Digital Transformation with 2 Speed IT & Agile Scrumtoamitkumar
Amit Kumar and Amit Anand discuss digital transformation at an enterprise using a 2 speed IT approach. They describe challenges faced including resistance to change and outdated architectures. Their solution was to create an elite development team using agile practices, innovation-ready architecture, and DevOps. This allowed for weekly releases and one-click deployments. It improved conversion rates, reduced time to market, and increased productivity.
The document discusses the concept of bimodal IT and the need for organizations to adopt both traditional ("Mode 1") and more agile ("Mode 2") approaches to software delivery. It provides context around the increasing digital demands on organizations and the limitations of conventional IT methods. The document then defines bimodal IT and contrasts the characteristics of Mode 1 versus Mode 2. It also discusses some of the challenges to adopting more agile approaches and outlines a proposed roadmap for organizations to evolve towards a bimodal model of IT.
Two-Speed IT: Driving Innovation by Extending Your Exisiting IT InvestmentsApigee | Google Cloud
The explosive growth in mobile devices, social channels, big data and cloud technologies is changing consumer behavior and driving profound change in how businesses need to engage with customers. IT organizations are under pressure to meet the demands of customers who want to connect with a business, whenever and wherever they are, and on multiple devices and platforms, while keeping operational systems secure and stable.
A new API-centric layer that extends IT infrastructure is required. It must enable agile and web-scale innovation in order for IT to meet evolving business requirements, while allowing existing business-critical IT systems to continue to run reliably and securely.
Join Apigee’s Ed Anuff and SAP’s Joav Bally to learn:
- Why systems of engagement and innovation, powered by apps and APIs, are critical to meeting the demands of your business and your customers
- How these systems are different from, yet complementary to, the business-critical systems of record technologies
- Future-proofing your IT organization and your business with two-speed IT
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Speed, agility and reduced time to market are becoming increasingly important for Technology organizations. As more business moves online, existing business models and industries are disrupted and new ones are enabled. Technology organizations are facing the challenge of how to transition to agile ways of working. Transform the existing team? Build a separate digital team? Or do both?
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The document discusses McKinsey's concept of "two speed IT" and how organizations can implement a two speed approach to IT delivery. It provides an example of a government organization that launched a Mode 2 delivery model to enable faster delivery of IT changes alongside its existing Mode 1 processes. The key aspects of implementing a successful two speed approach discussed are getting senior sponsorship, focusing the initial pilot on the right projects, staffing the new model with experienced people, and establishing processes to incrementally scale the new model while continuing to improve the existing model.
Martin Börjesson vil introducere Gartners teori om Bimodal IT og forklare, hvorfor den er en vigtig driver i IT innovation. I oplægget vil Martin Börjesson trække på sine mange års erfaring fra dansk erhvervsliv. Han vil blandt andet fortælle om, hvordan et digital lab efter 18 måneders snak, politik og diskussion nu endeligt kører og netop har leveret sine første brugbare resultater.
Avoiding the Bimodal Disaster - New Life for Enterprise ArchitectureJason Bloomberg
As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than struggling to convince traditional IT to get with the digital program, executives are taking advice from IT research firm Gartner, and encouraging existing IT to continue in their desultory ways.
However, many CIOs are realizing the dangers of following Gartner’s advice. The central challenge with bimodal IT is that it encourages IT management to shift their transformation efforts away from 'slow' IT to 'fast' digital efforts.
Such bimodality is a recipe for disaster, as transformation efforts must be end-to-end. If IT governance remains buried in 'slow' IT, then 'fast' digital risks compliance breaches, security vulnerabilities and worse.
To help bimodal enterprises avoid such a fate, enterprises require professionals with an end-to-end view of the organization -- experts who understand the organizational, technological, information, and process challenges that digital transformation efforts must surmount. Who better than the Enterprise Architects to lead their organizations out of the bimodal quagmire?
Presented to an internal audience on 4.14.17 regarding the implementation pros and cons of the Two Speed IT management approach and some modifications for it's successful implementation.
This document discusses Centric Consulting's approach to helping clients implement a "bimodal" IT model that supports both predictable "Mode 1" systems and more innovative "Mode 2" systems. It summarizes Centric's view that balancing speed and stability requires abstracting dependencies, aligning teams, embracing automation, and focusing on culture. Case studies demonstrate how Centric has successfully delivered Mode 2 applications while integrating with clients' Mode 1 operations through practices like microservices, cloud deployment, and iterative development.
'My Case for Agile Methods & Tranformation' : Presented by Saikat Das oGuild .
This paper describes Saikat's experiences with Agile values, tranforamtion and my implementation of them. He describes the circumstances that have led him to believe passionately that Agile Frameworks will best assure the success of his projects.
Competency models for the team and how to choose specific practices against the model.
He describes what has worked for him and why, and he describes what hasn’t worked and why.
Highlights:
A different Approach to look into Agile practices and Transformation.
The difference between Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation.
The real goal of Agile change initiatives.
Adapting Practices in Agile.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Presentation from IoT Solutions World Congress 2016 in Barcelona prepared and delivered by Lukasz Paciorkowski.
Abstract:
In this talk we will learn about two market leaders in two different industries - manufacturing and biopharma - how they used 2-speed IT to quickly capture market potential enabled by IoT. We will also look at benefits brought by moving from disconnected to smart enterprise, different IoT strategies and how to retain startup-like flexibility at the same time enabling market expansion on the global scale.
This document summarizes a TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) meeting in Sydney, Australia in March 2015. The meeting agenda included a presentation on "Business Intelligence - A Self-Service Future?" by Patrick Spedding from Rocket Software. The presentation discussed the shift toward self-service business intelligence driven by factors such as mobility, analytics, and empowering individual users. It outlined how self-service BI is changing roles and organizations and what elements are imperative for self-service offerings. The document provided an overview and background of the meeting host, presenter, and topics discussed.
Cloud computing offers many strategic and business advantages for organizations and has become a key enabler of business transformation. However, adopting cloud comes with challenges such as resistance to change and lack of knowledge. A successful cloud adoption strategy requires assessing an organization's current state and requirements, designing a plan for transformation, and implementing cloud solutions while managing change. While cloud adoption is complex for large enterprises with many dependencies, it does not need to be feared - with a well-designed framework, cloud can streamline operations and allow IT to take on more strategic roles that better support business objectives.
The document discusses how digital enterprise depends on DevOps proficiency. It provides context on digital enterprise and how external forces are driving digital transformations. DevOps is presented as fueling digital enterprise and key to strategies by aligning development and operations. Successful companies see benefits from DevOps like increased release frequency, faster lead times, higher market performance. Cultural challenges remain in adopting DevOps approaches.
The fastest moving enterprises share one thing in common: They don’t let today’s technology slow down tomorrow’s innovations. With first-hand insights from Jeff Sutherland, technology innovation expert, this slideshow discusses:
- Overcoming legacy ERP and CRM system roadblocks
- Never building anything twice at your organization
- Creating a feedback culture to spur innovation
**Download report: Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
Download this report to better understand the aPaaS landscape and how the right platform can accelerate your software delivery cadence and capacity.
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Open source containers built for real time interactionsJason Bloomberg
Docker has taken the open source world by storm, offering lightweight, rapidly scalable virtualized environments for running arbitrary code.
