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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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Its customer base is mostly in the small and midsized business and OEMs and SaaS providers who can embed Jaspersoft code directly into their offerings. Earlier this summer, the company introduced Jaspersoft 4.7, which features advancements in interactive reporting, big data access and mobile business intelligence for Android. The <a href="http://www.jaspersoft.com/press/jaspersoft-47-the-reporting-revolution-begins" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">4.7 release</span></a> brings interactive features such as segmenting and filtering,...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/31/jaspersoft-4-7-shows-big-data-opportunity-and-mobile-bi-challenges"><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/mobile">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jaspersoft">Jaspersoft</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-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/information-applications">Information Applications</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/2012/08/30/gaining-time-to-value-from-big-data">Gaining Time-to-Value From 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">30 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=200&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=100&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=200&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=300&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=400&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=500&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png?width=600&name=vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>I had a refreshing call this morning with a vendor that did not revolve around integration of systems, types of data, and the intricacies of NoSQL approaches. Instead, the discussion was about how its business users analyze an important and complex problem and how the company’s software enables that analysis. The topic of big data never came up, and it was not needed, because the conversation was business-driven and issue-specific.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/30/gaining-time-to-value-from-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/datameer">Datameer</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/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planview">Planview</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/successfactors">SuccessFactors</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-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/ibm">IBM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pivotlink">PivotLink</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/2012/08/30/sas-furthers-cloud-computing-for-business">SAS Furthers Cloud Computing for Business</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 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>After this summer’s SAS European analyst event, I wrote that I came away less than convinced <a href="http://richardsnow.ventanaresearch.com/2012/06/18/sas-expands-business-relevance-in-using-analytics/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SAS was truly committed to the cloud</span></a>, based largely on the fact that most other vendors are blowing their cloud trumpets much louder than SAS. It seemed developments in and around <a href="http://www.sas.com/software/customer-intelligence/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">customer intelligence</span></a> and its other products were higher priority to the company than its cloud strategy. However, after a recent update, I was left with no doubt that the cloud is important to SAS and that the company has a...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/30/sas-furthers-cloud-computing-for-business"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS</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/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-analytics">Business 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/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/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text 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/2012/08/29/what-a-bugatti-can-teach-us-about-information-management">What a Bugatti Can Teach Us About Information Management</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">29 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>One of the community groups to which I donate my time is an organization that puts on a Concours d’Élegance – a vintage car show. Such Concours date back to seventeenth-century France, when wealthy aristocrats gathered to see who had the best carriages and most beaudacious horses. Our Concours serves as the centerpiece to a broader mission of raising money for several charities. There a many such events in the United States and elsewhere, but this one, which has been held every year since 1956,...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/29/what-a-bugatti-can-teach-us-about-information-management"><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/grc">GRC</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/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance">finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM</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/2012/08/29/ibm-making-billion-dollar-bet-on-kenexa-for-social-business-and-talent-management">IBM Making Billion-Dollar Bet on Kenexa for Social Business and Talent 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">29 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=200&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=100&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=200&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=300&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=400&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=500&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png?width=600&name=vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>IBM has announced its <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38635.wss" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">intention to acquire Kenexa</span></a> as part of IBM Smarter Workforce initiative and social business software division. It’s a billion-dollar-plus investment to bolster IBM’s social business and give the company more depth in the human capital management software market that comprises human resources, talent management and workforce management. A lot of surface-level analysis I’ve seen on this announcement is not worth reading, but the deeper review below may help Kenexa and IBM...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/29/ibm-making-billion-dollar-bet-on-kenexa-for-social-business-and-talent-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kenexa">Kenexa</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recruiting">Recruiting</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-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/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent 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/2012/08/24/good-data-stewardship-is-critical-for-business-analytics">Good Data Stewardship Is Critical for Business Analytics</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">24 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=200&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=100&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=200&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=300&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=400&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=500&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png?width=600&name=vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Our research consistently finds that defects in data are the root cause of a wide range of problems encountered by modern corporations. The magnitude of the problem correlates with the size of the company: Big companies have bigger headaches than midsize ones. Data issues diminish productivity in every part of a business as people struggle to correct errors or find workarounds. Issues with data are a man-made phenomenon, yet companies seem to treat bad data as some sort of force of nature like...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/24/good-data-stewardship-is-critical-for-business-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/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc">GRC</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/cio">CIO</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/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/finance">finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM</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/2012/08/23/midsize-companies-find-erp-in-the-cloud-increasingly-attractive">Midsize Companies Find ERP in the Cloud Increasingly Attractive</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">23 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Midsize businesses “pay” for their use of entry-level accounting systems by not having the essential information they need readily available and by using up valuable time that could be better spent generating business, finding issues or responding to opportunities sooner or simply enhancing the efficiency of the organization. Nevertheless, the transition from an entry-level accounting package such as QuickBooks to an on-premises system can be daunting for companies whose entry-level software no...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/midsize-companies-find-erp-in-the-cloud-increasingly-attractive"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erp">ERP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/end-to-end">end-to-end</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/business-process-management">Business Process Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</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/business-process-execution">business process execution</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-systems">financial systems</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM</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/2012/08/23/closing-the-analytics-skills-gap">Closing the Analytics Skills Gap</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 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=200&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=100&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=200&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=300&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=400&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=500&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png?width=600&name=vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>A study by the McKinsey Global Institute published earlier this year suggests a coming shortage of more than 140,000 workers with deep analytical skills and a shortage of more than 1.5 million data-literate managers. I’m not sure how the study defined these roles, but I’d guess that those with deep analytic skills are those folks building the complex models, and the data-literate managers are those executives, middle managers and analysts who interpret the results and use the models to help...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/closing-the-analytics-skills-gap"><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-scientist">Data Scientist</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/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/analytics">Analytics</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-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/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2012/08/23/the-stupidity-of-kpis-in-business-analytics">The Stupidity of KPIs in Business Analytics</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">23 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>In my last rant, on business analytics and <a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2012/08/21/the-pathetic-state-of-dashboards/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">the pathetic state of dashboards</span></a>, I pointed out significant flaws in business intelligence software created by technology providers and in how it is being deployed by business and IT. Now I want to follow up with some insight on disconnects to a critical asset that is essential to the success of business analytics. I mean key performance indicators (KPIs), a term used in inaccurate ways that have diminished the value of the concept for business.