All over the world, water utilities must to face daily multiple difficulties in order to ensure water supply and sewer service to the citizens. Most of these problems are essentially related with technic and technology. Others with processes, organizations and the rest of the Industry’s implied actors. Others with regulatory issues and the administrative tangled mess around water. And so on… we could follow identifying more factors that, in one way or another, can represent a problem during the critical water supply process
The Ultimate Guide to Managed IT Services for the Modern BusinessTechvera
The modern business is dependent on technology, and by extension, the team that supports it. Learn why more companies are turning to managed IT services providers to ensure their technology never fails them.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and provides best practices. It addresses common misperceptions about business continuity/disaster recovery programs. Some misperceptions include that they are too expensive, only involve natural disasters, and that replicating data is sufficient. The document recommends five best practices: developing business justification through impact analysis, matching the recovery approach to needs, setting recovery objectives, developing a data management strategy, and managing the overall recovery program.
Embracing Technological Change Within HealthcareBrandon Donnelly
2018 WVHIMSS Presentation By Brandon Donnelly covering the state of the medical health technology and entry of tech titans into the more conservative healthcare market. This presentation covers the need for innovation of technology systems and ways for IT managers to help implement and embrace the change that is coming. A presentation about the UDI track and track project at Wheeling Hospital is also given.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
Brighttalk high scale low touch and other bedtime stories - finalAndrew White
Mr. White has 15 years of experience designing and managing systems monitoring and event management software. He previously led monitoring teams at a Fortune 100 company and consulted for various large organizations. He now works as a cloud and smarter infrastructure specialist at IBM.
I apologize, but I do not have enough context to understand the full meaning of your question. Could you please rephrase or provide some additional details?
The document discusses the evolution of technology and the role of the modern technologist. It describes the author's personal journey with technology from 1986 to present day. It then provides statistics on internet and device usage that illustrate how ubiquitous technology has become. The document outlines the many roles and challenges of a technologist, such as ensuring business continuity, managing teams, and justifying security needs. It emphasizes that technologists must be technically savvy, business-oriented, and able to adapt to constant changes in both technology and business landscapes. The conclusion reflects on the many challenges technologists face and stresses the importance of structure, training, communication, and a problem-solving mindset.
1. The document discusses factors that shape incentives and outcomes when using information and communication technologies (ICT) to support water sector monitoring.
2. It examines how different drivers like financial motivations, efficiency goals, and regulatory requirements can influence how ICT monitoring systems are designed and implemented.
3. The key lesson is that monitoring systems need user-centric designs that account for incentives and provide tangible benefits, otherwise they risk not achieving their goals or being sustained over the long term.
The Ultimate Guide to Managed IT Services for the Modern BusinessTechvera
The modern business is dependent on technology, and by extension, the team that supports it. Learn why more companies are turning to managed IT services providers to ensure their technology never fails them.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and provides best practices. It addresses common misperceptions about business continuity/disaster recovery programs. Some misperceptions include that they are too expensive, only involve natural disasters, and that replicating data is sufficient. The document recommends five best practices: developing business justification through impact analysis, matching the recovery approach to needs, setting recovery objectives, developing a data management strategy, and managing the overall recovery program.
Embracing Technological Change Within HealthcareBrandon Donnelly
2018 WVHIMSS Presentation By Brandon Donnelly covering the state of the medical health technology and entry of tech titans into the more conservative healthcare market. This presentation covers the need for innovation of technology systems and ways for IT managers to help implement and embrace the change that is coming. A presentation about the UDI track and track project at Wheeling Hospital is also given.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
Brighttalk high scale low touch and other bedtime stories - finalAndrew White
Mr. White has 15 years of experience designing and managing systems monitoring and event management software. He previously led monitoring teams at a Fortune 100 company and consulted for various large organizations. He now works as a cloud and smarter infrastructure specialist at IBM.
I apologize, but I do not have enough context to understand the full meaning of your question. Could you please rephrase or provide some additional details?
The document discusses the evolution of technology and the role of the modern technologist. It describes the author's personal journey with technology from 1986 to present day. It then provides statistics on internet and device usage that illustrate how ubiquitous technology has become. The document outlines the many roles and challenges of a technologist, such as ensuring business continuity, managing teams, and justifying security needs. It emphasizes that technologists must be technically savvy, business-oriented, and able to adapt to constant changes in both technology and business landscapes. The conclusion reflects on the many challenges technologists face and stresses the importance of structure, training, communication, and a problem-solving mindset.
1. The document discusses factors that shape incentives and outcomes when using information and communication technologies (ICT) to support water sector monitoring.
2. It examines how different drivers like financial motivations, efficiency goals, and regulatory requirements can influence how ICT monitoring systems are designed and implemented.
3. The key lesson is that monitoring systems need user-centric designs that account for incentives and provide tangible benefits, otherwise they risk not achieving their goals or being sustained over the long term.
The VictorOps 2014 State of On-call report. This report, presented as a WebCast and released as a report is the first ever study of the people, processes and emotions of being on-call for technical organizations. If you are overhauling your on-call structure there are great tips how to make that job Suck Less !
Whitepaper : Building a disaster ready infrastructureJake Weaver
It’s not just hurricanes, fire or other natureal disasters that can bring a business to its knees. Everyday problems such as bad software, misconfigured networks, hardware failures or power outages are much more common. In fact, power failures accounted for nearly half of the declared disasters reported in a recent survey conducted by Forrester
1) Log management is important for security and regulatory compliance but is often not adequately performed due to being tedious, time-consuming, and abstract for IT staff to deal with.
2) IT professionals are already overworked and focused on maintaining high service levels, so they have little time to thoroughly analyze log data and hope breaches don't occur.
3) Providing the right log management solution can help address these human factors inhibiting effective log analysis and ensure this important security task is properly carried out.
Brighttalk getting back on track - finalAndrew White
Mr. White has 15 years of experience designing and managing systems monitoring and event management software. He previously held leadership roles at IBM and other Fortune 100 companies. In his presentation, he will discuss strategies for developing agility and alignment, the importance of having a clear strategy and understanding how organizations function as systems.
Brighttalk brining it all together - finalAndrew White
The document discusses orchestration and its importance. Some key points:
1. Orchestration allows for end-to-end automation of service delivery to achieve greater returns. Provisioning is just one step in a larger process.
2. There are unique requirements to integrate orchestration with existing tools and data center processes.
3. Orchestration coordinates the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex workflows across IT infrastructure domains, applications, and cloud services.
