TIS TALK REFLECTIONS

Title: Technology Information System & 4.0th Industrial Revolution 

Panel:  Mr. Nazri Edham (TM)

TM's efforts to support 4IR:

• Data centres
  - Important to bring back information from data centres back to Malaysian
• Cloud Services
• Internet of Things

4IR on managing Logistic Performance & Efficiency :

• Real-time tracking
• Vehicle info
• Trips
• Optimized resource
• Fast delivery
• Time saving

4IR on Business :

• Market Coverage Analysis by Product Segments can be done
• Suggestion on New Potential Areas to Increase Sales Volume
• Product Distribution Analysis can be done

Outcomes of Digitalization of Services :

• Innovative business model
• Differentiated value proposition to beat competitor
• Enhances customer experience
• Operationally efficient

Title: Amazon Web Services Could Computing

Panel : Dr Qusay Al-Maatouk (APU)

Cloud computing can be define as group of web services. It is on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet. These run on server computers located in large data centers around the world. These help us to meet business goals and satisfy our needs (you will be charge on only based what you are consume). Cloud computing as software is very flexible and cost-effectively ,it also help us to meet specific needs of each different users and cam help us decide what set of services is right for our needs.

Advantages of cloud computing :

• Massive economies of scale
• Increase speed and agility
• Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers AWS

What is AWS?

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a secure cloud platform that provides a diverse range of worldwide cloud-based services. You have on-demand access to the computing, storage, network,database, and other IT resources that you might need for your projects, as well as the tools to manage them, because these products are delivered over the internet. AWS resources can be provisioned and launched right away. In a matter of minutes, you'll have access to the resources.

Title : Emerging Technology on Network Infrastructure

 Panel : Mr Goh Bih Der

• Network Infrasturcture :

The Wi-Fi — e.g.: Unifi — is a wireless technology used to connect computers, tablets, smartphones and other
devices to the internet in which students and staffs represent the end-users. Universities utilizes IoT devices with set up personalized IoT and wireless protocols for end-users' usage to connect to the Internet. In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP), or more generally just access point (AP), is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network. It has one cable connected to the switches — connecting it to desktops, printers, phones, smart TVs and others — The switches also posses a cable called an uplink, connected to the core switch. A data center is compromised by these components provide access to the internet. It is a facility that centralizes an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating data and applications. With the number of faculties multiplied in modern universities, each faculty now has an access point for the devices to be connected.

• Unified Network Management :

A unified network management product should make common network functions manageable from a single console. The console must also include elements that are unique to wireless management, such as connection reliability, spectrum management and monitoring, location and tracking functionality, and additional security concerns. It integrates wired and wireless components, which share network elements and services where feasible, rather than existing as two separate networks. In campus, the controller manages the entire network in a single platform rather than controlling more than 2000 networks previously.

• Internet of Things :

IoT devices brings a lot of benefits especially in cost reduction. It helps to improve customer experience, for example using robot services to deliver customers' orders to their room. It also has lots of challenges especially in terms of security. Despite the challenges, solutions are found. This brings advantages to the campus, for instance, the vape detector system enables the administrator to be alerted for students vaping on restricted grounds.

Title: Introduction to Data Visualization by Microsoft Power BI

 Speaker: Mr Isma Redha from INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION PROFESSIONAL (ICEP)

Data visualization is a way of how information can be represented. It is important to first understand the several types of data that can be visualized and also their relationships to each other. The types of data include quantitative, discrete, continuous, and categorical data.

There are several types of data relationships such as nominal comparison, time series, correlation, ranking, deviation, distribution, and part-to-whole relationship. The 6 types of charts include bar chart, pie chart, line chart, scatterplot chart, bubble chart, and heat map variations. Microsoft Power BI is one of the software that can be used to visualize data. It is a user-friendly software that has the flexibility to transform data. Power BI desktop app can be used to generate reports. For publishing the reports, we can use Power BI Services (Software as a Service – SaaS). Power BI mobile app is used to view the reports and dashboards. Overall, this talk has exposed us to the commonly used data visualization software in the industry, that is the Microsoft Power BI.