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/the-stupidity-of-kpis-in-business-analytics"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/sustainability">Sustainability</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kpi">KPI</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/key-performance-indicators">Key Performance Indicators</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-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/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-applications">Information Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-intelligence">Location Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2012/08/22/interactive-intelligence-embraces-business-process-management">Interactive Intelligence Embraces Business Process 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">22 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>The product page for <a href="http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Interactive Intelligence</span></a> highlights what the company is best known for – IP-based business communications. This image is further strengthened by its flagship <a href="http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/Customer-Interaction-Center.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Customer Interaction Center</span></a> platform, which offers organizations a fully featured multimedia contact center in the cloud. This offering includes multimedia communications in the cloud along with many of the capabilities that Ventana Research terms <a href="http://richardsnow.ventanaresearch.com/2012/07/16/agents-performance-management-is-hot-for-successful-customer-interactions/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">agent performance management</span></a>. However, the company also offers a third...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/22/interactive-intelligence-embraces-business-process-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</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/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/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-force-optimization">Workforce Force Optimization</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/2012/08/22/the-pathetic-state-of-dashboards">The Pathetic State of Dashboards</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 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Over the last several months, my colleague VP and Research Director Tony Cosentino and I have been assessing vendors and products in the business intelligence market as part of our upcoming Value Index. Tony recently wrote about <a href="http://tonycosentino.ventanaresearch.com/2012/08/09/making-sense-of-the-swirling-world-of-business-analytics/" target="_blank">the swirling world of business analytics</a>, covering many of the dynamics of this industry. He and I have been reviewing the breadth and depth of over 15 of these vendors using our Value Index methodology, which examines the products closely in terms of usability,...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/22/the-pathetic-state-of-dashboards"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/analytics">Analytics</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-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</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/dashboards">Dashboards</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-intelligence">Location Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expert-systems">Expert Systems</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/2012/08/20/tibco-bets-on-event-driven-analytics">Tibco Bets on Event-Driven 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">20 August 2012 </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>Over the years Tibco has provided infrastructure for enterprise data integration and has built a substantial installed base. Now the company positions itself as supplying next-generation analytics for big data through service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA has been around for a while; Ventana Research has been tracking it since 2006 and conducted <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/resources/resources.aspx?id=721" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">benchmark research</span></a> on SOA. But it remains a vaguely understood technology. Our research shows that SOA is not clearly defined in the market and that...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/20/tibco-bets-on-event-driven-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/soa">SOA</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spotfire">Spotfire</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/analytics">Analytics</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/complex-event-processing">Complex Event Processing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tibco">Tibco</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cep">CEP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-cloud">Service Cloud</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/2012/08/17/making-better-use-of-ratios-in-analytics">Making Better Use of Ratios in Analytics</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">17 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>For the past several years Ventana Research has focused more on analytics and their importance to improving business performance. We’ve done extensive <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/BAM/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">benchmark research in business analytics</span></a>, detailing how they are used generally in business and in major functional areas of companies as well as their application in specific industries. We adopted this focus because technology advances are changing the landscape of analytics. Its use in business management, for example, is getting new scrutiny...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/17/making-better-use-of-ratios-in-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/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/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain 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/modeling">Modeling</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/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/analytics">Analytics</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/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/in-memory">In-memory</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/best-pracices">best pracices</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-value">business value</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cash-management">cash management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/challenge">challenge</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-planning">financial 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/2012/08/17/predictive-analytics-move-toward-center-stage">Predictive Analytics Move Toward Center Stage</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">17 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=200&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=100&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=200&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=300&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=400&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=500&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png?width=600&name=vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>In this second in a <a href="//blog.ventanaresearch.com/2012/08/09/making-sense-of-the-swirling-world-of-business-analytics/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">blog series</span></a> on business analytics I focus on the increasingly important area of predictive analytics. Our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/pat/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">benchmark research into predictive analytics</span></a> shows that while the vast majority of companies see this technology as important or very important for the future of their organizations, most are not taking full advantage of it. This finding suggests that there is an opportunity for companies to gain competitive advantage by implementing predictive analytics in the near term.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/17/predictive-analytics-move-toward-center-stage"><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/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-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-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/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2012/08/16/the-collaborative-enterprise-to-support-customer-interactions">The Collaborative Enterprise to Support Customer Interactions</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">16 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>I’ve challenged a lot of the hype about the social enterprise, because I feel “social” gives the wrong impression. For most people, social media is predominately about socializing. While everyone likes to feel that going to work is partly about interacting with friends, when it comes down to it running a business is about winning customers, selling them your products and services, and providing customer service when needed. In today’s competitive markets, none of these are easy tasks. As I look...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/16/the-collaborative-enterprise-to-support-customer-interactions"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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-collaboration">Business Collaboration</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/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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-force-optimization">Workforce Force Optimization</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/2012/08/15/put-a-smile-in-your-last-mile-of-finance">Put a Smile in Your Last Mile of Finance</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">15 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>People used to use the phrase “the last mile” solely to refer to a condemned prisoner’s path to execution. Then the telecommunications industry picked it up to describe that part of a circuit between a major trunk line and a subscriber. Later still a defunct software company, Movaris (now part of Trintech), used the phrase in an analogy to refer to the set of activities that take place between when a company closes its books and the point where it finishes its external reporting activities,...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/15/put-a-smile-in-your-last-mile-of-finance"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance">Governance</a>, <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/reporting">Reporting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/audit">audit</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/close">close</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidation">Consolidation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controller">Controller</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/xbrl">XBRL</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/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compliance">compliance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM</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/2012/08/13/stibo-is-red-hot-for-product-information-management">Stibo Is Red Hot for Product Information 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">13 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=200&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=100&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=200&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=300&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=400&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=500&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg?width=600&name=pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>When it comes to managing product information, organizations know they have room for improvement; only 27 percent trust their efforts completely, and less than a fifth (19%) are very satisfied with them. Almost half (48%) say they have too many incompatible tools, while 41 percent do not have a centralized information repository and 45 percent use a manual process to create a single complete, consistent and reliable product record. All of these facts and more from our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/pim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">product information...