Business growth is a key driver for Smiths Medical. Learn how Smiths Medical went through an assessment with Capgemini to arrive at a plan for an Oracle upgrade, including the key drivers in performing this project rather than adopting other solutions and how this evaluation gave Smiths Medical insight into the overall cost and program timelines.
This presentation covers the joint collaboration between Smiths Medical and Capgemini in implementing a global upgrade (from Release 11 to Release 12.1.3) within a short 10 months. You will also learn how this Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade provides a robust technology platform enabling Smiths Medical to drive functional transformation and realize its business objectives.
Presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.
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Learn How to Quickly and Efficiently Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.
Specific topics covered will include:
-Planning for Oracle EBS upgrade - The most important step for a successful Oracle EBS upgrade project
-How to ensure a successful upgrade - Learning from previous upgrade project experiences and discussing best practices
-What's next - EBS and database post-upgrade steps
Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 - The Upgrade to End All UpgradesShiri Amit
This business-led session discusses key roadmap and project planning considerations for organizations that are thinking to upgrade. It combines lessons learned from customers that have completed the upgrade with advice from Oracle user group leaders.
OOW15 - Planning Your Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2vasuballa
This session discusses key planning considerations when upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. It combines lessons learned from customers with practical advice from Oracle’s development, consulting, and support organizations. Understand how to build the business case, identify needed time and resources, prepare business and IT staff for changes, plan for required system changes, create an effective test strategy, and more.
The Major Advantages of Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade!Smith James
According to the present market research, Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and Fusion Applications are the latest ERP solutions with all the above functionalities and technologies that can help the enterprises drive greater productivity and agility. For more information visit www.srisys.com or Call 513-342-2724
Delivering your Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade with 100% ConfidenceOriginal Software
Upgrades to the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) are a regular and painful occurrence. The impact of these upgrades varies between the patch releases, which can normally be absorbed by the existing IT and user teams, to the totally disruptive major releases such as release 12, which have a major impact across the business.
For most organisations these upgrades have too frequent and too great an impact on the business. Business analysts and end users must be reassigned for extended periods from their valuable and regular roles to plan, test and implement these upgrades.
View this presentation from our Webinar session where Jonathan Pearson, Solution Consultant, explores the difference between success and failure during your Oracle upgrade. You can also learn more about these “Top 5 Benefits of Original Software’s Oracle EBS Accelerator Pack”:
1. Eliminate risk - your application supports your critical business processes
2. Reduce critical defects found after go-live to zero
3. Get back to business sooner – hit your project deadline
4. Reduce dependence on Oracle EBS users
5. Effortlessly create a detailed audit trail for compliance purposes
See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/solutions/oracle-testing/
In this presentation from our Webinar session, Jonathan Pearson, Solutions Consultant, presents how to deliver the most efficient way of validating that your Oracle application correctly supports all your mission critical business processes.
You will also learn:
- What is involved with the R12 upgrade process
- Who is involved with the upgrade and when
- How companies underestimate the time impact
- What the biggest challenges are
- A best practice process for managing the upgrade project
- See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/webinars/oracle_software_testing/how-to-deliver-your-oracle-ebs-r12-upgrade.php
Learn How to Quickly and Efficiently Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.
Specific topics covered will include:
-Planning for Oracle EBS upgrade - The most important step for a successful Oracle EBS upgrade project
-How to ensure a successful upgrade - Learning from previous upgrade project experiences and discussing best practices
-What's next - EBS and database post-upgrade steps
Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 - The Upgrade to End All UpgradesShiri Amit
This business-led session discusses key roadmap and project planning considerations for organizations that are thinking to upgrade. It combines lessons learned from customers that have completed the upgrade with advice from Oracle user group leaders.
OOW15 - Planning Your Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2vasuballa
This session discusses key planning considerations when upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. It combines lessons learned from customers with practical advice from Oracle’s development, consulting, and support organizations. Understand how to build the business case, identify needed time and resources, prepare business and IT staff for changes, plan for required system changes, create an effective test strategy, and more.
