The document summarizes a webinar presented by Cornerstone Advisors and Digital Insight on mapping business strategies to changing consumer behavior and delivery redirect. It discusses how consumer discovery, onboarding, experience, and advocacy have changed with new digital and social media channels. It presents a spectrum of delivery redirect strategies from physical focus to digital forte. Examples are given of credit unions that have successfully redirected their delivery channels. Steps outlined for financial institutions include aligning delivery strategies with corporate strategies and developing a channel roadmap that considers customer values, costs and contributions to sales.
Small Business Banking Segment StrategyCalvin Turner
Most banks believe they are committed to servicing Small Business customers. They develop products and services for this segment; they invest considerable amounts of time and money trying to improve their Small Business Bankers’ business development (i.e., sales) skills; and some may even create a line of business within the bank entitled “Business Banking” or “Small Business Banking.” But most of these efforts fail to produce the desired growth objectives because banks don’t really understand the needs of the small business customer
Bpi Connecting The Business Intelligence CommunityGed Mirfin
An Overview of the Business Performance Index with reference to Data Stewardship and Communities of Practice Strategies based on Etienne Wenger and Malcolm Gladwell
Joining Publicis Sapient means while joining a single, global team that is dedicated to making an impact in the world, together.
Hear from members of our global executive leadership team about why they chose a career at Publicis Sapient and what keeps them here.
Consider a career at Publicis Sapient and start your journey to NEXT.
A successful Digital Transformation must stand on a successful Digital Strategy as its basis. Essentially, Digital Strategy is about making wise investments into all aspects of Digital Transformation, be it the talents, processes, or customers—with the end goal of maximizing competitive advantage, profits, and ultimately growth that companies expect when initiating their Digital Transformation. The concept of Digital Strategy has changed fast. A couple of years ago, it was as simple thought as “let’s build a website and an app, and it’s done”. But now Digital Strategy has grown beyond that; it has become an integrated plan that does not only involve the adoption and development of new technologies but also requires a shift in business culture and coordination across the business. While a Digital Strategy acts as a guiding star for Digital Transformation, formulating it can inundate companies with even more problems rather than solutions. The need for a well-defined digital strategy seems absolute, yet many don’t know where to start, and others fail for a lot of pitfalls when compiling it. If your company is in this same situation, this paper can help, where you find the step-by-step guide to formulating a digital strategy.
Small Business Banking Segment StrategyCalvin Turner
Most banks believe they are committed to servicing Small Business customers. They develop products and services for this segment; they invest considerable amounts of time and money trying to improve their Small Business Bankers’ business development (i.e., sales) skills; and some may even create a line of business within the bank entitled “Business Banking” or “Small Business Banking.” But most of these efforts fail to produce the desired growth objectives because banks don’t really understand the needs of the small business customer
Bpi Connecting The Business Intelligence CommunityGed Mirfin
An Overview of the Business Performance Index with reference to Data Stewardship and Communities of Practice Strategies based on Etienne Wenger and Malcolm Gladwell
Joining Publicis Sapient means while joining a single, global team that is dedicated to making an impact in the world, together.
Hear from members of our global executive leadership team about why they chose a career at Publicis Sapient and what keeps them here.
Consider a career at Publicis Sapient and start your journey to NEXT.
A successful Digital Transformation must stand on a successful Digital Strategy as its basis. Essentially, Digital Strategy is about making wise investments into all aspects of Digital Transformation, be it the talents, processes, or customers—with the end goal of maximizing competitive advantage, profits, and ultimately growth that companies expect when initiating their Digital Transformation. The concept of Digital Strategy has changed fast. A couple of years ago, it was as simple thought as “let’s build a website and an app, and it’s done”. But now Digital Strategy has grown beyond that; it has become an integrated plan that does not only involve the adoption and development of new technologies but also requires a shift in business culture and coordination across the business. While a Digital Strategy acts as a guiding star for Digital Transformation, formulating it can inundate companies with even more problems rather than solutions. The need for a well-defined digital strategy seems absolute, yet many don’t know where to start, and others fail for a lot of pitfalls when compiling it. If your company is in this same situation, this paper can help, where you find the step-by-step guide to formulating a digital strategy.
Charlie Young presented at the West Midlands Informatics Network Open Evening that brought together healthcare and industry professionals interested in the development and propagation of technology and data in healthcare provision.
