Fedora Commons as core repository of the EU legislation

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

SobekCM’s Community Ecosystems & Socio-Technical Practices

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Teollinen internet uuden liiketoiminnan katalysaattorina

TIIVISTELMÄ Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto Teknistaloudellinen tiedekunta Tuotantotalouden koulutusohjelma Seppo Kuittinen Teollinen Internet uuden liiketoiminnan katalysaattorina Case CGI Diplomityö 2015 78 sivua, 33 kuvaa, 1 taulukko, 1 liite Työn tarkastajat: Professori Timo Pihkala Tutkijatohtori Marita Rautiainen Hakusanat: teollinen internet, IoT, kehittynyt analytiikka, sensorit Keywords: Industrial internet, IoT, advanced analytics, sencors Tämän työn tarkoituksena on tutkia asiakaskyselyn avulla luoko teollinen internet case yritykselle uutta ohjelmisto- tai palveluliiketoimintaa. Case yritys valitsi omasta asiakaskunnastaan 15 kohdeasiakasta, joille kysely lähetettiin. Vastauksista käy ilmi, että asiakaskunnassa on näkemys siitä, mitä teollinen internet on. Nykyisten ratkaisujen ei nähdä ratkaisevan kaikkia teollisen internetin mukanaan tuomia ongelmia. Ongelmaksi koetaan sensoridatan analysointi, jonka ei vielä katsota olevan riittävän kehittynyttä ja luotettavaa. Kyselystä voidaan päätellä, ettei mitään räjähtävää kasvua ole odotettavissa lähiaikoina. Teollinen internet tulee olemaan osa yritysten liiketoimintaa, mutta sen käyttö laajenee pikkuhiljaa.

Visual analytics for behavioral and niche market segmentation

Companies require information in order to gain an improved understanding of their customers. Data concerning customers, their interests and behavior are collected through different loyalty programs. The amount of data stored in company data bases has increased exponentially over the years and become difficult to handle. This research area is the subject of much current interest, not only in academia but also in practice, as is shown by several magazines and blogs that are covering topics on how to get to know your customers, Big Data, information visualization, and data warehousing. In this Ph.D. thesis, the Self-Organizing Map and two extensions of it – the Weighted Self-Organizing Map (WSOM) and the Self-Organizing Time Map (SOTM) – are used as data mining methods for extracting information from large amounts of customer data. The thesis focuses on how data mining methods can be used to model and analyze customer data in order to gain an overview of the customer base, as well as, for analyzing niche-markets. The thesis uses real world customer data to create models for customer profiling. Evaluation of the built models is performed by CRM experts from the retailing industry. The experts considered the information gained with help of the models to be valuable and useful for decision making and for making strategic planning for the future.

Possibilities and challenges in utilization of information provided by Industrial Internet applications

Global digitalization has affected also industrial sector. A trend called Industrial Internet has been present for some years and established relatively steady position in businesses. Industrial Internet is also referred with the terminology Industry 4.0 and in consumer businesses IoT (Internet of Things). Eventually, trend consists of many traditionally proven technologies and concepts, such as condition monitoring, remote services, predictive maintenance and Internet customer portals. All these technologies and information related to them are estimated to change the rules of business in industrial sector. This may result even a new industrial revolution. This research has its focus on Industrial Internet products, services and applications. The study analyses four case companies and their digital service offerings. According to this analysis the comparison of these services is done to find out if there is still space for companies to gain competitive advantage through differentiation with these state of the art solutions. One of the case companies, Case Company Ltd., is working as a primary case company and a subscriber of this particular research. The research and results are analyzed primarily from this company’s perspective and need. In empirical part, the research clarifies how Case Company Ltd. has allocated its development resources through last five years. These allocations in certain categories are then compared to other case companies’ current customer offering and conclusions are made how the approach of different companies differ from each other. Existing theoretical knowledge of Industrial Internet is about to find its shape. In this research we take a look how the case company analysis and findings correlate with the existing knowledge and literature of the topic.

