With recent dramatic changes in our global workforce, economy, and environment, the need for digital business transformation is now proven to be critical.
These slides—based on the webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and Redwood Software—explain why you should prioritize digital transformation in your organization and support those efforts with workload automation.
To keep up with today’s speed of business, organizations are pushing their integration, automation, and orchestration capabilities to the limit, often losing time building from scratch solutions that already exist.
Watch this on-demand webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and BMC to discover how to drive solution adoption within your teams, from Dev to Ops, to ensure consistency and value at speed.
In the digital world, semi-structured data is as important as transactional, structured data. Both need to be analyzed to create a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, neither the data lake nor the data warehouse are adequate to handle the analysis of both data types.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and Vertica—delve into the push toward the innovative unified analytics warehouse (UAW), a merging of the data lake and data warehouse.
Over half of IT professionals feel infrastructure complexity has greatly affected their role in the last 3-5 years. Cloud computing is seen as the most disruptive emerging technology and the most important for investment. While most IT professionals are confident in providing strategic guidance, the majority only get occasional opportunities. To feel more empowered, around half need more training in their areas and a better understanding of the business.
These slides from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provide an overview of recent research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Momentum continues to build for these two timely topics, and the initial findings are confirming the links between accelerated software delivery and revenue growth, which was first revealed by the 2014 EMA research on these same topics.
Although changes are the root causes behind most performance problems, many IT organizations still struggle with a haze of siloed tools and obsolete data in their efforts to integrate the change and performance in a timely manner.
Drawing from extensive EMA research, consulting and IT interviews, these slides—based on the webinar—explain how IT is changing and why it’s becoming increasingly imperative to find a way to blend change awareness with APM alerts.
All organizations do IT incident response. The question is, how well do they do it? Research from leading IT analyst firm EMA shows that unless the response takes advantage of automation, the answer “not nearly well enough” is an understatement. With the average time to engage the right response team taking 1 to 2 hours, and the average time to resolve a major outage taking 5 to 6 hours, there is no doubt that there is room for immediate and dramatic operational improvement.
These slides--based on the webinar hosted by EMA research -- explain how you can improve your incident response.
This survey of IT professionals at public sector agencies found that:
1) Nearly all respondents said increasing network complexity has affected their job responsibilities in the last 3-5 years.
2) Compute virtualization and cloud computing had the largest impacts and are seen as most important for remaining competitive.
3) Only about 30% of respondents are confident in providing guidance on strategic technology decisions due to complexity.
4) Most want more training to provide better guidance on emerging technologies.
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT (North America)SolarWinds
A look at the current state of significant new technology adoption, barriers to adoption and needs of IT pros tasked with delivering business impact in North America.
To keep up with today’s speed of business, organizations are pushing their integration, automation, and orchestration capabilities to the limit, often losing time building from scratch solutions that already exist.
Watch this on-demand webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and BMC to discover how to drive solution adoption within your teams, from Dev to Ops, to ensure consistency and value at speed.
In the digital world, semi-structured data is as important as transactional, structured data. Both need to be analyzed to create a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, neither the data lake nor the data warehouse are adequate to handle the analysis of both data types.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and Vertica—delve into the push toward the innovative unified analytics warehouse (UAW), a merging of the data lake and data warehouse.
Over half of IT professionals feel infrastructure complexity has greatly affected their role in the last 3-5 years. Cloud computing is seen as the most disruptive emerging technology and the most important for investment. While most IT professionals are confident in providing strategic guidance, the majority only get occasional opportunities. To feel more empowered, around half need more training in their areas and a better understanding of the business.
These slides from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provide an overview of recent research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Momentum continues to build for these two timely topics, and the initial findings are confirming the links between accelerated software delivery and revenue growth, which was first revealed by the 2014 EMA research on these same topics.
Although changes are the root causes behind most performance problems, many IT organizations still struggle with a haze of siloed tools and obsolete data in their efforts to integrate the change and performance in a timely manner.
Drawing from extensive EMA research, consulting and IT interviews, these slides—based on the webinar—explain how IT is changing and why it’s becoming increasingly imperative to find a way to blend change awareness with APM alerts.
All organizations do IT incident response. The question is, how well do they do it? Research from leading IT analyst firm EMA shows that unless the response takes advantage of automation, the answer “not nearly well enough” is an understatement. With the average time to engage the right response team taking 1 to 2 hours, and the average time to resolve a major outage taking 5 to 6 hours, there is no doubt that there is room for immediate and dramatic operational improvement.