IT debt and business competitiveness by marco gianottenMarco Gianotten
IT debt was once defined as a deferred technical expense. Today it’s about competitive disadvantage. This presentation is used for debats and strategy sessions with CIO Offices and CFOs
Virtualization infrastructure in financial services rully feranataRully Feranata
Over many years, the IT function in financial institutions has evolved from a mere transactional tool into
a pervasive, integral element of virtually every aspect of doing business. This transformation has
constituted a fundamental, structural change in the financial services arena and has put IT performance
at the top of the CEO’s agenda at most banks and insurance companies.
This document summarizes an article from the DITY newsletter about how a university improved network availability through focused application of ITIL availability management techniques. The university was experiencing weekly outages on circuits provided by their telecom provider. By monitoring interface utilization and documenting outages, the university was able to claim credits from the provider as outlined in their contract. This drove the provider to finally resolve the underlying issues causing the chronic outages. The article concludes that even without a full ITIL program, organizations can achieve practical benefits by taking a pragmatic, results-oriented approach based on ITIL concepts.
This document discusses right-sizing disaster recovery capabilities for organizations. It recommends determining an organization's current disaster recovery capabilities, getting business buy-in to establish appropriate priorities, and separating wants from needs. The document outlines a three-phase process for disaster recovery scoping: 1) assess current IT capabilities, 2) establish and validate business wants, and 3) align IT capabilities with business needs. It provides tips for getting business buy-in and measuring the costs and impacts of downtime to help organizations determine appropriate recovery objectives.
Managed IT services provide small and medium businesses with an outsourced IT department to handle day-to-day technical support and maintenance, helping to prevent downtime and reduce costs. Key benefits of managed IT services include: early issue detection through monitoring to prevent problems from escalating; resolving most issues remotely to reduce expenses and response times; and handling vendor support to avoid lengthy call centers. Outsourcing IT through managed services allows businesses to focus on their core operations while receiving enterprise-level support.
Competitive advantage through data management terry jabali v.01tjabali
The document summarizes a keynote presentation on data management and analytics by Terry Jabali. The presentation will take place at the Data Management Planning & Analysis Summit in San Francisco on August 15-16, 2011. The keynote will provide an overview of key trends and practices in data management, and use case discussions. Jabali will discuss topics such as the costs of bad data, benchmarks for common data issues, investments that provide competitive advantages, and the need for data governance and analytics frameworks to ensure high quality data and actionable insights.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Daragh O'Brien: The Story of Maturity – How data in Bus...European Data Forum
Invited talk of Daragh O'Brien, Managing Director of Castlebridge Associates, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: The Story of Maturity – How data in Business needs to pass the ‘So What’ tests
This document discusses the growing need for enterprise-wide remote access and mobility solutions. It outlines some of the key business drivers, such as increased productivity and business continuity. It then evaluates some popular existing approaches like VPNs, server-based computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and finds that they do not scale cost-effectively to support large numbers of remote users. A new appliance-based remote desktop access solution is introduced that aims to provide secure, high-performance remote access across many device types in a more cost-effective way than traditional options.
Protecting your application investment white paper 0908 2 Laurie LeBlanc
Service Oriented Monitoring allows organizations to monitor applications and services from a business perspective by relating technical infrastructure elements to the services they support. This helps IT prioritize issues based on their business impact, improves communications between IT and business teams, and ensures applications and services meet performance and availability needs. Implementing Service Oriented Monitoring takes 2-6 weeks and provides benefits like reduced downtime, improved end-user satisfaction, and better protection of application investments.
Consumer technology is invading the enterprise and IT must embrace it in order to encourage employee productivity and satisfaction. Info-Tech recommends that organizations allow personal mobile devices on their corporate networks. This research addresses the following:
•Understand differences in security and management between the three major platforms – BlackBerry, Apple iOS, and Google Android.
•Evaluate the organization's position on the mobile device security scale and determine if third-party infrastructure is necessary.
•Development and enforcement of a personal mobile acceptable use policy to encourage end-user compliance and foster success.
Embrace consumer technology in the enterprise, and focus on end-user compliance to leverage productivity and maximize the potential for success.
BI and big data analytics Force an Overdue Reckoning Between IT and Business ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on the need to solidly align business and IT goals and bring further collaboration on innovation within the enterprise.
A Data-driven Maturity Model for Modernized, Automated, and Transformed ITbalejandre
This document presents a research-based maturity model for measuring organizations' progress in IT transformation. The model segments organizations into four levels of maturity based on surveys of 1,000 IT executives about their infrastructure, processes, and relationships. Only a small percentage have achieved the highest levels of modernized infrastructure, automated processes, and business-IT alignment needed for digital transformation. Higher maturity is correlated with improved agility, efficiency, innovation funding, and business outcomes. Adopting modern data center technologies, automated processes, and DevOps practices can help organizations progress to more mature states.
A strong communication capability between the business and IT ensures the alignment of business requirements with delivered IT functionality and value. Use this storyboard to understand common barriers to effective requirements management, tactical solutions to overcome these barriers, and how to achieve a high level of project success.
This storyboard will help you:
•Understand the common barriers to effective requirements management
•Learn how organizations have solved these challenges
•Implement your own tactical solutions to enable effective communication of business requirements for IT projects in your organization
•Achieve a high level of project success
Whether an organization develops its own applications or implements packaged solutions, the success of the project depends on the clear communication of business requirements in terms IT can understand and deliver.
This document discusses the pitfalls of using ineffective IT monitoring solutions, such as outdated freeware, multiple point solutions, or costly tools that provide disjointed views of systems. It describes three common pitfalls organizations face: extended downtime from poor troubleshooting, high costs and inefficiencies from managing multiple tools, and inability to support new technologies. The document uses a fictional example of an online retailer experiencing a major outage due to these issues. It then promotes the CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap solution as a free, unified monitoring platform that avoids these pitfalls and helps organizations transform their IT monitoring.
This document provides guidance on effectively managing major incidents by separating work into four key streams: understanding what's happening, restoring service, investigating causes, and preventing future incidents. It emphasizes keeping all relevant information visible, updated, and organized on a shared incident dashboard. An example dashboard is shown and updated as a simulated incident involving a broken brick sorting robot is resolved over 60 minutes. Lessons include avoiding long calls, transparency of information, specificity from participants, and regular simulations to maintain skills.