</span></a></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/13/stibo-is-red-hot-for-product-information-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/mdm">MDM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pim">PIM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</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/information-management-im">Information Management (IM)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-information-management">Product Information 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/2012/08/10/anaplan-is-on-a-mission-for-planning-driven-performance-management">Anaplan is on a Mission for Planning Driven Performance 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">10 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=200&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=100&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=200&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=300&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=400&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=500&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png?width=600&name=vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>When it comes to the task of managing performance, many organizations still find themselves fixated on the past rather than planning for improvement in the future. When performance management processes operate efficiently, technology to support activities such as modeling and analytics can optimize outcomes and help align them to targeted goals and objectives. This might seem trivial or easily done, but the reality is that most organizations lack a unified platform that anyone in the enterprise...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/10/anaplan-is-on-a-mission-for-planning-driven-performance-management"><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">Sales</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales 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-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/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</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/2012/08/09/make-it-spending-transparent">Make IT Spending Transparent</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 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>What does it cost to run an IT department? That’s an easy question to answer, but for most companies, <em>why</em> it costs that amount is not. IT departments often complain that most of their budget is devoted to funding daily operations and basic maintenance (“keeping the lights on”), but often, one big overlooked problem is the chargeback process that most companies use to assign IT department operating costs.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/09/make-it-spending-transparent"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales</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/chargebacks">chargebacks</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</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/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-cost">IT cost</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/2012/08/09/making-sense-of-the-swirling-world-of-business-analytics">Making Sense of the Swirling World of Business 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 August 2012 </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>Our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/BAM/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">benchmark research on business analytics</span></a> suggests that it is counterproductive to take a general approach to the topic. A better approach is to focus on particular use cases and lines of business (LOB). For this reason, in a series of upcoming articles, I will look at our business analytics research in the context of different industries and different functional areas of an organization, and illustrate how analytics are being applied to solve real business problems.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/09/making-sense-of-the-swirling-world-of-business-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-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-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/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-applications">Information Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-intelligence">Location Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2012/08/08/cios-need-to-make-information-management-a-real-priority">CIOs Need to Make Information Management a Real Priority</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">08 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=200&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=100&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=200&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=300&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=400&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=500&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png?width=600&name=vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Our recent <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/infomgt" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">benchmark research on information management</span></a> uncovered some startling facts about the level of technology adoption necessary for efficient information-centric organizations. Chief information officers (CIO) are responsible for the availability of information to their businesses in a consistent and timely basis, but in most organizations, information management is seen as just a delegated set of tasks and is not the CIO’s top priority. This unfortunate outlook can have a lasting...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/cios-need-to-make-information-management-a-real-priority"><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/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/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-management">Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-applications">Information Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data">Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it">IT</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/2012/08/08/meeting-the-xbrl-challenge-takes-inventiveness">Meeting the XBRL Challenge Takes Inventiveness</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">08 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>For several years the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has mandated that filers apply eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) tags to their financial statements. XBRL was developed to make it easier for investors to use a company’s financial information. Now XBRL US has kicked off its second annual <a href="http://xbrl.us/research/pages/challenge.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">XBRL Challenge</span></a>, a contest designed to encourage development of open source analytical tools that can use XBRL-formatted corporate financial data from the SEC’s EDGAR database....</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/meeting-the-xbrl-challenge-takes-inventiveness"><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/xbrl">XBRL</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</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/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance">finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management">Financial Performance Management</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/2012/08/08/calabrio-provides-integrated-workforce-optimization">Calabrio Provides Integrated Workforce Optimization</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">08 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p><a href="http://www.calabrio.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Calabrio</span></a> offers a suite of workforce optimization (WFO) products used in call centers that includes call recording, quality recording, workforce management and performance management, and it also offers a purpose-built speech analytics product. From a briefing and demonstration, I confirmed that the core WFO products support the capabilities that our research shows companies expect of these products. Ventana Research defines agent performance management (APM) as WFO plus capture of all forms of...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/calabrio-provides-integrated-workforce-optimization"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/calabrio">Calabrio</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/workforce-force-optimization">Workforce Force Optimization</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/2012/08/04/karmasphere-addresses-big-data-skills-gap-with-collaboration-and-analytics">Karmasphere Addresses Big-Data Skills Gap with Collaboration and 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">04 August 2012 </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><a href="https://karmasphere.com/" target="_blank">Karmasphere</a> has an interesting story to tell. Much like <a href="http://www.datameer.com/" target="_blank">Datameer</a>, which I recently <a href="http://tonycosentino.ventanaresearch.com/2012/07/17/datameer-provides-business-visualization-and-discovery-for-hadoop/" target="_blank">blogged</a> about, Karmasphere sits on top of the Hadoop distributed platform where companies such as <a href="http://www.cloudera.com" target="_blank">Cloudera</a>, <a href="http://www.hortonworks.com" target="_blank">Hortonworks</a> and <a href="http://www.mapr.com" target="_blank">MapR</a> compete. Karmasphere provides a collaborative environment and an analytical workbench that help companies write applications and workflows that run on top of Hadoop. The company’s business model looks to leverage legacy skill sets, such as SQL, which are already resident in most...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/04/karmasphere-addresses-big-data-skills-gap-with-collaboration-and-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/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/analytics">Analytics</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-performance">Business Performance</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/information-applications">Information Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/karmasphere">Karmasphere</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/2012/08/02/product-information-management-is-hot-for-business">Product Information Management Is Hot for Business</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">02 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=200&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=100&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=200&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=300&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 300w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=400&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 400w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=500&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 500w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg?width=600&name=pim_ventanaresearchvalueindex_2012-2.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Ventana Research has just released our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/pimvalueindex/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">2012 Value Index for Product Information Management</span></a> (PIM), in which we evaluate the competency and maturity of vendors and products. Our firm has been researching this software category for many years, and our latest <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/pim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">benchmark research in product information management</span></a>, coming out shortly, finds PIM software providing substantive benefits in new channels of interaction with suppliers and customers.