This whitepaper gives an overview about the requirements and the approaches to
make your compliance initiative count double. Not only to fulfill compliance but to go
the next step bringing your documentation and knowledge handling to a stage where
future projects can learn from previous successes and mistakes. This will make your
R&D department ready for future challenges, faster markets and global
partnerships.
The pioneers in the big data space have battle scars and have learnt many of the lessons in this report the hard way. But if you are a general manger & just embarking on the big data journey, you should now have what they call the 'second mover advantage’. My hope is that this report helps you better leverage your second mover advantage. The goal here is to shed some light on the people & process issues in building a central big data analytics function
Closing the data source discovery gap and accelerating data discovery comprises three steps: profile, identify, and unify. This white paper discusses how the Attivio
platform executes those steps, the pain points each one addresses, and the value Attivio provides to advanced analytics and business intelligence (BI) initiatives.
How 3 trends are shaping analytics and data management Abhishek Sood
Explore how 3 current trends are shaping modern data environments and learn about the impact of non-relational databases, big data, cloud data integration, self-service analytics, and more.
The Black Box: Interpretability, Reproducibility, and Data Managementmark madsen
The growing complexity of data science leads to black box solutions that few people in an organization understand. You often hear about the difficulty of interpretability—explaining how an analytic model works—and that you need it to deploy models. But people use many black boxes without understanding them…if they’re reliable. It’s when the black box becomes unreliable that people lose trust.
Mistrust is more likely to be created by the lack of reliability, and the lack of reliability is often the result of misunderstanding essential elements of analytics infrastructure and practice. The concept of reproducibility—the ability to get the same results given the same information—extends your view to include the environment and the data used to build and execute models.
Mark Madsen examines reproducibility and the areas that underlie production analytics and explores the most frequently ignored and yet most essential capability, data management. The industry needs to consider its practices so that systems are more transparent and reliable, improving trust and increasing the likelihood that your analytic solutions will succeed.
This talk will treat the black boxed of ML the way management perceives them, as black boxes.
There is much work on explainable models, interpretability, etc. that are important to the task of reproducibility. Much of that is relevant to the practitioner, but the practitioner can become too focused on the part they are most familiar with and focused on. Reproducing the results needs more.
Architecting a Platform for Enterprise Use - Strata London 2018mark madsen
The goal in most organizations is to build multi-use data infrastructure that is not subject to past constraints. This session will discuss hidden design assumptions, review design principles to apply when building multi-use data infrastructure, and provide a reference architecture to use as you work to unify your analytics infrastructure.
The focus in our market has been on acquiring technology, and that ignores the more important part: the larger IT landscape within which this technology lives and the data architecture that lies at its core. If one expects longevity from a platform then it should be a designed rather than accidental architecture.
Architecture is more than just software. It starts from use and includes the data, technology, methods of building and maintaining, and organization of people. What are the design principles that lead to good design and a functional data architecture? What are the assumptions that limit older approaches? How can one integrate with, migrate from or modernize an existing data environment? How will this affect an organization's data management practices? This tutorial will help you answer these questions.
Topics covered:
* A brief history of data infrastructure and past design assumptions
* Categories of data and data use in organizations
* Analytic workload characteristics and constraints
* Data architecture
* Functional architecture
* Tradeoffs between different classes of technology
* Technology planning assumptions and guidance
#strataconf
The pioneers in the big data space have battle scars and have learnt many of the lessons in this report the hard way. But if you are a general manger & just embarking on the big data journey, you should now have what they call the 'second mover advantage’. My hope is that this report helps you better leverage your second mover advantage. The goal here is to shed some light on the people & process issues in building a central big data analytics function
Closing the data source discovery gap and accelerating data discovery comprises three steps: profile, identify, and unify. This white paper discusses how the Attivio
platform executes those steps, the pain points each one addresses, and the value Attivio provides to advanced analytics and business intelligence (BI) initiatives.
How 3 trends are shaping analytics and data management Abhishek Sood
Explore how 3 current trends are shaping modern data environments and learn about the impact of non-relational databases, big data, cloud data integration, self-service analytics, and more.