Find the Gaps with a Customer Experience Map CRMEvolution 2014jhewitt98
Businesses are constantly seeking ways to more accurately predict customer behavior and attitudes. Analytical models and market research offer robust information, but are you overlooking an innovative approach to discover what your customers are thinking and doing? Customer experience maps examine customer emotions and attitudes through the learn, buy, enjoy, and advocate stages of the customer life cycle. The map identifies the gaps in your customer experience and delivers a framework for effectively improving it. This presentation walks you through the process of creating a customer experience map and gives real-world examples of how a major financial institution and an entertainment loyalty program were able to use their maps to identify gaps in their communications and processes.
More and more customers are seeing mobile as their banking channel of choice, proven by a growing body of papers. To cite some, Cimigo revealed that for every 10 respondents who are Vietnamese consumers, 3 are using some forms of e-payments including mobile banking application and e-Wallet. Or Backbase predicted that mobile transactions in Vietnam will increase by 300% between 2021 and 2025, driven by mobile payments. As banks build more creative features and integrate with third-party financial products, mobile banking application is no longer a tool for remote money transaction; it has become a financial lifestyle platform that offers a single hub for all banking services. In this article, we get to explore various innovative features that a bank might consider for its mobile banking application, with the goal to keep up with the Digital Banking upsurge.
How Financial Services Companies Use Digital Technology to Improve Customer E...Precisely
Companies like yours provide a vital service to the public, but you know that communicating with consumers can be challenging. No matter how important banking and insurance products are, most people spend little time reading the fine print.
So how do you increase customer engagement and boost retention?
Join our conversation to learn how you can easily create relevant and meaningful connections throughout the customer experience journey.
Find out how organisations like yours use digital media to help them enrich engagement and build lasting and profitable customer relationships.
Transform research: The age of omnichannel banking 2015TransformUK
The death and destruction of traditional bank branches caused by digital and changing customer dynamics is widely foretold.
But even digital natives are dual citizens of the physical world. Branch location is still customers’ strongest reason for switching current account and retail customers still want branches for important elements of sales and service.
Retail is increasingly moving towards Omnichannel; enabling customers to do business on whatever mix of channels they choose. How channels are integrated is becoming as important as what channels are available.
This has big implications for banks. Too often today, it is almost as if the digital and bank branch experience is designed and built by different companies. In the future, digital will underpin how banks deliver great customer experiences across channels.
In this report we explore what drives the shift towards Omnichannel, how banks are performing today and a vision for Omnichannel banking in the future.
Bob Tramontano, Director de Operaciones de Negocios de la Industria Financiera de NCR Corporation.
13° Congreso Internacional de Tecnología para el Negocio Financiero
In this webinar we are looking at omni-channel banking experiences. Today's consumer has several channels they can use to interact with their bank, and they want to use all of them. Financial institutions can, and should, communicate with their customers across all channels, not just one or two. A single platform with a rich customer experience layer makes it possible to create omni-channel strategies that use all channels and meet the needs of the 'connected consumer'. Real omni-channel banking is about more than a brand being available on a variety of touchpoints, it is about creating a multi-faceted, unified customer experience.
Backbase's CEO and co-founder, Jouk Pleiter along with Global Head of Marketing, Jelmer de Jong, will discuss the latest strategies and best practices to help your bank successfully deliver a truly omni-channel banking experience.
Topics include:
- Best practices for creating an omni-channel Bank experience
- Strengthening the brand by combining offline and online
- The future of distribution: The hybrid approach
- Next steps - How to continuously improve your omni-channel experience
Rebooting the branch: Branch strategy in a multi-channel, global environment.Luis Del Castillo
The rise of the digital consumer and the high-cost infrastructure of physical banking locations are leading to a declining ROI for branches.Evolving the branch strategy to align with changing consumer and economic realities can help banks boost ROI and position themselves for the future.
In this webinar we will take a look at the key trends that are set to shape tomorrow's bank. First off we'll be discussing some of the trends that were emerging towards the end of last year, such as omni-channel banking. Then we'll move on to how these trends are likely to develop, how IT and business teams can work together to meet them head on, and exactly what banks need to do to create the type of personal and relevant experiences that lead to greater ROIs.
Innovation and Transformation in Financial ServicesCertus Solutions
Historically, financial services firms have struggled to target and tailor their product offerings to the customer journey. Often only traditional demographic information – gender, age, occupation – is collected with no real insight as to what life stage a customer is in and how this could influence their financial activity.