However, Docker and its ecosystem are still quite immature. What's still missing: an approach to real-time integration that supports the container paradigm, but brings the full power, reliability, and performance of asynchronous interactions to microservices and other container-based components.
Jason Bloomberg of Intellyx will kick off this webinar by discussing the importance of real-time, asynchronous behavior for modern architectures, and will also discuss Docker's limitations in the way it handles real-time interactions.
Next, Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano Software, will lay out Fiorano's new open source container offering. He will explain how Fiorano complements Docker, solving many of its limitations. He will also explain how to make microservices created with the Fiorano Microservice Toolkit Docker-ready.
By leveraging its years of experience delivering high-performance, real-time middleware, Fiorano's new open source strategy moves beyond traditional integration to help modern enterprises move toward Digital Agility.
The Big Three tech trends—mobility, cloud computing and the
Internet of Things—show that the world is truly going digital. As a
result, organizations need to begin operating at the speed of digital, especially if the business is to take advantage of real-time, alwayson connections within a data-rich environment.
Mobility in particular is at the heart of the digital customer
experience, with users increasingly spending more time with their
devices. And the mobile theme of always-on, always-available further increases the need for organizations to embrace truly agile approaches to development, expanding the definition of becoming quicker and more adaptive. Mobility also relies on an ecosystem of applications and systems to deliver desired, compelling customer experiences. It requires that front-end mobile apps as well as other applications in the ecosystem move at lightning speed.
Restarting enterprise architecture in the age of digital transformationJason Bloomberg
In today's world of digital transformation, many organizations are struggling to make Enterprise Architecture (EA) work. Some of the existing frameworks are difficult to implement and do not provide the business agility necessary that is required to succeed with comprehensive digital transformation initiatives.
As a result, EA is now at a crossroads. Traditional approaches and artifacts aren not providing sufficient value. Instead, organizations must rethink the role EA plays and the enterprise architects must think in new ways about how they can add value to their organizations
In this webinar, you will learn
- Key tips to help your CIO see the value of EA
- What needs to be different about EA in a Digital Transformation world
- What you can do today to restart your EA program
Agile Technologies has released a new Business Process Optimization Framework that enables insurance companies to rapidly document and analyze their business processes through an interactive web-based interface. The framework provides comprehensive analysis of business optimization initiatives through tools like business architecture documentation, process documentation, responsibility assignment matrices, implementation plans, and transition state diagrams. A managing consultant from Agile stated that the framework allows them to deliver valuable insights into complex business processes faster and with higher quality for their clients.
Agile Network India | How to mess up a Product Backlog | Arunima ShekharAgileNetwork
The document discusses how to avoid messing up a product backlog. It provides examples of how a product backlog can become disorganized over time and offers recommendations to maintain organization. These include clearly defining business value for epics, aligning the backlog with the product vision, managing changes to avoid issues, and conducting regular grooming sessions to keep the backlog prioritized and updated. The key is to establish processes and guidelines at the beginning to ensure the backlog remains detailed, estimated, emergent, and prioritized throughout the product development lifecycle.
Digital Transformation Overview for MFCJojo Dunglao
The document discusses digital transformation for an MFC community. It outlines the basic requirements for developing an app for members, including a database, data storage and security, backup and recovery, and compliance with privacy laws. It describes the need for integrated systems and processes to manage transactions, payroll, vendors, donations and more. The goal of digital transformation is to future-proof the community through overhauling processes, operations, and relationships using digital technologies.
Disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.
Agile Network India | Fueling Business Transformation with AI & ML | Rohit Ha...AgileNetwork
1. The document discusses how machine learning and AI can help companies build better products, deliver better customer experiences, and transform their businesses.
2. It provides examples of how various industries like retail, commerce, fitness, transportation, healthcare, and media are already benefiting from applications of AI and ML.
3. The document advocates that companies embark on an AI journey and offers suggestions on how to onboard the transformation, highlighting the case of an entertainment company that drove transformation through AI-powered localization of media content.
The document discusses the challenges facing CIOs in managing a "two-speed IT" environment where there is both traditional stable IT (Mode 1) and new digital innovative IT (Mode 2).
Some key points:
- Mode 1 IT focuses on stability and efficiency while Mode 2 focuses on agility and innovation to drive new business opportunities.
- This creates differing cultures, skills requirements, metrics, and ways of working between the two modes that can cause issues.
- A large portion of IT spending is now outside of the CIO's direct control as business units directly purchase new digital technologies.
- Pricing models, vendor relationships, contracts, and skills needed are very different between traditional
The document discusses various hybrid connectivity options between on-premise systems and the Microsoft cloud, including using Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, API apps, and BizTalk services to connect applications and data between on-premise and Azure. It also provides examples of how these options can be used to integrate systems like SAP, SharePoint, and line of business applications in a hybrid cloud environment. Overall the document serves as a guide to the different approaches for achieving hybrid connectivity between on-premise infrastructure and the Microsoft cloud platform.
This document discusses Centric Consulting's approach to helping clients implement a "bimodal" IT model that supports both predictable "Mode 1" systems and more innovative "Mode 2" systems. It summarizes Centric's view that balancing speed and stability requires abstracting dependencies, aligning teams, embracing automation, and focusing on culture. Case studies demonstrate how Centric has successfully delivered Mode 2 applications while integrating with clients' Mode 1 operations through practices like microservices, cloud deployment, and iterative development.
'My Case for Agile Methods & Tranformation' : Presented by Saikat Das oGuild .
This paper describes Saikat's experiences with Agile values, tranforamtion and my implementation of them. He describes the circumstances that have led him to believe passionately that Agile Frameworks will best assure the success of his projects.
Competency models for the team and how to choose specific practices against the model.
He describes what has worked for him and why, and he describes what hasn’t worked and why.
Highlights:
A different Approach to look into Agile practices and Transformation.
The difference between Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation.
The real goal of Agile change initiatives.
Adapting Practices in Agile.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
Presentation from IoT Solutions World Congress 2016 in Barcelona prepared and delivered by Lukasz Paciorkowski.
Abstract:
In this talk we will learn about two market leaders in two different industries - manufacturing and biopharma - how they used 2-speed IT to quickly capture market potential enabled by IoT. We will also look at benefits brought by moving from disconnected to smart enterprise, different IoT strategies and how to retain startup-like flexibility at the same time enabling market expansion on the global scale.
This document summarizes a TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) meeting in Sydney, Australia in March 2015. The meeting agenda included a presentation on "Business Intelligence - A Self-Service Future?" by Patrick Spedding from Rocket Software. The presentation discussed the shift toward self-service business intelligence driven by factors such as mobility, analytics, and empowering individual users. It outlined how self-service BI is changing roles and organizations and what elements are imperative for self-service offerings. The document provided an overview and background of the meeting host, presenter, and topics discussed.
Cloud computing offers many strategic and business advantages for organizations and has become a key enabler of business transformation. However, adopting cloud comes with challenges such as resistance to change and lack of knowledge. A successful cloud adoption strategy requires assessing an organization's current state and requirements, designing a plan for transformation, and implementing cloud solutions while managing change. While cloud adoption is complex for large enterprises with many dependencies, it does not need to be feared - with a well-designed framework, cloud can streamline operations and allow IT to take on more strategic roles that better support business objectives.