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/02/product-information-management-is-hot-for-business"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/master-data-management">Master Data Management</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/sap">SAP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterworks">Enterworks</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hybris">Hybris</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stibo-systems">Stibo Systems</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/webon">Webon</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-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/data-governance">Data Governance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-intelligence">Location Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oracle">Oracle</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/heiler">Heiler</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-information-management">Product Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/riversand">Riversand</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/2012/08/02/salesforce-com-advances-customer-interaction">Salesforce.com Advances Customer Interaction</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">02 August 2012 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Since it was founded in 1999, <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">salesforce.com</span></a> has been driving other vendors and end-user organizations to rethink how they supply and purchase software. The company has grown from being a supplier of CRM in the cloud to a vendor with diverse offerings that include a development platform, an app exchange, platforms that support marketing, sales and customer service, knowledge management, desktop technology, collaboration, website development, social media support and analytics. Along the way it...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/02/salesforce-com-advances-customer-interaction"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/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/liveops">LiveOps</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/newvoicemedia">NewVoicemedia</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</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/cisco">Cisco</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/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/vocalcom">Vocalcom</a> <hr> </div> <script> // Check active classes var checkClass = function() { if ( $('.fil_item').hasClass('hide') ) { $('.fil_item').removeClass('hide'); 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style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/automation">automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/awards">Awards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/azure">azure <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/backup">Backup <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/balanced-scorecard">balanced scorecard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/banking">banking <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cirro">Cirro <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cisco">Cisco <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ciso">CISO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/clarabridge">Clarabridge <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/clarity-systems">Clarity Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/clickfox">Clickfox <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/close">close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(43)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/closed-loop">closed loop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/closing">closing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(35)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud">Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-analytics">cloud analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-business-intelligence">cloud business intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing <span 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">(10)</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 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(532)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience-management">Customer Experience Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(55)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback">Customer Feedback <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(123)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-information-management">Customer Information Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-intelligence">Customer Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" 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">Data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(305)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-analytics">Data Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-artisan">data artisan <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-blending">data blending <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-catalog">Data catalog <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-democratization">Data Democratization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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">(105)</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">(150)</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">(37)</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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<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">(504)</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 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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">(11)</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 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"@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Jaspersoft 4.7 Shows Big Data Opportunity and Mobile BI Challenges", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/31/jaspersoft-4-7-shows-big-data-opportunity-and-mobile-bi-challenges", "datePublished": "31/08/2012", "dateModified": "31/08/2012", "articleBody": "Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite competes in the open source and broader BI market. Its customer base is mostly in the small and midsized business and OEMs and SaaS providers who can embed Jaspersoft code directly into their offerings. Earlier this summer, the company introduced Jaspersoft 4.7, which features advancements in interactive reporting, big data access and mobile business intelligence for Android. The 4.7 release brings interactive features such as segmenting and filtering, though these are not as user-friendly as those found in some of the other tools in the market. As many of our benchmark research reports show, usability is becoming more important in the tools environment as business users become more proactive in the selection and use of these tools. Interactive reporting is quickly becoming table stakes, but we’re still not seeing the advancements that will lead to mass business user adoption, as my colleague Mark Smith recently noted. To handle more big data, Jaspersoft adopted MongoDB, a real-time-oriented NoSQL database. Users can now display log data directly on a dashboard, and developers can build reports. This addition augments Jaspersoft’s native access to other big-data NoSQL approaches such as Hadoop and Cassandra. Jaspersoft also partners with big-data companies including IBM Netezza, Datastax, HP Vertica, 10Gen and Google BigQuery. The importance of connecting with a variety of data sources is highlighted by our recent big data benchmark research, where companies say customer data (68%) and transactional data (60%) top the list of critical data sources. Release 4.7 lets users build applications and view reports natively on Android mobile devices, adding to the native support already available for Apple iOS. An SDK for Android allows developers to embed directly at the device level. I went ahead and tried out the mobile version on my Apple iPhone 4S and found that it lacked the auto-sizing and interactivity found in other approaches today. I also decided to test out the trial version of the cloud version of the software and I was advised that it would take an hour to provision the resources. While I waited I went ahead and downloaded the 64-bit version of Jaspersoft 4.7 for Windows. The install process was relatively seamless with the only challenge being that there was no clear user name and password available. Fortunately, there was a live operator for me to call and resolve the issue immediately. The trial included sample data to play with which was nice, but the tool really lacked many of the features such as search and collaboration that we are seeing from other available tools in the market. I can see how Jaspersoft may be a nice addition to a SaaS offering or for OEM, but as far as a standalone BI tool, Jaspersoft has an uphill climb. When the cloud version arrived as promised, the demo was essentially the same with minor hang times as opposed to the download version. While Jaspersoft 4.7 helps move the needle in the right direction, I’d like to see further development in ease of use (especially in the mobile area) as well as in areas such search and collaboration. As our NextGen BI benchmark research will reveal, expectations for mobile and collaborative BI systems are high, but actual time-to-value is still wanting. Overall, however, the ability to embed Jaspersoft in OEM applications along with the rise in cloud computing and SaaS should give the company ample space for growth, and the advancements in the latest release in reporting, big data and mobile areas should help it take advantage of the hottest trends. Companies looking for a low cost BI option or looking to embed basic BI functionality into their own applications should consider Jaspersoft. Regards, Tony Cosentino - VP and Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_the_variety_of_big_data-6.png", "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": "Gaining Time-to-Value From Big Data", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/30/gaining-time-to-value-from-big-data", "datePublished": "30/08/2012", "dateModified": "30/08/2012", "articleBody": "I had a refreshing call this morning with a vendor that did not revolve around integration of systems, types of data, and the intricacies of NoSQL approaches. Instead, the discussion was about how its business users analyze an important and complex problem and how the company’s software enables that analysis. The topic of big data never came up, and it was not needed, because the conversation was business-driven and issue-specific. By contrast, we get a lot of briefings that start with big data’s impact on business, but devolve into details about how data is accessed and the technology architecture. Data access and integration are important, but when we talk about big data analytics, focusing on the business issues is even more critical. Our benchmark research into big data shows that companies employ storage (95%) and reporting (94%) of big data, but very few use it for data mining (55%) and what-if scenario modeling (49%). That must change. Descriptive analysis on big data is quickly turning into table stakes; the real competitive value of big data analytics is in the latter two categories. Not every big data vendor drowns its message in technospeak. IBM, for instance, stokes the imagination with analytical systems such as Watson and does a good job of bringing its business-focused story to a diverse audience through its Global Business Services arm. Some newer players paint compelling pictures as well. Companies such as PivotLink, PlanView and SuccessFactors (now part of SAP) deliver analytics stories from different organizational perspectives. Part of their advantage is that they start from a cloud and application perspective, but they also tell the analytics story in context of business, not in context of technology. Providing that business perspective is a more difficult task for BI companies that have been pitching their software to IT departments for years, but even some of these have managed to buck this trend. Alteryx, for instance, differentiates itself by putting forward compelling industry-specific use cases, and espousing the concept of the data artisan. This right-brain/left-brain approach appeals to both the technical and business sides of the house. Datameer also does a good job of producing solid business use cases. Its recent advancements in visualization help the company paint the analytical picture from a business perspective. Unfortunately, other examples seem few and far