Procurement and Sourcing

This webinar will show you how Nlyte’s Asset Explorer's discovery application continuously improves asset accuracy in your Nlyte DCIM implementation.

See how you can:

- Improve capacity planning and resource utilization
- Improve and increase SLAs and Support responsiveness by reducing MTTR and RCA
- Eliminate manual audit efforts improving efficiency and accuracy of workflows
- Accelerate implementation or expansion of DCIM with auto-discovery and auto-updating of asset data

We look forward to seeing you there!

This webinar will show you how Nlyte’s Asset Explorer's discovery application continuously improves asset accuracy in your Nlyte DCIM implementation.

See how you can:

- Improve capacity planning and resource utilization
- Improve and increase SLAs and Support responsiveness by reducing MTTR and RCA
- Eliminate manual audit efforts improving efficiency and accuracy of workflows
- Accelerate implementation or expansion of DCIM with auto-discovery and auto-updating of asset data

We look forward to seeing you there!

With organizations collecting an ever-increasing volume of data, the risk of a data breach or falling foul of a regulator is also increasing. Data security, privacy and protection is fast becoming a “must have” requirement within many data programs.

Organizations are starting to realize that there are potentially great synergies in having a much closer understanding of their data from both a governance and security viewpoint. Add in Artificial Intelligence and automation for remediation, together these capabilities are proving to be significant allies in the continuous battle of cyber-security and enabling Data Governance programs.

This webinar explores how these two worlds can now better understand the role that each has to play, in supporting and protecting their organization.

As part of the Reimagine Data Governance series of webinars, Informatica will demonstrate how having a closer relationship between the worlds of governance and security can enhance existing data use and data security capabilities. And how you, in taking that holistic approach, can provide governed and protected data to achieve key business outcomes.

With advances in technology and moves toward digital transformation, today’s accounts payable departments are more focused than ever on leveraging automation to streamline the AP process, make it more efficient and enable more strategic activities to be carried out. But according to Ardent Partners’ State of ePayables 2019 report, even best-in-class organizations are still left with invoice exceptions, only about half of the suppliers submitting electronic invoices, and low early payment opportunities to improve working capital. Is that the best that we can do? Is your AP department truly digital?

Join Ardent Partners and Tradeshift for our upcoming webinar where we will:
• Deep dive into the challenges faced by the AP department and the drivers that shape AP leaders’ priorities on the quest to digitize
• Present the outcomes you should be looking for in an AP transformation journey and how you should go from electronic to digital
• Explore what best-in-class organizations do and how you can leverage to take your AP department to the next level
• Identify quick wins and long-term strategies to improve operations and results going beyond best-in-class

Retailers are looking to reach customers in as many channels as possible – stores, e-commerce, mobile applications, and partner marketplaces. As one can imagine, managing these various touchpoints and relationships can be complex, especially ensuring information about products are properly defined. As online shopping grew in popularity, retail organizations stood-up dedicated support teams to manage sales and marketing, separate from the rest of the business. Customers now expect retailer companies to interact with them in a seamless manner, regardless of channel.To guarantee brand continuity, a uniform customer experience, and high customer satisfaction, retailers must diligently manage product data, making sure that products are represented properly across all channels. With better product information and insight, retailers will be to engage with customers in a more personal and meaningful way, driving additional revenue.

Time is running out, so register today to save your spot.

Businesses need to manage large numbers of network-connected devices, but the Excel method no longer cuts it - regardless of how good your formulas and macros are. Today, there are many stakeholders (HR, finance, legal, etc.) who constantly require recent information - especially on desktops, to complete their jobs.

Referencing real-world case studies, Nlyte will highlight a new generation of IT Asset Management including:

- Creating a "single source of truth" on all connected devices, for all departments
- Automating software auditing to create a business-wide, dynamic baseline of data
- Gathering GDPR, HIPAA, SOX-related info
- Tightening security by spotlighting rogue devices and more

We look forward to seeing you there.

Tune into this webinar to learn how Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL) engaged over 67% of their global workforce by implementing an integrated and strategic innovation scheme.

Learn how implementing an idea management platform enabled SSCL to:
- Engage over 67% of their global workforce
- Generate over 400 ideas
- Achieve 400% ROI

By adapting their company culture to focus on people-led improvements and innovation
the organisation reduced cost and delivered wide value for their business and their customers.

For the most important agreements in life, whether digital or not, identity verification is often required to prevent fraud. DocuSign Identify is our family of identification products offering a range of methods for verifying signer identities based on your unique business requirements. Learn how you can reduce risk, support compliance and delight customers with our latest Identify solution, DocuSign ID Verification, the digital way to verify real-world government-issued photo IDs and European eIDs.

A deep dive into curing progress, quality expectations and the consequences of historically high prices.

In this fast-moving market, what should businesses think about when selecting a provider? The shift to hybrid models of operation is here to stay.