These slides--based on the webinar hosted by EMA research -- explain how you can improve your incident response.
This survey of IT professionals at public sector agencies found that:
1) Nearly all respondents said increasing network complexity has affected their job responsibilities in the last 3-5 years.
2) Compute virtualization and cloud computing had the largest impacts and are seen as most important for remaining competitive.
3) Only about 30% of respondents are confident in providing guidance on strategic technology decisions due to complexity.
4) Most want more training to provide better guidance on emerging technologies.
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT (North America)SolarWinds
A look at the current state of significant new technology adoption, barriers to adoption and needs of IT pros tasked with delivering business impact in North America.
Nearly half of IT professionals surveyed indicated that additional training in their areas of responsibility would empower them to provide more strategic guidance to business decisions. Around a third felt they were already confident in this role, while another third wanted a better understanding of business operations. Infrastructure complexity was found to have greatly impacted most IT roles in the past 3-5 years. Data analytics and security were seen as the skills most important for the future.
In ancient times – February 2020 – EMA research found that more than 50% of IT leaders surveyed were considering new ITSM platforms in the near future. That future arrived with a bang as IT organizations turbo-pivoted to deliver and support unprecedented levels and types of services to a global workforce suddenly working from home.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and ServiceNow—provide an informed look at building ITSM initiatives that will support business at the speed of life.
Get insights into EMA’s most recent research findings on enterprise service management (ESM) when you check out these webinar slides. This research examines ESM as both a logical, evolutionary extension of ITSM and as a revolutionary outgrowth of the digital transformation culture.
IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT, Public Sector ResultsSolarWinds
IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT
A look at the current state of significant new technology adoption, barriers to adoption and needs of IT pros tasked with delivering organizational impact
(North America, Public Sector)
Automation of IT systems can save public sector organizations time and money while increasing productivity, according to a survey of 162 IT professionals. Network configuration management was found to be the most beneficial automation tool, saving over 58% of respondents' time. While 53% of respondents said automation had not changed their IT staff sizes, 67% saw increased productivity and over 84% believed automation saved time. However, integrating tools, budget constraints, and lack of training were cited as challenges to successful automation rollout. Compliance reporting requirements were also driving many organizations' decisions to adopt automation.
The document discusses the results of a survey of 298 IT professionals in the US and Canada on emerging technologies and their impact on the role of IT. Key findings include:
- Over 90% of IT professionals said infrastructure complexity has affected their role in the last 3-5 years.
- Top emerging technologies impacting businesses were compute virtualization, mobility, and cloud computing. BYOD was seen as most disruptive.
- Cloud computing and mobility were seen as most important for investment to remain competitive in the future.
- Information security and cloud skills will be most in demand, while server management and virtualization skills are most likely to be automated.
- The IT role needing most adaptation is information security.
Your Challenge
Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions.
Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling.
Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives.
An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns.
Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
Nearly 90% of IT professionals feel that increased infrastructure complexity has affected their role in the last 3-5 years. Cloud computing and mobility are seen as the most important technologies for investment, and information security is the IT role that needs to adapt the most. While most IT professionals feel confident providing strategic guidance, only a third are completely confident and the majority only get occasional opportunities to provide guidance. Additional training in their areas of responsibility and a better understanding of the business are most needed for IT professionals to feel more empowered.
The document appears to contain survey results from IT and business executives on running IT like a business. Some key findings include:
- Both IT and business agree running IT like a business is important, with IT more likely to rate it as a critical priority.
- Most report moderate progress in setting up IT to run like a business, though business executives are more likely to indicate little to no progress.
- IT executives rate potential outcomes of running IT as a business as more important than business executives do.
- There are differences in how IT and business executives rate IT's performance in various business-like capabilities, with business generally indicating more room for improvement.
Business Process Automation: Are You Ready for It?CompTIA
BPA stands for Business Process Automation. The document discusses BPA, including what it is, why now is the right time for BPA, the current momentum in the BPA market, the key pieces of a BPA solution, and challenges in implementing BPA. It finds that while many companies use technology in business processes like expense reports and invoices, fewer are fully automating these processes. It also identifies hurdles to successful BPA implementation, such as budget, understanding process connections, skills gaps, and changing mindsets.
