Live Webinar – August 31st, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

The best way to deploy and scale a NoSQL database is with elastic infrastructure, with containers being one of the most efficient platforms – deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

In this webinar, Shane K Johnson, (LinkedIn profile) Manager of Product Marketing for Couchbase, discusses how development and operations teams can benefit from running NoSQL databases on containers, as well as the options for doing so.

Shane will discuss how running NoSQL on containers:

• Improves business agility
• Increases developer productivity
• Simplifies deployment and scaling

And, he will highlight options for running a NoSQL database with:

• Docker Swarm, Docker Machine, and Docker Compose
• Docker on Kubernetes or Apache Mesos (DC/OS)
• Docker on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

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Modern Infrastructure With NoSQL & Containers

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Live Webinar September 1st, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

For the past 40 years, the relational database has been the dominant model for persisting data.

While SQL databases are not going away anytime soon, the NoSQL (“not only SQL”) movement challenges the relational database as the default persistence layer for modern applications.

Learn how you can leverage both relational and NoSQL databases, as well as managed services, to improve your apps and provide compelling systems of engagement.

• For example, use ElasticSearch to provide full text search, PostGIS in PostgreSQL for geospatial capabilities, Redis for improved performance, or a document database such as CouchDB or MongoDB for a flexible schema.

Applying principles from Domain-Driven Design such as strategic design and bounded contexts, this presentation will help you choose and apply the right data layer for your application’s model or models.

Bradley will explore relational databases, graph databases, document databases, full text search, caching with key/value stores, polyglot persistence, horizontal scaling, eventual consistency, CQRS, event sourcing, and data layers for microservices.

Learn the answers to these questions:

• What open source NoSQL databases are available to developers today?
• What type of database or databases should I choose for my application?
• What is Domain-Driven Design and how can I use it to think about the data layer for my application?

Presenter:  Bradley Holt (LinkedIn profile) is a Developer Advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services. Author of several publications including Scaling CouchDB & Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB, Bradley is an in demand speaker at conferences worldwide including the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Bradley writes and speaks about topics such as CouchDB, PouchDB, offline-first applications, PHP, Node.js, and Domain-Driven Design.

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Designing Data Layers For Modern Web & Mobile Apps

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Live Webinar August 31st, 2016 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Leadership Potential Is Everywhere.

And yet …organizations report they have major concerns about the lack of leadership bench strength.

Why is this?

It’s definitely not because there aren’t enough people capable of leading.

In fact, research shows that only one person in a million lacks the skills to lead. It’s because of inhibiting assumptions, failure to create vital contexts for growth, and not making leadership development a daily habit.

Join Jim Kouzes as he presents a framework for reinventing how individuals and organizations approach the learning of leadership at all levels.

Presenter: Jim Kouzes (LinkedIn profile) Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, is a leadership author of several books including:

• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
• The Leadership Challenge Workbook
• Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others
• Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It
• A Leader’s Legacy  and…
• The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Learning Leadership:
The 5 Fundamentals Of
Becoming An Exemplary Leader

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Live Webinar September 1st, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Customer analytics is a high priority for almost every organization, but organizations often get into the rut of thinking customer analytics is about segmentation strategies for acquisition, cross-sell and retention.

Although valuable, in limiting their thinking to these segmentation strategies, organizations are missing opportunities, as some of the most innovative and significant customer experiences are driven by other types of customer analysis.

Join Gareth Herschel (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) as he discusses how, based on over a hundred different examples of customer analysis, Gartner identified six different styles of customer analysis that can be relevant to almost every organization.

Executives responsible for customer strategy or analysis should learn from thought leaders in multiple industries about other styles of analysis. And consider how these best practices might be applied to their own organization.

Discussion Topics:

• The six styles of customer analytics
• How to prioritize them for your needs and organization

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The Six Styles Of Customer Analytics

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Live Webinar – August 31st, 2016 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts.

The definition of the business requirements for analytical processing / decision support systems require different techniques than the process and data modeling used for transactional processing systems.

For a BI project, Business Analysts and Project Managers need to identify the business questions, facts, measures, and dimensions needed for the data warehouse.

IAG will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield the a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
2. How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
3. How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems

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Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Business Intelligence Projects

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Online Webinar  – Recorded July 27th 2016
Activity Type: Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Cisco Webex Online

Managers and direct reports alike are feeling stretched in today’s fast-paced business environment.

Team members are asked to do more with less and managers are asked to direct and support others while still carrying a full load of their ownwork.

The result is rushed communication, poor listening, and nonexistent day-to-day coaching.

In this webinar, Ann Phillips (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consulting Partner, The Ken Blanchard Companies shares three skills that can help managers use their time more effectively.

This session draws from the The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Situational Leadership®II program.

Learn:

1. How to set goals in a time efficient manner that keeps people focused and on track.
2. How to identify development levels and diagnose specific needs for direction and support on individual goals and tasks.
3. How to match leadership style to development level and provide people with the direction and support they need to succeed.

Explore some of the realities managers are facing in today’s busy work environment and learn three proven approaches to regaining control of your managerial work life

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Finding The Time To Manage: 3 Key Skills

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