Tag: Partners

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Jennifer Davis, Product Marketing at AWS Training and Certification You can now register for the new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty certification, the industry’s first and only certification that validates your ability to build, test, and publish Alexa Skills. This offering enables AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to validate their Alexa and cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential, building credibility among your clients and prospects. With Alexa, you can reach customers through more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. “Our clients are looking for more innovative ways to drive ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matthew Vogel. Throughout our Internet of Things (IoT) journey we’ve seen solutions evolve from device-centric models, to spatially-aware solutions that provide real-world context. Last year at Realcomm | IBcon, we announced Azure IoT’s vision for spatial intelligence, diving into scenarios that uniquely join IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and productivity tools. In the year since, we’ve progressed this vision by introducing new services designed to help enterprise customers across industries optimize the management of their spaces. Across Azure, Dynamics, and Office, Microsoft continues to accelerate results from a growing and diverse set of partners creating smart ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Digital transformation examples can be found almost anywhere, in almost any industry. Its past successes – and future potential – are well documented, chronicled in the billion-dollar valuations of the frontrunners in the practice.Amazon began as a disruptor to brick-and-mortar bookstores, eventually becoming one of the most obvious digital transformation examples as it went on to revolutionize online shopping. Netflix’s origins were similar – annihilating its former rival Blockbuster and the entire DVD rental market to become a dominant streaming platform and media publisher. Disruption is the common theme. Netflix ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Liz Fong-Jones. This is a keynote highlight from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Agriculture (source: Pixabay). Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 15+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb.io for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. She lives ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Chris Gallacher. To succeed in today’s federal government, leaders need to view the world by how their decisions impact the experience of the people and organizations they touch daily. These are your employees, your constituents, and your customers, and their experience is crucial to your ability to achieve mission goals. While customer experience (CX) is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Forrester has found that it doesn’t tell the whole story. Traditional CX focuses on external customers while ignoring employees, partners, and others that are still important to your success. In an increasingly complex, high-pressure ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. We recently spent time with Mesh Systems, a Microsoft Gold Cloud platform partner based in Carmel, Indiana, to understand what a day in the life of an Azure IoT partner looks like. They shared some of their recent IoT customer engagements and talked about the types of everyday challenges Azure IoT partners face like building an IoT solution with legacy endpoints, how to approach tracking assets through a supply chain, and integrating an IoT solution with a business application. Finally, we discussed what best practices have driven the success of their IoT practice ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Today’s business data ecosystem is a network of customers and partners communicating continuously with each other. The traditional way to do this is by establishing a business-to-business (B2B) relationship. The B2B communication requires a formal agreement between the entities. Then the two sides must agree on the formatting of messages. As a result, service delivery is often delayed by a few months. Due to the complexity, enterprises rely on IT staff to manage this data exchange between partners. The result is a slow order-to-cash process, poor customer experience, loss of market share, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Chris Madden, Senior Cloud Architect at Candid PartnersThere are many tools available for doing large-scale data analysis, and picking the right one for a given job is critical. In this post, I will provide an in-depth analysis of the architecture and performance characteristics of a completely serverless data processing platform. While the approach we demonstrate here isn’t applicable for every data analytics use case, it does have two key characteristics that make it a useful part of any IT organization’s tool belt. First of all, this approach has a very low ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kevin Raines. The world of computing goes deep and wide in regards to working on issues related to our environment, economy, energy, and public health systems. These needs require modern, advanced solutions that can be hard to scale, take a long time to deliver, and were traditionally limited to a few organizations. Microsoft Azure delivers high-performance computing (HPC) capability and tools to power solutions that address these challenges integrated into a global-scale cloud platform. Join us in Frankfurt, Germany from June 17–19, 2019 at the world's second-largest supercomputing show, ISC High Performance 2019. Learn how ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Neal Myrick. In 2015, world leaders from 193 countries committed to achieving gender equality by 2030 for every girl and every woman when they signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On June 3 at the 2019 Women Deliver conference, Tableau Foundation partner EM2030 released the SDG Gender Index, the most comprehensive accountability tool available to explore gender equality in 129 countries aligned to the UN’s SDGs. The Index, displayed through interactive data visualizations using Tableau technology, is now accessible on EM2030’s Gender Advocates Data Hub, an online platform designed for advocates working ... Read More