Contracts are not immune to the drive for greater efficiency, and data is the fuel of efficient operations. In this session, you'll hear actionable advice for how Chief Legal Officers, legal operations professionals and procurement officers can use insights from data to drive improvements in their contracting processes, including faster cycle times, greater process compliance, and lower costs.
Blockchain: all assets digitized and registered to blockchains; instantaneously transactable on a global basis
Blockchain Supply Chain: all assets exist in digital inventories, tradeable (pledgeable, financeable) and more importantly, findable, in the global digital network economy
Digital Transformation is one of the most important business trends of our time. A lot of research has already been done on this topic. Most research has examined Digital Transformation within organisations, or between organisations
and their customers.
But in today’s globalised and outsourced world, an organisation’s success is no longer dependent on its own efforts alone. Today, the success of an organisation depends largely on how effectively it can orchestrate a vast, global network of supply chain partners to deliver goods and services that meet the needs of individual consumers.
This presentation [which was presented today to mark European Supply Chain Day in Ireland] highlights how the utilisation of digital technologies and processes enable supply chains to be more effectively and efficiently managed, creating business networks and increasing the overall supply chain visibility within the network.
Driving Supply Chain Improvements Using a Tailored Supply Chain StrategyLora Cecere
Presentation given at the 2016 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit - 7-9 SEP 2016 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ
Driving Supply Chain Improvements Using a Tailored Supply Chain Strategy
• Mourad Tamoud – SVP of Global Supply Chain – China , Schneider Electric
Being global requires a careful definition to drive improvement. For Schneider electric the journey started with the definition of supply chain models starting at the customer. In this presentation, Mourad Tamoud, SVP of Schneider Electric shares his insights on driving this journey in the emerging market of China.
To see the video go to http://supplychaininsightsglobalsummit.com/2016-summit-presentations/
Omnichannel is at the heart of today's Retail Transformation. However, most retail CIOs still struggle to redesign their technology frameworks to serve today's multichannel connected customer and support a growing number of new ways to shop. Lack of an omnichannel strategy, rigid legacy systems not allowing to leverage the benefits of cloud and mobile technologies, non-single view of customers across channels or lack of inventory visibility across enterprise to support distributed order management capacity are only some of the key challenges retail CIOs are facing.
This webinar will be conducted by Ismael Ciordia, Chief Technology Officer at Openbravo, Salil Godika, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer and Industry Group Head at Happiest Minds and introduced by Xavier Places, Product Marketing Director at Openbravo.
What Will You Learn?
- Key considerations when designing and rolling out new architecture that delivers omnichannel services.
- Which technologies to evaluate, including PIM, OMS, Cloud, m-POS or Big Data.
- How some leading customers in the Specialty Retail subsector are progressing on their omnichannel path with the help of Openbravo.
- A summary of the main conclusions of the Happiest Minds' report "The State of Omnichannel Retail in the US 2015" .
Telcos are facing mounting pressure to dramatically increase speed to market and cut costs. But how?
What if you could go to market in half the time using prebuilt libraries of telco offerings—and leveraging the cloud to lower costs?
In this presentation, find out how Capgemini’s end-to-end solution for telcos uses a hybrid cloud and the Oracle Communications Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (Oracle Communications RODOD) stack to provide a competitive edge in today’s tough, dynamic environment.
Learn how to accelerate digital transformation, increase agility, and simplify business to better respond to customer expectations and address growth opportunities. See a concrete demonstration of the solution and its best-in-class CX capabilities, processes, and deployment and run services.
First presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2015.
Blockchain: all assets digitized and registered to blockchains; instantaneously transactable on a global basis
Blockchain Supply Chain: all assets exist in digital inventories, tradeable (pledgeable, financeable) and more importantly, findable, in the global digital network economy
Digital Transformation is one of the most important business trends of our time. A lot of research has already been done on this topic. Most research has examined Digital Transformation within organisations, or between organisations
and their customers.
But in today’s globalised and outsourced world, an organisation’s success is no longer dependent on its own efforts alone. Today, the success of an organisation depends largely on how effectively it can orchestrate a vast, global network of supply chain partners to deliver goods and services that meet the needs of individual consumers.
