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National Congress is the culmination of scientific and educational
value of the Company, an opportunity for discussion on the most recent
acquisitions in the field of cardiovascular prevention. The
main objective of the Congress SIPREC resides primarily in promoting
the encounter between professionals working in various fields of
preventive cardiology. In
addition, the event promotes collaboration within the EU scientific and
public awareness that cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading
cause of death in our country and elsewhere in Europe, may be largely prevented through effective prevention programs.
In today`s Business climate, many companies are trying to widen margins
by reducing operational costs while at the same time becoming more
Agile and Intelligent in Business operations. In addition they want to
become more responsive to Business events and more flexible in their
ability to quickly change in response to competitive pressures. To do
this requires that companies improve the efficiency and automation of
their Operational Business Processes through Enterprise Business
Integration and on-demand intelligence. Four levels of Integration are
needed to create the Agile Process Centric Intelligent Business. These
are User Interface Integration, Business Process Integration,
Application Integration and on-demand Data Integration. This in-depth
two-day seminar discusses the Business benefits that can be obtained
from Business Integration and then focuses on the architecture
options, the technologies and a methodology on how to integrate
Business operations and also leverage Business Intelligence on-demand
in operations to create the Intelligent Business. Attendees will learn
how to justify the Business benefits of Enterprise Integration, create
an Enterprise Architecture and then bring the architecture to life
using common integration infrastructure technologies to join up
Business operations. They will learn about the components of Business
Integration including standardising integration interfaces using Web
Services, using Metadata integration technologies to create a shared
Business vocabulary, on-demand Data Integration using Enterprise
Information Integration (EII) technologies, Business Process Management
technologies, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), on-demand Business
Intelligence and Enterprise Portal technologies. In addition attendees
will learn what technologies to use, how to select and how to integrate
these products into an end-to-end integration technology framework
based on integrated shared Metadata.
There is no doubt that Business Performance Management (BPM) is
becoming fundamental to building, growing and managing a successful
Business.This concept is based upon the principle that improvements in
performance can only be delivered if performance is measured in
specific Business areas and related to strategic Business objectives
and targets. A full BPM implementation therefore includes:
CPM/EMP/SPM Scorecards and Dashboards
Enterprise budgeting and planning
Processes and BI both integrated with Scorecards and Dashboard software (not just BI)
In-line analytics for on-demand BI, reports and analyses available in operations
BI Web Services to integrate BI into operational Business processes
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to monitor Business process events to detect exceptions and opportunities
On-demand and event driven data integration to integrate historic and operational data for analysis
Data Mining services for automatic analysis,
Reporting services for on-demand and event driven reporting
Rules engines to make automatic decisions and take automatic actions
Automated alerts
Live recommendations
Guided analytics
Dynamically guided intelligent processes
Activity based costing to monitor and measure the cost of operating
This new two-day seminar provides a roadmap and methodology to
creating the Right-Time Intelligent Enterprise by using methodologies
and new technologies to manage a Business at both strategic and
operational levels.
It looks at how Operational Performance Monitoring technologies like
BAM can be integrated with Operational Business Processes and linked to
Strategic Performance Management technologies such as Scorecards and
Dashboards as part of a top-to-bottom Enterprise Business Performance
Management program.
The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) would like to invite you to the ‘Eternal City’, Rome, to attend the 2010 conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.
The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology was founded in 1999 to provide pan-European representation for research, education and professional practice in the discipline. One of its major activities is its biennial conference which attracts delegates from more than thirty countries who gather to share innovations and best practice in the field.
Occupational health psychology concerns the application of principles and practices in applied psychology to occupational health and safety issues for the promotion of the quality of working life. The discipline’s researchers and practitioners aspire to foster `healthy workplaces in which people may produce, serve, grow, and be valued. Healthy workplaces are ones where people use their talents and gifts to achieve high performance, high satisfaction, and well-being`.
The 9th Conference is being jointly organised in collaboration with the Department of Occuaptional Medicine of the Italian National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL). The event will take place over three days, 29-31 March, 2010, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University . Situated in the centre of Rome, adjacent to the Vatican, this prestigious venue is sure to offer an ideal location for researchers, practitioners, educators, and postgraduate students to share developments in the exciting field of occupational health psychology. We look forward to welcoming you in Rome.
Do you already know data modeling basics and want more? Take the Masterclass! You will first apply a Best Practices approach
to building and validating data models through the Data Model
Scorecardtm, a tool for improving data model quality. Next we focus on
a collection of intermediate and advanced modeling techniques,
including advanced normalization and enterprise data modeling. The
final section contains guidelines used to gain consistency across our
data models in areas such as in abstraction and whether to star schema
or snowflake.
Each participant will receive a copy of all presentation material and a copy of the 2nd edition of the book “Data Modeling Made Simple”, by Steve Hoberman.
Poor information quality costs organizations ten to twenty percent of
total sales or revenue in the form of process failure and “information
scrap and rework.” These costs are real and direct costs equivalent to
manufacturing scrap and rework. Lost and missed opportunity costs as a
result of poor information quality can be even greater than that. You
learn the quality principles that must be applied to both business
processes and information systems processes to achieve effective
business performance. You learn how to measure and improve information
quality to reclaim the lost profits of poor quality information.
