Procurement and Sourcing

Enterprises seeking growth and competitive advantage turn to master data management (MDM). MDM provides the trusted foundation for delivering successful business outcomes from data-driven insights to mergers and acquisitions, governance and compliance, and customer experience programs.

When identity resolution is at the heart of an MDM solution, it ensures the anticipated value of your most strategic business initiatives. Identity resolution enables you to search and analyze disparate data sets to find a match and create unique identities from multiple records. But not all identity resolution methodologies are created equal. In this webinar, Informatica experts will examine:
•The common challenges associated with identity resolution
•The various approaches to matching identities across applications, and where some methodologies fall short
•How to evaluate your data matching tactics
•The algorithms behind the most advanced data matching engine, only from Informatica

Informatica’s innovative approach to identity resolution allows maximum impact from your MDM investment. Join the experts with more than a decade focused on applying the best techniques to ensure the success of your MDM journey.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, machine learning, cyber security – no industry takes up more space in our collective psyches than technology. It is part of the air we breathe and the cornerstone for business transformation and growth. It is also a never-ending exercise in new learnings and unintended consequences.

How do some of today’s top dealmakers decode the maelstrom of promise, transformation and false starts that is technology M&A?

In this presentation, we’ll explore:

- What are some of the most promising areas within technology M&A and why?
- What are some under-the-radar areas?
- What’s the best approach to deal sourcing in a seller’s market?
- How do dealmakers approach the art of technology valuation?
- What are the potential implications of the new CFIUS reform bill on cross-border transactions and foreign investment?

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Who’s afraid of The Wolf?

Yes, The Wolf is back, and this time he’s not alone.

Christian Slater returns as The Wolf with Jonathan Banks (from Breaking Bad) as The Fixer in the HP Studio’s latest film, The Wolf: True Alpha.

From director Lance Acord comes the third chapter in the thrilling saga of The Wolf—an epic, global hunt about the dangers of cyber threats.

The bottom line: if your devices aren't protected, you're prey. No matter who you are.

Learn more about how to keep the Wolf away: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/business-solutions/printingsolutions/securityoverview.html?jumpid=sc_ucq8stx21w

Managing a compliance program can be extremely disruptive to an organisation. Firms must not only run checks on potential customers, but also ensure that third-party risk is a key part of their comprehensive compliance program, to avoid exposure to bribery and corruption and the associated reputational ramifications.

Dun & Bradstreet’s Amy Hayenhjelm and Neil Isherwood discuss “How to make third-party risk management less painful”, in this latest webinar, as part of the International Compliance Assocation's (ICA) #BigCompConvo webinar series. Watch this video to hear practical recommendations for faster & efficient onboarding and the successful management of third party compliance.

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Finance managers are rarely included in project planning, and if they are involved in the project tracking it is usually in a passive way. At the same time, all stakeholders expect to have the latest project financial situation available on demand and customized for their personal use. And if that weren’t enough, there’s often no integration between project and financial management systems. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Join agile project management expert Rick Morris of R2 Consulting for an overview of how financial managers can take charge of project finances and use their expertise to add new value to the organization.

Government recognises that the increase in delivered electricity prices caused through the recovery of environmental levies on industrial energy consumers’ bills threatens to reduce the competitiveness of UK businesses in international markets.

This particularly impacts our most energy intensive industries.

To address this, a new exemption scheme from April 2018 provides relief to industries whose global competitiveness is most at risk. Eligible businesses may apply for a partial exemption from the costs of funding the Contracts for Difference and Renewables Obligation. Successful applicants are also, automatically, eligible for relief from Feed-In-Tariff costs.

But does this go far enough?

Government has recently consulted on widening the scheme - how do we strike the balance between supporting British industry and avoiding a heavy financial burden on those who are not eligible for the exemptions?

And how does this tie into policy making for Brexit, British exports and the wider Industrial Strategy?

Join our webinar to hear directly from Arjan Geveke, the Associate Director of Energy Policy (Productivity Team) at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as he outlines government's understanding of what industrial energy consumers need and how the policymakers plan to support these sectors.