This presentation [which was presented today to mark European Supply Chain Day in Ireland] highlights how the utilisation of digital technologies and processes enable supply chains to be more effectively and efficiently managed, creating business networks and increasing the overall supply chain visibility within the network.
Driving Supply Chain Improvements Using a Tailored Supply Chain StrategyLora Cecere
Presentation given at the 2016 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit - 7-9 SEP 2016 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ
Driving Supply Chain Improvements Using a Tailored Supply Chain Strategy
• Mourad Tamoud – SVP of Global Supply Chain – China , Schneider Electric
Being global requires a careful definition to drive improvement. For Schneider electric the journey started with the definition of supply chain models starting at the customer. In this presentation, Mourad Tamoud, SVP of Schneider Electric shares his insights on driving this journey in the emerging market of China.
To see the video go to http://supplychaininsightsglobalsummit.com/2016-summit-presentations/
Omnichannel is at the heart of today's Retail Transformation. However, most retail CIOs still struggle to redesign their technology frameworks to serve today's multichannel connected customer and support a growing number of new ways to shop. Lack of an omnichannel strategy, rigid legacy systems not allowing to leverage the benefits of cloud and mobile technologies, non-single view of customers across channels or lack of inventory visibility across enterprise to support distributed order management capacity are only some of the key challenges retail CIOs are facing.
This webinar will be conducted by Ismael Ciordia, Chief Technology Officer at Openbravo, Salil Godika, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer and Industry Group Head at Happiest Minds and introduced by Xavier Places, Product Marketing Director at Openbravo.
What Will You Learn?
- Key considerations when designing and rolling out new architecture that delivers omnichannel services.
- Which technologies to evaluate, including PIM, OMS, Cloud, m-POS or Big Data.
- How some leading customers in the Specialty Retail subsector are progressing on their omnichannel path with the help of Openbravo.
- A summary of the main conclusions of the Happiest Minds' report "The State of Omnichannel Retail in the US 2015" .
Telcos are facing mounting pressure to dramatically increase speed to market and cut costs. But how?
What if you could go to market in half the time using prebuilt libraries of telco offerings—and leveraging the cloud to lower costs?
In this presentation, find out how Capgemini’s end-to-end solution for telcos uses a hybrid cloud and the Oracle Communications Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (Oracle Communications RODOD) stack to provide a competitive edge in today’s tough, dynamic environment.
Learn how to accelerate digital transformation, increase agility, and simplify business to better respond to customer expectations and address growth opportunities. See a concrete demonstration of the solution and its best-in-class CX capabilities, processes, and deployment and run services.
First presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2015.
WebXpress Transportation Management System (TMS) SolutionWebXpress.IN
Transport Management System (TMS) is an enabler that essentially manages your majorly partnered logistics as if it were your own fleet on the move.
WebXpress TMS is that one tool that places you at the centre of your operations, even if it’s not happening in your company.
WebXpress is an IT and Solutions company that offers services in the domain of Logistics.
Founded in 2004 the company has a presence in India, Saudi Arabia, East Africa, and South Asia.
Our idea is to connect all stakeholders in supply chain and provide visibility.
Need more insights? An On-Demand Webinar on the topic “Branding Procurement” can be accessed here: http://zyc.us/2GmSwSA
Branding Procurement
As someone who has been in the supply world for more years than I would care to admit, the old Rodney Dangerfield lament about getting no respect was second only to the "we want a seat at the table" refrain.
While the profession as a whole had made some advancements beyond the days when CFOs considered our enterprise contributions to be either minimal or non-existent, it is still safe to say that we procurement professionals have not properly branded ourselves and the value we bring to our organizations.
"Some executives used to think of procurement as the place you send staff away in order to never see them again." - Leading Procurement Strategy, Carlos Mena, Remko van Hoek, Martin Christopher
In this presentation, (sponsored by Zycus), have a look at where procurement as a profession was, where are they today, and what they have to do to realize their full potential in the future.
Once you've decided to Partner for a given feature or function in the Build,Buy or Partner decision process, you have to pick a partner. This worksheet walks through a structured scoring process for which organization would make the best partner. This helps to avoid random partnering activities or helps to narrow the selection when several partner options exist.
