I am happy to share insights gleaned from our latest Value Index research, an assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Product Information Management 2021 is the distillation of a year of market and product research by Ventana Research. Drawing on our Benchmark Research, we apply a structured methodology built on evaluation categories that reflect the real-world criteria incorporated in a request for proposal to product information...
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Topics:
Sales,
Marketing,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning
Having just completed the 2021 Ventana Research Value Index for Product Information Management, I want to share some of my observations about how the market and category have advanced since our first examination over 15 years ago.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Sales
Subscription pricing models are no longer new. Many companies have experience with this pricing model even if there has not been complete adoption across their entire product and service offerings. Companies that use this model, or have spent time looking at the approach, understand the approach of a recurring revenue stream based on a repeating flat fee.
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Predictive Planning,
Subscription Management
Since customer data platforms (CDP) emerged in the marketplace about five years ago, there has been debate about what roles they fill, especially within customer service organizations. They were originally developed by small software firms to provide marketing teams with a comprehensive view of customer records. Those records could be scattered throughout an organization, siloed by system and department. CDPs were an attempt to shortcut integration processes that are long, expensive and often...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
data artisan,
Data Governance,
Data Lake,
Data Preparation,
Data,
Information Management (IM),
intelligent marketing
With modern enterprises adopting and expanding their digital business with subscription and usage business, organizations need to think beyond the primacy of sales as their source of business success. A sustained customer experience is key, representing an organizational and cultural shift from the traditional emphasis on new sales to an equally important focus on customer retention and upsell/cross-sell opportunities. This mindset is also important to organizations involved in digital commerce...
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Topics:
Sales,
Marketing,
Analytics,
Product Information Management,
Sales Performance Management,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Subscription Management
The contact center is still, for most businesses, where customer experience is designed, delivered and measured. And as we might expect, customer experience (CX) tools are migrating from where they started point solutions based on narrow functions into broader suites that encompass multi-departmental functions and reach across customer journeys. The goal is to provide more consistency across interactions, and to provide organizations with deeper insights into customer behavior along with...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Voice of the Customer,
Contact Center,
Digital Commerce,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
agent management
Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 market agenda in the expertise area of Marketing, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value from business technology and improve outcomes.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Marketing Performance Management,
Digital Marketing,
intelligent marketing,
Digital Experience Platform,
Conversational Marketing
Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 market agenda in the expertise area of Customer Experience. Most organizations have some degree of focus on managing how they interact with their customers, but it is often a disjointed and constrained process. Developing an effective customer experience has become an investment priority in recent years as organizations increasingly recognize the importance of good experiences to profitability, customer longevity and advocacy on behalf of brands.
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Voice of the Customer,
Analytics,
Customer Service,
Contact Center,
Workforce Management,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
agent management,
Customer Experience Management,
Field Service,
AI & Machine Learning
Ventana Research has announced its market agenda for 2021, continuing the tradition of transparency in our efforts to educate and guide the technology market but also our independence as we do not share our market agenda or analyst perspectives with any external party. Each year, we proudly formulate our market agenda that is not biased by clients or the technology industry, focusing on education rather than the prospect of consulting or software revenue. We review and refine our plan...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Analytics,
Data,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Office of Sales,
Digital Business
The industry is making huge strides with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). There is more data available to analyze. Analytics vendors have made it easier to build and deploy models, and AI/ML is being embedded into many types of applications. Organizations are realizing the value that AI/ML provides and there are now millions of professionals with AI or ML in their title or job description. AI/ML is even being used to make many aspects of itself easier. Organizations that...
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Topics:
Sales,
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Preparation,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning