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class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>ITOps</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/focus/digitaltechnology/it-service-management" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>IT Service Management</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/focus/digitaltechnology/observability" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Observability</span></a></span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="minimal-has-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/humancapitalmanagement" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Human Capital Management</span></a></span> <ul class="minimal-mobile-menu-submenu level-3"> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a 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class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Continuous Supply Chain & ERP</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/focus/operationsandsupplychain/productinformationmanagement" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Product Information Management</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/focus/operationsandsupplychain/propertytechnology" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Property Technology</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu minimal-mobile-menu-item hs-skip-lang-url-rewrite"> <span><a href="https://www.isg-research.net/focus/operationsandsupplychain/supplierrelationshipmanagement" class="minimal-mobile-menu-link"><span>Supplier Relationship Management</span></a></span> </li> <li class="minimal-no-mobile-submenu 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One way to enhance that collaboration is to make tasks such as scheduling, time and attendance and task management accessible through smartphones and tablets. The management team at<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> <a title="Dayforce" href="http://www.dayforce.com/" target="_blank">Dayforce</a></span> has experience with workforce management applications and now into the next generation of collaboration and mobility. The company uses...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/dayforce-engages-workforces-for-higher-productivity"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dayforce">dayforce</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/excentive-provides-a-simpler-path-to-total-compensation-management">Excentive Provides a Simpler Path to Total Compensation Management</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">30 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;">Retaining talent and managing financials related to compensation should be a top priority for the HR and finance functions of companies, and many of them realize this. In our recent <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="benchmark research in total compensation management," href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/tcm" target="_blank">benchmark research in total compensation management,</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;"> 72 percent of participants said it’s important or very important to have a compensation system aligned to their processes. One newer provider to the market, <a title="Excentive" href="http://www.excentive.com/" target="_blank">Excentive</a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;">, started in 2002 in Europe and expanded globally in 2009. Its <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Excentive Compensation Cockpit" href="http://www.excentive.com/SOLUTIONS/INCENTIVEMANAGEMENT/tabid/139/language/en-US/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Excentive Compensation Cockpit</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;">...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/excentive-provides-a-simpler-path-to-total-compensation-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-compensation">Sales Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-operations">Sales Operations</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/excentive">Excentive</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/interactive-intelligence-advances-cloud-based-contact-center">Interactive Intelligence Advances Cloud-Based Contact Center</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">30 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a title="Interactive Intelligence" href="http://www.inin.com/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Interactive Intelligence</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> recently released version 4.0 of its <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Customer Interaction Center (CIC)" href="http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/Customer-Interaction-Center.aspx" target="_blank">Customer Interaction Center (CIC)</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. CIC provides companies with integrated communications and contact center functions that can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment divided between them. </span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/interactive-intelligence-advances-cloud-based-contact-center"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactive-intelligence">Interactive Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/verint-will-acquire-gmt-to-extend-workforce-management">Verint Will Acquire GMT To Extend Workforce Management</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">29 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Recently <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Verint announced" href="http://verint.com/corporate/releases_view.cfm?article_level1_category_id=7&article_level1_id=1481" target="_blank">Verint announced</a></span> its intent to acquire <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="GMT" href="http://www.gmt.com/" target="_blank">GMT</a>,</span> a provider of workforce management products. My initial reaction was that Verint was primarily interested in acquiring GMT’s customer base to extend its already large share of the workforce management market. In a briefing Verint confirmed this but said there are other reasons behind its move as well.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/verint-will-acquire-gmt-to-extend-workforce-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/verint">Verint</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/nice-acquires-fizzback-for-customer-feedback-analytics">NICE Acquires Fizzback for Customer Feedback Analytics</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">29 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;">NICE Systems has agreed to acquire <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Fizzback" href="http://www.nice.com/nice-acquire-fizzback-introducing-most-complete-customer-experience-management-offering-integration" target="_blank">Fizzback</a></span>, a specialist vendor of customer feedback management software. On first read this appears to be another acquisition to gain market share, as NICE already provides a <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="customer feedback tool" href="http://www.nice.com/smartcenter-suite/customer-feedback" target="_blank">customer feedback tool</a></span>; however, Fizzback’s customer base is much smaller than NICE’s, so this looks unlikely. Representatives of NICE explained to me that the acquisition is part of its long-term strategy to enhance its customer feedback management capabilities and to build a stronger...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/nice-acquires-fizzback-for-customer-feedback-analytics"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nice-systems">NICE Systems</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/microstrategy-takes-cloud-computing-personally">MicroStrategy Takes Cloud Computing Personally</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">29 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This has been the year of the cloud for MicroStrategy. After ignoring early competition from cloud-based business intelligence (BI) providers, the company has jumped on the cloud BI bandwagon. At <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="MicroStrategy World" href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/02/07/microstrategy-combines-actions-with-business-intelligence-and-mobility/" target="_blank">MicroStrategy World</a></span>early this year it announced a program called Cloud Intelligence and this summer <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="introduced MicroStrategy Cloud" href="http://www.microstrategy.com/news/pr_system/press_release.asp?ctry=167&id=2294" target="_blank">introduced MicroStrategy Cloud</a></span>, a complete BI platform with the option of using either IBM Netezza or ParAccel as the database and Informatica as the data integration environment. Now the company has...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/microstrategy-takes-cloud-computing-personally"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/microstrategy">MicroStrategy</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saas">SaaS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software-as-a-service">Software as a Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/visualization">Visualization</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/pivotlink-advances-business-analytics-in-the-cloud">PivotLink Advances Business Analytics in the Cloud</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">26 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="PivotLink" href="http://www.pivotlink.com/" target="_blank">PivotLink</a></span> introduced version 5 of its Business Intelligence (BI) product, which it delivers in the cloud computing environment and available through software as a service (SaaS) at its user conference. Demonstrating one of the unique benefits of providing it a SaaS approach, PivotLink did not require any of the attendees to request a download, get a new license file or do any type of software upgrade to receive the new version. It had already been done for them. One purpose of the conference...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/pivotlink-advances-business-analytics-in-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/retail-analytics">Retail Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saas">SaaS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/proposal-software-simplifies-key-aspects-of-sales">Proposal Software Simplifies Key Aspects of Sales</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">25 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">Sales proposals can determine whether a deal is booked or lost. In most organizations the process of creating and delivering a proposal is manual and one-off, with many potential places for mistakes. This lack of rigor and efficiency impairs many organizations’ ability to leverage their resources. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Proposal Software" href="http://www.proposalsoftware.com/" target="_blank">Proposal Software</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;"> helps sales organizations with an application called <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="PMAPS" href="http://www.proposalsoftware.com/products_pmaps_2011.html" target="_blank">PMAPS</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;"> that addresses sales management and operations.</span> </p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/proposal-software-simplifies-key-aspects-of-sales"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-force-automation">Sales Force Automation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cmo">CMO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/df11">DF11</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management">Sales Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfa">SFA</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/karmasphere-makes-sense-of-big-data">Karmasphere Makes Sense of Big Data</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">23 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Recently <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Karmasphere" href="http://www.karmasphere.com/" target="_blank">Karmasphere</a></span> introduced <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="version 1.5 of its Analyst product" href="http://karmasphere.com/Press-Releases/karmasphere-analyst-offers-data-professionals-new-analytics-workflow-on-hadoop.html" target="_blank">version 1.5 of its Analyst product</a></span> which helps organizations analyze “big data” stored in Hadoop, the open source large-scale data processing technology. An independent software vendor focused exclusively on the Hadoop market, Karmasphere made available a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="community edition of its developer product" href="http://karmasphere.com/Download/register-for-community-edition.html" target="_blank">community edition of its developer product</a></span> in September 2009 and launched the company in March 2010. Since then it has been active and visible in Hadoop-related events including <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Hadoop World" href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2010/11/27/hadoop-is-the-elephant-in-the-room/" target="_blank">Hadoop World</a></span>, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="IBM Big Data Symposium" href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/18/ibm-chooses-hadoop-unity-not-shipping-the-elephant/" target="_blank">IBM Big Data...</a></span></span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/karmasphere-makes-sense-of-big-data"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-warehousing">Data Warehousing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/karmasphere">Karmasphere</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stratahadoop">Strata+Hadoop</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/salesforce-com-presents-the-social-enterprise">Salesforce.com Presents the Social Enterprise</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">23 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;">As he opened last week’s Cloudforce 2011 conference in London, <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Salesforce.com" href="http://www.salesforce.com/" target="_blank">Salesforce.com</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> CEO Marc Benioff declared that companies “must become social or die.” He reiterated the message in answer to a direct question I put to him during lunch with the media and analysts. I have heard several of his keynotes, and reviewed my <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="colleague analysis" href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/09/02/salesforce-presents-new-social-enterprise-with-chatter-mobility-and-data/" target="_blank">colleague analysis</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> from recent Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. and this one had a distinct change of emphasis. Benioff seems to feel that the cloud argument has been won, his...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/salesforce-com-presents-the-social-enterprise"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/professional-services-automation-makes-sense-in-the-cloud">Professional Services Automation Makes Sense in the Cloud</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">22 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Cloud computing has changed the fundamental economics of business software, bringing new capabilities within reach of large numbers of small and midsize companies for the first time. Cloud-based ERP, for example, enables many midsize companies that in the past might have continued to use an entry-level accounting package to have more capable and sophisticated systems. The investment in software and IT capabilities to implement an ERP system on-premises is considerable enough that midsize...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/professional-services-automation-makes-sense-in-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/connectwise">ConnectWise</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consulting">Consulting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/netsuite-openai">NetSuite OpenAi</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planmill">PlanMill</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projecthelp">ProjectHelp</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projector">Projector</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/psa">PSA</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unanet-technologies">Unanet Technologies</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financialforce">FinancialForce</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services">Professional Services</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services-automation">Professional Services Automation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-management">Project Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/workforce-software-can-simplify-managers-and-workers-lives">WorkForce Software Can Simplify Managers and Workers Lives</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">22 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">A key component of workforce management software is to aid in scheduling and tracking time and attendance, streamlining interactions between managers and employees regarding these aspects of the job and promoting compliance with corporate and regulatory policies. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="WorkForce Software" href="http://www.workforcesoftware.com/" target="_blank">WorkForce Software</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;"> has been growing rapidly over the last decade while meeting these needs with an application suite that covers issues from leave management to case management. Its product helps businesses deal with overlapping...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/workforce-software-can-simplify-managers-and-workers-lives"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/20/merced-customers-apply-analytics-and-metrics-to-improve-agent-performance">Merced Customers Apply Analytics and Metrics To Improve Agent Performance</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">20 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Ventana Research’s benchmark research into <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="agent performance management" href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/apm/" target="_blank">agent performance management</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> shows that most companies recognize the vital role contact center agents play in creating good customer experiences and thus good business outcomes. The research also shows that only the most mature companies have put in place processes and metrics that encourage behaviors that deliver such business outcomes. Furthermore, the research shows that companies are held back from adopting more customer-related metrics because...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/20/merced-customers-apply-analytics-and-metrics-to-improve-agent-performance"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/merced-systems">Merced Systems</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/19/mercer-updates-total-compensation-management-to-help-retain-talent">Mercer Updates Total Compensation Management To Help Retain Talent</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">19 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">To retain talent, organizations must ensure that their workforce’s compensation is comparable to that of their industry peers. As part of this effort, they should integrate compensation reviews with goal and performance reviews to ensure employees are paid their fair market value; otherwise the best talent will become a flight risk. Many organizations understand this; in our <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="performance management for talent management benchmark research" href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/pm4tm" target="_blank">performance management for talent management benchmark research</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">, two-thirds said they want to integrate compensation with...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/19/mercer-updates-total-compensation-management-to-help-retain-talent"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mercer">Mercer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/19/manage-your-software-and-providers-or-waste-money-unnecessarily">Manage Your Software and Providers or Waste Money Unnecessarily</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">19 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">I was reminded by a recent piece in <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="InformationWeek" href="http://www.informationweek.com/?itc=iwk-header-navbar-home" target="_blank">InformationWeek</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> about the need to manage the mounting cost of software more carefully that this issue never seems to become old news. I have read variations of it in IT trade publications for two decades now, reminding me of the quip attributed to Mark Twain: Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. (Like many of Twain’s “quotes,” he wasn’t the author of this one either.) I believe that at the heart of this issue is a...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/19/manage-your-software-and-providers-or-waste-money-unnecessarily"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/assets">assets</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/portfolio-management">Portfolio Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contract-management">contract management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software">Software</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/mining-its-business-alight-partners-with-scope-systems">Mining Its Business, Alight Partners with Scope Systems</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">14 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">Alight <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="has announced" href="http://www.alightplanning.com/content/alight-partners-scope-systems-enhance-planning-mining-companies-worldwide" target="_blank">has announced</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> that it is partnering with Scope Systems to provide the mining industry with planning and financial reporting systems tailored for extraction companies. Scope creates ERP solutions for companies engaged in mining, drilling and natural resource exploration.</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/mining-its-business-alight-partners-with-scope-systems"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planning">Planning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-based">driver-based</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/integrated-business-planning">Integrated Business Planning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spreadsheets">Spreadsheets</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/taleo-innovates-talent-management-with-social-media-and-mobile-computing">Taleo Innovates Talent Management with Social Media and Mobile Computing</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">14 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>At this year’s <a href="http://www.taleoworld.com/2011/">Taleo World</a> conference in San Francisco, more than 1,600 <a href="http://www.taleo.com/">Taleo</a> customers learned about the company and its suite of talent management applications. A major theme of the conference was the company’s investment in mobility and social media and the intersection of those trends with collaboration tools.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/taleo-innovates-talent-management-with-social-media-and-mobile-computing"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile-applications">Mobile Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/taleo">Taleo</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/13/accelerating-the-close-makes-business-sense">Accelerating the Close Makes Business Sense</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">13 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">As the third calendar quarter draws to an end, most companies will be preparing their financial close, which is part of the ongoing <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="accounting cycle" href="http://www.austincc.edu/accting/toolbox/documents/Steps%20to%20Accounting%20Cycle%20transcript.pdf" target="_blank">accounting cycle</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. Periodic closing is a core finance function. Since companies found they could substantially shorten their closing intervals with computer-based accounting systems in the 1990s, there has be an ongoing focus to keep shortening the time it takes to close, and for good reason. For companies that must file financial statements with investors, closing...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/13/accelerating-the-close-makes-business-sense"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting">Reporting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/closing">closing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidation">Consolidation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fast-close">Fast close</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/benchmark">benchmark</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management">Financial Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-reporting">financial reporting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sec">SEC</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/global-tax-optimization-is-worth-the-effort">Global Tax Optimization Is Worth the Effort</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">09 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The globalization of business is having a profound impact on corporate taxation worldwide, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who covers international tax laws. The impacts on corporations operating in multiple national jurisdictions (which today, especially in Europe, includes a large number of midsize companies) are both positive and negative. Positive in the sense that corporate tax rates, tax benefits, reporting and other aspects of tax regulation are subject to competitive moves by countries...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/global-tax-optimization-is-worth-the-effort"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax">Tax</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/splunk-makes-machine-generated-big-data-serve-analytics">Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">09 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Splunk" href="http://www.splunk.com/" target="_blank">Splunk</a></span> may be one of the biggest software companies you’ve never heard of. I’ve been following the seven-year-old company for over six months now and recently attended its second annual user conference. Splunk focuses on analyzing large volumes of machine-generated data in underlying applications and systems, which includes application and system logs, network traffic, sensor data, click streams and other loosely structured information sources. Many of these “big data” sources are the same...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/splunk-makes-machine-generated-big-data-serve-analytics"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-data">Machine data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance-management-itpm">IT Performance Management (ITPM)</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/for-dovetail-crm-means-customer-service">For Dovetail CRM Means Customer Service</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">06 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a title="LinkedIn’s CRM experts group" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CRM-Experts-43621?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">LinkedIn’s CRM experts group</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is hosting an active discussion about what are the top three CRM systems. Along with the blatant promotion of certain well-known products, you can’t fail to notice that the term means different things to people, and that systems gathered under this acronym may cover a range of capabilities. A closer examination of the discussion shows that a majority of discussion participants associate CRM with sales force automation, fewer with customer service and the fewest with...</span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/for-dovetail-crm-means-customer-service"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dovetail">Dovetail</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/rolling-forecasts-are-a-good-first-step-toward-smarter-financial-planning">Rolling Forecasts Are a Good First Step toward Smarter Financial Planning</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">06 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I recently participated in a panel discussion about the rise in the use of rolling forecasts in corporate planning. I’m not surprised by this trend; I have encouraged it. Ever since the financial crisis started three years ago, I’ve been writing that companies should rethink how they plan and budget to respond to increasing business volatility. Rolling forecasts are useful because they continually extend the formal planning horizon out more than a year rather than having it stop abruptly at the...