The document discusses how digital enterprise depends on DevOps proficiency. It provides context on digital enterprise and how external forces are driving digital transformations. DevOps is presented as fueling digital enterprise and key to strategies by aligning development and operations. Successful companies see benefits from DevOps like increased release frequency, faster lead times, higher market performance. Cultural challenges remain in adopting DevOps approaches.
The fastest moving enterprises share one thing in common: They don’t let today’s technology slow down tomorrow’s innovations. With first-hand insights from Jeff Sutherland, technology innovation expert, this slideshow discusses:
- Overcoming legacy ERP and CRM system roadblocks
- Never building anything twice at your organization
- Creating a feedback culture to spur innovation
**Download report: Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
Download this report to better understand the aPaaS landscape and how the right platform can accelerate your software delivery cadence and capacity.
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Open source containers built for real time interactionsJason Bloomberg
Docker has taken the open source world by storm, offering lightweight, rapidly scalable virtualized environments for running arbitrary code.
However, Docker and its ecosystem are still quite immature. What's still missing: an approach to real-time integration that supports the container paradigm, but brings the full power, reliability, and performance of asynchronous interactions to microservices and other container-based components.
Jason Bloomberg of Intellyx will kick off this webinar by discussing the importance of real-time, asynchronous behavior for modern architectures, and will also discuss Docker's limitations in the way it handles real-time interactions.
Next, Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano Software, will lay out Fiorano's new open source container offering. He will explain how Fiorano complements Docker, solving many of its limitations. He will also explain how to make microservices created with the Fiorano Microservice Toolkit Docker-ready.
By leveraging its years of experience delivering high-performance, real-time middleware, Fiorano's new open source strategy moves beyond traditional integration to help modern enterprises move toward Digital Agility.
The Big Three tech trends—mobility, cloud computing and the
Internet of Things—show that the world is truly going digital. As a
result, organizations need to begin operating at the speed of digital, especially if the business is to take advantage of real-time, alwayson connections within a data-rich environment.
Mobility in particular is at the heart of the digital customer
experience, with users increasingly spending more time with their
devices. And the mobile theme of always-on, always-available further increases the need for organizations to embrace truly agile approaches to development, expanding the definition of becoming quicker and more adaptive. Mobility also relies on an ecosystem of applications and systems to deliver desired, compelling customer experiences. It requires that front-end mobile apps as well as other applications in the ecosystem move at lightning speed.
Restarting enterprise architecture in the age of digital transformationJason Bloomberg
In today's world of digital transformation, many organizations are struggling to make Enterprise Architecture (EA) work. Some of the existing frameworks are difficult to implement and do not provide the business agility necessary that is required to succeed with comprehensive digital transformation initiatives.
As a result, EA is now at a crossroads. Traditional approaches and artifacts aren not providing sufficient value. Instead, organizations must rethink the role EA plays and the enterprise architects must think in new ways about how they can add value to their organizations
In this webinar, you will learn
- Key tips to help your CIO see the value of EA
- What needs to be different about EA in a Digital Transformation world
- What you can do today to restart your EA program
Agile Technologies has released a new Business Process Optimization Framework that enables insurance companies to rapidly document and analyze their business processes through an interactive web-based interface. The framework provides comprehensive analysis of business optimization initiatives through tools like business architecture documentation, process documentation, responsibility assignment matrices, implementation plans, and transition state diagrams. A managing consultant from Agile stated that the framework allows them to deliver valuable insights into complex business processes faster and with higher quality for their clients.
Agile Network India | How to mess up a Product Backlog | Arunima ShekharAgileNetwork
The document discusses how to avoid messing up a product backlog. It provides examples of how a product backlog can become disorganized over time and offers recommendations to maintain organization. These include clearly defining business value for epics, aligning the backlog with the product vision, managing changes to avoid issues, and conducting regular grooming sessions to keep the backlog prioritized and updated. The key is to establish processes and guidelines at the beginning to ensure the backlog remains detailed, estimated, emergent, and prioritized throughout the product development lifecycle.
Digital Transformation Overview for MFCJojo Dunglao
The document discusses digital transformation for an MFC community. It outlines the basic requirements for developing an app for members, including a database, data storage and security, backup and recovery, and compliance with privacy laws. It describes the need for integrated systems and processes to manage transactions, payroll, vendors, donations and more. The goal of digital transformation is to future-proof the community through overhauling processes, operations, and relationships using digital technologies.
Disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.
Agile Network India | Fueling Business Transformation with AI & ML | Rohit Ha...AgileNetwork
1. The document discusses how machine learning and AI can help companies build better products, deliver better customer experiences, and transform their businesses.
2. It provides examples of how various industries like retail, commerce, fitness, transportation, healthcare, and media are already benefiting from applications of AI and ML.
3. The document advocates that companies embark on an AI journey and offers suggestions on how to onboard the transformation, highlighting the case of an entertainment company that drove transformation through AI-powered localization of media content.
The document discusses the challenges facing CIOs in managing a "two-speed IT" environment where there is both traditional stable IT (Mode 1) and new digital innovative IT (Mode 2).
Some key points:
- Mode 1 IT focuses on stability and efficiency while Mode 2 focuses on agility and innovation to drive new business opportunities.
- This creates differing cultures, skills requirements, metrics, and ways of working between the two modes that can cause issues.
- A large portion of IT spending is now outside of the CIO's direct control as business units directly purchase new digital technologies.
- Pricing models, vendor relationships, contracts, and skills needed are very different between traditional
The document discusses various hybrid connectivity options between on-premise systems and the Microsoft cloud, including using Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, API apps, and BizTalk services to connect applications and data between on-premise and Azure. It also provides examples of how these options can be used to integrate systems like SAP, SharePoint, and line of business applications in a hybrid cloud environment. Overall the document serves as a guide to the different approaches for achieving hybrid connectivity between on-premise infrastructure and the Microsoft cloud platform.
SaltConf14 - Justin Carmony, Deseret Digital Media - Teaching Devs About DevOpsSaltStack
Let's set aside the buzzwords for a moment and have an honest discussion about DevOps. There is the idea of putting more Dev into Ops, but just as crucial (if not more crucial) is getting your Devs to think more like Ops. Most developers have little to no experience dealing with production environments, and helping them add value to DevOps efforts can be difficult. This talk will cover practical ways of mentoring Devs into more DevOps skills and responsibilities. Ultimately, the goal is to help your Devs gain the skills leading to better production health, application performance and uptime. Of course, we'll also consider how SaltStack can help.
Session 3 measuring democracy and technologyJuan Manfredi
Dr. Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez discusses measuring democracy and technology. He explains that information has become abundant due to digital technology, bringing benefits but also challenges. When measuring technology, indexes consider the information society, economic, and social dimensions. Key laws around the growth of processing power, bandwidth, and network value are described. Mixing democracy and technology requires considering infrastructure, costs, policy, education, innovation, and more. The digital divide refers to gaps between those who do and do not have access to technology, which can impact development and society.
Eoin Woods, CTO at Endava, provides insights into what we mean by agility and explores why successful Agile Transformation initiatives go beyond the development teams, in a whitepaper that discusses the six aspects of an organisation that need to evolve to achieve true agility.
Digital transformation: measuring your digital marketing returnsMosoco Ltd
The document discusses challenges in measuring the return on investment from digital marketing efforts. It addresses issues in assigning value to different online marketing channels like paid search, display ads, and email. It also discusses challenges in tracking offline sales that are influenced by online activities, such as measuring the branding effects of digital campaigns. Finally, it explores methods for measuring the impact of social media marketing.