How Cloud Services may Enable SMEs to Overcome International Growth Challenges: Finnish SMEs in the IT Industry

Digitalization and technology megatrends such as Cloud services have provided SMEs with a suitable atmosphere and conditions to internationalize and seek for further business growth. There is a limited amount of research on Cloud services from the business perspective and the limitations and challenges SMEs encounter when pursuing international business growth. Thus, the main research question of this study was how Cloud services may enable Finnish SMEs to overcome international growth challenges. The research question was further divided into three sub-questions dealing with matters related to features and characteristics of Cloud services, limitations and challenges Finnish SMEs experience when pursuing international growth of business, and benefits and advantages of utilizing Cloud services to mitigate and suppress international growth challenges. First, the theoretical framework of this study was constructed based on the existing literature on Cloud services, SMEs, and international growth challenges. After this, qualitative research approach and methodology were applied for this study. The data was collected through six semi-structured expert interviews in person with representatives of IBM, Exidio, Big Data Solutions, and Comptel. After analyzing the collected data by applying thematic analysis method, the results were compared with the existing theory and the original framework was modified and complemented accordingly. Resource scarcity, customer base expansion and retention, and lack of courage to try new things and take risks turned out to be major international growth challenges of Finnish SMEs. Due to a number of benefits and advantages of utilizing Cloud services including service automation, consumption-based pricing model, lack of capital expenditures (capex) and huge upfront investments, lightened organization structure, cost savings, speed, accessibility, scalability, agility, geographical expansion potential, global reaching and covering, credibility, partners, enhanced CRM, freedom, and flexibility, it can be concluded that Cloud services can help directly and indirectly Finnish SMEs to mitigate and overcome international growth challenges and enable further business growth.

ISA-standardien mukaisen tilintarkastusprosessin tehostaminen – evidenssiä Suomesta

Tilintarkastuksen sääntely on lisääntynyt merkittävästi 2000-luvulla. Samalla kilpailu on kiristynyt, tilintarkastuspalkkiot alentuneet ja raportointiaikataulut tiukentuneet. Näistä tekijöistä johtuen tilintarkastuksen tehostamiselle on tarvetta. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on selvittää ja tutkia, miten tilintarkastusprosessia voidaan tehostaa sekä arvioida eri tehostamiskeinojen käyttöarvoa punnitsemalla niiden mahdollisuuksia ja haasteita. Tutkielman empiirinen osa on toteutettu laadullisena tutkimuksena. Aineisto on kerätty haastattelemalla suomalaisia tilintarkastajia ja analyysimenetelmänä on käytetty teemoittelua. Empiirisessä osassa tutkitaan, miltä teoriasta löydettyjen tehostamiskeinojen käyttömahdollisuudet näyttävät käytännössä ja selvitetään, millä muilla keinoilla tilintarkastusprosessia voidaan tehostaa. Tutkimuksen perusteella tilintarkastuksen suunnitteluvaihetta voidaan tehostaa tilintarkastajien erikoistumisen, dokumentoinnin standardoinnin, sähköisen materiaalin tehokkaamman hyödyntämisen ja palvelukeskusten hyödyntämisen avulla. Toteutusvaihetta voidaan tehostaa näiden lisäksi big data -menetelmillä ja kontrollien tarkastuksella.

INFO2009 2012-13 Resource Group 6 Flashcards

An inspirational and educational flashcard resource for secondary school children. Can be used as flashcards or as a matching activity (depending on how cards are cut out).

COMP1205 Student Presentations M-P

Tuesday 13th May Building 34 Room 3001, 16.15-17.45 Elena & Rikki/Jian Presenting: Groups: M, N, O, P Marking Groups: Q, R, S, T Schedule and Topics 16.15-16.20: Introduction and protocol for the session 16.20 Group M: Serious games – gaming as a driver for applications online 16.40 Group N: Open Education OERs 17.00 Group O: Big Data – the big picture 17.20 Group P: Rights and equality in the workplace 17.40-18.00: Wash-up: feedback session for presentation groups

WAIS Seminar:Let's SoFWIReD!

Title: Let’s SoFWIReD! Time: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:00-11:50 Location: Building 32, Room 3077 Speaker: Dr Sepi Chakaveh Abstract The information age as we know it has its roots in several enabling technologies – most of all the World Wide Web – for the provision of truly global connectivity. The emergence of a Web of Big Data in terms of the publication and analysis of Open Data provides new insights about the impact of the Web in our society. The second most important technology in this regard has been the emergence of streaming processes based on new and innovative compression methods such as MP3 so that audio and video content becomes accessible to everyone on the Web. The SoFWIReD team is developing comprehensive, interoperable platforms for data and knowledge driven processing of Open Data and will investigate aspects of collective intelligence. Insights generated in the project will form the basis for supporting companies through consulting, organisational development, and software solutions so that they can master the collective intelligence transition. The seminar will present how the project addresses the research topics of web observatory, dynamic media objects, crowd-sourced open data and Internet services. At the end of a talk a number of demos will be shown in the context of SoFWIReD’s Dynamic Media Object.

Ciencias de la complejidad: estado actual

Los aportes teóricos y aplicados de la complejidad en economía han tomado tantas direcciones y han sido tan frenéticos en las últimas décadas, que no existe un trabajo reciente, hasta donde conocemos, que los compile y los analice de forma integrada. El objetivo de este proyecto, por tanto, es desarrollar un estado situacional de las diferentes aplicaciones conceptuales, teóricas, metodológicas y tecnológicas de las ciencias de la complejidad en la economía. Asimismo, se pretende analizar las tendencias recientes en el estudio de la complejidad de los sistemas económicos y los horizontes que las ciencias de la complejidad ofrecen de cara al abordaje de los fenómenos económicos del mundo globalizado contemporáneo.

Del re-ensamblaje de lo social a la movilización pública: caso Karina del Pozo

El presente trabajo investigativo tiene como objetivo principal dar respuesta a la interrogante acerca de en qué casos y condiciones las interacciones virtuales contribuyen a conformar movilizaciones reales a partir de la información que circula en redes sociales. Para cumplirlo, en primer lugar, se partió de una revisión teórica de autores trascendentales como Howard Rheingold, Manuel Castells, Antonio Damasio, Pierre Levy o Antonio Negri, lo que dio como resultado un primer hallazgo: el vínculo entre la comunicación, las nuevas redes sociales, los medios tradicionales y las emociones que se gestan en ellos y que pueden hacer eco en el individuo hasta promover su movilización y la acción social. Sobre esta base teórica, el siguiente paso fue determinar cómo aquello se presentaba en un grupo definido de usuarios de redes sociales, concretamente el colectivo que hizo que el caso de Karina del Pozo fuera tendencia. Para ello, con la aplicación de las herramientas que arrojaron datos cuantificables como el Big Data y el Important Data, se procedió al trabajo de campo que constó de dos momentos. El primero de ellos, la fase de recopilación de datos; y el segundo, de análisis e interpretación sobre los resultados obtenidos. Como deducciones del estudio a partir del planteamiento teórico y de la investigación, la movilización hacia un determinado objetivo más allá de las redes sociales, es el discurso y del relato periodístico en medios tradicionales que generaron una empatía narrativa, situando al espectador en un lugar virtualmente cercano al hecho. Estos elementos además de ser una respuesta al asesinato de Karina del Pozo fueron un cuestionamiento a la sociedad y a sus prácticas, al machismo, a la violencia de género, pero además significaron la manifestación de estas mismas condiciones cuando se empezó a culpabilizar a la víctima, atribuyéndole la responsabilidad de los hechos que acabaron con su vida. Estas emociónes, valores, pensamientos o sentimientos similares, reflejados en la adopción de una determinada posición frente a un mismo hecho. En el caso de quienes se movilizaron, se estaría cumpliendo la presencia de emociones que van desde el miedo, la ira, la indignación y en contraposición, la solidaridad y la esperanza por cambiar una realidad a través de la acción.