This course provides guidelines for implementing a Total Information Quality Management (TIQMtm) environment to create a “Center of Excellence” and sustain an information quality environment for business effectiveness.
W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points of Quality provide the basis for defining
an information quality management environment. You learn management
techniques for implementing sustainable information quality
improvement. Illustrations show leading-edge best practices that
result in business effectiveness and competitive advantage.
People use software, but other people build that software. There`s
the problem. Solving it means understanding the actual work of the
Business users and what they need in order to do it. And then the
resulting requirements need to be communicated to system builders,
customers and suppliers. Requirements analysts need a process that
provides a structure for organizing the requirements. However the
requirements process needs to be flexible enough to suit each
particular situation. This seminar teaches you that process. Since the
first version of the Volere process and template was released, it has
been adopted and adapted to improve the requirements of thousands of
organizations all over the world.The Volere requirements specification
template, links the functional, non-functional and constraint Business
requirements to the requirements models and connects them to the design
specification. This seminar has indispensable information for Business
analysts, requirements engineers, systems mangers, project leaders,
consultants, systems analysts and planners.This material applies to all
stakeholders: users and
customers will benefit from learning how to participate in this
multi-disciplinary approach. It is for anybody who has a responsibility
to deliver the right products-the ones that get used.The seminar
focuses on:
A process for gathering the correct requirements
Methods of eliciting requirements from all the stakeholders
Ways of knowing when your solution precisely matches what the user needs
The ability to write a complete and unambiguous requirements specification
Improved relationships between developers, customers and suppliers.
The original Data Warehouse architecture of the 1980s separated
“decision support” from day-to-day business operations. This supported
Decision-Making needs at the time and was easily implemented on then
emerging technologies, such as relational databases. However, today’s
Business needs fully integrated processes, closely linking information
and activities from all areas of the Enterprise. Decision-Making and
Action-Taking are tightly bound. Business cycles are dramatically
shorter and span company boundaries. So far, Enterprise IT, including
Business Intelligence, has responded slowly and incoherently.
Business Integrated Insight (BI2)
is a new architecture that reintegrates all Decision-Making and
Action-Taking into the overall processes of the Business. Starting from
the Data Warehouse, it incorporates a variety of technological
advances, such as SOA, distributed access, Web technologies, Content
Management and specialised relational databases. BI2 thus
provides a comprehensive structure for the full Enterprise IT
integration demanded by modern Businesses. In addition, it directly
addresses the current Data Warehousing issues, such as operational BI,
executive Decision-Support, comprehensive information discovery and
innovation, and Enterprise-Wide Decision Management. And, although
novel, BI2 is designed as an evolution from current Data Warehouse, operational and collaborative technologies.
SOA has rapidly seized the momentum and center stage because it is seen
as the key for Enterprises to achieve Business agility, improved
quality of service, lowered total cost of ownership and to align
Business with technology. SOA represents a unique and rare opportunity
to bring IT and Business together. However, this opportunity implies an
evolution and often an organizational change, especially in the role of
IT within the organization and in the way IT and Business work
together. This seminar starts with examples of popular Business
strategies, explains how SOA can enable them and foster a better
alignment between Business requirements and IT deliverables. It gives
you insight into the key organizational challenges that IT Managers
face with the adoption of SOA and how to master them through efficient
governance. Next, the seminar discusses the key standards that one
should consider when implementing services and it outlines the
important aspects of Enterprise Architecture that have to be addressed
in order to make SOA projects successful. This includes defining a
loosely coupled architecture and proper separation into service layers,
as well as a comparison of conventional Web Services based and RESTful
architectures. The seminar then drills down into the major aspects of
application architecture, for example how SOA enables new types of
clients, the characteristics of orchestration, application, and
infrastructure services, and it maps standards to the layers of the
application architecture. Furthermore, the seminar will help you
understand how SOA can be applied to integration initiatives within
your company, in particular through Service Oriented Integration (SOI).
In this context the concept of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is
introduced. The seminar concludes with an overview of today’s
predominant platforms for building and deploying new Business
applications (Java EE and .NET, as well as open source tools),
examining these platforms in terms of their support for SOA.
Easy to understand CISSPTM prep curriculum with intense (daily) online quizzes ensure you master the 10 domains and successfully pass the CISSPTM exam the first time”. 95% Pass the first time, The SU CISSPTM
Prep class effectively prepares information security professionals to
pass the rigorous six-hour Certified Information Systems Security
Professional (CISSPTM ) examination. This SU CISSPTM Prep program offers each student a zero-distraction, fully-immersed CISSPTM
CBK training and certification experience that employs accelerated
learning techniques to minimize time-to-proficiency while maximizing
retention.
You are taught by CISSP Master Clement Dupuis, the father of the www.cccure.org Website
More CISSP`s pass the first time they take the exam
Accelerated learning techniques to focuse on long term information retention
Purpose: Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to: minimize NSAID gastropathy; to manage osteoarthritis patients effectively; to identify appropriate patients for joint aspiration, interpret synovial fluid analysis, and perform injections with corticosteroids/viscosupplementation; recognize the importance of early diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis; identify the pros/cons of biological treatment of your patients with rheumatoid arthritis; recognize in your patients the mimics of vasculitis and the rheumatic syndromes associated with neoplasia, endocrinopathies and renal failure. Recognize your patients at risk for Osteoporotic fractures and minimize the effects of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis; anticipate peri-operative problems in the rheumatic disease patient; and evaluate and manage effectively the patient with chronic myofascial pain/fibromyalgia applying for disability benefits.
After a brief introduction of Service Oriented Architecture the
seminar discusses the guidance that typical Enterprise Architectures
provide, and it compares today’s two mainstream approaches to SOA,
namely conventional Web Services based architectures and RESTful
architectures. It moves on to the more detailed application
architecture, starting with the relationship of different types of
clients to the services they consume, the separation of services into
three distinct layers (orchestration, application, and infrastructure
services layer), and it gives a quick overview how a variety of
standards can be mapped to the elements of the application architecture.
The seminar then addresses how a typical Object Oriented application
development methodology can be modified in order to derive a
methodology that is suitable for implementing services. A Case Study is
used for a detailed illustration of the modeling and design of a
SOA-based B2B gateway. It includes the design of service interfaces,
the encapsulation of a legacy system, the definition of schemas that
are broken down into reusable components, the development of Business
processes, and a walk-through of the complete B2B gateway architecture.
There is unanimous agreement among “agile” authors, experts, and
practitioners that agile development works for building small
stand-alone systems, including front-end BI applications. However,
there is considerable disagreement among the experts whether “agile”
can work for large, complex systems like an Enterprise Data Warehouse,
which requires an Enterprise perspective for activities like data
standardization, data integration, enterprise data modeling, business
rules ratification, coordinated ETL data staging, common meta data,
collectively architected (designed) databases, and so on. Today’s
popular agile methodologies do not take any of these additional
DW-specific complexities and interdependencies into account. However,
the presenter’s 7-step Extreme ScopingTM approach does.
Having good information visualization software is not enough. Even
knowing how to use the software is not enough. The ability to design
effective visual displays of data is not intuitive; it requires a set
of visual design skills that must be learned.
Based on his recent book, "Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and
Graphs to Enlighten", Stephen Few introduces the Best Practices in data
presentation in this workshop.
We make huge investments annually in Business Intelligence (BI)
technology, but it often fails to deliver on the promise of improved
productivity and smarter decisions. Assuming that you need only install
BI software and the rest will take care of itself is a false hope.
To use BI technology effectively, you still need fundamental skills in
the analysis and presentation of information. A relatively small
investment in skills development can make the difference between the
success or failure of a huge investment in technology.
The most common and important use of BI software involves the analysis
and presentation of quantitative information - the numbers that measure
Business Performance. Most quantitative data, such as sales data and
other Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), are presented as tables and
graphs. Unfortunately, most tables and graphs used in Business today
are poorly designed. Why? Because almost no one who produces them,
including specialists such as financial analysts and other report
developers, have been trained in effective table and graph design. You
can become an exception to this norm.
This course provides practical instruction in table and graph design
developed specifically for the needs of Business. It will alleviate
countless hours of confusion and frustration. Following Stephen Few`s
clear precepts, communicated through examples of what works, what
doesn`t, and why, you will learn to design tables and graphs that
present data clearly and drive your message home.
Somewhere around 90% of all Business data analysis can be done using
simple graphing techniques to discern meaningful Patterns in the data.
Plenty of existing resources already teach the skills and practices
involved in doing sophisticated statistical and financial analysis to
support the mere 10% of Business data analysis that requires it those
specialized skills, but where are the resources that teach the skills
needed by the rest of us?
Even though these skills are simple and easy to learn and apply with
the right help, very few people involved in analyzing Business data
know them. This workshop provides a solution.
This book is intended for all those whose work requires them to make
sense of quantitative Business data. This audience is much broader than
financial analysts, or even analysts by any name; it provides practical
skills that are useful to managers at all levels and to anyone
interested in keeping a keen eye on the Business
Anyone who uses Excel or any of the many other Business productivity
tools used for data access, analysis, and reporting, will learn how to
use them productively, perhaps for the first time.
The delegates will also receive a copy of the book “Now you see it: Simple Graphing Techniques for Quantitative Analysis” by Stephen Few.
Dashboards have become a popular means to present critical Business information at a glance, but few do so effectively.
Huge investments are made in Information Technology to produce
actionable information, only to have it robbed of meaning at the very
last stage of the process: the presentation of insights to those
responsible for making decisions.
When designed well, Dashboards engage the power of visual perception to
communicate a dense collection of information in an instant with
exceptional clarity. This can only be achieved, however, by applying
visual design skills that address the unique design challenges of
Dashboards.
These skills are not intuitive; they must be learned.
The delegates will also receive a copy of the new book "Information Dashboard Design" by Stephen Few.
Developments in IT and the world economy have changed the paradigm for
corporate IT people and the strategies they lead. Consumers and
Business managers are increasingly confident at exploiting technology
in ways that they value. Meanwhile, executives remain determined to
constrain IT spending, not always certain of what they get in return.
The economic climate makes it even more important to understand the
links between value creation and IT costs.
The Corporate Strategy for IT harnesses the energy of Business-led
strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also
makes transparent the linkages between Business decisions and IT costs
- often with some very surprising results.