The Black Box: Interpretability, Reproducibility, and Data Managementmark madsen
The growing complexity of data science leads to black box solutions that few people in an organization understand. You often hear about the difficulty of interpretability—explaining how an analytic model works—and that you need it to deploy models. But people use many black boxes without understanding them…if they’re reliable. It’s when the black box becomes unreliable that people lose trust.
Mistrust is more likely to be created by the lack of reliability, and the lack of reliability is often the result of misunderstanding essential elements of analytics infrastructure and practice. The concept of reproducibility—the ability to get the same results given the same information—extends your view to include the environment and the data used to build and execute models.
Mark Madsen examines reproducibility and the areas that underlie production analytics and explores the most frequently ignored and yet most essential capability, data management. The industry needs to consider its practices so that systems are more transparent and reliable, improving trust and increasing the likelihood that your analytic solutions will succeed.
This talk will treat the black boxed of ML the way management perceives them, as black boxes.
There is much work on explainable models, interpretability, etc. that are important to the task of reproducibility. Much of that is relevant to the practitioner, but the practitioner can become too focused on the part they are most familiar with and focused on. Reproducing the results needs more.
Architecting a Platform for Enterprise Use - Strata London 2018mark madsen
The goal in most organizations is to build multi-use data infrastructure that is not subject to past constraints. This session will discuss hidden design assumptions, review design principles to apply when building multi-use data infrastructure, and provide a reference architecture to use as you work to unify your analytics infrastructure.
The focus in our market has been on acquiring technology, and that ignores the more important part: the larger IT landscape within which this technology lives and the data architecture that lies at its core. If one expects longevity from a platform then it should be a designed rather than accidental architecture.
Architecture is more than just software. It starts from use and includes the data, technology, methods of building and maintaining, and organization of people. What are the design principles that lead to good design and a functional data architecture? What are the assumptions that limit older approaches? How can one integrate with, migrate from or modernize an existing data environment? How will this affect an organization's data management practices? This tutorial will help you answer these questions.
Topics covered:
* A brief history of data infrastructure and past design assumptions
* Categories of data and data use in organizations
* Analytic workload characteristics and constraints
* Data architecture
* Functional architecture
* Tradeoffs between different classes of technology
* Technology planning assumptions and guidance
#strataconf
Big Data 101 - Creating Real Value from the Data Lifecycle - Happiest Mindshappiestmindstech
The big impact of Big Data in the post-modern world is
unquestionable, un-ignorable and unstoppable today.
While there are certain discussions around Big Data being
really big, here to stay or just an over hyped fad; there are
facts as shared in the following sections of this whitepaper
that validate one thing - there is no knowing of the limits
and dimensions that data in the digital world can assume.
Cis 590 Enthusiastic Study / snaptutorial.comStephenson06
Project Deliverable 1: Project Plan Inception
Due Week 2 and worth 120 points
This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a project introduction and a project plan. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
You are currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for an innovative Internet-based
How HudsonAlpha Innovates on IT for Research-Driven Education, Genomic Medici...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how HudsonAlpha leverages modern IT infrastructure and big data analytics to power research projects as well as pioneering genomic medicine findings.
Methods of Organizational Change ManagementDATAVERSITY
The disparity between expecting change and managing it — the “change gap” — is growing at an unprecedented pace. This has put many information management shops into traction as they initiate large, complex projects needed to stay competitive.
Information management professionals and business leaders must concern themselves with the organization’s acceptance of these efforts. To be successful in achieving the larger enterprise goals, these initiatives must transform the organization. However, it takes more than wishful thinking to bridge the gap.
The complexities of engaging behavioral and enterprise transformation are too often underestimated at great peril because the “soft stuff” is truly hard.
Challenges are consistent in Big Data environments; resource-intensive processes, unwieldy time commitments, and challenging variations in infrastructure. Big Data has grown so large that traditional data analysis and management solutions are too slow, too small and too expensive to handle it. Many companies are in the discovery stage of evaluating the best means of extracting value from it. This Enterprise Tech Journal interview with Kevin Goulet, VP Product Management, CA Technologies, explores the challenges of Big Data, the approach to resolving them. With Big Data environments, the challenges are consistent – resource-intensive processes, unwieldy time commitments, and challenging variations in infrastructure. For more information visit http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/business-intelligence-and-big-data-management.aspx?mrm=425887
Data Migration: A White Paper by Bloor ResearchFindWhitePapers
This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. In practice, many of the considerations that apply to SAP data migrations are no different from those that pertain generally to non-SAP environments.