between. Most companies are still caught pitching technology-centric solutions, despite the fact that, in the new world of analytics, it’s about business solutions, not features on a specification sheet. This focus on business issues over technology is important because the business side of the house today controls more and more of the technology spending. While business managers understand business and often have a firm grasp of analytics, they don’t always understand or care about the intricacies of different processing techniques and data models. In our upcoming benchmark research on next-generation BI systems, the data from which I’m currently analyzing, we see this power shift clearly. While IT still has veto power, decisions are being driven by business users and being ratified at the top of the organization. The Ventana Research Maturity Model from our business analytics benchmark research shows that the analytics category is still immature, with only 15 percent of companies reaching the innovative level. So how do we begin to change this dialog from a technology-driven discussion to a business-driven discussion? From the client perspective, it starts with a blue sky approach, since the technological limitations that drove the old world of analytics no longer exist. This blank canvas may be framed by metrics such as revenue, profit and share of wallet, but the frame is now extending itself into less tangible and forward-looking areas such as customer churn and brand equity. If these output metrics are the frame, it’s the people, process, information and tools that are our brushes with which we paint. The focal point of the piece is always the customer. If a business has a hard time thinking in terms of a blank canvass, it can examine a number of existing cases that show the value of utilizing big data analytics to help illuminate customer behavior, web usage, security, location, fraud, regulation and compliance. Some of the bigger ones are briefly discussed in my recent blog entry on predictive analytics. The big data industry, if we can call it that, is quickly moving from a focus on the technology stack to a focus on tangible business outcomes and time-to-value (TTV). The innovations of the last few years have enabled companies to take a blue sky perspective and do things that they have never thought possible. The key is to start with the business problem you are looking to solve; the technology will work itself out from there. Regards, Tony Cosentino VP and Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_bigdata_benefits_of_big_data_technologies-11.png", "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": "SAS Furthers Cloud Computing for Business", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/30/sas-furthers-cloud-computing-for-business", "datePublished": "30/08/2012", "dateModified": "30/08/2012", "articleBody": "After this summer’s SAS European analyst event, I wrote that I came away less than convinced SAS was truly committed to the cloud, based largely on the fact that most other vendors are blowing their cloud trumpets much louder than SAS. It seemed developments in and around customer intelligence and its other products were higher priority to the company than its cloud strategy. However, after a recent update, I was left with no doubt that the cloud is important to SAS and that the company has a well–thought-through strategy based around two services that Ventana Research touched on earlier this year. SAS provides a subscription-based service from its data centers so that users can access capabilities on demand through a variety of browsers. It also provides support for both private and public cloud deployments, which enable organizations to mix and match between on-premises and cloud-based. The multitenant architecture provides an organization the ability to revert to on-premises deployment. A subscriber portal lets organizations manage subscriptions to the service, manage authorized users, set up and configure the application, and monitor, audit and receive SLA reports about the service. A separate provider portal allows providers to manage their assets and tenants, manage contracts, billing and SLAs and provision integration with internal systems. Developers can use provided tools to build custom extensions and customize the applications. As it goes forward, SAS will provide an application marketplace, so that organizations can if they want share developments, further reducing the potential cost of building specific capabilities. As with all offerings from SAS, an exhaustive development program is planned for the next few years, which will see more options and capabilities being offered in the cloud. With all the hype about the cloud, customers are still confused about differences between hosted services, software as a service and cloud computing. Nevertheless, cloud computing is one of six technology developments that Ventana Research has identified as having a major impact on organizations’ IT strategy – the other four being big data, mobility, collaboration, social media and analytics. Our research into the contact center in the cloud shows that organizations are increasingly looking to utilize contact center systems in the cloud to help provide customers with excellent experiences across multiple communication channels. It however also shows, as indeed does our research in customer analytics and contact center analytics, that companies are slower at adopting analytics than other business applications. Some of the underlying reasons are the cost and complexity of setting up and running on-premises analytics. Cloud-based services such as those offered by SAS are a way to help organizations address these issues. We recommend organizations looking to improve their customer-facing activities investigate how cloud-based computing and gaining faster insight to customer interactions can add value to their operations. Regards, Richard J. 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": "What a Bugatti Can Teach Us About Information Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/29/what-a-bugatti-can-teach-us-about-information-management", "datePublished": "29/08/2012", "dateModified": "29/08/2012", "articleBody": "One of the community groups to which I donate my time is an organization that puts on a Concours d’Élegance – a vintage car show. Such Concours date back to seventeenth-century France, when wealthy aristocrats gathered to see who had the best carriages and most beaudacious horses. Our Concours serves as the centerpiece to a broader mission of raising money for several charities. There a many such events in the United States and elsewhere, but this one, which has been held every year since 1956, has the distinction of being the longest continuously running Concours in the United States. A couple of years ago I started helping out on the day of the event, but soon I was in charge of registering and keeping track of the 250 or so cars that apply to be in the show. The spreadsheet-based system for keeping track of the cars was a mess, and it was the root cause of many (if not most) of the needless headaches that we were experiencing running the event. I wound up with the job because (following my own advice) I suggested that we change from spreadsheets to a real database, and I developed its design. At the same time we also changed from an all-paper registration system to an online one in order to reduce the need for volunteers to key in information from forms. This has substantially reduced errors associated with the data entry process. As a bonus, because we have all the information stored electronically, the members of the committee that selects the cars to appear now use tablets to review applicants rather than passing around paper forms and photographs. The new system has streamlined many of our basic processes and cut down on errors, but it has not been without challenges. One is that owners of older cars tend to be older themselves, and some have limited or no experience using computers, and little or no interest in learning how to deal with email and the Internet. Even though we offer the option of filling out a paper entry form and attaching photographic prints, our notifications go out by email and the payment process is handled online. Like many businesses, we have had to determine how best to work with members of the public (car owners in our case) who find our process an exasperating headache. Managing the registration process also provides ongoing confirmation of the research that my colleagues and I perform on using information technology in business. To be sure, the issues I confront are trivial in comparison to those of a larger organization and very different in scope. Yet I can see the connection between shortcomings in process design or software capabilities and some problems that develop on the day of the event. Here are some the lessons I have learned over the past two years, all of which reinforce the best practices Ventana Research advocates. The quality of your IT department is a key factor in business success. Our research finds that companies with a competent IT staff get better results from IT than those that have mediocre or worse talent. In our Concours we found that to be true. To bring the registration online, we worked with a company that has an online scheduling service. The owner of the business is a Concours volunteer and a generous supporter. He donated the cost of his employees’ time, and we piggyback on his infrastructure. This works out well because his basic system was well suited to be modified to our very limited requirements. The project involved creating a one-page web form that populated a couple of tables. I had defined all the fields in the tables along with their properties. We did not need the company to create and refine reports because we were linking Microsoft Access to the source tables and using it for reporting. We only needed the company to do the coding of our online form and create the underlying SQL tables. We started developing the online registration system and database for keeping records two years ago in early November with the expectation that we would be ready for testing at the end of January. I thought this would give us plenty of time to begin accepting entries beginning in May. I figured the schedule was realistic, even though our project was a low priority for the staff because it was at most a one-week job. Unfortunately, the schedule turned out to be optimistic because the guy responsible for doing the work was incompetent. Instead of being ready in January, we went online with very limited testing in mid-June, three months late and six weeks after our announced starting date. While waiting, we had to constantly deal with owners who wanted to enter their cars. In the shortened registration process, we had to contend with a more concentrated load of questions, exceptions and errors. Despite all of the pain, I had to smile because our little project was almost a parody of the typical horror story of a major IT effort gone wrong. IT projects can fail for many reasons, but a competent, dedicated IT organization will overcome obstacles and promote business success. Business leaders should be able to speak IT. Few business schools teach IT skills to prospective executives. Some businesses like to cross-train promising employees so that when they are promoted to senior-level positions they will have had the experience to understand most if not all of the facets of the business at an elemental level. They are in a better position to see how the issues in one part of the business affect things in others, and so are better able to deal with issues as they arise. Such experience also enables them to challenge excuses from people who are not getting the work done. In our case I can easily imagine being told the delay was the result of a change in scope, flawed software, negligent consultants – anything but the IT department staff. Line-of-business executives should know something about IT and IT department operations (or at least have someone on their staff who does). Without such knowledge, they will hear lame excuses that they don’t know enough to challenge, and have no ability to communicate clearly and quickly to overcome IT-related issues. Bad data doubles workloads. OK, I made up that number, but I doubt it’s way off the mark. We collectively spend about half the time we spent two years ago collecting, correcting, organizing and using data about the cars and their owners. We are able to generate accurate, up-to-date reports in a matter of minutes. I fear that this lesson is often lost in corporate