With response from NSG Pilkington - a major glass manufacturer affected by these issues and insight on market trends and consumer activity from Inspired Energy, this promises to be a lively and highly informative discussion.

You eliminate your weakness before someone eliminates you.

Only HP DesignJet printers offer a combination of security features that can monitor and detect an attack, and then self-validate software integrity in a reboot. Let Jonathan Banks as THE FIXER show you how.

You can stay ahead of emerging threats. HP large format printers include self-healing security features that are designed to protect from known threats today while adapting to new ones. No other brand offers printers with embedded security features that automatically remove malware. With HP enterprise printers, you can rest easy knowing they are always on the case.

To learn more about large format printers like the HP DesignJet: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/large-format-printers/designjet-printers/products.htm

Adapt or be dinner.

Only the world’s most secure printers can detect threats and heal themselves. Let Jonathan Banks as THE FIXER show you how.

Only HP printers can stop an attack the moment it starts and HP Enterprise models can self-heal with unique security features.

- Continuous monitoring with HP Connection Inspector: Detect and stop attacks within memory or outbound requests and forces a reboot to initiate repairs.
- Load BIOS with HP Sure Start: In reboot, HP Sure Start detects and prevents the execution of malicious code and self-heals the BIOS.
- Check settings with HP JetAdvantage Security Manager: This security fleet management solution checks and fixes device security settings in a reboot.
- Check firmware with Whitelisting: Helps ensure only authentic HP code is loaded into memory and will reboot and notify IT if compromised.

To learn more about how to protect your business against attacks and ensure you’re secure across all your endpoints:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/business-solutions/printingsolutions/securityoverview.html?jumpid=sc_ucq8stx21w

Challenges and Best Practices in a Connected World

By attending this talk, you can bring back to your organization a better understanding of how psychology and brain science can be leveraged to provide a roadmap for successfully training leaders and managers at all levels. In this era of digital transformation, where organizations rely increasingly on cross-functional and deeply collaborative teams, leadership is becoming more distributed and employees are taking on leadership roles much earlier in their careers. Combine this with some of the recent corporate crises (#metoo, unconscious bias, discrimination) and effective leadership training becomes even more important. The overriding aim of this talk is to examine leadership training and development from a learning science perspective—the marriage of psychology and brain science—and to identify procedures that optimize leadership training.

Resource management - ensuring projects are given the right people, with the right skills and the right availability to do the job. This is often easier said than done when you lack a single view of what people are doing today and what’s planned for tomorrow. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Join agile project management expert Rick Morris of R2 Consulting and CA Technologies to learn how people in charge of key resources can overcome common issues such as:
•Team members assigned to multiple projects, making it hard to see who's working on what and when.
•Developers track time in one system, contractors in another.
•Resources with varying experiences and expertise are scattered around the globe.

For our 3-part webinar series on Digital Transformation, we will focus on insights for key stakeholders in your organization: Legal, Sales & IT.

In today’s business landscape, Digital Transformation of your document and contract processes can lead to improved operating efficiencies and ultimately provide your organization with a significant competitive advantage. Join us to learn why IT professionals should have Digital Transformation on their radar as we discuss:

- Innovating with an emphasis on customer experience
- The state of internal systems, all starting with IT departments
- IT's need for integrated and automated solutions to ensure data integrity across the organization

Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q2 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 600,000 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 Q2 2018 report, published in August 2018. We will cover the background, the key findings and practical implications for procurement professionals.

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- The level of supply risk in Q2 2018
- 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

Poorly administered business partnerships at Facebook wiped out $150 billion in market value in 90 minutes last month. As the social media giant learned, it’s not enough to mandate compliance in its contracts, companies must have a robust way to monitor compliance and take immediate action to remedy non-compliance.

