The document discusses how digital processes were supposed to make procurement easier but document-based processes still rely heavily on paper. It notes that 63% of document processes negatively impact customer satisfaction and 61% of workers would change jobs to reduce administrative tasks. The presentation introduces Adobe's e-signing solutions for bridging gaps in existing document workflows and providing simple, intuitive tools to work from anywhere. It provides an example workflow of a procurement document being drafted, reviewed, finalized, signed and tracked over its lifetime between a procurement manager, buyer and vendor using Adobe Acrobat. Companies can see benefits like completing 79% of contracts in 7 days or less and reducing contract completion cycles by 73% by taking action to digitize their document
ISDC_2015_Behrang Khorsandian_The business value of social dataIBM Switzerland
Twitter & IBM Partnerschaft
Behrang Khorsandian
European Leader, Social Analytics, IBM Deutschland GmbH
Daten aus sozialen Medien sind noch immer die am meisten unterschätzte Quelle für Einblicke in den Verbrauchermarkt. Herr Khorsandian's Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die IBM exklusive Partnerschaft mit Twitter, ein soziales Netzwerk mit 250 Millionen aktiven Nutzern im Monat. Darüber hinaus präsentiert er Best Practice Beispiele von führenden Unternehmen um damit das enorme Potenzial sozialer Daten in verschiedenen Unternehmensbereichen, wie HR, Produktentwicklung, Supply Chain Optimierung, bis zum Vertrieb, Marketing und PR aufzuzeigen.
Digital Transformation - Creating new business models where digital meets physical
Glenn Brouwer
Director, Enterprise and Industry Sales – Europe, IBM Netherlands
Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family. People are using mobile, interactive tools to determine who to trust, where to go and what to buy.
At the same time, businesses are undertaking their own digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go on their path to digital transformation.
Glenn will share his experience through working with clients how companies are defining new strategies for integrating digital and physical elements to successfully transform their business models and set new directions for entire industries.
Reinventing Customer Experience
Jessica Douglas
Partner, IBM Interactive Experience, Financial Services, Europe
Is your business model fit for the digital future? In most industries, mobile, digital, and social trends are creating competitive pressures from new entrants and challenges to traditional business models. These trends are also creating substantial opportunities for those businesses bold and agile enough to seize them. This session will include case stories where, working with IBM, business and IT leaders have made bold moves. It will consider how these leaders have created new capabilities to shape and deliver simple, relevant and human digital experience for competitive advantage with their customers.
Jessica's focus on Digital Front Office is about creating coherent experiences which work for customers however they engage (mobile, store, call centre, web, kiosk, pop-up). Jessica's work is about creating relevant and timely experience based on rich customer insight. She is motivated by successful implementation and the people and skills aspects of making business change real
Keeping Your Office Up-to-Date with an Integrated News FeedLiveTiles
Keeping everyone in your company up-to-date is extremely important in maintaining a well developed business. Find out how having an integrated news feed can help ensure that everyone is informed about the latest company updates.
ISDC_2015_Behrang Khorsandian_The business value of social dataIBM Switzerland
Twitter & IBM Partnerschaft
Behrang Khorsandian
European Leader, Social Analytics, IBM Deutschland GmbH
Daten aus sozialen Medien sind noch immer die am meisten unterschätzte Quelle für Einblicke in den Verbrauchermarkt. Herr Khorsandian's Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die IBM exklusive Partnerschaft mit Twitter, ein soziales Netzwerk mit 250 Millionen aktiven Nutzern im Monat. Darüber hinaus präsentiert er Best Practice Beispiele von führenden Unternehmen um damit das enorme Potenzial sozialer Daten in verschiedenen Unternehmensbereichen, wie HR, Produktentwicklung, Supply Chain Optimierung, bis zum Vertrieb, Marketing und PR aufzuzeigen.
Digital Transformation - Creating new business models where digital meets physical
Glenn Brouwer
Director, Enterprise and Industry Sales – Europe, IBM Netherlands
Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family. People are using mobile, interactive tools to determine who to trust, where to go and what to buy.
At the same time, businesses are undertaking their own digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go on their path to digital transformation.
Glenn will share his experience through working with clients how companies are defining new strategies for integrating digital and physical elements to successfully transform their business models and set new directions for entire industries.
