Procurement and Sourcing

With SaaS now accounting for a significant portion of an enterprise’s software spend, procurement is at the center of strategic business decisions.. Let’s unpack the challenges and opportunities of managing a growing list of IT partners during a fast-paced conversation based on real-world procurement experiences at Zuora.

Join Maria Centeno, Head of Procurement at Zuora, as she discusses the strategies that her organization implemented to establish a new, more efficient, and more inclusive process for purchasing and renewing SaaS contracts.

Maria notes, “Sure, we had our spreadsheet for tracking SaaS application licenses like everyone else, but let’s be honest, it wasn’t an effective solution to creating value in our business. We knew we could do better.”

In this live event, Maria will reveal how a SaaS Management Platform helped her define Procurement’s new approach to SaaS renewals. She will cover:

What’s procurement’s role in the purchase and renewal process of SaaS applications, and how is it different from traditional software applications?
How does lack of visibility into SaaS usage impact Procurement’s strategic value?
What can Procurement do to build a more collaborative purchase process across IT, Legal, and the Business?
How does SaaS Management software facilitate these processes at Zuora?

In this live event, Maria will reveal how a SaaS management platform helped her
Redefine Procurement’s role in the purchase and renewal process of SaaS applications vs. traditional software applications
Demonstrate Procurement’s strategic value by gaining visibility into actual SaaS usage
Build a more collaborative purchase process across IT, Legal, and the Business

This session will be fast-paced and we’ll have live Q&A , so come with questions and expect to engage in a compelling conversation!

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ist nicht gleich RPA!

Unterschiedliche Kriterien und Faktoren wie:

• Planung der Projektphasen
• Automatisierung end-to-end
• Skalierbarkeit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit

spielen bei der erfolgreichen Umsetzung von RPA-Projekten eine große Rolle!

Lernen Sie in unserem Webinar am 26. November 2020 um 14:00 Uhr, wie sie schnell, einfach und effizient RPA nutzen und erfolgreich im Unternehmen einsetzen.

Begleiten Sie uns auf dieser spannenden Reise und erfahren Sie von unseren Experten:

• Herausforderungen bei der digitalen Transformation
• Automatisierung komplexer End-to-End-Geschäftsprozesse mit Hilfe integrierter KI-Funktionen
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• Wie Sie Ihre Gesamtbetriebskosten drastisch reduzieren
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Financial institutions are facing tremendous pressure to improve business performance and drive cost efficiency while encountering challenges such as increased regulatory scrutiny, high cost of compliance, back-office inefficiencies and outdated legacy systems.

In the current economic environment, banks are adopting Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to manage increasing volumes of customer requests for loan refinancing and forbearance. Learn how your organization can scale and transform with the latest Intelligent Automation (RPA +AI); not only to reduce cost, but also boost the overall business performance as well as improve employee and customer experience.

Join our upcoming webinar to hear industry experts share their insights on:

• Intelligent Automation Trends in Banking and Financial Services
• Successful Use Cases in KYC/AML Compliance, Loan Forbearance & Call Center Automation
• Key Success Factors to Implement and Scale RPA

Who Should Join:
Loan Fulfillment, Compliance, Call Center Operations, Customer Experience, IT and Finance executives in Banking and Financial Services

Taking your supply chain digital isn’t just about doing the work faster. It’s also about building a better way to process across procure-to-pay functions in order to gain more insight to become strategic and agile. And right now is your opportunity to accelerate digital processes. Doing so enables more visibility, collaboration, automation, and straight-through processing to increase managed spend and touchless processes for all your spend categories while getting suppliers paid in days.

This is the fourth in a series of webinars that highlights the emerging trends and practices to prepare for a new world where organizations are leveraging digital to recover quickly and prepare for the future. In this session, we will capitalize on digital processes to network all internal and external supply chain stakeholders so that upstream and downstream processes not only run fast, but also are more agile, automated, collaborative, and aligned on shared objectives.

Join us for this presentation as our speakers discuss:

• How a networked approach to procure-to-pay (P2P) helps automate straight-through processes that will get all spend under management and pay sellers in days
• How a network aligns all stakeholders across physical and financial supply chains for better efficiency and results
• Why B2B Marketplaces are at the forefront of the network approach to deliver accurate, enriched data to drive touchless AP
• How a digital foundation leads to better customer success

Understanding Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) is a fundamental regulatory requirement in EU Money Laundering Directives. To support this drive, the EU Commission has been tasked to connect the various UBO registers at EU level by 10th March, 2021, to provide a consistent and transparent pool of information on UBOs across the region.

However, as with all of the EU Money Laundering Directives, each member state has, or will, implement directives in the way that best suits their unique frameworks and political needs. When it comes to aligning the registers, this presents some challenges.
Some states are still in the process of setting up their register, while registration isn’t required in others. Some require payment for access to the data, while others don’t currently make the data publicly available at all. Data also differs between regions, for example whether legitimate interest is required.