Blockchain in Supply Chain Management By Prashant Prashant Pandey
A blockchain is a distributed, digital ledger. The ledger records transactions in a series of blocks. It exists in multiple copies spread over multiple computers, which are also called nodes. The ledger is secure because each new block of transactions is linked back to previous blocks in a way that makes tampering practically impossible Supply chain management (SCM) is the active management of supply chain activities to maximize customer value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage
RPA - Business Continuity & Automation Success StoriesTangentia
In this slide, we have talked about our 4P delivery model that is People, Projects, Platforms & Partners. Also, we have explained how we can automate manual processes effectively using RPA and Digital Workforce.
Tangentia's automation success stories will give you an idea of how we can effectively automate your business processes and the good impact it will have on your business.
Get in touch with us - https://www.tangentia.com/contact-us/
New Dynamics 365 Implementation Guide - Available for downloadDynamics Square
Almost 700 pages of insights and guidance around strategy, initiation, implementation, preparation and operation, Contact us for Dynamics 365 Implementation: https://www.dynamicssquare.com.au/dynamics-365/
Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating a Middle Office Platform™ within Yo...Apttus
The middle office is the functional area between your front-office CRM system and your back-office ERP system. At the core of the middle office is the Quote-to-Cash process. In this session, we'll share best practices for integrating your middle office with your existing IT environments. Hear our recommendations for ensuring integration security, quality, and performance to maximize your success.
Readiness and Change Management for Implementing Apttus Middle Office SolutionsApttus
Learn how to prepare your organization for middle office business transformation including people, processes and technology. In this session, we'll share best practices for communications, training, go-live support, gaining user adoption, and business alignment.
WebXpress Transportation Management System (TMS) SolutionWebXpress.IN
Transport Management System (TMS) is an enabler that essentially manages your majorly partnered logistics as if it were your own fleet on the move.
WebXpress TMS is that one tool that places you at the centre of your operations, even if it’s not happening in your company.
WebXpress is an IT and Solutions company that offers services in the domain of Logistics.
Founded in 2004 the company has a presence in India, Saudi Arabia, East Africa, and South Asia.
Our idea is to connect all stakeholders in supply chain and provide visibility.
Need more insights? An On-Demand Webinar on the topic “Branding Procurement” can be accessed here: http://zyc.us/2GmSwSA
Branding Procurement
As someone who has been in the supply world for more years than I would care to admit, the old Rodney Dangerfield lament about getting no respect was second only to the "we want a seat at the table" refrain.
While the profession as a whole had made some advancements beyond the days when CFOs considered our enterprise contributions to be either minimal or non-existent, it is still safe to say that we procurement professionals have not properly branded ourselves and the value we bring to our organizations.
"Some executives used to think of procurement as the place you send staff away in order to never see them again." - Leading Procurement Strategy, Carlos Mena, Remko van Hoek, Martin Christopher
In this presentation, (sponsored by Zycus), have a look at where procurement as a profession was, where are they today, and what they have to do to realize their full potential in the future.
Once you've decided to Partner for a given feature or function in the Build,Buy or Partner decision process, you have to pick a partner. This worksheet walks through a structured scoring process for which organization would make the best partner. This helps to avoid random partnering activities or helps to narrow the selection when several partner options exist.
Blockchain in Supply Chain Management By Prashant Prashant Pandey
A blockchain is a distributed, digital ledger. The ledger records transactions in a series of blocks. It exists in multiple copies spread over multiple computers, which are also called nodes. The ledger is secure because each new block of transactions is linked back to previous blocks in a way that makes tampering practically impossible Supply chain management (SCM) is the active management of supply chain activities to maximize customer value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage
RPA - Business Continuity & Automation Success StoriesTangentia
In this slide, we have talked about our 4P delivery model that is People, Projects, Platforms & Partners. Also, we have explained how we can automate manual processes effectively using RPA and Digital Workforce.
Tangentia's automation success stories will give you an idea of how we can effectively automate your business processes and the good impact it will have on your business.
