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Head of Business Systems
First Central Insurance Management currently has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Business Systems. We are looking for someone that can provide excellent leadership and management of the Business Systems function which includes IT Support, IT Infrastructure, Business Applications Support and Facilities.
You will be required to develop business plans for the relevant functions which
support the overall Company business plan and recommend strategies to drive the
business forward. We would be looking for someone that can demonstrate Leadership
excellence to enable high performance throughout the department.
You would have 3 direct reports the IT Operations Manager, Business Applications
Support Manager and the Facilities Manager, with a total team size of circa 20.
Your Day to Day Responsibilities will consist of:
- Lead and manages the UK Mainland IT capability to ensure robust system stability and development of a fit for purpose support strategy
- Drive delivery of the appropriate controls and early warning mechanisms, and maintenance routines to ensure the business has relevant system resilience
- Ensure we have the appropriate third party provider relationships, with the relevant SLA's, in particular maintaining strong relationships with the CIO and Group IT
- Monitor and report on performance and progress against the IT strategy and operational performance, producing monthly performance reports to the various boards
- Plan, organise, and manage operations and employees to ensure the stable operation and resilience of the organisation's IT infrastructure.
- Lead the Business Applications Support team to ensure software releases from Group Technology Services or other 3rd parties or are deployed in structured and controlled manner, following effective change control
- Lead the Facilities Team ensuring they provide the necessary facilities services to a high standard to the wider organisation
- Manage the Technical Change Board ensuring all technology change is controlled and managed in the appropriate way
- Ensure delivery of the design, installation, upgrading, operation, control, maintenance and effective use of the network, server, telephony and desktop infrastructures
- Lead the team to ensure excellent customer service is provided to all internal customers
- Ensure positive communication with all team members, colleagues and shareholders
- Lead the budget setting process for IT, Business Applications and Facilities, and ensure that financial implications are considered for all initiatives
- Provide expertise in the areas of development methodology and service delivery
- Ensure excellent communication with all internal business areas
- Ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times (including TCF)
- Any other reasonable duties as required
Essential to the role:
- Significant experience within IT Service Delivery and Support
- Significant experience in full Software Delivery Lifecycle on multiple complex technology and change projects
- Excellent team management and leadership skills with experience of managing a department of at least circa. 20 staff
- Significant vendor and supplier management with budget control in the region of £1m
Desirable to the role:
- Facilities experience
- University education with a relevant IT degree preferred
So if you feel you have all the right skills and knowledge that we are looking for and you are a self-motivate individual, target driven and results focussed who will strive to deliver performance targets and drive business improvements then we want to hear from you.
Project and Portfolio Manager
Are you organised in your approach to anything you do? Would you make sure that your team are effective in their Projects that they are working on, having an awareness of the bigger picture to be able to develop and shift long term plans effectively?
Would you accept the way things are usually done? Or are you someone that enjoys seeing how you can make things more effective?
If this is you then make sure you read on as this could be the role you are looking for…………………….
First Central Insurance Management Ltd is giving you a rare opportunity to be part of their success, as we are currently looking for a full time permanent Project and Portfolio Manager to work within the Business Change team, the successful candidate will be required to own delivery of all projects in the change portfolio ensuring projects are delivered on time and in budget. You will also be required to manage a team of Project Managers and a Project Coordinator allocating resources appropriately across the whole portfolio.
Day to Day responsibilities
- Ensure oversight of all change projects in the portfolio, including process, people and technology change projects
- Ensure effective and efficient allocation of resources across the change portfolio, maximising capacity and working with the other Leads in the Change Team
- Define the necessary departmental reporting and KPI dashboards that demonstrate and communicate the progress of the overall change portfolio
- Work with the Change Management Group to communicate, schedule and update key business stakeholders on the overall position of the portfolio
- Work across the portfolio of change projects to ensure that project dependencies are understood and managed
- Develop a common approach to delivering change projects, ensuring that the scope is understood and status of a project is reported and that risks and issues are managed
- Act as a point of escalation for all Projects that are struggling to deliver
- Manage relationships with the business areas to ensure that the team is seen as a 'value add' in the project process and that they are comfortable with allocation and management of projects tasks allocated to the business.
- Work with Project steering groups to maintain project direction and to deliver the agreed scope within the agreed timeframes and budgets
- Ensure that Change Projects are fully delivered into the business ensuring that the business is ready to accept the change and that IT are ready to support any technology delivered
- Where necessary act as Project Manager or key projects
- Create a development plan for Project managers that leads to a formally recognised certification in both Project and Change Management
- Lead a team of Project Managers in delivering change through the common approach, ensuring that the necessary resource and skills are available
- Day to Day line management of the team of Project Managers & Project Coordinator
- Work with suppliers to ensure that a common understanding of project scope and timeframes are maintained at all times.
- Work as part of the Business Change Management Team ensuring the department is offering excellent service and change capability to the organisation
Essential to the role:
- Formal qualification in Project, Programme and/or Portfolio Management
- Demonstrable experience of managing the delivery of business change across large and small change initiatives
- Understanding of Project and Portfolio Management techniques in an agile environment
- Solid experience of all stages of the software development lifecycle
- Previous experience of leading a team of Project Managers is essential
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
So if you feel you have all the right skills & knowledge to be able to carry out this role then make sure you apply today
Graduate Operational Analyst
Graduates with natural talent for turning customer data into valuable business insight will thrive in this exciting opportunity.
We are looking for a Data Integration developer graduate within our Business Intelligence (BI) department. You will learn about all aspects of the department's role in supporting the Company to achieve its business objectives. You will be assisting senior members of the team as well as the Head of Business Intelligence in providing a range of management information and statistical analysis to all parts of the business, supporting the management of 1ST CENTRAL to analyse trends and manage day to day and ad-hoc decisions within their business area.
You'll have a wealth of talent to call on for advice and support and you will also work closely with many different departments, including Sales, Marketing, Claims, Product Development and Counter Fraud. It is a critical role requiring the ability to think commercially, solve problems and effectively communicate statistical findings.
What we'll offer.
Although continued professional study is not compulsory, we are happy to support you further your education in the business world.
In the 2 years of your Graduate scheme we will support and cover the costs of 2 exams per year. You will be entitled to 4 study days and 1 day exam leave per exam taken.
What you'll need.
You'll need a degree in a Mathematical, Statistical, financial or IT degree. And you'll need to be comfortable working closely with people. After all, you'll be explaining highly complex issues in an uncomplicated way to people who aren't specialists in your area, but are the key business decision makers here at 1ST CENTRAL.
First Central Insurance Management Ltd is part of an international Group that sells motor insurance products to UK customers and this is a rare opportunity to be part of our success as we grow, so if the above excites you and you have the qualifying criteria make sure you apply.
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MI Analyst
Do you love solving problems, the more complicated the problem, the better? Do you go the extra mile to find a solution? Are you self motivated with an inner drive and motivation that pushes you to achieve more? Is paying attention to detail important to you?
Do you have programming skills, ideally with SAS, preferably gained within the insurance industry together with an understanding of how to analyse and interpret data? If you possess these skills then read on……..
We currently have a vacancy for an MI Analyst within our Business Intelligence team. As an MI Analyst you will maintain the data warehouse and associated Management Information (MI), by developing new processes and enhancing existing processes, in order to provide accurate data and reports to the business.
Day to day responsibilities:
- Maintain and validate the group's databases and data warehouse
- Develop SAS programs that can be utilised within the MI environment
- Develop and maintain reports and data required throughout the business
- Report key issues for business input, and analyse these issues to provide solutions
- Liaise with other departments to understand their requirements from the systems and MI reports
- Ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times (including TCF)
Essential to the role:
- Producing management reports
- Excellent numerical skills
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- SAS programming experience would be advantageous, especially if including Enterprise Guide.