1. Technology services are becoming cheaper and more accessible, while technology intensity across industries is increasing and enabling new business models.
2. As a result, technology maturity and capabilities are now essential for maintaining competitive advantage over time.
3. This means CIO priorities will need to shift towards developing long-term technology management capability roadmaps, tracking outcome metrics, and regularly assessing progress to ensure their organizations have an adaptive advantage.
Designing Digital Change, Synopsis Hong Kong, April 2016:
In this session Mr. Nigel Green shares his experience of preparing organisations for the Digital World. He introduces key concepts that will help open-up the discussion of the implications, risks, and opportunities, of a digital strategy. Whilst the popular definition of “Going Digital” is often focused on digital channels for Marketing purposes, Mr. Green explains why it also impacts many areas of the organisation, and explains why it is not simply the CMO’s, CDO’s, or CIO’s challenge alone. He will also share tools and techniques used in the design & execution of the transformation to a digitally enabled business. In addition, he will discuss pragmatic next steps to take, and share ideas on how to contribute to a business-wide discussion on the subject.
This session should be of interest to anyone trying to get to grips with what “Going Digital” means to their organization, and how to start planning the change:
- The components of a digitally-enabled Business Model
- The implications & risks of adopting “Bi-modal IT”
- How to design for the protection of existing core business systems whilst embracing the new
- Dealing with an unknown future, and adaptive long-range planning
- The dangers of “Big Design Up Front”, and perhaps paradoxically, why “Adaptive Design” is ever more crucial
- The business and technology architecture implications - including a perspective on the applicability of a pattern adopted by the “born digitals” (e.g. Netflix, Google, and Amazon)
- Suggested subject matter experts to track, follow-up research material, and next steps to take.
Jeff Brightlight (37) is a Divisional CIO at $15B Fictious Ltd. As requested by the Board Jeff and his team embark on a journey towards a Digital Business. They discover the importance of adjusted governance and delivery models, a cross-domain leadership platform, progressed talent development, and a fit-for-purpose IT landscape. For the latter part Jeff has himself updated by his Enterprise Architect Anton d’Entamico on AWS, SAP HEC, SAP S/4HANA 1511, Central Finance (cFin), SAP MDG, and SAP HCP. What's the role of sexy Cindy, assistant to the Board? Will Fictious survive as a business in the Digital arena and, will Jeff win his much-desired CIO of the Year award...?
The rapid growth in mobile, big data, and cloud technologies has profoundly changed market dynamics in every industry, including financial services, driving the convergence of the digital and physical worlds, and changing customer behavior.
DevOps by the Numbers - How to Approach the Measurement and Metrics of Your C...XebiaLabs
There’s no mistaking how important initiatives like DevOps and Continuous Delivery have become to organizations seeking to gain a competitive edge. But without the right metrics, enterprises that have adopted DevOps or Continuous Delivery strategies have no way of measuring their effectiveness in the context of their digital transformation goals. So what are the right measures that can answer questions like “are we getting better at delivering high-quality software faster and at scale?” and “has all this effort been worth it?!”
Learn ways to better measure the processes and output of your DevOps and Continuous Delivery transformation.
You'll also learn:
How to identify the best metrics for various stakeholders in your software development lifecycle
How to measure and demonstrate the business value and effectiveness of DevOps and Continuous Delivery processes and programs
How to address some of the challenges along your process that these metrics and KPI's may reveal
This document discusses the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in leading digital transformation efforts. It notes that CIOs are now expected to drive business innovation through data and analytics, giving them a new strategic role within companies. Effective CIOs act as change agents, working closely with business leaders to develop new services and tools that enable faster innovation. They must shift from a risk-averse, command-and-control mindset to one that is more entrepreneurial and focused on enabling transformation. Case studies show how CIOs are reducing legacy IT costs to free up funds for modernization efforts, helping their organizations adapt to changing market needs and competitive threats.
This document outlines an agenda for a panel discussion on implementing two-speed IT in enterprises. The panelists are introduced, including Neil Drennan from BBC Worldwide, Greg Larson from Target, Daniel Lahl from SAP, and David Allen from Apigee. Two-speed IT is defined as having both digital systems that are customer-focused and agile, as well as traditional line-of-business systems that focus on stability. The panel will discuss challenges in coordinating these two speeds, as well as opportunities for new revenue, expanded ecosystems, and avoiding obsolescence through two-speed IT.
Presentation from the technology track at I Love APIs London 2016 featuring Oliver Ogg, Marks & Spencer and Andrew Braithwaite, Laterooms.com.
APIs are the modern day version of the Rosetta stone. Learn how to provide standardisation and uniformity for partners and internal teams that want to build their own apps but need to access various IT systems and apps that each speak their own dialects.
This session includes case studies from Laterooms and Marks and Spencer and will cover how they help external teams build APIs, and evangelise an API economy organisation.
In this session we are going to consider some lessons that Business Architecture practitioners might learn from Lean. Business Architecture has traditionally delivered ivory tower models which are slow to generate, hard to understand, and require heavy maintenance.
We'll start with a '101' level introduction to Business Architecture, discussing both the process of defining a Business Architecture and also some of the models that Business Architecture produces. We'll also try to understand the value of Business Architecture.
We'll then start to map some Lean Principles to Business Architecture and try and understand how we could potentially optimise the value stream. We'll consider where Business Architecture can be wasteful, discussing the diminishing value of information and the concept of analysis paralysis.
Finally I'll introduce you to a leaner approach to Business Architecture that focusses on rapid techniques for model generation and heavier engagement of system actors in both the development and the maintenance of models. I'll also share my technique for rapid enterprise modelling which can help you to build a capability model in hours rather than weeks/months.
Lean Digital Enterprise Evolution in a Hyper Connected World VSR *
Hyperconnectivity is changing the business landscape, requiring organizations to become "lean digital enterprises" that can quickly respond to changing needs. This will involve new approaches to developing highly interconnected applications (HCAs) that integrate people, processes, products and things. The document outlines challenges for CXOs and proposes a new lean digital technology foundation and development approach using tools like CollabNet TeamForge to efficiently create HCAs.
AppSphere 15 - Shining a Light on Shadow IT: A New Way of Working for "Busine...AppDynamics
Brandon Bichler, a Partner at London-based consulting firm Elixirr, will walk through what this new operating model looks like and provide some real examples of where it has been implemented and is working. Furthermore, he will outline what you can do to:
- Sense check how healthy your company is in terms of the relationship between business and IT
- Start to build out the components of this new operating model, factoring in the culture and organisational nuances of your company
- Engage key stakeholders on this topic and secure their support for change
This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.
Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, A BCG Perspective Powe...Bretz Harllynne Moltio
The document discusses the roles and responsibilities of a Chief Information Officer (CIO). A CIO is responsible for overseeing the information technology and computer systems that support business goals. Key responsibilities of a CIO include transforming IT into a business function, leading different departments, and fulfilling sales, operations, accounting, and human resources roles. Additionally, CIOs face increasing expectations from executives as technology progresses rapidly and companies seek cost-effective IT solutions from emerging vendors.
2 Speed IT powered by Microsoft Azure and MinecraftSriram Hariharan
In this session, Mike will show how a model reference architecture in Azure and Minecraft can be used by architects to visualize solutions that you want your teams to build.