Ford announced an e-business strategy in 1999 to transform from a dealer-centric to customer-centric company. This included initiatives like AutoXchange (B2B exchange with suppliers), Covisint (online marketplace), and MyFord.com (company website). While Ford was an early adopter, it struggled with fully implementing build-to-order. Nissan emerged as a strong competitor by being the first to enable full web-based build-to-order manufacturing. Ford continues working to improve its e-business strategy and better integrate technology like ERP systems.
SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey 2015SolarWinds
In December 2014, Market Connections, a leading government market research provider, in conjunction with SolarWinds conducted its second annual blind survey of 200 IT and IT security decision makers in the federal government, military and intelligence communities in an effort to uncover their most critical IT security challenges and to determine how to make potential security threats visible so IT can confront them. Respondents weighed in on top cybersecurity threat sources, obstacles to threat prevention, necessary tools for threat prevention, and their concerns, investment and policies regarding cybersecurity.
Visit http://www.solarwinds.com/federal to learn more.
- A survey of over 400 professional services firm leaders found that the majority see technology, especially cloud-based solutions, as important for firm management initiatives and future readiness.
- 51% of surveyed firms believe cloud-based solutions are part of their future strategy due to benefits like ease of access, technology best practices, disaster recovery, and scalable processes and workflow.
- Early adopters of cloud-based solutions like CCH Axcess report benefits including new efficiencies, streamlined processes, and improved communication and client interaction.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and Equalum—provide practical insights into six foundational principles of streaming change data capture that guide your modernization journey.
A look at IT decision making, budgeting, priorities and technology adoption among UK and Germany-based SMEs based on 500 interviews (250 in the UK and 250 in Germany) with IT decision makers from private sector SME organisations.
Workload automation (WLA) software is one of the critical tools required to run an effective IT operation.
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by leading IT research firm EMA and Broadcom—delve into changes to the operating model for IT and benefits of automation intelligence.
Application modernization and digital transformation are the driving forces in many organizations. These activities, however, are stressing scheduling and automation tools to the point at which many are looking for better answers.
EMA conducted research to get a truly global view of workload automation trends and enterprise-class WLA products. Get some of the results in these slides.
Nearly half of IT professionals surveyed indicated that additional training in their areas of responsibility would empower them to provide more strategic guidance to business decisions. Around a third felt they were already confident in this role, while another third wanted a better understanding of business operations. Infrastructure complexity was found to have greatly impacted most IT roles in the past 3-5 years. Data analytics and security were seen as the skills most important for the future.
In ancient times – February 2020 – EMA research found that more than 50% of IT leaders surveyed were considering new ITSM platforms in the near future. That future arrived with a bang as IT organizations turbo-pivoted to deliver and support unprecedented levels and types of services to a global workforce suddenly working from home.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and ServiceNow—provide an informed look at building ITSM initiatives that will support business at the speed of life.
Get insights into EMA’s most recent research findings on enterprise service management (ESM) when you check out these webinar slides. This research examines ESM as both a logical, evolutionary extension of ITSM and as a revolutionary outgrowth of the digital transformation culture.
IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT, Public Sector ResultsSolarWinds
IT Trends Report 2015: Business at the Speed of IT
A look at the current state of significant new technology adoption, barriers to adoption and needs of IT pros tasked with delivering organizational impact
(North America, Public Sector)
Automation of IT systems can save public sector organizations time and money while increasing productivity, according to a survey of 162 IT professionals. Network configuration management was found to be the most beneficial automation tool, saving over 58% of respondents' time. While 53% of respondents said automation had not changed their IT staff sizes, 67% saw increased productivity and over 84% believed automation saved time. However, integrating tools, budget constraints, and lack of training were cited as challenges to successful automation rollout. Compliance reporting requirements were also driving many organizations' decisions to adopt automation.
The document discusses the results of a survey of 298 IT professionals in the US and Canada on emerging technologies and their impact on the role of IT. Key findings include:
- Over 90% of IT professionals said infrastructure complexity has affected their role in the last 3-5 years.
- Top emerging technologies impacting businesses were compute virtualization, mobility, and cloud computing. BYOD was seen as most disruptive.
- Cloud computing and mobility were seen as most important for investment to remain competitive in the future.
- Information security and cloud skills will be most in demand, while server management and virtualization skills are most likely to be automated.
- The IT role needing most adaptation is information security.
Your Challenge
Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions.
Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling.
Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives.
An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns.
Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
Nearly 90% of IT professionals feel that increased infrastructure complexity has affected their role in the last 3-5 years. Cloud computing and mobility are seen as the most important technologies for investment, and information security is the IT role that needs to adapt the most. While most IT professionals feel confident providing strategic guidance, only a third are completely confident and the majority only get occasional opportunities to provide guidance. Additional training in their areas of responsibility and a better understanding of the business are most needed for IT professionals to feel more empowered.
The document appears to contain survey results from IT and business executives on running IT like a business. Some key findings include:
- Both IT and business agree running IT like a business is important, with IT more likely to rate it as a critical priority.
- Most report moderate progress in setting up IT to run like a business, though business executives are more likely to indicate little to no progress.
- IT executives rate potential outcomes of running IT as a business as more important than business executives do.
- There are differences in how IT and business executives rate IT's performance in various business-like capabilities, with business generally indicating more room for improvement.
Business Process Automation: Are You Ready for It?CompTIA
BPA stands for Business Process Automation. The document discusses BPA, including what it is, why now is the right time for BPA, the current momentum in the BPA market, the key pieces of a BPA solution, and challenges in implementing BPA. It finds that while many companies use technology in business processes like expense reports and invoices, fewer are fully automating these processes. It also identifies hurdles to successful BPA implementation, such as budget, understanding process connections, skills gaps, and changing mindsets.
Ford announced an e-business strategy in 1999 to transform from a dealer-centric to customer-centric company. This included initiatives like AutoXchange (B2B exchange with suppliers), Covisint (online marketplace), and MyFord.com (company website). While Ford was an early adopter, it struggled with fully implementing build-to-order. Nissan emerged as a strong competitor by being the first to enable full web-based build-to-order manufacturing. Ford continues working to improve its e-business strategy and better integrate technology like ERP systems.
SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey 2015SolarWinds
In December 2014, Market Connections, a leading government market research provider, in conjunction with SolarWinds conducted its second annual blind survey of 200 IT and IT security decision makers in the federal government, military and intelligence communities in an effort to uncover their most critical IT security challenges and to determine how to make potential security threats visible so IT can confront them. Respondents weighed in on top cybersecurity threat sources, obstacles to threat prevention, necessary tools for threat prevention, and their concerns, investment and policies regarding cybersecurity.
Visit http://www.solarwinds.com/federal to learn more.
- A survey of over 400 professional services firm leaders found that the majority see technology, especially cloud-based solutions, as important for firm management initiatives and future readiness.
- 51% of surveyed firms believe cloud-based solutions are part of their future strategy due to benefits like ease of access, technology best practices, disaster recovery, and scalable processes and workflow.
- Early adopters of cloud-based solutions like CCH Axcess report benefits including new efficiencies, streamlined processes, and improved communication and client interaction.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and Equalum—provide practical insights into six foundational principles of streaming change data capture that guide your modernization journey.
A look at IT decision making, budgeting, priorities and technology adoption among UK and Germany-based SMEs based on 500 interviews (250 in the UK and 250 in Germany) with IT decision makers from private sector SME organisations.
Workload automation (WLA) software is one of the critical tools required to run an effective IT operation.
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by leading IT research firm EMA and Broadcom—delve into changes to the operating model for IT and benefits of automation intelligence.
Application modernization and digital transformation are the driving forces in many organizations. These activities, however, are stressing scheduling and automation tools to the point at which many are looking for better answers.
EMA conducted research to get a truly global view of workload automation trends and enterprise-class WLA products. Get some of the results in these slides.
Research from EMA shows that most organizations benefit from their use of automation tools, but some are successful at more than just improved productivity and a reduction in errors. The most successful organizations create a culture of automation and get the most out of the tools they use.
These slides—based on the webinar featuring Dan Twing, President and COO of leading IT research firm EMA--outline what traits set the successful organizations apart from the less successful ones, as well as:
- How organizations organize the scheduling function and the teams that manage the workload automation software
- The sources of budgets and authority, and the extent of evangelizing automation
- The ongoing impact of increasing use of multi-cloud resources as more legacy production work is moved to cloud infrastructures
This document discusses using the right tools to avoid culture clashes in DevOps environments. It provides an overview of a webinar on this topic featuring presentations by Dan Twing from EMA and Pat Cameron from HelpSystems. The webinar covered how the pace of code delivery is increasing, that DevOps requires cooperation between development and operations, and that workload automation tools can help coordinate control and enable DevOps success.