The one question you must never ask!" (Information Requirements Gathering for...Alan D. Duncan
Presentation from 2014 International Data Quality Summit (www.idqsummit.org, Twitter hashtag #IDQS14). Techniques for business analysts and data scientists to facilitate better requirements gathering in data and analytic projects.
Loyalty Management Innovator AIMIA's Transformation Journey to Modernized and...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how improving end-user experiences and using big data analytics helps head off digital disruption and improve core operations.
High-Tech R&D -- Drowning in data but starving for informationDirk Ortloff
This is a slideset of a webinar held by Dr. Dirk Ortloff from Process Relations. The webinar elaborated on the challenges and solutions addressing the problem of effectively managing the growing amounts of digital process development data. He introduced approaches that address the “heap” challenge. It has been explained how new software tools and methodologies can be leveraged to convert raw data from diverse source into usable information and especially how to recreate the context the data is generated in.
The metrology capabilities of today’s high-tech R&D generate an increasing amount of digital data. Subsequently process engineers are flooded with this - partly structured but mostly unstructured - data. To organize, manage and evaluate this data requires a major effort. Engineers spent a significant portion (20% – 35%) of their time just administering this data rather than evaluating it.
Using the tools and methodologies introduced in this webinar results in structured and context aware information which can reduce the amount of repeated experiments and speed up developments.
The recording of the webinar can be downloaded from: http://www.process-relations.com/english/services/publications-mainmenu-90/webinars/323-free-webinar-high-tech-rad-drowning-in-data-but-starving-for-information
This presentation was held by Professor Christine Legner (HEC Lausanne) at the Swiss Day on November 8, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It addresses the need for organisations to think about data and its management in new ways, as many corporations engage in the digital and data-driven transformation of their business. It concludes with three recommendations: 1) assess data's business value and impact, 2) measure and improve data quality, and 3) democratize data and support data citizenship.
Incorporating SAP Metadata within your Information ArchitectureChristopher Bradley
Incorporating SAP Metadata into your overall Information Management architecture. Case study from BP and IPL presented at Enterprise Data World, Tampa, FL April 2009
Big Data 101 - Creating Real Value from the Data Lifecycle - Happiest Mindshappiestmindstech
The big impact of Big Data in the post-modern world is
unquestionable, un-ignorable and unstoppable today.
While there are certain discussions around Big Data being
really big, here to stay or just an over hyped fad; there are
facts as shared in the following sections of this whitepaper
that validate one thing - there is no knowing of the limits
and dimensions that data in the digital world can assume.
Cis 590 Enthusiastic Study / snaptutorial.comStephenson06
Project Deliverable 1: Project Plan Inception
Due Week 2 and worth 120 points
This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a project introduction and a project plan. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
You are currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for an innovative Internet-based
How HudsonAlpha Innovates on IT for Research-Driven Education, Genomic Medici...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how HudsonAlpha leverages modern IT infrastructure and big data analytics to power research projects as well as pioneering genomic medicine findings.
Methods of Organizational Change ManagementDATAVERSITY
The disparity between expecting change and managing it — the “change gap” — is growing at an unprecedented pace. This has put many information management shops into traction as they initiate large, complex projects needed to stay competitive.
Information management professionals and business leaders must concern themselves with the organization’s acceptance of these efforts. To be successful in achieving the larger enterprise goals, these initiatives must transform the organization. However, it takes more than wishful thinking to bridge the gap.
The complexities of engaging behavioral and enterprise transformation are too often underestimated at great peril because the “soft stuff” is truly hard.
Challenges are consistent in Big Data environments; resource-intensive processes, unwieldy time commitments, and challenging variations in infrastructure. Big Data has grown so large that traditional data analysis and management solutions are too slow, too small and too expensive to handle it. Many companies are in the discovery stage of evaluating the best means of extracting value from it. This Enterprise Tech Journal interview with Kevin Goulet, VP Product Management, CA Technologies, explores the challenges of Big Data, the approach to resolving them. With Big Data environments, the challenges are consistent – resource-intensive processes, unwieldy time commitments, and challenging variations in infrastructure. For more information visit http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/business-intelligence-and-big-data-management.aspx?mrm=425887
Data Migration: A White Paper by Bloor ResearchFindWhitePapers
This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. In practice, many of the considerations that apply to SAP data migrations are no different from those that pertain generally to non-SAP environments.