The Major Advantages of Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade!Smith James
According to the present market research, Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and Fusion Applications are the latest ERP solutions with all the above functionalities and technologies that can help the enterprises drive greater productivity and agility. For more information visit www.srisys.com or Call 513-342-2724
Delivering your Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade with 100% ConfidenceOriginal Software
Upgrades to the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) are a regular and painful occurrence. The impact of these upgrades varies between the patch releases, which can normally be absorbed by the existing IT and user teams, to the totally disruptive major releases such as release 12, which have a major impact across the business.
For most organisations these upgrades have too frequent and too great an impact on the business. Business analysts and end users must be reassigned for extended periods from their valuable and regular roles to plan, test and implement these upgrades.
View this presentation from our Webinar session where Jonathan Pearson, Solution Consultant, explores the difference between success and failure during your Oracle upgrade. You can also learn more about these “Top 5 Benefits of Original Software’s Oracle EBS Accelerator Pack”:
1. Eliminate risk - your application supports your critical business processes
2. Reduce critical defects found after go-live to zero
3. Get back to business sooner – hit your project deadline
4. Reduce dependence on Oracle EBS users
5. Effortlessly create a detailed audit trail for compliance purposes
See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/solutions/oracle-testing/
In this presentation from our Webinar session, Jonathan Pearson, Solutions Consultant, presents how to deliver the most efficient way of validating that your Oracle application correctly supports all your mission critical business processes.
You will also learn:
- What is involved with the R12 upgrade process
- Who is involved with the upgrade and when
- How companies underestimate the time impact
- What the biggest challenges are
- A best practice process for managing the upgrade project
- See more at: http://www.origsoft.com/webinars/oracle_software_testing/how-to-deliver-your-oracle-ebs-r12-upgrade.php
R12.2 is no more a new kid on the block. With its latest release of 12.2.4, it is much more stable and user adoption is increasing day-by-day. Upgrading to R12.2 is on the road map of nearly all Oracle E-business Suite customers and many organizations have already started planning their upgrades. In this session we provide 10 quick tips to consider while you plan this R12.2.4 upgrade.
Organizations running EBS 12.1 need to look for ways to maximize their ROI on Oracle EBS and maintain a healthy environment. This requires you to stay up to date with the latest features and functionalities, and capitalize on critical improvements that and R12.2 upgrade can offer.
OOW15 - Advanced Architectures for Oracle E-Business Suitevasuballa
Attend this session to build on the three-tier logical Oracle E-Business Suite architecture to meet your business requirements. It covers features that provide high availability, scalability, and performance, including load balancing, clustering, and virtualization. Learn how to securely deploy Oracle E-Business Suite for internet access with a “demilitarized zone.” The presentation wraps up by applying the various topics covered to assist you with planning a disaster recovery project for your environment.
Going to Oracle EBS Release 12? Upgrading Is Faster, Better and Cheaper than ...eprentise
Many organizations think they cannot upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12 because of existing setups or obsolete structures and configurations. Not true. They ARE able to change existing 11i Oracle EBS setups to meet new requirements, while preserving all history. An upgrade has a lower cost than a reimplementation, and they can change their configurations to streamline their business processes in R12.
Watch the webinar recording: https://vimeo.com/68803958
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Oracle EBS R12.2 - The Upgrade Know-How Factorypanayaofficial
For Oracle EBS customers on R12.1 or lower, the upgrade to R12.2 may seem like an inconvenient necessity. However, when coupling Infosys know-how and Panaya's Change Intelligence technology, they can easily turn a necessity into an opportunity.
OOW15 - Customer Success Stories: Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 vasuballa
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 momentum is growing. Come to this session and hear from Oracle and its customers regarding experiences deploying and running Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. Customers will discuss lessons learned in the process of upgrading and reveal how they are using new functionality in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2, including the Online Patching feature.
OOW15 - Migrating and Managing Customizations for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2vasuballa
Have you created custom schemas or personalized or extended your Oracle E-Business Suite environment? Attend this Oracle development session to learn about selecting the best upgrade approach for existing customizations. This session helps you understand the new customization standards required by Oracle Database Edition-Based Redefinition to be compliant with the Online Patching feature of Oracle E-Business Suite. You will learn about customization use cases, tools, and technologies you can use to ensure that all your customizations are preserved during and after the upgrade. You will also hear about reports you can run before the upgrade to detect and fix your customizations to make them Release 12.2 compliant.