2 Speed IT powered by Microsoft Azure and MinecraftBizTalk360
In this session, Mike will show how a model reference architecture in Azure and Minecraft can be used by architects to visualize solutions that you want your teams to build.
The document provides an agenda and summaries from a cloud computing event. It includes:
- Introductions from leaders of companies that have adopted cloud computing like MINEMAN and Present Group, describing their experiences migrating to the cloud.
- A discussion of typical adoption processes, benefits of cloud like flexibility and cost savings, and the future of cloud computing including automation, serverless architecture, and business agility.
- An Amazon Web Services representative discusses how AWS supports automation, DevOps practices, and helps companies gain business agility through scalable cloud services.
RightScale Webinar: Get Your App To AzureRightScale
Looking for guidance with Windows Azure? RightScale has a dedicated “Get Your App to Azure” program for customers evaluating Microsoft’s Windows Azure IaaS. Enterprises come to us at all stages of cloud adoption for expert end-to-end assistance, ranging from high level strategic decision making to designing and implementing application architectures.
In this webinar, speakers from RightScale and Microsoft share best practices for migration and deployment in the Azure cloud.
Key Topics:
1. Why Infrastructure as a Service.
2. How to identify applications for migration or when to initially build on Windows Azure.
3. Prioritize applications by cloud readiness.
4. Develop an end-to-end plan from strategy to implementation.
5. RightScale Services for Azure.
The document discusses Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 and its components for managing IT infrastructure and automating processes. It provides an overview of System Center capabilities for data center and client automation. Key components described include System Center Configuration Manager for device management, Operations Manager for monitoring, Virtual Machine Manager for hypervisor management, and Service Manager for IT service management. The document demonstrates System Center's unified management capabilities and how customers can get started or advance their use of System Center.
This document provides an overview of Project Server 2013 for SharePoint architects. It discusses the architecture of Project Server, including how it is implemented as a service application with various Windows services. It highlights key features like portfolio analysis, task aggregation across systems, and workflows. The document also reviews changes in Project Server 2013 like Active Directory synchronization improvements and database consolidation. It discusses options for training and certification and announces an upcoming Project Server conference.
CipherCloud Microservice Meetup - Managing Services in a Lean StartupShobana Radhakrishnan
Shobana Radhakrishnan discusses how Mindflash manages service integration and implements a microservices architecture to achieve high uptime and continuous deployment in a lean startup. Mindflash relies on many external services and has evolved its deployment process from monthly major releases with fallouts to near-continuous deployment with high automation and alignment between test and production environments. Mindflash implements a microservices architecture with independent services communicating through APIs to improve scalability, deployment speed, and allow incremental improvements. This approach helps Mindflash continuously upgrade services while maintaining high performance and uptime.
The document discusses leveraging major market opportunities with Microsoft Azure. It notes that worldwide cloud software revenue is expected to grow significantly between 2010-2017. By 2017, nearly $1 of every $5 spent on applications will be consumed via the cloud. It also discusses how large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017 and over 50% of customers are leveraging the cloud. The document outlines several major enterprise workloads that can run on Azure and the benefits of doing so. It provides revenue estimates for running different workloads on Azure based on small, medium, and large scenarios. Finally, it discusses how the Microsoft Partner Network can help partners engage with opportunities in areas like cloud services, managed services, and third party
For enterprises trying to stay ahead of the game, having a robust and fast application development program can make or break their market presence. The challenge for developers, however, is to build responsive, devise-agnostic applications in days, not months.
This document discusses leveraging major market opportunities with Microsoft Azure. It notes that worldwide cloud software revenue is expected to grow significantly between 2010-2017. By 2017, nearly $1 of every $5 spent on applications will be consumed via the cloud. It also notes that hybrid cloud deployments will be common for large enterprises by the end of 2017. The document then outlines several major enterprise workloads that can be moved to Azure, including test/development, SharePoint, SQL/business intelligence, application migration, SAP, and identity/Office 365. It provides examples of how partners can help customers with these types of migrations.
The document discusses Fishbowl Solutions' Admin Suite, a set of tools to automate and streamline administration of Oracle WebCenter Content. The Admin Suite includes components for batch loading content, enhancing workflows, subscription notifications, and advanced user security mapping. It aims to simplify common admin tasks, increase user adoption and productivity, and improve security, insight and reporting. Customer examples show how the tools helped organizations manage migrations, integrations, reviews and user access management more efficiently.
Directions Asia Unlocking New Integration Potential for d365 BC with Event ...Wagner Silveira
Session co-presented with Tharanga Chandrasekara (Business Solution MVP) at Directions ASIA 2019
Reactive or event driven programming allow systems to have access to the correct data at the correct time. By using a BC extension and the AL language in conjunction with Azure Event Grid, you can benefit from this powerful publisher/subscriber engine to notify systems of changes in your data – as they happen - so you can enable faster business processes across your enterprise.
In this session Tharanga Chandrasekara (Business Solutions MVP) and Wagner Silveira (Azure MVP) will show you how to implement a generic extension that allows you to publish events into Azure Event Grid, and how you can use Azure Integration Services to subscribe to those events and take action.
Are you jumping on the microservices bandwagon? When and when not to adopt micro services architecture? If you must, what are the considerations? This slidedeck will help answer a few of those questions...
In this presentation, Michael Stephenson talks about the Citizen Integrator, Microsoft Flow and also Power Apps.
The Azure-Citizen Integrator is a newer role to organizations but is expected to play an important part in the future of organizations currently going through digital transformations. He also explains how Azure Citizen Integrator can be empowered by Microsoft to deliver value to the business in a way that can be complimentary to IT strategy rather than being considered shadow IT.
Avoiding the unexpected costs of cloud computing. Without proper planning and governance, spending on cloud services can easily get out of control, putting your organization at risk of not realizing the benefits of moving to the cloud in the first place. This presentation helps you understand the frameworks and tools available to effectively manage and optimize cloud costs.
You’ll Learn how to: (1) develop and manage optimal cloud budgets (2) assign accountabilities and track usage (3) continuously improve cost performance.
The cloud platform is getting more and more attractive to the computing world. Azure is a new cloud system from Microsoft that allows applications to run from a remote connected system, hosted in a Microsoft data center, and store data in the cloud. The platform consists of three main parts – Development runtime, Azure runtime and Applications like SQL Azure. In this business focused session you will see the main business overview of this cloud platform.
Webinar: Ten Ways to Enhance Your Salesforce.com Application in 2013Emtec Inc.
The document outlines 10 ways to improve a Salesforce.com application in 2013 according to a webinar presentation by Emtec. The top three recommendations are: 1) Integrate Salesforce.com with key external systems to improve processes and access data from any system, 2) Enrich and cleanse data in Salesforce.com to promote accurate reporting and decision making, and 3) Bring other functional groups onto the Salesforce.com platform to improve collaboration and reduce redundant systems. The webinar also provides guidance on how to implement the recommendations and considerations for each.
