requirements, company needed to
- Provide a standard service catalog with
known computing and pricing characteristics
Respond to risk Adapt to external
constraints
Prepare for and address
uncertain lawsuits, legal actions,
and government requirements
and regulations