In a recent advertisement for Microsoft Project, a Project Manager
is shown alone in a high-tech room looking at 20 computer screens on a
wall with project plans, tracking reports and other project information
produced by Microsoft Project.The caption reads "Excellent". The
project is going to plan. In the client-driven, internet-speed world of
contemporary world of new Business, nothing could be further from
reality than the Microsoft advertisement. With the evolution of XP
(Extreme Programming and Lite or Agile Methodologies), the need for
appropriate Project Management techniques to support the radical
development approaches involved in Extreme projects has become
critical.Traditional Project Management focused "downwards" to the
technical content of the project. In other words, the Project Manager
focused on issues such as schedule, deliverables, costs and so on (the
Microsoft advertisement). Extreme Project Management balances the
internal focus on the content with an external focus on the context of
the project.Simply, what used to done with the project team is now
shared fully with the project stakeholders. In addition, the broader
context issues such as Business impact, Change Management, Business
drivers, benefits realisation,
organizational politics, communication, relationship and expectation
Management are the main focus of the new Project Manager.In a recent US
survey, Robert Charette reported that Project Managers were struggling
to cope with the changing Business environment. Challenges facing
Project Managers include:
Lack of budget or time to establish stable processes in highly compressed schedules
The need for innovative new solutions to Business initiatives
Insufficient planning
Redundant work caused by sudden changes in priorities
Too many dependencies with other projects
Competition for resources with other projects
Slow decision making
In this highly-provocative and challenging Master Class, Extreme
Project Management will be explored. The workshop will provide a forum
for experienced Project Managers to come to grips with the new world of
Project Management. Each student will receive a copy of Thomsett`s book
"Radical Project Management".
For years corporate decisions have been made on the basis of the data
found in transaction based systems. Transaction oriented data fits well
with standard database management systems because database management
systems structure data in a repetitive manner, where each occurrence of
data has the same structure as each other occurrence of data in a
table. But there is another viable and important source of data in the
corporation. That source of data is the information found in the form
of text. There are many forms of text in the corporation – emails,
spreadsheets, contracts, warranties, medical and healthcare
information, and so forth. Because text is not repetitive it does not
fit easily and well with standard database management systems. But now
there is textual ETL and the ability to build databases and data
warehouses that contain textual information. When textual data is able
to be transformed so that the text fits inside a standard database
management system, whole new opportunities for analysis and decision
making are created.
This two day lecture/workshop is about what is required to create the
textual, unstructured data warehouse. The first day is lecture and the
second day is a hands on workshop.
Technology Transfer’s International SOA Conference 2010 will answer
key questions on how to navigate the road ahead of your current SOA. A
lineup of experienced practitioners will present on topics that are
crucial for any organization that wants to move beyond small scale
projects and apply SOA across projects, across the Enterprise, extend
it to the cloud and to Business partners. Join us when we discuss:
Is SOA the Holy Grail that will finally allow us to align
Business and IT? We will look at the transition from a Business
Architecture to a SOA and how they can be linked together
While
the numbers of failed SOA projects are still high it is important to
arm yourself with hard facts before you meet your Business sponsors.
ROI calculations can convince even the most skeptical CFO
Moving
from a grass roots approach for building services to an Enterprise
strategy requires understanding the SOA maturity level of your
organization, defining a Roadmap for the evolution of SOA to the next
level, and employing the right Governance to the implementation of your
Roadmap
REST-based architectures seem to compete with the
traditional approaches to building a SOA – but do they really, or is it
just another flavor, and how do you decide when to use what?
Web
2.0 continues to be one of the hottest topics in IT. It is more than a
pretty face for services; and we must understand its implications on
how we architect services
Services have started to
proliferate throughout your organization – how do you put a structured
integration approach in place before your SOA spins out of control like
we have witnessed with point-to-point integration “quick fixes”?
Enterprise
Service Buses can be an essential tool to integrate and virtualize your
services, but they should not be confused with an architecture blueprint
Most
companies are using server virtualization to consolidate hardware and
save cost; however, this is typically driven by data center operations
and not in line with the SOA that Enterprise architects are concerned
with – but it should be, and cloud computing is the next step that has
to fit under the SOA umbrella
Security – while often an afterthought, it becomes more critical in a SOA environment
Business
Process Management (BPM) has a synergy with SOA that can provide the
needed flexibility to make alignment of Business and IT a reality
This two-day seminar is intended for Compliance Managers, Data
Architects, Database Administrators, Data Integration Developers and
Master Data Management Professionals, who are responsible for
Management of Enterprise Data. The seminar takes an in-depth look at
the Business problems caused by poorly managed data, and defines the
requirements that need to be met for a company to confidently define,
manage and share master, transactional, analytic and unstructured data
across operational and analytic applications and processes.
In order to achieving Enterprise Data Management a company needs to
invest in a suite of technologies that support end-to-end Data
Management activities. These include:
Enterprise Metadata Management
Data Modelling
Data Profiling
Data Cleaning
Data Integration (Batch, on-demand and Event-Driven)
Data Synchronisation
Master Data Management
Enterprise Content Management
During the two days we take an in-depth look at the technologies
needed in each of these areas as well as Best Practice approaches and
methodologies to Data Integration and Master Data Management.
A new wave of computing tools and applications – illustrated by
examples ranging from Wikipedia to MySpace to blogs – has grown in
popularity during the past five years, and is now reaching “mainstream”
status in some parts of society. More important, it is now being
investigated and adopted by CIO’s and senior executive in large,
pragmatic Business organizations as a way of reaching new markets,
increasing revenues and profits, increasing productivity and
effectiveness of its employees, and many other benefits.