OOW15 - technical upgrade best practices for oracle e-business suite 12.2vasuballa
This session is ideal for organizations thinking about upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. It covers the fundamentals, including the technology stack components and supported upgrade paths. Hear from Oracle development experts about the recommended practices for executing the Release 12.2 technical upgrade, with special considerations for minimizing your downtime. Also get to know about relatively recent upgrade resources.
R12.2 is no more a new kid on the block. With its latest release of 12.2.4, it is much more stable and user adoption is increasing day-by-day. Upgrading to R12.2 is on the road map of nearly all Oracle E-business Suite customers and many organizations have already started planning their upgrades. In this session we provide 10 quick tips to consider while you plan this R12.2.4 upgrade.
Organizations running EBS 12.1 need to look for ways to maximize their ROI on Oracle EBS and maintain a healthy environment. This requires you to stay up to date with the latest features and functionalities, and capitalize on critical improvements that and R12.2 upgrade can offer.
OOW15 - Advanced Architectures for Oracle E-Business Suitevasuballa
Attend this session to build on the three-tier logical Oracle E-Business Suite architecture to meet your business requirements. It covers features that provide high availability, scalability, and performance, including load balancing, clustering, and virtualization. Learn how to securely deploy Oracle E-Business Suite for internet access with a “demilitarized zone.” The presentation wraps up by applying the various topics covered to assist you with planning a disaster recovery project for your environment.
Going to Oracle EBS Release 12? Upgrading Is Faster, Better and Cheaper than ...eprentise
Many organizations think they cannot upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12 because of existing setups or obsolete structures and configurations. Not true. They ARE able to change existing 11i Oracle EBS setups to meet new requirements, while preserving all history. An upgrade has a lower cost than a reimplementation, and they can change their configurations to streamline their business processes in R12.
Watch the webinar recording: https://vimeo.com/68803958
Website: www.eprentise.com
Twitter: @eprentise
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Eprentise/posts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eprentise
Oracle EBS R12.2 - The Upgrade Know-How Factorypanayaofficial
For Oracle EBS customers on R12.1 or lower, the upgrade to R12.2 may seem like an inconvenient necessity. However, when coupling Infosys know-how and Panaya's Change Intelligence technology, they can easily turn a necessity into an opportunity.
OOW15 - Customer Success Stories: Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 vasuballa
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 momentum is growing. Come to this session and hear from Oracle and its customers regarding experiences deploying and running Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. Customers will discuss lessons learned in the process of upgrading and reveal how they are using new functionality in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2, including the Online Patching feature.
OOW15 - Migrating and Managing Customizations for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2vasuballa
Have you created custom schemas or personalized or extended your Oracle E-Business Suite environment? Attend this Oracle development session to learn about selecting the best upgrade approach for existing customizations. This session helps you understand the new customization standards required by Oracle Database Edition-Based Redefinition to be compliant with the Online Patching feature of Oracle E-Business Suite. You will learn about customization use cases, tools, and technologies you can use to ensure that all your customizations are preserved during and after the upgrade. You will also hear about reports you can run before the upgrade to detect and fix your customizations to make them Release 12.2 compliant.
OOW15 - technical upgrade best practices for oracle e-business suite 12.2vasuballa
This session is ideal for organizations thinking about upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. It covers the fundamentals, including the technology stack components and supported upgrade paths. Hear from Oracle development experts about the recommended practices for executing the Release 12.2 technical upgrade, with special considerations for minimizing your downtime. Also get to know about relatively recent upgrade resources.
Practical Steps for Insurers to Get Started with Digital ExecutionMendix
Rob Llewellyn, Founder of CXO Transform and Nick Ford, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Mendix, share a ten-point digital transformation overview to help you get started with digital execution.
Building a Compelling Business Case for Continuous DeliveryXebiaLabs
Increasingly, companies strive to deliver better customer experiences by delivering higher quality software, faster. Building a business case for faster delivery is often essential to gaining the support of the organization. Successful business cases for Continuous Delivery (CD) improvements span Development, Operations, and the Business, and seek to simplify, improve, and streamline the application delivery process through standardization and automation.