To compete in a consumer-empowered economy, it is increasingly clear that financial services firms must leverage their information assets to gain a comprehensive understanding of markets, customers, channels, products, regulations, competitors, suppliers, employees and more.
Retail Banking: Delivering a Meaningful Digital Customer ExperienceCognizant
To compete effectively, banks must fully adopt digital technologies to enhance customer experience, by providing mobile banking, omni-channel banking options, digital personal financial management, and more.
Moving beyond multichannel: A Deloitte perspective on customer experience in ...Deloitte Canada
Think like a retailer: Multiply your multichannel returns
Is it a café? A financial genius bar or an app? The financial institution (FI) of tomorrow is already here, giving customers countless new ways to carry out their financial transactions.
Consumers are driving this transformation. They’re connected, knowledgeable, tech-savvy and very demanding. They don’t just compare one FI’s services to another, but to the best customer service they’ve had anywhere.
There’s much at stake. Some studies show Millennials count banks among their least-loved brands. Others show disruption in the FI space could impact existing market share dramatically in just five years.
However, FIs are adapting to these shifts. They are borrowing the best ideas from other businesses to create an intimate customer experience—especially from retailers.
But there’s more to be done.
• FIs need to structure themselves around customers. Not products or services.
• They need to understand each customer’s path to purchase.
• They need to make interactions simple and enjoyable.
• They need to evolve their internal structure: P&L, culture and their real estate strategy.
To learn more about how outstanding customer service is the key to delivering long-term business value, view our Slideshare, the second piece in our series, Making Change: Creating the financial Institution of the future.Then ask yourself, what opportunities are you going to take hold of, and what kind of FI do you want to be. Please get in touch with us for more information.
Discover how to create relationships. build advocacy and improve loyalty in your customer base using IBM Cognos Consumer Insight for social media analytics.
Charlie Young presented at the West Midlands Informatics Network Open Evening that brought together healthcare and industry professionals interested in the development and propagation of technology and data in healthcare provision.
Find the Gaps with a Customer Experience Map CRMEvolution 2014jhewitt98
Businesses are constantly seeking ways to more accurately predict customer behavior and attitudes. Analytical models and market research offer robust information, but are you overlooking an innovative approach to discover what your customers are thinking and doing? Customer experience maps examine customer emotions and attitudes through the learn, buy, enjoy, and advocate stages of the customer life cycle. The map identifies the gaps in your customer experience and delivers a framework for effectively improving it. This presentation walks you through the process of creating a customer experience map and gives real-world examples of how a major financial institution and an entertainment loyalty program were able to use their maps to identify gaps in their communications and processes.
More and more customers are seeing mobile as their banking channel of choice, proven by a growing body of papers. To cite some, Cimigo revealed that for every 10 respondents who are Vietnamese consumers, 3 are using some forms of e-payments including mobile banking application and e-Wallet. Or Backbase predicted that mobile transactions in Vietnam will increase by 300% between 2021 and 2025, driven by mobile payments. As banks build more creative features and integrate with third-party financial products, mobile banking application is no longer a tool for remote money transaction; it has become a financial lifestyle platform that offers a single hub for all banking services. In this article, we get to explore various innovative features that a bank might consider for its mobile banking application, with the goal to keep up with the Digital Banking upsurge.
How Financial Services Companies Use Digital Technology to Improve Customer E...Precisely
Companies like yours provide a vital service to the public, but you know that communicating with consumers can be challenging. No matter how important banking and insurance products are, most people spend little time reading the fine print.
So how do you increase customer engagement and boost retention?
Join our conversation to learn how you can easily create relevant and meaningful connections throughout the customer experience journey.
Find out how organisations like yours use digital media to help them enrich engagement and build lasting and profitable customer relationships.
Transform research: The age of omnichannel banking 2015TransformUK
The death and destruction of traditional bank branches caused by digital and changing customer dynamics is widely foretold.
But even digital natives are dual citizens of the physical world. Branch location is still customers’ strongest reason for switching current account and retail customers still want branches for important elements of sales and service.
Retail is increasingly moving towards Omnichannel; enabling customers to do business on whatever mix of channels they choose. How channels are integrated is becoming as important as what channels are available.
This has big implications for banks. Too often today, it is almost as if the digital and bank branch experience is designed and built by different companies. In the future, digital will underpin how banks deliver great customer experiences across channels.
In this report we explore what drives the shift towards Omnichannel, how banks are performing today and a vision for Omnichannel banking in the future.
Bob Tramontano, Director de Operaciones de Negocios de la Industria Financiera de NCR Corporation.
13° Congreso Internacional de Tecnología para el Negocio Financiero
In this webinar we are looking at omni-channel banking experiences. Today's consumer has several channels they can use to interact with their bank, and they want to use all of them. Financial institutions can, and should, communicate with their customers across all channels, not just one or two. A single platform with a rich customer experience layer makes it possible to create omni-channel strategies that use all channels and meet the needs of the 'connected consumer'. Real omni-channel banking is about more than a brand being available on a variety of touchpoints, it is about creating a multi-faceted, unified customer experience.
Backbase's CEO and co-founder, Jouk Pleiter along with Global Head of Marketing, Jelmer de Jong, will discuss the latest strategies and best practices to help your bank successfully deliver a truly omni-channel banking experience.
Topics include:
- Best practices for creating an omni-channel Bank experience
- Strengthening the brand by combining offline and online
- The future of distribution: The hybrid approach
- Next steps - How to continuously improve your omni-channel experience
Rebooting the branch: Branch strategy in a multi-channel, global environment.Luis Del Castillo
The rise of the digital consumer and the high-cost infrastructure of physical banking locations are leading to a declining ROI for branches.Evolving the branch strategy to align with changing consumer and economic realities can help banks boost ROI and position themselves for the future.
In this webinar we will take a look at the key trends that are set to shape tomorrow's bank. First off we'll be discussing some of the trends that were emerging towards the end of last year, such as omni-channel banking. Then we'll move on to how these trends are likely to develop, how IT and business teams can work together to meet them head on, and exactly what banks need to do to create the type of personal and relevant experiences that lead to greater ROIs.
Innovation and Transformation in Financial ServicesCertus Solutions
Historically, financial services firms have struggled to target and tailor their product offerings to the customer journey. Often only traditional demographic information – gender, age, occupation – is collected with no real insight as to what life stage a customer is in and how this could influence their financial activity.
To compete in a consumer-empowered economy, it is increasingly clear that financial services firms must leverage their information assets to gain a comprehensive understanding of markets, customers, channels, products, regulations, competitors, suppliers, employees and more.
Retail Banking: Delivering a Meaningful Digital Customer ExperienceCognizant
To compete effectively, banks must fully adopt digital technologies to enhance customer experience, by providing mobile banking, omni-channel banking options, digital personal financial management, and more.
Moving beyond multichannel: A Deloitte perspective on customer experience in ...Deloitte Canada
Think like a retailer: Multiply your multichannel returns
Is it a café? A financial genius bar or an app? The financial institution (FI) of tomorrow is already here, giving customers countless new ways to carry out their financial transactions.
Consumers are driving this transformation. They’re connected, knowledgeable, tech-savvy and very demanding. They don’t just compare one FI’s services to another, but to the best customer service they’ve had anywhere.
There’s much at stake. Some studies show Millennials count banks among their least-loved brands. Others show disruption in the FI space could impact existing market share dramatically in just five years.
However, FIs are adapting to these shifts. They are borrowing the best ideas from other businesses to create an intimate customer experience—especially from retailers.
But there’s more to be done.
• FIs need to structure themselves around customers. Not products or services.
• They need to understand each customer’s path to purchase.
• They need to make interactions simple and enjoyable.
• They need to evolve their internal structure: P&L, culture and their real estate strategy.
To learn more about how outstanding customer service is the key to delivering long-term business value, view our Slideshare, the second piece in our series, Making Change: Creating the financial Institution of the future.Then ask yourself, what opportunities are you going to take hold of, and what kind of FI do you want to be. Please get in touch with us for more information.
Discover how to create relationships. build advocacy and improve loyalty in your customer base using IBM Cognos Consumer Insight for social media analytics.
SAP BusinessOjects Roambi Solution Relief - Mobile Data VisualizationChristian Kelly
Data is the lifeblood of your business. That’s why you’ve spent so much time and effort creating data resources to help people make better decisions. Now to throw another curve into the picture, how do I access this critical data on my mobile device?