settings. Managers and executives often have only a limited idea of how much time is wasted in their organizations by needless and fixable issues. Good data stewardship is critical to the smooth functioning of all businesses, big and small, as I recently noted. Having good data yields a positive result: We were able to let the selection committee review the cars on tablets. This speeded up the process, and enabled members to easily jump back to compare entries and zoom in on photographs of cars and their engine compartments. Root cause analysis and continuous improvement should be your mantra. We had many fewer issues in this our second year of operating the online system, but I still see improvements we could make to improve process efficiency and reduce the number of errors. When I find issues in our processes I try to determine their root cause. If it’s data- or technology-related, I try to figure out how to fix it. If it’s a process issue, I try to see whether an IT element might help the process along. My major project for this coming year will be to deploy the Eclipse BIRT open source reporting tool for the Concours. We have users who need up-to-the-minute reports as we get close to the day of the event, and require write-back capability to correct database errors. I’m trying to follow our advice to use desktop spreadsheets where they are appropriate (and they are sometimes) but avoid them when they ultimately create more problems than they solve. A substantial portion of this year’s data issues started with desktop spreadsheets. Sometimes a simple condition makes it easier to demonstrate larger principles that are at work in a more complex situation. In this case, keeping track of cars and their owners demonstrates the importance of using the right tools to efficiently achieve good data management. This example illustrates the importance of having the right people doing the job, and the importance of continually looking for root causes of business issues and finding ways to address them. 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": "IBM Making Billion-Dollar Bet on Kenexa for Social Business and Talent Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/29/ibm-making-billion-dollar-bet-on-kenexa-for-social-business-and-talent-management", "datePublished": "29/08/2012", "dateModified": "29/08/2012", "articleBody": "IBM has announced its intention to acquire Kenexa as part of IBM Smarter Workforce initiative and social business software division. It’s a billion-dollar-plus investment to bolster IBM’s social business and give the company more depth in the human capital management software market that comprises human resources, talent management and workforce management. A lot of surface-level analysis I’ve seen on this announcement is not worth reading, but the deeper review below may help Kenexa and IBM customers, along with the market at large, and understand the implications of this announcement. Social collaboration in business applications is advancing rapidly; I have already written about our research detailing the benefits and best practices some early adopters have found. With social collaboration software, customers’ buying dynamic does not come from IT but rather HR and operational management, and this kind of software is not something executives are buying off the shelf. Kenexa uses a lot of fancy business marketing words like enriching lives to describe what it does on its website. Its annual report states : “We are a leading provider of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, solutions that enable organizations to more effectively recruit, retain and develop employees. Our solutions are built around a suite of easily configurable software applications that automate talent acquisition and employee performance management best practices.” This positioning has evolved from the acquisitions Kenexa has made to help the company grow its software portfolio. The company sources the majority of its software revenue from its recruiting related software and its outsourcing and consulting services of hiring activities. It has been effective at using its own products within its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and licensing them to meet customer needs. But Kenexa was not advancing as quickly as it should have in embracing social media as a channel for recruiting – a factor that our social recruiting benchmark identified as a top priority for identifying new talent pools. Kenexa has recently gotten more engaged into supporting social media. Other software providers have advanced more rapidly in support social media and other innovations in recruiting, such as Talemetry’s support for social media and verification of resumes and HireVue’s video interviewing on smartphones. Kenexa has been challenged when it comes to organic product development in its talent management portfolios, but it has made many acquisitions in the last two years to expand its applications footprint in this area. Kenexa’s own 2X Perform offering for performance management was slow to evolve, but even acquiring additional software assets and people to help its efforts is only beginning to help increase adoption across its own customer base, let alone give the company the ability to compete with others in the market. While Kenexa had been positioning itself as a talent management application suite provider, it really was focused on its recruiting application and outsourcing and consulting services. In recent years Kenexa has worked to bolster its software portfolio. For instance, in compensation it had no real offering until it acquired Salary.com two years ago. Yet my analysis shows Kenexa has not really integrated Salary.com and operates as a division, and has seen little growth in adoption of its applications in the last 18 months. The company has been unresponsive to our attempts to compare its application to others that our firm assessed in our Value Index for Total Compensation Management, though we have written how hot this application segment is recently. In 2012 Kenexa acquired OutStart, a learning management system (LMS) provider that needed to align with an overall talent management offering to be competitive with other integrated approaches. The company started the integration process this year, so it is still too early to tell how much value the acquisition will have for Kenexa customers, especially now that Kenexa will have to deal with the larger challenge of integration with IBM. Kenexa talks about the value of analytics in its marketing material, but no solution dedicated to this area is listed on its website or annual report. Our benchmark research has found that workforce metrics are critical for talent management, yet Kenexa remains one of the only talent management vendors without a robust workforce analytics software offering. It also has struggled to advance smartphone and tablet access to its applications. Kenexa early attempt were not fully ready for the market and currently has one native application for the Apple iPhone that helps in specific tasks in recruiting which is well behind others in the market. Kenexa has been relatively slow to include social media as a channel for recruiting. All of these issues are results of the company’s limited investment in R&D as a percentage of overall revenue. Its annual report shows only 6.7 percent of total revenue in 2011 went toward R&D, which is one of the lowest percentages in the industry. While the percentage increased in the first half of 2012 according to my analysis of the company’s financial reports, part of that is due to the acquisition of OutStart, which brought additional people to R&D and also more experience in support mobile technologies. At the same time, general and administrative operating expenses were a hefty 19.1 percent of total revenue. IBM must now decide how to handle these high people-related expenses, and how to better balance the number of chiefs and administrators versus workers in R&D. Meanwhile, Kenexa was struggling to reach a target level of profitability, but all of its financial statements show it had grown revenue at the expense of profits. Kenexa lacks a social collaboration framework to help its customers provide methods to more fully engage its employees, as competitors such as Oracle, Peoplefluent, Saba, SAP and Workday already have in place. Kenexa also did not have an integrated set of talent management applications, but had acquired its way into the market and did not make the acquired products integrate to the level that most software companies do. IBM should be able to help here, as it can integrate its social collaboration framework with the Kenexa applications – it did not already have an integrated or unified approach to its applications – but assimilating Kenexa may take some time. For the last several years IBM has been acquiring business application vendors. By all accounts it is efficient at integrating acquisitions, and is overall a profitable global company. Meanwhile, IBM has struggled in gaining adoption of its social business software into business areas including the talent management and overall human capital management market. But Kenexa may prove to be a difficult meal to digest, as this is the first time IBM has acquired a provider in the talent management market and the broader human capital management category and a company who has many acquired products that are yet to be fully integrated. This is a business application segment that also operates using software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing – areas in which IBM lacks a lot of experience in the business applications area. IBM will quickly learn it will have to make a significant investment in product development to advance this talent management suite offering to complete with software providers that are already selling to HR and executive and business management. Kenexa had a large consulting and delivery team that, according to its annual report, includes 1,637 of its 2,744 employees. Those employees will need to integrate into IBM global services, a very large organization with a different culture and methods of operation. When this acquisition is complete, Kenexa customers should not expect any immediate product advancements, as the software will need what IBM insiders call ”blue washing,” and that will overwhelm whatever resources are available for integration with IBM social business products. Given Kenexa’s smaller-than-normal investment in R&D, and IBM’s requirements, I expect the cycle of innovation to be very limited. In the medium term, IBM may see a customer and revenue opportunity in integrating its suite of analytics, planning and performance management technology and adapting it to human capital and workforce needs. For IBM and its social business customers, this category of application was probably not as important as it should be but will need to reach to HR and executives to garner any interest. Though eventually it should be worth looking at more closely, it will be some time before any integrated release, and there are already alternative approaches available in the market. For IBM’s part, this acquisition is important because its social and collaborative efforts have struggled to get more deeply business-focused, and that is a buying requirement that we have found in areas like sales, customer service, marketing, human resources and operations. This is why we’ve seen deals like Salesforce.com’s acquisition of companies like Rypple to help in its social collaboration efforts. Is the billion-dollar-plus investment worth it for IBM? Well, IBM is a master at leverage and gaining value from acquisitions – but so are competitors Oracle and SAP, and they already sell social collaboration in talent management. IBM will need to ensure it can meet the new social collaboration needs for talent management in such areas as knowledge sharing, collaboration and learning that are benchmark research finds important. In the short term, Kenexa and IBM will struggle, as competitors can market products that are already integrated. This acquisition could become a distraction and resource drain for IBM. It will be difficult for Kenexa to gain a competitive edge for integrated and unified talent management; it has not yet completed this task by itself, and now it faces integration with IBM social business technologies, which will require more R&D investments by IBM. On the plus side, IBM’s opportunity to advance its consulting services in areas like recruiting, employee assessment and other related areas will help bolster its global footprint. Here, the billion-dollar investment will pay off sooner but with lower margins unless it can convince customers to adopt its software as part of its consulting engagements. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_socialcollab_source_of_funding_for_social_collab-4.png", "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": "Good Data Stewardship Is Critical for Business Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/24/good-data-stewardship-is-critical-for-business-analytics", "datePublished": "24/08/2012", "dateModified": "24/08/2012", "articleBody": "Our research consistently finds that defects in data are the root cause of a wide range of problems encountered by modern corporations. The magnitude of the problem correlates with the size of the company: Big companies have bigger headaches than midsize ones. Data issues diminish productivity in every part of a business as people struggle to correct errors or find workarounds. Issues with data are a man-made phenomenon, yet companies seem to treat bad data as some sort of force of nature like a tornado or earthquake – something that’s beyond their control to fix. At best they look for one-off workarounds and Band-Aids without tackling the root causes or recognizing the need to keep data issues in check. Data stewardship can and should be a part of a disciplined approach to management in the same way organizations implement quality control, cash management and legal compliance. I recently gave a presentation at an analytics conference about using advanced analytics in the finance function. Advanced analytics includes techniques such as predictive analytics (a topic covered in depth by my colleague Tony Cosentino), simulation and optimization, which companies can use to make better-informed decisions, increase their awareness of positive or negative developments in their business and become more agile in responding to opportunities or threats. But advanced analytics – indeed any analytics – require that accurate data in the proper form and format be readily available. Unfortunately, in almost all companies, data quality does not get the attention it needs and information management benchmark research found only 13 percent have completed data quality initiatives. (The exceptions include companies for which clean, accurate data is critical to their business model, such as web-based ones.) In most, no one is responsible for data and no serious ongoing programs for data stewardship and data governance. There is no executive-level focus on relentlessly working to keep data clean the way that, say, defect-free production might have. Like the weather, people complain about data but no one really does anything about it. In every organization, management expects the data people use to be accurate and accessible, but we find that remarkably little is done to ensure this. Companies must address two broad issues before they can improve their data environment. Most obviously, they must have the right processes and tools in place to eliminate the root causes of bad data and deal with data quality remediation efficiently. But the other issue is people-oriented. Who’s responsible for good data? In most organizations the answer is “nobody,” or if it is somebody the person has neither the authority nor the tools to do much about data quality. Corporate leadership must keep attention focused on the value of data quality to the smooth operation of the business. The organization has to accept the idea that the issue is important and that a solution to the problem exists. Even as I write this, though, I wonder to what extent this sort of change is possible. They don’t teach data quality in MBA programs. The trend toward big data puts a spotlight on data quality management. Without quality data, as I’ve noted, organizations will wind up with just a bigger, less manageable version of the garbage-in-garbage-out syndrome. Advanced analytics have the potential to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage, but this can’t happen if the analytics are built on data that is inaccurate, requires excessive amounts of grooming or is not timely enough to be commercially valuable. While automation plays a part in data management, attitudes and management are equally critical to improving the quality and timeliness of data. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_information_management_initiative1-4.png", "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": "Midsize Companies Find ERP in the Cloud Increasingly Attractive", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/midsize-companies-find-erp-in-the-cloud-increasingly-attractive", "datePublished": "23/08/2012", "dateModified": "23/08/2012", "articleBody": "Midsize businesses “pay” for their use of entry-level accounting systems by not having the essential information they need readily available and by using up valuable time that could be better spent generating business, finding issues or responding to opportunities sooner or simply enhancing the efficiency of the organization. Nevertheless, the transition from an entry-level accounting package such as QuickBooks to an on-premises system can be daunting for companies whose entry-level software no longer addresses their needs. Usually, the shortcomings start off as minor annoyances for companies that have between 100 and 500 employees and grow over time, and usually the pain grows with the number of employees and the volume and complexity of the underlying business. As business volumes expand and complexity grows, entry-level accounting systems are increasingly less able to support the underlying business. Yet finance executives usually don’t want to migrate to a new system until their old software threatens the orderly management of the business or becomes an overwhelming burden on finance operations. I know this firsthand, since not all that long ago I worked at a company where the CFO thought his biggest IT challenge was finding spare parts for the ancient Burroughs mainframe on which our financial system ran. Whether they choose cloud-based or on-premises software, almost all companies can implement a new ERP system in less than three months. However, moving to cloud-based ERP (or simply accounting) software addresses two key barriers to making the transition away from an entry-level system. First, the up-front investment in taking the cloud approach is considerably smaller than with on-premises software, though there is almost always an up-front outlay for consulting and initial provisioning costs even if cloud-based services don’t require purchasing a software license or new hardware. Second, midsize companies with employee counts at the lower end of the range may not have an IT department per se. (Even those at the higher end usually have limited capabilities provided by IT generalists.) A third-party value-added reseller or consultant may handle the initial implementation of an on-premises system, but not having (and not being able to afford) the in-house expertise to maintain such software can keep a company from purchasing one. By eliminating these barriers, cloud-based systems make the value of migrating from entry-level systems all the more compelling, especially when you consider that these offerings have a much richer and deeper set of capabilities to manage core business processes and collect data than entry-level software. They can, for example, handle multiple currencies, manage the order-to-cash cycle (as well as other end-to-end processes) and manage purchasing more effectively. Some web-based systems aimed at midsize companies offer professional services organizations (such as consulting, engineering and architecture) the ability to manage project schedules, attach costs to projects and schedule employee time to these projects. Cloud-based systems also offer more robust business intelligence capabilities, such as individualized dashboards that promote more management by exception. All of them can be quickly configured to produce industry-specific reports, and all come with some built-in templates configurable to varying degrees by end users. All make it possible to spot future cash flow issues by automating the netting of cash inflows from receivables and cash requirements for payables, debt repayment, recurring expenses (such as lease, rent and salaries) and other predictable costs. Finance executives in midsize companies have been wary of cloud-based systems because of potential security and reliability problems. These are legitimate concerns, of course, but they ought to be considered in context. Senior executives should understand that their on-premises systems have vulnerabilities too and are not inherently safer. At a time when a 64GB thumb drive costs about $35, a company’s on-premises financial and customer data can be taken out the door and put into an outsider’s hands without detection in a matter of minutes. Also, on-premises systems are vulnerable to fire, flood and other catastrophes. If the backup tapes are sitting in the same room as the server, there is no plan B for disaster recovery available. Cloud providers often have multiple locations and can save clients the cost of having their own remote disaster recovery site. To be sure, cloud providers have vulnerabilities too, so it’s important to assess how effectively each vendor addresses them. One area where an on-premises, perpetual license can be more attractive than a software-as-a-service cloud option is total lifetime cost of ownership. This is similar to other lease-versus-own business decisions. If a company were to keep a perpetually licensed ERP system for more than X years, it would be less expensive than buying it as a service. The value of X depends on several factors, such as the cost of the license, implementation, hardware and IT personnel, among other factors. Typically, the breakeven point will be between four and six years. Increasingly, midsize companies are figuring out the value of cloud-based services. This market has been growing at a good pace. Netsuite, a vendor that offers accounting as well as a broad and integrated set of business management software, recently reported that deferred revenue (an indicator of future revenue potential) had increased 38 percent in the most recent fiscal quarter ending June 30, and that revenues grew by 29 percent to $75 million. Companies have a large and growing list of options to choose from if they are interested in moving their accounting systems to the cloud, including Acumatica, Aplicor, Expandable, FinancialForce, Intacct, Intuit, Microsoft Dynamics (available through a reseller network), NetSuite, Noguska, Plex and SAP ByDesign. I believe every company that is using entry-level accounting software and beginning to run up against its limitations should look into a cloud-based alternative, especially if buying, deploying and maintaining an on-premises system is a daunting prospect. 