Reinventing Customer Experience
Jessica Douglas
Partner, IBM Interactive Experience, Financial Services, Europe
Is your business model fit for the digital future? In most industries, mobile, digital, and social trends are creating competitive pressures from new entrants and challenges to traditional business models. These trends are also creating substantial opportunities for those businesses bold and agile enough to seize them. This session will include case stories where, working with IBM, business and IT leaders have made bold moves. It will consider how these leaders have created new capabilities to shape and deliver simple, relevant and human digital experience for competitive advantage with their customers.
Jessica's focus on Digital Front Office is about creating coherent experiences which work for customers however they engage (mobile, store, call centre, web, kiosk, pop-up). Jessica's work is about creating relevant and timely experience based on rich customer insight. She is motivated by successful implementation and the people and skills aspects of making business change real
Keeping Your Office Up-to-Date with an Integrated News FeedLiveTiles
Keeping everyone in your company up-to-date is extremely important in maintaining a well developed business. Find out how having an integrated news feed can help ensure that everyone is informed about the latest company updates.
In this deck, Greylock Partner Jerry Chen reviews some of the traditional economic moats that technology companies typically leverage and how they are being disrupted. I believe that startups today need to build systems of intelligence™ — AI powered applications — “the new moats.”
Adobe Summit 2016 - Cindy Lu - B2B PersonalizationCindy Lu
Adobe Summit 2016
March 2016
Las Vegas, NV
S917 - VMware: Using deep personalization to fill the sales pipeline
Cindy Lu - Digital Strategy, Senior Marketing Manager, VMware
For many B2B companies, personalization begins and ends with customer personas. The expectation is that this is enough to generate leads and pipeline. While it’s a move in the right direction, much deeper personalization will deliver relevant, targeted experiences that produce more leads and enable sophisticated nurturing campaigns, ultimately generating that all-important qualified sales pipeline.
In this session, VMware explains how they:
• Accelerated the buyer’s journey with Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions
• Filled their sales pipeline by personalizing inbound marketing campaigns
• Gained insights into customer segments using automated personalization
• Increased SaaS sales through testing and optimization
Social Business Transformation at IBM - From Social Connections 2015 in BostonEd Brill
IBM is on a journey to becoming the preeminent social business... focused on outcomes. Social collaboration has provided improvements in innovation, agility, efficiency, employee engagement, and client results throughout IBM. This presentation, delivered by Ed Brill - Vice President, social cloud deployment and adoption - covers IBM's current outcomes and its plan in 2015 to deploy social collaboration in the cloud, including the new IBM Verse reimagined email solution.
Build a MobileFirst Agenda - IBM Mobile EnterpriseEd Brill
IBM Mobile Enterprise keynote from October/November 2013. Review of trends in enterprise mobility, IBM's "The upwardly mobile enterprise" study, and how to build your mobile enterprise agenda.
IBM Impact 2014 - Overview and strategy to transforming your mobile enterpriseEd Brill
IBM point of view on the mobile enterprise opportunity in eight key industries, including banking, government, healthcare, insurance, automotive, and retail.
Quickstart 4Qs Framework for Digital Transformation Managers 2020run_frictionless
The 4Qs digital transformation framework is ideal for managers who want to reduce friction and improve customer experience. Find out more visit https://runfrictionless.com/
Enterprise Mobility is the trend towards using mobile solutions to enhance processes, productivity in businesses and reduce costs. This is a detailed analysis of enterprise mobility and its future.
Is it time to update your intranet? These are the signs to look out for. ICF Interactive, the interactive services division of ICF International, teamed up with CMSWire to host a webinar covering SharePoint, Yammer, social business and what it all means in 2013.
View the full webinar here: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/webinar-recap-yammer-sharepoint-mobile-oh-my-022548.php
#STC13: The Future of Tech Comm is Here. Are you ready for it?Maxwell Hoffmann
Adobe's Kapil Verma's presentation data makes clear that more work is being asked from a shrinking work force. The move to structured authoring has picked up significantly in the last couple of years. Structured authoring is more prevalent in larger corporations. Due to YouTube and other factors there is an increasing demand for multimedia in technical communication. By the end of 2013, 90% of Internet traffic will be video.
The Evolution of Cloud Computing - Sydney Social Enterprise BreakfastDerek Laney
you cant just put social in front of business activities, you need to embed social processes and technology in your business - Kate Carruthers
#socentanz
Related presentation http://www.slideshare.net/carruthk/the-power-of-social-business
This presentation was given by Econsultancy senior research analyst Andrew Warren-Payne at FeWeb's 'The Future is Back' event on April 1st 2014.