Webinar: Today’s digital economy demands real-time insight into corporate performance. Companies faced with the ongoing challenge of disparate systems require a single analytics platform that not only integrates multiple sources of information but also provides executive analytics in real-time. The SAP Digital Boardroom provides executives and decision makers with the real-time insight required to manage today’s organizations. Join us as we demonstrate the capabilities of the SAP Digital Boardroom, a component of the BusinessObjects Clouds advanced analytics solution. We will focus on the following:
• Introduction to the SAP Digital Boardroom and BusinessObjects Cloud
• Overview of key capabilities and business cases that support moving to a digital analytics platform
• System demonstration emulating a real board meeting complete with data interaction
• Understanding the value of improved decision making and insight provided by the Digital Boardroom
Fast Cycle, Multi-Terabyte Data Analysis with Amazon Redshift and ClearStory ...ClearStory Data
Organizations storing large volumes of data in Amazon Redshift rely on faster cycle analysis to quickly uncover actionable insights. Their challenge when data volumes grow in Redshift is finding an analysis solution that removes the headaches of tedious ETL, data wrangling and allows scalable, visual data analysis. These slides shared during the webinar demonstrates ClearStory Data’s solution for scalable, fast-cycle, visual data analysis, that is used by CPG, Retail, Consumer Internet companies on Redshift.
To watch the on-demand webinar, visit:
From the 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City, Sharmila Mulligan's keynote, "Data & The New Era of Interactive Storytelling." Data is an evolving story. It’s not a static snapshot of a point in time insight. With data from internal and external sources constantly updating, we are evolving from rear-view mirror dashboard views into an era of interactive Storytelling. Data Storytelling is both a visual art and a method of interpreting analytic results. Data Stories shed insights every minute, every hour, everyday, every week. This keynote will discuss how data dashboards are no longer adequate and how companies are using Interactive Storytelling to discover faster insights across many disparate data sources.
To view keynote presentation, visit:
http://www.clearstorydata.com/videos/data-new-era-interactive-storytelling/
Driving Predictive Roadway Analytics with the Power of Neo4jNeo4j
This talk will present how a small start-up (Waveonics) with no prior graphical database experience employed the simplicity, versatility and flexibility of Neo4j to handle the complex and dynamic roadway conditions found in crowdsourced street map data. We map the route taken to transit from a relational to graphical data model in support of the next generation roadside service applications for an established leader in the roadside service industry (Agero). We will show how Waveonics and Agero used Neo4j to detect and understand changing roadway conditions in order to identify emerging trends and thereby improve driver safety and the driving experience.
Recent advances in mobile device sensors, GPS location services, communication technology, crowdsourced data acquisition, affordable cloud storage, machine learning and data analytics, has opened the door to an exciting world of new services. Capitalizing on these opportunities requires providers continually organize, store, manage, access and update terabytes of information efficiently. They need databases that are powerful enough to model the complexities of the business environment and easy to modify as the environment evolves - without sacrificing the performance demanded by data analytics. Waveonics is working with Agero Mobile to explore and validate the use of graphical databases (Neo4j) to drive Agero’s mission of delivering a “holistic approach [which] helps anticipate and meet customers’ needs in a way that forms lasting connections with them.” Agero is building on Neo4j to further its leadership position in the automotive, insurance, finance and roadside service industries.
Waveonics will outline best practices used to convert 175 GB of XML relational US street map data obtained from the Open Street Map (OSM) project into a Neo4j graph database in order to successfully enable predictive roadway analytics for Agero. Attendees will learn how Neo4j’s graph data model and Cypher query language effortlessly supported an elegant representation of street map data, continually updated from customer mobile sensors, to reflect evolving road conditions.
Deploying Massive Scale Graphs for Realtime InsightsNeo4j
Graph databases have been at the forefront of helping organizations manage and generate insights from data relationships, and applying those insights in real-time to drive competitive advantage. As organizations gain value in deploying graph databases, the data volumes managed are growing exponentially pushing the limits of large-scale in-memory graph processing. Neo4j and IBM Power Systems combined forces to deliver a market leading scalable graph database platform capable of affordably storing and processing graphs of extremely large size and offering real-time insights, using flash and FPGA accelerators. In this session we will cover the use cases driving the need for this extremely scalable platform and how this platform offers an easy to deploy model for extreme scale graph databases.
Change, innovate, explore and adjust. These will become the hallmarks of financial institutions that survive and thrive in today’s consumer-driven market. Digital Insight explored importance of an omni-channel offering in today's marketplace, why more engagement across all channels is critical, and how to get started on developing your own omni-channel strategy.
