Procurement and Sourcing

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.

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AWS Marketplace helps customers migrate their workloads to AWS through a variety of ISV solutions and aids and accelerates the journey to the cloud. AWS Marketplace provides the tools and software for each step of the migration process and post-migration to sustain a cloud operating model. In this session, we explore the various stages of migration into AWS, common challenges that exist in each stage, and how AWS Marketplace helps our customers address some of these challenges.

Guest Speakers

Sean Catlett. SVP Emerging Services at Optiv Inc.
Chris Ortbals, ‎Executive Vice President, Product & Marketing - ‎QTS Data Centers

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents the most important data protection regulation change in 20 years. All companies processing and holding the personal data of subjects residing in the EU must comply once it comes into effect on 25 May 2018, regardless of location.

One of the biggest changes is around obtaining consent to use personal data. The new requirements not only impact how businesses attain and renew consent but also introduce the need to record the details for auditing purposes.

Hear from Phil Lee, Partner at Fieldfisher, who will discuss the key changes under the GDPR, the challenges facing businesses, and how digital tools like eSignatures can streamline your compliance.

Join this webinar to understand:

- The impacts of the GDPR on businesses
- How to obtain and record consent in a compliant manner
- How to re-procure suppliers with contracts that contain the terms of the GDPR
- How digital tools can be part of a GDPR solution

Jim Steven, Head of Data Breach Response, Experian talks through the key considerations for organisations when pulling together a consumer data breach response plan and draws out key insights and steps that can be taken, ensuring your organisation puts customers/employees at the heart of any notification response. Applying these key learnings means your organisation can confidently develop a plan and response team, in advance and understand responsibilities under EU GDPR.

Know your threats. Prepare your plan. Recover trust.

Come learn how NASDAQ used AWS Marketplace to purchase and launch AppDynamics unified Application Performance Management (APM) and business performance monitoring solution for their migration to AWS.


With AppDynamics, NASDAQ was able to move their critical applications to AWS and used AppDynamics to accelerate, visualize and validate the migration process. This allowed NASDAQ to improve their applications in AWS with business performance monitoring and make clear, understandable correlations between the quality of their customer experience with their applications.

How do you know if you are outsourceable? And how can you guide the outsourcing without simply being replaced?

This webinar takes the analyst's experiences in IT, examples from current IT organizations and managed mobility service providers, and key trends in the IT world to show when and how to identify IT jobs ripe for outsourcing and how to position yourself to take advantage of the outsourcing rather than simply be replaced.

Use CloudGenera's data to give you insight on the best venue and service model to run your relational databases. We'll focus on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server across AWS, Azure and Google.

Under the GDPR, consent must be obtained in an understandable and easily digestible format, using clear and simple language. By offering people genuine choice and control over how you use their data, it helps you build trust and enhance your reputation.

The problem for a lot of businesses is that their legacy systems usually don’t document the level of data required to prove that a valid, unambiguous consent or contractual acceptance was obtained. Manual processes and paper plague the most common transactions and introduce friction in the moments that matter most to their business.

Whether acquiring consent from new customers or renewing consent from your existing database, you can do so with DocuSign’s secure and user-friendly solution. Attend this webinar to:

- Learn how DocuSign's eSignature solution can help customers collect consent to demonstrate compliance
- See a demo of DocuSign's consent-capture process, with built-in documentation and tracking
- Hear from Filestream's Technical Director on how the company is using DocuSign for GDPR purposes

You need full visibility into your supply chain to take the optimal course of action for your business. And, you can derive actionable intelligence from your supply chain by applying embedded analytics to your B2B transactions. This enables more informed business decision-making and improved performance.

Watch this webinar on demand featuring IDC supply chain experts Simon Ellis and Lorenzo Veronesi to learn:

How embedded analytics can provide deeper supply chain intelligence
The important benefits gained by applying the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) management theory to a supply chain analytics environment
How to extract maximum value from analytics for your supply chain operations

In the constantly shifting marketplace of food and beverage, efficiencies are far from the only challenge. One way to mitigate major operational challenges of today’s industry? Combining effective technology with a manageable vehicle program. Join Valerie Myer and our guest speaker from US Foods, Irene Sanchez, to learn what your company can do to meet these challenges head on and come out on top!

How well information flows into and out of your supply chain network can have a significant impact on your business performance. If communication and transactions are hindered, the results can be disastrous – late payments, missed deliveries, unhappy suppliers, and disgruntled customers.

Automating interactions with your trading partners can streamline your supply chain operations while increasing visibility. It means that transactions between you, your suppliers, and your buyers happen electronically and automatically. Whether you're looking to simplify supplier integration and collaboration with procure-to-pay, optimize your inventory levels with logistics track-and-trace, or leverage e-invoicing to reduce errors and contain costs, automation is essential to boosting supply-chain efficiency. And a more efficient supply chain can lead to reduced costs, greater agility, and revenue growth.

In this webinar, IDG Director of Content Marketing Strategy Rob O'Regan and OpenText™ Director of Product Marketing Greg Horton discuss the advantages of automating supply chain networks. Find out how automation can help you derive more value from your supply chain.

Join us to hear Conga's VP of Product Marketing, Will Spendlove, discuss how digital transformation is impacting the business landscape. Data is becoming increasingly important in dictating how business is done, creating the need for IT, sales, legal and business goals to better align. Conga provides a suite of intelligent automation solutions to bridge these gaps. In this webinar you will:

-Learn how Conga is helping our customers digitally transform their organizations
-See how Artificial Intelligence is leading the way with Conga products
-Experience how Conga is helping SmartFocus operationally transform their business
-Meet some of the recently acquired products and companies

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Christopher Brown, CTO of Uptime Institute and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into data center infrastructure management in 2018.

Chris will answer questions related to trends from the field:

- What really makes a well-run data center?
- The changes we are seeing in the industry
- What Tier level do I need for my data center(s)?
- What can you tell us about the typical issues we see every day?
- What are the challenges ahead for data centers?

Audience members are encourage to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

Für Unternehmen besteht – und das wissen viele gar nicht - eine Fürsorgepflicht für Ihre Geschäftsreisenden. Sie sind verantwortlich dafür, dass Ihre Beschäftigten vorbereitet und sicher reisen.

Lernen Sie:
- Warum es so wichtig ist, das Thema Fürsorgepflicht ernst zu nehmen.
- Was Arbeitgeber alles beachten müssen, um Ihrer gesetzlichen Verpflichtung hinsichtlich der Fürsorgepflicht nachzukommen.
- Wie SAP Concur Unternehmen so ausstattet, dass diese sogar über den Notfall hinaus in der Lage sind, mit den Reisenden in Kontakt zu bleiben.

The VMware cloud on AWS may be a valid part of your cloud strategy. This Webinar will talk through pros and cons of that service.