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The need for speed: Rapid prototyping for SaaS success

Compare The Cloud

Anyone who has spent a decade or more in the software industry will have witnessed firsthand how technological change shows no signs of halting its exponential acceleration. And that frenetic pace has perhaps been felt most in the software-as-a-service sector. Modern SaaS companies operate in a landscape where customer expectations are constantly shifting.

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Give Partners the Tools to Drive Demand

Partner Path

3 Steps to help partners expand your marketing reach. In our last annual webinar discussion between Diane Krakora and Jay McBain , Diane quoted desperate vendors as saying: “We don't care about a partner program; we just need them to generate leads. We don't care about customer success; we just need them to generate leads.” That’s short-sighted. Partners need a good partner program and a path to success with your products/services before they’re just going to hand over a giant bag of leads.

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Embracing repatriation for cloud optimisation: Reclaiming control

Compare The Cloud

“You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.” – Sarah Wang and Martin Casado, general partners at Andreessen Horowitz (a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California). It is a raging debate. The business world is divided on this. Cloud computing has, no doubt, created powerful value propositions for global enterprises.

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3 limitations of partnership tiers

Stellar Partnerships

Life is full of experiences that seemed good at the time but which we’d rather not repeat. For me it’s a curly perm, shiny lycra leggings and dancing on the bar after a jug of strawberry margaritas. They might have been fun for a short while but we’re not in a hurry to make them a permanent fixture of life. There are always hidden costs and consequences.

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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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Top 15 Full-Service Advertising Agencies As Of 2023

Jake Jorgovan

The digital world is extremely fast-paced, which makes finding the right advertising agency one of the most important tasks. Why? These full-service advertising agencies will boost your brand's visibility and reach your target audience. And that's crucial. Whether you're a budding startup or an established enterprise, a full-service advertising agency will be your strategic partner in achieving marketing success.

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Building food and agriculture businesses for a green future

McKinsey & Company

Many industry leaders expect significant disruption across the agriculture value chain over the next two years, resulting in new opportunities to build and scale green-growth, resilient businesses.

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What can AI and generative AI do for governments?

IBM Business Partners

Few technologies have taken the world by storm the way artificial intelligence (AI) has over the past few years. AI and its many use cases have become a topic of public discussion no longer relegated to tech experts. AI—generative AI, in particular—has tremendous potential to transform society as we know it for good, boost productivity and unlock trillions in economic value in the coming years.

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When It Comes to Introductions, It's the Journey, Not Just the Destination

INSEAD Knowledge

Be it through cover letters or get-to-know-you emails, professionals often introduce and promote themselves through written communications, which offer one of the most basic opportunities to shape impressions. LinkedIn data reveal that about 122 million people have been granted interviews through the largely text-based networking site, with eight people hired via the platform every minute.

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Nail It the First Time: Your Roadmap to Intelligent Contact Center Automation

Frost & Sullivan

In the last article, we explored automation’s potential to deliver swift query resolution while carving out multi-million-dollar savings for contact centers. Companies know this and are investing heavily in AI and automation solutions. Yet many consumers are not happy with the state of affairs. Why is it that most automation projects fail to deliver on expectations?

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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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AI Governance Requires Global Action

Partnership on AI

Share Our Blog / Blog Other AI Governance Requires Global Action Rebecca Finlay September 18, 2023 Content Wrapper Click here to start editing --> Content Row Click here to start editing --> As awareness of AI’s potentially world-changing impact has grown, so, too, have calls for new forms of governance to guide this technology. From my experience working at the intersection of society and tech, this is not a choice between innovation and speed on one hand and responsibility and safety on the ot

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Seize the decade: Maximizing value through pre-construction excellence

McKinsey & Company

The capital projects ecosystem has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support the transformation of economies—and can avoid past mistakes through pre-construction excellence.

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Generative AI as a catalyst for change in the telecommunications industry

IBM Business Partners

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) burst into the mainstream in 2023, lighting a fire under businesses to integrate enterprise-grade versions into their processes. By 2024, 60% of C-suite executives are planning to pilot or operate generative AI in some way, indicating that generative AI’s public-facing platforms have awakened the world to its groundbreaking capabilities For Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), in particular, generative AI ho

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A First Step Towards Resilient Organisations

INSEAD Knowledge

The resilience of an organisation cannot be measured in advance. Crises, by definition, emerge not only from unfamiliar, disruptive and unexpected events but also from the fact that the immediate consequences of such events get entangled and intertwined with the complex dynamics of the organisation. Organisations are intricate systems with various components interacting in diverse ways, making it impossible for any member, including the directors and the CEO, to have a complete picture of the or

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Cyolo Awarded by Frost & Sullivan for Delivering Seamless and Secure Connectivity with Its Innovative Zero-trust Access Solution

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX – September 19, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the North American secure remote access market for OT environments and, based on its findings, recognizes Cyolo , provider of secure access for all critical infrastructure, with the 2023 North American New Product Innovation Award for Secure Remote Access to Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems (OT/ICS).

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AI Has Taken the Boardroom by Storm. Here’s What You Must Know.