Hear from Kurt Bittner, Principal Analyst at Forrester and Andrew Phillips, VP of Product Management at XebiaLabs in a webinar that will help you understand how to create a successful business case for CD, the potential return of investment, how to measure the benefits and how to track these benefits over time. The webinar will highlight:
How to identify opportunities for improvement in your value delivery stream
How to estimate the value of these improvements that reduce cycle time by removing bottlenecks and barriers to delivery
How CD can reduce the cost of compliance and the cost associated with security risks.
How to estimate the value of CD creates by growing or accelerating revenues
Examples of the benefits organizations have achieved through CD
Enabling Resource Management — The Right People for the Right ProjectsCA Technologies
IT experts from Cicso, Allscripts and Ricoh give insights into their experiences implementing CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM).
For more information on Management Cloud solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wEnPhz
Rich Mironov's keynote for one-day agile workshop. Intro to agile development and agile organizations, tools, impact on whole organization, product management and product planning. Co-sponsored by AccuRev, Coverity, Electric Cloud, Enthiosys, Rally and Agile Journal.
Essence of agile gives flavor of Agile and its core principles, highlighting how it can give real time benefits. I developed this asset, based on my certified knowledge and my years of experience in handling Agile projects, transitioning from waterfall to Agile and transforming business.Best used for 1 day workshop.
Ariel Partners has developed a comprehensive program for governance and oversight of large-scale agile projects in the US federal government. This program is structured as a set of eleven major focus areas. Within each focus area, there are specific oversight objectives, activities, and metrics. The output is captured in an excel spreadsheet that calculates a set of quantitative measures, which are then aggregated to automatically produce a composite score, using a similar scoring strategy to FITARA. The program is comprehensive, but it is based on a set of simple principles. We have prepared a presentation that summarizes the program’s key points.
PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade Readiness Assessment and Health Check Arvind Rajan
Don't Just Upgrade - TRANSFORM! Learn how to make the most of out OOTB PeopleSoft 9.2 features, Accelerate and Automate Testing using PTF, Automate via Workflow, Optimize Business Processes, Reduce Change Management Costs, Switch from Crystal to BI Publisher reports, Accelerate with a 4-week Lab Upgrade, Accelerate with a 90-day PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade, Use Astute's 9.2 Sandbox to accelerate Fit-Gap
[Webinar] Visa's Journey to a Culture of ExperimentationOptimizely
Join us as we hear Ramkumar Ravichandran, the Director of A/B Testing at Visa Checkout, explain how he created a high impact experimentation program. Ram will take us through the growth of Visa’s program: from selling the value, to laying down the vision, the roadmap and success criteria, to creating the right team and driving engagement with the program.
Attend this webinar to learn:
-How an experimentation program drives business impact.
-A model to drive continuous stakeholder engagement with the program.
-How to build a roadmap that goes above and beyond simple UX optimization.
OOW16 - Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Upgrade Experience for a 14 TB Oracle E-Bu...vasuballa
This session shares the experiences of a very successful upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4. Learn about the best practices from a planning, project management, and technical perspective. The session shares the do’s and don’ts for an upgrade, and covers best practices regarding the following:
• Decision matrix for upgrade vs. reimplementation
• Test scenario planning
• Project planning
• Cut-over planning and testing
• Simulations
• Optimizing time for upgrade
• Post go-live support
About Agile & PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) OverviewAleem Khan
A properly implemented Agile method increases the speed of development, aligns individual and organization objectives, creates a culture driven by performance, supports shareholder value creation, achieves stable and consistent communication of performance at all levels, and enhances individual development and quality of life.
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COVID-19 heightened chronic challenges within the global healthcare industry. It became a catalyst amid fierce competition and tight regulations for health providers and payers to focus on digital health, cybersecurity, patient data transparency, and a variety of customer-centric and operational enhancements. As a result, we found the 2022 trendline pointing to improvements in access and quality of care.
Healthcare challenges such as optimizing the cost of care while simultaneously enabling personalized interventions and consumer-friendly shoppable services are long-standing − but, historically, the industry has been slow to react.
Read our Top Trends 2022 report to examine the lingering ramifications of the pandemic, responses from medical and insurance organizations, and the worldwide impact of ever-changing regulatory standards and mandates.
A combination of factors − the pandemic, catastrophic weather events, evolving policyholder expectations, and insurers’ drive for operational efficiency and future relevance − are sparking P&C industry changes.