EMA research places AI and automation initiatives at the top of C-level technology priorities. But resistance to change, lack of experience, and the complexity of training models all hold back progress.
These slides, based on the webinar, address 5 common misconceptions about AI-powered ITSM automation and present a practical way to revolutionize IT support without changing platforms, processes, or user habits.
EMA research shows that more than 40% of today’s production application workloads are running in the cloud. The age of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud is here to stay. Yet, many IT organizations continue to struggle with their cloud migrations.
These slides, based on the webinar hosted by EMA Research and Scalable Software, examines the core requirements for assessing your current IT landscape, setting priorities, and determining which workloads impact which services as you migrate to cloud.
These slides--based on the webinar hosted by leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Digitate--provide insights into the impact of machine learning on managing workload automation.
Based on global research from leading IT research firm EMA, these slides—based on the webinar—provide a uniquely comprehensive look at IT automation technologies in terms of what is deployed, what is most valuable, and what is lacking in today’s solutions.
In May of 2015, leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted survey-driven research to assess the key challenges and benefits surrounding API-delivered services. The data is now in, and the information gathered from API providers and consumers can help answer a host of API-specific questions being asked by many IT professionals. These slides cover some of the findings.
To assess the current state of digital process automation within the federal government, Accenture engaged Market Connections to survey 200 federal government executives across both defense and civilian agencies. The survey was fielded in February-March 2018. These were program leaders with mission, business or operational responsibilities for business processes and service delivery within their agency. Read more https://accntu.re/2D9Kj3B
These slides based on the research webinar hosted by leading IT analyst firm EMA provides results of research on artificial intelligence and machine learning and their impact on DevOps, workload automation, and event and incident management.
Many foundational IT processes and systems must be modernized to support digital transformation. The benefits of microservices, container-based architectures, Agile development, or software-defined infrastructure cannot be fully realized if one or more IT disciplines are stuck in the waterfall development, legacy infrastructure era. A Managed File Transfer tool ready and able to support modern digital practices accelerates the transformation.
These slides--based on the webinar from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and BMC Software--explain how you can accelerate your digital transformation!
ServiceOps is a technology-enabled approach to unifying IT service and operations management for excellence in digital service delivery. It is gaining adoption across industries as organizations look to improve IT service quality and cut costs. The research found that over 75% of organizations have active ServiceOps efforts or formal initiatives underway. ServiceOps delivers benefits like faster problem resolution, higher productivity, and reduced costs. While still early, maturity correlates with better IT service quality. Adoption is driven by the practical benefits of breaking down silos between teams through collaborative workflows enabled by technologies like automation and AI.
How to build an it transformation roadmapInnesGerrard
An estimated 80 percent of #businesses will need to transform their current IT efforts to keep up with new business expectations and technological developments. These include investments such as cloud computing, IoT and BigData projects.
The Future of Automation: Insights from IDC and Preciselyredmondpulver
Automation’s role in digital transformation is nothing new, but the disruptions of recent years have exposed the limitations of our efforts to this point. Does that feel familiar? If so, you’re not.
We’re seeing so many companies double down on the development and deployment of automation as quickly and broadly across their organizations as possible. In other words, hyperautomation.
These efforts include adopting automation platforms with flexible, contingent workflow solutions that drive efficiencies and greater data integrity across multiple complex, data-intensive processes.
To learn more, watch our webinar – featuring guest speaker Maureen Fleming, Program Vice President for IDC's Intelligent Process Automation research, and Andrew Hayden, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Precisely.
Maureen will share recent research and insights from IDC on the importance of process automation to digital transformation, along with predictions for the future. Andrew will then share some of the challenges we’re hearing from our customers around automating complex, data-intensive business processes, and the features you should look for in an automation platform.
You can expect to come away with insights into:
· How digital transformation and automation are evolving
· How to avoid the key challenges with automation that slow down transformation benefits
· Market perspective from the automation provider’s point of view
· How a complete automation platform supports hyperautomation success
The role of WLA is expanding as organizations increase use of all forms of automation to become more efficient and competitive. Digital transformation, DevOps, and microservices architectures are increasing the pressure on workload automation systems.
Building on previous research from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the 2018 study revisits many important questions to monitor trends while exploring this expanding role and the convergence of workload automation with other automation disciplines.
