Category: Online Training

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Peter Moore. This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released the report, “Unlocking APAC’s Digital Potential: Changing Digital Skill Needs and Policy Approaches.” Prepared by strategy and economics consulting firm AlphaBeta and commissioned by AWS, the report analyzes the digital skills applied by workers in their jobs today and the digital skills required by workforces over the next five years. The report focuses on six Asia Pacific (APAC) countries: Singapore, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Divided into three parts, the report assesses the extent to which different digital skills are being applied at ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Amy Donley. By Amy Donley, Global ACE Lead at AWS The APN Customer Engagements (ACE) opportunity validation experience is being updated for AWS Partners to streamline the overall validation process in several key ways: Proactively calling out the most common errors that delay approvals. Allowing you to edit submissions requiring additional information directly in the ACE Pipeline Manager. In addition, we are updating the “Date of last provided update exceeds 2 weeks” opportunity and lead list views to only show items in which you are able to take action. This provides AWS Partners ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here "Converged charging” unlocks 5G business potential for service providers and their partners. The hype around 5G is all about network speeds. But communications service providers know that a different kind of speed is even more important: speed of innovation. 5G will help service providers get new products out faster for both consumer and enterprise customers. Service providers won’t be able to get the full revenue benefits of innovation, however, without charging systems—the software that handles how much to charge customers for service—that can keep ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Casey Burns. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine to share and discuss best practices to help advance the goals of the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The forum brought representatives together from across the US government, including tribal, state, local, and territorial leaders, public health, healthcare systems, national and community based non-governmental organizations, education, private industry, unions, and faith-based organizations involved in the response to COVID-19. Amazon Web Services (AWS) participated in the forum as a panelist for “Day 2 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . ArcGIS for Power BI is a custom data visualization tool built within Power BI that brings mapping capabilities to your reports and dashboards. ArcGIS for Power BI is now available on Power BI Report Server. This functionality will enable all Esri Enterprise users who use Report Server to seamlessly use ArcGIS for Power BI. Not just that, it now supports Publish to Web and Power BI Embedded, enabling you to easily share your reports—with Esri maps—on a public website, an application you share with your customers, or an application ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Nolan Necoechea. Nolan Necoechea analyst productivity, CDO, chief data officer, compliance, curation, data governance, GDPR, stewardship June 24, 2020 — Today, Alation announced its new approach to data governance, Active Data Governance, and with it, a series of initiatives to embrace data governance as a strategic use-case, all of which are part of Alation’s vision to transform the data catalog into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions. I sat down with Aaron Kalb, co-founder and CDO of Alation, to discuss today’s announcement, the journey to active governance, and what the future holds for ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Stephanie McReynolds. Stephanie McReynolds August 23, 2016 — We are entering an era of self-service analytics. There has been an explosion of data, from social and mobile data to big data, that is fueling new ways to understand and improve customer experience. What has emerged is a whole new set of market imperatives that are changing the way data users tackle data discovery, leading to an increase in self-service analytics, fueling insights and driving innovation. In this new world, aspects of the analysis process that were once tightly controlled are now more fluid, allowing more people to analyze ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ricardo Duncan. In 2021, each month we will be releasing a monthly blog covering the webinar of the month for the low-code application development (LCAD) on Azure solution. LCAD on Azure is a new solution to demonstrate the robust development capabilities of integrating low-code Microsoft Power Apps and the Azure products you may be familiar with.   This month's webinar is A Deep Dive into Serverless Applications on Power Apps and Azure. In this blog, I will briefly recap low-code application development on Azure, provide an overview of serverless, reasons for why to build a serverless Power App, ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; The continued adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications has led to unforeseen issues. According to the latest estimates, the number of duplicate subscriptions at a given organization has ballooned by 80%—leading to unnecessary expenses; while the number of apps that aren’t managed by an employee (perhaps because the original owner left the company) has risen nearly 100%—leading to security risks that can put the organization’s reputation on the line.  So how can your organization adopt SaaS applications at scale and do so in a way that’s secure, cost-effective, and convenient for all? By ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Greg Wilson. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we want to help organizations modernize IT infrastructure and create scalable mechanisms to manage growing datasets, take advantage of emerging technologies like machine learning, improve citizen services, and innovate for the long-term. Buying cloud computing services requires different skills than buying traditional IT, particularly given cloud’s ability to adjust technology resources dynamically and how this may impact contract solicitations and, more broadly, acquisition strategies. Are you ready to move to the cloud but need some guidance on where to start? Here are some best practices for government ... Read More