In his talk, Andrew highlighted the continual existence of "The Gap" in digital marketing between what companies want to be doing and what they are actually doing. Based on the decreasing longevity of companies, this gap presents a real danger for companies who do not seek to close it.
This gap is being created by the constant pace at which consumer behaviour is changing, driven by speed of developments in technology. And just as mobile and multichannel customer behaviours are proving a challenge to companies today, the emergence of the 'Internet of Things' will again change customer behaviour in the future.
In celebration of International Women's Day, we dug into some of our most interesting interviews with women in marketing and have put together the following slideshow highlighting some words of wisdom. Happy Women's Day!
In this deck, Greylock Partner Jerry Chen reviews some of the traditional economic moats that technology companies typically leverage and how they are being disrupted. I believe that startups today need to build systems of intelligence™ — AI powered applications — “the new moats.”
Adobe Summit 2016 - Cindy Lu - B2B PersonalizationCindy Lu
Adobe Summit 2016
March 2016
Las Vegas, NV
S917 - VMware: Using deep personalization to fill the sales pipeline
Cindy Lu - Digital Strategy, Senior Marketing Manager, VMware
For many B2B companies, personalization begins and ends with customer personas. The expectation is that this is enough to generate leads and pipeline. While it’s a move in the right direction, much deeper personalization will deliver relevant, targeted experiences that produce more leads and enable sophisticated nurturing campaigns, ultimately generating that all-important qualified sales pipeline.
In this session, VMware explains how they:
• Accelerated the buyer’s journey with Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions
• Filled their sales pipeline by personalizing inbound marketing campaigns
• Gained insights into customer segments using automated personalization
• Increased SaaS sales through testing and optimization
Social Business Transformation at IBM - From Social Connections 2015 in BostonEd Brill
IBM is on a journey to becoming the preeminent social business... focused on outcomes. Social collaboration has provided improvements in innovation, agility, efficiency, employee engagement, and client results throughout IBM. This presentation, delivered by Ed Brill - Vice President, social cloud deployment and adoption - covers IBM's current outcomes and its plan in 2015 to deploy social collaboration in the cloud, including the new IBM Verse reimagined email solution.
Build a MobileFirst Agenda - IBM Mobile EnterpriseEd Brill
IBM Mobile Enterprise keynote from October/November 2013. Review of trends in enterprise mobility, IBM's "The upwardly mobile enterprise" study, and how to build your mobile enterprise agenda.
IBM Impact 2014 - Overview and strategy to transforming your mobile enterpriseEd Brill
IBM point of view on the mobile enterprise opportunity in eight key industries, including banking, government, healthcare, insurance, automotive, and retail.
Quickstart 4Qs Framework for Digital Transformation Managers 2020run_frictionless
The 4Qs digital transformation framework is ideal for managers who want to reduce friction and improve customer experience. Find out more visit https://runfrictionless.com/
Enterprise Mobility is the trend towards using mobile solutions to enhance processes, productivity in businesses and reduce costs. This is a detailed analysis of enterprise mobility and its future.
Is it time to update your intranet? These are the signs to look out for. ICF Interactive, the interactive services division of ICF International, teamed up with CMSWire to host a webinar covering SharePoint, Yammer, social business and what it all means in 2013.
View the full webinar here: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/webinar-recap-yammer-sharepoint-mobile-oh-my-022548.php
#STC13: The Future of Tech Comm is Here. Are you ready for it?Maxwell Hoffmann
Adobe's Kapil Verma's presentation data makes clear that more work is being asked from a shrinking work force. The move to structured authoring has picked up significantly in the last couple of years. Structured authoring is more prevalent in larger corporations. Due to YouTube and other factors there is an increasing demand for multimedia in technical communication. By the end of 2013, 90% of Internet traffic will be video.
The Evolution of Cloud Computing - Sydney Social Enterprise BreakfastDerek Laney
you cant just put social in front of business activities, you need to embed social processes and technology in your business - Kate Carruthers
#socentanz
Related presentation http://www.slideshare.net/carruthk/the-power-of-social-business
This presentation was given by Econsultancy senior research analyst Andrew Warren-Payne at FeWeb's 'The Future is Back' event on April 1st 2014.