Exponential banking: Reinventing Financial Services in a world of Exponential...Vincent Teo
A Point of View on the threat of Fintechs and Neobanks in the Financial Services category and what banks should do to respond and continue to unlock business and customer value and drive growth.
Banks should look beyond just embracing the latest Fintech and look to reinvent themselves as the Exponential Bank of the Future.
Pervasive digital technology is fundamentally changing the retail banking business model. Here's how banking Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need to change in order to lead the digital charge, according to our recent study.
The Growth Imperative: How Communications Service Providers Can Get their Moj...Cognizant
To thrive in new market realities, communications service providers must embrace human-centric customer service, enter adjacent verticals and monetize their data.
The Rising Importance of CX in Financial ServicesCX Pilots
Financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies, investment/lending houses and mortgage brokers need to focus on customer experience now more than ever. This is the approach they need to take bring customer success to the forefront.
Digital Banking Strategy Roadmap - 3.24.15Calvin Turner
The Digital delivery of banking products and services is already a reality.
Like it or not, your customers will compare their digital banking experience to shopping on Amazon, iTunes, eBay, Southwest Air, etc., and to their digital experiences with large banks that already have robust digital banking offerings.
Traditional banks can’t just push out mobile apps and capabilities to customers and call it a digital banking strategy. Customers expect a seamless integration of the entire online banking experience from initiation to fulfillment. If they are forced to drop off somewhere along the digital experience to print documents, call a representative, and/or visit a branch, you have lost the customer.
About East Coast Catalyst (Prepared by Tim Bourgeois)Tim Bourgeois
East Coast Catalyst is a digital consultancy specializing in strategy, marketing audits, and reputation management advisory services. Founded in 2010, the firm is located in Boston.
Tom Ratkovich, Managing Director, LEAP reviews the biggest takeaways from the 26th edition of The ROUNDTABLE, including highlights from the executive panel and other industry transformation case studies.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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!
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.
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/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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
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.
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Mapping Your Business to Changing Consumer Behavior
Cornerstone Advisors, Inc.
Digital Insight
October 22, 2014
3. Introductions
Russell Lester - Senior Director, Strategy & Business Analytics, NCR Financial Services -
Russell has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry and presently leads the Analytics
center of excellence for NCR Financial Services. In this role, Russell is responsible for managing a team of
seasoned analysts that provide timely, accurate, relevant and pro-actively persuasive insights to internal
stakeholders and customers. This team helps customers navigate the complex landscape of their diverse
data assets to identify, quantify and prioritize areas of opportunity. Russell has spent much of his career
interacting with financial institutions to understand their business challenges and identify ways in which
insights can help inform their strategic plans. Prior to joining NCR, Russell was Vice President of Financial
Planning and Analysis at Harland Clarke.
Dave Potterton - Research Director, Cornerstone Advisors - Dave is responsible for the
strategic direction of Cornerstone Advisor’s research and thought leadership efforts while building on the
firm’s reputation and success. Previous to Cornerstone, Dave held thought leadership positions within a
variety of financial services firms including Salesforce.com, IDC and JPMorgan. In addition to his
experience as a practitioner, market researcher and consultant, David has been a speaker and facilitator
at many financial services and technology conferences and authored numerous articles on technology in
financial services. His Twitter handle is dpotterton.
Tim Daley - Senior Consultant, Cornerstone Advisors - Tim has more than a decade of
financial services experience in technology, business process analysis, project management, compliance
and various information technology solutions. At Cornerstone, Tim focuses his efforts in the Strategic
Technology Planning, Technology Assessments and Information Technology Organizational Assessments
practice areas. Before joining Cornerstone, Tim led the integration of two online banking systems
associated with the largest credit union merger in history. He also held key technology related positions
at First Horizon National Corporation in Memphis, Tenn.
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AboutCornerstoneAdvisors
Cornerstone at a Glance
National financial
services management
consulting firm
founded in 2002 Specializing in mid-size
financial institutions with
$1-40 billion in assets
7 key
service
offerings
• Strategic Solutions
• Performance Solutions
• Technology Solutions
• Contract and Vendor Management Solutions
• Payment Solutions
• Channel Solutions
• Research and Knowledge Sharing
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It used to be all so simple
● Customers had a financial service need based on some life event -
college, getting a job, getting married, or needing a car or house
● Research would begin for a bank or credit union – more than likely
based on branch proximity and/or ads seen in traditional media such
as newspapers or television
● Ultimately they would decide if they wanted to accepted the terms,
fees, etc. to become a customer
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The model is beginning to change
● Retail and commercial customers are adopting technology at an
increasing rate - especially mobile and social
● The rules of engagement have changed – especially around search –
which now encompasses social media inputs of communities, reviews,
blogs, and financial institution alternatives
● While physical branch location and traditional media still play a part in
decision making, the real question is for how much longer?
