Tulipa Technologies

08/09/2016

Health Care Needs to Play the IT Long Game

Organizations must not focus only on the current wave of applications: There will be another wave after it, and a new wave after that, says John Glaser.

06/22/2016

Announcing New Instructor-led Online Training Series

Greetings,

Tulipa Technologies will be offering a new series of Instructor-Led Online training courses in July.
The first course to be offered is Enterprise Architecture for Practitioners -- important topics covered by Tulipa’s highly accredited instructor. Should you or a colleague want more detailed information about this training, please contact us.

In addition to our new courses and special offers including our “Summer Special” promotion to save on exceptional training, Tulipa continues to offer IT consulting services. Contact us at [email protected] to learn more.

Sincerely,
Laleh Masnavi
CEO, Tulipa Technologies
IT | Big Data Consulting

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Enterprise Architecture for Practitioners

Course Overview:
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is “a well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a holistic approach at all times, for the successful development and ex*****on of strategy. Enterprise architecture applies architecture principles and practices to guide organizations through the business, information, process, and technology changes necessary to execute their strategies. These practices utilize the various aspects of an enterprise to identify, motivate, and achieve these changes.”
Enterprise architects are responsible for performing the analysis of business structure and processes and are often called upon to draw conclusions from the information collected to address the goals of enterprise architecture: effectiveness, efficiency, agility and durability.

Audience:
• Business Executives & Decision Makers (including C-Level Executives)
• Directors & Managers
• Architects
o Enterprise Architects
o Business Architects
o Data Architects
o Application / Software Architects
o Integration Architects
o Solution Architects
o Network Architects
o Security Architects
o Storage Architects
o Other Architects
• IT Managers

Prerequisites:
There are no mandatory prerequisites.

09/03/2015

Harward Business Review:
Experts say, "Whether you’re in financial services, consumer goods, advertising, hi-tech, or public health, the nature of your day-to-day job is likely changing to include data."

Build your analytical skills.

04/28/2015

Using Big Data in a recent crisis situation

As I write this, hundreds of emergency services, charities, disaster relief agencies and volunteers are doing their best to help people affected by the terrible Nepalese earthquake which struck during the weekend. And Big Data is playing its part, too – with crowdsourced, data-driven efforts to conn…

03/11/2015

7 Attitudes That Kill Big Data Projects

In my experience, there are two types of companies when it comes to big data: those who don’t want anything to do with it (because they think it’s for somebody else) and those who desperately want to implement, but don’t know where to start. Regardless of where your company falls on [...]

03/11/2015

Big Data: A Brief(ish) History Everyone Should Read

What this teaches us is that Big Data is not a new or isolated phenomenon, but one that is part of a long evolution of capturing and using data. Like other key developments in data storage, data processing and the Internet, Big Data is just a further step that will bring change to the way we run bus…

12/18/2014

YOUR QUESTION: Which one comes first, tool or process?

OUR ANSWER: Some IT organizations spend millions of dollars to purchase service management tools and licenses.
Typically, there is a significant amount of budget allocated to these projects, and many resources are utilized, lots of effort and energy are spent to deploy the tools and maintain them.

However, since the requirement and maturity level is different from one organization to the other, after a while, they realize that these tools have to be customized to fit their organization's needs.

After all the budget is depleted, these organizations realize that they should have implemented the processes and best practices first, then on the top of that, they could purchase the required tools.
Many clients fall into this trap.

Study of success stories and reviewing best practices demonstrate that the clients who established processes first, were able to meet their business goals.
The process addresses an organization’s requirements, and is correlated to the maturity level, or even constraints of an organization; for example, one might not be able to change the organizational structure in the upcoming few months.

Tulipa’s recommendation: process comes first, then the tool!

10/31/2014

Special Halloween message: have your organization benchmarked your IT against best practices? It is time to adapt or it'll die !!

* Do you know the exact status and maturity level of your IT processes?
* Do you know the weaknesses, or potential improvement of your IT organizations?

Tulipa will assist you in capturing the maturity level of your existing IT processes. This is called IT Process Maturity Assessment. We identify your organization's gaps, and reduce the gap between your current practices and best practices.
After the evaluation is done, we provide you with a roadmap to enhance your IT organization processes and services.
This will in turn improve efficiency, cost effectiveness, and Return on Investment (ROI).

Our team is ready to have a meeting/conference call with you when you are ready to start!

Happy Halloween!

10/17/2014

Who says data analysis cannot be fun? Fun-sized bites of data analysis

Way back in October 2008, my now husband and I went on our first date. On our one year anniversary, his gift to me was a Word doc of all of our text messages since our first date (what he likes to ...

10/13/2014

YOUR QUESTION -- Tulipa, is it necessary for our organization to adopt a framework to meet our stakeholder needs?

OUR ANSWER -- An enterprise has a number of internal and external stakeholders. For example, a financial firm (like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, etc.) has management and employees who are the internal stakeholders. And, customers, partners, and government are the external stakeholders.

These stakeholders have different requirements: employees are concerned about their skill set and job security; Management is worried about performance and productivity and concerned about the selection of the right technology and quick returns on their investment; Customers need easy access to get advice from the firm and want good returns on their investments and will be worried about security and privacy of their information while any change is taking place.
Every decision of the financial firm to invest in modernization of IT to provide faster services will have a different impact on different stakeholders.

In an organization, effective governance frameworks provide a structure for consistent guidance to these stakeholders. To meet the needs of all the stakeholders, it is critical to make balanced decision and keep in mind the management perspective as well as the governance perspective when implementing IT changes.

Our Solution:
Based on Tulipa's understanding of the business’ strategic goals as indicated in communication with business unit and your organization's management and executives, we identify several candidate high-priority processes to form process-improvement plans.
We know latest and greatest frameworks; for example, we use COBIT 5, a holistic business framework essential for governance and management of enterprise IT, and a set of globally accepted principles and practices.
Tulipa provides a complete collection of metrics, including Key Performance Indicator (KPI), Key Goal Indicator (KGI), Critical Success Factor (CSF) based on best practices.

We are proficient at what we are doing to drive improved management processes across your organization.

10/07/2014

10/01/2014

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