“Enterprise 2.0” is the term now used to describe Business-Oriented
adoption and implementation of technologies, Business strategies and
cultural practices that were originally focused on informal networking
activities among consumers, students, and teenagers.
But most organizations believe that the technologies of Enterprise 2.0
are less important than the Business strategies that need to be
reexamined and updated.
How can Enterprise 2.0 help us find new markets and customers?
How can it help us find new products and services to offer existing customers?
How
can we find ways to increase collaboration between our employees,
customers, suppliers, and other citizens – using, for example,
strategies like “crowd-sourcing” - rather than operating entirely
within a fortified firewall barrier?
And how can we
improve the effectiveness of communications with our customers, so we
can spend more time listening to them, and less time preaching at them?
Enterprise 2.0 is a “strategic” issue: it requires senior corporate
executives – including the CIO and senior IT Managers – to rethink
basic assumptions about their Business, their customers, their
suppliers, their work-force, their revenue models, and the day-to-day
processes by which they carry out their Business.
This seminar is designed to help attendees understand the importance
and impact of Enterprise 2.0 from both a Business and technology
viewpoint.
Almost every organization around the globe is now moving beyond
processes as solely a way of synchronizing change and is attempting to
transform the way their enterprise plans, manages, monitors and aligns
capabilities and motivation using a process-managed baseline. The bad
news is that most organizations have little ability to make it happen
in a consistent or reliable way and most managers do not really
understand what
it will take to succeed. This seminar provides a comprehensive
examination of the state of the art in Enterprise-level Business
Process Management (BPM). It addresses innovations in ways of managing
processes as assets of the enterprise. It focuses on maintaining the
critical role that processes play in the alignment of the strategic
objectives of the organization with what people do every day. It is
geared to those with or without process experience seeking to learn a
set of pragmatic practices packaged into a reusable BPM way of working
strategically and tactically. The facilitated workshop sessions are
highly interactive and ensure experience-sharing with other
delegates. Built on lessons learnt, both good and bad, from real
companies, this seminar provides you practices to deal with the real
and tough challenges you will face.
Delegates will benefit from the experience and wisdom of the world leader on the topic. Roger Burlton’s book "Business Process Management: Profiting from Process" will also be provided to all who attend.
This seminar delivers the foundational skills and techniques required
to analyze and improve existing processes. It focuses on identifying
opportunities for process change and presents the analysis, modeling
and design techniques and tools required to improve performance.
Participants will learn to scope specific processes using graphical
models to document results. And, they will learn how to define
measurement techniques for evaluating outcomes. They will also learn
how to model As-Is and To-Be process workflows using industry standard
notations. The class is organized around a case study that will be
developed by attendees working in teams along with the instructor. The
approach is practical and business oriented and attendees will be able
to immediately apply what they learn within their own organization. It
naturally follows on from the lessons in the preceding class "Business Process Management" (BPM) to provide a complete methodology.
If your processes don`t always produce the correct or consistent
results, then you probably have a decisioning problem. You need the
right techniques to fix these decisioning problems - process models,
use cases, data models and other Business analysis tools just don`t do
the job.
Decisions are day-to-day, minute-to-minute decisions in running the
Business. Generally, the decisions are made within some Business
process, which might or might not be formally organized by a model. The
important thing about these operational decisions is that they are
highly repetitive - they might be taking place
hundreds or thousands of times per day, per hour, or even per minute.
They are predictable and fairly well structured in terms of the kinds
of outcomes they produce. You want such decisions to be consistent and
traceable across platforms, channels and organizational units.
Business Rules are the criteria for making these decisions. Business
Rules should be treated as a first-class requirement so they can be
validated, managed and changed as easily and as quickly as possible.
For that, you need to know how to express Business Rules, and organize
them into decision tables wherever possible.
This seminar gives you the essential insights you need to achieve
order-of-magnitude improvements in your company`s capacity to manage
decisions. The result is simpler, smarter process models and a huge
boost in Business agility. Learn applied techniques from the recognized
world leader in the field.
All delegates will receive a free copy of Ron Ross`s book “Business Rule Concepts” (3rd Ed.), 2009.
10-Night Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Conference on MEDICAL ETHICS AND LEGAL MEDICINE
Seminar Outline: AMERICAN LAW & JUDICIAL PROCESS
MEDICAL ETHICS & BIOETHICS 1. Bioethics, Professionalism, and Communication 2. Fetal Interests, Abortion and Stem Cell Research 3. End of Life Decisions, Aid in Dying & Assisted Suicide
REGULATION OF MEDICAL PRACTICE 1. HIPAA, EMTALA, and Other Federal Mandates 2. Licensing, Credentialing, Privileging and Impairment Issues 3. Fraud and Abuse AND Criminal Negligence
LAW OF HOSPITALS, NURSES AND MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS 1. Hospital and Nursing Liability 2. Liability of MCOs
MEDICAL LIABILITY & MALPRACTICE MOCK TRIAL 1. Medical Negligence: Causes, Prevention and Defenses 2. Medical Records and Spoliation of Evidence 3. Capacity, Competency, Informed Consent and Informed Refusal 4. Expert Medical Testimony 5. MOCK TRIAL: Liability in Selected Specialties
14 CLE Credits have been applied for with the Florida Bar
7-Night Western Mediterranean Cruise Conference from Rome, Italy
Following attendance at this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Review stepwise approach to evaluating patients with common skin conditions and diseases • Identify superficial fungus infections based on physical diagnostic criteria • Asses the clinical features and treatment of scabies and lice infections • Review the clinical features of herpes simplex, and herpes zoster infections • Discuss clues to the diagnosis of eczema • Review available drugs to treat psoriasis • Review the clinical features of Papillomavirus infection • Develop an understanding of the pathogenesis of acne • Recognize the clinical features of normal “moles” based on the natural history of these lesions • Review the indications for common surgical procedures • Review selected techniques in dermatologic surgery • Identify clinical features of common blistering diseases
This course teaches the students how to develop secure web
applications in today’s complex internetworked environment. Students
will receive a deep and thorough understanding of the most prevalent
and dangerous security defects in today’s applications. Additionally,
they will learn practical and actionable guidelines on how to remediate
against these common defects in Java/J2EE and how to test for them in
their own applications.