The one question you must never ask!" (Information Requirements Gathering for...Alan D. Duncan
Presentation from 2014 International Data Quality Summit (www.idqsummit.org, Twitter hashtag #IDQS14). Techniques for business analysts and data scientists to facilitate better requirements gathering in data and analytic projects.
Loyalty Management Innovator AIMIA's Transformation Journey to Modernized and...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how improving end-user experiences and using big data analytics helps head off digital disruption and improve core operations.
High-Tech R&D -- Drowning in data but starving for informationDirk Ortloff
This is a slideset of a webinar held by Dr. Dirk Ortloff from Process Relations. The webinar elaborated on the challenges and solutions addressing the problem of effectively managing the growing amounts of digital process development data. He introduced approaches that address the “heap” challenge. It has been explained how new software tools and methodologies can be leveraged to convert raw data from diverse source into usable information and especially how to recreate the context the data is generated in.
The metrology capabilities of today’s high-tech R&D generate an increasing amount of digital data. Subsequently process engineers are flooded with this - partly structured but mostly unstructured - data. To organize, manage and evaluate this data requires a major effort. Engineers spent a significant portion (20% – 35%) of their time just administering this data rather than evaluating it.
Using the tools and methodologies introduced in this webinar results in structured and context aware information which can reduce the amount of repeated experiments and speed up developments.
The recording of the webinar can be downloaded from: http://www.process-relations.com/english/services/publications-mainmenu-90/webinars/323-free-webinar-high-tech-rad-drowning-in-data-but-starving-for-information
This presentation was held by Professor Christine Legner (HEC Lausanne) at the Swiss Day on November 8, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It addresses the need for organisations to think about data and its management in new ways, as many corporations engage in the digital and data-driven transformation of their business. It concludes with three recommendations: 1) assess data's business value and impact, 2) measure and improve data quality, and 3) democratize data and support data citizenship.
Incorporating SAP Metadata within your Information ArchitectureChristopher Bradley
Incorporating SAP Metadata into your overall Information Management architecture. Case study from BP and IPL presented at Enterprise Data World, Tampa, FL April 2009
This takes a look at the architectural constructs that are used for building business intelligence systems and how they are used in business processes to improve marketing, better serve customers, and maximize organizational efficiency.
Data Quality in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Environments - Disc...Alan D. Duncan
Time and again, we hear about the failure of data warehouses – while things may be improving, they’re moving only slowly. One explanation data quality being overlooked is that the I.T. department is often responsible for delivering and operating the DWH/BI
environment. What ensues ends up being an agenda based on “how do we build it”, not a “why are we doing this”. This needs to change. In this discussion paper, I explore the issues of data quality in data warehouse, business intelligence and analytic environments, and propose an approach based on "Data Quality by Design"
The Evolving Role of the Data Engineer - Whitepaper | QuboleVasu S
A whitepaper about how the evolving data engineering profession helps data-driven companies work smarter and lower cloud costs with Qubole.
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/the-evolving-role-of-the-data-engineer
These slides were presented by Pauline Chow, Lead Instructor in Data Science & Analytics, General Assembly for her talk at Data Science Pop Up LA in September 14, 2016.
The Right Data Warehouse: Automation Now, Business Value ThereafterInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and WhereScape
Live Webcast on April 1, 2014
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=7b23b14b532bd7be60a70f6bd5209f03
In the Big Data shuffle, everyone is looking at Hadoop as “the answer” to collect interesting data from a new set of sources. While Hadoop has given organizations the power to gather more information assets than ever before, the question still looms: which data, regardless of source, structure, volume and all the rest, are significant for affecting business value – and how do we harness it? One effective approach is to bolster the data warehouse environment with a solution capable of integrating all the data sources, including Hadoop, and automating delivery of key information into the rights hands.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Robin Bloor as he explains how a rapidly changing information landscape impacts data management. He will be briefed by Mark Budzinski of WhereScape, who will tout his company’s data warehouse automation solutions. Budzinski will discuss how automation can be the cornerstone for closing the gap between those responsible for data management and the people driving business decisions.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
Data Science is in high demand, the melting pot
of complex skills requires a qualified data scientist have made them the unicorns in today's data-driven landscape.
