Here are some insights on Xactly drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index on Sales Performance Management 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research. We evaluated Xactly and eight other vendors in seven categories, five product-related adaptability, capability, manageability, reliability and usability) and two...
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Office of Finance,
Analytics,
Contact Center,
Data,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management,
Digital Technology,
Digital Commerce,
Predictive Planning,
Conversational Computing,
collaborative computing,
mobile computing,
Subscription Management,
agent management,
intelligent sales,
AI & Machine Learning
The relevance of marketing to an organization depends on planning and performance measured against it. In writing about marketing management I have observed the marketing mayhem that can occur but also have noted that organizations that take marketing performance management seriously are in better position to assess their efforts in relation to goals and outcomes. I have a little experience in having been a CMO and VP Marketing in my career and know how frantic it can be to managing marketing....
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Topics:
Business Analytics,
Uncategorized,
CMO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM)
As global business increases competitive pressures, marketing departments face new challenges. They must anticipate and respond to frequently changing customer preferences and produce effective programs and campaigns to attract them. In the online world where customers can jump instantly from one company to another, Marketing must develop new ways to catch and hold their attention. Doing this well requires systematic, flexible planning that begins with the CMO and engages the entire department...
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Topics:
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Uncategorized,
CMO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
It’s widely agreed that customer experience is now the most important dynamic for business. Any organization that wants to retain loyal and even vocal customers should do everything possible to ensure and maintain customer satisfaction. Software companies, especially those that promise to provide CRM and effective interactions across any channel at any time, should be good examples of embracing the methods they prescribe for using their products. But do they?
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Topics:
Social Media,
Customer Experience,
HCM,
Human Capital,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
NA14,
NetSuite,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Zach Nelson,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HR,
HRMS,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
TribeHR,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Organizations in all industries face various difficulties in managing product information. The most serious is providing complete, engaging information to consumers and customers on the internet. Newly developed products, mergers and acquisitions, changes to pricing and promotions in online commerce spur business growth, but these factors also increase the amount and complexity of product-related data and content. In addition the digital economy offers a new generation of services that are sold...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
PIM, Product Information Management, Sales, Market,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
Through a federal rule referred to as “Overtime Rule” and part of Title 29 regulations was issued on May 18th, 2016 by the Department of Labor (DOL), the Obama administration now mandates that unless they meet criteria for exemption, employees paid less than $47,476 ($22.825 per hour) are entitled to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours per week. The rule change, which goes into effective on December 1, 2016, is intended to apply to executive, administrative and professional...
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Topics:
Governance,
Human Capital,
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Overtime Rule,
Part 541,
POTUS,
Wage and Labor,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Uncategorized,
Contingent Labor,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Department of Labor,
Final Rule,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FLSA,
President Obama,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Management,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Workforce Planning
Organizations are facing a digital transformation, as I have written, that is rapidly changing the applications and services that businesses use to operate and deliver information. This new digital generation addresses the expectations of consumers and business partners for information and service in real time. One example of it is enterprise messaging. Recently I wrote about the shift to this technology and the challenges it poses for organizations that lack sufficient skills. However, new...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Social Media,
Enterprise messaging, Internet of Things, IoT, mid,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
As the global economy transforms into a world of digital services that cross industries, including those that provide value-added services for physical products, managing the complications that arise from digital browsing, selection and purchasing of goods, as well as activation, billing and servicing of accounts, becomes a challenge. Organizations have to not just engage customers but provide satisfying experiences that keep them coming back. Our benchmark research on next-generation customer...
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Topics:
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Subscription, Recurring Revenue, Zuora,
Business Analytics,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
The learning management system (LMS) offers opportunity for organizations to progressively enhance the effectiveness of their workforce. An advanced LMS can be more than a digital version of an organization’s training programs for specific jobs or to achieve compliance with policies and regulations. It can provide dynamic yet informal learning that business units can create, deploy and sustain through their own efforts. Last year I outlined the benefits of this new generation of learning...
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Topics:
Human Capital,
LMS,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
I hope this title captures your attention; I’m trying to make a point about the chaos going on in managing and operating marketing. What marketing needs in 2016 is to manage and optimize its efforts in a more unified manner. This perspective kicks off a new series on the challenges for marketing to automate or execute tasks and manage toward maximum performance. We all know that the craft of marketing is in need of significant transformation, from the CMO throughout the entire marketing...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
Social Media,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CMO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)