The Candlewood Suites Wake Forest hotel in North Carolina uses the HelloShift hotel workflow app to improve communication between departments and increase operational efficiency. Owner Milan Patel requires all tasks and logs be recorded in HelloShift. This has accelerated sales conversions and improved maintenance task management. HelloShift's virtual logbooks and tags allow Patel's team to quickly handle sales inquiries, track leads, and manage personnel transitions smoothly. It has also transformed maintenance by replacing paper-based work orders with an online system to track all repair issues in real-time.
A lesson on teaching and learning Augmented Reality in classroom using Aurasma.
Grade 4-6 can be the appropriate for this class.
Included note of lesson will make it easier for any teacher to share the concept of Augmented Reality with students.
If you need further clue on how to engage the students during the AR class, do send me an email.
The VictorOps 2014 State of On-call report. This report, presented as a WebCast and released as a report is the first ever study of the people, processes and emotions of being on-call for technical organizations. If you are overhauling your on-call structure there are great tips how to make that job Suck Less !
Whitepaper : Building a disaster ready infrastructureJake Weaver
It’s not just hurricanes, fire or other natureal disasters that can bring a business to its knees. Everyday problems such as bad software, misconfigured networks, hardware failures or power outages are much more common. In fact, power failures accounted for nearly half of the declared disasters reported in a recent survey conducted by Forrester
1) Log management is important for security and regulatory compliance but is often not adequately performed due to being tedious, time-consuming, and abstract for IT staff to deal with.
2) IT professionals are already overworked and focused on maintaining high service levels, so they have little time to thoroughly analyze log data and hope breaches don't occur.
3) Providing the right log management solution can help address these human factors inhibiting effective log analysis and ensure this important security task is properly carried out.
Brighttalk getting back on track - finalAndrew White
Mr. White has 15 years of experience designing and managing systems monitoring and event management software. He previously held leadership roles at IBM and other Fortune 100 companies. In his presentation, he will discuss strategies for developing agility and alignment, the importance of having a clear strategy and understanding how organizations function as systems.
Brighttalk brining it all together - finalAndrew White
The document discusses orchestration and its importance. Some key points:
1. Orchestration allows for end-to-end automation of service delivery to achieve greater returns. Provisioning is just one step in a larger process.
2. There are unique requirements to integrate orchestration with existing tools and data center processes.
3. Orchestration coordinates the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex workflows across IT infrastructure domains, applications, and cloud services.
IT debt and business competitiveness by marco gianottenMarco Gianotten
IT debt was once defined as a deferred technical expense. Today it’s about competitive disadvantage. This presentation is used for debats and strategy sessions with CIO Offices and CFOs
Virtualization infrastructure in financial services rully feranataRully Feranata
Over many years, the IT function in financial institutions has evolved from a mere transactional tool into
a pervasive, integral element of virtually every aspect of doing business. This transformation has
constituted a fundamental, structural change in the financial services arena and has put IT performance
at the top of the CEO’s agenda at most banks and insurance companies.
This document summarizes an article from the DITY newsletter about how a university improved network availability through focused application of ITIL availability management techniques. The university was experiencing weekly outages on circuits provided by their telecom provider. By monitoring interface utilization and documenting outages, the university was able to claim credits from the provider as outlined in their contract. This drove the provider to finally resolve the underlying issues causing the chronic outages. The article concludes that even without a full ITIL program, organizations can achieve practical benefits by taking a pragmatic, results-oriented approach based on ITIL concepts.
This document discusses right-sizing disaster recovery capabilities for organizations. It recommends determining an organization's current disaster recovery capabilities, getting business buy-in to establish appropriate priorities, and separating wants from needs. The document outlines a three-phase process for disaster recovery scoping: 1) assess current IT capabilities, 2) establish and validate business wants, and 3) align IT capabilities with business needs. It provides tips for getting business buy-in and measuring the costs and impacts of downtime to help organizations determine appropriate recovery objectives.
Managed IT services provide small and medium businesses with an outsourced IT department to handle day-to-day technical support and maintenance, helping to prevent downtime and reduce costs. Key benefits of managed IT services include: early issue detection through monitoring to prevent problems from escalating; resolving most issues remotely to reduce expenses and response times; and handling vendor support to avoid lengthy call centers. Outsourcing IT through managed services allows businesses to focus on their core operations while receiving enterprise-level support.
Competitive advantage through data management terry jabali v.01tjabali
The document summarizes a keynote presentation on data management and analytics by Terry Jabali. The presentation will take place at the Data Management Planning & Analysis Summit in San Francisco on August 15-16, 2011. The keynote will provide an overview of key trends and practices in data management, and use case discussions. Jabali will discuss topics such as the costs of bad data, benchmarks for common data issues, investments that provide competitive advantages, and the need for data governance and analytics frameworks to ensure high quality data and actionable insights.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Daragh O'Brien: The Story of Maturity – How data in Bus...European Data Forum
Invited talk of Daragh O'Brien, Managing Director of Castlebridge Associates, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: The Story of Maturity – How data in Business needs to pass the ‘So What’ tests
This document discusses the growing need for enterprise-wide remote access and mobility solutions. It outlines some of the key business drivers, such as increased productivity and business continuity. It then evaluates some popular existing approaches like VPNs, server-based computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and finds that they do not scale cost-effectively to support large numbers of remote users. A new appliance-based remote desktop access solution is introduced that aims to provide secure, high-performance remote access across many device types in a more cost-effective way than traditional options.
Protecting your application investment white paper 0908 2 Laurie LeBlanc
Service Oriented Monitoring allows organizations to monitor applications and services from a business perspective by relating technical infrastructure elements to the services they support. This helps IT prioritize issues based on their business impact, improves communications between IT and business teams, and ensures applications and services meet performance and availability needs. Implementing Service Oriented Monitoring takes 2-6 weeks and provides benefits like reduced downtime, improved end-user satisfaction, and better protection of application investments.
Consumer technology is invading the enterprise and IT must embrace it in order to encourage employee productivity and satisfaction. Info-Tech recommends that organizations allow personal mobile devices on their corporate networks. This research addresses the following:
•Understand differences in security and management between the three major platforms – BlackBerry, Apple iOS, and Google Android.
•Evaluate the organization's position on the mobile device security scale and determine if third-party infrastructure is necessary.
•Development and enforcement of a personal mobile acceptable use policy to encourage end-user compliance and foster success.
Embrace consumer technology in the enterprise, and focus on end-user compliance to leverage productivity and maximize the potential for success.
BI and big data analytics Force an Overdue Reckoning Between IT and Business ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on the need to solidly align business and IT goals and bring further collaboration on innovation within the enterprise.