Get in touch with us - https://www.tangentia.com/contact-us/
New Dynamics 365 Implementation Guide - Available for downloadDynamics Square
Almost 700 pages of insights and guidance around strategy, initiation, implementation, preparation and operation, Contact us for Dynamics 365 Implementation: https://www.dynamicssquare.com.au/dynamics-365/
Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating a Middle Office Platform™ within Yo...Apttus
The middle office is the functional area between your front-office CRM system and your back-office ERP system. At the core of the middle office is the Quote-to-Cash process. In this session, we'll share best practices for integrating your middle office with your existing IT environments. Hear our recommendations for ensuring integration security, quality, and performance to maximize your success.
Readiness and Change Management for Implementing Apttus Middle Office SolutionsApttus
Learn how to prepare your organization for middle office business transformation including people, processes and technology. In this session, we'll share best practices for communications, training, go-live support, gaining user adoption, and business alignment.
Selling value-added services is on the rise, yet many service organizations continue to leverage antiquated tools to manage the quote-to-contract process for their service offerings. Learn how Apttus customers are solving this problem with solutions designed to maximize service offerings, and how your organization can also capture the most value from services sales.
Deploying Analytics and Dashboard Best PracticesApttus
What isn't measured can't be improved. In this session, you'll learn how to create and deploy reporting capabilities within your Apttus environment so your company's decision makers can understand and improve their business processes.
The Path to Configure Price Quote (CPQ) SustainabilityApttus
Just what does it take to successfully transform your Configure Price Quote (CPQ) process? In this session will cover the three pillars of success for CPQ: The arts of design, governance, and training. All three are essential for an optimized Quote-to-Cash experience.
The Next Generation of Legal Metrics: How Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Uses Dat...Apttus
Measurement is a modern obsession, but it’s too expensive to collect numbers if you can’t use them to take action. In this session, legal operations leaders from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will review the history of data collection in the field of corporate law and describe how they moved HPE from measurement to action by establishing a Six-Sigma quality program. You’ll learn how to create quick wins that save money, and gain insight into what’s next in law metrics.
Turn Your Sell-Side CLM or Buy-Side CLM into Enterprise Contract ManagementApttus
Your vision for enterprise-wide contract management is a single technology and process for all kinds of contracts. However, if you are like many companies, today your contract software is only used for some of your contracts. This session shares stories and best practices for deploying contract management to accommodate all contracts.
Platforms and Partnerships: The Building Blocks for Digital InnovationHealth Catalyst
Virtually all service-oriented industries have experienced massive disruption and transformation, resulting from the confluence of digital, mobile, cloud, data, and consumerization. And then there’s healthcare…
In this webinar Ryan Smith, executive advisor at Health Catalyst, shares practical insights gained from his combined 25 years of IT and digital leadership roles at Banner Health and Intermountain Healthcare. He explores why our industry is struggling to provide the tools and self-service experiences that patients and consumers have come to expect in every other aspect of their lives. To attract and retain patients and members, healthcare organizations need to “shift gears” and go on the digital offensive to sustain brand loyalty; however, decades of siloed, monolithic approaches to implementing technology and managing data continue to hamper industry progress.
During this session, Ryan shares his approach for building business support to enable digital transformation.
By viewing this webinar, you will learn key digitization concepts:
- How to conceptualize a digital enablement framework.
- Ten strategic guiding principles for technology leaders.
- Why it’s vital to create business-driven technology governance.
- Why building strategic vendor partnerships really matters.
- How to apply case studies to bolster digital investments.
How to Measure the Impact of Quote-to-Cash Business TransformationApttus
Automating the middle office with Quote-to-Cash technologies yields dramatic gains in sales effectiveness, sales productivity, customer satisfaction and compliance. What will be the impact in your business? This session shares quantitative data from enterprises that have undertaken this business transformation, and offers methods you can use to drive a similar evaluation in your business.
Creating a Business Case for Global Payroll - APA Fall ForumCatriona Keevans
Mark Graham, Executive Director at Immedis, spoke at the 2017 Fall Forum. His presentation was focused around Creating a Business Case for Global Payroll
This week Chris Garber was at the EXL LifePRO conference in Naples FL presenting "How to Win Friends and Save Money". The presentation talks about how companies can improve efficiency by 40%+ using process improvement, technology, and data solutions.
