Is the shift to subscriptions wreaking havoc on your RevRec process? Learn how RevRec automation can help support business growth and agility by seamlessly handling complex long-term contracts and frequent contract modifications without breaking your back office.
Subscribed 2019 - Business Transformation: Architecting the Launch for SuccessZuora, Inc.
Business transformation projects are a big undertaking that can take several years for large organizations to complete. Picking the right launch strategy is the key to success. Hear first-hand from Heather Maniscalco, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Neustar, and Ksenia Kouchnirenko, Head of Business Systems at SurveyMonkey, about the launch strategies their companies adopted and why.
In addition, Zuora's Enterprise Architecture team will share a framework to help you develop a launch strategy to quickly realize value while minimizing risk, cost, and impact on customers and internal operations teams. This is an ideal session for CIOs getting started on the Zuora journey.
Subscribed 2019 - Collection Strategies: Recovering Critical Revenue to Drive...Zuora, Inc.
Strategic AR teams are always seeking ways to improve collection techniques and refine existing processes, especially when new products are launched. Attend this session to hear first-hand from high-volume B2B companies on how they use Zuora to recover revenue and drive business growth.
Subscribed 2019 Create Beautiful InvoicesZuora, Inc.
Walk through the steps for creating a custom invoice in Zuora with our resident invoice expert, Kevin Lussie. In this hands-on session, Kevin will guide you through best practices using nested tables, custom fields, spacing, and displaying images as you want to see them.
Subscribed 2019 - Current and Future State: Zuora Functional ArchitectureZuora, Inc.
Come to this session to understand how Zuora functionality is defined, composed, and presented. We will also describe how Zuora's functionality will evolve. Learn about the business processes carried out within and across Zuora products, how they extend beyond Zuora, and how those processes can be customized and extended in the future Zuora functional state.
Subscribed 2019 - Best Practices and Iterating On Your Zuora PlatformZuora, Inc.
Learn from Zuora's internal implementation team and long-time customers who developed on the Zuora platform for years. These experts will give guidance on a range of topics, such as evaluation processes for new feature adoption (e.g., Orders, RevPro), upgrading Zuora CPQ, iterating on pricing and packaging. Come ready to ask our panel of experts your tough questions; they'll share their advice for best integrating Zuora as the hub of your enterprise architecture.
Subscribed 2019 - Proration: Why Getting it Right MattersZuora, Inc.
Proration can be a complex and daunting topic. But mastering it will give you flexibility in how you price and structure product lines, and drive additional revenue. In this session, we'll share best practices with proration and the impact it has on revenue. You'll also learn the key differences between billing rules and revenue rules and how they affect invoicing and revenue recognition.
Subscribed 2019 - Quote Smarter, Faster and Get Products to Market Quicker wi...Zuora, Inc.
Eager to hear how companies use Zuora Billing and Zuora CPQ to manage the quote to cash process? This is your session! We'll do a deep dive into Zuora CPQ, -- how to use it to configure, price, and quote your deals -- then hear from long-time Zuora Billing and CPQ users at Solium; they'll share their journey of moving from cumbersome spreadsheets to custom quotes, things to consider downstream when managing Zuora CPQ and change management best practices. The team has refined its processes over time, leading to faster time to market for new products. Come learn from their experience. This will be an interactive session, so bring your questions!
Subscribed 2019 - Business Transformation: Architecting the Launch for SuccessZuora, Inc.
Business transformation projects are a big undertaking that can take several years for large organizations to complete. Picking the right launch strategy is the key to success. Hear first-hand from Heather Maniscalco, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Neustar, and Ksenia Kouchnirenko, Head of Business Systems at SurveyMonkey, about the launch strategies their companies adopted and why.
In addition, Zuora's Enterprise Architecture team will share a framework to help you develop a launch strategy to quickly realize value while minimizing risk, cost, and impact on customers and internal operations teams. This is an ideal session for CIOs getting started on the Zuora journey.
Subscribed 2019 - Collection Strategies: Recovering Critical Revenue to Drive...Zuora, Inc.
Strategic AR teams are always seeking ways to improve collection techniques and refine existing processes, especially when new products are launched. Attend this session to hear first-hand from high-volume B2B companies on how they use Zuora to recover revenue and drive business growth.
Subscribed 2019 Create Beautiful InvoicesZuora, Inc.
Walk through the steps for creating a custom invoice in Zuora with our resident invoice expert, Kevin Lussie. In this hands-on session, Kevin will guide you through best practices using nested tables, custom fields, spacing, and displaying images as you want to see them.
Subscribed 2019 - Current and Future State: Zuora Functional ArchitectureZuora, Inc.
Come to this session to understand how Zuora functionality is defined, composed, and presented. We will also describe how Zuora's functionality will evolve. Learn about the business processes carried out within and across Zuora products, how they extend beyond Zuora, and how those processes can be customized and extended in the future Zuora functional state.
Subscribed 2019 - Best Practices and Iterating On Your Zuora PlatformZuora, Inc.
Learn from Zuora's internal implementation team and long-time customers who developed on the Zuora platform for years. These experts will give guidance on a range of topics, such as evaluation processes for new feature adoption (e.g., Orders, RevPro), upgrading Zuora CPQ, iterating on pricing and packaging. Come ready to ask our panel of experts your tough questions; they'll share their advice for best integrating Zuora as the hub of your enterprise architecture.
Subscribed 2019 - Proration: Why Getting it Right MattersZuora, Inc.
Proration can be a complex and daunting topic. But mastering it will give you flexibility in how you price and structure product lines, and drive additional revenue. In this session, we'll share best practices with proration and the impact it has on revenue. You'll also learn the key differences between billing rules and revenue rules and how they affect invoicing and revenue recognition.
Subscribed 2019 - Quote Smarter, Faster and Get Products to Market Quicker wi...Zuora, Inc.
Eager to hear how companies use Zuora Billing and Zuora CPQ to manage the quote to cash process? This is your session! We'll do a deep dive into Zuora CPQ, -- how to use it to configure, price, and quote your deals -- then hear from long-time Zuora Billing and CPQ users at Solium; they'll share their journey of moving from cumbersome spreadsheets to custom quotes, things to consider downstream when managing Zuora CPQ and change management best practices. The team has refined its processes over time, leading to faster time to market for new products. Come learn from their experience. This will be an interactive session, so bring your questions!
Subscribed 2019 - Best Practices for Realizing Optimal Value from ZuoraZuora, Inc.
Is your head spinning thinking through operationalizing pricing changes or rolling out a new product? Come hear from Mario Espinoza, Revenue Operations Manager at Outreach.io on how you can improve efficiency by getting maximum value from Zuora's products. Whether it's a product catalog cleanup, quoting process pains, or getting Sales and Finance in sync, you're guaranteed to benefit from Mario's expertise.
Subscribed 2019 - Omni-Channel Customer Acquisition and RetentionZuora, Inc.
Using multiple channels is a proven method for customer growth. It often requires new systems, which add complexity and cost to "stitch" them together and maintain them over time. Zuora aims to solve that problem with Zuora Commerce, and at this session our product experts will share how. You'll leave understanding how our strategy of unifying configurations and data through a common integration supports the delivery of a consistent and seamless experience for your customers across all channels.
Subscribed 2019 - Empower Sales Operations with Zuora CPQZuora, Inc.
Does your Sales Operations team police every quote that goes out the door? With Zuora CPQ, that isn't necessary. At this session, long-time Zuora CPQ technical administrator, Jacob Feisley, shares tips for quote configuration that enable automation (= fewer manual checks) and his best practices for managing approval processes.
Subscribed 2019 - Empower Sales Operations Zuora, Inc.
Does your Sales Operations team police every quote that goes out the door? With Zuora CPQ, that isn't necessary. At this session, long-time Zuora CPQ technical administrator, Jacob Feisley, shares tips for quote configuration that enable automation (= fewer manual checks) and his best practices for managing approval processes.