An intelligent IT automation strategy starts with a new mindset about the role of automation in the organization. Automation should be coordinated with an overall view of automation functions that span operations, development, and business functions. Freed from repetitive manual tasks and empowered with visibility, IT and business staff can turn their attention to strategically applying digitalization to the business.
Are you ready to redefine how you think about IT automation? Join us for a webinar that will change how you think about automation.
Research from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has evidenced strong and growing interest in cloud deployment models. While public cloud has gotten the earliest attention, stronger adoption is happening within private and hybrid models. In the EMA April 2014 report “Managing Networks in the Age of Cloud, SDN, and Big Data Network Management Megatrends 2014,” over 50% of respondents reported public/hybrid cloud initiatives were driving network management priorities. Since 2012, cloud projects have moved from early adopter status to mainstream business initiatives, and their impact on network management grew from 36% in 2012 to over 50% in 2014. These slides cover some of the insights from this new research.
These slides - based on the webinar featuring Julie Craig, research director from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) - provide a top five list of hints and tips for you to consider when building your DevOps strategy.
Scribe Software presented on achieving integrated marketing automation through a data-driven approach. They discussed the changing landscape where data and marketing automation are increasingly important. Scribe outlined strategies for data-driven marketing like defining use cases and logical data mappings. An example was provided of capturing large customer orders from an ERP system and adding them as subscribers in a marketing automation platform. Scribe believes starting with low hanging fruit and building experience is key to success. Questions were taken at the end.
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The typical network operations teams use four to 15 tools to manage and monitor infrastructure. This fractured approach to operations often leads to inefficiencies and errors. With Cisco Prime exiting the industry, network managers should look for ways to consolidate and optimize their entire toolset.
Check out these slides from EMA Research and OpenText to discover:
- Why you need to take a new approach to network tools
- Insights from your network management peers who are planning a Cisco Prime replacement
- What features and functionality you should look for in your next network management solution
Discover the latest insights and trends shaping the landscape of workload automation and orchestration, featuring highlights from the latest "EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration."
You will learn more about:
- Workflow Orchestration - Uncover the evolving role of orchestration in simplifying complex workflows in the era of digital transformation.
- Data Pipeline Orchestration – Learn more about WLA support for DataOps, including the integration of Apache Airflow.
- Mainframe Modernization - Gain a deeper understanding of how organizations are embracing modernization while still leveraging their mainframe investments.
- DevOps Support and Collaboration - Explore the pivotal role of workload automation in DevOps practices.
EMA Research Director Valerie O’Connell provides insights into the current, practical, and desired states of incident response and management, including:
- The roles of AI and automation in incident management
- Practical use cases for gen AI
- Business metrics and results
- Near-term investments and anticipated changes
- How organizations are changing to exploit technology advances
These slides from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) present a wealth of research data from EMA’s recent study of real-world adoption patterns, challenges, trends, and enterprise-priorities related to infrastructure and application observability.
According to new EMA research, 84% of enterprises are seeing increased collaboration between their network and security teams. This NetSecOps convergence allows these teams to support new technologies, such as hybrid, multi-cloud architecture, and secure access service edge (SASE).
These slides from EMA Vice President of Research, Shamus McGillicuddy, provide highlights from his market research report, “NetSecOps: Examining How Network and Security Teams Collaborate for a Better Digital Future.”
Check out these slides to discover:
- What causes network and security team collaborations to fail
- How network data, especially packets and DNS logs, play a critical role in partnerships between
- Why network automation and network monitoring tools are critical to collaboration
- How SASE and multi-cloud are impacting collaboration
These slides discuss how to improve user experiences, boost IT efficiency, and drive business growth with modern ITSM.
The slides also dive into:
- Global forces—positive and adverse—impacting midsize organizations
- Top challenges to delivering high-quality services and effective strategies to overcome them
- The research-based case for ITSM modernization and practical ways to get started
Based on the IT Executive Survey 2023 fielded by leading IT analyst research firm EMA and global analytics software firm FICO, these slides explore key trends and opportunities shaping the technology landscape in the global banking, finance, and insurance industries. It will also examine how technology executives are aligning with their business counterparts to drive strategic outcomes.
You will also learn more about:
- Top technology-related priorities for banks and insurers, along with strategies to address significant challenges.
- Changing technology buying behavior and considerations for selecting new technology solutions.
- Strategies for maximizing the value of data and AI investments within enterprises.
- The benefits of a unified platform approach and its impact on other initiatives, such as cloud adoption and legacy modernization.
In a landscape where data is king, master data management (MDM) plays a pivotal role in ensuring data quality and consistency across organizations. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows that 96% of enterprises have one or more MDM tools or are planning to add one in the next 24 months. Achieving a successful MDM implementation, however, proves challenging for many, with 30% of organizations failing on their first attempt to deploy an MDM. Implementation teams struggle with data quality, data mapping and transformation, integration complexity, and many other challenges. What is the secret to a successful MDM implementation?
Check out these slides from EMA and Semarchy to find out!
The days of traditional passwords are numbered!
To help bring clarity to the rapidly evolving authentication landscape, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted primary research into business and end user requirements, perceptions, and outcomes in the usage of password and passwordless authentication technologies. The results present a clear snapshot of where the identity management market is today and the direction it is heading.
Get the results when you download these slides. Topics to be covered include:
- The greatest security risks posed by the continued use of passwords
- The types of authentication technologies users prefer to use as both employees and consumers
- How to reduce time, efforts, and costs associated with managing user identities
- And, much more!
Too many network managers are fighting losing battles. Since 2016, the number of enterprise NetOps teams that are fully successful has dropped from 49% to 27%, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research.
These slides discuss why NetOps teams are failing and how a monitoring solution with a service-centric view of the network can turn things around.
These research slides provide insights into the critical issues involved in handling application- and infrastructure-complexity in ever-changing hybrid multi-cloud settings. Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at EMA, and Jasper Paul, a Principal Product Manager at ManageEngine Site24x7, explore:
The Anatomy of Complexity: Understand and escape the complexity trap of distributed cloud native applications.
Monitoring and Metrics: Examine approaches for effective monitoring of resource utilization and performance as key components of complexity management.
AIOps: Examine the capabilities of AIOps.
FinOps Strategies: Explore frameworks and best practices for efficiently managing your cloud's financial operations without compromising on performance, resilience, or security.
Case Studies: Gain insights from real-world instances where companies have successfully mitigated the complexities and risks associated with distributed microservices architectures.
No matter what your current level of cybersecurity knowledge is, these slides created by EMA Research and A10 Networks will provide valuable insights into the latest trends and empower you with the best practices in cloud and web application security.
Download to learn more about:
- The top threats that pose a risk to your organization and how to mitigate them
- The difference between buzz and hype in today’s security approaches, and how this can be used to help your organization
- A discussion of Zero Trust, web application security, DDoS protection, encryption, and more for the hybrid cloud world
These research slides from EMA Managing Research Director Torsten Volk provide you with insights into EMA’s Kubernetes research. Based on the perspective of application developers, platform engineers, and security and IT operations professionals, this research delivers insights into the real-world adoption patterns, challenges, trends, and enterprise priorities related to the Kubernetes container platform.
Download and learn more about:
Challenges and Solutions – The top issues developers, IT operations, and security teams face and how to solve them.
Real-Life Insights – From cost pitfalls to maximizing developer productivity, this research sheds light on what IT professionals face and delivers actionable insights into these issues.
Security Vulnerabilities – The core types of security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.
Community Priorities – What the Kubernetes community is working on.
Global Trends – Adoption patterns of Kubernetes worldwide.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published the most comprehensive market research study on DDI solutions in over a decade, “DDI Directions: DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management Strategies for the Multi-Cloud Era.” Based on a survey of 333 enterprise DDI experts, this research found that less than 40% of enterprises are fully successful in their approach to DDI technology.
These slides created by Shamus McGillicuddy, EMA vice president of research, provide insights into the following:
- Why only 31% of enterprise are confident in the security of their DNS infrastructure
- How DDI enables network automation
- How cloud migration disrupts DDI strategy and what you can do about it
- What to look for in an ideal DDI product
By the end of 2023, 83% of enterprises expect to connect operational technology (OT) and IoT devices to their enterprise networks, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research. IT and OT are converging so that enterprises can analyze OT data, innovate, and optimize industrial systems. A new approach to OT security is required.
Enterprises need to modernize network architecture to protect these critical assets, especially by updating their network security and modernizing their approach to network segmentation.
These slides explore how enterprises can use OT-dedicated firewalls and zero trust network access to protect OT systems from malicious actors.
Despite claims that the rise of cloud cuts the relevance of CMDB, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) experience and field research consistently find the opposite to be true. In a recent EMA research study, a panel of global IT leaders stated that CMDB use was central to major functions. For many of those respondents, CMDB use was viewed as increasing in importance for automation of complex processes.