I did a session at the LeedsSharp about azure integration services and where to use which technology
- Azure Functions
- Logic Apps
- Synapse
- Data Factory
- Event Grid
- Service Bus
- Event Hub
- API Management
Log Analytics and Application Insights can help with monitoring and managing integration solutions built with Microsoft technologies. They provide performance monitoring of APIs, functions, logic apps and other components. While end-to-end tracing has some limitations, the tools allow for custom logging, out-of-box views of data, and testing the availability of key applications and services.
a talk about azure synapse aimed to help people who are not data experts understand what synapse is and how you can integrate it with other technologies
The document discusses building an enterprise integration platform on Azure using Terraform. It summarizes the challenges of traditional on-premise integration platforms like BizTalk and how Azure services can address these. It then demonstrates how to define Azure infrastructure as code using Terraform to automate the provisioning of an integration platform across environments in under 45 minutes. The document concludes by discussing how Azure DevOps pipelines can be used to manage deployments and ensure consistency.
This document provides an overview of Logic Apps and how they can be used for integration tasks. It begins with an agenda that includes positioning Logic Apps, a Logic Apps 101 section, and demos. It then discusses how Logic Apps can be used for lightweight integrations, production integrations, and real-world projects. Examples are given of common integration architectures and how Logic Apps fit into them. The document concludes with a questions slide thanking the audience.
This document discusses various integration patterns and architectures that involve Microsoft Azure and BizTalk Server. It presents questions that customers may ask about integration solutions. It also provides examples of hybrid integration architectures that leverage Azure services like Service Bus along with on-premises BizTalk Server. The document aims to help customers analyze requirements and evaluate different architectural options for their integration needs.
This document discusses Microsoft's Azure API platform and the features it provides for both developers and administrators. It allows developers to self-register for APIs, access documentation and support forums, and view usage analytics. It also gives administrators tools to manage API specifications, policies, security settings, and reports on API usage. The platform aims to simplify creating and consuming APIs through features like subscriptions, documentation, rate limiting, and request/response transformation.
Connected Systems Consulting Ltd implemented an integration solution using BizTalk to connect a new healthcare application with their existing PeopleSoft finance processes. BizTalk transformed complex messages and orchestrated the systems to handle periodic spikes in load from year-end and month-end processes. This allowed over 10 million annual customer payments to be processed reliably without impacting system performance during peaks. BizTalk also provided traceability of exceptions and acknowledgments of completed processes.
A large Danish healthcare customer needed to integrate their new website hosted externally with their existing on-premise integration using Websphere. Connected Systems Consulting used Azure Service Bus Relay and a WCF Routing Service to bridge this connection in just one day, allowing the website to reuse services in Websphere. The solution provided a low-cost lightweight addition to the customer's existing integration infrastructure while reusing their previous Websphere investment.
This document discusses latch contention issues that can occur in the BizTalk MessageBox database when processing high volumes of business transactions. It notes that while adding more BizTalk servers initially improved throughput, latency significantly increased. The root cause is explained as latch convoys occurring on indexes in the database under heavy concurrent workloads. Specific wait types and sessions experiencing latch waits are shown. The contention is seen on tables with high insert, select, update and delete rates against small tables. Workarounds suggested minimizing load on the MessageBox through application design changes.
This slide deck is about automated testing of BizTalk HL7 solutions and showing how you can use behaviour driven acceptance tests to automate your testing
The document discusses how Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and the tool SpecFlow can help address common challenges for BizTalk projects. BDD uses a Given/When/Then syntax to define features and scenarios in a way that is understandable to both technical and business stakeholders. SpecFlow allows these scenarios to be defined in .NET and then tested against BizTalk implementations. This approach provides requirements that are close to the code, simplifies documentation, and creates an abstraction layer between tests and implementations that makes intentions clearer. While some BizUnit steps still require implementation, overall BDD offers ways to streamline requirements, documentation, and testing for established BizTalk teams.
AppFx.ServiceBus - Simple Messaging with Windows Azure Service BusMichael Stephenson
This document introduces AppFx.ServiceBus, a framework that simplifies implementing hybrid messaging with Windows Azure Service Bus. It discusses the challenges with existing solutions, such as needing to write a lot of plumbing code. AppFx.ServiceBus aims to provide a simplified development experience, support common messaging patterns, and establish standards for interoperability. Key use cases include connecting old versions of BizTalk to Azure Service Bus or doing lightweight queued messaging. The document demonstrates AppFx.ServiceBus with a scenario of integrating an on-premise WCF service and includes information on features and where to find more details.
Complete Guide to Advanced Logistics Management Software in Riyadh.pdfSoftware Company
Explore the benefits and features of advanced logistics management software for businesses in Riyadh. This guide delves into the latest technologies, from real-time tracking and route optimization to warehouse management and inventory control, helping businesses streamline their logistics operations and reduce costs. Learn how implementing the right software solution can enhance efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and provide a competitive edge in the growing logistics sector of Riyadh.
UiPath Community Berlin: Orchestrator API, Swagger, and Test Manager APIUiPathCommunity
Join this UiPath Community Berlin meetup to explore the Orchestrator API, Swagger interface, and the Test Manager API. Learn how to leverage these tools to streamline automation, enhance testing, and integrate more efficiently with UiPath. Perfect for developers, testers, and automation enthusiasts!
📕 Agenda
Welcome & Introductions
Orchestrator API Overview
Exploring the Swagger Interface
Test Manager API Highlights
Streamlining Automation & Testing with APIs (Demo)
Q&A and Open Discussion
Perfect for developers, testers, and automation enthusiasts!
👉 Join our UiPath Community Berlin chapter: https://community.uipath.com/berlin/
This session streamed live on April 29, 2025, 18:00 CET.
Check out all our upcoming UiPath Community sessions at https://community.uipath.com/events/.
The Evolution of Meme Coins A New Era for Digital Currency ppt.pdfAbi john
Analyze the growth of meme coins from mere online jokes to potential assets in the digital economy. Explore the community, culture, and utility as they elevate themselves to a new era in cryptocurrency.
Andrew Marnell: Transforming Business Strategy Through Data-Driven InsightsAndrew Marnell
With expertise in data architecture, performance tracking, and revenue forecasting, Andrew Marnell plays a vital role in aligning business strategies with data insights. Andrew Marnell’s ability to lead cross-functional teams ensures businesses achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence.
This is the keynote of the Into the Box conference, highlighting the release of the BoxLang JVM language, its key enhancements, and its vision for the future.
Linux Support for SMARC: How Toradex Empowers Embedded DevelopersToradex
Toradex brings robust Linux support to SMARC (Smart Mobility Architecture), ensuring high performance and long-term reliability for embedded applications. Here’s how:
• Optimized Torizon OS & Yocto Support – Toradex provides Torizon OS, a Debian-based easy-to-use platform, and Yocto BSPs for customized Linux images on SMARC modules.
• Seamless Integration with i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 95 – Toradex SMARC solutions leverage NXP’s i.MX 8 M Plus and i.MX 95 SoCs, delivering power efficiency and AI-ready performance.
• Secure and Reliable – With Secure Boot, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and LTS kernel support, Toradex ensures industrial-grade security and longevity.
• Containerized Workflows for AI & IoT – Support for Docker, ROS, and real-time Linux enables scalable AI, ML, and IoT applications.
• Strong Ecosystem & Developer Support – Toradex offers comprehensive documentation, developer tools, and dedicated support, accelerating time-to-market.
With Toradex’s Linux support for SMARC, developers get a scalable, secure, and high-performance solution for industrial, medical, and AI-driven applications.