Desirable to the role:
- Insurance and analysis experience are ideal
If you have an organised and proactive approach to work and are able to take the initiative when making decisions and would strive to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business, make sure you apply today!
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When one of our images was rolled out the region settings got over looked. Now all the PC's are set to "US" not "UK"
As a result the @ key and the " key are the wrong way round on the keyboard.
If we change the region settings in control panel when we reboot and logon as a different user the settings go back to "US"
I have added a VB Script to the logon to change the HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Preload\1 value but is hasn't made a difference.
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When doing it manually in Control Panel > Regional and Language Options did you try ticking the "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the default user profile" checkbox on the bottom of the Advanced tab?
try opening the language bar from the taskbar and then settings and change 'default input language'
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EDMONTON, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/21/12 -- Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. (Wavefront or the Corporation) (TSX VENTURE:WEE) (OTCQX:WFTSF) a developer of leading-edge technology for fluid injection optimization for improved performance and profitability in the oil and gas and environmental sectors announces its financial results for the year ended August 31, 2012.
Wavefront's strategic value proposition is underpinned with 20 granted and 29 patents pending based on differentiated fluid flow technology. Marketed under the brand names, "Powerwave" and "Primawave", the injection methodologies improve distribution of liquids in the ground.
Powerwave has been proven to be an effective method of: achieving mature field revitalization, increasing well productivity following well stimulation, and improving the rate of penetration of drilling extended reach wells. Primawave has been shown to substantially improve the distribution of fluids in the subsurface to effectively treat contaminants and has been verified as an environmental remedial strategy by Environment and Industry Canada.
Wavefront's business plan for enhancing shareholder value includes:
i. Licensing of its proprietary technologies and products, underpinned by a high margin recurring revenue model. ii. Leveraging of its proprietary technologies and products through strategic service company alliances, both in the energy and environmental sectors.
Over the past calendar year we have significantly broadened the applications for our technologies. As a result, we've reflected this broadening with a new marketing initiative entitled "From Bit to Last Drop". Our product portfolio now encompasses an entire life cycle of a client's post exploration operations.
From Bit to Last Drop Initiative
Performance Drilling
In Canada, the Company's initial trial of its performance drilling tools in a horizontal well resulted in an increase in Rate of Penetration ("ROP") in excess of 20% over previously drilled wells in the area. This result indicates a high potential exists for materially reducing an Operators drilling costs, without adding additional risk. Daily rental rates for the Company's performance drilling tools are being targeted from $2,500 to $3,500 per day.
Well Stimulation
The well stimulation market is in excess of $1 billion annually as virtually all production and injection wells periodically require some form of stimulation to enhance production or injection(1). The Company provides the mechanism to more effectively distribute injected fluids into the reservoir matrix effectively contacting both height and length which contributes a larger region of treatment providing subsequent longer term benefits for production and injection wells. The Company has seen increased uptake of its Powerwave stimulation tools in the United States, Canada, and Latin and South America. Wavefront will continue to focus on expanding this positive trend.
Mature Field Revitalization
Extensively analyzing our results over extended periods of time, we have concluded that Powerwave is universally applicable to all reservoirs and it can be implemented at any point during secondary (waterflooding) and tertiary (CO2, polymer, surfactant) recovery projects. We have learned that the sales cycle is relatively long and that we needed more flexibility in the form of Powerwave tool systems. For example, the Company has developed a new surface pulsing system designed for all well configurations and all reservoir types.
To support our conclusion, a recent independent evaluation of Powerwave results was undertaken by Gaffney-Cline and Associates, a subsidiary of Baker Hughes. The study analysed 5 fields involving 77 Powerwave-driven water injector installations and focused on publicly reported production and injection data. Overall, an increase in Estimated Ultimate Recovery ("EUR") from 0.7% to 7.4% was identified, with an average EUR of 2.56%.
