Name: Black Box Conversations in IoT
Start: 2022-03-15T15:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-15T15:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Bridging the distance between insights, tech & strategy—in smart, meaningful ways that yield transformative results.

IoT platform and business leaders are continuously struggling to balance cost optimization management with investing in innovation opportunities. Organizational uncertainty about cloud platform performance and misaligned expectations related to connected product lifecycle support lead to inconsistent IoT platform investment and delays in developing differentiated features. Having a clear baseline of your current cloud costs and projecting your future cloud cost trajectory will provide clarity to the organization and confidence to invest in innovation initiatives.

Join OST’s connected product platform architecture experts and a special guest from the AWS IoT Solution Architecture Team for a panel discussion covering topics like:

• Managing tensions between optimizing for costs and delivering new features.
• Investing in architecture agility now for future performance flexibility.
• Modeling current cost per unit to inform forecasted costs per unit at scale.
• Leveraging AWS IoT cloud innovation to expedite differentiated feature development.
• Integrating AWS IoT services to increase value delivery throughout your product lifecycle.

Optimize IoT for Opportunity

Healthcare organizations want flexible, scalable, and simple solutions for running Epic and other enterprise workloads, so they are turning to the cloud. But successfully - and quickly - deploying or migrating to the cloud requires a strong foundation.

Join OST's healthcare, Epic, and Azure experts for an in-depth webinar that will help you learn how to:

    • Understand cloud infrastructure prerequisites for Epic and other enterprise healthcare workloads.
    • Ensure connectivity and security before, during, and after deploying or migrating workloads to the cloud.
    • Align existing cloud-based infrastructure to meet requirements for Epic and other enterprise applications.
    • Leverage OST’s proprietary cloud foundation and methodology to quickly and cost-effectively move Epic and other applications to the cloud.

Scale and Optimize Enterprise Healthcare Workloads in the Cloud

Are you considering an ERP upgrade? Outdated ERP systems are difficult to access, navigate and maintain. Moving to Infor LN Cloud positively impacts all business units within an organization and allows them to achieve more.

Join OST’s ERP experts for a live demo of Infor LN Cloud, including:

    • Workflows
    • ION Alerts
    • ION Integrations
    • Infor Document Management
    • LN Extensibility

Exploring the Capabilities and Advantages of an ERP Upgrade to Infor LN Cloud

Along the IoT journey, product owners will encounter disruptions, struggles, and pitfalls. Even the most seasoned professionals understand that uncertainty is almost a guarantee. How you navigate the IoT journey, and the transitions and developments along the way, will influence the overall success of your product, including ROI. 

In this webinar, OST's Principal IoT Business Consultant Jen Nowlin and VP of Digital Strategy Andy Van Solkema will facilitate a conversation covering the unknowns in Return-on-Investment Estimation. Together they will cover:

    • Timeline of ROI calculations through each stage of development. 
    • The uncertainty and confidence factor, and the relationship between the two. 
    • How to develop confidence in your investment, and communicate your vision to leadership.  
    • The transitions of people, processes, and platforms needed to succeed.

Navigating the Uncertainties in ROI Estimation for IoT Success

Join us for a panel discussion featuring stakeholders across the ERP implementation spectrum. You’ll hear, firsthand, about the successes and quick returns you can expect to achieve during an ERP migration as well as the challenges and frustrations you may experience — and strategies to navigate them.

The focus of the discussion will be on NuAire’s 6-month journey (so far) from Baan through process engineering, data migration, testing, and a conference room pilot to LN Cloud — during a global pandemic, no less! NuAire is a manufacturer of environmental cabinets and specialty lab equipment based in Minnesota, and they’ll be sharing details about:

    • What challenges they faced running their business on Baan IV.
    • Why moving to LN Cloud was the right choice and what factors went into that decision.
    • How NuAire anticipates LN Cloud will improve business operations and customer value.
    • Which methodology NuAire and OST are using for the project.
    • Lessons learned during testing and training.

How to Successfully Move to Infor LN Cloud Roundtable

IT budgets are constrained more than ever. Epic infrastructure requirements continue to grow by 20-40% each year, and often outgrows planned infrastructure lifecycles. Leveraging Cloud services for Epic infrastructure offers cost-savings, faster deployments, and simplified infrastructure management. 

Join OST’s Principal Architect of Infrastructure Solutions Aaron Nienhuis and Chief Innovation Officer Jim VanderMey for a discussion on Epic in the Cloud. In this webinar, experts will cover: 

    • Use cases for implementing/migrating Epic environments in the cloud. 
    • Reducing infrastructure costs with an On-demand cloud infrastructure. 
    • Architecting and deploying new Epic infrastructure in days rather than months.
    • Eliminating the financial and administrative burden of infrastructure lifecycle refreshes.
    • OST’s phased methodology for implementing Epic workloads in the cloud.

Epic in the Cloud

A cyber-attack occurs every 39 seconds. Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated; it's not a matter if an attack will happen, but when. Is your organization prepared for when it falls victim?  Attacks during a global pandemic are exponentially growing as millions of users are now connected to unsecured home networks. This leaves a vulnerable opportunity for both hackers and bad actors to attack your data set.

In this webinar, OST expert Dave Chinn will walk you through a high-level overview of a cyber recovery solution. You will learn about cyber resiliency challenges, the difference between disaster recovery and cyber recovery, and the importance of a cyber recovery solution for your business. Our OST experts are ready to help you set up a recovery solution that will help protect your businesses' data for tomorrow.

Destructive Cyber Crime and Ransomware: What's Your Recovery Strategy?

The market is full of connected products – complex technical creatures that require nurturing. Product manufacturers must plan and nurture their connected products in order to manage unexpected events during the operational phases.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to mitigate risks that threaten the launch and long-term success of your connected product. The central focus of this discussion will be on three keys to success for minimizing operational risk:

1. Adaptable Architecture
As IoT platforms like AWS evolve, your device architecture needs to adapt. Leveraging architecture that scales and evolves, you can quickly adjust to changing customer needs, markets, and technology without disruptive, expensive rebuilds.

2. Security 
How can you protect both your organization and customers using your connected product? AWS IoT experts will discuss Device Defender, a key tool for data protection.

3. Lifecycle Management
Once a product is built and launched, most organizations focus on keeping it running and updated. But are you considering the changing ecosystem that your product lives in? We'll discuss how to optimize feature additions and manage multiple generations of IoT devices as you evolve to meet the needs of your end-users.

Managing Risks with the IoT Foundation

A cyber-attack occurs every 39 seconds. Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated; it's not a matter if an attack will happen, but when. Is your organization prepared for when it falls victim? 

In this webinar, OST expert Dave Chinn and Dell EMC expert Bill Mercer will cover:

    • Cyber Recovery Solution Deep Dive - Learn about the architectural overview of the solution.
    • CyberSense Analytics - Gain an added layer of protection for quick detection and recovery.
    • Cyber Recovery Demonstration - Witness a functional demonstration of the solution in play. 

Our OST experts are ready to help you set up a recovery solution that will help protect your businesses' data for tomorrow.

Cyber Recovery: Air-Gapped, Immutable Data Protection

Commercializing connected products is challenging. Organizations struggle to orchestrate cross-functional teams that require collaborative commitment from both external and internal resources. To clarify value, drive product release, and increase alignment, you need a comprehensive and compelling roadmap.

In this webinar Brian Hauch, Design Director, and Jen Nowlin, Principal IoT Business Consultant will discuss how roadmaps enable communication, clarity, confidence, commitment, and consistency for complex connected product developments. You'll learn roadmap methodologies, customization strategies, approaches to build consensus among cross-functional teams, and more.

Detangling IoT Product Complexity

As organizations prepare for the next fiscal year, stakeholders are presented with the challenge of setting priorities and objectives for digital product ideas and opportunities. It is difficult to compare and select the right ideas to focus on as they all contribute different values to the organization. Adopting a methodology to categorize and evaluate ideas clarifies an actionable path toward real business value.

Join OST’s Connected Products Lead Jen Nowlin and Design Research Lead Jeanette Carrell for a virtual webinar that will uncover:

    • The difference between an idea and an opportunity for digital products.
    • How opportunity maps are visualized and why the methodology plays a critical role in prioritization.
    • Organizing business ideas into relative value and attainability.

Utilizing an Opportunity Map to Prioritize Strategic Business Investments

Making the decision to move to a Hybrid IT strategy is about more than just moving a few things to the cloud. A hybrid solution is a cross-functional approach that aligns business and technology, optimizing for the results your business values the most.  

This webinar will walk you through five (5) key factors to consider as you evaluate a hybrid IT solution for your organization.  

You will learn more about:  

• How to attain storage capacity in new ways by utilizing traditional on-premise solutions and cloud services. 
• How to minimize and avoid risk in your traditional and cloud environments through security, data protection, and monitoring. 
• Why hybrid IT changes the financial model and governance procedures. CapEx vs OpEx spending within a hybrid strategy is a game-changer for the organization.
• How to manage identities within a cloud environment, and the best ways to keep connectivity and networking secure.
• How to use a hybrid model to achieve velocity by utilizing DevOps and SysOps processes.

The Five Pillars of a Successful Hybrid IT Strategy

In this webinar, OST and AWS experts discuss the top five things you can do to optimize and reduce costs for your IoT platform. OST has proven strategies that will allow your organization to scale efficiently, and continue to innovate your connected product offerings. This is a great opportunity to learn more about how your organization can directly benefit!

• Planning of the cost optimization journey and possible outcomes
• 5 strategies for the IoT Cost Optimization Outcome
• Successful IoT Cost Optimization Partnership Scenario

The Top 5 Things You Can Do To Optimize and Lower IoT Costs

The accelerated rate of bringing complex, customizable products to an online presence defines the shifting consumer demand for personalized digital experiences. Organizations can attain an immediate return on e-commerce objectives by optimizing the selling process of configurable products.

Join us for a webinar on product configurators that will discuss:

    • Why industries need to envision product configurators into their future.
    • How to enable shorter sales cycles for complex products. 
    • Ways to generate new revenue opportunities for product lines.
    • Live demo of various types of configurators and their capabilities.

Custom Product Configurators in the Accelerated Digital Market

Connected product manufacturers need to take a proactive approach. Early on, teams need to identify areas that will save time, decrease costs and reduce time to market. Join us for a webinar to learn more about:

• Why internal conversations around centralization and customizations are so hard to have, and steps to take to break the cycle. 
• How black box thinking can open and align conversations between business and IT stakeholders.
• How to increase momentum and reduce internal breakdowns and delays during connected product development.

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