We are delighted to invite your instructors and students to attend our annual Women in IT Day at our Spring Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association (WMCPA) Conference.
This will be an all-day event, which will be held on March 14, 2023, starting at 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, and being held at Lake Lawn Resort, 2400 E Geneva St, Delavan, WI 53115.
Event: A Walk into the World of IT
Details: We’ll be walking through a real-world business case from the eyes of the business down to the IT developers who have to make the changes the business requires. We will also look at different disciplines in IT which include, project management, networking, hardware, and full-stack development.
The event will be educational and a networking opportunity for your students and instructors to interact with individuals working in IT.
We look forward to meeting your school and forming a relationship for our future events.
Please RSVP@wmcpa.org and send your questions to secretary@wmcpa.org
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Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about Apache Kafka as the glue to stream data
2. Understand different approaches and the advantages/disadvantages of those approaches.
3. Enhance your knowledge of the data streaming into cloud services world
Dimensional Modeling: The Star of the Show?
Can a data mart or warehouse or even an operational data store elevate your reporting and visualizations? Improve the performance of your reporting? Provide easily accessible information to the business and your users? Find out how even a small effort can yield big results.
Leaning Objectives:
1. Basics concepts of data warehousing.
2. How easy it is to create a functioning data warehouse.
3. How data warehousing improves the businesses agility in making informed intelligent decisions.
Building Dashboards and Reports over IBM i Services
IBM i Services provide SQL interfaces into IBM i system/object/security information. Wouldn't it be nice to have an easy way to build reports or dashboards, create trending reports or consolidate data from multiple systems into a single view? Of course it would! And that's exactly what this session will show you with Web Query.
Learning Objectives:
1. Create dashboards over IBM i Systems and object metrics in a flash
2. Schedule important reports like "how close are we getting to system or database limits" to regularly monitor and avoid potential catastrophe.
3. Enhance the value of IBM i Services to monitor key performance or object size metrics.