A Data-driven Maturity Model for Modernized, Automated, and Transformed ITbalejandre
This document presents a research-based maturity model for measuring organizations' progress in IT transformation. The model segments organizations into four levels of maturity based on surveys of 1,000 IT executives about their infrastructure, processes, and relationships. Only a small percentage have achieved the highest levels of modernized infrastructure, automated processes, and business-IT alignment needed for digital transformation. Higher maturity is correlated with improved agility, efficiency, innovation funding, and business outcomes. Adopting modern data center technologies, automated processes, and DevOps practices can help organizations progress to more mature states.
A strong communication capability between the business and IT ensures the alignment of business requirements with delivered IT functionality and value. Use this storyboard to understand common barriers to effective requirements management, tactical solutions to overcome these barriers, and how to achieve a high level of project success.
This storyboard will help you:
•Understand the common barriers to effective requirements management
•Learn how organizations have solved these challenges
•Implement your own tactical solutions to enable effective communication of business requirements for IT projects in your organization
•Achieve a high level of project success
Whether an organization develops its own applications or implements packaged solutions, the success of the project depends on the clear communication of business requirements in terms IT can understand and deliver.
This document discusses the pitfalls of using ineffective IT monitoring solutions, such as outdated freeware, multiple point solutions, or costly tools that provide disjointed views of systems. It describes three common pitfalls organizations face: extended downtime from poor troubleshooting, high costs and inefficiencies from managing multiple tools, and inability to support new technologies. The document uses a fictional example of an online retailer experiencing a major outage due to these issues. It then promotes the CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap solution as a free, unified monitoring platform that avoids these pitfalls and helps organizations transform their IT monitoring.
This document provides guidance on effectively managing major incidents by separating work into four key streams: understanding what's happening, restoring service, investigating causes, and preventing future incidents. It emphasizes keeping all relevant information visible, updated, and organized on a shared incident dashboard. An example dashboard is shown and updated as a simulated incident involving a broken brick sorting robot is resolved over 60 minutes. Lessons include avoiding long calls, transparency of information, specificity from participants, and regular simulations to maintain skills.
The Candlewood Suites Wake Forest hotel in North Carolina uses the HelloShift hotel workflow app to improve communication between departments and increase operational efficiency. Owner Milan Patel requires all tasks and logs be recorded in HelloShift. This has accelerated sales conversions and improved maintenance task management. HelloShift's virtual logbooks and tags allow Patel's team to quickly handle sales inquiries, track leads, and manage personnel transitions smoothly. It has also transformed maintenance by replacing paper-based work orders with an online system to track all repair issues in real-time.
A lesson on teaching and learning Augmented Reality in classroom using Aurasma.
Grade 4-6 can be the appropriate for this class.
Included note of lesson will make it easier for any teacher to share the concept of Augmented Reality with students.
If you need further clue on how to engage the students during the AR class, do send me an email.
- Customers want to feel they can trust the dealership and its knowledgeable, friendly staff who provide good value, convenience and a fast purchasing experience. Accurate traffic counting and measuring sales performance can help structure effective sales contests.
- Asking for the sale using an open-ended question like "What would you like to do?" allows the customer to respond without directly saying no and facilitates a smoother negotiation process.
- Proper training is needed to ensure staff provides accurate and helpful follow-up responses to customer questions via phone and email to convert inquiries into appointments and sales. Consistency across marketing messages both online and offline is also important.
O documento discute como as mudanças sociais afetaram as famílias e como isso pode expor crianças e adolescentes ao uso de drogas. Também analisa como a propaganda e pressão social podem influenciar o consumo de álcool.
The document discusses green-collar jobs and their potential benefits for communities. Green-collar jobs are family-sustaining jobs that improve environmental quality and have opportunities for skills development and pay increases. The document outlines specific green job areas like energy efficiency retrofits, local food systems, and green manufacturing. It encourages community members to get involved by contacting their local representatives to bring more green jobs to their cities and neighborhoods.
¿Qué pasa con el Big Data? Los datos plantean tantas preguntas como solucionan, para conocer más sobre ellos. Veremos los pasos que hemos de seguir para convertirnos en una empresa Data Smart y a dar contestación definitiva a preguntas como:
¿Son los datos inteligentes, o las empresas que trabajan con ellos?
This document provides instructions and tips for participating in a multiple choice art history exam. It begins by explaining how to set up audio and provides contact information for questions. Various tools for interacting with images on the exam are then described. The document continues by breaking down the exam format, including the number of questions, time limit, question types, and subject matter. Additional tips are provided, such as using context clues like historical period rather than specific dates. Sample questions are included to demonstrate what information exam-takers should look for and how to evaluate answer choices. The document emphasizes carefully reading questions and not overthinking answers. Overall strategies like process of elimination, marking up the exam, and time management are advised to earn the most points.
El documento describe la canción "Alma de Loca" interpretada por Roberto Goyeneche. La canción le canta a una mujer prostituta que mantiene una apariencia alegre pero esconde tristeza, como se evidencia cuando contempla una muñeca y parece querer llorar, revelando su verdadera vida que ya no puede vivir. La canción aconseja a la mujer que siga riendo y ocultando sus penas para que los hombres no descubran su verdadera tristeza.
Este documento presenta un código de actividades económicas dividido en secciones, divisiones, grupos y clases. La sección A incluye agricultura, ganadería, caza y silvicultura. La sección B se refiere a la pesca. La sección C cubre la explotación de minas y canteras, incluyendo la extracción de carbón, petróleo, gas natural, uranio, torio y otros minerales metálicos y no metálicos.
Integración de TIC al Desarrollo Profesional en el Siglo XXIFrancisco Larrea
El documento describe las competencias que debe tener un profesional en el siglo XXI. Identifica que los profesionales deben ser capaces de realizar tareas complejas y comunicaciones efectivas utilizando tecnologías de información. También analiza cómo las TIC pueden integrarse al desarrollo profesional para mejorar las actividades laborales. Finalmente, resalta habilidades como la comunicación intercultural, el dominio de las TIC y la capacidad de actuar estratégicamente.
Mappy Mind is a mind mapping tool that helps users summarize information, structure thoughts, and scope projects and plans. It can be used for brainstorming, problem solving, researching multiple sources, content creation, note taking, project management, planning, and decision making. The tool has a freemium model with paid subscription plans and aims to integrate with software like Basecamp and JIRA. It has apps for web, mobile, and tablets and competes with tools like Mindmeister and Mindjet.