Now companies are in the middle of a renovation that forces them to be analytics-driven to
continue being competitive. Data analysis provides a complete insight about their business. It
also gives noteworthy advantages over their competitors. Analytics-driven insights compel
businesses to take action on service innovation, enhance client experience, detect irregularities in
process and provide extra time for product or service marketing. To work on analytics driven
activities, companies require to gather, analyse and store information from all possible sources.
Companies should bring appropriate tools and workflows in practice to analyse data rapidly and
unceasingly. They should obtain insight from data analysis result and make changes in their
business process and practice on the basis of gained result. It would help to be more agile than
their previous process and function.
[DSC Europe 22] The Making of a Data Organization - Denys HolovatyiDataScienceConferenc1
Data teams often struggle to deliver value. KPIs, data pipelines, or ML driven predictions aren't inherently useful - unless the data team enables the business to use them. Having worked on 37 data projects over the past 5 years, with total client revenue clocking at about $350B, I started noticing simple success factors - and summarized those in the Operating Model Canvas & the Value Delivery Process. With those, I branched out into what I call data organization consulting and help clients build their data teams for success, the one you see not only on paper but also in your P&L. In this talk, I'll share some insight with you.
Choosing the Right Document Processing Solution for Healthcare OrganizationsProvectus
Looking to automate document processing in your healthcare organization? Learn from Provectus & AWS experts how to make data capture, conversion, and analytics more efficient. Process and manage documents faster and on a larger scale with AI & Machine Learning.
In this presentation, we offer management and engineering perspectives on document processing with AI, to help you explore available options. Whether you are looking for a ready-made solution or plan to build a custom solution of your own, this webinar will help you find the best fit for your healthcare use cases.
Big Data in der Fertigung und das Smart Data Projekt PRO-OPTDirk Ortloff
Der Begriff Big Data ist in aller Munde: Praktisch jedes Unternehmen macht heute “irgendetwas” mit Big Data oder beabsichtigt, dies in naher Zukunft zu tun. Aufgrund der Vielschichtigkeit des Themas und der damit verbundenen Komplexität entstehen dabei in der Regel spezifische Insellösungen, die genau auf die Ziele und den Kontext des jeweiligen Unternehmens bzw. nur einer Abteilung optimiert sind. Weitgehend ungenutzt bleibt hingegen das Potenzial, welches im Austausch und in der Analyse von Daten über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg schlummert. Im Rahmen des vom BMWI geförderten Forschungsprojekts PRO-OPT verfolgen wir das Ziel, Unternehmen in solch dezentral-kooperativen Strukturen den effektiven Austausch und die intelligente Auswertung von Daten ohne deren vollständige Integration zu ermöglichen.
Dieser Vortrag wird eine Einblick in die in PRO-OPT bearbeiteten Problemstellungen geben und Big Data Lösungsansätze und Erfahrungen skizzieren.
Presentation held at COMS2013 in Enschede introducing the challgenges in MEMS development collaboration, the MIG TDP template and the CORONA collaboration approach.
In this webinar Dr. Dirk Ortloff from Process Relations elaborated on the extensions and changes in the new XperiDesk 2013.1 release. The Webinar will give a quick slide overview followed by a life demonstration of these new capabilities.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Make compliance fulfillment count double
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Process Relations GmbH
Make compliance fulfillment
count double
Abstract
The need for compliance fulfillment, like ISO quality assurance, information
governance, etc., has arrived in R&D. If you like it or not in more and more
industries the development of new products is regulated and you need to think early
on about how to fulfill all the documentation and other compliance requirements. But
this whitepaper is not about how to do that – it is about how you gain more out of the
compliance initiative in your company than just compliance fulfillment.
Process Development Execution Systems (PDES) borrow on concepts from
Manufacturing Executions Systems (MES) and Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM) and provide an infrastructure tailored to support and help compliance in R&D
projects. PDES can be used to organize and track the data and information
gathered during R&D efforts and therefore provide solid documentation for
compliance initiatives. But it is not only about compliant documentation, it provides
capabilities to load, to manage and to retrieve data from various sources. It allows
engineers to look at historical and current data and to make connections between
the results gathered. By doing so a PDES like XperiDesk by Process Relations
enhances data and converts it into information that can be used for new product
developments.
