LARUS Business AutomationFOR ITS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
IS HAPPY TO PRESENT THE EVENT
Technological Innovationfor Large Venetian Companies
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First, let me say HUGE THANKS to all of you and to every colleague, customer, partner, professional and company, who have accompanied us during this our first 10 years.
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Let me also say HUGE THANKS to the our today speakers: Enrico, Omar, Marco and Jim.
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Marco Bon – CTO, Delivery and Program Manager at Gruppo PAM; Marco is managing the project “Business Agility through new Enterprise Architecture Transformation Platform”: the program improves the operational performance while revamping the legacy architecture with minimum business disruption. The result is a new web enterprise architecture ofering decision support capabilities through cooperation and feedbacks. Business agility is reached by the use of agile methodologies and state of the art of engineering practices.
Jim Webber, Chief Scientist with Neo Technology, the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on R&D for highly scalable graph databases and writes open source sofware. Jim has written two books on integration and distributed systems: “Developing Enterprise Web Services” on XML Web Services and “REST in Practice” on using the Web for building large-scale systems. His latest book is “Graph Databases” which focuses on the Neo4j database.
SPEAKERS
Enrico De Benetti - IT Architect at LARUS Business Automation. Enrico is also Certified Scrum Master. He's the protagonist of all our major successes, being able to produce code at an impressive rate on whatever technology while pairing with our junior developers to spread his knowledge at the same time. He also works on our R&D department and currently supporting Veneto Banca in the definition of its integration architecture.
Omar Rampado - IT Architect at LARUS Business Automation. He has been working on many business critical applications since 2006, as he joined LARUS. Backend systems and integration architectures are his main fields of interest, and as a consultant he's constantly working to break the technical debt, improve code coverage, clean the code and automate the release of the applications he's involved in.
SPEAKERS
● 16.45 Attendees registration
● 17.00 Welcome. Evening presentation.
Lorenzo Speranzoni, Founder, CEO @ LARUS BA
● 17.10 Summarizing the state of art for open-source technologies and methodologiesEnrico De Benetti, IT Architect, SCRUM Master @ LARUS BA
Omar Rampado, IT Architect @ LARUS BA
● 17.50 PAM projects and the Agile MethodologyMarco Bon, CTO @ Gruppo PAM
● 18.40 Neo4J Technology for Retailers and Large Organizations. Use Cases.Jim Webber, Chief Scientist @ Neo Technology
AND FOLLOWING:
● 19.30 10-year anniversary partyMusic by Tommaso Genovesi Quartet - Singer Francesca Viaro
AGENDA
LARUS BA - Enabling Business Through IT-Services
● Founded in 2004● Strongly rooted in Venice area● Marked international vocation● Strong attention to technological and methodological innovation● Mission: bridging the “historical” gap between business and IT● Our specialities:
● custom sofware design and development● consulting and coaching on new technologies● training on agile and lean methodologies
● Customer acknowledgements: reliability, competence, enthusiasm
OUR VISION: In a world that is changing faster than ever, strongly automated core business processes give your company the ability to slide smoothly into the next opportunity. A stable foundation makes your company both more eficient and more agile than your competitors.
LARUS BA FOR SHORT
LARUS BA - Enabling Business Through IT-Services
1997 2001 2007 2005 2011
Attività Formazione
(JAVA, AGILE, LEAN)
20132004 2010
COMPANY SET-UP
Progetti Finance (ANTONVENETA)
Primi progetti Energy (ENEL), Telco (TELECOM)
Nuovi clienti e partner: GENERALI, AIVE
Estensione attività: TELECOM
Primi progetti PMI
(Dolciaria, Avapo, Travel Club)
Nuovi clienti: Benetton, PAM
Nuovi partner: Tecnoinformatica
Collab. Internazionali
(THOUGHTWORKS)
Nuovi clienti: Keyline, Stefanel
Nuovi partner: Next 1, Technomind
Nuovi clienti: TDP, BATA, Onlus
Nuovi partner: Reply, Ericsson
Raforzamento rapporti
con clienti/partner chiave:
TDP, PAM, Reply
AVVIO 2° DECENNIO!
