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What Is Vendor Sprawl?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

The big picture The average enterprise company uses more than 1,000 different applications across separate departments, which are often siloed, according to MuleSoft’s 2023 Connectivity Benchmark Report. This is known as vendor sprawl. Consolidate your spend with one or just a few vendors. What is vendor sprawl?

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Send in the Clouds: Martech Moves to Cloud Platforms

Customer Experience Matrix

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Last weekend brought the intriguing rumor that Salesforce is in late stage talks to acquire data integration vendor Informatica. Cloud database vendors including Google and Snowflake are expanding into marketing applications.

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Data Silos: The Hidden Barrier to Effective B2B Decision-Making

RDIGS

Businesses collect vast amounts of data from various sources, ranging from customer information to sales figures and market trends. This fragmentation of data poses a hidden barrier to effective B2B decision-making. They create barriers to collaboration by segregating data within different teams or departments.

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What is Cybersecurity? Your Guide to Digital Defense

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

With every custom application , cloud service, customer account, proprietary technology, and remote work log-in, your risks multiply. Because cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, it’s important that your teams remain vigilant and that daily tasks, such as software updates, become critical safeguards.

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7 reasons to use live event captioning + 4 things to look for in closed captioning software

SpotMe Blog

Most event organizers and marketing leads think of live event captioning as a “nice-to-have” feature. Recent advances in AI (artificial intelligence) have transformed closed captioning software for live events. And what should you look for when choosing the right software? But it’s a must-have tool for every event.

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The Best Payment Processing Software for SMBs

BenchmarkONE

The design, functionality, and content planning that goes into the launch of any successful online enterprise tends to dominate the conversation. Whatever payment processor is recommended by the cart, template, or service you’re utilizing is enough, right? Let’s look at the major players and the services they offer.

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How to Market a Startup, Part 1: Branding, Customer, and Messaging

Webbiquity

Most startup founders aren’t marketing professionals. But there are a few things about marketing that are vital to understand in order to be successful. In the technology sector, they are most often software developers or engineers. SalesReach (communication software for sales professionals). Which is fine.

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