In his talk, Andrew highlighted the continual existence of "The Gap" in digital marketing between what companies want to be doing and what they are actually doing. Based on the decreasing longevity of companies, this gap presents a real danger for companies who do not seek to close it.
This gap is being created by the constant pace at which consumer behaviour is changing, driven by speed of developments in technology. And just as mobile and multichannel customer behaviours are proving a challenge to companies today, the emergence of the 'Internet of Things' will again change customer behaviour in the future.
In celebration of International Women's Day, we dug into some of our most interesting interviews with women in marketing and have put together the following slideshow highlighting some words of wisdom. Happy Women's Day!
Infographic: Adobe State of Create 2016 StudyAdobe
Our latest State of Create Study links being creative to stronger personal and professional success. Here's a look at results from U.S. respondents. Check out the full study showing results from the UK, Germany, France and Japan: http://bit.ly/2e766tr
Adobe Digital Economy Project - February 2017Adobe
In February, Adobe’s Digital Price Index (DPI)—a one-of-a-kind analysis of real-time consumer spending based on 15 billion website visits and 2.2 million product sales—detected a third consecutive month of inflation across the U.S. And, for the first time in any analysis of U.S. inflation, Adobe leverages its unique dataset to analyze prices state-by-state for all 50 states plus D.C., creating an unprecedented view of how inflation impacts different regions, and why details like discounts and grocery prices matter deeply on a local level.
Creatives in Japan: Turning Technology In the Face of ChangeAdobe
We surveyed over 300 Japanese creative professionals to find out how they're navigating the pace of change and new technology shifts. This report shares key findings and dives in for a deeper look.
Next 2013: Innovation and The Future (Post Conference Overview) Korean VersionBernard Moon
Conference discussing the creative economy, innovation and the future. SparkLabs focuses on cultivating and empowering Korean and other startups to go global. In the same spirit, SparkLabs wants to bring the best minds and most innovative people to Korea. NEXT 2013 was energizing, empowering and insightful for its attendees. It was held in Seoul on June 14th, 2013.
Building Data Moments in the Midst of Your Student Affairs WorkMatt Cummings
Building Data Moments in the Midst of Your Student Affairs Work, led by
Matt Cummings, will examine the efforts by the Hartman House and how we incorporate data tracking with student volunteering, events, and student one-on-ones. Participants will gain an understanding of data tracking methods, how to report data, and how to build data collecting into their programs.
Windows of Change: How Connected Educators Are Driving Real ReformChris Wejr
Keynote presentation at the 2013 e-learning conference in Lafayette, Indiana. Sharing stories and thoughts on how connected educators are using social media and creating the narrative that is driving real education reform.
The Insiders Guide to Passive Candidates.
Did you know that almost 85% of the global workforces are Passive Candidates who wants to hear from recruiters - and a meagre 15% are satisfied with their current jobs!
Seven secrets every developer should know before getting into manager or lead...Pramod Paranjape
At some point of time in your career, you have to decide if you want to continue on technical path or to take up a management role. Imagine that you have taken up a management role; how would your life look like?
What will change when you get into manager or lead role? Here are Seven secrets nobody told you...
Adobe and Microsoft are partnering to provide a deep set of capabilities for document processes. See examples and starters of how you can build rich business processes that merge e-signatures and PDF packaging.
Complete Your Payment Cycle in Minutes, Not WeeksSAP Ariba
Did you know that Ariba members can now easily send contracts out for e-signature from Ariba Contract Management? Join Conrad Smith, the Senior Director Global Procurement for Adobe Systems, in this session to learn how Adobe Procurement uses e-signatures to improve workflows and make manual processes a thing of the past.
Attendees will learn how to reduce the timeline for payment completions from weeks to minutes, eliminate paper-based workflows, improve data quality and security, and track document status with Adobe EchoSign. Conrad will give you real world results and show you how you too can close that last paper mile.
Learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Building intelligent APIs - Andy Thurai, IBMPAPIs.io
The birth of a sophisticated Internet of Things has catapulted hybrid data collection, which mixes structured and unstructured data, to new heights. The goal with any analytics software is to find and improve better data sets rather than spending time in identifying, prepping, cleaning, and preparing the data. Not only is predicting and prescribing an action anticipating a future issue desired, but if the action is ignored then a forward thinking automatic adoption should suggest an advanced course correction based on previous action items not acted upon. Predictive analytics algorithms should recalibrate themselves. As the incoming data evolves, so do the algorithms – they must re-fit, re-predict and re-prescribe.