Join at 11:00 EDT, join Tim Cummins, President of IACCM and Colin Earl, CEO of Agiloft for a presentation on how leading organizations address the contract compliance challenge. You’ll learn:
- How to assess the operational, security and organizational risks of your contract processes
- How you can use well-defined automated processes to mitigate those risks and strengthen compliance programs
- Common pitfalls with contract lifecycle systems and how to avoid them

Of all the Agile practices, none is more foundational than the inspect & adapt cycle of the retrospective. Even if you struggle with every other aspect of Agile, if you consistently engage in productive retrospectives, you will get better.

Industry surveys and studies suggest that 80% or more of Agile organizations have at least some distributed teams. Most of the traditional retrospective methods assume that all team members are co-located.

Running effective retrospectives for distributed teams presents unique challenges, but also, potentially, some great advantages. In this webinar, Agile coach and Instant Agenda co-founder Michael Ball-Marian will discuss the three greatest challenges to running distributed Agile retrospectives and how to solve them. Michael will share a variety of tips and techniques that you can use in any retrospective, co-located or distributed. Finally, he’ll present a few ways in which a distributed retrospective can actually be better than a co-located one.

Businesses deal with the impacts of data quality issues on a constant basis, yet the understanding of what data quality means is still improperly understood. In this webinar we’ll explore some of these impacts and how new approaches to data quality are changing the way organisations utilise data. We’ll also be exploring how new technology solutions are helping organisations investigate and diagnose the causes of various data quality problems and how fixing these issues makes a material impact to the health of the organisation. Data quality has become critical to the success of many business initiatives, so we’ll help you understand what items your detective toolkit needs to contain

Global supply chains are becoming ever more complex. And with increased complexity comes increased risk, from changing sanctions to human trafficking, cyber security to sustainability.

This SM Insider webinar with Dun & Bradstreet will explore the risks inherent in global supply chains, and set out a clear and practical framework for overcoming them.

All too often, L&D vendors offer a plethora of tools with no guidance on when to use which tools. The result: weak adoption and sub-optimal learning and performance with no clear path forward. This talk briefly reviews the plethora of exciting new technologies on the L&D market, the psychology and brain science of learning, and a set of best practices for mapping these technologies onto representative learning problems.

First, we start with a quick tour of the array of technologies available to L&D professional. Next, we offer a primer on the psychology and brain science of learning and discover the multiple distinct learning systems that have evolved in the brain to learn different skills. We conclude by providing an example of an effective mapping from learning tools to learning problem that derives from the learning science.

By attending this talk, you can bring back to your organization a better understanding of how psychology and brain science can be leveraged to provide a roadmap for successfully training employees.

The AWS Migration tooling segment team has invented migration tool packages that serve three key business objectives.

First, technology choice using competent tools from our ecosystem and AWS migration platform, with a tool recommender that helps customers identify the right tools to achieve their business objectives.

Second, speed of procurement with "Single click" to procure the tools right from AWS Marketplace.

Finally, the cost of migration with highly discounted tools that reduce the workload migration costs by 25 - 30%.

In this session, we explain how our customers and SI partners can leverage these packages to enable the frictionless migration of thousands of workloads into AWS.

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Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q1 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 600,000 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 2018 report, published in June 2018. 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 2018
- 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

In this session, learn how customers have gained greater control over their data and improved cost savings by using NetApp ONTAP Cloud from AWS Marketplace, a curated catalog to find, buy, and deploy third-party party software.

We dive into how to minimize your storage footprint by using enterprise-class storage features, such as data deduplication, compression, and snapshots with zero impact on app performance. You also learn out how to can accelerate application development using FlexClone technology to clone images and quickly create multiple environments that look just like your original data.

As companies plan the migration of different workloads to the cloud, software procurement is being challenged to meet the new demands of the business, such as agility and fast pace of innovation.

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog helps customers find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services they need to build products and run their businesses. With free trials, pay-as-you-go models, annual and multi-year subscriptions- all consolidated in one bill from AWS, procurement has the tools to meet their business demands.

This live webinar, dedicated to businesses in the Nordics, will illustrate how companies can innovate their software procurement with the AWS Marketplace.