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Discovery
● Begins when a customer starts their
“search” for data and information
before making a financial decision
● Provides a limited window to engage
with this prospect and make them
your own
● Traditionally takes place in the
branch and reinforced through
traditional media; TV, newspapers,
brochures
● Increasingly will take place over new
media channels including mobile,
web, and social
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Onboarding
● A critical interaction between the customer and financial institution
● Customers looking for fast fulfillment, timeliness, simplicity, and
convenience
● Unfortunately, the onboarding process is less than optimal at many
institutions creating a poor initial customer experience
● Essential information may also be overlooked which could generate
additional value for the customer and the organization
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Experience
● Is the process of customers using the financial products, services and
channels
● Includes customer service which is a key component in either a positive
or negative way
● Financial institutions need to measure and track satisfaction to
understand if they are providing the right level of products and
services for their customers
● This will help provide a consistent experience as well as relevant and
timely offers of additional services
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Advocacy
● Is the state that all financial institutions
should aspire to with their customers
● Customers become “advocates” of the
financial institution and its services within the
community (both social and physical)
● This can increase the visibility of the
organization’s brand and lead to other
potential customers
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Gather Deposits Lending
Expensive Branch Network and Overhead (NIE)
Noninterest
Income
Deposits fund loans
Returns for
Shareholders
/Members
Earn spread between loans
and deposits
Leverage deposit accounts
for cross selling opportunities
to generate fee income.
Use noninterest income to
offset overhead costs.
Funds to
Reinvest in
the Business
The Traditional Banking
Model is being Disrupted
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Physical Focus
● Institutions that operate in less technical, cash heavy markets such as
under banked segments, rural markets, etc.
Demographic
● Customers are generally not technology savvy and depend on
traditional physical channels – branches and ATMs
● Heavy check cashing volume, particularly at on certain days of the
week/month
● Small business and commercial accounts, especially for proximity
businesses. Limited/no social media interest
Strategy
● Focus on physical channels – specifically branches – in areas of highest
concentration of customers
● Offer digital (mobile, Web) for those who want but not a leader as far
as digital service offerings. Limited/no social media presence
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Trusted Advisor
● More sophisticated commercial and wealth-focused banks that drive
revenue from high valued relationships
Demographic
● Similar to Physical Focus customers but more technology knowledge
and use including social media
● Physical channels still important but less so
● Mix of small business and commercial accounts
Strategy
● Keep focus on physical channels and proximity, but less so
● Look to differentiate service offering and marketing within branches
● Offer digital services with increased functionality and create minimal
social media presence
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Balanced Value
● Large national players and progressive community and regional
institutions
Demographic
● Even mix between retail and commercial customers with full range of
tech and non-tech sophistication
● Use of both physical and digital channels. Social media usage
medium/high
Strategy
● More balanced customer mix necessitates broader channel support
depending on who is utilizing the channel
● Technology solutions available for those customers who want
● Present broad and deep functionality across all channels and maintain
good social media presence and outreach
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Digital Mainstream
● Players that blend digital focus with a limited office presence, similar to
major mutual funds/brokerage houses nationwide
Demographic
● Higher level of technology sophistication and usage for customers
whose preference runs to digital channels
● Retail versus commercial concentration
● High reliance on self-service. Social media usage very high
Strategy
● Lead with technology and capabilities but still maintain a
representative physical presence which makes use of smaller footprints
and innovative technology
● Be very active in social media
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Digital Forte
● Category killers who leverage digital and contact center channels
Demographic
● Customer preference runs to digital channels
● High level of technology knowledge and usage
● Retail versus commercial concentration
● High reliance on self-service. Social media usage very high
Strategy
● Very limited to no physical presence – predominately remote and
mobile
● Lead with technology capabilities and innovation. Extremely active in
social media
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Digital Forte Example - USAA
● $59 billion in deposits and more than 10 million
customers
● One physical branch for many years
● On average, members utilize four USAA products
● Deposit growth of 21% for latest quarter
● From the beginning have focused on alternate, online
and mobile channels
● They are one of the few retail financial institutions
allowing people to rate and review products online
● Have approximately 28,000 followers on Twitter and
232,440 ‘Likes’ on Facebook leading all other financial
institutions in social channels
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The Situation
● BECU has spent 15 years architecting a delivery system that is
aligned with changes in technology and consumer behavior
and can drive strong value for members
– The credit union experimented with cashless branches very early
– A bold entry into Safeway stores dramatically increased their
footprint and brand awareness
– Investments in online and call center channels have leveraged a
tech-friendly Puget Sound area population base
– More than 500,000 checking accounts serviced by less than 100
tellers drives incredible delivery efficiency
Delivery channels can’t just be
additive. Credit unions need to
make bold and deliberate plans
to redirect their investments
and capabilities.