This document discusses a Moore finite state machine (FSM) with 8 distinct states plus a reset state. The Moore representation shows the current state, inputs that allow transition between states, and the corresponding outputs for each state. An example state transition diagram and truth table are provided for states 2 and 3 to illustrate the Moore representation. The next state table also shows the next state depending on the current state and input. Finally, the document asks the reader to represent the example FSM using a Mealy representation and implement it as a Mealy FSM.
This document is a CV for Mahmoud Talaat, a 27-year-old Egyptian accountant currently residing in Saudi Arabia. It outlines his 5 years of experience working in accounts payable and credit control roles for hotels and other industries in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. It also provides details of his bachelor's degree in accounting from Benha University in Egypt and his skills in accounting software and languages. Contact information, employment history, responsibilities, education, skills and a reference are included.
Charities and other not-for-profit businesses tackle everyday business issues differently, which impacts on how big a difference they can make with the funds they have. We identified eight common issues our NFP customers faced, and examples of how they overcome it by using operational intelligence.
This document discusses the business case for advanced data visualization (ADV). It argues that ADV provides benefits like enabling users to process larger amounts of data more efficiently and detect trends more easily. ADV enhances the computer-human interface by increasing user awareness and focus. It allows enterprises to optimize human capital and performance. The document outlines best practices for implementing ADV, including making solutions agile, interactive, collaborative, and relevant to specific business needs.
Data observability is a collection of technologies and activities that allows data science teams to prevent problems from becoming severe business issues.
Using IoT technology can help smaller FMCG companies implement Lean manufacturing principles by addressing common challenges they face. Specifically, IoT solutions can help companies collect and consolidate operational data from packaging lines in a cost-effective way, providing insights into unplanned downtime that impede productivity. Wireless connectivity and cloud-based data platforms have become affordable options to monitor equipment from multiple vendors. This data allows managers to identify improvement opportunities, boosting output while reducing wasteful costs from downtime by thousands of dollars per line each month.
Straight through processing (STP) allows loan information to be entered once and then reused throughout the application and approval process. This eliminates redundant data entry and improves accuracy. STP streamlines the lending process from start to finish, compressing cycle times. It enables tasks to be completed simultaneously rather than sequentially, as was traditionally the case when files moved between departments. STP has the potential to dramatically transform lending operations by increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
The document discusses the importance of integrating various types of data for effective asset management and decision making. It outlines 11 categories of data that are essential to integrate, including equipment location, materials specifications, documentation, safety data, work center data, personnel data, logistical data, procurement data, financial data, fault diagnosis data, and asset risk data. Without integrating these different data sources, planning, scheduling, cost allocation would not be possible. The document also discusses challenges with integrating data across different departments with their own systems and priorities. It provides recommendations for overcoming barriers to full data integration.
Database Archiving: The Key to Siebel PerformanceLindaWatson19
This white paper examines why an organization should archive data and details how one solution, Solix Technologies’ Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS), has helped customers improve application performance while maintaining information access.
The document discusses three topics:
1. Human Resource Management - How HR analytics can help resolve challenges in HR by making it more data-driven.
2. Water Management - New digital technologies can monitor water usage and help optimize water resource management.
3. Manufacturing Industry - Advanced analytics in manufacturing can help with predictive maintenance, quality testing, supply chain optimization, and product optimization to reduce costs and improve processes.
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Actian’s strategy is to enable companies to develop Action Apps. Action Apps are lightweight
consumer-style applications that automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data.
Action Apps will unleash the next level of business innovation and competitive advantage currently locked in the endless streams of data flowing through organizations and the industry. Action Apps are easy to build, require no training and provide value far beyond traditional business intelligence applications. Action Apps will be developed, managed
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1. WATER INDUSTRY AND ITS FUTURE CHALLENGES
KEY PROBLEMS WE NEED TO SOLVE BEFORE FACING THEM
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2. 1 Service and operational KPIs are based on partial and
non reliable information
How can weimprove when there’s no awareness of weakness? That’s what happens in
mostWater Utilities. Everyone knows that there are things that do not workproperly ...
but nobody knows.On the one hand there’s no previous business processes analysis
that helps companies to design easy and simple pain points monitoring mechanisms.
Furthermore, the mobile or not IT systems that supposedly are the responsible foran
easy and fast data entry, have been designed to reduce bureaucratic workinstead of
create a consistent knowledge base to learn and take better decisions. The result is
dramatic. We’re generating non representative KPIs from invented data. We’re making
tricks playing to the solitaire.
3. 2 Companies know how isn’t yet gathered in any digital
format
Petabytes and Petabytes of data is being generated around the world every day.The
percentage of daily non registered data is infinitely superior. Same story in Water
Utilities. There are thousands and thousands of transactions, operations, emails,
conversations and other ways of valuable communication that is not collected or
registered properly. It has been happened for years which, in absence of historical
data, does not allow Water Utilities learn from experience. But perhaps most
egregious is that basic operational information about processes, systems or field
operations are still in people’s brains instead of digital data bases.The risk and costfor
companies is too high. What can not be shared easily, don’t exist…
4. 3 Key transformational decisions are based exclusivelyon
short term profitability parameters
We can know that something we’re doing is wrong. Wecan have a clear awareness of
it and sane intention to solveit. But when werealize that solution implies an
organizational change with a more or less significant impact on the budget or
business processes, thing changes. Justifying past decisions or investments causes
that solutions evaluation to big underlying problems were measured by tangible
profitability. Result,a lot of small actions with an evident impact on spending relegate
at the end of the list the real transformations. That is, it is preferred to treat the
symptoms instead of ending with the disease. Thus it is very difficult to solve Water
Utility real problems
5. 4 Cost resulting from the high duplication rate of activities,
projects, studies and tasks is really huge
The world is full of professionals with aclear desire for improvement. Unfortunately,
the factthat they do not have a single source of information easily accessible and
shared in their companies makes many of them work in parallel on the same
problems rather than sharing and collaboration. And it's not amatter of will. It is a
matter of coordination and put the right tools and organizational means to avoid
sterile disputes between departments and lots of hours spent meaningless. Perhaps
collaborating shortens the time needed between strategy and execution. Who
knows…
6. 5 Power without control is useless
Today there is not a single Utility in the world that is not thinking in predictive
maintenance application in their operations. How can anybody consider such athing
when mostof the thousands of blue collars who go out to perform asset maintenance
tasks goes to change or repair something that is broken or don’t function properly? It's
the “Run to failure” old strategy. If no data is extracting from the assets and our blue
collars spend avery few percentage of their time on preventive maintenance tasks,
how can Utilities think of learning about an assetdata that is not available? Is not it
logical to obtain such data before considering extract knowledge from them?
7. 6 High level of specificity in municipal legislation hampers
rapid adoption of technology
Today is the time of IT platforms. It’s IaaS,PaaS and SaaS time. The fast and easy setup
process have beaten the high customization projects we used to do in the past.
Natural software market trend has led a proliferation of tools that reduce dramatically
implementation and go to market times. These tools have promoted the
standardization of company’s business processes while they covered mostof the
needs. But the complexity of Water Utilities organizational needs is still focused on the
way each of them contract, bill and rate the water service. The reason in most of the
cases forthis mess is derived from the local government continuous changes. The
result, heterogeneity is high and the casuistry becomes alarming. While some
coordinated effortto minimize it is not addressed, the synergy in the sector to
leverage the use of technology will remain low
8. 7 Past legacy is a heavy slab for Water Utilities
Unchanged ways to operate applied for years.Spending and investment strategies
based on asset rehabilitation and renew. Full opacity in the way to operate, invest and
spend at the eyes of end customer. The water bill as the only communication channel.
Reputation often questioned. All these subjects might well deserve a posttheir selves.
The inertia of many years is hard to beat when Utilities have to face and deal with
dramatic changes that in many cases mean a substantial transformation of the way of
understanding the Water "business".
10. Basedata togeneratetheasset inventorydon’t exist or areobsolete.
Then it’s necessarytogather newinformation or reviewtheexisting
onethrough field campaigns tryingtoavoid high expenses
Having availabledigitalized information tosimulate/operatethe
network as soon as possibleis veryimportant for Water Utilities.But
realitydemonstratetheyspend long timetodothat
Thequalitylevelof existing data is uncertain.In best cases,theyrealize
that thesedatais incomplete,incorrector inexact according the
operationalor business rules defined bytheUtility,when exist and are
clear enough…
Normally it’s very difficult toaccess asset inventorydata.IT systems
and organizations arenot orientedtosharethiscrucialinfo.Instead of
collaboration mechanisms wefind datasilos and duplicateddata
Nobodyknows therisk and impact relatedtotheassets.Their criticality
is calculated subjectivelyand onlysomeofthemaremonitorized to
obtain their performance.On top ofthat,this kind ofinfois not
collected systematically(field work) or automatically
Thefinallocalization of anyasset is not registered during the
installation process.Thatmakesimpossiblelatertraceabilityrelated
with model,brand or anyother asset specification
Related to
ASSET INVENTORY
HOW TO REACT…
• Automatizing the edition of inventory and networkelements according your
connectivity and business rules (laterals,connection services,manholes…)
• Creating aproper edition environment for operators (import from CAD,
workflows, edition from sketching…)
• Implementing Smart design and follow-up tools for inventory campaigns
• Smart segmentation/zoning
• Real vs Planned
• Progress control(per person,per contractor…)
• Analyzing dataquality
• Data completeness map
• Data validity map
• Data integrity map (Rules breakcontrol)
• Implementing easy mapping search and exploitation advanced toolfor Asset
Inventory
• Access to attached data(images,voice,video,specs docs…)
• Access to historian data(operations,maintenance tasks…)
• Access to RealTime data(controldata,performance…)
• Analyzing asset cadaster
• Condition map
• Usefullife map
• Matrix risk/impact map
• Monitoring associated asset riskand criticality
• Different risktypology
• Different failure mode typology
• Different consequence typology
11. Nowadays,95% ofasset maintenancefield works worldwidearebased
on a “Run tofailure”strategy.Wesend peopleoncetheassetis broken
and theserviceis affected
There’s a verylittlespacefor preventivemaintenancein a field worker’s
journey.Most of thetimeis driving and respondingtoendlessforms
Maintenancetasks areplannedbasedon intuition.Onlyin a small
percentageofthecases usefulliferelated parametersaretaken into
account in theprocess
Foreman’s experienceis thescienceused toplan maintenanceroutes.
NoVehicleRoutePlanning,Network analysis or other logistic are
normallyused
In such places wheredata is collected automatically,themain purpose
is remotecontrolusing SCADAtechnology. Data is not usedtomonitor
or analyzeasset condition or performance
Water utilities don’t knowsuch a basic assetinstalledparameters as
brand or model.So,theydon’t knowtherisk or break impact
associated.Even thecriticality.Obviously,theycan’tusethesedata to
createmaintenanceplans
Normally there’s nocultureofcost analysis regarding maintenance
costs.Lack ofinformation makes this impossible
Related to
ASSET MAINTENANCE
HOW TO REACT…
• Visualizing and analyzing maintenance planning
• Maintenance frequency (fix,threshold,average point…)
• Typology (Run to failure,preventive,predictive…)
• Implementing Smart asset search according specifications to easy create
maintenance plans
• Calculating risk
• Risk by asset map (mostly network)
• Risk by years map
• Calculating impact
• Different parameters (hydraulic,operational, commercial,
demographic…)
• Calculating criticality
• Matrix risk-impact map (Hot Spots/Criticalassets identification)
• Historical evolution visualization
• Monitoring Service levelof agreement compliance
• Response times and SLA map
• Analyzing maintenance cost versus asset performance
• Maintenance deviation map
• Prioritizing risk based inspections (RBI)
• Calculation based on fail probability and consequences
• Inspection proposalmap
• Visualizing fail tree associated to criticalassets
• Geoprocessing to simulate affected areas/assets in case offailure
12. TheROA(Return ofAssets) and optimumreplacementtimeoftheir
assets arecompletelyunknown in most oftheWater Utilities
Investment planning in replacementor rehabilitation projects is made
attending toa non “technical”parameters and,in bestcases,
prioritizing areas with major neighboringpressure
Subjectivityis toohigh in allthephases ofCapitalInvestment
Planning.Most ofthetimetheabsenceofa operationaland critical
network events databasewith whichperformthemandatory
geoprocessing and analysis leaves thesubjectiveoption as unique
Necessarydata calculation andprocessing toobtain theright
estimation in Capitalprojectsaremadewith a less levelofautomation.