Andy Thurai, Program Director at IBM (API, IoT and Connected Cloud), discusses how the time has come for machines and humans to work together to make each other smarter. The combination of APIs, IoTs, big data, smarter analytics, and cognitive computing is transforming the way we see the future — and more importantly, what we do about it.
How Your Document Habits are Destroying Productivity Nitro, Inc.
Nitro's Director of Product, Sam Thorpe, delivered a webinar the that addresses the opportunities for productivity being missed in many business organizations. These are the slides from the presentation, and you can view the webinar on-demand here: http://bit.ly/1ebWhL7
The Road Map to Digitization - Software AG's Heritage of Innovation - Patrick...Software AG South Africa
Patrick Shields, CTO at Software AG, describes the rich history of innovation that Software AG has traveled over the last 4 decades. Software AG was on the bleeding edge at the dawn of enterprise computing, providing mainframe customers with IT sourced competitive advantage. Software AG continues this heritage of innovation, making digitization practical and meaningful for businesses today. Software AG has taken technologies that were industry "buzz words" a few short years ago and made them practical viable solutions that can be leveraged now, to create differentiation in the today's ever changing marketplace.
This presentation was a keynote address at Software AG's 2014 Innovation Forum, held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Content Targeting and Personalization: Improving Engagement at the Account LevelG3 Communications
"With buyer engagements shifting online, B2B marketers need to deliver digital experiences that resonate with TARGET businesses, differentiate themselves from their competitors, and accelerate the sales cycle. Web analytics, targeting tools and content systems are now adapting to this new B2B buyer, as companies are learning how to engage and connect content to target audiences in order to nurture and accelerate leads to sales. Hear how Adobe has embarked on a journey to connect data from analytics, testing tools and visitor identification technologies to understand their targets, personalize their web experiences and better serve content to the accounts that are not only most likely to convert, but also most likely to buy.
Top tactics for identifying, engaging and converting visitors from your most important web segments Identify the top conversion metrics to pay attention to and optimize against Learn how to engage visitors—and keep them engaged—utilizing personalization technology"
Paperless business process with DocuSign esignature v2Mike Borozdin
The presentation I have given at DreamForce about how eSignature can transform your business processes. It concentrates on the top three use cases that organizations should look at first and describes how DocuSign helps you implement those.
"The Truth About Mobile Marketing for B2B Companies" -- As part of SoCal BMA's 'The Leading Edge' executive signature series, Adobe's Head of Strategic Marketing for Mobile, Ray Pun, delivered this interactive presentation to our members and guests on November 19, 2015, at in San Diego.
Over the past 5 years, we have heard the call for “Mobile First”. But how does this apply to business-to-business companies, especially if the buyer is transacting through a salesperson? According to Forrester Research, 53% of B2B purchase decision makers use personal mobile devices to research new business-related products and services. In the B2B world, Mobile First is what's next.
Thinking about the buyer’s journey, it is clear that smartphone and tablet experiences are important influencers. Attendees to this event gained insights on why companies are shifting focus to Mobile First marketing, as well as the key points on the importance and opportunities of mobile marketing for B2B organizations.
Ray addressed the impact of mobile on your digital marketing strategies; trends among B2B companies investing in mobile experiences; key considerations for building an effective mobile marketing team; and the future "mobile only” buyer.
Working in the Markting Cloud.
Presentation of Marco Disseldorp - Marketing Manager Adobe
How does a company like Adobe deal with changing needs in the international software market? What are the current needs of the modern marketeer and how does Adobe anticipates on that? What impact does this have on the Adobe brand? Marco has taken us on the journey Adobe has made so far and gave his vision on the future.
How to Balance System Speed and Risk for Multi-Platform InnovationClaudia Ring
Walking the line between speed to market and stability of mission-critical systems is something many enterprise organizations deal with on a consistent basis, especially when planning a major application release. Multi-speed IT is a term that connotes the difficulty of balancing speed and risk for these enterprises, but also one that inherently defines a solution; moving at different speeds depending on system requirements. While moving at various speeds based on whether you are releasing changes for Systems of Engagement (SOE) or Systems of Record (SOR) can seem negative, it can be used as a stepping stone towards complete enterprise agility and iterative improvements in release management across both types of systems. Join Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps, as she discusses;
How to begin incorporating continuous testing into the release cycle for both SOE's and SOR's
How deployment automation can be incorporated into multi-platform deployments
How earlier, more frequent testing and automated deployments can help stabilize risk while increasing speed
Customer success with using these testing and deployment solutions to achieve agility across both SOE's and SOR's
Explore the work behind eight boundary-defying Asian and Pacific Islander artists who flip the script on the all-too-common question, “where are you from?” to lay claim to the myriad identities that inspire their work.
