Helping companies drive their business forward. By learning the details of your IT needs and goals, we can construct affordable tech solutions that accelerate and optimize performance, minimize costs, and create real value.
Data Center Sourcing Process For Cost SavingsBill Kohnen
If you have not received a cost reduction for your outsourced Data Center Colocation provider in the last 18 months you could be missing out on up to a 50% reduction. It is worth going through a formal RFQ process and evaluating options based on: Provider, Geography, Support Strategy, and configuration.
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
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.
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.
Service Management (ITSM) & Business Relationship Management (BRM) - Working ...John Kleist III
Peter Lijnse, Managing Partner of Instrumental BRM and BRM Institute Knowledge Management Team member discusses the connections and interfaces between Service Management (ITSM) and Business Relationship Management (BRM) including:
- The role of Service Delivery Management and the role of BRM... How they can work together to deliver and optimize "Business Value" to the organization
- The interaction and relationships between BRM and Service Management
- How to avoid "Value Leakage" in investments in service management
- The relationship between "Continual Service Improvement" (CSI) and "Value Optimization"
Key Topics:
1. The Need for Business – IT Convergence
2. The Importance of Relationship Management
3. BRM Teams vs. ITSM Teams
4. Focus Areas for Each Role
5. The path forward…
6. Sources of Value
7. Value Discovery and Creation
8. Difference between Continual Service Improvement (CSI) and Value Optimization
9. Tips for avoiding value leakage from your investment in ITSM
Excalibur Data Systems is an Instrumental BRM partner in the USA and Canada.
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.
Data Center Sourcing Process For Cost SavingsBill Kohnen
If you have not received a cost reduction for your outsourced Data Center Colocation provider in the last 18 months you could be missing out on up to a 50% reduction. It is worth going through a formal RFQ process and evaluating options based on: Provider, Geography, Support Strategy, and configuration.
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
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.
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.
Service Management (ITSM) & Business Relationship Management (BRM) - Working ...John Kleist III
Peter Lijnse, Managing Partner of Instrumental BRM and BRM Institute Knowledge Management Team member discusses the connections and interfaces between Service Management (ITSM) and Business Relationship Management (BRM) including:
- The role of Service Delivery Management and the role of BRM... How they can work together to deliver and optimize "Business Value" to the organization
- The interaction and relationships between BRM and Service Management
- How to avoid "Value Leakage" in investments in service management
- The relationship between "Continual Service Improvement" (CSI) and "Value Optimization"
Key Topics:
1. The Need for Business – IT Convergence
2. The Importance of Relationship Management
3. BRM Teams vs. ITSM Teams
4. Focus Areas for Each Role
5. The path forward…
6. Sources of Value
7. Value Discovery and Creation
8. Difference between Continual Service Improvement (CSI) and Value Optimization
9. Tips for avoiding value leakage from your investment in ITSM
Excalibur Data Systems is an Instrumental BRM partner in the USA and Canada.
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.
At the Pink Elephant ITSM Conference for 2014 we locked 8 ITSM "thinkers" in a room for a day to consider a problem: increasing complexity of multi-supplier IT value streams.
We tasked them with coming up with pragmatic actionable advice.
This is the result. Well, this is a summary. Watch out for white papers, discussions, a web presence fro sharing and dialog, and other outcomes from this highly successful one-day session. There may be more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Create a Data Driven Contract Management ProcessApttus
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cloud - is it just pie in the sky? Helen Gerling (Director of Consultancy, Sh...mysociety
This presentation was made at mySociety's TICTeC Local conference on 6th November 2018. More information about TICTeC Local can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local
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.
At the Pink Elephant ITSM Conference for 2014 we locked 8 ITSM "thinkers" in a room for a day to consider a problem: increasing complexity of multi-supplier IT value streams.
We tasked them with coming up with pragmatic actionable advice.
This is the result. Well, this is a summary. Watch out for white papers, discussions, a web presence fro sharing and dialog, and other outcomes from this highly successful one-day session. There may be more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Create a Data Driven Contract Management ProcessApttus
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cloud - is it just pie in the sky? Helen Gerling (Director of Consultancy, Sh...mysociety
This presentation was made at mySociety's TICTeC Local conference on 6th November 2018. More information about TICTeC Local can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local
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.
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
Consolidated Analytics Consulting & Advisory: System Selection, Implementatio...Consolidated Analytics
Consolidated Analytics' Consulting & Advisory Division provides mortgage lenders and servicers with system selection, implementation and optimization.
Email sales@ca-usa.com
Sabrion has a highly qualified team of retail/manufacturing process experts and IT consultants, supporting both short and long-term needs. Our FastForward implementation methodology to support PLM and Merchandise planning.
Project Management
PMI – Project Management Institute
PMBOK – Project Management Body of Knowledge
Agile – We utilize Agile, Scrum, and Extreme methodologies when appropriate
We are flexible to embrace the methodologies used by our customers an business partners
Retail/Manufacturing Business Process Re – Engineering
As-Is and To-Be Modeling, SIPOC, RACI, Impact Analysis, Standard Operating Procedures
Application Design, Development and Integration
UML – Unified Modeling Language
Open Internet and Standards, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Javascript, Web Frameworks
Application Architecture
Application Infrastructure Design – Virtualization, Cloud, Application Servers, Storage, Web DMZ
Global Network Design – LAN, WAN, MPLS, Reverse Proxy, CDN
Deployment Architecture – Dev, QA, Staging, Production
CRMready Webinar Series - Part 3 - How to Make Your Nonprofit’s CRM Implement...TheConnectedCause
In the CRMready Webinar Series, The Connected Cause takes a look at what CRM is, the project roles needed for a successful CRM implementation, and project management. In part 3 Heller Consulting talks about managing expectations with change management, evaluating risks with a CRM implementation and what roles are needed to ensure the project is a success for your nonprofit organization.
Ever struggled with the question of, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this webinar, Michael Fulton, experienced architect and President, CC&C Americas will share his perspective on EA and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT and to the business.
We will cover the benefits associated with:
• new Business Capabilities
• Cost Savings
• Risk Reduction
Key Take-aways:
• What are the elements of value delivered by IT?
• How does EA & IT Architecture deliver value to the organization?
• Why should you consider implementing an Enterprise Architecture program at your company?
Webinar: Roadmap to Implementing Managed ServicesKSM Consulting
This slide deck walks you through how to find and select the right managed service provider for your organization.
From stability and security of your IT environment to the elimination of day-to-day IT challenges bogging internal IT teams to a renewed focus on strategic initiatives, companies are turning to managed IT services for business growth.
If you find yourself evaluating MSPs, possibly even your current provider, this slide deck will provide direction on how to establish a long-term, high-value relationship with the right partner.
In this slide deck, you will learn:
• Evaluation criteria for selecting your managed service provider
• The right questions to ask to uncover a managed service provider that will fulfill your unique needs
• Tips on building a long-term relationship
Creating Enterprise Value from Business Architectureiasaglobal
This presentation will cover the Why (Value) and How (Execution) of a Business Architecture program. You will understand how you can lead your enterprise towards its vision by planning for key Business Capabilities that will get you there.