The Salesforce move from Classic to Lightning, a component based framework for app development, has created significant opportunity around the design of the Salesforce user experience. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Lyndon Cerejo, a User Experience Strategist with Capgemini America, about how to apply UX design precepts to the Salesforce user experience.
Jun 11, 2020•18 min•Ep. 222
An API-led approach to enterprise integration results in APIs that are discoverable, self-service, reusable, well-designed, and comprehensively documented. The benefits include enabling an agile approach to data harmonization, an acceleration of projects that use enterprise data, and a high quality of data across all customer touchpoints. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Mike King, the Chief Technical Architect in the Capgemini Commerce Practice, about how Salesforce products plug into API-l...
Jun 11, 2020•27 min•Ep. 221
Salesforce “out of the box” means building applications using the declarative features of Salesforce. Some of the benefits of “out of the box” over customization include accelerating the movement from ideation to value recognition, a lower total cost of ownership, and a decrease in technical debt. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Oziel Carrillo, a Solution Architect with Capgemini Mexico, Francois Arbeille, a Project Manager with Capgemini America, and Trey Alexander, an Engagement Manager w...
Jun 11, 2020•12 min•Ep. 220
Technical debt is incurred when a development team delivers a business feature that is incomplete or is not a solid foundation for future enhancements e.g. future development capacity is being committed to deliver a feature today. If technical debt is not addressed, and instead additional features are built on top of the incomplete work, over time it can become more and more challenging to deliver business value. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Erik Ivarsson, a Managing Solution Architect w...
Jun 11, 2020•27 min•Ep. 219
Some of the benefits of outsourcing Salesforce Operations are reduced costs, access to expertise, reduced downtime, and an opportunity to tighten the focus on your organization’s core competencies. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Mark Brackenhoff, a Managed Services Project Manager with Capgemini America, and Francois Arbeille, a Project Manager with Capgemini America, about Salesforce Operations, how to outsource Salesforce Operations, and some of the opportunities to increase the ROI for ...
Jun 11, 2020•9 min•Ep. 218
In this month’s podcast, we look at some of the activities retailers will be focussing on as they look to rebound from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Raj Ganatra, our host this month, discusses how retailers will be planning for the restart, and how they will reopen their stores effectively after a period of closure for many non-essential retailers. He is joined by Capgemini retail experts; Holly Nurse, Yota Pavlou and Nick Hoenig.
Jun 09, 2020•21 min•Ep. 217
In this podcast, Capgemini's Sally Caughey is joined by Code Your Future Co-founder German Bencci to discuss crucial findings from this year’s The Great Digital Divide Report, plus share their insight to give you a UK perspective on how and why UK organisations and local government can work together to make digital inclusion a priority.
Jun 09, 2020•19 min•Ep. 216
In this podcast, Capgemini's Sally Caughey is joined by Code Your Future Co-founder German Bencci to discuss crucial findings from this year’s The Great Digital Divide Report, plus share their insight to give you a UK perspective on the importance of bringing the digitally excluded online and why it should be a priority.
Jun 09, 2020•24 min•Ep. 215
In this first podcast of a series based on the World Quality Report, host Mary-Ellen Harn speaks with Nick Utley, Transformation Leader in Analytics at Capgemini and Omer Felder, Executive Product Manager in Lifecycle Management at Micro Focus about the impact of AI/ML-based analytics in software testing
May 26, 2020•14 min•Ep. 214
For our first episode, Raina Purba is joined by Chris Owen, UK lead of Next Generation Financial Services. Tune in to listen to him discuss the Fintech revolution, the impact of Big Tech players and why Coronavirus matters for the future of digital banking.
May 22, 2020•30 min•Ep. 213
Continuing on our Renewable Enterprise journey, we arrive at our next stop-over - The Intelligent Enterprise. Elisabetta Spontoni (Global SAP Head of Operations for Capgemini,) joins us to discuss reinvigorating SAP landscapes and leveraging your new digital core through digital Innovation-enabling technologies like AI/ML/Analytics/IoT/ BlockChain, Customer Experience and Supply chain.
May 14, 2020•15 min•Ep. 212
Global SAP Head of Operations & Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA Group Offer Lead for Capgemini, Elisabetta Spontoni, joins us in the fourth episode to discuss how moving to SAP S/4HANA® is one of the first steps enabling you to become a Renewable Enterprise, with our Highway to SAP S/4HANA® offer, which provides a modern, rapid and painless move from older generation SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA®.
May 14, 2020•20 min•Ep. 211
Welcome to the third episode of the ‘journey to the Renewable Enterprise’ podcast series in which we will hear from Elisabetta Spontoni, Global SAP Head of Operations and Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA global Offer Lead for Capgemini, how adopting SAP S/4HANA® can be instrumental in helping organizations to manage their digital transformation, and more specifically on taking a look into the business vision and the building blocks for a successful transformation.
May 14, 2020•16 min•Ep. 210
Welcome to this episode of the ‘journey to the Renewable Enterprise’ podcast series in which we will hear from Elisabetta Spontoni, Global SAP Head of Operations and Digital Core with SAP S/4HANA® Global Offer Lead for Capgemini, how one becomes a Renewable Enterprise, future-ready for agile business transformation, built within and supported by a solid architecture framework and how Capgemini will get you there.
May 06, 2020•19 min•Ep. 209
Market disruption in the automotive industry is presenting major challenges to everyone, including automotive suppliers. To respond adequately, those businesses should become renewable enterprises, continually rethinking their business from a customer perspective and adapting to satisfy the evolving requirements of existing and new customers. Renewable enterprises enjoy best-in-class agility, plus intelligence and proactivity, together with smart approaches to innovation.
