Workday and Sanofi: Creating One Vision from Many

Healthcare leader Sanofi is not afraid of a challenge. A global healthcare company focused on patient needs and engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products, Sanofi’s diversified business includes a comprehensive offering of medicines, consumer healthcare products, generics, human vaccines and animal health. “We act with our partners to protect health, […]

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Workday and Flex

“Simplicity drives execution.” According to Mike McNamara, CEO of one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, this sums up the reason Flex chose Workday. With a workforce hovering around 200,000 and operations in 30 countries, Flex believes in keeping things simple. The company is a global leader in design, manufacturing, distribution, and aftermarket services for […]

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The keys to mobilizing next-generation S&OP

Introduction All companies plan, but not all companies plan well. One key area that sets organizations apart from the rest of the pack is a connected, comprehensive approach to sales and operations planning (S&OP). S&OP is a monthly integrated business management process that empowers leadership to focus on key supply chain drivers, including sales, marketing, […]

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Enterprise data warehouse optimization

Introduction The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has been at the cornerstone of enterprise data strategies for over 20 years. EDW systems have traditionally been built on relatively costly hardware infrastructures. But ever-growing data volume and increasingly complex processing have raised the cost of EDW software and hardware licenses while impacting the performance needed for analytic […]

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Creating a future proof banking IT strategy

Introduction The traditional image of a bank will soon be consigned to history. Banking is rapidly becoming something personalised, flexible, reliable, secure and always on. From the remotest corners of the world’s emerging markets to the beating heart of big business, banking is being transformed by one, distinct theme: digital technology. For those leading the […]

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A smarter way to authenticate customers

Introduction In large part, this increase in fraud is the result ofidentity theft scams. Indeed, rather than attemptingsome sort of high-stakes virtual bank heist for all thegold in the vault, most online thieves seem contentsimply stealing money from every-day customer’saccounts when they aren’t looking. To do that, theyemploy a wide range of social engineering scams,from […]

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10 conversations about operational resilience

Introduction Their approach outlined seven key regulatory themes and acknowledged the greater vulnerability of financial institutions and economies through digitalised services, greater use of outsourcing, exposure to cyberthreats and customers’ demands for high quality services. Regulators now place the same importance on operational resilience as on financial resilience.This represents a fundamental shift that companies are […]

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