This whitepaper gives an overview about the requirements and the approaches to
make your compliance initiative count double. Not only to fulfill compliance but to go
the next step bringing your documentation and knowledge handling to a stage where
future projects can learn from previous successes and mistakes. This will make your
R&D department ready for future challenges, faster markets and global
partnerships.
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Table of Contents
Make compliance fulfillment count double..................................................................................................... 1
Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................... 1
The Challenge ............................................................................................................................................... 3
What is intelligent compliance? ..................................................................................................................... 4
Conclusions ................................................................................................................................................... 6
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The Challenge
Let’s be honest, compliance fulfillment in R&D is mostly seen as a necessary evil. It is not liked because it
seems to limit the freedom of research & development and creates (at least at first) a documentation
overhead with perceived limited value. So let’s have a look at the documentation part of the compliance
first.
What you gain out of documentation and compliance should be:
Storage of research data with (authorized) access from everywhere you may need it
Search for research data (either full text or by certain criteria defined in the compliance initiative)
In R&D however this poses several problems:
Data is available in structured (Tables with numbers and units) and unstructured (images, email,
documents) form. In fact approximately 80% of the digitized data in a typical company is in the
form of unstructured data as shown in Figure 1.
The structured data may change daily or even hourly. New parameters to collect and monitor are
found and old ones deprecated.
Search criteria and reports change with each project and even within a project.
Full text search is not enough and it doesn’t deliver the context (In which project was this result
achieved? How was the component produced? Where else did we use the same material? Show
me all components that work in a range from -50°C to 120°C.)
The context of the data in general is most often not kept or partly lost due to limitations in
categorization.
Figure 1: Ratio between structured and unstructured data
This leads to the undesirable result, that data is only used within one project or the live cycle of a
component. The learning for future projects is limited since only specialists or people who entered and
archived the data in the first place can find and reuse the gained information. And that is basically the
situation where the “I told you so” person comes and tells you, that compliance in R&D is of limited use
and it becomes more and more difficult to keep people motivated to continue the compliance conform
documentation of research projects.
As mentioned, the creation and storage of data today is a technical (solvable) issue. Truth is, with today’s
IT it is, in most cases, no big problem to store the large amount of data. An amount that is growing every
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year by approximately 50%1. But that is the crux of it. The data can be stored. Many technologies and
methods used are optimized for storage… and are more than 30 years old. While that is fine for archiving
your results and thus fulfilling regulatory requirements, in R&D you want to gain information and
knowledge out of that data. But when you are drowning in that data with no effective way to retrieve it to
generate knowledge for informed decisions, you have a problem. A problem that increases by 50% every
year! Recent reports by IDC document that even today 40% of experiments are repeated due to
inappropriate storage and retrieval capabilities.
The question is now: How can we break that vicious circle? We can’t get around compliance! So the only
logical conclusion is to gain more from the compliance effort than just “documentation”. What we need is a
more intelligent form of compliance fulfillment that is geared towards the needs of R&D and provides for
collaborative knowledge management and learning.
What is intelligent compliance?
The documentation situation in development organizations today can be summarized by the following:
Documentation on file servers, MS Excel, MS Sharepoint, paper notebooks, …
Untraceable and undiscoverable R&D results (people leaving the company, one dimensional
search criteria, etc.)
Limited formalized data (numerical data being parameter AND unit aware) available
Formalized data is not really searchable if the units change (e.g. search for temperature in °C if it
is stored in K)
Formalized data is “formalized” in different ways by different departments or even different
persons even if they describe the same facts
R&D data is not interlinked / related, the context is missing in the documentation
Intelligent compliance needs to overcome these hurdles. But let’s look at some definitions first:
Figure 2: DIKW model2
Data: Data is raw. It simply exists and has no significance beyond its existence (in and of itself). It
can exist in any form, usable or not. It does not have meaning of itself. In computer parlance, a
spreadsheet generally starts out by holding data.
1 Oracle: Information Management – Get control of your Information
2 Following the DIKW model: http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
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Information: data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where",
and "when" questions. Information is Data that has been given meaning by way of relational
connection.