Understanding Complex Data Trends in Salesforce1 Objects Using HerokuSalesforce Developers
Have you ever faced a problem while computing complex trends from huge volumes of data? Join us as we explore Time Series analysis of Salesforce1 data using Heroku. As an example, we will demonstrate how to compare measures across two different time ranges. This session will start with basics of time series analysis and demonstrate how to go beyond the limitations of Salesforce1 workbench by writing your own Heroku app.
Integrating Back Office Applications and Data With Salesforce.comSalesforce Developers
Join us to learn how to use Canvas to integrate custom applications and Oracle ERP into Saleforce. You'll learn how to integrate departmental and ERP applications into Salesforce quickly and effectively. Additionally, you'll see how these integrated applications can access data and applications in Salesforce to significantly increase your productivity.
Have you ever caught yourself saying, "I wish this app had Chatter built into it!?" Join us to learn how you can add collaboration to your on-premise web applications with the Chatter REST API, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Then, your on-premise apps can be social, too.
Using Oculus Rift and VR to Visualize Data on SalesforceCodeScience
This was presented during Dreamforce 2015. The Oculus Rift provides an immersive 3D environment for users, greatly expanding the UX possibilities for visualizing data. Join us to explore techniques for working with Salesforce data using these exciting tools and see live demos using the Unity engine and other VR platforms.
Mapping Your MVP Product Development in 30 min or LessCodeScience
This was presented at Dreamforce 2015. In this short cycle business environment, it is critical to identify an MVP product as soon as possible to get that product to market validation. Join us as we show how user-story mapping can help you identify your MVP product out of the larger possible feature set. Using real-world examples of this method and a hands-on exercise, we'll show you how to accelerate your build, reduce your time to market, and gain critical validation of that MVP app. #DF15Partners
Subscribed 2019 - CPQ X: The Future of CPQZuora, Inc.
Curious about what's next for Zuora CPQ? Join us to hear Zuora's CPQ Product Management demonstrate the brand new UI and features included with Zuora's CPQ X.
Subscribed 2019 - Optimizing Recurring Collections at ScaleZuora, Inc.
Managing collections in the Subscription Economy is complicated. You're chasing unpaid invoices and delinquent accounts of unprecedented volume. Join this session to hear how customers are using Zuora Collect to improve their collections process and reduce involuntary churn.
Subscribed 2019 - Best Practices for Realizing Optimal Value from ZuoraZuora, Inc.
Is your head spinning thinking through operationalizing pricing changes or rolling out a new product? Come hear from Mario Espinoza, Revenue Operations Manager at Outreach.io on how you can improve efficiency by getting maximum value from Zuora's products. Whether it's a product catalog cleanup, quoting process pains, or getting Sales and Finance in sync, you're guaranteed to benefit from Mario's expertise.
Subscribed 2019 - Omni-Channel Customer Acquisition and RetentionZuora, Inc.
Using multiple channels is a proven method for customer growth. It often requires new systems, which add complexity and cost to "stitch" them together and maintain them over time. Zuora aims to solve that problem with Zuora Commerce, and at this session our product experts will share how. You'll leave understanding how our strategy of unifying configurations and data through a common integration supports the delivery of a consistent and seamless experience for your customers across all channels.
Subscribed 2019 - Empower Sales Operations with Zuora CPQZuora, Inc.
Does your Sales Operations team police every quote that goes out the door? With Zuora CPQ, that isn't necessary. At this session, long-time Zuora CPQ technical administrator, Jacob Feisley, shares tips for quote configuration that enable automation (= fewer manual checks) and his best practices for managing approval processes.
Subscribed 2019 - Empower Sales Operations Zuora, Inc.
Does your Sales Operations team police every quote that goes out the door? With Zuora CPQ, that isn't necessary. At this session, long-time Zuora CPQ technical administrator, Jacob Feisley, shares tips for quote configuration that enable automation (= fewer manual checks) and his best practices for managing approval processes.
Understanding Complex Data Trends in Salesforce1 Objects Using HerokuSalesforce Developers
Have you ever faced a problem while computing complex trends from huge volumes of data? Join us as we explore Time Series analysis of Salesforce1 data using Heroku. As an example, we will demonstrate how to compare measures across two different time ranges. This session will start with basics of time series analysis and demonstrate how to go beyond the limitations of Salesforce1 workbench by writing your own Heroku app.