This class starts with a description of the security problems faced
by today`s software developer, as well as a detailed description of the
Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) “Top 10” security
defects. These defects are studied in instructor-lead sessions as well
as in hands-on lab exercises in which each student learns how to
actually exploit the defects to “break into” a real Web application.
(The labs are performed in safe test environments.)
Remediation techniques and strategies are then studied for each
defect. Practical guidelines on how to integrate secure development
practices into the software development process are then presented and
discussed.
Dimensional Normal Form is a new approach to Data Warehouse Data
Architecture which combines the strengths of both the normalized and
the dimensional design paradigms to provide usable, flexible, scalable,
and high performing schemas for the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
Dimensional Normal Form allows an Enterprise Data Warehouse to be
constructed a Data Mart at a time without requiring an intermediate
Data Warehouse. While this sounds like the Kimball approach it is
differentiated by its completely normalized ETL dimensions and its
methods for tracking dimension history and differentiating contextual
from detail or audit history.
This seminar fully covers design techniques for Data Warehousing and BI
solutions based on the Dimensional Normal Form Data Architecture and
discusses the pros and cons of the many design decisions that must be
made. History considerations are discussed in detail along with their
impact on schema design.
Various schema design examples are presented and discussed. The seminar
participants will also be given design exercises will have their
solutions analyzed and discussed by the group.
The seminar will also present contrasting Data Warehouse architectures
and discuss the variations in physical design that are required for
different Data Warehousing environments.
The following seminar on “Template-Driven ETL” will show how to build,
populate and maintain the schemas built following the Dimensional
Normal Form Data Architecture.
Extract, transformation, and load process development (ETL) typically
accounts for more than half of the work on a Data Warehouse project.
Although complex and challenging a rigorous ETL process ensures data
quality and currency thus ensuring Data Warehouse credibility and
usefulness.
The good news is that using a standardized approach along with proven
techniques and templates can exponentially lessen the amount of effort
required and can ensure data quality, scalability and performance.
This class gives a broad overview of ETL processing for the Data
Warehouse and delves into the in-depth issues and considerations
involved. The class looks at the increasing need for Real-Time data
feeds to the Warehouse and discusses the various methods to meet these
needs. It specifically presents and teaches a template-driven approach
which quickens development speed and provides completeness.
These templates are demonstrated with working Informatica/Oracle code,
but can and have been adapted for other ETL tools and database
platforms. They are also applicable for hand-coded efforts.
Enterprise Architecture is fundamental for enabling an Enterprise to
assimilate internal changes in response to the external dynamics and
uncertainties of the information age environment.
It not only constitutes a baseline for managing change, but also
provides the mechanism by which the reality of the Enterprise and its
systems can be aligned with management intentions.
The objective of this seminar is to build an understanding of the
concepts of Enterprise Architecture and develop a sense of urgency for
implementing those concepts in a modern Enterprise.
This workshop is designed for software developers and testers that want
to learn new and innovative ways to perform Software Testing. The
topics covered in this workshop are appropriate for any level of
Testing knowledge and experience, from foundation to advanced levels.
This workshop is 40% lecture and 60% interactive labs where you will be
able to practice with others the techniques covered in the lectures.
The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Google Maps,
Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Internet applications
have begun to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive
applications that deliver the best of the Web and the best of the
desktop application experience.
We will show how these techniques are changing the way designers
think about their application designs. You will learn how Web 2.0
applications are using new interaction techniques to replace existing
Client Server and windows applications without sacrificing user
productivity. Plus, you`ll see the usability challenges introduced when
these new interaction techniques are implemented.
This course focuses on the basics of Software Test Automation and
expands on those topics to learn some of the deeper issues of Test
Automation. This course is not specific to any particular tool set but
does include hands-on exercises using free and cheap test tools. The
main objective of this course is to help you understand the landscape
of Software Test Automation and how to make Test Automation a reality
in your organization. You will learn the top challenges of Test
Automation and which approaches are the best ones for your situation,
how to establish your own Test Automation organization, and how to
design software with Test Automation in mind. You will also learn many
of the lessons of Test Automation by performing exercises using sample
Test Automation tools on sample applications. You will leave the course
with your own Test Automation strategy and plan for implementing it.