Knowledge: application of Data and Information; answers "how" questions. Knowledge is the
appropriate collection of information, such that its intent is to be useful.
So what we are really looking for in R&D (ok, basically in every domain) is at least information or even
better knowledge. And intelligent, compliant documentation for R&D should deliver just that! But how do
we gain that? Looking in the production area this problem is handled by a multitude of tools from the
categories Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP). These tools use a database as background to accumulate data, provide it for
evaluation and to derive appropriate actions out of these evaluations. So is this the answer? Simply use a
database instead of Excel and be able to search?
Unfortunately the answer is no. Contrary to production, in R&D the data is changing constantly. New
parameters to take care of are discovered daily and a big chunk of the data – such as images – is
inherently unstructured and not suitable for database storage. Another point that we learn from the
definitions is that information needs relational connections between the data points. These relations
represent the context of data and transform data into information. But these connections and relations are
not always known at the beginning of R&D projects.
A system to manage R&D data must be a comprehensive data repository for structured & unstructured
data. It must provide for audit trail with versioning capabilities. The versioning must be applicable for
structured (e.g. numerical parameter data) and unstructured (e.g. PowerPoint file) data. It must provide
the audit trail with a strong “what was edited” component for formalized data that goes down to the specific
parameter edited. This is a special need from R&D that “normal” audit trails don’t require. Comparison
between versions of e.g. a processing instruction must clearly show which parameter was changed.
But to handle R&D data it must offer more! It must provide multi-dimensional access and even graphical
navigation possibilities. A system to support R&D must cater for multi-disciplined working environments
(e.g., providing the electrical engineer with E-Test data and the mechanical engineer stress test data)
without media brake. Users must be allowed to simply manage and create relations between different
entities (like components, experiments, assessments, projects and processing instructions). By allowing
users to create relations between the different entities a semantic web is formed. This semantic web can
be used to perform powerful relations based searches (e.g., show all experiments within a project where a
certain processing instruction type was used and an assessment shows a certain electrical and another
assessment a certain mechanical property). Additionally a semantic web can be used to provide graphical
navigation through historical data (e.g., with tree and graph based views) and those enhance the visibility
and retrievability of the data (for example looking at the same data from a project manager’s perspective -
project driven - and from an engineer’s perspective - component driven).
Other important requirements to allow for data-discovery are sophisticated searching capabilities. These
need to allow searching in structured as well as in unstructured data such as documents. While text based
unstructured data / files can be searched relatively easily using advanced index services, the structured
data management needs to be equipped with physical awareness. This means that searching for a
Voltage only really searches Voltage parameters to comprehensively retrieve the information. Both means
of searching must be combinable and the system must also be able to use freely definable relations in the
searches.
The most important requirements for such a system are the im- and export capabilities. A data
management system for R&D must provide means to import data from existing data sources (Excel
sheets, File servers, SQL databases, etc.). It must allow to integrate data from diverse sources to provide
a comprehensive, holistic picture of all activities, data pieces, etc.. It also requires means to export e.g.
search results into other tools (Excel, Statistical software, ERP, MES, etc.) for further processing. It must
enable engineers to spend more time on evaluating than on collecting and managing data.
But the import capabilities play other important roles in the compliance initiative: Engineers can continue
to work with tools (like MS Excel) that they know! This makes the change for them gradual and the
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transition into the new work methodology is eased. On the other hand the import also enables the system
to gather “historical” data. Thus the system is not empty when the work starts and reference data can be
used right from the start. The “why should I start with entering MY data” hurdle is considerably lowered.
PDES (Process Development Execution Systems) like XperiDesk from Process Relations aim to fill
exactly this role. They provide a centralized platform to collect, evaluate and export data in a
multidisciplinary research facility. PDES are geared to cope with the ever changing structured and
unstructured data that is experienced in R&D organizations.
Conclusions
We have to face the truth – if you want to survive your R&D needs to be compliant with certain rules and
documentation standards. Regulatory compliance initiatives can be used – if done right – to gain more
than just compliance fulfillment. Since you need to do the work to be compliant you can push changes
now that would not be able to be implemented by themselves. Bringing your documentation and
knowledge handling to a stage where future projects can learn from previous successes and mistakes will
make your R&D department ready for future challenges, faster markets and global partnerships.