Integrating Back Office Applications and Data With Salesforce.comSalesforce Developers
Join us to learn how to use Canvas to integrate custom applications and Oracle ERP into Saleforce. You'll learn how to integrate departmental and ERP applications into Salesforce quickly and effectively. Additionally, you'll see how these integrated applications can access data and applications in Salesforce to significantly increase your productivity.
Have you ever caught yourself saying, "I wish this app had Chatter built into it!?" Join us to learn how you can add collaboration to your on-premise web applications with the Chatter REST API, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Then, your on-premise apps can be social, too.
Using Oculus Rift and VR to Visualize Data on SalesforceCodeScience
This was presented during Dreamforce 2015. The Oculus Rift provides an immersive 3D environment for users, greatly expanding the UX possibilities for visualizing data. Join us to explore techniques for working with Salesforce data using these exciting tools and see live demos using the Unity engine and other VR platforms.
Mapping Your MVP Product Development in 30 min or LessCodeScience
This was presented at Dreamforce 2015. In this short cycle business environment, it is critical to identify an MVP product as soon as possible to get that product to market validation. Join us as we show how user-story mapping can help you identify your MVP product out of the larger possible feature set. Using real-world examples of this method and a hands-on exercise, we'll show you how to accelerate your build, reduce your time to market, and gain critical validation of that MVP app. #DF15Partners
Subscribed 2019 - CPQ X: The Future of CPQZuora, Inc.
Curious about what's next for Zuora CPQ? Join us to hear Zuora's CPQ Product Management demonstrate the brand new UI and features included with Zuora's CPQ X.
Subscribed 2019 - Optimizing Recurring Collections at ScaleZuora, Inc.
Managing collections in the Subscription Economy is complicated. You're chasing unpaid invoices and delinquent accounts of unprecedented volume. Join this session to hear how customers are using Zuora Collect to improve their collections process and reduce involuntary churn.
Amplio - Revolutionizing the Insurance Industry.SURE!
When Amplio, a premier Software as a Service (SaaS) provider envisaged a solution for insurance agencies and agents, SURE! accelerated the launch of the above mentioned solution by taking it to market in 3 weeks flat, which consequently increased its subscriber base from less than 50 to more than 5000 within six months from launch.
Subscribed 2017: Using Zuora Reports To Evaluate Pricing StrategiesZuora, Inc.
It’s easy to feel like you’re “flying blind” when it comes to understanding the effectivenes of different pricing strategies. In this session, we’ll review how you can use Zuora reporting to gain valuable insight into pricing strategies. You’ll learn how to run reports on MRR by product, rate plan, and region; and track the effectiveness of promo codes and A/B testing.
Establishing & Managing Recurring Revenue Model - Optimizing the Revenue Oppo...Proformative, Inc.
Video/Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/events/establishing-managing-recurring-revenue-model-optimizing-revenue-opportunity
Today, the ability to increase revenue through recurring revenue is driving successful companies. However continuing to insure or improve, customer satisfaction and retention through recurring revenue models requires a new breed of billing. Bringing the features, benefits, and capabilities that will enable companies to offer the products or services that their subscribers want and will buy on a recurring basis, what some call 'recurring revenue,' is critical. In this session you will learn how the right subscription management system can drive new revenue and understand the capabilities you will need to effectively manage your recurring revenue-based business. Also, discover how to increase customer satisfaction with a subscription management system and become aware of what is key in your system so you have minimal impact to IT or financial operations.
Speakers:
Bob Harden, Former Software Director - Global Corporate Systems, Experian
Jon Gettinger, SVP, Marketing, Aria System
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Operational Effectiveness | Session: 5
Subscribed 2019 - Beyond reporting analytics for growthZuora, Inc.
“Reporting” is critical for measuring what is happening in specific areas of your business. “Analytics” goes beyond operational reporting and enables you to truly understand and grow your business. At Zuora, we're working on data APIs, operational reporting and analytics as three pillars of a complete data strategy. Come to this session and learn how the features on our roadmap address Subscription Economy business metrics and tackle top asks from our customers.