The Inaugural Cohort of Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellowship Adobe
Sundance Institute announces the 11 artists selected for the first-ever Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellowship, designed to meaningfully support women artists creating bold new work across diverse disciplines, particularly filmmakers from underrepresented communities. The fellowship includes a $5,000 cash grant, skill-building workshops, and year-round mentorship from Sundance Institute staff and Adobe executives. Fellows were selected by Adobe from Sundance Institute’s community of supported artists.
Adobe COVID-19 Productivity Study: Say ‘buh-bye’ to WFH StigmaAdobe
New research from Adobe, which surveyed more than 1,000 workers in the U.S., has found that working from home due to COVID-19 has, in fact, impacted work habits and productivity — but positively.
Adobe Personalization 2020 Survey of Consumers and MarketersAdobe
In January and February 2020, Adobe surveyed over 400 digital marketers and 1,000 adult consumers on topics related to digital experience personalization. Questions cover the priority of personalization, budget allocation, use cases, benefits seen including return on investment, and consumer relationships with brands and personalization across a variety of devices.
The Obstacles and Opportunities of Digital TransformationAdobe
Is your organization struggling with digital transformation (DX)? Don’t worry — you’re not alone. A recent report by IDC, Mind the Gap on Your DX Journey, reveals the top challenges facing companies as they undergo DX, as well as reasons why it’s more than worth the effort.
Sundance Ignite Fellow alums share their Sundance Ignite program experience. Filmmakers Charlotte Regan, Carol Nguyen, and Lance Oppenheim talk mentorship, community and opportunity.
The Total Economic Impact of Adobe Document CloudAdobe
Digitally transform every department in your organization while delivering standout customer experiences with Adobe Document Cloud. Through interviews with Adobe enterprise customers, Forrester concluded that Adobe Document Cloud (including Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Sign) has the following three-year impact, helping organizations save time, costs, and improve employee efficiency.
Adobe Digital Insights just released its 2019 online Holiday shopping recap.From record breaking shopping days, to the battle between big and small retailers, this report has it all.
Technology is a conduit for new experiences at any age, income, or level of tech savviness. Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show we get a glimpse into the future, and Adobe is in a unique space to see how consumers are adopting and utilizing this technology in their day to day lives.
Five Ways to Accelerate the Sales Cycle and Close Deals FasterAdobe
These are the five key areas of a digitized sales process that sales leaders should be implementing to speed up their cycle times and close deals faster.
We surveyed 1,000 seasonal employees and 250 HR hiring managers to understand the impact that onboarding new staff to teams has on stress levels during the holidays, and how the process could be improved through smarter use of technology. Read more on the Adobe blog: https://adobe.ly/37C8t4m
Adobe Analytics’ survey of key decision makers at 403 U.S. retailers reveal valuable insights about how they plan to engage consumers this holiday shopping season.
The online shopping season is upon us, and it's shaping up to be the biggest year yet. Adobe is predicting over $143B in online spend. Consumers will be relying heavily on their smartphones, spending $14B more this season.
With eCommerce growth expected to slow, down 13% from 14.3% in 2018 to 12.4% this year we wanted to determine if there were regional/demographic/behavioral differences.
Digital, and mobile specifically, has had a massive impact on how consumers manage their finances—that’s for sure. However, while digital and mobile bank self-service offerings are most popular, new research finds that physical bank branches remain an important touch point.
As we becomes ever more connected to the digital world, the cars we drive are no exception. With the rise in demand for hybrid/electric cars, consumers are looking for more ways to elevate their driving experiences (ie. voice assistants, WiFi capabilities, self-driving)
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
SPEAKER NOTES:
Hello, I am Conrad Smith, from Adobe’s Global Procurement organization.
[Conrad, please feel free to add more of your background to introduce yourself. E.g. How long have you been with Adobe and in Procurement? What is your team’s responsibility? Etc.]