In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, the most strategic insurers are building resilient, crisis-proof enterprises poised to take advantage of emerging and future business opportunities. They are leveraging advanced data analytics and novel technologies to assure agility and achieve positive revenue and customer satisfaction outcomes. Competitive advantage will hinge on accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market. Therefore, win-win partnerships and embedded services with InsurTechs and other ecosystem players are critical.
Read Capgemini’s Top P&C Insurance Trends 2022 for a glimpse at the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers are undertaking to boost customer-centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future-readiness.
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the commercial banking sector as they shift to technology high gear to boost client efficiency and battle a volatile, uncertain, competitive, and evolving landscape.
First, it was retail banking. Now, advanced technology is shifting to – and disrupting − the commercial banking space. Many commercial banks, known for paperwork, red tape, and branch dependency, were unprepared to support clients during their post-COVID-19 ramp-up. But now, the digital pivot to new mindsets, partnerships, and processes is in overdrive.
As commercial banks grapple with competition from FinTechs, BigTechs, and alternative lenders, their inability
to fulfill SME demands and pandemic after-shocks necessitates transformative process changes and a move
to experiential, sustainable, and inclusive banking models. We expect banks to strive to meet the demands
of corporate clients and SMEs by digitally transforming critical workflows and improving client experience.
Additionally, incremental process improvements in the middle and back-office that leverage intelligent
automation will keep the competition at bay because engaged clients are loyal.
Adopting newer methods to mine data and moving to as-a-Service models will prepare commercial banks
to flexibly respond to newcomers and find ways to co-exist through effective collaboration. The time has come for commercial banks to put transformation on the fast track as lending losses in wallet and market share could spill over to other functions!
How incumbents react and respond to 2022 trends could determine their relevancy and resiliency in the years ahead.
The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the payments industry undergo a facelift, sparked by novel approaches from new-age players, fostered by industry consolidation, and customers’ demand for end-to-end experience. Crossing the threshold, the industry is entering a new era – Payments 4.X, where payments are embedded and invisible, and an enabling function to provide frictionless customer experience. As customers make a permanent shift to next-gen payment methods, Digital IDs are critical for a seamless payment experience. The B2B payments segment is witnessing rapid digitization. BigTechs, PayTechs, and industry newcomers are ready to jump in with newfangled solutions to help underserved small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
As incumbents struggle with profits, new-age firms are forging ahead to take the lead in the Payments 4.X era by riding the success of non-card products and services. The new era demands collaboration, platformification, and firms can unleash full market potential only by embracing API-based business models and open ecosystems. Data prowess and enhanced payment processing capabilities are inevitable to thrive ahead. The clock is ticking for banks and traditional payments firms because the competitive advantage is not guaranteed forever. As industry players seek economies of scale, consolidations loom, and non-banks explore new territories to threaten incumbents’ market share. While all these 2022 trends are at play, central bank digital currency (CBDC) is emerging globally and might open a new chapter in the current payments landscape.
As we slowly move out of the pandemic, financial services firms have learned the criticality of virtual engagement to business resilience. Wealth management firms will need capabilities to cater to new-age clients and deliver new-age services. This report aims to understand and analyze the top trends in the Wealth Management industry this year and beyond.
A year ago, our Top Trends in Wealth Management report emphasized how the pandemic sparked disruption and digital transformation and changing investor attitudes around Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) products. As we begin 2022, many of those trends continue to hold as COVID-19’s wide-reaching effects continue to influence the wealth management industry.
As wealth management (WM) firms supercharge their digital transformation journeys, investments in cybersecurity and human-centered design are becoming critical to building superior digital client experience (CX). Another holdover trend − sustainable investing – is gaining mainstream attention and generating increasingly sophisticated client demands. Data and analytics capabilities will become ever more essential for ESG scoring and personalized customer engagement. As large financial services firms refocus on their wealth management business while new digital players make industry strides, competition is becoming historically intense. Not surprisingly, client experience is the new battleground.
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the retail banking sector driven by the competition, digital transformation, and innovation led by retail banks exploring novel ways to create and retain value in evolving landscape.
