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What Is Vendor Sprawl?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

IT teams continue to face technology and process challenges as they work to streamline their digital transformations. Many of these systems are poorly connected,” Vala Afshar, Salesforce’s chief digital evangelist, recently wrote , referencing the MuleSoft report. This is known as vendor sprawl.

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Is Your Organization Ready For Market Strategy In A Digital Economy?

Tony Zambito

The digitization of the global economy is resulting in a tidal wave of new business and operating models throughout the world. Sparking rapid forms of innovations and turning existing markets upside down with new market rules and design. Well before the impact of the next tidal wave of change hits with full force.

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Why It's So Hard for Companies to Change

B2B Marketing Directions

Over the past few years, digital transformation - which can be defined as the use of digital technologies to create new, or reengineer existing, processes, culture, and customer experience - has become an important strategic objective objective for many companies. So why is change so hard?

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14 ecommerce platform features that retailers can leverage to improve sales

ClickZ

Features such as rule-based product recommendations, product alerts, product bundles, and tier pricing enable retailers to keep relevant products front and center, increase the average order value, and motivate shoppers to buy more. These include rule-based product recommendations, product alerts, product bundling, and tier pricing.

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CEO of Altimeter Group, Charlene Li sees Huge Opportunities for Leaders Communicating with Video

Vidyard

Leaders need to catch up to communication technology and extend their power and influence through digital channels. But, if leaders can overcome these barriers (and Charlene gives explicit tips for this in her book), they are sure to realise stronger relationships and a more engaged and cohesive employee base.

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Platform dynamics driving martech app expansion and consolidation explained in one (relatively) simple model

chiefmartech

The rules of basic economics apply: by making software development faster, easier, and cheaper, you get get more software developed. Due to effectively zero barriers to entry for new apps, the total number of specialist apps in the world collectively does not shrink. Witness the Martech 5000.

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Cloud Security Management: All there is to know

Valasys

As they implement their digital transformation strategy and integrate cloud-based tools and services into their infrastructure, organizations need cloud security. . In recent years, the phrases “digital transformation” and “cloud migration” have become commonplace in business contexts.