This means long cooking times tointegrateinsidetheUtilitytaking
decision process
Related to
INVESTMENT
HOW TO REACT…
• Obtaining the ROA
• ROA map
• Thematic maps for asset rate
• Obtaining the optimum asset replacement time
• Time-Type of asset matrix thematic maps
• Replacement proposal(layer) by year
• Analyzing CAPEX & OPEX
• Based on average costs and year replacement rules
• Thematic maps by investment estimated costs by asset
13. Bluecollar mobility is thought byofficeworkers and for officeworkers.
People on field havetodealwith non easyand intuitiveapps
Thefield workforceis, mainly,“digitalilliterate”.Theageofour workers
is high and there’s a lowrotation ratein Water Utility.Wateris not too
sexy for young and digitalnativepeople
Automation of data collection,remoteor directlyon thefield,never
has been a priorityfor Water Utilities.Nowthat is something “cool”
theyneed totakeprofit oftheir past investmentsin technologyfor
field workforce(apps,devices…)
Theoperations knowledgeis stilla matterofpeople.Field workers and
operators retain thegood practices andmost effectiveprocesses.No
realtransferenceprocesstotheIT systems is takingplacenowadays,
principallybecausethesesystems arenot prepared toreceiveand
managesuch a “non structured”data
Bad user experiences in theappspromotes bad practiceson thefield.
So,thegathered information is inventedin a high percentageofthe
cases.Thegoal for thefield worker on a correctivetask is repairing.The
rest is secondary…
Paper is stilla reality.Thetimelapsebetween thedata collection in
field and his usagein officeis extremelyhigh.His usagefor a
operationaldecision is unlikely…
Related to
WORKSAND INTERVENTIONS
HOW TO REACT…
• Analyzing workand interventions cloud of points
• From different points of view,segmentation and categorization
• From a historical perspective
• Implementing smart Geo tools for sketching on the field
• Attached high resolution media
• Real time messaging and chatting
• Reengineering operation mobility to fit with blue collar real capabilities
• User Experience analysis to define new journeys
• Adjusting view levels and accuracy tools to crew responsibilities
• Inventory simplified view map
• Inventory detailed view (CAD) map in different and focused apps
• Optimizing maintenance routes calculation and assignment
• Different parameters beyond Geo (skills,availability…)
• Recommendations based on location, availability and others
• Automating workplanning
• Smart taskgrouping and assignment
• Implementing fully operational awareness tools based on areal
interoperability
• Including GPS tracking in operational awareness
• Field workers location
• Geofencing
• Routing historical analysis (machine learning)
14. Manualmeter reading is thewayWater Utilitiesareobtaining the
necessarydata for billing.AMR and Smart Meteringarestillresidualin
front of theamount ofmeter readers dailywalking byour streets
There’s a big spacefor error in manualtype.Maybeis faster and
cheaper than other types butthehigh volumeofinspections and
complaints derived fromthis process don’tbalanceout thepotential
benefits
Thehigh dependencebetween readingand billing process makes
entireprocess toorigid.Thetranslation torealityis a hugelack of
efficiency in themeter reading plan.Whilewater billing rates
structures wereorientedtosegmentand penalizelargeconsumers,
thebilling dates willcontinuebeing inflexible.
On top of that,manualreading is often subcontracted with the
purposeofdecreaseoperationalcosts.This means less controland
influenceon theprocess and technologysubcontractorsapplytothe
guaranteequalityand feasibility.In front ofthis scenario,using
geoprocessing toobtain meter reading routes is somethingunreal…
On theother side,Smart Metering is stillimmature.Water Utilities
don’t seethebenefits rather than obtain a datareadyfor billing.In
addition,oncetheystarttoinvest in thatdirection theinfrastructure
deployment is doing with theback facinggeotechnologyand
attending onlytopermission availability.Where’s theefficiency?
Related to
METERING
HOW TO REACT…
• Monitoring asset controldata
• Real Time map (integrated with SCADA)
• Implementing Smart design and follow-up tools for meter reading campaigns
• Smart segmentation/zoning
• Real vs Planned
• Progress control(per person,per contractor…)
• Applying Smart Geo for route calculation
• Automatic generation based on multiple parameters
• Automatic recalculation in case of incidences
• Learning from readers experience
• Big Data and Machine learning application
• Analyzing meter readers provider’s SLAs
• Best providers
• Change proposals based on compliance levels
• Preparing the Smart Metering implementation
• Antennas best location map (deployment proposal)
• Calculating tangible benefits of Smart Metering adoption
• Analyzing existing Smart Metering
• Antennacriticality map
• Redundancy levelof communication network
• Analyzing meter inventory analysis
• By age
• By dimension
• By consumer type
15. SCADAand hydraulic modelling is poorlyintegratedin theWater
UtilityIT ecosystem.In thesameway,few Water Utilities has got a real
integration betweenoperationalandcommercialsystems toassure
theresponsein front ofnetwork criticalevents
Operationalawarenessis a difficult job for Utilities.Onlythebig ones
haveinvested in RealTimeNetwork monitoring and eventdetection.
Therest haveserious difficulties toobtain an integrated vision trough
dashboarding
There’s nostandardprocedures tocollect,treat,storageand analyze
operationaldata.Under thesecircumstancesis difficult for Water
Utilities tofacechallenges likeleak detection,sectorization andother
techniques that makethempossibletooptimizeshortand long term
operation.
Related to
OPERATION
HOW TO REACT…
• Monitoring events on the networkto identify anomalies
• Real Time
• Historical perspective
• Calculating hydraulic balances
• DMA balances map
• Monitoring water quality
• Monitoring points map
• Access to analytics results (realtime and evolution)
• Integrating data in water supply modelling
• Water demand allocation
• Fire flows
• Water mix (sources mapping, homogeneous areas mapping…)
• Water persistence
• Integrating data in sewer and drainage modelling
• Simulating water networks
• Valve isolation trace
• Upstream-Downstream trace
• Flow accumulation
16. Water Utilities don’t havean uniquehistoricalvision toanalyzethe
asset and network evolution.Traditionallydifferent phases ofprojects
and interventions havebeen registered in multipleformats and digital
supports,makingalmost impossibletoquerythepast.
Project tracking is madeunder a budgetdeviation perspective.So,a
big percentageofthedata generatedduringa constructionis not
“necessary”toregister.It provokes that,whena deviation is detected,
is hard tofind thecauses
Therearedifferent systems involved in theproject management
process.FromCAD tobudgeting tools,most ofthemhavedifferent
responsibleor different formats.BIM(Building Information
Modelling) adoption is somethingstillon thehorizon…
Potentialsynergies derived fromtheresources location and
continuous displacements betweenconstructions in a organization
don’t beleveraged.European laws makethemcomplextodeployapps
based on GPS tracking for peopleor devices
Related to
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
HOW TO REACT…
• Deploying smart tools for project management editors and analysts
• Networkconnectivity analysis
• Operation simulation
• Building an historical project database
• Different networks evolution map
• Implementing smart budgeting tools
• Based on Geo tools
• Connected to legacy/finantial systems
• Connecting project geodatabase with Project Management tools
• Planning mode
• Tracking mode
• Budget deviation mode
17. Normally company’s customers arenot properlyrepresentedon a
map.Water Utilities,always influencedbytheir shorttermeconomic
return obsession,don’tsenseimmediatelya realbenefit in geocoding
Thebilling process in usuallycomplexand fullyof casuistic.In
addition,localgovernment influenceis highmakingalmost
impossibletoshareeasilysynergies,proceduresand tools between
companies without a good layer ofcustomization
Regarding today’s readingand billingmonthlyandbimonthly
frequencies ,theanalyticalchallengefor Water Utilities is huge.