COVID-19 caught banks off guard and shook legacy mindsets to the core. With 20/20 (2020) hindsight, firms are more aware, digitally resilient, and financially stable as they head into 2022. The trials of the past 18 months forced firms to shore up existing business and consider new models and revenue streams.
Customer-centricity remains at the top of most FS agendas and is a 2022 focal point. Banks will focus on achieving operational excellence as diligently as delivering superior CX. In 2022 and beyond, it will be paramount for FIs to explore and invest in new technologies to remain relevant and resilient.
Banking 4.X will arrive in full force in 2022 with platform-supported firms monetizing diverse ecosystem capabilities and aggressively harvesting data to create experiential customer journeys through intelligent and personalized engagements. The new era will compel future-focused banks to finally abandon legacy infrastructure and collaborate with third-party specialists to solidify their best-fit, long-term roles. Increasingly, open platforms will make banks invisible as banking becomes embedded into customer lifestyles. At the same time, banks will shed asset-heavy models and shift to the cloud for greater agility, speed to market, and faster innovation. The shift will act as a precursor to adopting new technologies on the horizon – 5G and Decentralized Finance.
The recent past was filled will extraordinary lessons for financial institutions. Now is the time to act on those learnings and move forward profitably.
While COVID-19 has sparked the demand for life insurance, it has also exposed the operating model vulnerabilities in distribution, servicing, and customer retention. In a post-COVID, new-normal environment, insurers need to enhance their capabilities around advanced data management and focus on seamless and secure data sharing to provide superior CX and hyper-personalized offerings. Accelerated digitalization and faster go-to-market are vital to remaining competitive, and win-win partnerships with ecosystems are critical in the journey.
Read our Top Life Insurance Trends 2022 to explore the tactical and strategic initiatives carriers undertake to acquire competencies around customer centricity, product agility, intelligent processes, and an open ecosystem to ensure profitable growth and future readiness.
Property & Casualty Insurance Top Trends 2021Capgemini
The Property & Casualty insurance landscape is evolving quickly with the changing risk landscape, entry of new players, and changing customer expectations. The ripple effects of COVID-19 on the P&C insurance industry and natural disasters such as forest fires have adversely impacted insurance firm books.
In this scenario, to ensure growth and future-readiness, the most strategic insurers strive to be ‘Inventive Insurers’ – assuming a customer-centric approach, deploying intelligent processes, practicing business resilience and go-to-market agility, and embracing an open ecosystem.
Read our Property & Casualty Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adapting to remain competitive amidst the evolving business landscape and how they can explore new ways to enhance their profitability.
A combination of factors such as demographic changes, evolving consumer preferences, and desire to become operationally efficient were already spurring changes in the life insurance industry. Enter 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the industry.
At the peak of disruption, the focus was on ensuring business continuity, but new initiatives are cropping up to tackle the challenges as the industry is adapting to the new normal.
Furthermore, COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst, pushing life insurers to prioritize their efforts on improving customer centricity, developing go-to-market agility, making processes intelligent, building business resilience, and embracing the open ecosystem.
Read our Life Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adopting to manage the changing market dynamics.
The uncertainty of 2020 is setting the global tone for the immediate future in the financial services industry. So it is no surprise banks are laser-focused on business resilience, emphasizing both financial and operational risks. The need to adapt quickly to new normal conditions through virtual customer engagement is clear.
Customer centricity continues to drive commercial banks’ solution designs. And, the pandemic compelled products that deliver immediate client value ‒ quick digital onboarding, seamless lending, and support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The onus is now on banks to go to market more quickly, which requires the implementation of intelligent processes and integrating corporates’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with banking workflows.
To achieve go-to-market agility, banks across the globe are investing in and collaborating with FinTechs. Many of these partnerships are focused on boosting digital lending and providing seamless support to anxious small-business clients in need of assurance.
With newfound impetus for FinTech collaboration, commercial banks have picked up their step on the path toward OpenX. COVID-19 made it evident that survival during turbulence is manageable through collaboration with ecosystem players.
Read our Top Trends in Commercial Banking 2021 report to explore the strategies banks are adapting to transform their businesses from a product-led, siloed model to an experiential and agile plan.