Subscribed 2017: Essential Reports For Understanding & Managing Billing & Pay...Zuora, Inc.
In this session, we’ll review reports that are essential for understanding and managing billing processes and payments in Zuora. We’ll cover some examples of commonly generated reports including month-over-month invoiced totals by product and/or charge type (for trending/revenue assurance), electronic payment successes and failures by attempt number, and payment detail reports for reconciliation to payment gateways.
Presentation from Salesforce.org Higher Ed Summit 2018 by: Ian Hayes, Causeview Inc.
This session explores how you can simplify pledge management, all while ensuring flexibility for your supporters and a fantastic donor experience.
Watch a recording of this presentation: https://youtu.be/fyhQX6AkiRo
Mail volumes have decreased dramatically since the proliferation of the internet. Revenues are going down and costs are going up. Postal organizations are trying to cut costs, but unfortunately the cost savings alone are most likely not enough to turn things around. Postal providers need to act. They have to adapt their business and conduct an innovation strategy. This has to happen in traditional mail services, but also in finding new growth drivers in order to differentiate themselves to survive. Discover what are the monetization challenges and revenue management process renovations associated with this needed transformation.
SaaS Revenue Recognition Principles: How to Treat Setup and Implementation Fe...Armanino LLP
Our latest survey of SaaS companies reveals two compelling shifts in revenue recognition.
As SaaS business models and GAAP revenue rules have evolved, companies have adapted their revenue recognition practice, especially in light of the new FASB/IASB revenue recognition standards (effective for public companies in 2017 and private companies in 2018).
Our new SaaS survey analyzes these changing practices and offers insights that can help you evaluate your company’s revenue recognition policies and disclosures.
The results revealed two compelling trends around non-subscription revenues.
Non-subscription revenue recognition remains a moving target for many SaaS companies, which means finance teams must continue to revisit the accuracy, transparency and completeness of their own rev rec policies and disclosures. How do your revenue best practices compare to your peers?
Get deep technical accounting insights into the biggest pain points companies have faced with implementing and analyzing Standalone Selling Prices. Learn how you can be more strategic with pricing policies and improve processes for setting SSP.
Subscribed 2019 - Going Global: Demystifying International PaymentsZuora, Inc.
Going global is a key strategy to drive company growth, but setting up and managing international payments can be very complicated. Join us at this session to understand payment operation requirements for multi-geography expansion and the Zuora configurations that will help you take your business anywhere in the world.
Let's admit it: Payment fraud is widespread and a huge liability for companies. The only way to successfully combat it is to develop comprehensive strategies and make the most of fraud management tools. Join this session to hear new ideas and strategies from our payment partners and customers on how to defeat fraud, increase consumer confidence, and reduce collection friction.
Subscribed 2019 - Regulations and What Lies Ahead with Zuora Payments and Col...Zuora, Inc.
Going global is a key strategy to drive company growth, but setting up and managing international payments can be very complicated. Join us at this session to understand payment operation requirements for multi-geography expansion and the Zuora configurations that will help you take your business anywhere in the world.
Subscribed 2019 - Why Digital Transformation Should Drive Business Model Tran...Zuora, Inc.
Hear from business leaders who have successfully led their companies through a digital transformation and those who are currently in the midst of the process. We'll have an open and healthy conversation on why and how companies need to digitally transform, challenges to expect, and how to build a business case internally. This is a great opportunity for executives responsible for transformation strategy to learn from each other and get a real sense of what life is like on the other end of the journey.
Subscribed 2019 - Customer First Approach to Pricing Zuora, Inc.
Pricing is at the core of how companies sell, support, and talk about their products. Yet most companies fail to architect a well thought out customer journey and decision-making process. In this session, Hazjier Pourkhalkhali, Global Director, Strategy & Value at Optimizely shares how the company changed its ways two years ago and saw a dramatic reduction in churn rates while improving win rates, deal sizes, and expansions. All due to a customer-first approach to pricing.
Subscribed 2019 - Implementing a Consumption-Based Pricing StrategyZuora, Inc.