SPEAKER NOTES:
Adobe has been an innovator of new technology for over 30 years, and continues to focus on new innovative technology to meet today’s business challenges
Adobe is the inventor of PDF, the global standard for secure, reliable document workflows and continues to drive digital documents forward.
Adobe offers a complete solution for document workflows across platforms and devices, that uniquely enables organizations to bridge the document productivity gap.
Adobe enabled the paper to digital revolution and PDF has become the standard for how business is conducted, and how governments work with their citizens.
This is largely due to the fact that there are over 1 billion Free Adobe Readers installed across the world, including mobile devices.
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SPEAKER NOTES:
A few years ago, we started to notice several key trends.
Of course, all types of digital documents are exploding. Adobe has a long history of helping companies and people digitize their documents. We continue to see this explosion reflected in our own Acrobat and Reader numbers.
The big trends here are:
Mobile is huge. Right now, we’re seeing up to 400,000 mobile Acrobat installs per day, just from the three major app stores.
E-signatures are taking off, with more than 100 million agreements processed with Adobe EchoSign.
The PDF ecosystem is thriving – we pioneered it, but in just the last year, more than 50 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products alone (and we’re not the only company in the PDF space!)
While we are seeing huge growth of digital in the market,
Transition: We also know our work is not yet done. There is a disconnect we see as people and companies are trying to get their work done with critical documents
SPEAKER NOTES:
Our customers tell us that documents are still a big challenge and we are calling this the document disconnect. We asked IDC to help us quantify the impact that this is having on organizations.
First, as much as we have been helping organizations make the transition from paper to digital, paper is still not gone. According to IDC- 80% of document-based processes are at least partly dependent on paper
Next, think about how much time we can all spend doing our jobs, vs things like paperwork. According to IDC, the average worker is spending 1/3 of their time on admin tasks. Think about this as spending time on things that don’t add any value, but we are being forced to do, such as re-keying data from one system to another.
Last, we used to talk about all of this in terms of productivity, but what we are finding is that this actually has real impact on the top and bottom lines. Think about a bad experience you might have where you need to fill out 3 different forms with the same information 3 times.. It makes no sense, but this is very common. According to IDC 63% of document processes negatively impact customer satisfaction and when you think about it, that also makes sense.
Whenever paper is involved along with people trying to fill the gap, the entire process is slower, more error-prone, and can’t scale. The growth of mobile devices in the workplace just makes this problem worse because the ability to work with documents is even more limited. The consequence is that business results suffer, decreasing revenue, increasing risk and increasing cost.
We also know that PDF is used when most critical documents are at hand (contracts, legal agreements, critical business documents).
SPEAKER NOTES:
And by the way, the “document disconnect” is just as prevalent in Procurement at it is in other parts of an organization. Wasn’t the digital era supposed supposed to make this easier for us in procurement?
Here are a few examples that we can probably all relate to:
FORMS: How many times have we had our business partners or vendors fill in redundant paper forms that also require someone to re-key into back office systems.
SIGNATURES: We’ve all had the experience of trying to get a contract signed quickly and your signer is out of the office or on a ski lift and only has a mobile phone
APPROVALS: Anyone still rely on fax machines or email attachments to get approvals and documentation from internal stakeholders or from vendors. Painful right?
AUDITS: We’ve all had the the daunting task of making sure the right people are always using the right agreements for the right task but more importantly, making sure the right people are signing them and are using the right agreements
TRANSITION: So we (Adobe) think this is our opportunity
SPEAKER NOTES:
How do customers bridge the gaps in existing document processes? They need a complete solution that works across desktop, web, and mobile, making it easier for employees to get their work done from anywhere. They need the ability to automate e-signing and approvals of documents, so that your users no longer need to use paper for contracts and forms. Finally, they need to track and protect documents, even when those documents go outside of the company.
Let’s start with Signatures.
We truly believe in adding e-signing for everyone. We make it simple to collect signatures from others, no software required for the signer. We have added e-signing services that used to be separate, now they are included with every paid subscription seat of acrobat. Fill and Sign, where you can literally sign anything. All of these tools are part of the document cloud and can be configured, customized and extended to meet business needs. This includes things like controlling the process, order of signing, etc.