Do you have a specific project or application in mind where you're considering SMARC? We can help with Free Compatibility Check and help you with quick time-to-market
For more information: https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/smarc-arm-family
Procurement Insights Cost To Value Guide.pptxJon Hansen
Procurement Insights integrated Historic Procurement Industry Archives, serves as a powerful complement — not a competitor — to other procurement industry firms. It fills critical gaps in depth, agility, and contextual insight that most traditional analyst and association models overlook.
Learn more about this value- driven proprietary service offering here.
Artificial Intelligence is providing benefits in many areas of work within the heritage sector, from image analysis, to ideas generation, and new research tools. However, it is more critical than ever for people, with analogue intelligence, to ensure the integrity and ethical use of AI. Including real people can improve the use of AI by identifying potential biases, cross-checking results, refining workflows, and providing contextual relevance to AI-driven results.
News about the impact of AI often paints a rosy picture. In practice, there are many potential pitfalls. This presentation discusses these issues and looks at the role of analogue intelligence and analogue interfaces in providing the best results to our audiences. How do we deal with factually incorrect results? How do we get content generated that better reflects the diversity of our communities? What roles are there for physical, in-person experiences in the digital world?
Massive Power Outage Hits Spain, Portugal, and France: Causes, Impact, and On...Aqusag Technologies
In late April 2025, a significant portion of Europe, particularly Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France, experienced widespread, rolling power outages that continue to affect millions of residents, businesses, and infrastructure systems.
How Can I use the AI Hype in my Business Context?Daniel Lehner
𝙄𝙨 𝘼𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙮𝙥𝙚? 𝙊𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨?
Everyone’s talking about AI but is anyone really using it to create real value?
Most companies want to leverage AI. Few know 𝗵𝗼𝘄.
✅ What exactly should you ask to find real AI opportunities?
✅ Which AI techniques actually fit your business?
✅ Is your data even ready for AI?
If you’re not sure, you’re not alone. This is a condensed version of the slides I presented at a Linkedin webinar for Tecnovy on 28.04.2025.
What is Model Context Protocol(MCP) - The new technology for communication bw...Vishnu Singh Chundawat
The MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a framework designed to manage context and interaction within complex systems. This SlideShare presentation will provide a detailed overview of the MCP Model, its applications, and how it plays a crucial role in improving communication and decision-making in distributed systems. We will explore the key concepts behind the protocol, including the importance of context, data management, and how this model enhances system adaptability and responsiveness. Ideal for software developers, system architects, and IT professionals, this presentation will offer valuable insights into how the MCP Model can streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and create more intuitive systems for a wide range of use cases.
Technology Trends in 2025: AI and Big Data AnalyticsInData Labs
At InData Labs, we have been keeping an ear to the ground, looking out for AI-enabled digital transformation trends coming our way in 2025. Our report will provide a look into the technology landscape of the future, including:
-Artificial Intelligence Market Overview
-Strategies for AI Adoption in 2025
-Anticipated drivers of AI adoption and transformative technologies
-Benefits of AI and Big data for your business
-Tips on how to prepare your business for innovation
-AI and data privacy: Strategies for securing data privacy in AI models, etc.
Download your free copy nowand implement the key findings to improve your business.
Enhancing ICU Intelligence: How Our Functional Testing Enabled a Healthcare I...Impelsys Inc.
Impelsys provided a robust testing solution, leveraging a risk-based and requirement-mapped approach to validate ICU Connect and CritiXpert. A well-defined test suite was developed to assess data communication, clinical data collection, transformation, and visualization across integrated devices.
HCL Nomad Web – Best Practices und Verwaltung von Multiuser-Umgebungenpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-nomad-web-best-practices-und-verwaltung-von-multiuser-umgebungen/
HCL Nomad Web wird als die nächste Generation des HCL Notes-Clients gefeiert und bietet zahlreiche Vorteile, wie die Beseitigung des Bedarfs an Paketierung, Verteilung und Installation. Nomad Web-Client-Updates werden “automatisch” im Hintergrund installiert, was den administrativen Aufwand im Vergleich zu traditionellen HCL Notes-Clients erheblich reduziert. Allerdings stellt die Fehlerbehebung in Nomad Web im Vergleich zum Notes-Client einzigartige Herausforderungen dar.
Begleiten Sie Christoph und Marc, während sie demonstrieren, wie der Fehlerbehebungsprozess in HCL Nomad Web vereinfacht werden kann, um eine reibungslose und effiziente Benutzererfahrung zu gewährleisten.
In diesem Webinar werden wir effektive Strategien zur Diagnose und Lösung häufiger Probleme in HCL Nomad Web untersuchen, einschließlich
- Zugriff auf die Konsole
- Auffinden und Interpretieren von Protokolldateien
- Zugriff auf den Datenordner im Cache des Browsers (unter Verwendung von OPFS)
- Verständnis der Unterschiede zwischen Einzel- und Mehrbenutzerszenarien
- Nutzung der Client Clocking-Funktion
AI Changes Everything – Talk at Cardiff Metropolitan University, 29th April 2...Alan Dix
Talk at the final event of Data Fusion Dynamics: A Collaborative UK-Saudi Initiative in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence funded by the British Council UK-Saudi Challenge Fund 2024, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 29th April 2025
https://alandix.com/academic/talks/CMet2025-AI-Changes-Everything/
Is AI just another technology, or does it fundamentally change the way we live and think?
Every technology has a direct impact with micro-ethical consequences, some good, some bad. However more profound are the ways in which some technologies reshape the very fabric of society with macro-ethical impacts. The invention of the stirrup revolutionised mounted combat, but as a side effect gave rise to the feudal system, which still shapes politics today. The internal combustion engine offers personal freedom and creates pollution, but has also transformed the nature of urban planning and international trade. When we look at AI the micro-ethical issues, such as bias, are most obvious, but the macro-ethical challenges may be greater.
At a micro-ethical level AI has the potential to deepen social, ethnic and gender bias, issues I have warned about since the early 1990s! It is also being used increasingly on the battlefield. However, it also offers amazing opportunities in health and educations, as the recent Nobel prizes for the developers of AlphaFold illustrate. More radically, the need to encode ethics acts as a mirror to surface essential ethical problems and conflicts.
At the macro-ethical level, by the early 2000s digital technology had already begun to undermine sovereignty (e.g. gambling), market economics (through network effects and emergent monopolies), and the very meaning of money. Modern AI is the child of big data, big computation and ultimately big business, intensifying the inherent tendency of digital technology to concentrate power. AI is already unravelling the fundamentals of the social, political and economic world around us, but this is a world that needs radical reimagining to overcome the global environmental and human challenges that confront us. Our challenge is whether to let the threads fall as they may, or to use them to weave a better future.