Adding consumption-based pricing has shown to increase revenue growth. Many companies consider it but aren't sure when and how to implement the change. At this session, we'll share popular consumption pricing strategies, show how to implement them in Zuora, outline how to ready an organization to meter and bill for subscriber consumption, and end with best practices for integrating metering of consumption with billing.
Subscribed NYC 2017: Land & Expand: Your Strategy for Global Market ExpansionZuora, Inc.
Tapping into overseas markets can boost revenue, expand your subscriber base, and allow your business to experiment with new use cases. In some industries, the rapid growth of online spending can make global expansion imperative simply to keep up with competition. Attend this session for strategies that all B2C companies should be thinking of when entering new global markets.
Subscribed NYC 2017: Monetizing Subscription ServicesZuora, Inc.
A successful subscription monetization strategy doesn’t just influence pricing and packaging decisions — it has important downstream effects on your bottom line and affects your customers’ buying, upsell/upgrade, and renewal experiences. Join Zuora & Price Intelligently to learn how product, finance, and operations teams can work together to develop a monetization strategy that addresses market and competitive demands, organization growth goals, and customer expectations.
Subscribed NYC 2017: Driving Cross-Functional Accountability - Growth Metrics...Zuora, Inc.
As the Subscription Economy continues to grow, a new framework is needed to measure and analyze business health, and provide insight into the entire customer subscription journey. This new framework is powered by subscription metrics: forward-looking metrics -- from ARR to churn -- that predict business performance. Attend this session to hear how finance executives from best-in-class SaaS companies use metrics to drive growth.
Subscribed NYC 2017: Aligning Pricing and Revenue – Two Sides Of A Very Valua...Zuora, Inc.
Pricing models you use today, or that you may be contemplating for the future, have a direct impact on your revenue recognition operations. Often, we find that pricing and revenue teams don't collaborate early enough or often enough to understand the implications of changes occurring in each other's worlds. This session will walk through 4 common pricing concepts, the revenue implications of each, and practical tips on how to achieve better alignment between your pricing team's goals and the result impact to your revenue operations.
Join Zuora's SVP of Product Tom Krackler to learn how Zuora empowers businesses to modernize legacy order-to-cash systems with a new architecture designed to orchestrate and automate the entire lifecycle of subscribers.
Subscribed Melbourne 2017: Product KeynoteZuora, Inc.
Subscription businesses are growing 9x faster than the S&P 500. We ask ourselves “what can we build to help our customers grow even faster?”From the new Subscription Order Management engine to Subscription Revenue Recognition for AASB 15, we are excited to reveal a whole new wave of products built to power subscription businesses. Join Zuora Product Directors Chris Bruner and Nick Harlow as they unveil the exciting new launches coming to Zuora in 2017.
Subscribed Sydney 2017: Product KeynoteZuora, Inc.
Subscription businesses are growing 9x faster than the S&P 500. We ask ourselves “what can we build to help our customers grow even faster?”From the new Subscription Order Management engine to Subscription Revenue Recognition for AASB 15, we are excited to reveal a whole new wave of products built to power subscription businesses. Join Zuora Product Directors Chris Bruner and Nick Harlow as they unveil the exciting new launches coming to Zuora in 2017.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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
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 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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6. Companies are always looking to grow and grow faster.
Companies with Subscription models are growing 5x faster than
their peers.