May 05, 2020•15 min•Ep. 208
In today’s digitally enabled world, organisations are constantly evolving their products and services to maintain a competitive advantage with the customer. Cloud Computing and software development practices such as DevOps enable organisations to achieve high levels of agility, but often do so at the expense of security. Traditional Security practices are failing to evolve at the same rate, and this has resulted in a number of high-profile organisations fall foul to cyber-attacks. However, if do...
Apr 17, 2020•32 min•Ep. 207
There are multiple dimensions of Salesforce project risk. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Mike King, the chief technical architect for the Capgemini North America Salesforce Commerce Cloud practice, and Matt Francis, a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, Capgemini Vice President, and Chief Salesforce Architect about managing Salesforce project planning risk.
Apr 15, 2020•16 min•Ep. 206
Salesforce project complexity has evolved from basic administrator console (UX) based configuration in the early 2000s, through the addition of the Apex programming language, APIs, metadata packages, change sets, web services, callouts, Eclipse / Force.com IDE, SalesforceDX, Heroku and now to Evergreen. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Matt Prorok, a Capgemini technical architect in the Capgemini North America Salesforce practice, and Erik Ivarsson, a Managing Solution Architect in the Capge...
Apr 15, 2020•17 min•Ep. 205
The Salesforce project methodologies in use have evolved steadily from Waterfall, to Agile, and now to DevOps. In this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Brock Elgart, a Capgemini technical lead and DevOps subject matter expert, and Francois Arbeille, a Capgemini SAFe certified Project Manager, about Salesforce and DevOps.
Apr 14, 2020•13 min•Ep. 204
Tune in to our latest podcast to listen to our guest speaker, Ahmar Md, Vice president for cloud sales strategy planning and operations at VMware, and Luke Harrigan, Vice President, Offer leader for Capgemini Cloud Platform (CCP) at Capgemini, share their thoughts on demystifying the Hybrid cloud strategy. They’ll be talking about: • The benefits of hybrid cloud? • What are the current hybrid cloud trends? • The current challenges of Traditional Infrastructure Management? • What are the best pra...
Apr 10, 2020•23 min•Ep. 203
Windows Virtual desktop seems to be a particularly interesting potential desktop solution for organizations to continue to work remotely in this kind of difficult situation, Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. In this Podcast you will learn: 1. Why now for Microsoft Windows Virtual desktop solution? 2. How does IGEL support Virtual Desktop through End Point Solution? 3. How Microsoft and IGEL are addressing security concerns of ...
Apr 08, 2020•23 min•Ep. 202
Welcome to this Capgemini podcast on intelligent supply networks. This is part of a Capgemini podcast series on consumer products, retail and distribution. In today's episode we are joined by our retail experts; Capgemini's Lindsey Mazza and Cyndi Lago, who will offer their insights on the latest trends and the technologies driving them.
Apr 07, 2020•24 min•Ep. 201
Welcome to the Capgemini podcast on Retail Innovation. In this episode of Inside Retail we'll be dipping into this wide-ranging topic and offering insights on such themes including; new ways to shop, new ways to engage, the latest ways to build loyalty and leading trends that are impacting global retailers.
Apr 07, 2020•18 min•Ep. 200
You puzzle how to move your organization in the right direction? Christof and Prof. Dr. Martin Wolf talk about why it is essential to teach your middle management the skills of a DJ.
Apr 01, 2020•20 min•Ep. 199
Tune in to our latest podcast on Application Innovation a strategic enabler to drive digital transformation. Listen to our guest speaker, Nicole Herskowitz General Manager, Microsoft Azure and Clemens Reijnen Global CTO of Cloud, DevOps Leader - Sogeti Capgemini, as they share their thoughts on Application Innovation and what organizations should consider while delivering innovation at a faster pace to serve the need of their customers. They’ll be talking about: • Why app innovation has become s...
Mar 16, 2020•23 min•Ep. 198
Tune in to our latest podcast - EDGE is the New Norm!, to listen to our guest speaker, Jonathan Phillip Howell, Smart Spaces and Experience Lead EMEA Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and Jon Harriman, Capgemini’s cloud infrastructure services portfolio lead,as they share their thoughts on edge computing and what organizations should consider while adopting the right edge computing strategy. They’ll be talking about: • The benefits of edge computing – latency, Privacy & Security, bandwidth...
Mar 09, 2020•23 min•Ep. 197
Tune in to our latest podcast to listen to our guest speaker, Pallab Deb, who drives technology partnerships in AI for Google Cloud, and Manas Deb, cloud computing business leader for Capgemini Europe, as they share their thoughts on cloud strategy and how to get that right at the first go. You will get to hear some good perspectives around: Why is it important to have a cloud strategy? How do you get off to a good start with the right cloud strategy? How can you tell whether your cloud strategy...
Feb 19, 2020•27 min•Ep. 196
n this podcast Andy Forbes talks to Lara Wasowski about maximizing the benefits of attending Dreamforce 2019. Lara’s advice spans sessions, the expo, the importance of comfortable shoes, and planning.
Feb 17, 2020•29 min•Ep. 195
In transforming our world, AI and automation are blurring boundaries between tasks performed by machines and humans. As a result, certain traditional roles are disappearing and new ones forming. In the wake of this disruption, emotional intelligence (EI) offers some recourse for both employees and employers. Over 80% of employers and over 50% of employees convinced that it will be a key requisite for success in the years to come. EI is, after all, the one area AI finds it difficult to replicate....
Feb 17, 2020•17 min•Ep. 194
Have you ever seen an organization where critical issues during transformation do not reach top management level? We did! This is why we distilled 3 techniques to make sure you do get all the important information. Find out more in this Podcast episode.
Feb 17, 2020•27 min•Ep. 193