“How to win friends and save money”
Improve your efficiency by 40%+ using process improvement, technology, and data solutions.
The competitive landscape, economic environment, and information technology continue to show up on top of the major challenges life insurers will face in the coming years. EXL Consulting will demonstrate that with process improvement, technology, and data solutions you can not only survive, but thrive, in this ever changing environment.
Key topics include:
1) Streamlining processes and improving turnaround time
2) Enhancing staff productivity while reducing errors
3) Improving pricing and customer insights with data federation
4) Modernizing legacy systems
5) Enabling customer self-services and mobile
Achieving Competitive Advantage with a Subscription-Based Revenue ModelApttus
Effectively managing a renewal business is critical to driving growth of predictable, recurring revenue streams. However, many considerations must be carefully addressed like pricing, packaging, different types of renewals & assets, and even partners. Learn how to manage the customer journey more effectively to cultivate a healthy renewal business.
An introduction to AmplioGroup's offerings.
AmplioGroup is a specialized boutique consultancy focused on excellence in working capital performance (order-to-cash and procure-to-pay).
With 20 years of global experience, AmplioGroup’s practitioners have assisted over 700 clients to generate more than $35 Billion in cash flow improvement.
Our expertise is global in reach – we have extensive experience in all the key industrialized nations and all the major business and industrial segments.
Our approach is data and metrics driven yet with deep focus on the people in the O2C and P2P processes. Practical skills sets, knowledge bases and communication capabilities drive working capital performance and we empower process stakeholders through augmented abilities and ongoing results measurement.
We believe that optimized cash performance and effectively managed customer satisfaction go hand in hand. Our approach enhances both performance and satisfaction.
How technology and innovative processes can make your legal team more efficientEversheds Sutherland
It has never been a more exciting or challenging time to be an in-house lawyer or delivering legal work in-house. We will explore some of the key challenges and latest trends for delivering in-house legal work including; delivering more for less, increasing strategic focus, risk management, the use of technology, future planning and the increasing demand from the business to demonstrate value.
Break Through in Financial Services with Digital TransformationApttus
Banks, insurers and other financial services firms can't wait to modernize their business operations. In this session, Microsoft and Apttus show how these firms can bring quantum leaps in productivity and customer service with digital-first strategies that deliver the experience modern customers expect, both within and outside the firm.
Effective Techniques for Setting-Up Legal PlaybooksApttus
Creating a digital legal playbook is a key benefit of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) technology, but setting it up can be a challenge. In this session you'll learn practical advice for documenting and implementing aspects of contract automation including templates, clauses, conditions, formatting and more. This session is for legal operations professionals who are documenting their requirements and for the technology professionals who are implementing CLM technology.
Develop Innovative Quote-to-Cash Applications in Excel using X-AuthorApttus
Learn how to build innovative, insightful, and productivity-boosting applications using Excel as the user interface. You can build innovative apps that make Quote-to-Cash and CRM data easier to analyze, migrate, and work with.
Effective CPQ Data Management: A Panel DiscussionApttus
Managing CPQ data is a challenge for many businesses, but it doesn’t have to be. Attend this session to hear a panel of CPQ experts discuss their key strategies and tactics for managing CPQ data with integration, governance, and quality.
Smart Contracts and Blockchain: Separating Hype from RealityApttus
Blockchain is on everyone's mind in 2018. Among all the opinions, sales pitches, and technical jargon, what is true and what do you need to know? This session will reveal the true progress of Blockchain in business today, how and when it will affect your work, and what you can do to prepare your contract and obligation management processes for this new "smart contract" technology.
Execute a Winning Pricing Strategy with Artificial Intelligence (AI)Apttus
With effective pricing, enterprises can secure their market positions and increase profitable growth. Innovations in Quote-to-Cash technology powered by AI have made it possible for enterprises to consistently set prices that drive optimal business outcomes. Learn how your enterprise can make pricing excellence a reality with AI.