“By 2023, 75% of organizations selling direct to consumers will offer
subscription services”
Gartner
7. Source : Subscription Economy Index (SEI) – a study of
long-term Zuora customers revenue growth vs S&P500
revenue growth
SEI S&P 500 US Retail
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2018
Subscription
companies
have grown
over 300% in
the past 7
years
300
250
200
150
100
9. IF YOU HAVE 1 CHANGE FOR EVERY 10
SUBSCRIPTIONS
1 in 10
9% 20%
2X 3X
Churn reduced by 14%
Growth doubles
10. IF YOU HAVE 1 CHANGE FOR EVERY 1 SUBSCRIPTION
1 in 11 in 10
Churn reduced by 25%
9% 20% 28%
Growth triples
2X 3X
11. Account for contract mod
Determine re-allocation
Rev rec, convert
currency
Account for contract mod
Determine prospective/
retrospective allocation
New POB rev rec rules
Account for contract mod
Determine prospective/
retrospective allocation
Send recurring
invoices
Identify POBs
Determine rev rec
rules
Prorate recurring
charges
Introduce usage rating
Co-term add-on
service
Add new service
Bill for new service,
convert currency
WITH CHANGE COMES COMPLEXITY
CUSTOMER EVENTS
BILLING
REQUIREMENTS
REVENUE
REQUIREMENTS
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Prorate charges
Issue credit
Jan 1
New subscription
March 30
Add a device
Switch to usage plan
June 15
Add service for
European subsidiary
Sept 15
Reduce users
13. POB
TEMPLATES
Ensure revenue recognized at
the correct time and method
GROUPING RULES
Automate the linking of
subscription changes into the same
contract
CONTRACT MOD
RULES
Handle each change appropriately;
versions created for each change
REPORTING
Gives full financial visibility
putting accounting disclosure
requirements at finance’s
fingertips
REVPRO SUBSCRIPTION CHANGE AUTOMATION
SSP ALLOCATIONS
Calculate the right amount to
be recognized for each item
14. Customer buys 3 year
subscription billed
annually and gets 2 free
training days
Oct 1, 2018
Feb 20, 2019
Customer
attends
1 training
session
Increase users to 50
with a volume pricing
change
Apr 1, 2019
Jun 4, 2019
Customer adds
complementary
product at 25%
discount
REVPRO SUBSCRIPTION CHANGE AUTOMATION
16. Customer buys 3 year
subscription billed
annually and gets 2 free
training days
Oct 1, 2018
Feb 20, 2019
Customer
attends
1 training
session
Increase users to 50
with a volume pricing
change
Apr 1, 2019
Jun 4, 2019
Customer adds complementary
product at 25% discount
REVPRO SUBSCRIPTION CHANGE AUTOMATION
• Automatic grouping of
changes together
• Correct adjustments to
revenue recognition based on
rules
• Seamless visibility into the
changes of those contracts
over time
18. Companies see an 8% increase in growth for the first year
after usage models introduced
Companies with 1-50% of revenue from usage grew at almos
27% YoY vs those with no usage based models
“To continue subscribing, consumers expect subscriptions to become more tailored over
time”
McKinsey
19. WITH USAGE COMES VARIABILITY
ESTIMATES
- Total Estimated
Usage
- Total Estimate Price
- Changes to Estimates
MULTIPLE PRICING
MODELS
- Recurring & Usage together
- Allocations
ACCOUNTING &
REPORTING
-Tracking changes
- True Ups
- Disclosures
22. 12 MonthContract
Base Platform Subscription with
Usage component
10K Expected Usage Units
Based on Historical information
0 Free support
Gave customer free Support over
the contract life along with purchase
of Professional Services
12 Monthly Billings
Usage billed monthly in arrears
REVPRO VARIABLE CONSIDERATION
AUTOMATION
25. REVENUE GROWTH
AND CHANGES
PRICING MODELS
Existing Customer
Revenue
As subscription companies
mature, more revenue
comes from existing
customers
KEY FINDINGS ON GROWTH
26. PRICING MODELS
Existing Customer
Revenue
As subscription companies
mature, more revenue
comes from existing
customers
Revenue Growth &
Changes
There is a correlation
between growth and the
number of changes to a
subscription
KEY FINDINGS ON GROWTH
27. Existing Customer
Revenue
As subscription companies
mature, more revenue
comes from existing
customers
Revenue Growth &
Changes
There is a correlation
between growth and the
number of changes to a
subscription
Pricing Models
Businesses are most
successful when combining
recurring and usage-based
pricing
KEY FINDINGS ON GROWTH
28. REVPRO REVENUE AUTOMATION
CONTRACT
CHANGES
Seamlessly account for
contract changes
including SSP re-
allocations
VARIABLE
CONSIDERATION
Track variable consideration and
adjust for changes/true-ups
REPORTING
Visibility to financial
operations and GAAP
disclosure requirements