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Surprises can be a lot of fun, unless it happens in the middle of your cloud migration project. While moving to the cloud is no trivial matter, it doesn’t have to be stressful or surprising. Many steps and techniques are often overlooked or forgotten. Watch this 60-minute webinar delivered by cloud expert, course author and instructor, Brian Eiler. You’ll gain a better understanding of the scope involved for migrating workloads, plus tips and techniques that will enable your organization to get started in cloud computing without all the surprises. What will you learn? Key concepts related to cloud workloads, from planning and human elements to connectivity, security and data transfer. Different design aspects that should be considered when planning a workload migration to the cloud. How these factors impact the workload migration process. Recommended Courses: Cloud Workload Planning Understanding the Cloud Business Application & Vendor Landscape

When it comes to cybersecurity, people are an organization’s greatest asset—after all cyber-attacks are people attacking people, not machines attacking machines. However, managing your cybersecurity team has its challenges and they are often more acute due to the worldwide skills shortage and the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals. In this 60-minute webinar, our panel of cybersecurity experts will discuss five unasked questions about cybersecurity people management like:  Do cybersecurity certifications create flight risk?  Do penetration testing and ethical hacking courses actually teach bad guys?  Is cybersecurity a differentiator? Does it improve your organization’s position or make you a target?  Do cybersecurity certifications really increase an individual’s earning potential?  Should organizations “hack back”? Is it unethical to preemptively hack?  Watch this webinar today as experts Dave Buster and Ross Casanova describe actionable steps you can take to navigate these minefields within your own team and organization. Related: Cybersecurity Certification Training

The change we have been talking about for years is here: IT Departments are being torn apart and reassembled in new and interesting ways, as one by one companies make their move to the Cloud. As predicted, IT Pros are being asked to take on new and different roles and to be more involved in the business. In this session, we will look at some of these new roles; what’s working, what’s failing, who is succeeding and who has been left behind. Being an IT professional today is exciting as it is scary. There is lots of opportunity; but so many gaps to fall into. It is time to take inventory and ask yourself: are you well positioned to succeed? Related: Ten IT Skills on the Brink of Extinction

The purpose of this Webinar is to introduce Apache Spark and its relevant integration with IBM SPSS Modeler. Why integrate? What type of benefits? We will review the integration process high level and advise which enhanced features to pay attention to, and common pitfalls to avoid.

A 60 minute, interview style webinar with Tejas Vashi of Learning@Cisco to discuss network security trends, risk mitigation and the recently released Cisco Cybersecurity Report. As organizations go through digital business transformation, attack surfaces are increasing, making it more difficult for Enterprises to secure today’s networks and proactively mitigate security breaches.  Businesses and IT security professionals must focus on their most important goal:  establish a secure communications environment. Join us to hear from Tejas Vashi, Senior Director of Learning@Cisco’s Product Strategy & Marketing, about key trends from Cisco’s latest cybersecurity industry research, the security challenges organizations face today, and what they can do to mitigate the risks.

As organizations continue to look at data in Salesforce for business insight, it is becoming more important for business analysts and program managers to understand how to establish a process for developing and deploying analytics solutions for their organization. This one-hour webinar offers an overview of key Salesforce functionality, and will explore how to leverage basic reporting to determine how to best solve business challenges using Salesforce, including: Lightning Process Builder basics and overview Reporting Formats and Build Steps

Almost anyone who turns on a computer at work uses Microsoft Office, but the everyday user is barely scratching the surface of what is possible with this remarkable software package. Webinar leader David Arnburg is a Microsoft desktop applications expert with more than twenty years experience as a trainer. Join David for this info-packed hour, where you'll learn about the hidden power and productivity of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. You will learn in Excel (00:44 - 20:34): How to save time by creating an AutoFill list, How to use Conditional Formatting to dynamically highlight content. You will learn in Outlook (20:38 - 35:15): How to take advantage of Outlook’s Quick Steps feature, How to use enhanced Search features. You will learn in Word (35:17 - 46:50): How to use styles to quickly format your document, How to use Bookmarks in long documents. You will learn in PowerPoint (46:52 - 51:20): How to create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document, How to re-use existing slides in a presentation.

It’s inevitable. At some point in your career, you’ll find yourself working alongside individuals who fall into the general category of “Difficult People.” The effects these people can have on an organization vary greatly but usually involve many problems for the team. This white paper describes some of the more common types of difficult people and provides you with tips on how to handle them.

As organizations embark on agile initiatives, business analysts can serve a critical role in ensuring the success of those initiatives. This one-hour webinar will explore why business analysts embody core values and skills to thrive in an agile world. In this one-hour webinar, you will learn: Common myths about agile and business analysis, Agile roles for business analysts, BA skills for succeeding in an agile world, and Maximizing value – at the core of the BA role

Whether your project follows formal or informal project management, waterfall, or an iterative or Agile, making use of the daily stand-up meeting is an essential habit required for every self-organizing team. Stand-ups are a core practice and help us determine customer value, reinforce team structure, organize priorities, address uncertainty, remove impediments, and manage our time through the use of a personal Kanban. In this one-hour webinar, we will: Determine daily customer value with the three stand-up questions,  Investigate the use a Team Charter to build team structure and balance, Address daily uncertainty with a Risk Burndown, and Participate in a small exercise and create your own personal weekly and daily Kanban using exclusive cognitive techniques to manage the multitasking behaviors required of all of us.