Planview Blog

Pallab Chatterjee, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized high-tech executive with decades of experience in corporate general management, governance, strategy, technology, and operations. Dr. Chatterjee Is currently chairman of 3 Lines VC, a boutique venture capitalist firm specializing in investments in AI-focused companies in the US and India. He also serves as a Planview Executive Advisor.

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The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people

McKinsey & Company

Generative AI can empower people—but only if leaders take a broad view of its capabilities and deeply consider its implications for the organization.

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IBM TechXchange underscores the importance of AI skilling and partner innovation

IBM Business Partners

Generative AI and large language models are poised to impact how we all access and use information. But as organizations race to adopt these new technologies for business, it requires a global ecosystem of partners with industry expertise to identify the right enterprise use-cases for AI and the technical skills to implement the technology. During TechXchange , IBM’s premier technical learning event in Las Vegas last week, IBM Partner Plus members including our Strategic Partners, reseller

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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5 research-backed ways creators can stand out when pitching brands

Impact

Swipe right. It’s a match! Attracting the right brand partners is a lot building a dating profile. As a creator, you want to present your personal brand in a way that gets attention. According to impact.com consumer research, two in three brands plan to expand their creator programs in the next year, so there’s no shortage of eligible brands to add to your portfolio.

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ASX-Listed Atturra Makes New MSP Play & Acquires Sabervox

Channel Insider

Australian IT consultancy and advisory and prolific growth company, Atturra, has announced its latest acquisition, Sabervox, in a deal worth $5 million. Sabervox is a Newcastle-based managed service provider, and focuses largely on the mid-market. Atturra has made the acquisition specifically to grow its presence in regional New South Wales, for which Newcastle is a major hub.

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3 Key Takeaways from BuildIT Live

ForzaDash

This week, IT By Design rolled out its grand event, #BuildITLive, at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, and it was nothing short of insightful. Here’s a glimpse of what stood out: Disney Institute Training : This was a special highlight. A full day dedicated to the Disney Institute’s teachings was held on Sunday. A couple of surprising elements: No photographs allowed for the slides, a unique approach indeed.

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, August 2023

McKinsey & Company

Leading indicators show signs of a rebound—will it sustain? Confidence potentially returning but consumers remain cautious; inflation persistent in some countries; trade volumes still declining.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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iFoodDS and IBM forge new path to food safety with IBM Food Trust™

IBM Business Partners

Picture this: You’re at your local supermarket, eagerly exploring the fresh produce section. You carefully select a carton of ripe, juicy fresh-cut strawberries, envisioning them as the star ingredient in your weekend’s mouthwatering desserts. You’re all set to enjoy a delightful culinary adventure. But as you savor your first bite of a luscious strawberry shortcake, you receive a notification on your smartphone.

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Celebrating Achievements: A Recap of Customers Honored at Planview Accelerate 2023

Planview Blog

The Planview Vision Awards are given out annually to a select few Planview customers to recognize our customers’ success, hard work, and future goals with our solutions. We are thrilled to acknowledge a handful of forward-looking organizations that have excelled at achieving their strategic goals by leveraging Planview’s solutions. We also use this opportunity to recognize customers who challenge Planview to build better products and provide better service, leading to improved collaboration whil

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IQVIA’s innovative technology, regulatory research and consulting services advance quality management systems for life science companies

Frost & Sullivan

IQVIA’s SmartSolve enterprise quality management system (eQMS) with advanced quality management, compliance, digital content management, and supplier quality is based on Microsoft technologies that ensure enterprise level capabilities and applicability in many life sciences environments. Continuous solution updates; solution integrations with complementary IQVIA offerings; enriched user experience; and, finally, AI/machine learning – all make SmartSolve a transformative eQMS.

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6 essential mid-year consumer trends for 2023

Impact

Despite whispers about economic uncertainty, consumers show few signs of slowing spending. In 2023, 41% of consumers said they intended to splurge. Many shoppers followed through, checking items off their wish lists throughout the year’s first half. However, consumers leaned into strategic spending this year, while consistently hunting down the best deal.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The next wave: Alternative-seafood solutions

McKinsey & Company

Global demand for fish and shellfish is growing rapidly—and alternative proteins are well positioned to sustainably scale the industry.

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Buying APM was a good decision (so is getting rid of it)

IBM Business Partners

For a long time, there wasn’t a good standard definition of observability that encompassed organizational needs while keeping the spirit of IT monitoring intact. Eventually, the concept of “Observability = Metrics + Traces + Logs” became the de facto definition. That’s nice, but to understand what observability should be , you must consider the characteristics of modern applications: Changes in how they’re developed, deployed and operated The blurring of lines betwe

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INSEAD Insights: September 2023 Research Picks

INSEAD Knowledge

Five new research papers by INSEAD faculty shed light on designing online auctions for sponsored products, the creation of novel markets, trust and artificial intelligence (AI), social diversity in corporate boards and the relationship between quality and satisfaction when it comes to consumer choices. 1. The problem of designing auctions for sponsored products Online marketplaces, such as Amazon, Alibaba, Google Shopping and JD.com, allow sellers to promote their products by charging them for t

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