The Lesson
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The Situation
● Wright Patt is a strong and growing credit union with one of
the highest Net Promoter scores in the country (73% Relational)
● The credit union recently expanded into the Columbus market,
but decided to try something new
● Columbus will be used as the living lab for technology driven
branches (NCR uGenius) with more universal associate
positions
● Direct marketing and branding experiments will also be done in
this new market
Use a weakness to create a future
strength. A new market is a great
place to take new risks without
alienating your core member base.
Test and learn!
The Lesson
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● Align Your Delivery Channel Strategy with Your Corporate Strategy
● Develop a formal Delivery Channel Road Map
● Transform Marketing and Relationship Management
● Enhance Fraud and Security
● Upgrade the Organization to Meet New Competitive Realities
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In developing your specific redirect action plans for each channel, keep
the following in mind:
● How Much Do Customers Value The Channel? – Your transaction
data, channel usage metrics, and available survey metrics should help
you answer this question
● How Cost Effective Is The Channel? – Compare your direct cost (staff,
facility, other unallocated) to your deposits as well as your direct cost
to non-interest income plus funding credit
● How Is The Channel Contributing To Sales? – Understand your
open/close ratios, number of new accounts overall and by type (e.g.
checking), value of direct consumer/small business loan production as
well as investment and mortgage referrals
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Final Thoughts
● Drive customer experience management from the top – Customer
experience is a C- level accountability and therefore executive
leadership and channel management needs to be aligned and
supported
● Don’t let legacy systems spell doom – All institutions have them, but
look beyond the systems and don’t let them be your anchor
● Remember, today’s shareholder value means nothing– Take a look
at the disrupters in financial services – how many more of them will
there be in 2020? Do people really need financial institutions?
● We’ve met the enemy and it is us. Don’t let the past dictate how
your institution will respond to the changing financial services
landscape and don’t be lolled into a false sense of security
33. With increasingly diverse interaction—it’s
critical to think holistically
• The market often views channels in silos.
• In reality, there’s a consumer at the end of
each channel, and most consumers use
multiple channels.
• It’s more important than ever to maximize
the value of every touch point: Branch, ATM,
Online, Mobile . . .
The result is experiences that your end users love—and your
revenue reflects.
34. As interactions change, it’s important to keep
the economics of these changes in mind
Examine the primary moving parts of profit optimization potential:
• Evaluate current channel footprint
• Capabilities? Consistency across channels? Gaps?
• Demand? Transaction volumes? Throughput?
• Costs to support? (Include opportunity costs.)
• Existing levels of: account ownership, retention, balances and fee income
• Likely future direction – What is your demographic shifting towards? What are
their expectations? What technology will it require?
35. Here’s an approach we’ve found successful
• Use real data, observing the behavior of account holders before
and after channel and product or service adoption.
• Benchmark the impact to retention, balance build, cross-sell
results, fee income potential, and total cost to serve.
• Develop a strategic plan based upon those results.
Imagine translating on a per branch or per user basis—that’s the
vision that you should aim for and we can help you achieve.
36. And results we found compelling
• Are highly engaged end users more highly engaged across all channels?
Our data says yes, which is a case for viewing channels not in silos but as
part of a cohesive strategy.
As engagement increases, so do balances and loan penetration.1
1 2014 Digital Insight Analysis of 190,000 checking account holders.
2 2014 Digital Insight analysis of 40 DI customers (13 high transaction and 27 low transaction) with Mobile RDC live for at least 12 months.
Average savings per branch, per year of RDC adoption is $11,000 (low transaction base) to $24,000
(high transaction base). That’s nearly $1 MM for a high-transaction base 40-branch network! 2
87%
Total = 190,000
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