Smart Metering is coming so,therealityis that consumption forecast
and billing period estimation arefar frombeing easytocalculate
today
Consumption analysis is stillan unresolved matter.Therepresentation,
qualityand quantityofcustomer’s data is not at thenecessarylevelto
takeright decisions.
Business Intelligenceareabsolutelyorientedtobilling consolidation
and report.Onlyfewof themgofurther trying tocover thedebt
analysis.There’s stilla long path alongthewaybeforethesesystems
start tobereallyvaluable…
Related to
BILLING
HOW TO REACT…
• Discovering our customers
• Thematic maps by age, connection type,consumption type,large
consumers,criticality…
• Mapping our customer’s behavior
• Consumption evolution
• By segmentation (domestic,commercial…)
• Implementing Smart design and follow-up tools for customer cadaster
reviewing
• Smart segmentation/zoning
• Real vs Planned
• Discovering how debt evolves
• Debt map
• Cross analysis with customer dataand demographics
• Cross analysis with offices location
• Cross analysis with digital channels
• Analyzing the anomalous consumption
• Fraud identification map
• Meter abnormalfunction identification
18. TraditionalCustomer Carestrategies andIT systems usedfor years in
Water Industryarenot fullyoriented toguaranteecustomer
satisfaction.Achangein Water Utilities sensibilitytowards end
customers has took placein recent years.But there’s a lot ofwork todo
prior tochangecustomer’s poor imageofwater companies
Water Utilities don’t knowwhois their customer.Thedifficultyto
obtain information fromthembeyond thestrictlynecessarytocontract
theserviceprovokes a hugelack ofunderstandingaboutend
customer’s interests,behavior or needs
Thepaper water billis mainlythecommunication channelwith
customer.Technologyadvances arefocusedon onlineoffices and
better IT systems for physicaloffices
Callcenter don’t havea 360ºcustomer vision becausethechasm
between operationalandcustomercaredepartments.In addition,
level of digitaltransparencywith customers is stillverylow.The
customer interaction consuming or giving information through digital
channels is something towok hard
Water Utilities wants toshareproactiverecommendations,smart
advises and good consuming practices with their customers.
Unfortunately,processes anddata arenot readyfor it.Analytics applied
toCustomer Careis nowadays just a desire…
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CUSTOMER CARE
HOW TO REACT…
• Understanding how our customer feeland trying to find disappointment
sources
• Customer satisfaction map
• Cross analysis between incidents and customer satisfaction
• Improving Call Center tools
• Customer 360º vision
• CRM integration
• Publishing information to the customer
• Programed service shutoff
• Networkincidence map in real time
19. Usually,thepower of consumption analysis,customer behavior,
operationaland maintenancetasks andother relevantinfofor Water
Utilities is not convenientlyleveraged in Smart Cityinitiatives.The
stateand feasibilityofdata generatea hugevolumeofextra work
beforetheycan beshared with others atthesamequalitylevel
Thereareunexplored fields ofanalysis regarding consumption that
could behighlyvaluablefor theSmart City.Acitybehavior
radiographycan beeasilydoneat differentlevels ofaggregation
hourly,dailyor monthly.In few cases localcensus and demographic
data arelinked with data coming fromUtility
Therearea lot of opportunities totakeadvantageofWater Utility
assets and field work forcefar from thecurrent usage.In the
innovation era this is a need…
Related to
THE SMART CITY
HOW TO REACT…
• Exploring new possibilities for Water Utility assets
• Design thinking process
• Empowering current IT systems interoperability
• Design of apowerfulAPI strategy
• Software platform adoption instead of custom developments
• Opening the doors to our City neighbors
• Multiutility vision vs narrowed minds
20. Necessarydata togenerateEmergencyPlans arepoorlyupdated.This
process is mostlyexecuted manuallywithout a proper adoption ofnew
technologyoffering
Emergencyis thenaturalfield toGIStechnology.Water Utilities are
not using properlythepowerfulofthis technologytoprepare,predict,
manageand evaluatetheimpactofnaturaldisasters
Beyond largecompanies thathaveconsistent strategies,Automatic
EmergencySystems for severerain events or flooding arenot enough
implemented on theterritory.In addition,thehighcost of
maintenanceand “non official”status makethemsovulnerableto
economic crisis
Emergencyawareness or Decision SupportSystems arenot a priority
for Water Utilities.Even necessaryinteroperabilitywith other
administrations areoften not guaranteed in caseofemergency
There’s noa well definebroadcasting strategytowardscitizen in case
of emergency
Related to
EMERGENCIES
Every daya hugeamount ofWater Utilityfield workers aremanaging
riskytasks completelyalone.Thestateoftheart ofthetechnology
applied toHSE is growing rapidlybut theadoption in thecompanies is
stillvery low
There’s a realregulatorypressurethat implies a lot ofcustomization by
state,region or municipality.Standardization is stilltocome…
Thejob of theHSE departmentsis titanic.Theyhavetoconvincedthe
rest of theorganization (mostlyOperations) about thebenefits oftheir
job,saving life.But thetransposition ofthis laudabledesiretoreality
using technologyis seen normallyas an cost overrun
Risk and HSE information arenot considered initiallyfor Water
Utilities as priorityin themobilitystrategy.Theinstantaccesstothis
crucialinfoat anytimeon thefield seems tobean extra in front of
operationaldata collection.
In thesamedirection,vitalsignsmonitoring or emergencycalling
apps arenot convenientlyrepresentedin thefield workers mobility
Related to
HEALTH & SAFETY
22. Almost 20 years in
InformationTechnology and
softwareprofession
Many ofthem dedicated to
Water Industry with different
hats
Passionate about Software,
Business Analytics, Marketing
and Business Development
Runner, reader and sporadic
blogger
Dani Cardelús
danicardelus@gmail.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR