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The top 10 IT outsourcing service providers

CIO

Everest Group’s annual ranking of the top IT service providers saw some movement this year compared to last, but one thing that remained unchanged was Accenture’s place at the top of the list. In fact, it was the sixth year in a row that the $50.5 billion firm was recognized as the overall leading service provider of the year. “Knocking Accenture down a peg or two is easily the biggest challenge for other players in the industry,” says Abhishek Singh, partner with Everest Group.

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Crayon Customer Corner: Meet the Product Marketing Team at Bonterra!

Crayon

In our second installment of the Crayon Customer Corner, we sat down with the Product Marketing Team at Bonterra (formerly Social Solutions). The team recently purchased Crayon and discussed how the platform and their team bring competitive intelligence to the next level. At Bonterra - sales, marketing, and customer success teams all leverage competitive intel to stay informed on competitors’ movements and improve their go-to-market strategy.

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A Roadmap to Set SMART Digital Marketing Goals

mention

Not all marketing goals are created equal. Some goals produce the desired results, while others only stay on paper. That explains why 90% of businesses fail to meet their strategic goals. The truth is that an objective is nothing without: An action plan to implement it A realistic timeline to achieve it A set of metrics to analyze its success. So, jotting down one-line goals will not cut it in such a competitive marketing landscape.

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Why Machine Learning Can Lead to the Perfect Web Design

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning technology is becoming a more important aspect of modern marketing. One of the biggest reasons for this is that digital marketing is playing a huge role in marketing strategies for most companies. Companies are expected to spend $460 billion on digital marketing this year. Machine learning technology is a very important element of digital marketing.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Leveraging Digital Buying Signals for Retail Success

Intelligence Node

The Digital Shopper & the Evolving Retail Landscape How has retail changed in the past few years? While there are multiple right answers to this question, the most obvious one. The post Leveraging Digital Buying Signals for Retail Success appeared first on Blog.

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Four Ways Modern Hiring is Broken, and How to Fix It

Zoominfo

In my previous career as a staffing consultant, I once pitched a staffing product to the HR leaders at a big financial services company, which had recently completed a huge merger. The CEOs of both merging companies had told an industry magazine that cost-cutting would be a top priority for the newly formed organization, so my presentation was focused on highlighting this part of the solution.

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7 Key Elements of a Quarterly Marketing Roadmap Template

Weidert Group

Annual marketing plans are necessary but exhaustive. The time and resources needed to develop your “next moves” for the coming year can be overwhelming. And what happens when a year’s worth of planning goes awry ? The marketing initiatives you plan to deploy 6–12 months from now may become irrelevant or possibly even obsolete. That’s why high-level annual plans need to include quarterly marketing plans, or “roadmaps,” that work in tandem with annual growth objectives.

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Reviving Pharma Perception with Sentiment Analysis

Netbasequid

Healthcare concerns are no longer top of mind with consumers, who are understandably distracted by other worrisome events in the world. And along with this shift in focus comes the reemergence of a disinterested skepticism of everything Pharma offers. Reviving Pharma’s perception before it flatlines is imperative – and we are going to share how that could look!

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Product Marketing Spotlight Series: Hannah Sackett

Crayon

Crayon's Product Marketing Spotlight is a video interview series where we chat with product marketers to get a glimpse into their careers and gain unique insight into product marketing strategy. In this edition of the Product Marketing Spotlight Series, we shine the light on Hannah Sackett of Electric.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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California’s New Privacy Agency: Is Your Company Ready?

Zoominfo

California has been setting the pace on consumer privacy protections for nearly two decades, passing laws that regulate how businesses like Amazon, Google and Facebook can collect, store and use consumer data. This includes the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its successor, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which takes effect in 2023.

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What Are AI APIs, and How Do They Work?

Dataversity

An application programming interface (API) is a powerful technology and a growing concept in the software development sphere. It can be used in a variety of business functions and in applications that we regularly use. We frequently hear about APIs, but most of us don’t realize that they have become more prevalent in our daily […]. The post What Are AI APIs, and How Do They Work?

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How to Write Your Best Brand Positioning Statement

Netbasequid

A brand positioning statement is a summary of the marketing objectives of a business. It is based on the idea that, to be successful, a brand must find and occupy a unique spot in the marketplace. And we’re going to show you how to write one that speaks to yours! Beyond the commodity offered, marketing plays a special role in carving out the market, shaping brand perception, and influencing customer behavior.

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10 Big Data Examples Showing The Great Value of Smart Analytics In Real Life At Restaurants, Bars, and Casinos

Datapine Blog

“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran. When you think of big data, you usually think of applications related to banking, healthcare analytics , or manufacturing. After all, these are some pretty massive industries with many examples of big data analytics, and the rise of business intelligence software is answering what data management needs.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. The refrain has been repeated ever since. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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How to Take Advantage of Data Commerce Platforms

Dataversity

In today’s digital world, data has become critical to the success of companies across all industries. The highest-performing organizations utilize data to make better business decisions, generate new revenue streams, and grow faster than their competitors. But getting the exact data they need, and monetizing the data they already have, can be difficult.

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Leverage Key Performance Indicators to Achieve Results!

Elegant BI

Key Performance Indicators and Performance Management are Crucial to Business Agility! When a business takes on the task of going from an opinion-based, guessing game environment to a metrics-based, fact-based environment, it must decide WHAT to measure. Metrics are fine, but deciding what is important to measure is crucial. You can measure the wrong things and end up knowing nothing about what is happening in your enterprise, and which tasks and activities are contributing to your bottom line,

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Owler Launches Owler Max, the Ultimate Sales Companion Tool to Empower Sales Professionals

Owler

Empowering sales teams to prospect, engage and close deals faster, Owler’s sales intelligence tool arms salespeople with timely, actionable insights for target accounts. San Francisco, CA, April 13, 2022 - Owler , the world's most extensive community-driven business information and insights platform, today introduced Owler Max. Owler Max is a fresh sales enablement offering providing actionable insights on target accounts, allowing sales professionals to work faster and smarter.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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How to Use Customer Service in Your Marketing Plan

Weidert Group

(To the tune of “The Candy Man”). “Who can take your products? (Who can take your products?) Give ‘em good reviews Give ‘em good reviews) Write ‘em up on Google and then rate ‘em more than “2” The customer (The customer) The customer can (The customer can)”. The customer, whether it’s an individual consumer or another business, is the reason your company exists in the first place.

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Real-Time Data Processing Is No Longer the Future – It Is Essential Right Now

Dataversity

World-wide real-time data grows exponentially every minute as more people use more devices, websites, IoT sensors, and other ways to stay connected. Today, the ability to instantly analyze and capitalize on streaming data, precisely when it is generated, is key to the success or failure of an organization. While the customer is still king, real-time data processing supplies […].

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External Data for Consulting Firms: Insights and Use Cases

Thinknum

For business and competitive intelligence, lead generation, people analytics, and more. External Data for Consultants Many companies have achieved strong improvements in growth and productivity by collecting and using data from their own internal activities. Now, external web data – from social media activity, product reviews, employee sentiment, and more –are helping companies unlock further improvements in business outcomes.

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9 Reasons to Stop Manual Repricing of your eCommerce Products

Data Hut

If you're an online retailer, repricing should never be manual. Why? Because it's a long, tedious process that also has a higher margin for error. It is no joke to handle thousands of items; now imagine opting for a manual method to reprice these many items. It is unproductive, but it also brings down the quality of work. When the pandemic struck, digital presence gained relevance.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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The success of a High Performing Team

Stellar Consulting

By Joanna Berry, a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Stellar. I have been part of a high performing team at Stellar for the last 5 years. Recently I have become more and more curious about the team dynamics. What makes us such a well-functioning team despite a variety of challenges and new members regularly joining the team? My curiosity has led me to the following insights and conclusions.

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Data-Driven Innovation: How to Establish an Effective Metrics Framework

Dataversity

Innovation is big business. Whether it is R&D, talent, or physical infrastructure – see the numerous fancy “innovation centers” that are rolled out on a yearly basis – companies pour millions of dollars into their innovation efforts annually. But there is one key difference that separates innovation from every other department in an organization: metrics. […].

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Generating Alpha Using Alternative Data in Capital Markets

Thinknum

Stay Competitive in the Capital Markets As companies move their business operations online, new data trails are being created that can be leveraged to make more informed investment decisions. This guide highlights use cases of alternative data across multiple sectors. Track Location Expansion and Competition Track where a company is growing or contracting geographically by individual locations.

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The Benefits of RILAs for Gen X Clients

Wink Intel

Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. According to LIMRA , registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) sales for the first half of 2021 were 105% higher than the same period in 2020. They have maintained a 38% compound annual growth rate since they were introduced over 10 years ago 1.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.