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/rolling-forecasts-are-a-good-first-step-toward-smarter-financial-planning"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planning">Planning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting">Budgeting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibp">IBP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coo">COO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/integrated-business-planning">Integrated Business Planning</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-presents-new-social-enterprise-with-chatter-mobility-and-data">Salesforce Presents New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith"> Mark Smith </a> on <span class="post-date">03 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff unveiled the latest evolution of the company’s strategy and supporting technology for cloud computing and mobile technologies. Its aim is to enable businesses to engage with customers and prospects via social media channels – what Salesforce calls the “social enterprise” – and empower employee and customer social networks to operate individually and together. Note I did not mention CRM, which doesn’t have a role in this...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-presents-new-social-enterprise-with-chatter-mobility-and-data"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing">Marketing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-cloud">Sales Cloud</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-force-automation">Sales Force Automation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chatter">Chatter</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cmo">CMO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/df11">DF11</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management">Sales Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-cloud">Service Cloud</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfa">SFA</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/algorithmics-acquisition-deepens-ibm-software-for-financial-services">Algorithmics Acquisition Deepens IBM Software for Financial Services</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">03 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>IBM’s <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35176.wss" target="_blank">announced</a> pending acquisition of <a href="http://www.algorithmics.com/EN/index.cfm" target="_blank">Algorithmics</a> is an important addition to the company’s portfolio of business applications aimed at financial services companies, and it is thematically consistent with its other acquisitions in risk management and analytics such as IBM’s OpenPages risk management documentation that <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2011/04/20/openpages-6-0-enhances-grc-by-integrating-data-and-text/" target="_blank">I have already assessed</a>. It’s also a good fit for IBM’s professional services organization, which has a significant position in the financial services industry.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/algorithmics-acquisition-deepens-ibm-software-for-financial-services"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc">GRC</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dodd-frank">Dodd-Frank</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compliance">compliance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capital-adequacy">capital adequacy</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-regulation">financial regulation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-services">Financial Services</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-com-and-the-big-picture-from-dreamforce">Salesforce.com and the Big Picture from Dreamforce</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">03 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Even here in the U.K., we are well aware that Salesforce.com’s annual event <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF11/" target="_blank">Dreamforce</a> is happening this week in San Francisco. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there, but a contingent of the Ventana Research team is there, and from what they are telling me it is quite a show. I have written before that Salesforce has the best marketing machine in the world, let alone the software industry, and it seems to have topped previous events. The company undoubtedly has changed the way many companies think...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-com-and-the-big-picture-from-dreamforce"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/01/finance-now-lives-in-the-cloud">Finance Now Lives in the Cloud</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel"> Robert Kugel </a> on <span class="post-date">01 September 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">This year’s <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a title="Dreamforce" href="http://www.dreamforce.com/" target="_blank">Dreamforce</a></span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is likely include a focus on the value of moving a company’s accounting systems and related record management processes (for instance, invoicing and ordering) to the cloud. Salesforce.com’s annual conference is never short on hyperbole and promotion of everything cloud, which can be off-putting to staid finance department types (like me). And while some departments (notably Sales) have been quick to seize on the advantages of using the cloud, others (notably Finance) have...</span></span></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/01/finance-now-lives-in-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-cloud">finance cloud</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance">finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/accounting-software">accounting software</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-systems">financial systems</a> <hr> </div> <script> // Check active classes var checkClass = function() { if ( $('.fil_item').hasClass('hide') ) { $('.fil_item').removeClass('hide'); } }; // Category filters $('.all').click( function() { checkClass(); }); // Active tag $('.bttn').click(function(){ $('.bttn').removeClass('active'); $(this).addClass('active'); }) </script> </div> <div class="blog-numeric-pagination span12 ">   </div> </div> <div class="blog-sidebar">   <style> .blog-sidebar h3 { font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 30px; position: relative; color: var(--light_blue); padding-top:40px; } .btn-secondary, .filter-expand-link { text-transform: uppercase; background-color: #113049!important; border-color: #113049!important; color: #ffffff!important; transition: all .15s ease-in-out; animation-timing-function: ease-in-out; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4000000000000001rem; border-radius: 6px; height: 3.5rem; text-align: center; padding: 0 2.8125rem; border: 1px solid; display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; } .filter-expand-link { text-transform: uppercase; background-color: #113049!important; border-color: #113049!important; color: #ffffff!important; transition: all .15s ease-in-out; animation-timing-function: ease-in-out; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4000000000000001rem; border-radius: 6px; height: 3.5rem; text-align: center; padding: 0 2.8125rem; border: 1px solid; display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; } </style> <span class="hs-cta-wrapper" id="hs-cta-wrapper-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><span class="hs-cta-node hs-cta-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be" id="hs-cta-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><a href="https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2035844/960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><img class="hs-cta-img" id="hs-cta-img-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be" style="border-width:0px;" src="https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2035844/960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be.png" alt="JOIN OUR COMMUNITY"></a></span><script charset="utf-8" src="https://js.hscta.net/cta/current.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> hbspt.cta.load(2035844, '960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be', {"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"}); </script></span> <span id="hs_cos_wrapper_module_1495215326694198" class="hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_widget hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text" style="" data-hs-cos-general-type="widget" data-hs-cos-type="rich_text"><h3><span style="color: #284a7b;">Our Analyst Perspective Policy</span></h3> <ul> <li style="display: none; list-style: none;"> <p><span style="color: #284a7b;">Ventana Research’s Analyst Perspectives are fact-based analysis and guidance on business, </span><g class="gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="12" data-gr-id="12">industry</g><span style="color: #284a7b;"> and technology vendor trends. 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<a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2017/01">January 2017 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/12">December 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/11">November 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/10">October 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/09">September 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/08">August 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/07">July 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/06">June 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/05">May 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/04">April 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/03">March 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2016/02">February 2016 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2012/01">January 2012 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/12">December 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/11">November 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/10">October 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/09">September 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(26)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/08">August 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(20)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/07">July 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/06">June 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/05">May 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/04">April 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/03">March 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/02">February 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/01">January 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/12">December 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(21)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/11">November 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(132)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/06">June 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> </ul> <a class="filter-expand-link" href="#">see all</a> </div> </div> </span> <span id="hs_cos_wrapper_post_filter" class="hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_widget hs_cos_wrapper_type_post_filter" style="" data-hs-cos-general-type="widget" data-hs-cos-type="post_filter"><div class="block"> <h3>Posts by Topic</h3> <div class="widget-module"> <ul> <li> <a 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class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(863)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-erp">cloud ERP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud9-analytics">Cloud9 Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloudera">Cloudera <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloudops">CloudOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cmo">CMO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(24)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coaching">coaching <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coda">CODA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognitive-computing">Cognitive Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognos">Cognos <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognos-analytics">cognos analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognos-enterprise">cognos enterprise <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognos-express">cognos express <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cognos-insight">cognos insight <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(263)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration-for-business">collaboration for business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaborative-conversational-computing">Collaborative & Conversational Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaborative-analytics">Collaborative Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaborative-computing">collaborative computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(34)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/commerce">Commerce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/commission">commission <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/commodity-model">commodity model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/commodity-models">commodity models <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/communications">communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(64)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/competition">competition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/complex-event-processing">Complex Event Processing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compliance">compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(30)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/composite-document">Composite document <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/composite-software">Composite Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/computer-vision">Computer Vision <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/computing">computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/concur">Concur <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/confirmit">Confirmit <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/connectwise">ConnectWise <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/connotate">Connotate <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidate-and-close-management">Consolidate and Close Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidate-close-report">Consolidate/Close/Report <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidating">consolidating <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidation">Consolidation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consulting">Consulting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(437)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(226)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contactual">Contactual <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/container">container <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/content-management">Content Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contingency">contingency <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contingency-planning">contingency planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-accounting">Continuous Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-improvement">continuous improvement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-payroll">Continuous Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-planning">Continuous Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(60)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-supply-chain">continuous supply chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(42)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-supply-chain-erp">Continuous Supply Chain & ERP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-threat-exposure-management">Continuous Threat Exposure Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contract">contract <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contract-management">contract management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/control">control <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controller">Controller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(36)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controller-2">controller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controls">controls <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-ai">Conversational AI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-computing">Conversational Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(45)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-marketing">Conversational Marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coo">COO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/core-hr">Core HR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cornerstone-ondemand">Cornerstone OnDemand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-finance">Corporate Finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-governance">Corporate Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corvisa-cloud">Corvisa Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cost-management">Cost 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm-customer-service">CRM customer service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cro">CRO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cryptic">cryptic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crystal-reports">Crystal reports <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ctalk-ltd">cTalk Ltd <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ctem">CTEM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cto">CTO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/currency">currency <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer">Customer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(557)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(263)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-communications">Customer Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-platforms">Customer Data Platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-digital-technology">Customer Digital Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-engagement">Customer Engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(70)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-excellence">Customer Excellence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience 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dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-interaction-technology">Customer Interaction Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-journey-maps">Customer Journey Maps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-life-cycle">customer life cycle <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-performance">Customer Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(109)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-relationship-management">Customer Relationship Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-discovery">Data Discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-fabric">data fabric <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-governance">Data Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(155)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-integration">Data Integration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(82)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-integrity">data integrity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-intelligence">Data Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-lake">Data Lake <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-lakes">data lakes <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(43)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-management">Data Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(88)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mining">Data Mining <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-observability">Data Observability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-operations">data operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(101)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-ops">Data Ops <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-orchestration">Data Orchestration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-pipelines">Data Pipelines <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-platforms">data platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(45)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-preparation">Data Preparation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(89)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-products">Data Products <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-quality">Data Quality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-science">Data Science <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(61)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-scientist">Data Scientist <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-storage">Data Storage <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-virtualization">Data Virtualization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-virtualization-data-integration-data-lake-big">Data virtualization, data integration, data lake, <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-visualization">Data Visualization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-viz">data viz <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-warehousing">Data Warehousing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/database">Database <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/database-as-a-service">Database as a Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/database-com">database.com <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/datameer">Datameer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dataops">dataops <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dataprep">DataPrep <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/datawatch">Datawatch <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dayforce">dayforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ddi">DDI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/debt">debt <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decision">decision <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decision-hub">Decision Hub <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decision-intelligence">Decision Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decision-management">Decision Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decusoft">Decusoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/deep-learning">Deep Learning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dell">Dell <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dell-boomi">Dell Boomi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-chain">Demand Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-generation">Demand Generation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-management">demand management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-planning">Demand Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/design">design <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/designed-data">designed data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(124)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/development">development <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/devops-and-platforms">DevOps and Platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/devsecops">DevSecOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/df11">DF11 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dg">DG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dhcp">DHCP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-applications">Digital Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-business">Digital Business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-commerce">Digital Commerce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(104)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-communications">Digital Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-experience-platform">Digital Experience Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-finance">digital finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(106)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-innovation-awards">Digital Innovation Awards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-intelligence">Digital Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-interviewing">Digital Interviewing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-marketing">Digital Marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-operations">Digital Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-publishing">Digital Publishing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-security">Digital Security <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(23)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(292)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-transformation">Digital transformation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(20)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/direct-data-mapping">Direct Data Mapping <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/disaster-recovery">Disaster Recovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery">Discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery-analytics">discovery analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery-tools">discovery tools <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/distribution">distribution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dns">DNS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/document-management">Document Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dodd-frank">Dodd-Frank <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/domestic-payroll">Domestic Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/domo">Domo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dovetail">Dovetail <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dreamforce">Dreamforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-analysis">driver analysis <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-based">driver-based <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-based-planning">driver-based planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics">Dynamics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-ax">Dynamics AX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-gp">Dynamics GP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-nav-dynamics-sl">Dynamics NAV Dynamics SL <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/e-discovery">e-discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/echopass">Echopass <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eclipse">Eclipse <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/edi">EDI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ediscovery">eDiscovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/editorial">Editorial <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/effectiveness">effectiveness <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eg-solutions">eg Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/elasticube">elasticube <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eloqua">Eloqua <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/embedded-analytics">embedded analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(95)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/emc">EMC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-engagement">Employee Engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-experience">employee experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-onboarding">Employee Onboarding <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-productivity">Employee Productivity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/empower">Empower <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/end-to-end">end-to-end <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/endeca">endeca <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enghouse-interactive">Enghouse interactive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enkata">Enkata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-applications">Enterprise Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-data-strategy">Enterprise Data Strategy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-messaging-internet-of-things-iot-middle">Enterprise messaging, Internet of Things, IoT, mid <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-profitability-management">enterprise profitability management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-resource-planning">Enterprise Resource Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(72)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-risk-management">enterprise risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-spreadsheet">enterprise spreadsheet <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-tax">Enterprise Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterworks">Enterworks <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/environment-management">Environment Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/environmental">Environmental <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/envision">Envision <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/epicor">Epicor <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/epiphany">Epiphany <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/equifax">Equifax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/equity-research">equity research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erm">ERM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erp">ERP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(83)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erp-and-continuous-accounting">ERP