The Benefits of Integrated CPQ and Contract ManagementApttus
Sure, Configure Price Quote (CPQ) can produce perfect quotes quickly, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) ensures your Legal department and commercial teams are on top of sales contracts. But what happens if you connect the two systems and allow them to work from a single data model? Learn how to speed up deal throughput, tighten revenue assurance and improve forecasting all at once.
Run Your Business on the Apttus Intelligent Cloud PlatformApttus
The Apttus Intelligent Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform built on a single data model and specifically designed to optimize middle office business processes. In this session, you’ll learn about the advantages of the Apttus Intelligent Cloud for applications including CLM and CPQ, and you will hear from Apttus customers who have deployed applications on this cutting-edge platform.
Subscription products have become a growing portion of many companies’ top-line revenue. However, subscription products introduce new challenges around packaging, pricing and renewals. Learn how one enterprise has overcome these challenges and hear the results of their transformation.
Switching Contract Management Providers with Minimum Disruption and Maximum B...Apttus
Whether by choice or by necessity, your company must soon switch to a new provider of contract management technology. In this session, you'll learn how to plan, execute and manage this transition with the least impact to your operations, and how to use this change as an opportunity to capture additional value against your business objectives.
Best Practices for Managing Customizations for Quote-to-CashApttus
A business doesn’t stand still – it constantly evolves to remain innovative and competitive, with technical requirements changing accordingly. Quote-to-Cash systems underpin the middle office, automating a range of critical, complex business processes, involving a variety of integrations. Hear from the experts on how to efficiently identify, assess, prioritize and upgrade customizations needed for enabling business objectives over the lifetime of a Quote-to-Cash solution.
How Financial Services Can Thrive in the New Digital EconomyApttus
You need to be easy to do business with. Both big players and startups are disrupting the traditional asset management, insurance, and benefit services spaces, putting pressure on companies that don’t embrace digital strategies. Learn how you can use an important digital strategy, a self-service portal, to attract top-tier advisors and arm them to sell your assets, insurance, or benefits packages downstream.
Complex products introduce tremendous obstacles during the sales process around configuration, pricing, and fulfillment. Learn how enterprises have overcome these challenges and accelerated their businesses.
Creating a Framework for Technology Upgrade DecisionsApttus
Once you’ve rolled out a Quote-to-Cash solution, you need to be certain an upgrade is worth the effort and can be executed correctly. In this session, you’ll hear advice from implementation experts, who will share the proven assessment model that enterprises in life sciences and other industries have used successfully to evaluate upgrade decisions. You will learn the “5 Ws of Upgrades” and gain a framework for action that you can use in your company.
Prepare for the Next Decade of Contracting in Healthcare & Life SciencesApttus
Businesses in Healthcare & Life Science (HLS) industries are adapting to new models such as outcome-based and risk-sharing contracts. Looking forward, new technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain may fundamentally disrupt contracting processes. In this panel, HLS contracting executives share how they are preparing for future trends so their businesses can continue to thrive in an ever-changing environment.
Five Things Every CPQ Administrator Must Know, Presented by Apttus UniversityApttus
In this practical session, you’ll learn several key things that every administrator must know about setting up pricing and configuration for Apttus CPQ. With the depth of instruction that only Apttus University can provide, it’s a perfect starting point for new and prospective designers, and a great refresher for experienced admins.
Gaining Competitive Edge through Contracting Excellence for the Converged Tel...Apttus
Flexible consumption models, pricing and channels are driving streamlined processes for dealing with suppliers and customer cost-effectively while minimizing pricing risk and maximizing asset utilization. Learn how forward-looking companies are holistically addressing all aspects of their contracting relationships improving speed, flexibility, enterprise control and collaboration.
Learn how Apttus has leveraged a world-class sales operations team to become the leader in Quote-to-Cash. Get a first-hand look at how Ankur Ahlowalia, Apttus VP of Sales Operations, built a winning ops team that stayed lean, embraced hyper-growth, and drove success.
Meet MAX… AI for Pricing & Contracting for Medtech & Pharma ManufacturersApttus
Artificial Intelligence (AI), is bringing transformational value by offering a game-changing pricing, proposal, offer and contracting experience for sales and service leaders working with group and provider customers. Attend this session for a practical discussion of the key capabilities made possible with AI for device, equipment and drug companies.
