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You’ve selected your new ERP system. Ready to hit the ground running? Watch this webinar with Avaap Vice Presidents Tim Atkinson, Angelo Mazzocco, and Tim Oberschlake to learn the key activities necessary to set your ERP deployment up for success. This session dives into Phase Zero; what it is and why it’s important, as well as different aspects of Phase Zero, including project management, governance, data, integrations, and more.

Learn:
– The fundamental mindset changes to next generation cloud solutions as a context for executing the essential activities for Phase Zero

– How Phase Zero is complementary to selecting the right solution

– Why it’s essential for all team member to have a deeper understanding of key success factors and typical business challenges in a cloud implementation

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In this webinar, Avaap Vice Presidents Tim Atkinson, Angelo Mazzocco, and Tim Oberschlake walk through all aspects of a successful ERP system selection process. This session details the entire selection process, from understanding the current landscape, tough questions to ask your organization and vendors, and a detailed approach to each of the five stages of system selection. Watch this session and leave with a better understanding of how to select the right system for your organization and take away best practices for the entire process of a successful selection.

Learn:

  • How the system selection process has changed and how it impacts your organization
  • Tactical ways to align your organization, develop selection criteria, and create a vendor RFP
  • Criteria to plan your software selection timeline with specific week-by-week guidance

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Data engineering integrates discrete, diverse data systems together so end systems can derive value. At a high level, data engineering is moving data from one location to another. The health of a data information system is subject to the rigidity and health of the data engineering process. Through complementary software tools and Python code, the engineering process can be optimized to promote reliability, simplicity, scalability, and efficiency.

Watch this webinar to learn how Avaap Data & Analytics leaders Erin Sheehan and Emily Suchan built a replicable framework for data ingestion activities that automate scheduling capabilities and provide a reliable collection of ingestion metrics.

  • Understand why a Python-based framework allows for flexibility and customization
  • Learn how this framework is valuable in different scenarios
  • Be able to move beyond simple ingestion tasks and focus on the optimization of workflows

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Law enforcement agencies are under pressure to adhere to consent decree agreements, but this can be a time-consuming, resource-intense, and expensive process that can have measurable impact on the ability to improve public safety. Being able to access, analyze, and report on consent decree data can help law enforcement leaders enable more informed decision-making and move them from paperwork to public safety.

This webinar discusses how data-informed insights can inform communities, build trust, increase transparency, and help police departments comply with consent decrees.

Watch this webinar to learn:

  • How police departments are using analytics to keep communities safe with crime statistics and mapping
  • How analytics play a role in consent decrees and use of force transparency
  • How accessible data visualization helps citizens make data-informed decisions

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Historically higher ed institutions have struggled to capture, access, understand, and report on their data to achieve performance goals such as enrollment, retention, and student success. Attendees learned how Tableau makes it simple to visualize key performance metrics, such as enrollment data to understand trends, patterns, and potential challenges that impact student success.

During this webinar, attendees: 

  • Heard use cases from real-world institutions turning data into actionable insights
  • Learned how to use data to understand student behaviors and outcomes, optimize the admissions and enrollment process, and improve the university experience
  • Discover how analytics programs can help meet enrollment targets, retain existing students, and see them through to graduation

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Data is a critical asset for all organizations. Managing data and using it to gain business insights is essential for strategic advantage. Data warehouses and data lakes are both popular approaches to data storage, but the definitions, uses, and strategies for each can be blurred.

This webinar answers what’s the difference between data warehouses and data lakes by defining both terms, exploring their uses, and showing all factors that should be taken into consideration when deciding the best fit for your organization’s needs by looking at accessibility, cost, and more.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of data warehouses, data lakes, and will be equipped with the right tools to be able to do more with data and make informed decisions.

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The force of the pandemic brought significant change to work habits, regulations, supply chains and business models. Many organizations now find their existing structure and ways of operating inadequate for today’s environment.

This session explores the way work has changed and how change management and organization design have impacted digital transformation and business models for faster decision-making. Attendees will leave with understanding the connection between culture, change, and organization design, demonstrated through real world examples, making these components a natural way of working. 

Attendees will learn about:

  • Significant changes to work habits
  • Trends, themes, and implications for companies for the future
  • Leader skill sets and mindsets for future success

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Predictive analytics with machine learning (ML) is growing rapidly across organizations of all sizes. However, many organizations face the same challenge when approaching applied ML: Big Data. When data becomes excessively large, developing and automating an ML workflow can feel like an impossible task. Fortunately, the key to success is simple. You just need the right toolkit!

Join this session, hosted by Avaap, to see how AWS, StreamSets, Snowflake, and Tableau enable a high-performance machine learning workflow built on 100 million eCommerce events.

Attendees will learn how:

  • StreamSets can deliver high-speed streaming of large datasets
  • Snowflake can provide an all-purpose analytics backbone for data engineering and model deployment
  • Tableau can enable instant business value via advanced analytics visualization

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Government organizations are the second biggest targets of fraud after financial institutions. Not only does fraud impact the organization, but it impacts citizens and their trust in government. In 2021, $86 billion dollars of PPP loans found its way into the hands of fraudsters. On average, it takes almost two years to detect fraud when there is more than one conspirator, and those committing fraud are getting smarter every day, finding ways to go undetected.

Watch this webinar with experts from Avaap and Tableau to learn how data visualization and advanced analytics can be used to detect fraud, highlighting potentially fraudulent activities, so investigators can spend time and resources on situations that are more likely to be fraudulent.

Attendees will learn:
– How data visualization dashboards make it easy to identify fraud with drill-down features
– How to set up KPIs to detect fraud, such as duplicate addresses, phone numbers, and more
– How to stand up your own fraud detection dashboard