During this webinar, we take a look at:
•the landscape of the EU Money Laundering Directives with a focus on Beneficial Ownership
•the approaches being used
•how the future connection of registers may work

In 3Q20, the RAN market report indicated that surging demand for 5G propelling the RAN market. Watch this 4 mins video by Stefan Pongratz for some highlights of the market report.

Managing data centers is more challenging than ever. Data Center managers demand operational efficiencies and uninterrupted availability of critical business applications while remaining flexible.

How can data center operators achieve their management and operational goals when limited by their traditional tools and processes?

By combining the details of building automation (security, power, cooling, fire systems, lighting, etc.) with insight provided by DCIM, you can get there.

Join this webinar to learn about this joint offering called IDCM. Topics include:
• What is IDCM?
• Creating a seamless integration of BMS, DCIM, and ITOps
• How IDCM delivers unprecedented transparency and optimal control for data center operations and infrastructure
• How to Implement IDCM
• The benefits of the integration between your critical infrastructure and your IT infrastructure and workload
Whether you are in charge of Critical Facilities, IT Operations, or Systems Engineering, IDCM addresses many challenges you are facing today.


Speakers:
K. G. Anand, DC Segment Leader, Carrier Corporation
Enzo Greco, Chief Strategy Officer, Nlyte Software
Mark Gaydos, Chief Marketing Officer, Nlyte Software

The healthcare, pharma, and medical device ecosystem faces tremendous challenges right now, including the discovery of new drugs and fast track clinical trials. In addition, global operations require predictive analytics and agile supply chains for better global healthcare.Deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI builds strategies that will sustain operations as these organizations move forward into the new normal.

Listen as our experts share how leading organizations are adopting intelligent automation as a key pillar to unlock significant value for their companies. Join Catherine Calarco, Senior Director of Global Industry Strategy at Automation Anywhere, and Andrew Pellegrino, Director of Intelligent Automation at DataRobot, as they discuss the art of the possible when it comes to intelligent automation.

In this session:

* Discover what RPA is, what AI and machine learning is, and how the combination of the two -- intelligent process automation -- drives digital transformation and business results

* Discuss leading use cases that impact the industry by speeding up drug development and enabling better healthcare worldwide

* Explore high impact use cases and leading edge innovations realized through intelligent automation

* Watch a demonstration of how DataRobot and Automation Anywhere work together to improve pharmacological supply chains, even amidst times of change

Whether COVID-19 and the distribution of the workforce has forced you to think about SaaS management, or it’s something you’ve been thinking about for a long time, IT leaders have renewed urgency to evaluate their SaaS strategy. Specifically, you might be wondering:

- How do I understand my evolving SaaS portfolio, in a world where the individual and team is empowered to purchase their own SaaS apps?
- Am I getting value from my existing SaaS applications, and increasing this value over time?
- Can I leverage data on actual usage to drive helpful budgeting and renewal conversations?

In this online session, Mike Hamilton, Head of IT at Databricks, will share how he has partnered with Productiv to:

- Manage the IT stack during hyper growth
- Drive financial prudence by rightsizing SaaS licenses, ensuring each user has the right licenses and eliminating redundant overlapping apps
- Deeply understand actual usage of existing applications by team and by feature

Most businesses collect NPS scores and other customer feedback, but few know how to act on it and close the loop quickly. Doing so increases customer retention. Alchemer shares how you can act immediately on feedback to keep more of the customers you worked so hard to acquire in the first place.

Nearly every aspect of our lives has fundamentally shifted to being more digital due to COVID-19. In this “new normal,” we’re becoming more dependent than ever before on the resilience of our digital systems. For businesses in particular, the massive global shift towards remote work is creating challenges for organizations of all sizes to adapt and transform in order to keep control over system security and maintain operational resilience. Join Bob Bragdon, Senior Vice President and Worldwide Managing Director at CSO, and senior executives from HP for this in-depth webcast discussion of risk in the new normal.

Managing data centers is more challenging than ever. Data Center managers demand operational efficiencies and uninterrupted availability of critical business applications while remaining flexible.

How can data center operators achieve their management and operational goals when limited by their traditional tools and processes?

By combining the details of building automation (security, power, cooling, fire systems, lighting, etc.) with insight provided by DCIM, you can get there.

Join this webinar to learn about this joint offering called IDCM. Topics include:
• What is IDCM?
• Creating a seamless integration of BMS, DCIM, and ITOps
• How IDCM delivers unprecedented transparency and optimal control for data center operations and infrastructure
• How to Implement IDCM
• The benefits of the integration between your critical infrastructure and your IT infrastructure and workload
Whether you are in charge of Critical Facilities, IT Operations, or Systems Engineering, IDCM addresses many challenges you are facing today.

Speakers:
K. G. Anand, DC Segment Leader, Carrier Corporation
Enzo Greco, Chief Strategy Officer, Nlyte Software
Mark Gaydos, Chief Marketing Officer, Nlyte Software

In the changing sales environment, organizations may experience many roadblocks to success. From time management to organizing virtual calls, efficiency can be a challenging goal to achieve.

When there is change, adaptation needs to be the focus, but that’s not all. Success-driven habits for sales organizations are key when it comes to performance.

Come join us on November 18th at 1 PM EST | 10AM PST as we speak with Forrester Analyst Mary Shea and Nipul Chokshi, Dun & Bradstreet’s Vice President of Marketing, to find out how sales leaders can adapt and succeed in the changing sales environment.

In the webinar you will learn about:
- Boosting productivity in your sales organization so that you can ignite growth
- How to more effectively prospect and prioritize your account-based sales
-The key trends in digital tools and digital transformation to help you stay ahead

Register and receive insights on adapting and succeeding in the changing sales environment through valuable use cases.

The way companies organize to bring products and solutions to market is being rewritten. Join this 30 minute webinar to learn about how organizations are shifting to a customer-centric view to deliver business outcomes.

As organisations engage with an increasing number of third parties, global business networks have become more complex and interconnected. Nowadays, a third party may simultaneously be a customer, supplier, alliance partner, and even competitor. Given that people within (or outside of) companies commit fraud, organisations need to be able to see the network effect and the interrelationships between people and companies.

Despite this increase in complexity, Compliance and Risk leaders may find that it’s now easier to identify the “six degrees of separation” and connect the dots between their organisation’s third-party entities.

Join the Dun & Bradstreet Third-Party Risk & Compliance practice’s Senior Product Director, Paul Westcott, and SME, Neil Isherwood, as they discuss how:
•Identifying corporate linkage from a financial crime and compliance risk perspective has improved as a result of increasingly connected and robust data sets as well as enhanced processing power.
•The ability to identify relationships and beneficial ownership now goes beyond identifying corporate linkage as entity resolution and identification of connections can go down to the level of individual people within a company and a view of their network of relationships.
•Using entity network resolution for third parties, which includes companies and people, can help reduce false positives, resolve conflicts of interest, and increase efficiency and accuracy in the enhanced due diligence process.


Understanding who you do business with isn't just a regulatory requirement, it's an essential part of good corporate governance. Join us to learn how you can enhance your ability to resolve corporate and people entities and identify networks. Learn how to protect your brand while minimising potential regulatory fines, fraud, and supply chain disruption.

The emerging Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 116 percent over the next five years (2019-2024). In this 3 mins video, Mauricio Sanchez, will go over some highlights of the SASE market forecast report

5 Steps to Put Microservices in Action Now for Business Agility, Efficiency, Resiliency, and More Revenue.

Google, Amazon and Facebook have run microservices for more than a decade, influencing 77% of organizations to adopt microservices, with 92% experiencing success, according to a recent O’Reilly survey. And, with microservices projected to grow globally at a 22.5% rate through 2025, microservices over monolithic architectures must be carefully considered.

About this Webinar
During this webinar, we will provide decision-makers and IT professionals a foundational understanding of how the building blocks of containers, APIs and scalable cloud infrastructure can be used to develop a strong microservices strategy for your organization to address crucial business challenges with agility, efficiency, resiliency and revenue growth.

To help get products to market rapidly and create a robust debugging strategy, you will specifically learn about:

Single Responsibility Principle. When one, and only one, capability is provided by a service.

Isolation. Building and maintaining a single capability, without impacting other functions.

Autonomy. Microservices are autonomous, so users can choose to accept or reject the promise offered by a provider but cannot direct it to behave in a particular way.

Data Encapsulation. Microservices capture the data (or state) and behavior as a single unit, and persistent data for each service must be private, allowing user access to the data only through its published interfaces or APIs.

Inter-process Communication. Microservices interact with each other to fulfill a user’s request or perform a business function.

We will also cover our QuickStrike Workshop, which delivers a rapid review of your architecture and a defined plan forward for true business transformation, encompassing IT, processes, people and culture.

Join this webinar to listen in on the discussion between 3 US Federal Technology experts as they discuss trends and how to leverage these, including:

• AI: Getting the actionable intelligence you need to drive data center innovation and mitigate risk
• Moving to Hybrid Cloud while keeping an eye on Application Rationalization to manage cost, service delivery, and business resiliency.
• The data center as a Digital Factory: Using the data for IT portfolio management and top-notch service delivery

We look forward to having you join us!

Speakers include:
Steve Naumann, Sr. Advisor, Data Center Practitioner, Federal Sector
Anthony Vicinelly, Federal Technology Director, Nlyte Software
Pete Tseronis, Founder & CEO, Dots and Bridges

Join Broadcom’s Linda Chase as she demonstrates the power and flexibility of Clarity roadmaps in this first episode of Linda’s Corner. Linda, and industry-expert Andy Jordan, explore how strategic roadmaps simplify and improve the planning process with rapid creation and adjustment, powerful visualizations and easy to use analysis. (E1S1)

Join this webinar to listen in on the discussion between 3 US Federal Technology experts as they discuss trends and how to leverage these, including:

• AI: Getting the actionable intelligence you need to drive data center innovation and mitigate risk
• Moving to Hybrid Cloud while keeping an eye on Application Rationalization to manage cost, service delivery, and business resiliency.
• The data center as a Digital Factory: Using the data for IT portfolio management and top-notch service delivery

We look forward to having you join us!

Speakers include:
Steve Naumann, Sr. Advisor, Data Center Practitioner, Federal Sector
Anthony Vicinelly, Federal Technology Director, Nlyte Software
Pete Tseronis, Founder & CEO, Dots and Bridges

The role of Procurement in the enterprise is going through a major evolution as the role shifts from a primarily negotiation / finance centric role to a strategic enabler - bringing new technologies, workflows and best practices into organizations as they scale.

Join Linda Chuan, Head of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Operations at Box and Sheel Patel, Head of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement at Okta to understand challenges that a Procurement leader faces at a transformational technology company, and how they are establishing Procurement as a strategic function.

You will learn:
What are the key priorities for the Procurement leader? Is it tightly aligned with Finance or IT? Both?
How the procurement function is transitioning from a “we are negotiating against you” to a “let’s partner to deliver value” model?

How Procurement leads enable procuring “best-in-class” technologies at the forefront of application purchase and evaluation process? How to use data and benchmarks?
How does the Procurement team collaborate with IT, Finance and Information Security business partners?

How does the Procurement team leverage data to be more proactive? To achieve key organizational outcomes i.e. financial, efficiency, employee experience

Come to this session with your questions, as we’ll have plenty of time for Q&A.

Businesses will continue to look for ways to increase cash flow and improve ROI in order to maximize working capital going into 2021. An often-overlooked way to do this is through the evolution and expansion of current or long-standing AP Recovery audits.

This webinar will explore the opportunity of identifying new claim types and often ignored operation areas to expand scope and return additional money back to the bottom line. Attendees will also learn how company data can be used to research and identify new opportunity areas to support the expansion and guide project expansion.

3 keys to attracting the right customers and accelerating growth with digital

B2B buyers are rapidly changing how they think about and approach their buying journey. According to McKinsey, digital interactions have become twice as important post-COVID.

It’s more critical than ever that companies use their dollars wisely to engage their buyers in the right channels, at the right times. That means digital.

That also means opportunity. For the businesses willing to invest in smart digital engagement, the rewards can be substantial.

In this webinar, Dun & Bradstreet’s VP of Marketing, Nipul Chokshi and LiveRamp’s B2B Demand Generation Leader, Ben Coffee, will offer actionable insights and strategies for how to reach the right customers through digital channels, including how to:

Better serve your buyers’ preferences and maximize ROI in digital-first interactions

Target accounts more likely to buy with the use of intent data and AI

Drive higher engagement through always-on personalization and targeted messaging

Attend live and receive a complimentary in-market prospects list to start getting even better results with your digital engagement, faster.

Data is everywhere and provides insights that are powerful when applied.

In this webinar, attendees will hear about two enrichment activities and how enrichment and advanced analytics can help their organizations solve challenges faced in their S2P cycle.

Our experts will share how better visibility into the data and fact-based analytics can help in areas like True Net Cost and DPO.

Tracking corporate and employee spend can be hard enough. But it’s even harder as companies and teams have gone remote for the foreseeable future. Whether it’s the need for work-from-home equipment or to pay an urgent invoice, passing around a corporate card doesn’t always cut it. Instead, wouldn’t it be nice to have a seamless, digital solution to easily track and approve spend across your organization?

This is the third webinar in a series that highlights the emerging trends and practices for a new world where organizations’ supply chains can thrive and grow when exposed to uncertainty. A key part of that survival is the adaptability when it comes to company spend.

Join us for this live presentation as our speakers discuss:

• How a virtual corporate card can create better insight into, and control over, your organization’s spend with real-time collaboration and approval tools
• Ways to reduce the administrative burden, like end-of-month reconciliation, that typically comes with corporate card programs
• How to see greater, immediate ROI, whether through rebates from issuing banks or just more time to focus on the work that matters

*Note: Tradeshift GO is currently available in North America with the expectation to expand into Europe in 2021