The aim is to provide a forum of the highest
standard for scientific (both clinical and basic), educational and
social exchange between professionals involved in rheumatology,
liaising with patient organisations, in order to achieve progress in
the clinical care of patients with rheumatic diseases.
The EULAR Congress 2010 in Rome will cover a wide range of topics
including clinical innovations, clinical, translational and basic
science. In addition there will be meetings organised by people with
arthritis, by health professionals and by the health care industry. The
heart of the Congress will be the poster presentations with their
intense interactions between participants. With respect to the
presentation of clinical research, the EULAR Congress has gained a
reputation of being highly innovative and informative for the
practising physician.
The evolution of how companies employ SOA can be broken down into three
phases: the initial phase focuses on migrating from previous approaches
like component based applications to services and the best practices
around building services. Once a company has completed initial SOA
projects, the number of deployed services increases such that the key
question no longer is how to build services, but rather how to
efficiently govern the development and operation of services on an
Enterprise scale. The focus of a second phase SOA shifts to
reusability, securing how a growing number of clients access the
services, assuring that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met, etc.
Service virtualization plays a key role in this phase, which provides a
decoupling of clients and services and replaces non-business logic in
services with configuration in middleware that acts as intermediaries,
like Enterprise Service Buses and SOA Appliances. While enterprise
architects focus on SOA, the data center and operations managers have
server virtualization on their agenda as a top priority to increase
efficiency and reduce cost. These two efforts have not been treated
synergistically by most companies, but they should. The provisioning of
virtual servers should be done using a SOA based service infrastructure
paradigm and the business services should automatically be mapped onto
infrastructure resources in order to implement on-demand resource
provisioning to better meet SLAs. This approach to the second phase in
the SOA evolution positions a company for a natural progression into
phase three, where services move into the cloud. Regardless whether we
move to an enterprise cloud or one that is hosted by an external
provider, everything we have learned and implemented in the first two
phases of SOA applies – even more so, since issues like security and
integration become more complex in the cloud and SOA Governance plays
an even bigger role. This seminar walks you through the three phases of
evolving SOA and how to use a maturity model to build your SOA Roadmap.
It then discusses how SOA Governance relates to business, IT, and
Enterprise Architecture (EA) governance; it details what comprises SOA
Governance, provides insights into current standards, vendor approaches
and technologies, and closes with a case study that illustrates some of
the governance principles and how to measure success.
Economic pressures are forcing companies to become more innovative
while also trying to reduce costs and leverage their BI and Data
Warehousing investments. In this tough climate, the information-driven
Business is key to success and organizations are looking to extend the
application scope and user reach of analytics for Business Decision
Making. However, information is growing at a phenomenal rate with many
companies now talking about supporting and managing petabyte data
systems. In parallel with these issues, the rate of change in
information-related technologies and products continues unabated.
Vendor consolidation and failures, and the emergence of lower-cost
solutions and new deployments models such as Open Source and Cloud
Computing make developing a flexible IT strategy for Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing a daunting task. This Conference
examines the latest state of the art in Business Intelligence, Data
Warehousing and Data Management, and takes a detailed look at the key
technologies that will be driving next generation systems that support
the Information-Driven Business.
Topics that will be covered include:
BI and Data Warehousing Status Report
Comparison of the Main BI Vendor Product Stacks
Business Analytics: Beyond the Traditional DBMS
Open Source Solutions: Ready for Prime Time?
Business Analytics and Unstructured Data
The Data Delivery Platform – An Update
Next Generation BI/DW Solutions: Choosing the Right Options
Using Collaboration to Extend the Reach of BI
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Tools, Techniques and Case Studies
Operational BI and Data Integration: Ten Mistakes to Avoid
The 60% of Faculty is composed of foreign speakers, everybody playing an active part in clinical research in horacic Oncology and KOL in their respective countries. We expect a significant foreign delegation. The Conference is glad at ESMO label and for this reason the official language of the Conference will be English.
Setted immediately after ASCO, the Conference will give an update on the data coming from Clinical Research in Thoracic Oncology directly from the voice of its Authors more representative in an appointment that by alternation with the World Congress of IASLC, we would like to be lasting inside of the international ongressional track.
The scientific committee will organise once more a very interesting programme covering all areas of human reproduction research and medicine in order to meet the needs of all participants. Pre-congress Courses will offer a wide range of reviews and new topics, and the scientific and industrial exhibits will present the latest information on the ongoing changes in laboratory and clinical products and instruments.
Topics:
Andrology (male fertility, spermatogenesis)
Cross-border reproductive care
Demography, epidemiology, registries, and health economy
Early pregnancy
Embryology (embryo selection)
Endometriosis, endometrium and implantation
Ethics and law
Safety, Quality, Risks and Complications (guidelines, accreditation and certification, multiple pregnancy, treatment outcome and follow-up)
we are proud to invite you to the European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour which in its 13th edition (ESSSB13) will be hosted in Rome, Italy, a city where Past Ages seem to revive, overlap and melt into Modern Living and Transcultural Exchange, thus constituting the Ideal Ground for the theme of the Symposium which is “Integration of Knowledge for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention”. By keeping the legacy and sharing the common spirit of the previous and successful ESSSB symposia, ESSSB13 is in fact looking forward to novel perspective into the study of Suicidal Behaviour.
Basic components of studies on suicide (research, prevention, treatment) have undergone consistent progress, but given the peculiar nature of each one, their mutual dialogue and definitive exchange has proved to be scarce.
