Here are some insights on Oracle 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 Oracle 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,
Data,
Sales Performance Management,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Digital Technology,
Digital Commerce,
Predictive Planning,
Conversational Computing,
collaborative computing,
mobile computing,
Subscription Management,
intelligent sales,
AI & Machine Learning
Dreamforce has become the largest enterprise software event for businesses in the United States, and it is evident why when looking at it this year. With over 170,000 business and IT professionals attending, Salesforce came to show off upcoming product announcements and innovations. This year's biggest focus was on Einstein Voice (a personalized and intelligent conversational assistant), integration with other platforms, and Salesforce Customer 360. The last of these is the start of an answer...
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Topics:
Salesforce.com,
Customer Experience,
Machine Learning,
Marketing,
Voice of the Customer,
CRM,
Dreamforce,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SPM,
Digital Technology,
Digital Marketing,
Robotic Process Automation,
AI,
natural language processing,
Intelligent CX
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)
Managing marketing performance is anything but simple. It requires establishing a unified approach to assess the outcomes of initiatives and projects and compare results with investments in marketing people and campaigns. In general, while performance management has been conducted effectively at the corporate levels, it has been a challenge for most lines of business, marketing departments included.
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Topics:
Social Media,
Marketing,
Marketing Performance Management,
Marketing Planning,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CMO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Demand Generation,
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
I have been meaning to write about Salesforce since its Dreamforce 2015 conference. Salesforce provides a platform, tools and applications for business and IT who claims to be the ‘no software’ company which as you will read is exactly what happened on May 10th. Heck, Salesforce is making a lot of advances on its platform, its applications and even with Analytics and the Internet of Things. These changes are at the center of what at our analyst firm calls digital business innovation. Much of...
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Topics:
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
Marketing,
NA14,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Customer Service,
IOT,
CRM,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
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)