The 20-Minute Guide to Supplier-Centric Partner Commerce for CG & RetailApttus
The consumer goods and retail industries are dominated by complex channel and contractual relationships that create risk across supply and distribution processes. Learn how partner commerce and supplier contract management enables manufacturers, distributers, retailers, and wholesale customers to collaborate across onboarding, contracting and obligations management resulting in seamless and frictionless channel management experience. Attend this session for a practical discussion on connecting the entire lifecycle from onboarding to delivery and promotions.
The Financial Services Digital Transformation Revolution is Underway… Get ReadyApttus
Asset Managers and Global Banks are facing an onslaught of regulatory requirements coupled with the need to drive higher margins. Learn how to empower your trade desk to construct paperless deals leveraging Artificial Intelligence to maximize client revenue potential and improve deal closure by as much as 30%. Hear how to ensure full contracting transparency and reduce counterparty risk.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
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
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
Introduction
Jason to intro team
Journey of CLM at HPE (3 step chevron)
Where we started
What we changed (from last presentation)
What we have coming
Soft segue: data is the only way to get where we’re going….
Background for the session: Defining Your Drivers (Data is more than one thing)
Quantitative: Why this is such a challenge for so many
Qualitative: How to avoid the pitfalls of opinion
Qualitative story
We had a shift to high value deals a year ago (recap).
(Molly to tell us what to include from Jack) Focus on shifting work to appropriate location Agility center or onshore (Jack Lee’s data)
Design, measurement and outcomes. What does the process looks like to support the shift. (Process map??)
Quantitative
Formation of user group from diverse practice areas. Outputs from the group.
(Lauryn to sanitize to Apttus generic; not HPE specific) Utility gaps identified. (Dan Duryea can provide)
Shift to Azure version
Expected benefits and how we will implement.
Bifurcated Qualitative and Quantitative path
Sources for each (User Community and Raw Data).
Suggestions on how to identify these to the audience
Qualitative and quantitative continuous improvement
Best practices on how to tactically support this
“One Thing”…if you only remember one thing from this session, it should be X
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Molly and Michael
Soft segue: the only way to get where we’re going is through Data….
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Response target < 36 hours, actual <20 hours, total turnaround time reduced by 10% during FY16
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Link to issues we addressed: (1) too much time on small deals, and (2) issues with CLM for public sector contracts
Discrete, good bad, yes no. Failed or not. Great for check sheets. Continuous, measured on a scale, can be broken down into pieces (project, tasks, etc..). I’m not going to give a lecture on the types of data. What is important is that use our data to uncover key symptoms. Our initial data analysis often encourages people to jump to a solution. This is a distraction. Initially we have just a symptom. For example we had a call center representative that was responsible for 95% of all keyboard shipments in Brazil. The immediate reaction as to confront her. I stopped all action and continued through the process to root cause after reviewing all of our suspect issues. We discovered that IT had to pick a code for outbound shipments and randomly selected her employee code for all web orders. Let the SMEs come up with their list of suspects that will be compared to process analysis and drilled into for root cause.
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Now that we have talked about both data and process lets take a look at how we combine the
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One example of reducing waste and improving efficiency is a project to help us manage government contracts. Anyone who deals with government contracts knows a deal worth a $1B is actually worth $0 until you get a “Task Order” So how does a system handle the management of the valuation of government contracts? How do you make sure you don’t miss out on approved funding if you don’t know the residual value of a contract? By performing process and data analysis we identified 5 root causes driving 17 problems. If we had just solved symptoms we would have chassed 17 individual problems and created 17 solutions. Instead we found 8 processes that need clarify and simplification and launched 1 modification to our CLM tool Apttus. When we were done we had made four key improvements:
Jason and Lauryn:
With over 3 million data points available in Apttus, not to mention the other solutions in place that support the end to end contract management process, it can be difficult to separate the actionable data from the noise. It’s very important to validate that your data capture strategy correctly identifies a data point as quantitative, qualitative, or something else entirely.