When we published the Top Trends in Wealth Management 2020, little did we foresee the pandemic that would sweep through the world and disrupt life as we knew it. Yet, when we reviewed last year’s trends, we found that many still hold and some have taken on even greater relevance. One such trend is sustainable investing, which had begun to gain prominence as investors became more aware of ESG considerations, and firms rolled out more sustainable investing offerings. Another trend that has accelerated in the post-COVID world is the importance of investing in omnichannel capabilities and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance personalization and advisor effectiveness. The pandemic has driven wealth management firms to accelerate their digital transformation journey, with some immediate focus areas being interactive client communications and digital advisor tools.
There is no denying that time is of the essence. Yes, budgets are tight, but the Open X ecosystem offers wealth management firms opportunities to reimagine their operating models and deliver excellent customer experience cost-effectively.
Top trends in Payments: 2020 highlighted the payments industry’s flux driven by new trends in technology adoption, innovative solutions, and changing consumer behavior. The pandemic has tested the digital mastery of players, who are already grappling with transition. Non-cash transactions are on a robust growth path, accelerated by increased adoption during COVID-19. Regulators are working to instill trust and address non-cash payments risk amid unparalleled growth as players collaborate to quell uncertainty. Regional initiatives, such as the P27 (Nordics real-time payments system) and the EPI (European Payments Initiative), are gaining traction in response to country-level fragmentation and competition.
Investment in emerging technologies is looked upon as an elixir to mitigate fraud, data-driven offerings are being considered for providing value-added propositions, and distributed ledger technology is in focus for digital currency solutions, efficiency enhancement, and cost gains. New players, such as retailers/merchants, are integrating payments into their value chains while technology giants are upscaling their financial services game by weaving offerings around payments as a center stage. Constrained by budgets, firms consider business models such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide cost-effective and superior customer experience.
A combination of factors, including demographic changes, evolving consumer preferences, and regulatory and compliance mandates, were already spurring change in the health insurance industry. Enter 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having sweeping implications for the industry.
At the peak of disruption, the focus was on ensuring business continuity, but new initiatives are cropping up to tackle the challenges as the industry adapts to the new normal.
Furthermore, some changes are here to stay, and it will be prudent for the industry players to be resilient to the market shifts by being agile, improving member centricity, making processes intelligent, and embracing the open ecosystem.
Read our Health Insurance Top Trends 2021 report to explore the strategies insurers are adopting to manage the external pressures.
The banking industry’s resilience is being tested as banks navigate through a remarkable 2020 filled with uncertainties. The impact of COVID-19 has been about setting the tone for future operational models. Retail banks have shifted focus towards integrated risk management with a more holistic view of operational risks. Adapting to the new normal, banks have prioritized cost transformation while engaging customers virtually. Incumbents sought to be more responsible within fast-changing environmental conditions and ESG remained a critical focus.
To provide more experiential services, banks are leveraging techniques such as segment-of-one to hyper-personalize offerings while aiming to humanize digital channels for increased engagement. Banks are also revamping middle and back offices, going beyond the front end leveraging intelligent processes. Open X is enabling banks to play on their strengths and use the expertise of ecosystem players. Going forward, banks are poised to become an enhanced one-stop shop by providing consumers value-adding FS and non-FS experiences.
To acquire customers in cost-effective manner, retail banks are tapping value-based propositions ‒ such as POS financing and mortgage refinancing. Further, Banking-as-Service provides incumbents a way to provide their high-value offerings to other players. In preparation for the future, banks will be looking to improve their go-to-market agility by leveraging the benefits of cloud. This analysis outlines the top 10 trends in retail banking for 2021.
Explore how Capgemini’s Connected autonomous planning fine-tunes Consumer Products Company’s operations for manufacturing, transport, procurement, and virtually every other aspect of the supply-value network in a touchless, autonomous way.
Financial services is undergoing a paradigm shift that is forcing incumbent retail banks to rethink growth strategies as they struggle to remain relevant. Growing competition from BigTechs, FinTech firms, and challenger banks has added to the complexity created by increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. Customers now expect a seamless customer journey and personalized offerings because they have become accustomed to top-notch individualized service from GAFA giants Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. The changing ecosystem offers established banks new, unexplored opportunities and encourages a transition beyond traditional products to meet the exacting requirements of today’s customers. Bank collaboration with FinTech and RegTech partners is becoming commonplace. Incumbents are exploring point-of-sale financing and unsecured consumer lending, while they also boost their digital channel competencies to reach a broader customer base. Banks are beginning to accept open APIs and are working with third-party specialists to create an open shared marketplace. Technological advancements such as AI are fueling efforts to evolve customer onboarding and touchpoint processes. Increasingly, banks are turning to design thinking methodology to understand the customer journey, extract deep insights, and develop a more refined user experience across the customer lifecycle.