Join our webinar to uncover key considerations for successful Colocation Provider and Tenant relationships:

- Driving real-time visibility on resource-usage and performance to make data-based decisions
- Reduce risk of downtime
- Optimize consumption and reduce operational costs
- Automating tasks and understanding facility performance
- Great content for colocation providers and data center managers that use colocations

We look forward to seeing you there.

In this fast-moving market, what should businesses think about when selecting a provider? The shift to hybrid models of operation is here to stay.

Join our webinar to uncover key considerations for successful Colocation Provider and Tenant relationships:

- Driving real-time visibility on resource-usage and performance to make data-based decisions
Reduce risk of downtime
- Optimize consumption and reduce operational costs
- Automating tasks and understanding facility performance
- Great content for colocation providers and data center managers that use colocations

We look forward to seeing you there.

The interdependence between the physical and the financial supply chain is growing. As supply chains become more complex, they are constantly stressed with change, the demand for operational advantage, and the necessity to meet the exact needs of customers. The stress from all the change impacts producers, logistics, and ultimately, working capital. What opportunities are you leaving on the table?

In order to become an adaptive enterprise, a company must transform their supply chain to be robust and agile. How so? By leveraging innovative technologies with AP automation, e-invoicing and future proof platforms to facilitate spend management and improves visibility into spend analytics.

Join this webinar, in collaboration with Bristlecone, as we discuss:

• Need for increased visibility into procurement and improved vendor relationships
• Empowered procurement diagnostics and a single source of truth for all spend under management
• How teams can leverage automation technology and e-invoicing to optimize working capital and cash flow while building relationships with suppliers
• How stakeholders in the supply and financial chain can achieve working capital objectives without jeopardizing other objectives

“Ideas are not just about something shiny and some new tech solution, sometimes the best ideas that you get through are from people working with everyday friction points and end up being very simplistic.” - Stuart Eames, Retail Innovation Lead, Waitrose.

In our EveryDay innovation podcast, Waitrose and Direct Line Group leaders share stories about their innovation schemes from adoption, challenges that arose along the way and key takeaways for businesses hoping to build a more change-able and innovative future, with Wazoku’s Head of Customer Success, Bea Schofield.

Tune into this 20-minute podcast for these key highlights and more:

- Ideation is just the beginning, it’s what you do with new ideas that counts
- A detailed view of what the innovation journey looks like for large organisations
- How small ideas can go a long way to drive big change for the future

Join us for this case study that takes you through a NYDFS compliance journey featuring Trustmark, Sienna Group and Informatica. Three thought leaders who bring a wealth of experience share how organizations are protecting their most sensitive information. Learn the importance of the regulation and how leading organizations are able to get ahead of critical mandates using innovative technologies that support data privacy governance along with data retention requirement in mind that create risk. Hear from the experts and start your journey to NYDFS compliance today!

An increase in regulations, particularly in the US and UK, are adding complexity to due diligence requirements when onboarding new customers or vendors. A recent report from Dun & Bradstreet surveyed more than 600 procurement and compliance professionals, and found that teams are struggling to manage ever-changing rules while juggling multiple responsibilities.

This webinar will explore the convergence in compliance and procurement strategic objectives and responsibilities, and how joined-up processes can accelerate progress towards the common objectives of reducing costs while streamlining third-party onboarding.

During this webinar we will explore:
- The impact of evolving regulation on the compliance and procurement functions
- The top common priorities of compliance and procurement executives over the coming months
- The benefits of intelligent automation for customer and vendor due diligence
- How technology and data combined can be a powerful strategic driver.

We all know the energy markets are volatile, but as we use the quieter summer months to refresh and update our procurement strategy ahead of the busy winter period, what should we be aware of?

Will the stricken oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman create movement in the oil markets? Will the long-term weather forecast have a chilling effect on winter power prices?

Tune into this webinar, and we'll explain the bulls and bears in the markets right now, then explain how the markets work as we watch the Market Making Obligation trades come in at 10:30.

Don't know what that means? Join us and you soon will.

This webinar is offered by DB Group to help inform and update ICON members and other business energy consumers; we're very sorry but other brokers will be asked not to dial in on this occasion

How much control do you have of your Technology Assets? See how your peers are addressing Technology Asset Management (TAM) around the world.

Next Generation Asset Management:

- Hear the results of the 2019 Sapio Technology Asset Management Survey
- Learn what CIOs are concerned with when it comes to asset management
- Compare yourself to peers who are performing technology asset management

We look forward to seeing you there.

When migrating endpoint security controls to protect their cloud workloads, organizations must first consider their own security, operational and business needs. Next, they should assess their requirements against the solutions already in use in-house against the in-cloud security solutions they’re considering. Ultimately, these requirements should help organizations come to a decision on whether to migrate their existing security to the cloud, or use cloud-provided tools to protect their cloud endpoints.

SANS instructor David Hazar, AWS Solutions Architect Manager David Aiken, and Optiv Cloud Security Practice Leader Joe Vadakkan will release guidelines for determining your cloud endpoint security controls and selecting solutions through the AWS Marketplace.