Quantitative data is a challenge for many due to the lack of consistent data to measure. A certain amount of inference is often needed to get started. If you are in a position where you don’t have normalized data, what assumptions can you truly make to allow for a “go forward” strategy to quantitative measurements? Be prepared for the uninformed pushback, i.e. “We used to do it faster when we didn’t have a system”.
Qualitative data is naturally subjective, but the validity of the subjectivity must stand up to scrutiny. It is acceptable to ask for user opinion and apply a scale, but be prepared for outliers. Example: in a recent project, survey participants were asked to rate 10 topics on a scale of 1 to 5. When the results were provided, answers ranged from 0 to 2.5 to one person who wrote 4 1/5. Apply a scale and use it to help eliminate errors in responses that heavily represent bias.
Bias is the “court of public opinion” and can kill a data driven contract process. Bias is very difficult to eradicate once it is introduced to a data strategy, so take great care to avoid it. For example, evaluate what subjective qualitative measurements are most at risk for bias and discuss as a team. Either the scale or the interpretation of this data can be adjusted to avoid bias.
Jason and Lauryn
Lauryn with inputs/color commentary from all
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In our 10+ years of experience delivering contract management solutions to the world’s mid-sized organizations and the who’s who of the Global 1000, we’ve developed the five stages of contract management maturity. As customers move up the maturity model, return on investment increases. The stages are:
Accessibility and Compliance. This is achieved with all contracts in a single global repository. Typically our customers begin with this step so they can search for and organize contracts, comply with global rules, and get confidence and excitement for further steps. Almost all of our customers do this.
Analysis for Action. The next step is to put reporting and workflows in place. About ¾ of Apttus customers are doing this. The repository enables alerts for individual contracts and reports on sets of contracts, covering any aspect of the contract: key dates for renewals, cycle times, behavior of individual users, clause-level reporting, trends and much more. We also have workflows that route the information and actions correctly, and based on dynamic conditions.
Control of Language. The third step in maturity, often implemented along with the second step, is automation of contract authoring. Self-service wizards can be set up to allow users to generate their own accurate contracts without creating any risk. And authoring and negotiation tools, built in Microsoft Word, let attorneys and legal ops professionals work with total access to approved language and full visibility to every change and every version. This saves time and improve negotiating outcomes. About ½ of companies have made it here—though even those companies that haven’t are happy with the value they are getting from the lower steps on this pyramid.
Perfect Execution. In Stage 4, you turn the contract into instructions for the rest of the business with Obligation Management technology. What this does is take all the contracts terms and sends them to the right people for action. This includes options and conditional “triggered” events. In other words, your contracts go work for you automatically: It’s as if each contract is a piece of software that kicks off as soon as the contract is complete. This is true 21st-century business process, creating real leading-edge efficiency and risk reduction. About a third of Apttus customers have started down this path.
Full Automation. Want to run a true digital business? That means all your systems are running together, in concert with each other. Apttus offers Contract Management on a common platform with Quote-to-Cash and Supplier Relationship Management applications, and we have experience connecting to CRM systems like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, and have integrated our software to every major ERP including Oracle and SAP hundreds of times. Most Apttus customers have integrated Apttus Contract Management to at least one system, however this is the top of the pyramid because total end-to-end automation is the end-state vision. Companies with this vision are going to lead their industries because they will be simply more efficient, more responsive to customers, able to operate at lower cost, and less exposed to foreseeable risks. The contract is at the center of this transformation vision.
Increasing ROI. As you add more capabilities and more process, you will capture ever more value from your contracts. Even the first step on its own offers positive ROI—moving up from there just increases your ROI further. And you can get even more value from every stage of contract maturity with artificial intelligence.
Max Value with AI: Apttus deploys artificial intelligence across our customer journey. We offer conversational interfaces for users to request contracts, find contracts, approve contracts and more using text, chat, and apps—AI provides the logic to provide the correct response to your needs. We also offer Apttus Intelligent Import™, which scans and understands third-party and legacy contracts so you can understand every detail about even those contracts you don’t create in Apttus. This capability works for a single contract or for 1000s of legacy agreements. And we offer predictive contracting to help authoring and negotiation: Recommending the right language to reduce risk or speed up cycle times.