and Continuous Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(151)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/error">error <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/esg">ESG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/esri">ESRI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/essbase">Essbase <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ethority">eThority <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-data">Event Data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-discovery">Event discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-stream">Event Stream <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-stream-processing">Event Stream Processing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-streams">Event Streams <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exacttarget">ExactTarget <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exadata">exadata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exalytics">Exalytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/excel">Excel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/excentive">Excentive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/executive">executive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expense">expense <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expense-management">expense management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/experience-management">Experience Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expert-systems">Expert Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exploration">Exploration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exploratory-analytics">exploratory analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/explorium">Explorium <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/extended-close">extended close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/extended-reality">extended reality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/external-data-platform">External Data Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exterro">Exterro <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/f-type">F-Type <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fasb">FASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fast-close">Fast close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/feedback">Feedback <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fei">FEI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ferf-ceo">FERF CEO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/field-service">Field Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(29)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance">finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(53)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-analytics">Finance Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-cloud">finance cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-financial-applications-financial-close">Finance Financial Applications Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-performance-management">Finance Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-transformation">finance transformation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial">financial <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-analytics">financial analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-applications">Financial Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-close">Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-governance">Financial Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-management">Financial Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-model">financial model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(561)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-2">financial performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management">Financial Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(237)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management-fpm">Financial Performance Management (FPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-planning">financial planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-regulation">financial regulation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-reporting">financial reporting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-risk-management">financial risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-services">Financial Services <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-software">financial software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-standards">financial standards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-statement">financial statement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-systems">financial systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financialforce">FinancialForce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financialforce-com">FinancialForce.com <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financials">financials <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/five9">Five9 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/flow">flow <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fms">FMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/for-example-genesys">for example Genesys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/forecast">Forecast <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/forecasting">forecasting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpa">FP&A <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(83)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fraud">Fraud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fuel50">Fuel50 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fusion-applications">Fusion Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gaap">GAAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gamifiacation">Gamifiacation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gartner">Gartner <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/genai">GenAI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/generative-ai">Generative AI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/genesys">Genesys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/geographic-information-systems">Geographic Information Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gis">GIS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/global-payroll">Global Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/globoforce">Globoforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/golden-records">Golden Records. <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gooddata">Gooddata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/google">Google <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance">Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(49)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk">Governance & Risk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-and-compliance">Governance Risk and Compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(143)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc">GRC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(55)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc-governance-risk-compliance-risk-management-wat">GRC, governance, risk, compliance, risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/green">Green <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/greenplum">Greenplum <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gui">GUI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hadoop">Hadoop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hana">HANA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/harvard-business-review">Harvard Business Review <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hawq">HAWQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm">HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(57)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-analytics">HCM Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-systems">HCM Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-hr-hrms-workforce-management-learning-manageme">HCM, HR, HRMS, Workforce Management, Learning Mana <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdfs">HDFS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdinsights">HDinsights <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdp">HDP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/headcount-planning">headcount planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/healthcare-compliance">Healthcare Compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/healthcare-reform">Healthcare Reform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/heiler">Heiler <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hewlett-packard">Hewlett Packard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hirevue">HireVue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hiring">Hiring <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hive">Hive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hive9-marketing-performance-management">Hive9 Marketing Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hortonworks">Hortonworks <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hospitality">Hospitality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/host-analytics">Host Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp">HP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp-neoview">HP Neoview <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp-touchpad">HP Touchpad <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr">HR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(56)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-analytics">HR Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-management">HR Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-managementhrms">HR Management(HRMS) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-research">HR research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-tech">HR Tech <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-technology">HR technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-technology-conference">HR Technology Conference <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hrpayroll">HR/Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hris">HRIS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hrms">HRMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/html5">HTML5 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hubspot">HubSpot <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital">Human Capital <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(45)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-analytics">Human Capital Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(308)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-concepts">Human Concepts <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-resources-management">Human Resources Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hunite">Hunite <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hybrid-cloud-platforms">Hybrid Cloud Platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hybris">Hybris <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hyperion">Hyperion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/i9">I9 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iac">IaC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iasb">IASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(73)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-business-analytics">IBM Business Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-db2">IBM DB2 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-predictive-customer-intelligence">IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-spss">IBM SPSS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-watson">IBM Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibp">IBP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ifrs">IFRS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ifrs16">IFRS16 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/impala">Impala <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/in-memory">In-memory <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(26)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/in-memory-computing">In-Memory Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inclusion">Inclusion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/incontact">InContact <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/industry-analyst">Industry Analyst <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inetsoft">InetSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/influencers">Influencers <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infodiscovery">InfoDiscovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infomgt-location">InfoMgt; Location <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infopia">InfoPia <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infor">Infor <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(31)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infor-birst">Infor Birst <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica">Informatica <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-cloud">Informatica Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-hparser">Informatica HParser <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-world">Informatica World <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatics">Informatics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information">Information <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-applications">Information Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(222)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-availability">Information Availability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builder-iway">Information Builder iway <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builders">Information Builders <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builders-summit-2019">Information Builders Summit 2019 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-discovery">Information Discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-life-cycle-management">Information Life Cycle Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(381)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management-im">Information Management (IM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-optimization">Information Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(52)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-platform">Information Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-technology">Information Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infosphere">InfoSphere <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/initiatives-management">Initiatives Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/initiatives-planning">Initiatives Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inkling">inkling <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactive-intelligence">Interactive Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactive-intelligence-jacada">Interactive Intelligence Jacada <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/internal-audit">Internal Audit <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/international-finance">International Finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/internet-of-everything">Internet of Everything <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/internet-of-things">Internet of Things 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-controls">IT controls <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-cost">IT cost <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-governance">IT governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(178)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance-management-itpm">IT Performance Management (ITPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-research">IT Research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li 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class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kapplets">Kapplets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/karmasphere">Karmasphere <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kenandy">Kenandy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kenexa">Kenexa <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/key-performance-indicators">Key Performance Indicators <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/key-performance-indictors">Key Performance Indictors <span 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</li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kognitio">Kognitio <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kpi">KPI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kri">KRI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kronos">Kronos <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kxen">KXEN <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kyriba">Kyriba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kyriba-financial-performance-management">Kyriba Financial Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lagan">Lagan <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lan">LAN <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lasr">LASR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lawson">Lawson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lawson-software">Lawson Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning">Learning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning-management">Learning Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(66)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning-management-system">Learning Management System <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-accounting">Lease Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-and-tax-accounting">lease and tax accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-management">Lease Management <span class="filter-link-count" 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<li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nice-systems">NICE Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nist">NIST <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nlp">NLP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/noble-systems">Noble Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nokia">Nokia <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nomis-solutions">Nomis Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nosql">NoSQL <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nps">NPS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/nuview-systems">NuView Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/obamacare">Obamacare <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/obiee">OBIEE <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/obifs">OBIFS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/object-storage">Object storage <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/observability">Observability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(505)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-revenue">Office of Revenue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(39)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-sales">Office of Sales <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/olap">OLAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/omnichannel">Omnichannel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/omnichannel-commerce-digital-kdigital">Omnichannel, Commerce, Digital kDigital <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/on24">On24 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/onboarding">Onboarding <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/onvisource">OnviSource <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/open-ccaas">Open CCaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/open-pages">Open Pages <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/open-source-software">Open Source Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/open-world">Open World <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/openconnect">OpenConnect <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/openpages">OpenPages <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/openspan">OpenSpan <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/opentext">OpenText <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/openworld">OpenWorld <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/opera-solutions">Opera Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-data-platforms">operational data platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(39)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(180)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-management">Operational Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(696)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance-management-opm">Operational Performance Management (OPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-planning">Operational Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operations">Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operations-supply-chain">Operations & Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(90)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oracle">Oracle <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(78)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oracle-cloud">Oracle Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oracle-fusion-hcm">Oracle Fusion HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/orcaeyes">OrcaEyes <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/orchestration">Orchestration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/order-management">Order Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/order-to-cash">Order-to-Cash <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/overall-operational-leadership">Overall Operational Leadership <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oversight-systems">Oversight Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/overtone">Overtone <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/paas">PaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/panopticon">Panopticon <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/paraccel">Paraccel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pardot">Pardot <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/partner-experience">Partner Experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/partner-management">partner management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/patersons">Patersons <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/paxata">Paxata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pay-equity">Pay Equity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pay-for-performance">Pay for Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/payroll-management">Payroll Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/payroll-optimization">Payroll Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pdi">PDI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pentaho">Pentaho <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/people-analytics">People Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/people-cloud">People Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/peoplefluent">Peoplefluent <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/peoplesoft">PeopleSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance">Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(30)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-analytics">Performance Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(89)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/perillon">Perillon <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/personalization">Personalization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pervasive">Pervasive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pim">PIM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pim-product-information-management-sales-marketing">PIM, Product Information Management, Sales, Market <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pipkins">Pipkins <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pitney-bowes">Pitney Bowes <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pivotal-hd">Pivotal HD <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pivotlink">PivotLink <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planmill">PlanMill <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planning">Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(88)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planview">Planview <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plateau">Plateau <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/platfora">Platfora <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/platform-as-a-service">Platform as a service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/playbook">Playbook <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plex">Plex <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plunk">Plunk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/portfolio-management">Portfolio Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/portrait-software">Portrait Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/potus-department-of-labor-flsa-part-541-overtime-r">POTUS, Department of Labor, FLSA, Part 541, Overti <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/powercenter">PowerCenter <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive">Predictive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(203)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-hcm">Predictive HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-planning">Predictive Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(49)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predixion">Predixion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/price-and-revenue-management">Price and Revenue Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(70)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/price-optimization">Price Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pricing-and-promotion-management">Pricing and Promotion Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pricing-management">pricing management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pro">PRO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/process-management">process management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/process-mining">Process Mining <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/procure-to-pay">Procure-to-Pay <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/procurement">procurement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-experience-management">product experience management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-information-management">Product Information Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(90)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services">Professional Services <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services-automation">Professional Services Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profit-velocity">Profit Velocity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profitability">Profitability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profitability-management">profitability management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-management">Project Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-planning">Project Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-portfolio-management">Project Portfolio Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projecthelp">ProjectHelp <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projectops">ProjectOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projector">Projector <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/promptbook">Promptbook <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/property-technology">Property Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pros">PROS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pros-pricing">PROS Pricing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/psa">PSA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/publishing">Publishing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/purchasing">purchasing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/purchasing-sourcing-payments">Purchasing/Sourcing/Payments <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pv-accelerator">PV Accelerator <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pxm">PXM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qad">QAD <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik">Qlik <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-qlik-sense">Qlik Qlik Sense <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-qonnections">Qlik Qonnections <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-analytics-qlik-sense-qlik-business-intelligen">Qlik, Analytics, Qlik Sense, Qlik, Business intell <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qliktech">Qliktech <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlikview">QlikView <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qualtrics">Qualtrics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quantrix">Quantrix <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quinterian">Quinterian <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quotas">Quotas <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qvidian">Qvidian <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/r">R <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ransomware">Ransomware <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rapide">Rapide <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rapidminer">Rapidminer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rdbms">RDBMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/real-estate">real estate <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/real-time">Real-time <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reconciliation">Reconciliation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recovery">Recovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recruiting">Recruiting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(41)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recurring-revenue">Recurring Revenue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/report">report <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting">Reporting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(78)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting-xbrl-ixbrl-document-management">Reporting, XBRL, iXBRL, document management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/research">Research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/resilience">Resilience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/responsetek">ResponseTek <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/retail-analytics">Retail Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue">Revenue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-and-lease-accounting">revenue and lease accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-management">Revenue Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(33)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-performance">Revenue Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-performance-management">Revenue Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-recognition">revenue recognition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-lease-and-tax-accounting">Revenue, Lease and Tax Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revolution">Revolution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revolution-analtyics">Revolution Analtyics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rightnow">RightNow <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rim">RIM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk">Risk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(37)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk-compliance-grc">Risk & Compliance (GRC) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk-analytics">Risk Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/riversand">Riversand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/roambi">Roambi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-automation">robotic automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-finance">robotic finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-process-automation">Robotic Process Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/roi">ROI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rpa">RPA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rypple">Rypple <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sop">S&OP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saas">SaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sab-miller">SAB Miller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saba">Saba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sage">Sage <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sage-software">Sage Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(169)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-and-operations-planning">Sales and Operations Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-cloud">Sales Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-coaching">Sales Coaching <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-commission">Sales Commission <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-compensation">Sales Compensation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-effectiveness">Sales Effectiveness <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-enablement">sales enablement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-enablement-and-execution">Sales Enablement and Execution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-engagement">Sales Engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(25)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-force-automation">Sales Force Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-forecasting">Sales Forecasting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-operations">Sales Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(446)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management">Sales Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(77)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management-spm">Sales Performance Management (SPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-planning">Sales Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-planning-and-analytics">Sales Planning and Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(18)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-tax">Sales Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-marketing-sales-performance-management-marke">Sales, Marketing, Sales Performance Management, Ma <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-sfa-spm-sales-performance-management-sales-c">Sales, SFA, SPM, Sales Performance Management, Sal <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salescloud">SalesCloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(58)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap">SAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(76)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-epm">SAP EPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-hana">SAP HANA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-insider">SAP insider <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-lumira">SAP Lumira <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-netweaver">SAP NetWeaver <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-predictive-analytics">SAP predictive analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-teched">SAP TechEd <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sapphire">SAPPHIRE <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sarbanes-oxley">Sarbanes Oxley <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(26)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas-institute">SAS institute <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sasb">SASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sase">SASE <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/savi">Savi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scm">SCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scm-demand-planning">SCM Demand Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scout-rfp">Scout RFP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scribe-software">Scribe Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/search">Search <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sec">SEC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sec-software">SEC Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/secfinops">SecFinOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/secops">SecOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/security">Security <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/security-posture">Security Posture <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sedar">SEDAR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/self-service">Self-service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(41)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/semantic-model">semantic model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-supply-chain">Service & Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-cloud">Service Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/servigistics">Servigistics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfa">SFA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(24)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfdc">SFDC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sharepoint">SharePoint <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/shoretel">ShoreTel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/siemens-enterprise-communications">Siemens Enterprise Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/signal-demand">Signal Demand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/silverpop">SilverPop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/simba">Simba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-financial-close">Smart Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-manufacturing">Smart Manufacturing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-phones">Smart Phones <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-watches">Smart Watches <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smarter-analytics">Smarter Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smarter-workforce">Smarter Workforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smb">SMB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/snaplogic">SnapLogic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/snowfly">Snowfly <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/soa">SOA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/soc">SOC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social">Social <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-business">Social Business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-collaboration">Social Collaboration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(128)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-dynamx">Social Dynamx <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(365)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media-analytics">Social Media Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media-intelligence">Social Media Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-recognition">Social Recognition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/socialtext">SocialText <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sococare">SoCoCare <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/softscape">Softscape <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software">Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software-as-a-service">Software as a Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sourcing">sourcing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sovereign-cloud">Sovereign Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sox">SOX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spago-solutions">Spago Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spatial-data-quality">Spatial Data Quality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(177)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/splunk">Splunk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spm">SPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spotfire">Spotfire <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spreadsheets">Spreadsheets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spss">SPSS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sql-h">SQL-H <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sqlstream">SQLstream <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/star-analytics">Star Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/statistics">Statistics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stibo-systems">Stibo Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stratahadoop">Strata+Hadoop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(56)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-analytics">Streaming Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-data">Streaming Data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-data-events">Streaming Data & Events <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(32)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscriber-experience">Subscriber Experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-billing">Subscription Billing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-management">Subscription Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(68)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-recurring-revenue-zuora">Subscription, Recurring Revenue, Zuora <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/successfactors">SuccessFactors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumo-logic">Sumo Logic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumtotal">SumTotal <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumtotal-systems">SumTotal Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sungard">Sungard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sunsystems">Sunsystems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supplier-relationship-management">supplier relationship management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain">Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-management">supply chain management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(253)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-planning">Supply Chain Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surface">Surface <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surveys">Surveys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability">Sustainability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-and-esg">Sustainability and ESG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-management">Sustainability Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/swordciboodle">SwordCiboodle <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase">Sybase <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-iq">Sybase IQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/syncsort">Syncsort <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/synygy">Synygy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau">Tableau <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau-software">Tableau Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tagetik">Tagetik <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talemetry">Talemetry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talend">Talend <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-acquisition">Talent Acquisition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-generation">Talent Generation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(133)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/taleo">Taleo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talx">TALX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tamr">Tamr <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tanner-labs">Tanner Labs <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax">Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(35)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-compliance">tax compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-department">tax department <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-planning">tax planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-software">Tax Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-datawarehouse">Tax-Datawarehouse <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-tax-provision-transfer-pricing">tax; tax provision; transfer pricing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tcm">TCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology">Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation">Technology Innovation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation-award">Technology Innovation Award <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-spending">Technology Spending <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-vendors">Technology Vendors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/telephony">Telephony <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata">Teradata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata-aster">Teradata Aster <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(182)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tez">Tez <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/thomson-reuters-multinational">Thomson-Reuters multinational <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-landscape">Threat Landscape <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-management">Threat Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tibco">Tibco <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tidemark">Tidemark <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/time-attendance">Time & Attendance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm">TM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm1">TM1 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/topic">Topic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-compensation-management">Total Compensation Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(46)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-rewards-management">total rewards management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson">Towers Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson-talent-management">Towers Watson Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/training">Training <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/transcom">Transcom <span class="filter-link-count" 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"@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Dayforce Engages Workforces for Higher Productivity", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/dayforce-engages-workforces-for-higher-productivity", "datePublished": "30/09/2011", "dateModified": "30/09/2011", "articleBody": "Improving worker/manager collaboration becomes a top priority as organizations realize the impact of such collaboration on workforce productivity and profitability. One way to enhance that collaboration is to make tasks such as scheduling, time and attendance and task management accessible through smartphones and tablets. The management team at Dayforce has experience with workforce management applications and now into the next generation of collaboration and mobility. The company uses innovative Web technology to make its workforce management applications easy to use, and is able to demonstrate the value of the monthly and annualized time its approach saves over that of others. Dayforce’s product suite includes time and attendance, scheduling, labor budgeting, task management and employee self-scheduling. My review of the applications confirms their usability for tasks from calendaring and scheduling to the utilization and budgeting of workers. Dayforce’s graphical interface takes an intuitive approach to scheduling and labor optimization based on worker scheduling constraints. What Dayforce calls performance-based scheduling includes the ability to look at schedules of individuals while seeing analytics of schedule efficiency. A schedule optimizer provides the best scenarios and then automatically populates schedules with a group of details that occur in workers’ shifts. The suite’s workflow designer can help managers design worker interactions and alerts that can be sent automatically. To help out with the financial aspects of workforce usage, the software lets users look at schedule costing to determine any exceptions that require management review. It also provides ad-hoc reports that are easy for managers for generate for review. As workforce management evolves to engage workers more with assignments and tasks that affect them, Dayforce has built in methods not just to define tasks but to assign them and approve their completion. This helps organizations gain the most engagement from their workers on a daily basis while also tracking their performance, and it provides a foundation for including rewards that can be made visible to the workers. This might provide an edge for Dayforce, since the software can support a diverse range of types of workers, and incentives and rewards are keys to motivating and retaining talent. Our benchmark research into performance management for talent management shows that aligning the workforce to business goals is of highest importance to 81 percent of organizations. To provide applications in the HR and payroll areas, Dayforce partners with Ceridian, which is also an investor in the company areas. Dayforce now offers a native application for Apple iOS and Android-based smartphones called Dayforce Mobile, which I reviewed briefly. The application helps associates and managers communicate and work together on scheduling to create a work/life balance. The company should make a demo of it freely available to get more organizations to see its capabilities. Dayforce competes with workforce management providers such as Infor, Kronos, Red Prairie and Workforce that also are advancing in mobility and collaboration; we believe that such capabilities are critical for organizations to adopt to acquire and retain talent. We are assessing the next generation of workforce management applications now and later on will do a detailed review of vendors and products in this segment to help buyers sort through these and other developments. If you are looking to replace legacy workforce management systems or the use of email and spreadsheets, we advise you to explore the depth of Dayforce’s applications and look at its success in the market. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Excentive Provides a Simpler Path to Total Compensation Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/excentive-provides-a-simpler-path-to-total-compensation-management", "datePublished": "30/09/2011", "dateModified": "30/09/2011", "articleBody": "Retaining talent and managing financials related to compensation should be a top priority for the HR and finance functions of companies, and many of them realize this. In our recent benchmark research in total compensation management, 72 percent of participants said it’s important or very important to have a compensation system aligned to their processes. One newer provider to the market, Excentive, started in 2002 in Europe and expanded globally in 2009. Its Excentive Compensation Cockpit supplies more than just a managerial view of compensation; it’s a total compensation management application that enables users to design and model compensation across an entire workforce or for the specific needs of the sales and service lines of business. Excentive has customers that operate across multiple countries, such asVodafone, Mercedes-Benz and Stryker. Its software supports the strategy of using compensation to retain talent and not just an obligation. As many organizations seek simpler methods to deploy sales incentives for agents and dealers, Excentive has made its software easy to set up and deploy in distributed organizations. In addition, Excentive uses the performance benchmarks of its customers to develop a range of metrics concerning calculation, communication, reviews and disputes, comparing results before and after using its tools. Its application has a range of functionality with a good level of usability and manageability. They make it easy to access and integrate transactions across existing systems to recognize deals and link to individual employee compensation plans. The software includes a managerial dashboard that provides access to detailed reporting that can be used to assess to a performance index. It addresses compensation auditing and governance, which has become a key priority to ensure that appropriate compensation is given. The auditing capabilities offer easy navigation to the rules underlying a bonus or incentive, which helps in resolving disputes that can affect an organization’s ability to address issues in a timely manner. While the product name’s focus on a cockpit is not entirely descriptive of what it offers, it can provide a view of sophisticated compensation plans covering merit pay, variable compensation, incentives, stock options and other forms of compensation. The compensation modeling environment provides flexibility to handle the rules and workflow required to operate divisions and varying currencies. In addition it provides integration back into payroll systems that can be tracked through the system. Excentive also can help in bonus management, salary review and equity management, activities that are not always considered part of compensation management. Our research indicates the importance of integrating compensation management into talent management; more than one-third of organizations indicated this is very important, and two-thirds ranked lack of integration as the top barrier impeding compensation planning. Excentive should work to provide integration points to such systems with its application, and maybe even partner with providers that need a more sophisticated approach to compensation, such as Cornerstone, Saba and Ultimate Software; some providers already have an integrated compensation management application. Excentive also should be considered in areas like sales compensation and incentives where companies have complex compensation models related to sales quotas and products across customers and territories. The sales compensation management market includes suppliers such as Callidus Software, Merced Systems, Varicent and Xactly, but Excentive is demonstrating that it can compete in what are now two different markets with only one product, which depending on the alignment of compensation and sales operations could give it an advantage in the next couple of years. We could not include Excentive in the 2011 Value Index for Total Compensation Management because the company had fewer customers and company efforts operating in North America in 2010, but it will be part of our 2011 evaluation for publishing in 2012, after its large growth in this part of the world. Excentive has a good opportunity to shake things up in the compensation application market. Organizations should consider its application and the successes of its customers as part of their own research. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Interactive Intelligence Advances Cloud-Based Contact Center", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/30/interactive-intelligence-advances-cloud-based-contact-center", "datePublished": "30/09/2011", "dateModified": "30/09/2011", "articleBody": "Interactive Intelligence recently released version 4.0 of its Customer Interaction Center (CIC). CIC provides companies with integrated communications and contact center functions that can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment divided between them. The latest release includes functional and architectural enhancements. In the most significant functional enhancement, Interaction Analyzer now supports real-time analysis of calls in progress. This capability addresses both the customer experience and agent performance, which are hard to manage because they happen in real time. If, for example, the customer gets angry or the agent says the wrong thing, neither will have a good experience and one may terminate the call. Monitoring such occurrences in real time provides a chance to avert such bad outcomes; it depends on being able to tap into calls and use real-time speech analytics to identify words or phrases spoken by either party. The latest release of Interaction Analyzer raises alerts when designated words or phrases are used so that a supervisor can monitor what is being said on the call and coach the agent using a collaboration tool or join in. In this way the customer’s issue can be dealt with during the call, with the possibility of improving the customer experience, preventing defection to the competition and also making the agent happier. The words designated to raise an alert can be stored alongside the call recording, making it easier for someone to search for calls later that may warrant additional analysis. The second functional upgrade is in Interaction Web Portal, which gives decision-makers views of their contact center and customer service operations. It provides dashboards that contain key performance metrics, reports and analysis, and can show near-real-time and historical information. It also allows approved users to listen to live calls and call recordings. Partners and outsourcers can gain insight into operations within their domains, including for outsourcers a view of each of their clients. Agents can gain a view of their own performance, which helps motivate them to improve their performance. The final significant functional upgrade is the ability to log details of interactions in more granularity, breaking end-to-end interactions into hold times, talk time, transfers and other aspects. In a combination of functional and technical upgrades, CIC’s reporting and analysis suite has been overhauled. The entire suite has been redeveloped to run on the Microsoft .Net platform, making it easier to develop reports and distribute them to the right people. At the same time the functional capabilities of reporting now include links that enable drilling down from high-level reports to the underlying details, easier selection of items to be displayed and exception reporting based on user-definable thresholds. All the reports have been made easier to read. In the most significant technical upgrade, the platform is now almost entirely independent of third-party products and runs as a pure application server. This gives users greater flexibility in how they deploy the software and makes the platform more reliable and scalable. Interactive Intelligence is a pioneering vendor for contact center in the cloud. Ventana Research’s benchmark research into technologies used in contact center shows that 21 percent of companies have deployed at least part of their contact centers in the cloud. As vendors such as Interactive Intelligence continue to update the capabilities of their products, we expect this trend to continue. Interactive Intelligence continues to advance its technologies as I recently wrote in its recent process automation advancements. Have you adopted a contact center in the cloud, or are you thinking of doing so in the next 12 months? If so, please tell us your experiences and come collaborate with me on social media. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Directo", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Verint Will Acquire GMT To Extend Workforce Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/verint-will-acquire-gmt-to-extend-workforce-management", "datePublished": "29/09/2011", "dateModified": "29/09/2011", "articleBody": "Recently Verint announced its intent to acquire GMT, a provider of workforce management products. My initial reaction was that Verint was primarily interested in acquiring GMT’s customer base to extend its already large share of the workforce management market. In a briefing Verint confirmed this but said there are other reasons behind its move as well. Over the last several months Verint has been positioning itself not only in the front-office contact center but increasingly in back-office workforce management. GMT has a track record in the latter space, especially in retail finance where it has several clients and two specialist tools – technology value optimization and sales effectiveness. The first helps improve bank tellers’ productivity by optimizing the use of branch automation technology such as cash recyclers, and the second helps improve sales productivity by optimizing the positioning and activities of branch sales staff. The first capability offers another insight into the acquisition because GMT has a sizable consulting practice that Verint will deploy to help companies improve their processes and use of technology in the back office. GMT also has some mature consulting processes that will help Verint improve the way it provides such services. Verint typically sells directly to customers and has either acquired companies for their technology or partnered with others for integration with systems such as ACDs and PBXs. GMT has a more extensive set of partners that will help sell the integrated products, although looking at its list I imagine that some will not be happy about the acquisition as they are direct competitors of NICE. Already a major player in the market, with the acquisition of GMT, Verint will have more products, a stronger consulting practice, more partners and a broader customer base. In this type of deal there is always cause for concern among the customers of the acquired party about what happens to them and their existing implementations. It is too early for Verint to publish a joint product roadmap – although I understand one is under development – but I was told that it will support the existing GMT products for the foreseeable future. Eventually of course the Verint and GMT products will be rationalized, and those customers will face choices about what to do. Ventana Research’s benchmark research in technologies used in contact centers shows a very high penetration of workforce management products into contact centers, so Verint’s diversification into the back office seems like a smart move. That market is also less competitive than the contact center. This acquisition should help Verint assume a stronger position as it moves forward. Have you thought of applying the principles used in contact center workforce management to your back office? If so, please tell us more and come collaborate with me on social media. Regards, Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "NICE Acquires Fizzback for Customer Feedback Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/nice-acquires-fizzback-for-customer-feedback-analytics", "datePublished": "29/09/2011", "dateModified": "29/09/2011", "articleBody": "NICE Systems has agreed to acquire Fizzback, a specialist vendor of customer feedback management software. On first read this appears to be another acquisition to gain market share, as NICE already provides a customer feedback tool; however, Fizzback’s customer base is much smaller than NICE’s, so this looks unlikely. Representatives of NICE explained to me that the acquisition is part of its long-term strategy to enhance its customer feedback management capabilities and to build a stronger voice of the customer. The current NICE product captures customer feedback in a formulaic, reactive way using after-call surveys. NICE says its customers want to be able to capture feedback in a more unstructured way and at the point of interaction. The Fizzback product does this in two ways. The first method is to use text messaging to capture feedback in a free-form manner, for example, by asking customers to reply using their cell phones to a question posted on a message board in a shop about a product, the shop layout or the quality of service. The Fizzback system captures a customer’s response and then uses text analytics and a rules-based engine to create a reply thanking the customer for the input and possibly asking additional questions. Because of this conversational approach as the customers are having the experience, they may become more engaged in the “conversation” and the company may get higher levels of response and more insights. The second method is more of a push methodology which, again based on predefined rules, sends a short survey or unstructured questions to customers via a mobile device, the Web or social media. The system captures the response and is then able to initiate feedback with the customer in the same way as for text messages. They key to the Fizzback product is text analytics, which can identify words and phrases in the responses to identify customer insights, sentiment and other information. The system can combine this input with data from other customer sources (for example, CRM or ERP systems) to produce real-time dashboards, reports and analytics, which can be pushed to all levels within an organization. As I have written before, customer feedback is useful only if a company takes action based on the insights gathered from it. To assist this, the Fizzback product includes a workflow engine that, based on the outcomes of analysis, sends action items to the most appropriate person. This acquisition will increase NICE’s market share and will add important functionality to its customer feedback capabilities. In the longer term it will enhance NICE’s customer experience management (CEM) capabilities by giving users the opportunity to uncover customer insights more quickly and if necessary take corrective action. The outputs will also be included in the overall analytics capabilities thus extending the content of NICE’svoice of the customer. Finally the outputs can be linked back to the agent who handled the call, which will enhance the agent quality monitoring process and help schedule and focus coaching and training using NICE’s workforce management product. Ventana Research believes customer feedback management is a critical part of any CEM program because if don’t know what customers think of your company, products and services, you won’t know where to take action. Have you deployed or are you thinking of deploying customer feedback management or any other customer experience management product? If so, please tell us about it and come collaborate with me. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "MicroStrategy Takes Cloud Computing Personally", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/29/microstrategy-takes-cloud-computing-personally", "datePublished": "29/09/2011", "dateModified": "29/09/2011", "articleBody": "This has been the year of the cloud for MicroStrategy. After ignoring early competition from cloud-based business intelligence (BI) providers, the company has jumped on the cloud BI bandwagon. At MicroStrategy Worldearly this year it announced a program called Cloud Intelligence and this summer introduced MicroStrategy Cloud, a complete BI platform with the option of using either IBM Netezza or ParAccel as the database and Informatica as the data integration environment. Now the company has expanded its cloud offerings to include MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, which enables individuals to easily upload spreadsheet data, analyze it and share it with others. (A free version is currently in beta testing.) Cloud Personal automatically uploads and interprets up to 100MB of spreadsheet data using a simple wizard-based approach. The wizard allows users to review the data in tabular form to confirm the categorizations of metrics vs. dimensions and then makes it immediately available for analysis and visualization. Users can create as many dashboards as they wish using the various visualizations MicroStrategy supports. Cloud Personal supports filtering, sorting and formatting of the data as well as aggregations (sum, min, max, average and others) and some standard calculations such as ranking and percent of total. The dashboards can be shared via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, websites and MicroStrategy Mobile. These distribution options align with the company’s recent emphases on mobile technologies and social media. Cloud Personal provides a range of analytic capabilities accessible through an easy-to-use interface. Novice BI users should be able to create useful presentations of information. Organizations that are sharing spreadsheet-based analyses should know from our recent benchmark research on business analytics that this approach is both error-prone and time-consuming. Individuals in such companies can use MicroStrategy Cloud Personal to demonstrate the value of a more robust solution. However, spreadsheet experts should not expect the product to be a complete replacement for all the ad-hoc analytical capabilities of Excel. Nor does the current version attempt to translate sophisticated spreadsheet presentations into similar presentation objects in MicroStrategy, although it may add that in future versions. At least for now, Cloud Personal is less a spreadsheet replacement than a taste of MicroStrategy. Other vendors provide free access to similar cloud-based products; for example, Tableau Public uses more of a download and publish model than MicroStrategy’s 100% cloud-based version. Tibco just announced Silver Spotfire version 2.0, a cloud-based version of its data visualization products, and now offers a personal version that includes a one-year free trial. We expect to see cloud-based applications and business intelligence tools keep coming from other suppliers. The cloud is one of five key innovations we see revolutionizing the BI and information management markets. Our business data in the cloud benchmark research shows that even one-third of the finance function, which has been slow to adopt cloud-based applications, appears poised to move to the cloud. Pure-play cloud BI vendors, such as Birst, GoodData and PivotLink, may find the competitive environment more challenging with larger vendors such as MicroStrategy entering cloud-based BI market aggressively. Birst recently announced an on-premises capability to expand its ability to compete. And as I described in a recent blog post, PivotLink has focused on the retail market and others with packaged metrics as a competitive differentiator. With respect to MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, keep in mind that it is inherently a personal, not departmental or enterprise, solution. MicroStrategy offers an enterprise cloud edition that supports additional data sources, user and group management, secure authentication and other features you would need to support a large number of users. However, if you are questioning the capabilities cloud-based BI can deliver, or if you are simply trying to move your organization off of spreadsheets to a more robust BI platform, you can try MicroStrategy Cloud Personal here. Regards, Ventana Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "PivotLink Advances Business Analytics in the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/pivotlink-advances-business-analytics-in-the-cloud", "datePublished": "26/09/2011", "dateModified": "26/09/2011", "articleBody": "PivotLink introduced version 5 of its Business Intelligence (BI) product, which it delivers in the cloud computing environment and available through software as a service (SaaS) at its user conference. Demonstrating one of the unique benefits of providing it a SaaS approach, PivotLink did not require any of the attendees to request a download, get a new license file or do any type of software upgrade to receive the new version. It had already been done for them. One purpose of the conference was to inform customers of the new features they now had at their disposal. Any enterprise that has had to coordinate a major software upgrade should appreciate the time savings SaaS can provide on normal software maintenance activities. Our recent benchmark research on business data in the cloud indicates that companies are adopting SaaS-based products to varying degrees across all the lines of business. Not only has PivotLink’s product been overhauled, but the management team has been overhauled as well. Bruce Armstrong, former CEO of software companies Kickfire and Knova, joined PivotLink earlier this year. He has assembled a leadership team that includes some of his former colleagues, bringing a focus and discipline to the company that should help it capitalize on its assets and the market opportunity represented by SaaS BI. On its BI platform PivotLink has created ReadiMetrix packages of key performance indicators (KPIs), dashboards and reports for several domains including sales, marketing, human resources, supply chain and retail. Much of PivotLink’s commercial success has come from retail customers and related domains such as the suppliers to those retailers. My colleague Mark Smith has previously written about the challenges of retail analytics, and our new benchmark research findings on this industry sector. PivotLink’s SaaS-based approach to retail solutions allows its customers to easily incorporate their network of manufacturers, supplier and distribution channels in the BI process. Anyone in the network can access the appropriate portion of the data and the analysis without installing any software. In addition to operating in the cloud computing and SaaS approach, the PivotLink BI platform is designed for speed and flexibility. A columnar database combined with in-memory analytics provides high performance. A dynamic data model that allows structure to be created at query time rather than in advance, provides flexibility and minimizes the amount of data preparation required. As our business analytics benchmark research shows, over two-thirds of organizations spend more time on data preparation tasks than on analyzing data, so any steps to reduce this time can be valuable. PivotLink 5 also adds mobile BI with native capabilities for Apple iPad, Android-based tablets and BlackBerry PlayBook. In our benchmark research on information applications 51 percent of participants said broader access to information on mobile technologies is important or very important. In addition, our benchmark research on BI and performance management shows that many organizations support a broad spectrum of mobile devices. Users want all the capabilities inherent in those devices, which are available only via native applications. Mobile capabilities should also appeal to PivotLink’s core constituency of retail customers who often spend many hours out of the office traveling to various locations and suppliers. The new release incorporates enhanced visualization capabilities including geospatial mapping, another capability important to the retail market. As well its dashboarding, charting and conditional formatting provide more usability. On the back end are new editors for defining data sources, tables, queries and reports, which make it easier for self-service administration by end-user groups. Additional Web services interfaces have been created along with an expanded metadata layer so administrative functions can be performed programmatically and automatically. To build on its success in retail, PivotLink will need to expand on its success in retail-specific analytics, as identified in my colleague’s post above. As a smaller vendor, it can’t be all things to all people. PivotLink faces competition from larger vendors who have now introduced cloud-based alternatives of their own BI offerings. Right now there is plenty of interest in the cloud and few pure-play cloud-based BI vendors. PivotLink must capitalize on that interest in the cloud and build its market share with a continued focus on specific markets where it can be competitive even when commodity BI vendors expand further in the cloud. Take a look at PivotLink and its simple path to business analytics, it might surprise you. Regards, Ventana Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Proposal Software Simplifies Key Aspects of Sales", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/26/proposal-software-simplifies-key-aspects-of-sales", "datePublished": "25/09/2011", "dateModified": "25/09/2011", "articleBody": "Sales proposals can determine whether a deal is booked or lost. In most organizations the process of creating and delivering a proposal is manual and one-off, with many potential places for mistakes. This lack of rigor and efficiency impairs many organizations’ ability to leverage their resources. Proposal Software helps sales organizations with an application called PMAPS that addresses sales management and operations. PMAPS enables you to search and generate proposals and also to manage the overall process, from days to respond and time taken along with all the details related to communication and follow-up. Sales operations staff will find this Microsoft Windows-based application easy to use for reporting on the state of proposals. But as technologies change and with today’s focus on the Web and mobile applications, Proposal Software is migrating to a new platform for its applications, leaving the Windows application in a final stage of development. The Web version of PMAPS adds flexibility in the management and creation of proposals. The software’s SalesDocBuilder and a wizard help managers and front-line sales professionals use templates to assemble pitch books of presentations and documents for sales prospects. Users can also create pitch books through a mobile Web version. This helps address the problem of information scattered through an organization; our sales benchmark research found this problem to be the top impediment to sales performance in 51 percent of organizations. If your organization has to respond consistently to requests for information, proposals or quotes (RFI, RFP or RFQ), the PMAPS Assembly Center helps gather the right information for a thorough and professional response. No programming is required; everything is done through a user-driven application. I like the way this small application that floats on the desktop lets you access sales information or jump into starting a pitch book or proposal. The software uses a role-based approach for proposal writers, sales, preview or review staff and administrators. Just as important is that the application is accessible via smartphone and tablets through PMAPS WebPro Mobile, which makes it easy to get to information and create documents for proposals while on the go. If you believe in building a sales knowledge base to improve the potential of your sales organization, the company’s Q&A Database can help significantly, and reduce the load on sales and presales operations. The latest release PMAPS WebPro 7.0 also facilitates making assignments and shredding outdated documents so they are not used again. If you are not sure why you should tackle having a dedicated application for sales proposals, look at the detailed functionality provided. While many providers of sales force automation (SFA) have the ability to securely store and access content, they do not give you the ability to generate proposals. I noted in my analysis of Salesforce.com’s latest advancements to help sales that this is a gap in its product offerings. Proposal Software has used the Salesforce API to integrate with the company’s SFA, and it has done the same for other partners, too. Proposal Software makes its application available for rent as secure software as a service (SaaS), operating 24-by-7 and eliminating the need to worry about internal resources to manage the applications and content. The company still offers an on-premises version also. In this challenging economic environment every sales organization needs to be timely and thorough in response to sales opportunities. If your sales organization still manually copies and pastes content and selects stand-alone files to send to sales prospects, you risk falling behind. Proposal Software’s PMAPS WebPro is a robust package of all the functionality for managing proposals, pitches and the process of providing high-quality information to your prospects to close deals. Our benchmark research into sales analytics found that the average time to close is a key sales metrics, and Proposal Software can help address it. Building pitches and proposals in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat should not be difficult, and it is simple with Proposal Software. If you are in sales at any level and have not checked out Proposal’s offering, take a look at PMAPS as part of the way to fulfill the promise of sales force automation. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Karmasphere Makes Sense of Big Data", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/karmasphere-makes-sense-of-big-data", "datePublished": "23/09/2011", "dateModified": "23/09/2011", "articleBody": "Recently Karmasphere introduced version 1.5 of its Analyst product which helps organizations analyze “big data” stored in Hadoop, the open source large-scale data processing technology. An independent software vendor focused exclusively on the Hadoop market, Karmasphere made available a community edition of its developer product in September 2009 and launched the company in March 2010. Since then it has been active and visible in Hadoop-related events including Hadoop World, the IBM Big Data Symposium and others. Fundamentally, Karmasphere focuses on making Hadoop easier to use and more accessible for both developers and analysts, who need help in this area. Our recent benchmark research on Hadoop and Information Management shows a significant shortage of skills: Hadoop users cited staffing and training as the two most significant obstacles in analyzing large scale data sets, impacting 80% and 74% of organizations, respectively. Karmasphere Analyst 1.5 provides an interactive, graphical environment for analyzing data in Hadoop. To begin the process, it helps users understand the data structures available in Hadoop by presenting a table-based view of existing data and the ability to create new tables. In addition, Karmasphere Analyst combines information from multiple Hadoop data stores to present a unified view. Users assemble queries with a SQL-based development environment that includes syntax checking and prompts to help in the process. More than 100 user-defined functions (UDFs) are included for many common tasks and analyses. Once assembled, these queries can be stored, reused and combined together into a “query chain” or workflow involving multiple steps that are often necessary in the data preparation and analysis process. Karmasphere Analyst provides visual query plans and explanations that make it easier to understand and modify the queries. Users also can visualize the results of queries in graphical or tabular displays. Later on in the process Karmasphere helps users prepare and move jobs into production. It includes embedded Hive and Hadoop capabilities for desktop prototyping so users can test and debug on their desktops. Then they can package and export the jobs for deployment to a cluster. Karmasphere also provides capabilities for monitoring jobs and optimizing job performance. It works with a variety of Hadoop sources including Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache, Cloudera, EMC Greenplum, IBM and MapR . Given the proliferation of sources for Hadoop, including the recently formed Hortonworks with its focus on Apache Hadoop, the ability to work with multiple version could be valuable to organizations in the evaluation process and to those who have chosen to work with multiple versions, which is the case with nearly half the participants in our benchmark research cited above. Karmasphere has carved out a niche in the big-data market where there are unmet needs. However, it will face competition from bigger vendors as they incorporate features into their business intelligence and information management platforms that make it easier to work with Hadoop. One way Karmasphere could maintain a unique position would be to broaden its capabilities for advanced analytics. Our research shows that 69% of organizations working with Hadoop use it for advanced analytics including data mining and predictive analytics. Another way Karmasphere could improve its position with respect to larger vendors would be to provide better integration with tools beyond Excel and Tableau, which it offers today. In the meantime, if you work with Hadoop and are looking for ways to be more productive or empower a broader range of analysts, you can try some of Karmasphere’s features for yourself here. Regards, Ventana Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Salesforce.com Presents the Social Enterprise", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/23/salesforce-com-presents-the-social-enterprise", "datePublished": "23/09/2011", "dateModified": "23/09/2011", "articleBody": "As he opened last week’s Cloudforce 2011 conference in London, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff declared that companies “must become social or die.” He reiterated the message in answer to a direct question I put to him during lunch with the media and analysts. I have heard several of his keynotes, and reviewed my colleague analysis from recent Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. and this one had a distinct change of emphasis. Benioff seems to feel that the cloud argument has been won, his big CRM competitors have been overcome and it is time to focus on helping companies grasp the changed business environment they now exist in. Dare I say it, there was even a hint that the answer is software – specifically, software to enable what Salesforce calls the social enterprise. What is the social enterprise? In Salesforce’s view it is a company that adopts its Chatter and supporting services. Chatter is a new ”product” companies can use to collaborate more efficiently and effectively, both internally and, with the latest version, externally with customers and partners. This would be a welcome scenario for many of them. Ventana Research’s benchmark research into customer experience management shows how difficult effective collaboration is for companies. First, companies have to support multiple channels of communication with their customers, and providing consistent responses across all the channels is extremely difficult, not least because the channels often uses their own sources of customer data. Second, almost all business units interact with customers, and this too makes collaboration difficult because they use different processes and systems; thus collaboration between business units is often hard to achieve. Third, although contact center agents handle a large number of customer interactions, many agents lack easy access to the systems and information they need to resolve customer problems. Fourth, social media has taken many of these issues out of the hands of companies, as many customers now prefer to collaborate via social media rather than directly with companies, placing their actions beyond the company’s control. Some Salesforce.com customers I have spoken with indicate that Chatter and Service Cloud address all four of these issues. Although I still can’t get an explanation of what direct financial benefits these products deliver, each customer I spoke with responded that having implemented them their users would not be without them. Although the focus of Benioff’s keynote was on the social enterprise, of course there were product announcements. Scattered through the two-and-a-half hours were quick announcements and demonstrations of the latest updates to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud andChatter. There was also news on the latest updates to Radian6, which allows companies to monitor “conversations” on social media, data.com, which allows companies to enrich their customer data from publicly available sources (including social media sites such as Facebook), and the force.com platform, which, along with the new acquisition Heroku, provides a rich environment for customers and partners to develop applications. There also was news of a relatively new service, database.com, which is a cloud-based database that can be used to integrate cloud applications. Finishing off was an announcement about touch.salesforce.com, which eventually will provide the majority of the company’s services from any smartphone or tablet device. All these products will be Chatter-enabled, and that added strength to the message that companies need to become more social. During the afternoon session Benioff interviewed Michael Dell in a “fireside chat.” After lots of mutual admiration and a quick insight into how Dell has developed over the years, the conversation turned to how Dell is working with Salesforce to turn itself into a social enterprise, complete with a social media command center that monitors all Twitter conversations that mention Dell. This is used alongside social media forums to judge customer sentiment about Dell and determine where the company needs to improve products and services. It came out that Dell has set a precedent and “forced” Salesforce to move away from monthly usage-based charges to an enterprise license – a pointer to the future perhaps? In a final twist, the conversation turned to how the public sector should be taking advantage of cloud-based systems and the millions of dollars and pounds the U.S. and U.K. governments could save; Benioff vociferously repeated this message during the analyst lunch. I can’t report on this impressive event without reference to the partner forum. More than 50 partners set up shop in the foyer of the National Theatre to show their wares to attendees. I was disappointed in the lack of customer service and contact center vendors; most exhibitors showed sales and marketing applications, or services for implementing Salesforce.com products. Even if companies become social they will still need contact centers, as lots of consumers still like talking to real people. Service Cloud provides a good application to support agents as they try to resolve customer interactions, but by itself it is not a full contact center in the cloud. Companies that want to enhance their centers therefore need to look for partners, and unless I missed some, only NewVoiceMedia was present with its cloud contact center. Social media might be a good forum to gather customer feedback, but once again it can only go so far, and companies that want more specific feedback have to deploy specific applications. Again as far as I could determine, only Clicktools was present with its enterprise feedback application. No doubt social media is here to stay, and many millions of people have changed the way they communicate – from voice to electronic – and changed the way they work – more and more work at home, remotely or on the move. Benioff would have us believe that this trend will continue and if companies fail to keep up, they will lose out to companies that do. I’m not convinced by the term “social enterprise,” but there is no doubt the business world has changed more dramatically in the last 18 months than perhaps in any other 18-month period. The economy has crashed, electronic communications have taken off at an unprecedented rate, technology has advanced dramatically, cloud computing has changed the way companies purchase software, and the second Internet wave is under way with the rampaging adoption of smartphones and tablets. Salesforce.com is responding to these changes faster than any other vendor I know, but behind all the hype it is still the early days. Many companies I know haven’t changed the way they operate since I started in IT many years ago. Companies such as Dell, Burberry and Toyota are working with Salesforce to radically change the way they operate, the way they collaborate internally, and the way they interact with their customers; the question is how many others will see the light and adopt similar plans. Is your company becoming more social? If so, I’d love to know how. Please come and collaborate with me on future of social enterprise. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Professional Services Automation Makes Sense in the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/professional-services-automation-makes-sense-in-the-cloud", "datePublished": "22/09/2011", "dateModified": "22/09/2011", "articleBody": "Cloud computing has changed the fundamental economics of business software, bringing new capabilities within reach of large numbers of small and midsize companies for the first time. Cloud-based ERP, for example, enables many midsize companies that in the past might have continued to use an entry-level accounting package to have more capable and sophisticated systems. The investment in software and IT capabilities to implement an ERP system on-premises is considerable enough that midsize companies often put up with a less-capable one. As well, midsize companies can now have their own call center operations because cloud-based offerings that support these operations require substantially lower up-front investments and have significantly lower operating costs than their on-premises counterparts. Consequently, a company that once outsourced all of its call center activities now has a greater degree of control of this strategic capability, often at a lower overall cost. The economic aspects of adopting the cloud are compelling, but there are other reasons as well. In some business software categories, even if the company has the IT resources and money to manage it on-premises, it makes better business sense to obtain this capability as a service in the cloud. For example, expense management is not a strategic process, and software users are often operating outside the company firewall. Professional services automation (PSA) is another category in which I expect many companies or divisions of companies to move to the cloud. Most professional services firms have fewer than 50 employees and lack the scale, cash or profit margins to pay for an on-premises system and the IT skills to support it. Professional services divisions that are adjuncts of companies in other lines of business (such as industrial equipment or software itself) are in a similar position because the economics do not justify an in-house investment. Cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) is the best economic and operating model for these groups. Moreover, today’s professional services organizations are likely to be mobile and distributed, which makes the cloud architecture’s Internet access a better fit. While the details differ from one offering to the next, PSA software suites typically support the three sets of capabilities professional services companies need in an integrated package: front office, back office and project management. Front-office processes include contact, opportunity and client management; back office includes invoicing, time and expense reporting, and project accounting, and may incorporate a full accounting suite; project management capabilities include engagement management, scheduling and assignments, work tracking, skills management and project forecasting. In addition, PSA functionality may also include collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities. PSA software adds value by facilitating record-keeping and billing, improving project planning and management and increasing the effectiveness of a company’s sales and customer service efforts. By integrating the project management with front- and back-office functionality, it’s possible for professional services organizations to plan, staff, execute, bill and (most importantly) collect using a single system. The software must be tailored to the needs of the primary users: the consultants who don’t have time to master complicated software to manage projects and who are apt to neglect their record-keeping duties. Today there are many, often-new cloud-based PSA entrants offering most or all of the functionality needed by services organizations. These include Atlantic Global, Autotask, ConnectWise, FinancialForce, NetSuite OpenAir, PlanMill, ProjectHelp, Projector and Unanet Technologies. More than a decade ago I was writing about the need to automate professional services and provide professionals who work in project-type jobs with better tools to organize and manage their tasks. However, the uptake in this category has been slower than analysts had forecast despite the many sizable potential benefits. To be sure, bits and pieces of this existed then as now. People use their calendars with task lists and reminders, some of which is integrated with their email system. Many use spreadsheets to handle schedules and track costs; some (especially those in IT departments) use formal project management software. In the past, part this might have reflected a reluctance to be an early adopter or to put sensitive information “out there.” However, I suspect that an enduring issue is the need to take time from day-to-day business, learn a new way of doing business and entrust the business to new systems. However, given the potential to stream operations, accelerate cash flow, reduce time spent on administration and improve utilization rates, I expect professional services organizations and consultancies to increasingly adopt PSA software. Best Regards, Robert Kugel - SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "WorkForce Software Can Simplify Managers and Workers Lives", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/22/workforce-software-can-simplify-managers-and-workers-lives", "datePublished": "22/09/2011", "dateModified": "22/09/2011", "articleBody": "A key component of workforce management software is to aid in scheduling and tracking time and attendance, streamlining interactions between managers and employees regarding these aspects of the job and promoting compliance with corporate and regulatory policies. WorkForce Software has been growing rapidly over the last decade while meeting these needs with an application suite that covers issues from leave management to case management. Its product helps businesses deal with overlapping regulations from federal and state governments, union contracts and corporate-level policies, and is being deployed in industries such as education, utilities, banking, the public sector, entertainment and transportation, especially in midsize organizations looking for workforce efficiency. The company is expanding its global reach through its partners and distribution channel. The WorkForce Software application suite is built around EmpCenter and is available in several deployment modes: in the cloud through software as a service, licensed and installed on-premises or run in a hosted environment. The suite covers time and attendance, absence compliance, advanced scheduling, employee fatigue management and analytics. The Web-based application suite has a user-friendly interface. It includes a variety of data collection options for gaining time and attendance information from a range of existing technologies. It supports interactive voice response (IVR) as another means to get information from employees. WorkForce Software also provides a product for midsize organizations called EmpCenter Express that was announced earlier in 2011. WorkForce Software now provides access to its software via mobile technology on smartphone platforms including RIM Blackberry, Apple iPhone and Android-based devices through EmpCenter ToGo. The software makes it easy for managers to see work-related information, updates from employees and required approvals. I expect to see further advances in mobility as the variety of tablets and smartphones continues to expand, forcing organizations to support a broader set of choices in employees’ personal devices. I tried to access the applications from my iPhone and its App Store, but it’s not easy to find; it is part of what is called Vortex Connect, which houses the application and access to EmpCenter. I found no freely accessible demonstration available to try, but the screenshots and reviews make the software look simple, with the ability to perform a range of employee and manager tasks. Our workforce analytics benchmark research found that people in organizations spend two-thirds of their time on data-related activities that require automation. Toward this end WorkForce Software provides a packaged library of reports in EmpCenter Analytics and offers the ability to build reports using SAP Crystal Reports technology. It also supports a common data store into which users can import other business-related data about employees and supporting accounting and operational data. The analytics software can show customized views that highlight critical exceptions. I advise the company to make these analytics and metrics available via mobile devices in future releases. WorkForce Software also addresses an issue sometimes overlooked: worker fatigue that can come from not enough time off between shifts or other causes managers notice. Handling this is critical in every industry but especially in ones where workers can impact other people through direct action, such as healthcare, transportation or energy, or indirectly through guidance, as in the airline industry and emergency response. WorkForce Software has blended into EmpCenter FM a means to ensure that employees designated fatigued cannot be scheduled, along with auditing and compliance features. WorkForce Software is meeting the needs of global customers by supporting localization of applications in other languages, including those that use double-byte characters in Asia Pacific and ones that require right-to-left reading. The current version 8.1 is expected to be supplanted by a new version before the end of the year with new capabilities but a continued focus on usability and functionality. WorkForce Software offers a solid foundation of customer- and team-focused applications for workforce management. We will look at it again in upcoming benchmark research on the next generation of workforce management processes and applications, with a focus on collaboration and mobility among managers and employees. The company competes in workforce management with suppliers such as DayForce, Infor and Kronos. WorkForce Software’s ability to manage worker fatigue and policy compliance are distinguishing points of its applications, as is easy mobile access to the application suite across multiple devices. If you are considering adopting workforce management applications, we advise you to put WorkForce Software on your list of providers. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Merced Customers Apply Analytics and Metrics To Improve Agent Performance", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/20/merced-customers-apply-analytics-and-metrics-to-improve-agent-performance", "datePublished": "20/09/2011", "dateModified": "20/09/2011", "articleBody": "Ventana Research’s benchmark research into agent performance management shows that most companies recognize the vital role contact center agents play in creating good customer experiences and thus good business outcomes. The research also shows that only the most mature companies have put in place processes and metrics that encourage behaviors that deliver such business outcomes. Furthermore, the research shows that companies are held back from adopting more customer-related metrics because they don’t have performance management tools that can help them create such metrics; instead most rely heavily on spreadsheets. Thus I was encouraged to hear during a recent roundtable discussion sponsored by Merced Systems from two customers that have used the Merced Performance Suite to institute a more rigorous, metrics-driven approach to improving agent performance. The speakers indicated that a company cannot significantly improve contact center performance solely by deploying new technology. Rather, it can reach its ultimate goals only by changing processes and people – mainly by training and coaching agents. To do this in an effective manner requires a deep analysis of agent-by-agent performance and a system that points managers and supervisors to areas that need improving. Without this individualized analysis, training and coaching tends toward a “one size fits all” situation that doesn’t address individual agents’ needs. Companies therefore need to adopt a system that suggests which calls evaluators should listen to so they can quickly identify areas of weakness – for example, some agents may perform poorly during the greeting, or fail to give callers the required compliance information. Another important message from the discussion is that companies must review their key performance metrics regularly and modify them to better reflect the organization’s business goals and desired outcomes. This often is not done: in our benchmark research into contact center analytics the number-one performance metric in the contact center is average handling time, which doesn’t connect directly to the most important metric to executives, which is customer satisfaction scores. Both speakers were adamant that managing to averages doesn’t work and said that companies would do better to focus on the best and worst performers: the first to set goals that others should aspire to, and the second to assess where the most training and coaching is needed. It is also important to manage to trends; that is, a metric by itself is of limited use, but implementing training and coaching to reverse a trend or improve performance is likely to be effective. This led to a discussion of key experiences with the performance management application. First and foremost, it needs to be widely adopted, which one of the speakers admitted did require a little “encouragement” for some reluctant supervisors and agents. The key to adoption is that everyone trusts the outcomes and they be consistent. This way users don’t feel Big Brother is watching for ways to take away performance-related pay, but that supervisors are honestly looking for genuine ways to improve performance. Sharing performance information with everyone, subject to some confidentiality restrictions, can produce an environment where everyone is trying to improve their own performance. Finally, the speakers insisted that any program must be a continuous improvement process. Despite expressing pride in their processes and agents, they acknowledged room for improvement, which can be brought about only by more targeted coaching. One company thus implemented a closed-loopmetrics-driven quality monitoring process that uses analytics to identify areas where agents need to improve, targeted coaching to address those issues and trend analysis to ensure that the coaching is effective. Do you use any form of analytics to drive your quality monitoring or performance management processes? If so, please tell us about them, and come collaborate with me and discuss your efforts. 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As part of this effort, they should integrate compensation reviews with goal and performance reviews to ensure employees are paid their fair market value; otherwise the best talent will become a flight risk. Many organizations understand this; in our performance management for talent management benchmark research, two-thirds said they want to integrate compensation with the review process. But most companies have more to do; they need to establish a continuous process that compares all information on new hires, promotions and market events, at least as part of an annual performance review or preferably every quarter. They should not delay change until employee feedback or exit interviews indicate that being underpaid is a primary reason for people leaving. Mercer, which provides information, software and consulting, has helped organizations in the area of compensation for 25 years, since personal computers led to benchmarks being developed and automated. Today, the company’s ePrism compensation application focuses on market pricing of positions, surveys, analytics, pay structures and supporting the salary planning process. Hundreds of customers commit their compensation benchmarking and salary planning activities to ePrism. While robust, the application is ready for a new look and feel so it can join the era of Web-based applications. Mercer is introducing a new application called Mercer WIN that uses current technology to provide a simpler user experience for accessing and searching market data for comparison and review. It includes more than 400 surveys of data. It makes it easy to compare a company’s jobs and pay with that of others in the industry. Mercer can help do the comparisons and search on them geographically. Planned enhancements to the application include direct methods to manage market libraries, employees and jobs from within the application. With Mercer WIN, companies can add incremental value throughout a year to hiring and succession efforts or exception reviews. Organizations that want to optimize their compensation management processes and ensure effective design and strategy of them through benchmarking and aligning salary structures should look at Mercer WIN. Our total compensation management benchmark research found that for 24 percent of organizations it is critical to integrate salary benchmarking with compensation processes. That percentage also reveals that many organizations have not implemented salary benchmarking, but people in management ranked it one of the top five capabilities needed; 75 percent of organizations ranked it important or very important. Mercer WIN can be used not just as part of an annual review process but for any hiring or promotion event, which could happen at any time. I was impressed with the new application and Mercer’s roadmap, but I would like to see this company work more closely with compensation management application providers such as those that we evaluated and ranked in our Value Index for Total Compensation Management. Mercer is one of the key and long-standing provider in salary and compensation benchmarking, and its contributions should be considered as part of any talent management and total compensation management effort. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Manage Your Software and Providers or Waste Money Unnecessarily", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/19/manage-your-software-and-providers-or-waste-money-unnecessarily", "datePublished": "19/09/2011", "dateModified": "19/09/2011", "articleBody": "I was reminded by a recent piece in InformationWeek about the need to manage the mounting cost of software more carefully that this issue never seems to become old news. I have read variations of it in IT trade publications for two decades now, reminding me of the quip attributed to Mark Twain: Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. (Like many of Twain’s “quotes,” he wasn’t the author of this one either.) I believe that at the heart of this issue is a lack of oversight on software contracts, at the time of signing and especially in subsequent billings. Some companies don’t let these costs get out of hand because they have defined processes and responsibilities for managing them. The careless ones are fodder for the aforementioned articles, while the rest are somewhere in between. There’s no doubt that larger companies have a challenge in managing software licensing costs. Our research has found that organizations continue to have significant number of technology vendors to manage across the enterprise of business processes. Large numbers, yes, but they can be dealt with. Unfortunately, not many deal with it successfully. Only one-fourth (26%) of the companies we assessed do not overspend on vendor-supplied software maintenance while 54% do (the rest aren’t sure). Almost three-fourths (72%) of those that say they overspend also say that it’s not a problem, which, when you think about it, is an important part of the problem. We advise finance and IT executives to ask themselves whether they have the right people and processes to handle software contract life-cycle management. These managers need to have a defined process for managing both initial and recurring contractual issues such as tracking which and how many people are using the software, or considering the impact of new hardware purchases on the maintenance charges. I’ve heard it said in some cases that people feel “there isn’t enough time to review and evaluate all of the contract terms” before signing. I suppose this can happen from time to time, but most major software purchases involve a lengthy evaluation process and a healthy amount of dickering as companies try to run out the clock to secure better, end-of-the-quarter terms from vendors. Demanding a version of the licensing contract in advance that will serve as the basis of the marked-up final version is not unreasonable (many companies do just that). And it’s important that the people charged with reviewing and negotiating the terms covering future billing structures have an understanding of the financial impact of likely deployment scenarios. In other words, you need expertise regarding how software gets used as well as monetary sense. A related problem is that many companies do not assign responsibility for assessing the contract for ongoing annual costs or don’t have someone on staff who is expert enough to be of much use. There is no good excuse for this neglect. A corporation that’s going to spend $100,000 initially to license some software will probably pay the vendor two to three times that amount over the life of the contract for maintenance fees and additional licenses. Given the amount of money involved, it’s certainly worthwhile to have someone look over the contract and summarize key provisions that will affect annual maintenance and other charges. This summary must then be available to those who periodically review bills from vendors. Then there is the problem of not having the right people assigned to the task of reviewing vendors’ maintenance charges and other fees to determine whether they conform to the actual contract. Moreover, there’s the associated process issue of ensuring that these people have ready access to accurate information with which to do the review. Too often these elements are simply afterthoughts, and therefore overcharges slip between the cracks. Our research confirms that companies that closely track costs are less likely to overspend on maintenance and support costs: 41 percent of companies that have this capability do not overspend on maintenance and support, twice the share of companies that are aware of only some of the costs and just 16 percent that do not track them at all. About half (48%) of those that are spending too much said that establishing a better review process is the most important step they can take to address this issue. The research also suggests that it’s in the CIO’s best interests to track all costs of supporting applications. We found that those who do so had faster budget growth than those that do not: 43 percent of those that track all costs recorded 5 percent or more annual increases in their budget in the previous three years compared to 25 percent that tracked only some of them. In short, IT departments that demonstrate they manage resources competently and are good stewards of a company’s resources are rewarded. Companies that do not have people, processes and information resources in place that help them manage software costs easily and accurately should invest in them. CIOs must actively manage these costs and the factors that drive them more aggressively and intelligently. There is ample evidence that this is money well spent – unlike the sums lost through neglect. Best Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Mining Its Business, Alight Partners with Scope Systems", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/mining-its-business-alight-partners-with-scope-systems", "datePublished": "14/09/2011", "dateModified": "14/09/2011", "articleBody": "Alight has announced that it is partnering with Scope Systems to provide the mining industry with planning and financial reporting systems tailored for extraction companies. Scope creates ERP solutions for companies engaged in mining, drilling and natural resource exploration. The combination of ERP and planning and reporting has implications for any industry. It’s important to record transactions and manage business processes associated with recording transactions, which is what ERP systems do. It’s equally important that companies plan, budget, report and analyze results – functions often included under the heading of performance management. Since data created by ERP systems is a key component of data that drives performance management, the two are complementary. I think this is a reason why almost all of the once-independent performance management or business intelligence software vendors were acquired by ERP vendors over the past decade (and why it makes sense for Scope to offer its customers an integrated solution). I think Alight’s approach to planning and budgeting is well suited to the needs of mining and other extraction companies. The company’s approach is consistent with what I call integrated business planning. Alight facilitates the creation of driver-based plans through its explicit unit-times-rate approach to modeling that I recently assessed (See: “Alight Does Agile Planning”). Users running the operating aspects can focus on the “things” they manage (numbers of people and volumes, for example) and automatically see the financial implications their actions. In mining and other extraction industries, physical volumes are the single most important determinant of business activity within the organization, while commodity prices drive revenues. Keeping these two separate and explicit supports more effective and more accurate planning and facilitates longer-range planning. In services businesses, a year or two or three may be a sufficient time horizon. Mining benefits from planning out along a much longer time horizon for both operational and investment decision-making. The unit-times-rate approach enables companies to do more longer-term contingency planning, manipulating commodity price assumptions, which in turn can drive production assumptions based on site-specific extraction costs. The Alight Planning software allows companies to create unified models that are detailed in near-in years and at a higher level for years farther out for which fine details may not be appropriate. Mining companies have an inherent need for agile planning since their time horizons are long and commodity prices are volatile (more so today than ever). Commodity prices are not controllable, but Alight makes it easy for managers and executives to quickly identify other things they can control that will have the biggest impact on the bottom line, rather than having to do multiple iterations of a plan to get a rough sense of which items are most important. Driver-based models allow companies to almost instantly update detailed plans rather than having to use a lot of assumptions and examine higher-level summaries. Many companies, especially midsize ones (by our definition, those with 100 to 1,000 employees) use spreadsheets for business and financial planning. In theory, spreadsheets can do any sort of planning, if you expend enough time and headcount in the process. In practice, however, desktop spreadsheets are inadequate for agile planning because they have limited dimensionality and lack referential integrity and therefore are difficult to “roll up” (combine) into a single view. Spreadsheet models are brittle, and once created they are difficult to change, especially if the models are complex. Planning, especially thorough and intelligent contingency planning, is more important today in the mining business, given the volatility of prices and demand in today’s markets. It appears that this high level of business volatility will remain with the mining business for several more years at least. I recommend that senior executives and those responsible for company planning take a look at Alight Planning to see if its approach can help manage their business more effectively in today’s challenging environment. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Taleo Innovates Talent Management with Social Media and Mobile Computing", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/14/taleo-innovates-talent-management-with-social-media-and-mobile-computing", "datePublished": "14/09/2011", "dateModified": "14/09/2011", "articleBody": "At this year’s Taleo World conference in San Francisco, more than 1,600 Taleo customers learned about the company and its suite of talent management applications. A major theme of the conference was the company’s investment in mobility and social media and the intersection of those trends with collaboration tools. Taleo generates more than two-thirds of its revenues from its core recruiting software, which its customers are adopting its applications with recruiting (85 percent), performance (12 percent), compensation (4 percent), learning (13 percent) and succession. Taleo cross-sells to its existing customer base, which accounts for more than 50 percent of its bookings – about what you would expect of a company its size. The company’s growth fuels new technology development, which helps existing customers connect a variety of activities with Taleo applications. As it announced and demonstrated in 2010, Taleo has been integrating social media with learning and recruiting applications. It is bringing to market new social talent-based applications that will run on Android, Apple and RIM mobile platforms, and integrating them with collaborative technologies in the enterprise and in the cloud, including Jive, LinkedIn and Microsoft SharePoint. This contrasts with the approach of companies such as SuccessFactors that bring their own collaboration and social environment products to market, then integrate with third-party providers. Which approach gains most adoption has yet to be proven. Taleo also is trying to engage job candidates in a new way with a smartphone-based social application called Taleo Radar that is available and was announced. In its first release users can meet and interact with people in a way somewhat like they do with Foursquare, without checking in but rather based on who is around them. This application introduces a consumer and social approach that Taleo is experimenting with to see if it can be as viral as LinkedIn but focused on jobs and working people. The application has a nice user experience but lacks some significant functionality, such as integrating with social profiles from Facebook or LinkedIn as part of registration, and dynamically identifying people who could be relevant to meet. In addition, without a check-in feature it is hard to know where a person is actually located. Radar will require improvement and perhaps co-marketing with retail locations like Starbucks and others before Taleo can expect adoption by consumer candidates not familiar with the company. But in social media you can expect the unexpected, and maybe Taleo has something brewing with this application. If you want to find me on Taleo Radar, look for my name – don’t expect to recruit me socially to your organization, but I will provide recommendations on social recruiting. In another mobility advance, Taleo demonstrated Taleo2Go, a set of upcoming applications that will operate on tablet computers and help in onboarding, talent profile reviews and integration with the social enterprise for help in finding appropriate people for business and networking within an organization. It uses innovative techniques to associate an individual with information and people based on what the person enters into the application. It also looks at career and succession planning, along with goals and objectives reviews, in a visually intuitive manner. Talent2Go is still evolving and not available for any close-up examination yet. It is scheduled to be released sometime in 2012. In Taleo’s core business of talent management, the company announced its latest version with advances that more recently came out to attract and engage talent and help build and assess team goals more efficiently. In addition, it keeps improving the Talent Browser application it announced over the summer. With a single click the application lets you handle tasks from performance checks to succession planning. Taleo is focused on being open with its talent profile. Since its version 10 release two years ago it has been able to interconnect with other communication, candidate-specific, social networking, collaboration, HRMS and talent-related applications. Taleo has also moved to make its career websites compatible with smartphones and tablets. Another advance coming is talent identification through searching using relevant selectors such as readiness for promotion, potential to perform and even willingness to relocate. Taleo has invested in its infrastructure as well. According to the company it’s the only talent management provider with a hot standby data center for large enterprises. It says its software processes 6.7 million candidates, 288,000 hires, 69,000 performance reviews and 39,000 goals plans every month. This provides a foundation for Taleo to make acquisitions and migrate their users to its facilities. Taleo has been integrating recently acquired companies with its own software’s user experience and navigation methods, and simplifying secured authentication. Those recent acquisitions include Learn.com for e-learning applications, Cytiva to gain more recruiting customers and Jobpartners for expanding into Europe. Taleo is expanding its position in learning management systems with Learn.com and gaining ground in the crowded performance management applications market, in which it has had success in the last couple of years with new customer growth and large deployments. In 2011 improved performance of its conversation hub and integration with email have provided better collaboration. As Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire pointed out, the younger generation of workers wants to have more frequent interactions on goals and progress than the traditional annual appraisals that our performance management for talent management benchmark research has found 88 percent of organizations continue to perform. Making it simpler for managers to hold employee reviews is important, as the same benchmark research found more than half of organizations want to make alignment of goals and career management easier. The Achilles’ heel of Taleo’s application suite is its compensation management applications. My analysis, confirmed in our benchmark research, shows the software requires broader and deeper capabilities to support a range of incentives and rewards linked with the frequent performance checks, but also on the path to a pay-for-performance set of processes. Our 2011 Total Compensation Management Value Index concluded that Taleo has room for improvement across the board, from product-level usability and functionality to customer validation, which kept Taleo from being a top-ranked provider. Taleo showed compensation as part of its Taleo Business Edition at the conference, but that was pretty much absent in educational sessions and demonstrations. Almost two years after announcing Worldwide Compensation, Taleo does not seem to be further along than it was after acquiring Vurv, which had a good start in providing a compensation application that Taleo scrapped. Over the summer Taleo released a visual compensation calculator to make it easier to create and modify rules and calculations, which is a requirement to be competitive in this application field. Compensation is not an area that Taleo is known for, and the company would probably do better to improve the marketing of this specific application so that it is not lost in the talent management dialogue, since the buyers are focused on compensation and finance along with HR. Taleo is now approaching a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue and thus has many synergies to its business, but it must continue to innovate in the user experience and mobility aspects of its products. It needs to dramatically improve its compensation management offering to cover more functionality and breadth of incentives, rewards and variable pay. In addition Taleo apparently does not see the importance of stand-alone workforce analytics that can bring together data from across processes in the enterprise and the cloud to provide an in-depth set of metrics and key indicators. The company’s existing workforce analytics are embedded as part of its application suite, but unless an organization converts everything to Taleo it will not be able to take advantage of cross-organizational workforce analytics. My dialogue with Taleo executives at the conference did not show much appetite to compete in the workforce analytics market or appreciation of the pain HR and Finance suffer when forced to integrate disparate data from on-premises and cloud computing applications from many providers. Despite these shortcomings, Taleo has plenty of room for growth. Given its size and reach it can be challenged globally by only a handful of other providers. I like its aggressive exploration of the intersection of social media and recruiting, which our preliminary findings, to be published later this year, have determined to be an area for growth. Taleo is worth examining in for recruiting, performance and succession applications then look carefully at evolving compensation and more newly acquired learning applications. If your organization cares about gaining access to larger talent pools through mobile and social media, you have to see what Taleo is doing and how it can help your organization. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Accelerating the Close Makes Business Sense", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/13/accelerating-the-close-makes-business-sense", "datePublished": "13/09/2011", "dateModified": "13/09/2011", "articleBody": "As the third calendar quarter draws to an end, most companies will be preparing their financial close, which is part of the ongoing accounting cycle. Periodic closing is a core finance function. Since companies found they could substantially shorten their closing intervals with computer-based accounting systems in the 1990s, there has be an ongoing focus to keep shortening the time it takes to close, and for good reason. For companies that must file financial statements with investors, closing the books sooner provides more time to devote to preparing and organizing the statements. And as regulations shorten deadlines for these filings, it puts pressure on the accounting department to finish this phase sooner. In our last benchmark research, a majority of companies wanted to accelerate their close, especially if it takes more than five business days, and nearly one-third (31%) of companies wanted to shorten their close to have more time for analysis and auditing before publishing their financial statements. Since this data is usually the most important component of a periodic review, a faster close lets assessments take place sooner and therefore become more actionable. Indeed, more than half (58%) of participants in our research said the major benefit of accelerating the close is getting financial or management information out sooner. As is usually the case with business issues, there’s no quick fix to shorten a company’s close. As any management or business consultant can attest, if there was one, it would have been done long ago. Our research suggests that the two most likely sources for saving time are processes (both design and execution) and use of technology. At the top of the list of process improvements I recommend having a high-level focus on achieving a faster close that includes specific goals and timetables and coupling that with at least quarterly (preferably monthly) reviews of tasks that slow the process down and suggestions for ways to accelerate the close. Our research demonstrates that companies that put these sorts of process management initiatives in place are more than twice as likely to achieve time savings as those without them. Technology also can have an important impact on the time it takes to close the books. Our research shows that companies that use a dedicated financial consolidation application close their books faster than those that use desktop spreadsheets. Companies that are heavy users of spreadsheets as part of the financial close commonly find more errors than those that use them sparingly or not at all, and this is not a trivial fact; 60 percent said that they could save at least a day in their closing period if they could eliminate all errors. Interestingly, when it comes to the time it takes to close their books, larger companies (those with 1,000 or more employees) close sooner than smaller ones, probably because larger companies have been able to use technology to overcome the challenges of their more complex accounting environments. And affordable tools are now available that help companies of all sizes speed their close. Looking again at the results of that benchmark research, I am reminded of some unappreciated benefits of a clean close faster. Establishing a finance department culture of continuous process improvement can address issues that delay the close and improve the department’s efficiency in other ways as well. Organizations hindered by unnecessary complexity or poor process management can address these problems systemically. Removing these obstacles frees up time for the department to focus on more strategic issues. We are interested in assessing whether companies have progressed since 2007 in the closing process, and toward that end we are revisiting the topic in new benchmark research. We invite you to participate in the benchmark. As CFOs and controllers begin to consider the performance of their finance department in 2011 and how to improve operations in 2012, I urge those that still take more than five business days to close their monthly or quarterly books at the headquarters level to target a reduction of at least one day each time. They should start mapping out a plan for achieving this goal over the next several months, identifying the process design, process execution, technology and training issues that are contributing to a less than ideal closing time. It will be worth the effort. Best regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Global Tax Optimization Is Worth the Effort", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/global-tax-optimization-is-worth-the-effort", "datePublished": "09/09/2011", "dateModified": "09/09/2011", "articleBody": "The globalization of business is having a profound impact on corporate taxation worldwide, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who covers international tax laws. The impacts on corporations operating in multiple national jurisdictions (which today, especially in Europe, includes a large number of midsize companies) are both positive and negative. Positive in the sense that corporate tax rates, tax benefits, reporting and other aspects of tax regulation are subject to competitive moves by countries as a way of attracting businesses. Ireland, for example, long ago crafted the most aggressively company-friendly tax structure in Europe, but now the U.K. and other countries are reducing rates and providing tax incentives for investment and operations within their borders. Even the United States seems poised to overhaul its corporate tax structure. At the same time, there are negative trends in the sense that increasing government cooperation in areas such as transfer pricing reduces a company’s freedom to optimize its tax incidence by artfully managing revenue recognition. One might presume that multinational companies are keeping up with evolving taxation trends, but more than two decades of research in corporate financial management lead me to think that’s probably an optimistic assumption. I’ve consistently found that on just about any core finance department process (such as the financial close, planning or treasury management), 10 to 15 percent of companies are operating at a leadership level, another 10 to 25 percent are seriously lagging and the remaining 60 to 80 percent are somewhere in the middle. In other words, with few exceptions a majority of companies can benefit from improving their execution of processes, taxation among them. The challenge with taxation is less compliance than optimization. Compliance is something that most tax departments do reasonably well. But while important, compliance is a tactical issue; optimization is more strategic. Unfortunately, the potential “pain” of noncompliance appears to be a more obvious and compelling motivator of tax and legal departments and their resource allocation than the potential benefits of tax optimization. To the extent that senior finance executives pay attention to tax issues, they defer to these experts in designing their tax agendas. Moreover, the cost of noncompliance is much more readily assessable than the benefits of tax optimization. And there is the basic roadblock of figuring out where to begin an optimization effort. The precise answer to “where to begin?” differs from one company to the next, depending on existing resources, practices and IT infrastructure as well as circumstances. The most important question, which should be answered first is, “What’s it worth?” This needn’t be an exact figure, just a reasoned, order-of-magnitude ballpark number. Arriving at this is likely to involve investing hours of internal staff and external tax expert time. Yet it seems to me that this would be a small expenditure relative to the substantial payoff that some or many companies (I don’t have hard data to prove the point) can realize by taking a more strategic approach to structuring (or restructuring) their multinational operations. The most obvious and potentially most important payoff from optimizing corporate taxes from a global perspective is an overall reduction in tax expense. It’s best not to assume that production and/or distribution activities are performed at the right location based on after-tax considerations, especially since direct and indirect tax rules and rates change all the time. Another source of value is in optimizing tax risk exposure, even if quantifying this benefit can be difficult. By ensuring a clear, ongoing discussion among senior tax, finance and corporate executives as to the company’s risk appetite with respect to taxes in each major jurisdiction, those managing taxes will understand how aggressively they should handle tax issues. For instance, it’s conceivable that a corporation might find it better to structure transactions to have a material uncertain tax position with a lower value that does not require IRS disclosure than to have a structure that does require IRS disclosure. Here a global perspective is necessary because each country’s situation is different and because few companies explicitly manage tax risk exposure. Global operations require global tax management. Many corporations can benefit from explicitly managing their tax function in a more coordinated fashion that they do today. Best regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/09/splunk-makes-machine-generated-big-data-serve-analytics", "datePublished": "09/09/2011", "dateModified": "09/09/2011", "articleBody": "Splunk may be one of the biggest software companies you’ve never heard of. I’ve been following the seven-year-old company for over six months now and recently attended its second annual user conference. Splunk focuses on analyzing large volumes of machine-generated data in underlying applications and systems, which includes application and system logs, network traffic, sensor data, click streams and other loosely structured information sources. Many of these “big data” sources are the same sources analyzed with Hadoop, according to our recently published benchmark research. However, Splunk takes a different approach that focuses on performing simple analyses on this data in real time rather than the batch-based advanced analytics we see as the most common use for Hadoop. Although privately held, Splunk operates much like a public company and appears to be grooming itself for an initial public offering. In its fiscal year ended January 31, 2011, Splunk reported $66 million in revenue and has announced that its goals for FY 2012 include generating $100 million in revenue. With 68% and 70% growth in its first two quarters this year, Splunk appears to be on track to meet this goal. CEO Godfrey Sullivan, formerly CEO of Hyperion, has a successful track record in the business intelligence software space. All these indications suggest a promising future for the company. Data originates from a variety of sources in ever increasing volumes, and organizations are trying to figure out how they can maximize the value of this data. Splunk has rapidly grown based on the simplicity of the tool for IT professionals to adopt and utilize against machine or IT specific data from an individual or department that according to our IT Analytics benchmark finds plenty of demand in IT. As stated above, Splunk focuses on a specific segment of the big-data market: machine-generated data. This type of data originates constantly from many sources throughout an organization and in large quantities. The other common characteristic of machine-generated data is that generally it is less structured than data in typical relational databases. Often the information is captured as logs consisting of text files containing various record lengths and record structures. To effectively utilize this loosely structured information in real time, two challenges must be overcome: loading the data quickly and easily navigating through and analyzing the information once it is loaded. Splunk tackles the first challenge by loading the information in its raw form. No preprocessing is necessary, therefore no delay is introduced and no data is “lost.” Retaining all the raw data has business value as well. If you later decide that you want to investigate some new piece of information that previously you didn’t think was important, it will be available for analysis. A search-based mechanism provides the solution to the second challenge. Our information applications research shows the importance of search, which ranked third on the list of very important analysis capabilities overall, and for end users specifically it topped the list of very important capabilities (46%), ahead of navigating to and retrieving information. Search based access to analytics has been a large driver in growth and was highlighted by my colleague in 2009. Search overcomes the issues created by the lack of “structure” in the machine-generated data. In reality the data has plenty of structure – users search for strings representing occurrences of certain types of events. Splunk supplements the query mechanism with analytical functions that can be used to create aggregates, time-period comparisons and other common analyses. In addition, queries can be saved for reuse and as the basis of reports, dashboards and alerts. I heard anecdotal proof of the value of search at the Splunk user conference from two undergraduate students who, as part of their summer internship, had learned the Splunk query techniques quickly and implemented reports and analyses for monitoring the systems of a major financial services software company. Architecturally, Splunk employs massively parallel processing to spread the data and processing across a number of individual servers. At query time, a proprietary MapReduce mechanism – one not based on Hadoop – gathers the data from the individual nodes to satisfy the user’s request. Users do not need to know about the MapReduce mechanism. The translation of the query to the appropriate execution strategy is done automatically. However, as with any distributed data system, some knowledge of how the data gets distributed across the nodes can be helpful in identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning certain slowly running queries. The currently released version, Splunk 4.2 was introduced earlier in 2011 and includes real-time alerting on streams of data. It also includes a new agent-based data collection mechanism, called a universal forwarder, that makes the task easier and provides more reliability when collecting data from multiple endpoints or devices. Splunk separates the workload between indexers that perform the data loading and search heads that execute the queries. Version 4.2 introduced search-head pooling for load balancing so searches can be directed to anyone of the search heads; it also provides high availability among the search processes. At the conference, Splunk introduced version 4.3 and made the beta version available to registered users. One of the more popular demonstrations was Splunk 4.3 running as a non-Flash application on the iPad. The company also made a number of announcements of specific applications and extensions of the product. Splunk Storm provides visibility and operational analytics of cloud-based applications. Splunk App for Citrix XenDesktop and Splunk App for VMWare provide visibility into virtualized and private cloud environments. The company also introduced a software development kit (SDK) for the Python programming language, which is open source and available at github. The Splunk product is not perfect, of course. Continued investment in the user interface is needed to make it easier to use. Currently users have to learn the Splunk syntax – I was introduced to those internals to show that this is easy – and a graphical query interface also would make the product more widely usable. When I probed about high availability, it became clear that you can use the Splunk tools to load dual systems to have a standby system in case of failure, but that’s not done automatically. But the company representatives were open about its shortcomings with both me and its customers, which was refreshing. Nearly every organization has some form of machine data. Splunk says that more than 2,900 enterprises have found a reason to purchase its products. The company’s mission is now to raise its visibility and broaden its applicability. Splunk provides a free, limited-capability version of its product so you can try it for yourself and see if it applies to your needs. Regards, Ventana Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "For Dovetail CRM Means Customer Service", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/for-dovetail-crm-means-customer-service", "datePublished": "06/09/2011", "dateModified": "06/09/2011", "articleBody": "LinkedIn’s CRM experts group is hosting an active discussion about what are the top three CRM systems. Along with the blatant promotion of certain well-known products, you can’t fail to notice that the term means different things to people, and that systems gathered under this acronym may cover a range of capabilities. A closer examination of the discussion shows that a majority of discussion participants associate CRM with sales force automation, fewer with customer service and the fewest with marketing. Dovetail Software belongs in the second group, positioning itself as specializing in “support and service software.” At its core, customer service is about addressing customers’ issues – complaints, technical and other queries and requests for information. Simple cases can often be resolved quickly (such as the balance of an account), but more complex issues (such as a malfunctioning PC) take more time, involve more people and require pulling together more information. In these cases it is common practice to open a case ticket and to use it to track the case through to resolution. Dovetail Support Suite covers the case management process from end to end, with reporting and analysis tools to monitor how well the process is performing and workflow to ensure activities are carried out when they are supposed to be. The product allows users to design and create “forms” for different types of cases and then create rules and workflow to manage each case from start to close. Cases can also spawn subcases, so multiple actions can be kicked off as the result of a master case being raised. The ability to create subcases, rules and workflow brings Dovetail case management close to being process management, in that users can create a process map that defines the activities to be carried out in sequence, suggest what to do if activities aren’t completed on schedule, and kick off other actions. For example, if a field on a technical support request isn’t completed, the software can raise an alert and workflow item to ensure a supervisor investigates what is causing the delay. Cases can be linked with knowledge management records or other sources of information, such as the customer’s latest bill, so that people collaborating on resolving the case can easily see related information. Cases can be managed and viewed though different communication channels, including a self-service portal where users can track the progress of their own cases. The suite also provides the ability to track cases using a smartphone or tablet device. Its comprehensive reporting suite shows users how well case management is performing. Dovetail Support Suite is built on Microsoft’s .Net platform, so it is easy to integrate with other applications, scalable, reliable and customizable to individual user requirements. Customers also can choose whether to have an on-premises or cloud-based implementation. Several of the Dovetail team previously worked for Clarify, and the company has built some special capabilities and services to help companies that use Clarify migrate their systems and data into Dovetail. This serves as a reminder that in the early days of CRM a number of vendors offered specialized case management products, including Clarify. Most of these have fallen by the wayside, and Dovetail has stepped into the void to optimize the case management process. Currently it is mostly being used to manage customer-related cases, but Dovetail has expanded its coverage to offer companies the opportunity to manage HR processes as well. Companies need to manage customer service more rigorously to match customer expectations. I will be tracking Dovetail’s progress, so if you want to track new and similar developments, please come and collaborate with us. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Rolling Forecasts Are a Good First Step toward Smarter Financial Planning", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/06/rolling-forecasts-are-a-good-first-step-toward-smarter-financial-planning", "datePublished": "06/09/2011", "dateModified": "06/09/2011", "articleBody": "I recently participated in a panel discussion about the rise in the use of rolling forecasts in corporate planning. I’m not surprised by this trend; I have encouraged it. Ever since the financial crisis started three years ago, I’ve been writing that companies should rethink how they plan and budget to respond to increasing business volatility. Rolling forecasts are useful because they continually extend the formal planning horizon out more than a year rather than having it stop abruptly at the end of a company’s fiscal year. They can be the right first step in improving the effectiveness of a company’s budgeting process, but ultimately I believe that organizations need to adopt a better approach to planning – what I refer to as integrated business planning. Moreover, companies that want to adopt a rolling forecast approach must first make important changes to their planning and budgeting processes to make them leaner, more focused and faster. The high degree of volatility in business conditions – in particular raw material costs, exchange rates, market prices and even demand – places a premium on having the agility to adapt successfully to these ever changing conditions. And, indeed, companies that spent a couple of months in the fall of 2008 carefully preparing their budgets discovered early in 2009 that the assumptions they had made were useless for running the business. They found the same was true the following year. In trying to become leaner over the past three years, the main adaptation that United States corporations have made has been to shed employees and hire them back slowly. Consequently, those remaining have had to work harder but also smarter. In some cases, this has meant simply eliminating less productive tasks or adopting new approaches to make better use of their time. Overall, I’ve noted small but steady improvements in the use of information technology to improve execution, enhance visibility into business conditions and coordinate actions to make up for having fewer people. This may turn out to be the easy part of adapting to fluctuating business conditions. The tepid recovery of many of the developed world’s economies has validated the basic decision to cut operations to the bone and to operate in as lean a fashion as possible. The sluggishness of business activity in many of these countries has caused lingering expectations of a double-dip recession. For the moment, staying lean in this environment is the least risky approach. But it also can mask the need to do something significant about planning. What happens when demand picks up and companies have to balance their need to meet growing demand with a desire to minimize the risk of becoming overextended? They need to have a better planning and budgeting process in place. The traditional annual budget has served as the closest thing to integrated business planning. A great deal of formal and informal planning goes on in a company, but it tends to be done in local entities and/or functional silos. There are sales forecasts, shop floor plans, headcount plans and others. However, these are only imperfectly integrated into the budget. Indeed, our research shows that the sales plan, which is a major driver of the annual budget, is typically two months out of date by the start of the fiscal year. Not surprisingly, therefore, our benchmark research also finds that fewer than one in 10 companies (9%) react to major change in their operating environment in a well-coordinated fashion. More than one-third (36%) admit they are uncoordinated and more than half (54%) say they are “somewhat coordinated.” Although that might sound innocuous, like a “somewhat coordinated” juggler, corporations that fall short in coordination wind up dropping a lot of balls, and this inaccuracy has an impact on the bottom line. Indeed, more than one-third (37%) of these companies allow that lack of coordination occurs frequently and they spend a lot of time and effort dealing with it. Rolling forecasts do not address the need to integrate business planning, but using them requires a lean planning approach, which is a foundation for integrated business planning that we have researched thoroughly. But I have to caution CFOs and controllers when it comes to adopting rolling quarters: Companies that try to replicate a multiple-month budgeting process four times a year will quickly (and correctly) conclude that it’s not worth the effort. Therefore, at a minimum, the rolling forecast must incorporate only the relatively short list of specific items that are key to managing the business. To support rolling forecasting, driver-based modeling can speed up reforecasting cycles and facilitate lean planning. Driver-based modeling recognizes explicit input and output relationships. Inputs include not just direct items such as materials and labor but also indirect resources such as the number of sales calls (and related expenses) needed to sell the forecasted units. Effective driver-based forecasting models incorporate a units-times-rate structure, keeping “things” such as units sold, headcount, and tons of steel and boxes separate from the monetary value of the units. Thus, as prices change it’s possible to quickly incorporate these into the model. Having a driver-based model makes it easier and faster to incorporate changes to the plan as the impact of changes in forecast sales volumes, for example, will immediately ripple through and show the resources (and change in resources from the last forecast) needed to achieve the forecast. Rolling forecasts can make companies’ planning and budgeting more valuable as a business tool. There’s some evidence that there is growing interest in using it, which I find encouraging. All the best, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Salesforce Presents New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-presents-new-social-enterprise-with-chatter-mobility-and-data", "datePublished": "03/09/2011", "dateModified": "03/09/2011", "articleBody": "At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff unveiled the latest evolution of the company’s strategy and supporting technology for cloud computing and mobile technologies. Its aim is to enable businesses to engage with customers and prospects via social media channels – what Salesforce calls the “social enterprise” – and empower employee and customer social networks to operate individually and together. Note I did not mention CRM, which doesn’t have a role in this platform for basic interactions with prospects and customers and is accompanied by a large ecosystem of partners that provide dedicated marketing and contact center applications. As summarized in its announcement, Salesforce’s strategy is clearly different from that of others in the applications market, including Oracle and SAP, which have products for the cloud computing environment and have made strides into integrating collaboration and social media capabilities into their applications. Salesforce.com’s social enterprise is a big step forward from the strategy it talked about at last year’s Dreamforce, and is now focused helping companies build social profiles of employees and customers that can managed and augmented with information about the individuals from other social networks. The company’s partners are also working on such capabilities. For example, software from Reachable can present the relationships among individuals in a social graph. This week Roambi introduced analytic and mobile integration withSalesforce Chatter, which is another advance in what my colleague David Menninger calls the consumerization of collaborative BI. Salesforce says significant technological improvements in the coming Winter 2012 release and later will make Chatter a true social business tool with many methods to chat, share, approve and otherwise enable the collaborative process. Another addition slated for Chatter is the ability to include presence information in the chat the way most instant messaging networks do today in a feature the company calls Chatter Now. Users will be able to embed and share video, graphics and other kinds of files. Users who have too much traffic in their feeds will be able to filter content based on keywords. Chatter Approvals will be able to handle prompted interactions. With Chatter Customer Groups users will be able to invite and interact with customers or external people in private discussion groups. Those looking to build custom enhancements to the software can employ the Chatter API using REST and streaming that can be embedded with Chatter to interact with applications. Last year iWay Software demonstrated third-party integration to take any systems event and publish it into a Chatter feed. Surprisingly, iWay, which is an Information Builders company, was not at Dreamforce this year, but it has paved the way for enterprise notifications in Salesforce’s social enterprise efforts. Salesforce also is targeting organizations using Microsoft SharePoint; they will be able to use Chatter instead of Microsoft’s messenger technology. Salesforce with Chatter Connect will be able to integrate its feeds with other environments to make a more seamless social and collaborative environment. The expanded capabilities for Chatter, and Salesforce’s enhanced profiles of customers and prospects, will be integrated with the Service Cloud in an application called Chatter Service to help improve customer interactions for contact centers. Chatter Service will also be able to integrate into Facebook. This could create a new class of customer self-service for organizations that want to move their initial interactions into social media, and move questions and comments into more formalized customer service channels for resolution. To address the full needs of a contact center though beyond social media will create other applications for which Salesforce has plenty of partners exhibiting including Contactual, inContact, Interactive Intelligence, Five9 and LiveOps. Salesforce showed how it can add value to the Sales Cloud with its advances in Chatter, but we do not expect to see a more integrated set of methods till 2012. Until then you can use Chatter by itself to interact with your sales team and the new versions will now be a good reason to evaluate them for what they call social sales. If you are looking to address the broader set of sales activities and processes beyond SFA, Salesforce has plenty of partners that should be considered if you care about efficiency and achieving sales quotas and targets. Salesforce.com’s social enterprise direction will require simpler access to applications from smartphones and tablets. The company has created an engine to transform its applications to operate in an HTML5 environment so they can be utilized on smartphones and tablets from Apple, Android devices, RIM hardware and Microsoft’s, too. Salesforce calls this its Touch approach and will release it sometime in the future. You can sign up to be notified when that happens at www.touch.salesforce.com. This will be a significant new option for anyone operating in the Salesforce.com environment. One of the key pushes by Salesforce is database.com, which is designed to securely store organizations’ data in the cloud; it can be used by applications running on the company’s force.com platform for cloud apps as well as new social enterprise offerings that will come out in 2012. Our upcoming research in business data in the cloud will unveil more challenges and opportunity for improvement to support technology like database.com. This offering makes it easy to provision a database and get started. Its pricing and capabilities suggest that database.com is a transactional centralized data service. It’s not clear whether it will be useful for business analytics, which our research finds to be a major need in organizations today. Business analytics has not been one of Salesforce strengths which its customers can attest which is why the portfolio of partners providing these capabilities is quite significant. Many of them also depend on their own database technology for analytics that operates in the cloud. If database.com is not able to support the analytics needs within the database its potential and impact to its customers could be hindered. The challenge with database.com is that if you are trying to do automated data integration efficiently, including migration, synchronization or replication across clouds of data under applications or to the enterprise, you will need a separate product, and while Salesforce has many partners, none are part of the announcement or listed on the database.com website. As David Menningerhas pointed out, integrating information from diverse clouds of applications requires work. Our newly completed research in Business Data in the Cloud will enumerate those challenges. If you are looking for help in dealing with integration in cloud and enterprise, consider Dell Boomi, Informatica, Pervasive and SnapLogic, with its dedicated data integration technologies. Salesforce.com makes the social enterprise interesting, and it is taking the lead in advancing these kinds of interactions, especially with business-to-consumer companies, which need the most help in dealing with social media. Its ecosystem of partners and the ability to integrate with consumer social media give Salesforce an early advantage in the market. If you are looking for new core applications in marketing, sales and customer service, you will need to invest in the partners to make this happen. As I wrote in my guides to Dreamforce for sales and marketing, it’s not easy to determine how to get the full value in your Salesforce.com investments, but it is worth the effort. If you are in sales or customer service departments or are trying to get a great mobile strategy, come and let us know as we can definitely help get what you need today. Organizations should take this social enterprise seriously, and especially those that see social media as essential to their future and Salesforce as well. You should realize that nothing comes for free and Salesforce has found another place for it to grow its business usage across an enterprise that can grow its subscription to its software substantially. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Smith", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/mark-smith", "sameAs": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/markallensmith" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Algorithmics Acquisition Deepens IBM Software for Financial Services", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/algorithmics-acquisition-deepens-ibm-software-for-financial-services", "datePublished": "03/09/2011", "dateModified": "03/09/2011", "articleBody": "IBM’s announced pending acquisition of Algorithmics is an important addition to the company’s portfolio of business applications aimed at financial services companies, and it is thematically consistent with its other acquisitions in risk management and analytics such as IBM’s OpenPages risk management documentation that I have already assessed. It’s also a good fit for IBM’s professional services organization, which has a significant position in the financial services industry. Analytic models are indispensable for supporting financial services operations and managing risk and regulatory compliance. Algorithmics has established a leadership position in this market with software that addresses a number of critical business needs in financial services, notably risk management for securities trading and credit, financial services operations management, collateral management, capital adequacy and liquidity risk management. The company has 350 customers and generated US$164 million in revenues in its September 2010 fiscal year. IBM indicated the Toronto-based company will continue to operate as an independent entity for the time being. The near collapse of the world’s financial system in 2008 and the subsequent reverberations have led to a rethinking of financial services regulation and especially capital adequacy. In the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act is in the process of adding a substantial number of new regulations and an expansion of regulatory reach. All of this will impact how most financial services companies manage risk, operations and regulatory compliance. The serious shortcomings of Basel II international capital adequacy rules to ensure capital adequacy have lead to Basel III. Meanwhile, I believe financial institutions are facing a new environment where optimizing the management of regulatory capital will join efficient regulatory compliance as a long-term determinant of competitiveness. Too much of the latter remains a manual or only partially automated process in institutions with otherwise state-of-the-art financial systems. For vendors of modeling, analytics, operations and risk management software, the banking sector probably has the best growth prospects of any industry for the next five years, but I expect insurance also to be an attractive market. IBM’s professional services presence in this vertical makes it likely that the company can derive significant incremental revenue from the Algorithmics acquisition. All the best, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Salesforce.com and the Big Picture from Dreamforce", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/03/salesforce-com-and-the-big-picture-from-dreamforce", "datePublished": "03/09/2011", "dateModified": "03/09/2011", "articleBody": "Even here in the U.K., we are well aware that Salesforce.com’s annual event Dreamforce is happening this week in San Francisco. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there, but a contingent of the Ventana Research team is there, and from what they are telling me it is quite a show. I have written before that Salesforce has the best marketing machine in the world, let alone the software industry, and it seems to have topped previous events. The company undoubtedly has changed the way many companies think about software, forced many vendors to change their delivery models and is impacting the way consumers think about communicating and running their lives. But let me make a few long-range observations. Apparently 42,000 people (which is nearly half the number of Salesforce.com customers) have made the effort to be there, so not everyone lives only in the cloud. Despite all the chat about Salesforce Chatter, people like to meet people and talk and interact with them in person. The same is true about customers; they will research products on the Web and watch promotional videos, but only a fraction of worldwide sales are made over the Web. Many more will “speak” their voice on social media, but how many will be “heard”? My point is that companies shouldn’t forget all the other channels they use to do business; doing so they risk alienating lots of potential customers. This is why I wrote that you should think carefully about social media and your customers. Despite the Salesforce logo and marketing messages, every service you get from the company is based on software; it is just that the software resides at its sites and users access it over the Web. The important thing for companies to remember is that regardless of how it is delivered, the most important thing about software is whether it has the capabilities you need to run your business; if it doesn’t, it won’t get used and you won’t get the business benefits. On top of a product’s capabilities, you also need to take into account whether it is secure, can scale to meet your users’ demands, provide acceptable response times and be customized to meet your specific needs. In the cloud you also have to consider what happens if the vendor’s site(s) is hit by a disaster, how to integrate it with other systems, and what happens if you should decide to revert to on-premises deployment. And of course, as evidenced by the hundreds of partners displaying their products and services at the show, Salesforce doesn’t do everything itself, so companies have to look beyond it to meet all their requirements. Indeed after a recent U.K. event, I wrote that many customers have successfully used Salesforce products to meet rather more basic business needs than perhaps suggested by all the futuristic hype, such as to build a better order-processing application or consolidate systems and servers. The big question for any company is where it is heading. CEO Marc Benioff started with a dual mission: to beat Oracle at providing sales force automation products and to move companies away from the on-premises model to using systems in the cloud. A LinkedIn discussion about the top three “CRM” systems suggests he has won the first battle and that the cloud is now on everyone’s agenda. The latest announcements are still about moving to cloud, but now the focus is more about data, mobility, the Force.com platform and all the partners and customers that have adopted this as their development environment, and finally about the social customer and the social enterprise. Add all these messages together and the goal is putting hardware and the system development vendors out of business and persuading all of us that we have to do business in this new way. Many of us have lived through the eras when the mainframe was declared dead, and then when client/server was dead, yet numerous examples of both live on. Cloud computing undoubtedly is an option that adds to the choices companies have, and used properly it can help them innovate in the way they do business and I have written innovate the contact center. Social media is here to stay also, but as I noted, people still like to talk and companies should view it as an alternative communication channel, not a replacement for others, and fit it in with their overall strategy for interacting with customers. Lots of us have changed the way we work, but many more people still go to the office. Here also, regardless of the value of smartphones and tablets, companies shouldn’t forget how to support the large majority of their employees who work with desktop systems most of the time. Salesforce.com has some great products, services and partners, and some customers I have spoken with say it has enabled them to innovate in new ways and also be part of a contact center technology revolution that I have written about. Also realize that Salesforce Chatter is a big step forward in collaboration and social media blended together and will require you to think outside the box in making investments. But let’s all keep our feet on the ground and make sure that whatever you choose meets your business needs. Also, please come tell us more and collaborate with me and for those based in Europe, I hope to see you at Cloudforce later this month in London. If you want to read my colleagues analysis of Dreamforce you can get to it now and prepare for Salesforce event in London. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Finance Now Lives in the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/09/01/finance-now-lives-in-the-cloud", "datePublished": "01/09/2011", "dateModified": "01/09/2011", "articleBody": "This year’s Dreamforce is likely include a focus on the value of moving a company’s accounting systems and related record management processes (for instance, invoicing and ordering) to the cloud. Salesforce.com’s annual conference is never short on hyperbole and promotion of everything cloud, which can be off-putting to staid finance department types (like me). And while some departments (notably Sales) have been quick to seize on the advantages of using the cloud, others (notably Finance) have not. The difference in cloud adoption between these departments should not be surprising. Sales people are inherently mobile and operate “beyond the firewall.” Using a cloud-based architecture that is better suited to how these users function is, I believe, one reason why Salesforce is on track to generate over $2 billion in revenues this fiscal year (ending January 2012). On the other hand, accounting (and related record-keeping) is a back-office function usually performed on-premises. For many corporations, there is no IT architecture advantage to operating in the cloud. Even from a cost perspective, accounting systems are long-lived and a “sunk cost,” so the incremental expense of continuing to use an on-premises accounting system will almost always be less than for some other systems until a company needs to replace the software. That noted, there are several areas where I would argue accounting in the cloud is a more sensible approach. In some cases, these are becoming more important because of the ongoing evolution of organizational structures to take advantage of new technology. One of the most important is when a company grows past 100 or so employees and finds that its desktop accounting software is being severely strained by the volume and complexity of the transactions it now must manage. To move from one of these low-end systems to an on-premises midsize accounting package from (for example) Epicor, Exact, Microsoft Dynamics or Sage is rather pricey and may require more commitment of IT staff than the company is comfortable with. For a long time, these sorts of companies found themselves using underpowered software that was not appropriate for their size because they viewed the cost and business risk associated with upgrading to a more complex application as too high. A second, small but growing niche for which finance in the cloud is reasonable is corporations that have a part-time CFO. These organizations need an executive in charge (not just a head of accounting) but are not big enough to afford such talent and experience full-time. An increasing number of CFOs (willingly or unwillingly) have become free agents who service multiple companies. Having the financial systems in the cloud makes it far more practical to have a remotely located CFO. Similarly, CPAs used to have to make “house calls,” showing up on site to go over the books. If their clients use a cloud-based system, though, they can look at the books any time without having to be on site, improving the efficiency of their client service and perhaps reducing travel costs. A third area where cloud-based financial software is a better option is a company that has distributed operations and a decentralized accounting function. Since, like sales people, these operations are taking place outside the firewall, it can make sense to put them in the cloud so that these locations won’t have to have their own hardware and support. I am not suggesting that financial systems in the cloud are for everyone. Larger companies with 1,000 or more full-time employees are unlikely to get a lot of benefit from this kind of deployment for their main system because they are large enough to have an internal IT department that can support on-premises ERP. (By the way, smaller companies can have a more sophisticated ERP system in the cloud even if they don’t have the internal IT resources to support it.) Moreover, large companies may find it more efficient to have the system located in an office to facilitate the movement of data between the ERP application and other systems or data stores. Even here, however, there is one exception: If the company has a stand-alone operation in a remote location, it may make sense to use the cloud, especially if it’s not feasible to enforce separation of duties in managing on-premises IT systems. And one final negative factor, as events over the past year have shown, is that Internet connectivity cannot guaranteed since governments can shut down access in cities or whole countries. Other issues that finance executives continue to have with cloud-based systems include security and reliability. These are legitimate concerns, of course, but they ought to be considered in context. In an age when a 16GB thumb drive costs about $20, a company’s on-premises financial data can be taken out the door and in someone else’s hands without detection in a matter of minutes. Also, on-premises systems are not necessarily invulnerable to fire, flood or some other catastrophe, especially if the backup tapes are sitting in the same room as the server. Cloud providers often have multiple locations and can save the client the cost of having its own remote disaster recovery site. To be sure, cloud providers have vulnerabilities, so it’s important to assess how effectively each vendor addresses them. However, companies should understand that their on-premises systems have vulnerabilities as well and are not inherently safer. Companies have a large and growing list of options to choose from if they are interested in moving their accounting systems to the cloud. This includes Acumatica, Aplicor, Expandable, FinancialForce, Intacct,Intuit, Microsoft Dynamics (available through its reseller network), NetSuite, Noguska, Plex and SAP ByDesign. If a finance organization is looking for budgeting and planning in the cloud, providers includeAdaptive Planning, which partners with Salesforce.com, and Host Analytics. Leaving aside the hoopla, finance in the cloud is here and growing because it make sense for a large number of companies, only a fraction of which have decided as yet to go this route. I think adoption will be slow because of the innate conservatism of the finance function and because there’s no need to rush to replace financial systems that are running well. Still, I expect to see accelerating adoption over the next several years, as more companies understand the benefits. Companies small and large have been using the cloud for a range of dedicated applications such as expense management, budgeting and performance management. 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