Attendees will learn:

- How cloud design affects endpoint security
- Needs and capabilities associated with endpoint security platforms in the cloud (such as automation, behavioral detection and blocking, and threat hunting capabilities)
- Specific focus on cloud-based endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Solution guidance and evaluation considerations for endpoint security platforms, including real-world success observations
- Key questions for potential vendors to determine which endpoint security platform(s) are best-suited for integration and implementation in your AWS environment

Join this webinar and gain practical knowledge on how to evaluate and select an effective endpoint security platform for the cloud. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your endpoint security strategy with industry-leading guidance from SANS, Optiv and AWS Marketplace.

How much control do you have of your Technology Assets? See how your peers are addressing Technology Asset Management (TAM) around the world.

Next Generation Asset Management:

- Hear the results of the 2019 Sapio Technology Asset Management Survey
- Learn what CIOs are concerned with when it comes to asset management
- Compare yourself to peers who are performing technology asset management

We look forward to seeing you there.

As Railinc modernizes its data infrastructure, critical data has become distributed across Oracle, data lake and tools like SAS, and business users have been challenged to find and understand the data they need. Railinc embarked on a major effort across business & IT to address this problem by cataloging all data assets and adding business context to the data to enable easy search and discovery. Confidence in the data was improved through visibility into how datasets were created and business descriptions and tags that added business context, along with a focused/phased approach to drive business user adoption. Railinc will share valuable lessons and best practices related to both: (1) deployment and scaling; (2) driving business user adoption.

In this new webinar, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and global cloud training experts, A Cloud Guru, have collaborated to help you identify and tackle the important challenges IT practitioners face when migrating business apps to the cloud. This training-based session will show you how to benchmark your performance, identify challenging areas, prioritize use cases, and pair them with relevant AWS native services and software seller solutions in AWS Marketplace.

Attendees will receive:
- Expert guidance and training on principles for designing a high-performance cloud infrastructure
- A guide to AWS Well Architected Framework (WAF), and how it's helping IT professionals understand how to build secure, agile, high-performing cloud infrastructures

- How AWS Marketplace software seller solutions are helping customers today overcome challenges related to improving their IT operations in the cloud

About the Speakers:
Robin Norwood is the creator of A Cloud Guru’s Coding for the Cloud series: a hands-on web series dedicated to building software in a modern day, serverless world. He creates engaging, accessible, and highly technical content for technology professionals at the cutting edge of cloud computing. Robin is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, and AWS Certified Developer.

Chris Chapman is a Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, covering AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog, and Control Tower. His core mission is helping customers and partners automate AWS infrastructure deployment and provisioning. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and his skills include cloud computing, data integration and architecture, SaaS computing, and design and software development. Chris has previous experience as a developer, system architect, and big data architect.

As more organizations store sensitive data in the cloud, and as data protection regulations become more stringent, security personnel should consider developing a strategy to protect their assets in the AWS cloud. However, this poses many important questions, such as: How can I securely migrate data from on-premises storage volumes to AWS services, or from existing AWS services to new AWS services? What controls are needed? And what performance requirements must be met?

SANS analyst Dave Shackleford explores the controls that are critical to data security and how to scale on-premises data protection strategies to the cloud.

Attendees will learn:

- How to use data loss prevention, encryption, access controls, user behavior analytics, and data life cycle controls as integral parts of a data protection strategy
- Key steps in scaling data protection to the AWS cloud, and which AWS storage and database services can be used to establish data encryption capabilities
- Ways to minimize common risks from human error with a combination of AWS and third-party services, and how organizations are using both to secure data in AWS

About the Speakers:
Dave Shackleford is a SANS analyst, senior instructor, course author, GIAC technical director, and member of the board of directors for the SANS Technology Institute. He is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security, and has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering.

David Aiken is a Solutions Architect Manager at AWS covering AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog, Migration Services, and Control Tower. He leads a team of specialist AWS SAs that help customers implement security and governance best practices using native AWS Services and Partner products. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and his skills include cloud computing, enterprise architecture, agile methodologies, web services, and software design and development.

Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q1 2019 Global Supply Chain Risk Report.

The Global Supply Chain Risk Report is a joint study by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Dun & Bradstreet, which investigates the level of supply chain risk faced by European companies with international supplier relationships.

Analysis has been carried out using data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, which included around 200,000 anonymous transactions between European buyers and their suppliers who were located in more than 150 countries worldwide.

During the webinar, we will focus on the Q1 2019 report, published in June 2019. We will cover the background, the key findings and practical implications for procurement professionals.

Register now to learn:

- The level of supply risk in Q1 2019
- The differences across key industry sectors and how this should be considered in procurement decisions
- How dependency on key suppliers changed compares with the previous quarter

Presented by Dr Heather Skipworth and Dr Emel Aktas, Cranfield School of Management

In far too many manufacturing organizations, data is treated as overhead instead of a strategic advantage. In this webinar, Informatica and Paradigm Technology will explore the convergence of Operational and Information Technology and how data management plays an integral part in realizing key benefits from business-transformational projects. In order to support an Industry 4.0 world, a Data 4.0 precursor is a must-have requirement.