Mature Field Revitalization has been a primary focus of the Company for the past several years and we have made in-roads around the globe. Worldwide, there are approximately 250,000 wells used in IOR/EOR applications(2). In Wavefront's mature field revitalization initiative recurring revenue stems from longer, fixed term agreements of a 12-month minimum duration which are subject to extension beyond this period. During the fixed term the Company collects a monthly license/rental fee from the client. Target monthly fees range from $3,000 to $6,000 per month per tool but in certain cases the Company has applied discounts for initial field trials or large orders. Also associated with the fixed term agreements is revenue generated through the installation of the Powerwave systems consisting of human resource time, ancillary equipment, travel, etc.
The financial highlights for fiscal 2012 include:
-- Total revenues amounted to $5,632,001, a 41.1% increase or $1,640,377 over the comparative period that reported total revenues of $3,991,624. -- Fourth quarter revenues (i.e., three months ended August 31, 2012) amounted to $1,729,034, which was an increase of $60,691 or 53.5% increase in gross revenues over gross revenue for the comparative quarter ending August 31, 2011. -- Revenues for the year ended August 31, 2012 for Powerwave and Primawave approximated $4,266,742 or 75.8% of revenues; whereas in the comparative reporting period, Powerwave and Primawave approximated $2,557,100 or 64.1%. -- Revenue attributed only to Powerwave product lines were $4,022,952, an increase of $1,727,733 or 75.3% over revenues in the comparative period of $2,295,219. The Powerwave product line revenues can then be broken into short-term projects involving well stimulations and long-term projects related to using Wavefront's technology to enhance secondary oil recovery in waterflood or CO2 flooding applications. i. For fiscal 2012, the total revenue of long-term Powerwave projects related to secondary and tertiary oil recovery involving either waterflooding or CO2 flooding totalled $2,968,134, an increase of $764,782 or 34.7%, compared to $2,203,352 in the comparative period. ii. For fiscal 2012 Powerwave revenues related to well stimulations totalled $1,054,818, an increase of $962,951 or 1,048%, compared to $91,867 in the comparative period. It is believed that Powerwave well stimulations may lead to secondary oil recovery applications as client companies become more familiar with the technologies and can obtain and validate their own data related to Powerwave.
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-- The basic and diluted net for the year ended August 31, 2012 increased by $173,517 to $4,648,731 ($0.056 per share), compared to $4,475,215 ($0.054 per share) in 2011. -- Total current assets decreased by $8,398,192 to $17,673,667 from the prior year end. Of the net decrease, $4,083,231 relates to the acquisition of the Vortech patents, $1,774,716 relates to the acquisition of additional Powerwave tools and $2,931,269 was used to fund operations.
The above financial highlights should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and management discussion and analysis of results for Wavefront for the year ended August 31, 2012, which were filed on SEDAR on December 20, 2012.
The following key highlights and initiatives occurred in 2012 fiscal year:
-- Completed installation of Powerwave systems with Petroleum Development Oman in Oman. -- Completed installation of Powerwave systems with Pluspetrol in Argentina. -- Received confirmation of a 28-well expansion with the Company' Eastern Alberta client. Installation of the tools will continue into the new calendar year. -- Entered into a contract with Pan American Energy ("PAE") to implement Powerwave in their production block: Las Flores Norte, in their Cerro Dragon field, in Argentina. PAE is owned by BP Company (60%), and Bridas Corporation (40%). -- Entered into an approximate $1.25 million contract with Petrobras Brazil to implement Powerwave in the Petrobras operated on-shore oil field known as TBC near Aracaju, Brazil. Installations were slated to commence in the fall of 2012 however these have now been delayed to the new calendar year. -- With Weatherford, under contract from Pemex, successfully completed Powerwave stimulations at the Pemex operated Chicontepec field in Mexico. The initial stimulation success has lead to further uptake of the Powerwave stimulation in Mexico. -- Completed the purchase of intangible assets from Vortech adding complementary pulsating technology and associated intellectual property patents. -- Commenced trading on the OTC market's tier, OTCQX International. -- The Company completed development of a Powerwave modular rotary pulsing system known as the "Man-of-War" that is driven by a rotary topside drive. The modular component allows for incremental 1-metre sections to be added permitting an increasing length of perforated interval to be stimulated. A key advantage of the Man-of-War includes the capacity to stimulate the entire perforated interval simultaneously thereby reducing the time of the stimulation. -- The Company developed a new "Staged Pulse System" ("SPS") to be integrated into conventional drill strings and/or coiled tubing to overcome operational constraints encountered in extended reach programs. The SPS creates a "variable" pressure pulse that eliminates static friction in horizontal wellbores and concurrently removes cuttings proximal to the bit which enables higher Rate of Penetration and effective wellbore cleaning.