Our analysis of the top retail banking trends for 2020 offers a glimpse into the fast-changing banking ecosystem and explores the tools and solutions being used to face new-age challenges.
Aspects of the life insurance industry have remained constant for years – and so have premiums. Traditional savings products have taken a huge hit in terms of attractiveness because low interest-rates prevail. Meanwhile, the risk landscape is shifting, and insurers need to align better with the emerging business environment, manage changing customer preferences, and improve operational efficiencies. Within today’s scenario, industry players are undertaking tactical and strategic shifts in attempts to manage unpredictable market dynamics. Insurers must develop alternative products to breathe new life into policies and leverage emerging technologies (artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and blockchain) to improve efficiency, agility, flexibility, and customer-centricity.
Read Top Trends in Life Insurance: 2020 for a look at the innovative steps future-focused insurers are considering to meet industry challenges and opportunities.
The health insurance industry is evolving and undergoing significant changes. As the risk landscape shifts, insurers are working to improve operational efficiencies, meet evolving customer preferences, and align better with the changing business environment. Accordingly, payers must adapt and align business models and offerings. An incisive tactical approach is required to accommodate members’ needs and related emerging risks — medical, health, and environmental. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and connected devices are enabling insurers to manage these changes proactively, partner with members, and help to prevent risks, all the while continuing to fulfill payer responsibilities.
Read Top Trends in Health Insurance: 2020 to learn which strategies insurers are adopting to navigate and align with today’s challenges.
Similar to other financial services domains, payments is evolving into an open ecosystem. The EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) pioneered open banking by encouraging banks and established payments players to securely open the systems to foster competition, innovation, and more customer choices. In tandem with non-cash transaction growth, regulations are driving banks and payments firms to expand their array of payment methods and channels. Governments are encouraging financial inclusion by also promoting the adoption of non-cash payments. Increasingly, merchants and corporates seek to offer alternative payment systems because of widespread popularity among consumers. Alternative payments also enable merchants to provide real-time and cross-border payments to boost business efficiency.
Banks, payment firms, card firms, BigTechs, FinTechs, and other players are continuously developing new technology to cash in on market changes. However, data breaches and fraud continue to hinder innovation as firms devote countless resources each year to address security issues. Many governments are also designing new regulations to reduce ecosystem threats. All these measures are expected to make the current ecosystem much more secure and simple for players as well as customers.
Top Trends in Payments: 2020 explores and analyzes payments ecosystem initiatives and solutions for this year and beyond
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...
How to Deliver a Successful Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade
1. In collaboration with
with you
How to Deliver a Successful
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade
San Francisco, September 29, 2014
Vaughan Hennum and Lisa Ruddell,
Smiths Medical
Bharti Tiwary, Capgemini
13. UAT – Foundation for Global, Repeatable Test
Processes + Standard Documentation
~60 Process Areas
• ASCP
• BI Apps
• BI Publisher - AR
invoice
• Bill of Material
• Carrier Labels - DC
• Cash Management
• Clear Orbit - DC
• Clear Orbit - Factory
.Service Contracts
• SGP Shop Floor
• Ship/SPEX - DC
• STR AventX
• VAT
• Work in Process
~400 Scenarios
~ 25 Operating Units
E.g. for ASCP:
• Verify ASCP Plans Setups
• Verify ATP Plan Setups
• Planning Time Fence
• Demand Time Fence
• Minimum Shelf Life
• Check Safety stocks
• ATP Testing
• Republish back
• Release Plan Recommendations
• Protégé testing
• Forecast Consumption
• Forecast Spreading
• Demand Spike Process
• Exception testing
• Scheduling simulations
• Reschedule simulations
• Fair Share allocation
• Projected Available Balance
Reports
• Backorder report
Executed Via
~300 Test Scripts
13
Evidence of testing /
FDA Regulated