2014
OUR FIRST 10 YEARS (PLUS 7)
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2014
WE CONQUEREDOUR FIRST SUMMIT!
BUT FOR EVERY ACHIEVED GOAL, THERE'S ALWAYS A
NEW BOLDER ONE TO REACH!
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HIP HIP HOORAY!
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Presentazione del decennale
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A NEW PATH TO GROWAND OPTIMIZE OUR ORGANIZATION
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The journey we started last January is characterized by 4 main lines of action: u improving the organization v increasing our teams w qualifying our ofering x consolidating and expanding our market.
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MORE THAN 10 X 10
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MARKET- customer e partner- community
ORGANIZATION- structure- logistic
OFFERING - research and innovation - knowledge sharing
PEOPLE- increasing our teams- career paths
● Operating from September 1st● Located in a poly-functional
business center● Quality of working location● Availability of meeting rooms and
classroom for training courses● Improved relationship with
customers and partners
Our ofices are located in TORRE EVA CENTER, Via Bruno Maderna, 7 (50 mt. near here) and is formally inaugurated this evening during the 10-year anniversary celebrations.
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NEW HEADQUARTER & DEV. DEPARTMENT2014: our program has just started
● We started increasing our teams with the expectation to double from early 2015
● Entrusted delegation and responsibilities to our colleagues
● Learning path defined for our staf
We recently completed the certification path for the AGILE METHODOLOGY (Scrum Master) and our collaborators are PMP and PRINCE2 certified.
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2014: our program has just started
PEOPLE AND CERTIFICATIONS
• Focused on Polyglot Persistence and NoSQL databases• Leaning and evangelizing• Case study: “Van Gogh's Journey”• Other case studies...• Continuous research for use cases
• Case study presented in various meetups all along Italy• Neo4j Full Day Trainings• Invited to present the case study
“Van Gogh's Journey” at SpringOne2GX 2014 in Dallas, TEXAS.
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2014: our program has just started
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
• Matured afer many months spent studying the potentialities about Neo4j• Commercialization of the solution and
development support• Insights for its application in the Italian
market• Started a program of evangelization
through Venice Neo4j User Group
“Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, has been positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2014 for Operational Database Management Systems (DBMS).Neo Technology is the only graph database to meet the report's stringent qualification requirements.”
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2014: our program has just started
PARTNERSHIP WITH NEO TECHNOLOGY
● Participation to national and international events
● Organizing knowledge sharing event
● Cooperation with high-schools and universities
● New opening of our training school
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2014: our program has just started
COMMUNITY AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
"We believe that innovation and spreading knowledge must remain tightly coupled and the creation of value for customers shouldn't stop at the mere implementation of software solutions."
● Natural evolution of pluriannual teaching experience
● Objective: enabling customers to use the latest technologies and methodologies
● Comprehensive courses about Java and Spring
● Vertical courses in various areas from the presentation tier to no-sql databases
● Courses about SOA and Agile Project Management / Development
● Every courses includes practical workshops, training on the job, coaching, etc.
LARUS BA School: comprehensive training program defined to spread knowledge about technologies, architectures and innovative methodologies.
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2014: our program has just started
LARUS BA SCHOOL
"A successful project must have been able to assess, seize, and whenever possible, anticipate technological innovation and its proper use, to build solutions that can give valuable results, but also maintain their 'promise' of competitiveness over time".
"The second just as important element that creates value for customers, is sharing the knowledge about the technologies that have been adopted, to allow a complete autonomous control in evolving applications, ensuring the continuous alignment with the evolution of the business."
TECHNOLOGICALINNOVATION
KNOWLEDGESHARING
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PARADIGMS OF A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT [1/2]
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PARADIGMS OF A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT [2/2]
METHODOLOGIES TECHNOLOGIES
VELOCITY IS THE KILLER APP
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2014: our program has just started
CUSTOMER AND PARTNER
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ARTEMIDIS
"We are taking a new step forward every day just to provide value to our customers, partners, colleagues and every fan of new technologies as we are, confident that our main reward will be the satisfaction you'll return to us."
Lorenzo Speranzoni, CEO @ LARUS Business Automation
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AND STARTING FROM TOMORROW