"We are very pleased to see the growth in revenues in fiscal 2012 and maintaining a strong balance sheet," said Wavefront President and CEO Brett Davidson. "The Company continues to be a developer of leading edge fluid flow technology and we're very excited about the worldwide growth opportunities related to our initiative, "From Bit to Last Drop" which focuses on performance drilling; well stimulation; and, mature field revitalization."
D. Brad Paterson, CFO & Director
About Wavefront:
"From Bit to Last Drop" Wavefront endeavors to be recognized as a global leader of fluid injection technologies that maximize reservoir recovery, drilling efficiency, and groundwater restoration. Wavefront publicly trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol WEE and on the OTCQX under the symbol WFTSF. The Company's website is www.onthewavefront.com.
Cautionary Disclaimer - Forward Looking Statement
Certain statements contained herein regarding Wavefront and its operations constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements that are not historical facts, including without limitation statements regarding future estimates, plans, objectives, assumptions or expectations or future performance, are "forward-looking statements". In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "believe", "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. We caution that such "forward-looking statements" involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Such factors include fluctuations in the acceptance rates of Wavefront's Powerwave and Primawave Processes, demand for products and services, fluctuations in the market for oil and gas related products and services, the ability of Wavefront to attract and maintain key personnel, technology changes, global political and economic conditions, and other factors that were described in further detail in Wavefront's continuous disclosure filings, available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Wavefront expressly disclaims any obligation to up-date any "forward-looking statements", other than as required by law.
(1) Bcc Research, June 29, 2011
(2) United States Environmental Protection Agency, Oil and Gas Related Injection Wells
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,895
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,221
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 27, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,018
The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 27, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,816
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,846
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 27, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,780
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,953
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,011
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,074
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,984
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,656
"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,681
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,009
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,207
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,950
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,308
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders. The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the benefit of FOSS, you should contribute. Building a business on a FOSS project you don't own, whether you're providing a service or product around a FOSS project should in return garner some sort of quid pro quo. In reality, freeloaders are desirable.
I think we need to look through the other end of the telescope. The people most often concerned about freeloaders and the free ride are actually the ones with the motivation problem - they expect free work (or "free" customers). I recently wrote about "Making Open Source." One of the first things required is a motivation to share. One of the next requirements is an ability to collaborate. I believe the people most likely to express concerns about freeloaders seem to be uncomfortable with the idea of sharing their work.
You almost never see this concern expressed by a company that is participating in a community it doesn't own. They are obviously happy to be contributing and getting more than they give. They are themselves by definition not freeloaders, and clearly the community is evolved enough that they're probably not the only outside contributing company. Likewise, project founders and committers seem to be happy to see others using their work. All these folks already understand the dynamic. One tends to find the freeloader concern expressed by companies that "own" the open source project.
In a former life as a consultant, I saw companies that own projects raise concerns about contribution and about "giving away their software for free." This is really another way of saying, "we didn't receive the expected contributions in kind." Worse, there would be discussion about users that didn't convert into customers because this would be the only forgivable reason not to contribute. The thinking was, "somebody needs to pay."
Such companies confused customers testing the solution in the user community with genuine community users that aren't convertible leads. The company couldn't initially fathom that developing a community of users around a technology project would:
- Create the knowledge, expertise and experience necessary to provide a complete solution for the technology pitch to the customer. These proof points are invaluable when actual potential customers are self-qualifying themselves in the community and testing the strength of a solution's community.
