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Platform Newsletter Highlights | April 2023

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April 2023 | Check out the latest and greatest

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Communicating Data Stories to Executives: Top 5 Best Practices for Dashboard Design 

How can you make sure any viewer of your dashboards can go “I understand what’s going on and exactly what I need to do/consider now”? Read this guide to discover best practices for ensuring your dashboards are informative and effective for any audience.

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Building Digital Resilience for SecOps, ITOps, and DevOps

Bad things are bound to happen — cybersecurity threats, IT system stressors, and adverse events. In the face of these incidents, organizations must keep their systems secure and reliable. They need the ability to quickly and comprehensively detect, investigate and respond; pivot quickly when the macro-environment demands it; and ultimately learn from the experience to better and more efficiently respond to similar events in the future. They need to be resilient. Luckily for you, Splunk continues to release enhancements for a unified security and observability platform to build the digital resilience needed for our modern technological landscape.

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Operationalizing Your Machine Learning Solutions: Strategies for Success

Implementing machine learning is key for fostering innovation. However, with estimates suggesting that 87% of data science projects fail to make it to production, how can you successfully leverage innovative technologies? Register for this webinar to learn how you can implement AI and ML to increase your insights, understand key challenges operationalizing ML in production systems, and use new features in the Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) to deploy pre-trained models in Splunk.

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Predictions: a Deeper Dive into the Rise of the Machines

The impact of AI and automation on the retail industry should not be underestimated. The compound effects of improvements in technology and labor shortages have created an ideal scenario for innovation. In this blog, we will take a deeper look into some of the AI and automation use cases that we have seen in retail and outline some of the areas of focus to help you get started.

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Screenshot 2023-04-13 at 2.28.59 PM.pngA Cloud Strategy Conversation with Splunk

Use Splunk Cloud Platform to search, analyze, visualize and act on your data with a flexible and cost-effective data platform as-a-service.

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Lantern Icon.pngThis month Splunk Lantern has been crunching all the numbers from the past financial year to publish a list of our most popular use cases across security and observability, as well as our hottest data articles. Read on to get inspired by the same Lantern articles that inspired so many Splunk users over the past year!

We’ve also got a wealth of new use cases, product tips, and more to share with you. 

Head to our monthly Community blog to check out all of the details!

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.conf23 Registration is Open

This year’s event will be taking place July 17-20, 2023, at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Splunk University will be offered July 15, 16, 17 and 20th. Join us for over 200 sessions, compelling keynotes and guest speakers, product demonstrations, networking and so much more. Join fellow experts in Security, IT and DevOps at .conf23 to learn, network and grow. Visit conf.splunk.com for more information.

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Share your thoughts on Observability and the Splunk Platform!

The Splunk product design team wants to learn about how you use Splunk Enterprise & Splunk Cloud together with Splunk Observability Cloud. If you’re interested in spending an hour with us chatting 1:1 over Zoom, please fill out this quick questionnaire so we can reach out to you. Users of Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability Cloud, and security products are all welcome. Any individual who completes the hour long 1:1 Zoom can receive a $100 USD Amazon gift card or choose to apply those funds to a charitable donation.

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Reminder! New Splunk Learning Platform Launching on May 22!

We’re so appreciative of all the curious learners out there who turn to Splunk Education to boost their careers and help their organizations stay resilient. We want to keep you coming back for more, which is why we are launching a new Splunk Learning Platform. This new, feature-rich platform houses all your in-progress eLearning, your in-person enrollments, your completed training, and your course completion certificates. 

Pro Tip: If you have in-progress coursework,  please complete it before May 17 – or you’ll lose your completion progress and will have to start over. And, note that the system will be down between May 17-21. It will all be worth it come May 22! 

 

15K Subscribers Unite to Use YouTube for Splunk How-To

Join other like-minded, Splunk enthusiasts on the Splunk YouTube channel dedicated to short, how-to videos and tutorials. This is the place to go if you have a question about using Splunk – demos on things like basic searching, creating reports, creating alerts, using visualizations, and so much more. And, there are playlists for users, administrators, developers, and for use cases too!  Free training from Splunk has never been more accessible and self-service beats opening a ticket any day! https://www.youtube.com/@SplunkHowTo

 

Thought Leaders are Validating Training Rigor

If you have taken Splunk training courses, then you’re one of thousands every month who recognizes the value of Splunk and the technical training necessary to stay ahead in this exploding digital universe. According to the experts on the Power of Tech Education Podcast, your continued training and upskilling in tech education is just what the industry needs to fill a growing skills gap as we move into a more digital world. 

Take a listen to what an industry influencer, a Splunk thought leader, and an actual Splunk user/expert have to say about bridging the skills gap through continuous education and training in this new 3-part podcast series.

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Join Splunk at the Digital Resilience Summit on 2 dates in Australia to hear first hand from industry thought leaders and solution experts to discover how you can build a more secure and resilient organisation. Tuesday, May 2nd in Sydney and Thursday, May 4th in Melbourne.

We’ll explore the current market environment, trends and common challenges organisations are facing. You’ll learn ways to overcome these challenges and the critical success factors to be able to prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformation.

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Until Next Month,

Happy Splunking

 

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