The fastest way to get documents signed and approved:
Get others to sign from any device (no software required)
Send for signature included in every subscription seat (formerly Adobe EchoSign)
New Fill and Sign makes signing anything fast and easy, including smart autofill across devices
Business tools to automate any signing and approval process
Integrated Document tools
From being touch enabled, to making the tools you need more discoverable and simple to use. We have focused also taking paper to digital editing in one easy step, as well as significantly improved the way acrobat can help you work with scanned images. We know that 30% of PDF’s opened in our products are scanned images, and now it is much easier to make that content useful and reusable.
We also have a very deep integration with MS office and can send you information on that if you are interested.
The most complete PDF solution, reimagined
New simple, intuitive and touch-enabled interface
New tool center, simplified and quick access to the tools you use most
Easily convert any paper document to editable digital ones (Photoshop magic now included)
Edit, export and reuse any PDF content
Integrates with MS Office and Sharepoint
Work Anywhere
Last but not least, a big effort for us was around mobile. Making sure you can easily continue your work from one device to the next. Simple creation, editing, commenting and reuse, all from your android or IOS device. Now that you’ve got a good idea of what the Adobe Document Cloud is, let me switch gears and show you how this can help you within Procurement. Two all-new companion apps add mobility and functionality to the reimagined Acrobat and Document Cloud experience.
Two all-new companion apps add mobility and functionality to the reimagined Acrobat and Document Cloud experience
Acrobat Mobile
Create, edit, comment, sign, organize, and, of course, read simply
Consistent UI and tools across desktop and mobile devices
Pick up where you left off with Mobile Link, while your files, settings and signatures stay with you
Fill and Sign
Fill out and sign anything as simply as pen to paper
SPEAKER NOTES:
Lets start by walking you through a possible day in the life of a Procurement document.
The cast to this scenario is pretty simple. It typically involves a buyer, within an organization. A manager and a vendor.
Some of these characters you might recognize, some of them you might not. Believe it or not, Samantha Brown is actually on my team and she’s a Sr. Buyer with Adobe procurement. I’ll play the role of the Manager. Lets use Frank Underwood as the Vendor.
SPEAKER NOTES:
Samantha drafts up a vendor agreement, creates a PDF via Acrobat DC
Conrad her manager marks of the changes via Adobe Acrobat DC.
Samantha then makes the changes and sends them to her Vendor via PDF
Frank her vendor gets the PDF and marks up his changes via Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and sends them back to Samantha
Samantha incorporates all the changes into the new agreement and then sends it via Ariba CLM and Adobe Document Cloud eSign services
Given the contract is over $100k, Conrad gets a copy of the contract first and signs off on it via his mobile phone with Adobe Document Cloud eSign Services given he’s on vacation. The contract is then routed to the vendor automatically after Conrad signs it
The vendor gets a copy of the contract via his email and signs it via Adobe Document Cloud eSign services (NOTE: the vendor does not need to own/purchase anything in order to sign the agreement via Adobe Document Cloud)
After the Vendor signs the agreement, it is automatically routed back to Samantha and posted into Ariba CLM and Adobe Document Cloud eSign services. Samantha also gets a notification of the signed and completed contract.
6 months later, Samantha’s legal department asks for a copy of the final contract. She searches for it within Ariba CLM and sends them the final contract with complete audit trail and eSignitures via Send and Track within Adobe Document Cloud
One later the contract comes for renewal. The process then starts all over again. Samantha sends the current contract around for edits and changes…..
Get it?
SPEAKER NOTES:
The direct benefits that the Adobe Procurement organization has been transformative.
Our contract completion cycle is reduced by 73%: going from 2-3 weeks to 1-2 days.
79% of contracts are completed in 7 days or less.
Plus, there was a 70% increase in contract completion.
From our vendors’ perspective, they loved how much more efficient this process was and they were getting paid faster too.
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Implementing a solutions of these nature also help chip away at the document disconnect. Addressing the document disconnect can provide exceptional benefits in terms of reduced cost and risk. Line-of-business leaders we surveyed estimate that fully addressing the gaps in their departmental document processes could yield a:
• 36% increase in revenue
• 30% reduction in cost
• 23% reduction in business/compliance risk
IDC believes that organizations that address their “document disconnect” in the near term will enjoy clear advantages over competitors that ignore it. Despite the outsized impact that the “disconnect” has on the organization and its customers, ROI can often be realized without disruption of existing systems or great expense. Organizations can “start small” and work incrementally. The maximum benefit, however, will accrue for organizations that seek to address the document disconnect enterprisewide.