Inspiration of the 13th ESSSB is then to investigate possible modalities and paths of communication of these instances, favoring aggregation and interplay not only of single minds, but also at a more complex level of structurization of suicidology, with the ultimate scope of harmonizing its articulate development.
Over the
years, the field of Hematology has undergone enormous expansion in
clinical trials and basic research as well as in cutting-edge
technology.
The 1st World Congress on Controversies in Hematology (COHEM)
will function as an exclusive forum for international experts to share
and compare experiences, in order to outline the right treatment for
patients.
The concept of this Congress
stems from the fact that current congresses fail to promote true
clinical discussion between practicing physicians and researchers on
unresolved pressing issues.
International Conference on Electrical Machines (http://www.icem.cc/ ),
now in its 19th edition, has established itself as an influential and
recognised international event and is the only major conference
entirely devoted to electrical machines where the community of
specialists discusses the progress achieved and the future developments
in technologies, analysis, design, testing, operations, practical
applications, maintenance and teaching in the field of electrical
machines.
Started in London in 1974, ICEM is now established as
a regular biannual event. Very successful conferences were held in
Helsinki (Finland) in 2000, Bruges (Belgium) in 2002, Cracow (Poland)
in 2004, Chania (Greece) in 2006 and Vilamoura (Portugal) in 2008. (ICEM HISTORY)
Join teachers, scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss the theme of Crossing Borders and Building Bridges: A Global Program for the Future. Individual and session proposals now are being scheduled for the VIII Annual Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture in Rome, Italy, 3-4 December 2009.
Each year this annual congress attracts nearly 100 persons from more than 25 countries. The major focus of the 2009 meeting will be to create practical applications for teaching and learning.
Sessions will be presented on the following fields and subjects:
- Arts and Humanities
- Business and Management
- Computers and the Internet
- Distance and Online Education
- English as a Second Language
- Entertainment and the Media
- Entrepreneurship
- Government and Politics
- Health and Recreation
- Language Skills
- Religion and Philosophy
- Science and Technology
- Society and Culture
- Teacher Education
We are excited to once again have assembled many of the leading
clinicians and scientists from around the world to drive forward the
scientific and medical research agenda in Aspergillus and aspergillosis for
the 4th Advances Against Aspergillosis conference. There was an
overwhelming feeling of success from the first Advances Against
Aspergillosis meeting in 2004, in San Francisco where we had 364 attendees
from 28 countries, the second meeting in 2006 in Athens with 464 attendees
from 44 countries, and the third meeting in 2008, in Miami, with 351
attendees from 48 countries. The meetings were very productive for
exchanging clinical and research ideas and forging new collaborations.
This conference has now clearly established itself as the premier forum for
detailed and dedicated discussion of all aspects of Aspergillus infection
and research, and previously published proceedings from the three prior
conferences have been very well-received.
The Aspergillus field is in a state of rapid advancement, including
the publication of numerous post-genomic papers and substantial advances in
translational and diagnostic research. Additionally, the launch of several
newer antifungals in the last few years and anticipated clinical trials of
others is an important therapeutic step forward, without precedent in
mycology. Itraconazole resistance has emerged, and combination therapy is
now in clinical trials. Despite the incidence of invasive aspergillosis
increasing and disease being the leading fungal cause of patient mortality,
prior to the 2004 Advances Against Aspergillosis meeting, there had been
limited communication among experts in the area. This is another chance to
gather the world`s aspergillosis experts in one venue. A fundamental tenet
of this research colloquium continues to be to engender collaborative
relationships amongst clinicians, scientists, and industry to further
advance the field.
SAT Expo Europe is the international event
dedicated to the Satellite and aerospace industry, its services and applications, and
integrated telecommunications
For the complete duration of the fair, entry is reserved to professional participants. Saturday 6th of February is open to general public.
Participants attending this conference will learn about the
microbiological aspects, pathophysiology and clinical presentations of
common and emerging invasive fungal infections. Up-to-date information
on diagnosis and treatment for these infections will also be discussed
in detail and future prospects will be highlighted.
Target Audience
Specialists or physicians in training in the
following disciplines: infectious diseases, clinical microbiology,
mycology, other disciplines dealing with immunocompromised patients
(e.g. haematology, oncology, chest medicine).
With more days and great opportunities, for 9 days at the Fiera di Roma, go BIG BLUE`s fourth round of the review for professionals and enthusiasts of sailing, the sea, the water activities of fishing.
Days with new themes, the presence of major international brands with boats on display, a program full of initiatives, cultural events, meetings, space for innovation and interactivity, this is BIG BLUE 2010
COMPENG is intended to provide an international forum for experts and professionals working on the latest developments in the fields of complexity theory and its application in an engineering perspective, with special emphasis to electrical and communication networks, electronic and control systems, data collection and mining, and management of large engineering systems.
SMi’s Border Security 2010 returns next year to offer you an insight into land, air and maritime border security issues. Following on from sell out events in Istanbul in 2008, and Warsaw in 2009, Border security 2010 will once again bring together leading international experts from the security sector.
Next year we are placing a special focus on the use of border management technologies. Attend and hear special insights into how different surveillance technologies are being used to aid decision making and improve security at all levels. Discuss how far the human factor is being replaced and what your role will be in the 21st century environment
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