IBM Academic Initiative Skills for a Smarter Planet

1. IBM Academic Initiative Skills for a Smarter Planet John Schilt IBM Academic Initiative Australia / New Zealand schiltj@au1.ibm.com New Zealand Universities January 21-25, 2013 Charts and other reference material : bit.ly/ANZAI

4. The IBM Business • IBM Products • IBM Global Technology Services • IBM Global Business Services • IBM Research

5. Smarter Planet Skills for a Smarter Planet Cloud Computing Academic Initiative – Cloud Resources Todays Topics 1 2 3 4

6. The world is connectedECONOMICALLY. SOCIALLY. TECHNICALLY. We are experiencing the reality of global integration. A series of shocks: Plus rapidly evolving and ongoing significant trends:

7. …because intelligence is being infused into the way the world works. Our world is becoming INSTRUMENTED. Our world is becoming INTERCONNECTED. Virtually all things, processes and ways of working are becoming INTELLIGENT.

8. + + = An opportunity to think and act in new ways.

9. Government Services Smarter cities are working to infuse intelligence into each of their core systems. Transportation Public Safety Education Energy and Utilities Healthcare Telecommunications

10. Smarter transportation: Client transformations Stockholmimplemented an intelligent toll system in the city center, which resulted in 20% less traffic, 40% lower emissions and 40,000 additional users of the public transportation system. To encourage citizens to use multiple modes of transportation and make it easier to align the cost of transit with its impact on the environment, the Singapore Land Transport Authority implemented fare management with smart cards that can be used to pay for buses, trains, taxis, road-use charging and parking.

11. Smarter Planet Skills for a Smarter Planet Cloud Computing Academic Initiative – Cloud Resources Todays Topics 1 2 3 4

12. Skills for a Smarter Planet • T – shaped skills • Soft Skills • Technical Skills

13. What are T – Shaped skills ? • Complimentary skills • Project Management • Business / Management • Accounting / Finance • Politics • Selling • Legal • Specific Skills • Deep • Technical • Specific to trade or profession • Certification • Professional recognition What shape are you ?

14. Soft Skills It’s about Aptitude As well as Attitude • Communication • Presentation • Leadership / Teaming • Persistence • Passion • Longing for learning • Confidence (*) • Listening • Ability to accept feedback • Organisation • Selling / Negotiation “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion” Hegel, 1770 - 1831 (the what and the how)

15. Technology – Alphabet Soup PHP .NET Java JEE XML HTML DHTML XHTML Ruby on Rails PERL Python CSS USB 3.0 W3 RDBMS Web Services ReSTFul Services Open Source FOSS Linux IDE DHCP, DNS Frameworks MVC Cloud Computing Analytics Infrastructure as a Service Software as a Service Platform as a Service Business Process as a Service Storage as a Service IP V6 ERP SCM Web 2.0, Web 3.0 VOIP Javascript AJAX BPM Big Data • Always need to be in the know – • be aware of what is happening in your industry, in your area of expertise.

16. Key Skill Areas • Analytics / Big Data • Business Process Management • Cloud Computing • Social Business • ..... others

17. CIO, CTO C-level Enterprise Solutions Architect Enterprise Analytics Architect VP GM Governance Architect Enterprise Information Architect Master Data Mgmt Data Quality Application and Solution Architect Data Architect Content Architect Architect Analytics Architect Director Specialist Warehouse Content on Web Metadata Design Security Solution Developer Business Analyst Line Management Information Integrator ETL Technical DB Admin Content Admin Application Developer Data Analyst Team Lead Structured and Semi-Structured Data Information Governance Applications Analytics Management Career Roadmap: Information Management and Analytics:The number of roles are rapidly expanding. Few schools are preparing students for these job roles Current focus area

18. How can we achieve the best outcome including the effects of variability? Stochastic Optimization Prescriptive (ILOG) Optimization How can we achieve the best outcome? Predictive modeling What will happen next if ? Competitive Advantage Simulation What could happen … ? Predictive (SPSS) Degree of Complexity Forecasting What if these trends continue? Alerts What actions are needed? Query/drill down What exactly is the problem? Ad hoc reporting How many, how often, where? Descriptive (Cognos) Standard Reporting What happened? Trends in Analytics, Types of Analytics Based on: Competing on Analytics, Davenport and Harris, 2007

19. Watson (Big Data Analytics Skills) Cognitive systems like Watson may transform how organizations think, act, and operate in the future. Learning through interactions, they deliver evidence based responses driving better outcomes. Volume Variety Velocity Voracity

20. Watson (Big Data Analytics Skills) • Natural Language Processing (Ontologies, Taxonomies, etc). • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Big Data Management • Data Collection, • Master Data Management, • Data Storage, • Database Systems (design, implementation)Data Integration and Reduction • Analytics • Text Analytics, • Descriptive Analytics (BI), • Predictive Analytics (modeling) • Prescriptive Analytics (optimization, simulation, rules based, decision mgt) • Analytical Industry Applications (marketing, operations, risk/fraud, etc.) • Statistical methodologies (regression, C5, Decision Trees, etc.) • Stream computing and computing for multiple, parallel processing • Inference and Decision Making • UX Design

21. Billing ERP CRM Imaging Process = BPM + SOA Finance & Ops People Invoice Reconciliation Teams Executive Management Customer Service Account Administration BPM Integration Rules BPM SOA Systems Systems 21

22. Smarter Planet Skills for a Smarter Planet Cloud Computing Academic Initiative – Cloud Resources Todays Topics 1 2 3 4

23. Cloud is a shift in the consumption and delivery of IT with the goal of simplifying to manage complexity more effectively. • Cloud is: • A new consumption and delivery model • Cloud addresses: • Cost reduction • Scale • Utilization • Self-service • IT agility, flexibility and delivery of value • Cloud represents: • The industrialization of delivery for IT supported services • Cloud includes: • Deployment models: public, private, hybrid • Delivery models: • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), • Platform as a Service (PaaS), • Software as a Service (SaaS) and • Business Process as a Service

24. IBM Cloud • IBM uniquely positioned with end-to-end capabilities: • Consulting and Implementation Services • Leading Hardware, Software and Research • Managed Services across workloads • Leading industry and process expertise

25. The IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

26. IBM Academic Initiativebuilding skills for a Smarter Planet

27. A SMARTER PLANET WILL BE INSTRUMENTED, INTERCONNECTED, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WANT IT. WE CAN DO IT. The IBM Academic Initiative Our mission To partner with academic institutions to better educate millions of students for a smarter planet and more competitive IT workforce Our offerings • No-charge access to IBM technology & tools • (thousands of software titles) • No-charge access to course materials and curriculum • (hundreds of modules) • Skills enhancement supported by a worldwide community of IBM volunteers Since inception in 2004, over 25,000 faculty across 5,000+ institutions have participated in the Academic Initiative, teaching courses to 3M+ students. www.ibm.com/academicinitiative

28. Ten reasons to join and become a member 1 Get thousands of software products at no charge You can download full versions of IBM products and technologies and make them available to your students in your classes and labs. Download industry-proven courseware No need to start from scratch. Download professionally developed materials to teach a wide range of information technology (IT) and business topics. Advance your technical knowledge The Virtual Innovation Center (VIC) has more than 800 online courses and materials supporting a wide range of software, hardware and services topics— and you can access them 24/7. Teach Business Process Management with the INNOV8 game Hundreds of schools around the world are using this award-winning, serious game to teaching Business Process Management in their classrooms. Establish your own virtual enterprise systems No need to install and maintain an IBM mainframe system or mid-range system. You can request virtual access for yourself and your students to an IBM System z or to IBM Power Systems. Become a leader in Service Science, Management & Engineering (SSME) SSME is a growing multi-disciplinary research and academic effort. Use these resources to develop a program at your school and ensure that your students will have "T-shaped" skills. Learn all about cloud computing Get involved in the "next big thing" - cloud computing. Cloud Computing Central is an excellent collection of resources for learning about and working with technologies in a virtual environment. Encourage students to explore, compete, and get certified Our contests can help students go beyond the classroom to expand their knowledge, as well as their wardrobes. Many games offer a t-shirt to the first registrants! You can get also get a 50% discount for your students on many IBM Professional Certification tests. Be a conduit to student employment You can give your students access to the IBM Student Opportunity System resume database and they can post their CV for IBM customers and business partners (thousands of companies around the world) to view. This can be as important as a good grade. If they get hired, they will love you. :-) Join My developerWorks and connect with others around the globe Create your own personal profile and custom home page to get instant access to the people, feeds, tags, bookmarks, blogs, groups, and forums that you care about. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

29. Academic Initiative : Resources in the Cloud Academic Skills Cloud JazzHub blueworksLive

30. Academic Initiative : Resources in the Cloud Academic Skills Cloud JazzHub blueworksLive

31. Academic Skills Cloud What is the Academic Skills Cloud (ASC)? • Currently a managed pilot of up to 50 schools in 2011 (8 in Australia) • No charge for the Universities • Available in the United States and selected pilot countries • Accounts running on SmartCloud Enterprise (SCE) – same as customer experience • Fast anytime, anywhere access to catalog of pre-configured images / no downloads • Cognos, DB2, Informix, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, WebSphere, Suse Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server images available now • One of many ways the Academic Initiative is making it easier to build skills with IBM

32. Academic Skills Cloud (ASC) • Pilot in Australia (and New Zealand, from January 2013) • Academic Initiative Lead (John Schilt) is main contact • Forecast usage / account approved by IBM US • Account created (University Faculty members agree to addendum) • Students can get access to Cloud Management interface (optional) Can be used for teaching / learning / non commercial research • Analytics / Data Mining • Software Development • Database Fundamentals • Social Networking • Big Data (Hadoop clusters) • .... others • Cloud Management – Infrastructure as a Service

33. ASC – image details 32-bit and 64-bit Linux® SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6, 5.7 Microsoft ® Windows® Server Windows Server 2003 and 2008

34. Academic Initiative : Resources in the Cloud Academic Skills Cloud JazzHub blueworksLive

35. Jazz.net What is JazzHub ? • Rational Team Concert – in the cloud • Develop directly on the Jazz.net website • No download or installation required • Start a new project in under a minute! • All of the features of Rational Team Concert! • Currently a beta program for professors, students, and academic researchers • Extends IBM commitment to academia To request a project creation code, visit: http://jazz.net/hub

36. Rational Team Concert - an open, extensible architectureSupporting a broad range of desktop clients, IDE’s, languages and platforms IDE Clients Web Clients Enterprise Clients Rational Desktop Clients Eclipse Web 2.0 ISPF Rational Software Architect Rational Systems Developer Visual Studio Rational Business Developer Rational Developer for z Rational Developer for Power Rational Team Concert Administration: Users, projects, process Best Practices Collaboration Presentation:Mashups Storage Discovery Query Business Partner Extensions Your Extensions JAZZ SERVICES Jazz Team Server Your Extensions Windows Linux AIX Solaris IBM Rational Extensions IBM i on Power Linux for System z z/OS zEnterprise

37. Academic Initiative : Resources in the Cloud Academic Skills Cloud JazzHub blueworksLive

38. What is Blueworks Live ? New Capability BlueWorks Community! Blueprint Tooling IBM Blueworks Live New SaaS offering that incorporates BPM Blueprint and BPM BlueWorks

39. Simple. Social. SaaS. New Offering for Improving Processes IBM Blueworks Live • Better than “process over email” • Enables anyone, anywhere to be a process expert • Takes you to next level of process improvement • Enables a regular business person with little technical skill to automate processes currently run over email with attachments, for more control and improved productivity via a social, collaborative approach • Automation of simple business processes in 90 seconds using checklist & approval templates • Integrated private community and public BPM feed • Built-in dashboards and reporting for improved governance • Discovery and documentation of even the most complex processes + New Automation Features BPM Blueprint BPM BlueWorks blueworkslive.com

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