2. Michael Stephenson
About
• Azure and Integration Architect
• Community Activities
• Microsoft MVP for 7+ years
• Pluralsight Author
• Azure Insider/Advisor
• Integration Monday
• Worked on 30+ projects that have
leveraged Azure
Contact
• Personal Blog:
http://microsoftintegration.guru
• Twitter: @michael_Stephen
• Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelst
ephensonuk1
4. Today
Agenda
• 2 Speed IT
• Example Projects
• Thoughts
Outcomes
• Make you re-think about some
Azure
• Show some cool demo’s
• Take home some ideas to inspire
the kids
5. IT’s Customer Satisfaction
Perception
• 15% of business users completely satisfied
with IT department
• 33% of business users think IT is important to
business innovation
• 60% of business users think IT department is
integral to the business
Effect
• Stealth IT
• IT perceived to be holding the business in the
past
• Business doesn’t value IT
(Perception) Source: Information Week IT Perception Survey
6. “By 2017, 75% of organisations will have a 2
speed IT capability”
7. The 2 Modes of IT
Marathon Runner – Mode 1
• Mission Critical Systems
• Conventional Approaches
• Stability
• Reliability
• Low Risk
• Slow & Safe
Sprinter – Mode 2
• Take Risks / Safe Enough
• Agility & embrace change
• Remove bureaucracy
• Deliver Value Fast
• Fail Fast
• Aggressive customer focus
8. Types of Systems
Systems of Record
• Mission Critical Systems
• Conventional Approaches
• Stability
• Reliability
• Low Risk
• Slow & Safe
Systems of Engagement
• Take Risks / Safe Enough
• Agility & embrace change
• Remove bureaucracy
• Deliver Value Fast
• Fail Fast
• Aggressive customer focus
9. Combining System Type & IT Mode
System of Record System of Engagement
Mode 1 – Traditional CRM System
ERP System
HR System
Mode 2 – Agile Customer Portal
Staff Portal
B2B API
10. Cloud Relationship to 2 Speed IT
Mode 1 – Traditional Mode 2 - Agile
IT Leadership IT Operations Enterprise Architect
Drivers • Cost Reduction
• Risk Mitigation
• Keep the operation running
• Protect the assets
• Protect the customer
• Developer Productivity
• Deliver Business Change
• Keep the customer happy
• Innovate
• Beat competitors
• Take risks
Cloud Opportunities • Move commodity servers off site
• Turn off when not in use
• Off Premise Test environments
• Cloud Disaster Recovery
• Quick & Cheap IT Provisioning
• Delivery Empowerment
• Delete resources if project fails
• Reduce operations requirements
12. Mode 2 Architects
“As an architect, the cloud offers me new ways to solve problems and opportunities
to excite the business and super charge my mode 2 IT teams”
14. The Challenge
Business Context
• Key seasonal business event
• Expected 10k users all want something at
the same time
• Normal load is small
• Key load spike expected to last less than 2
hours
• Increased load for approx. 1 day
• User only needs to do 1 small simple
activity
Traditional Approach
• Scale SharePoint from 2 – 6 servers = $20,000
approx.
• 4 x New On-Prem VM Servers = $4,000
• Extras
• Server build costs
• Testing costs
• Total
• $40,000
• 10 days
16. What we did
If the user load gets beyond a
Threshold, load balancer would
route traffic out to Azure
PDF’s pre-loaded to Azure storage
The night before
User can redirect back to SharePoint,
but during burst 95% of traffic stays
in cloud
17. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• VS Online Load Testing
• Application Insights Monitoring
• Azure Web App
• 3 instances
• Large
• Scheduled auto-scale
• Azure Blob Storage
• VS Online Automated Build & Deploy
Info
• Key Points
• Challenging the way we typically solve problems
opened a new opportunity
• Duration
• Solution built in 2 days
• Solution performance tested a number of times
over 4 days (up to 12k users)
• Solution deleted after a week
• Costs
• Cloud cost approx. < $100
19. The Challenge
Business Context
• Current State
• SAP is the system of record for Staff
• Staff do not use SAP the HR system directly,
only HR
• SAP changes are difficult and expensive
• SAP is complex to train users
• Desired Outcome
• Create a Staff Portal system of engagement
• Portal should be within SharePoint based
intranet
Technical Challenge
• If we host services in the cloud to increase
our agility can we use hybrid integration to
connect to services on premise?
21. Relay powered Hybrid SAP Integration
SharePoint Provider Hosted App
In Azure Web App
Microservices Router
Service Bus Relay
API
SAP Microservices
Other Microservices
Linq To SAP
22. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• Application Insights Monitoring
• Azure Web App
• Azure Service Bus Relay
• VS Online Automated Build & Deploy
Info
• Key Points
• Light weight API based integration
• Duration
• End to end features developed in hours/days
• Project focusing on features not plumbing
• Architecture from POC suitable for production and
used by real project
• Costs
• Cloud cost approx. $20 per month (dev, test & prod)
24. The Challenge
Business Context
• Find a free PC
• We have 3 locations and 20+ buildings
• In these buildings are 5000+ computers
• How can a student know where is best to
go to get a PC to use
• Drivers
• Positive Student Experience
Business Context 2
• How utilised are our Rooms
• We have hundreds of rooms
• How do we know how utilised they are
• How do we track how energy efficient
they are
• Drivers
• Reduce Costs
25. Proof of Concept
The building has a sensor which detects
When you enter the building
Stream Analytics processes
Event Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of useful
Information via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
26. Proof of Concept
Agent on PC pushes PC usage
And application telemetry to cloud
Sensor/Reader telemetry
sent to cloud
Stream Analytics processes
Event Hub Data into Power BI
User views dashboards of useful
Information via Power BI
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Event Hub
28. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• Azure Service Bus Event Hubs
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Power BI
Info
• Key Points
• Cloud back end would support high scale
production usage “as is”
• POC is something the sprinters could easily take
forwards
• Duration
• Demo created in < 3 hours
• Costs
• Cloud Approx. < $40 per month
30. The Challenge
Business Context
• We have an existing business process
which is reliable and has been around for
ages
• We need to feedback status to customers
quicker or risk losing them to competitors
• We are not 100% sure the business idea
will work but we want to try it
Desired Outcome
• Minimize risk to existing process
• Avoid extensive re-testing or existing
processes (potentially expensive)
• Win or fail fast
• Use Reference Architecture to evaluate the
impact of the project
31. Enrolment Process
BizTalk orchestrates across line of business
Systems to process enrolment
Line of Business
Systems
Student can enrol for a course via multiple
channels
API in Azure
Service Bus Messaging
API solution has exposed existing process
To new channels
33. Notifications
BizTalk Server
Line of Business
Systems
Student gets an alert in near-realtime when their
Enrolment is approved
API in Azure
Service Bus
Messaging
SQL
Twilio Connector
SQL Connector
Logic App
35. Outcome
Azure Features Used
• New Channels
• Azure Service Bus Messaging
• Azure Web Apps
• Application Insights
• Notifications
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure API App Connectors
• SQL
• Twilio
Info
• Key Points
• Notification feature had no impact to existing
process
• Notification feature very low cost
• Alert drives student to re-engage with us
• Reference Architecture
• Used to evaluate solution options
• Used to simulate and demo to business
• Costs
• Reference Architecture Approx. < $100 per month
• Notification Feature = $0
• No additional cost uses existing App Service
37. Hold on you cant
start the next
race yet…..
Challenges of 2 Speed IT
• At some point the Marathon Runners need to look after the thing the sprinters built
• Sprinters become too externally customer focused and lose sight of IT Strategy or IT Operations
• Sprinters make significant stealth architecture changes
• Can the organisation really afford 2 IT departments? We need to be able to do sprint projects
within an organisational journey
39. Embracing the Cloud
I have a platform
with loads of
features to help me
build awesome
Apps
I’m comfortable
we can govern
solutions because
Azure is core to
our architecture
Many of our
solutions use Azure
so I have lots of
reusable
troubleshooting
skills
Managing
Azure is
Business as
Usual
We get great
visibility of our
actual costs and
have enterprise
agreements