- Create advocates and evangelists to spread awareness about a solution.
- Create enormous inertia in the status quo around a technology they own or provide the dominant expertise around.
- Anchor customers both in an engaged relationship as well as from a technology perspective.
- Ultimately lead to contributions if they encourage and prepare for them. (N.B. This is still not a conversion to a paying customer.)
I have even seen a variation on the freeloader phenomenon in relation to the Google Summer of Code: projects that haven't participated before mistakenly want to get free labour for the summer. The Summer of Code is explicitly designed to enable computer science students to learn about open source software, to gain experience in real-world distributed software development work, and to hone their programming skills. It's about the students - not the labour. As the tagline says, "flip bits not burgers." The FOSS project itself certainly benefits with exposure, training their own project members as mentors, and if the project mentors do a good job, they gain committed new blood. But it's not about "getting free work."
It's really about the math of the situation. A number of people have observed over the years that contributions flowing into a FOSS project hold a particular pattern. For every thousand bug reports, a hundred developers will propose a solution in code. Ten will actually read the submission guidelines and fix the entire bug. One will provide a righteous fix and the contributor will have run the test harness provided, and their submission will include new test cases to prove it has been solved. This works for communities with large user bases like MySQL and sendmail right down to very specialized communities around such things as graphics drivers.
These observations set the tone for how to think about the vector, because to get a thousand bug reports, you probably need ten thousand users in your community. If the observations are accurate, 90% of every FOSS community must be users that don't contribute so much as a single bug report, i.e. they're freeloaders.
So, it is really about the project motivation. Developing good software is hard work and liberally sharing the software under FOSS licenses and building a community is the best way to spread the economic costs of development and gain inbound domain expertise. Furthermore, if you're a company that owns the actual IP for the software project, you gain the additional benefits (defined above) around developing an engaged community.
Contribution is the lifeblood of the FOSS project, so it needs to be easy to install/configure and use the software to build a broad community of users. It needs to be easy for users to understand how and what to contribute to improve the odds of contribution. If code is the inbound contribution, it needs to be easy for users to become code contributors. Such people need to know what to do, how to get started, and how to contribute. All of these activities are the project's responsibility. From the contribution flow, a project will find its future committers and maintainers to renew the core development community.
As a project community grows and thrives it will attract businesses that want to use the software and contribute. If the project developers meet the commercial needs for legal risk management, then an ecosystem can thrive around the FOSS project. This adds even more users to the community as companies participate, pulling the project software into new places.
So in the end, it's all about freeloaders, but from the perspective that you want as many as possible. That means you're "doing it right" in developing a broad base of users by making their experience easy, making it easy for them to contribute, and ultimately to create an ecosystem that continues to sustain itself. Freeloaders are essential to the growth and success of every FOSS project.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
Nov. 23, 2014 07:30 PM EST Reads: 1,682
"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 23, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,615
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
Nov. 23, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,466
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,446
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,299
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,459
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 21, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,371
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,383
Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,436
"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 21, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,290
Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
Nov. 20, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,376
C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
Nov. 20, 2014 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,338
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 20, 2014 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,132
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Nov. 20, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,583
The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
Nov. 20, 2014 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,792
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
Nov. 18, 2014 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,017
SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
Nov. 18, 2014 08:15 PM EST Reads: 1,571
IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
Nov. 18, 2014 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,012
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
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was coated in a thick asbestos-type layer and even if the floors had pancaked at free-fall speed I would have expected the core columns to remain standing or at most topple, not disintegrate vertically. Therefore I do take seriously the theory that column-shearing thermite charges were placed in advance in all three towers. The bizarre actions of the administration relative to the Pentagon strike, seemingly designed to aid the attack, have to be figured into the related WTC attack inquiry.
IOW, I'm mighty suspicious but I think some of the conspiracy arguments are a bit too simplistic. Clearly burning steel-framed buildings do collapse in a heap, even if the WTC was engineered not to.
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