Where is the disconnect?
Check out these slides from EMA's Research Director, Valerie O’Connell, to get insights into the research findings, including:
- CMDB use is increasing for 64% of organizations
- Hybrid organizations have the highest rate of CMDB use increase
- 24% update the CMDB in real time. Is that the right frequency?
- Why CMDB has an uneven reputation
- Success rates, reasons, and returns
This document summarizes key findings from a survey of 354 IT professionals about challenges of supporting remote and hybrid work. It finds that while most organizations support hybrid work, about a third are not completely successful in meeting networking needs. Top challenges included lack of control over home networks, collaboration issues, and compliance/security risks. The document also outlines how organizations are modernizing tools and processes like secure remote access, network operations, and on-premises networks to better support remote and hybrid work.
As security leaders evaluate the vast array of tools available to combat ransomware attacks, endpoint and extended detection and response solutions still stand out as the best defense against emerging threats. How can an enterprise know which of these tools is the best though?
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed IT professionals, information security practitioners, and technology business leaders across all verticals to discover their attitudes and perspectives toward XDR solutions. The primary goal was to use survey responses and third-party interviews to create a comprehensive definition of “What is XDR?” for leaders to use as part of their solution evaluation process.
Check out these research slides featuring Christopher Steffen, CISSP, CISA, and vice president of research at EMA, to discover the definition and get results from this research.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research reveals that companies are more successful with SD-WAN transformation when they consume the technology as a managed service. How can an IT organization know if it is choosing the right managed service, though?
Check out these slides to discover the five things you need to know about the power of a managed SD-WAN solution. You will also learn more about:
- Why so many enterprises are choosing managed SD-WAN over DIY deployments
- What to look for in an SD-WAN provider
- Tips for optimizing Day 2 operations with managed SD-WAN
- Charting a path to the future, including secure access service edge
With users working remotely and data now housed in multiple cloud applications, securing access to data is essential to a modern digital infrastructure. The rise of hybrid work has challenged the scalability of traditional VPNs, and hybrid multi-cloud architectures have made legacy centralized VPN concentrators impractical.
Zero trust network access (ZTNA) is an emerging class of technology that addresses these new remote access requirements and challenges.
Check out these slides to discover why it’s time to transition from legacy VPNs to ZTNA solutions. You will also learn more about:
- Why legacy VPN technologies cannot address the needs of modern enterprises
- How ZTNA helps secure remote access in the era of hybrid work and multi-cloud architectures
- The best way to transition to a next-generation solution
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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.
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.
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
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Why Core IT Automation Matters to Your Customers
1. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
Why Core IT Automation Matters to
Your Customers
Neil Kinson
Chief of Staff
Redwood Software
Dan Twing
President and COO
Enterprise Management Associates
2. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
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Featured Speakers
Neil Kinson, Chief of Staff, Redwood Software
Neil has had more than 30 years of experience building partnerships with clients to
accomplish complex business and IT goals. He began his management career at
Xerox, where he worked for 14 years. Next, he joined the EMEA leadership team at
OpenText where he collaborated at the highest level with some of the largest
enterprises in the region including British Telecom (BT), The British Broadcasting
Company (BBC) and Barclays in the United Kingdom. For the last eight years, Neil has
led an expert team at Redwood to help clients unleash the power of their people
through automation.
Dan Twing, President and COO, EMA
Dan is responsible for developing and executing strategic market research, delivering
value to IT organizations through consulting engagements, and directing product
developments and marketing efforts. Dan joined EMA in 2005 and has over 25 years of
experience in information systems, software development, and technology outsourcing.
Dan focuses on all aspects of intelligent and automated management of IT.
23. EMA Maturity Model for IT Management and IT Automation
Task
Automation
– Task specific,
fragmented, few analytics
Use Case
Automation
– Multi-task, human
approved, AI/analytics
Integrated IT
Automation
– Spans IT processes,
AI/analytics driven action
Transformative
Automation
– Business outcomes
driven by AI/analytics
Infrastructure
Management
– Responding to alarms
Operational
Management
– Monitoring the
infrastructure
Service-Oriented
Management
– Managing to the service
Business-Driven
Management
– Managing to the
business
REACTIVE ACTIVE PROACTIVE DYNAMIC
IT Management
Maturity
IT Automation
Maturity