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": "Closing the Analytics Skills Gap", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/closing-the-analytics-skills-gap", "datePublished": "23/08/2012", "dateModified": "23/08/2012", "articleBody": "A study by the McKinsey Global Institute published earlier this year suggests a coming shortage of more than 140,000 workers with deep analytical skills and a shortage of more than 1.5 million data-literate managers. I’m not sure how the study defined these roles, but I’d guess that those with deep analytic skills are those folks building the complex models, and the data-literate managers are those executives, middle managers and analysts who interpret the results and use the models to help drive business decisions. In other words, businesses are facing two skills gaps – one related to those producing the analytics, the other related to those using them in some type of discovery or review purpose. The first skills gap is personified in the so-called data scientist – a creature that’s hard to find in the real world and according to LinkedIn, there are less than 825 in the United States and most are in Silicon Valley working for technology or social media companies. Someone with the job title of data scientist should be able to bridge the divide between computer science, statistics and particular domain expertise and deliver an integrated systems approach to analytics. To give some context, the primary obstacle to the deployment and use of predictive analytics we identified in our predictive analytics benchmark research is architectural integration. The statistician who builds models rarely has the skill set to code them, which often leads to misalignment between the intent of the model designer and what the model actually does once it is deployed and used within business processes. Even worse is that 83 percent of organizations do not have the skills training to produce their own predictive analytics. As more BI vendors embed predictive analytics support in their portfolios, and with further adoption of the PMML standard, this architectural shortcoming should become less of an issue. But we still have the challenge of understanding the mathematics which is a challenge in 58 percent of organizations. In the world of big data and Hadoop, multiple companies are working to provide analytics platforms that leverage existing skill sets such as SQL but new skills for supporting technologies related to Hadoop are a larger challenge. As the next generation of tools emerge, the bridge will likely start to form over this first skills gap where automation and integration of technology is more readily available. The second skills gap relates to those using the models. With this group, we might expect a certain measure of understanding of data manipulation techniques, such as cross-tabulations, what-if scenarios and chart interpretation, but we shouldn’t expect a formal background in advanced statistics or probability theory. Our recent benchmark research into business analytics also points to a skills gap in this area. One interesting finding in our benchmark research, but perhaps not a surprise to anyone who reads our posts regularly, is that spreadsheets still dominate in conducting analytics today. Unfortunately, spreadsheets are not well equipped by themselves to handle the analytics of tomorrow’s organizations, which means managers will need to learn an entirely new set of tools. While the new breed of analytics tools are visual and collaborative rather than tabular and siloed, learning another skill set is seldom a simple task. Today’s tools vendors and the business leaders must work to create self-guided, closed-loop systems that are intuitive and don’t take an advanced degree to learn. Where a process cannot be completely automated, systems should be able to provide users guidance on what data to pay attention to in order to make decisions. Our research shows that usability is becoming more and more important to business users, and this is where we expect to see work done in terms of simplifying tools. We still have a long way to go, as my colleague Mark Smith pointed out earlier this week. Given the way people talk about the analytics skills shortage, we might advise all of our children to get a degree in mathematics or statistics. That may be a good idea, but it also seemed like a good idea to go to law school just a few years ago. While mathematics and statistics are important foundational skills, perhaps we should regard them as a means to an end rather than as ends in themselves. The McKinsey research shows a projected skills gap in these areas, but as with any model it rests on underlying assumptions. One assumption is that analytics tools vendors will not quickly fill in the gaps and allow analytics to be consumed at a lower skill level with better wizards, information and suggestions on applying analytics. The ability to monitor and contribute to this progress is a key reason Ventana Research continues its research and education in the area of business analytics. Regards, Tony Cosentino - Vice President and Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_predictive_analytics_obstacles1-5.png", "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": "The Stupidity of KPIs in Business Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/23/the-stupidity-of-kpis-in-business-analytics", "datePublished": "23/08/2012", "dateModified": "23/08/2012", "articleBody": "In my last rant, on business analytics and the pathetic state of dashboards, I pointed out significant flaws in business intelligence software created by technology providers and in how it is being deployed by business and IT. Now I want to follow up with some insight on disconnects to a critical asset that is essential to the success of business analytics. I mean key performance indicators (KPIs), a term used in inaccurate ways that have diminished the value of the concept for business. Let’s start with the definition; for practicality I will use Wikipedia, which says that a KPI is used “by an organization to evaluate its success or the success of a particular activity in which it is engaged.” The success being evaluated could be a goal, a target or something else that is important. To set a baseline, you calculate two measures and compare them to create a performance metric. For example, units sold and unit price are two separate measures that can be calculated to produce a metric called sales. Then through iterations of more precise calculations, this measure can be refined to compare against the sales quota or goal for a specific time period; this creates a key performance indicator on the outcomes of sales and even marketing efforts. In actual use, however, the KPI, its use and its value have been dumbed down in ways that diminish the quality of intelligence we gain from using business analytics. First is the vague and contradictory ways in which the term is applied by technology providers and practitioners. Over the last decade I have seen “KPI” used to describe what are actually metrics – the building blocks of KPIs – and only sometimes performance-related. A metric like revenue or sales is not a KPI; neither are cost-specific, throughput-related metrics based on quantity or processing, nor customer-related metrics like first-call resolution. Such metrics are commonly presented in dashboards through visualization and called KPIs. Today we seldom see scorecards that use business analytics, which once were common for presenting KPIs properly to business users. Maybe it is time to start using scorecards for managing performance and not just measuring it. The second issue has to do with the performance part of KPI, which should show how an organization or any of its business processes measure up to expected outcomes. Ideally, upon viewing performance-related metrics or indicators, within seconds an individual should be able to determine what, if any, action should be taken to improve performance, such as discovering what is contributing to the subpar performance or identifying opportunities for improvement. This root-cause level of actions requires examination of different classes of metrics related to performance and can range from people and processes to customers or risk. Understanding the cause and effect of metrics requires knowing and presenting the process and interconnects of how a business operates. Unfortunately most business analytics software just will provide you a table of data with no insight on what metric is contributing to the issue. By creating the right types of metrics underlying a KPI, we can reduce the time and resources required to support the communications (email, phone calls and meetings) that people normally use to investigate performance shortfalls. To get to this point requires creating a library of measures, metrics and indicators that can cross a variety of situations and help inform action-taking and decision-making. Let’s drop the P and just say key indicators (KIs) to set a new context that focuses on the indicators and the types of metrics that support them. This could lead organizations to make substantive improvements. The third step is to make KPIs or KIs relevant to the particular roles and responsibilities of individuals. Company or divisional KPIs are interesting but only provide a general view of how an organization is performing. Where the rubber hits the road is the context of the indicators and metrics at the department, team and individual levels. We need to provide the ability for individuals to select their own focus within the scope of these facts and figures to determine how well their activities are contributing to the execution of business processes and outcomes. Here the role of business analytics is critical. To make the analyst buzzwords self-service BI and agile BI being pushed by IT analyst firms a reality, tools have to make analytics more intuitive to users. More tools for data discovery are not the answer, and making users select their scope every time they get an updated report or dashboard is a waste of time that decreases productivity and increases costs in running an organization. Instead let’s design a new generation of business analytics based on roles and individuals developed through a profile; this could go a long way toward streamlining the focus of analysis and preparing individuals to quickly determine what action to take. To erase the stupidity in how KPIs are spoken about, demonstrated and actually deployed, we need to advance our dialogue and educational discussion of what key indicators and range of metrics are required to support particular deployments. I have already said that just placing more charts in a dashboard, no matter how pretty and interactive they might be, will not help support the actions and decisions that business analytics should enable. The effort to make KPIs more valuable begins with ensuring they are properly developed and represent performance in terms of the state of success toward achieving the goal or target. Showing past performance is insufficient without knowing how well it met expectations. Presenting a KPI does not necessarily require a chart; it can be done equally well by text presenting it within the context of how the people or process is performing over time and where it is in progress toward the expected target. These indications can be linked to additional facts with a directional arrow or other simple representations that make it easy to determine whether to take action. If your business intelligence software does not support a simpler way to communicate key indicators and metrics, maybe you have the wrong tool. If we admit the flaws within our deployments and technologies and force ourselves to have more realistic conversations, we could advance the science of business analytics. Over the years we have made strides forward and then taken steps backward in trying to meet the needs of the lowest competency denominator. We need to aim higher and take steps to find out what should be done to produce full value from business analytics. Increasing the value of these investments can help an organization increase its efficiency and effectiveness. If you are not sure if you are heading in wrong direction with your metrics and indicators, just let me know, that is what myself and others at our firm do for a living. 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 Embraces Business Process Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/22/interactive-intelligence-embraces-business-process-management", "datePublished": "22/08/2012", "dateModified": "22/08/2012", "articleBody": "The product page for Interactive Intelligence highlights what the company is best known for – IP-based business communications. This image is further strengthened by its flagship Customer Interaction Center platform, which offers organizations a fully featured multimedia contact center in the cloud. This offering includes multimedia communications in the cloud along with many of the capabilities that Ventana Research terms agent performance management. However, the company also offers a third set of products, which support business process automation. On first examination these seem somewhat tangential to the other products, but my research into customer relationship maturity shows the product sets are likely to converge more and more as organizations address the challenges of providing customers with excellent experiences. The research shows: Customers interact with many business units within an organization, but companies often don’t have processes that cross business-unit boundaries. Customer data often resides in business-unit-specific applications, so data is not shared between systems. Customers interact through multiple communication channels, but these are often managed by different business units, so the information provided to customers is not consistent. The research shows that while many companies either have not recognized these issues or are prepared to live with them, the most customer-centric organizations sort out ways to mitigate them. These approaches often rely on email communication between business units, a workflow system that generates actions across business-unit boundaries, or a standalone business process management system. Each of these methods has strengths and weaknesses, but what they lack is integration with customer communications; for example, capabilities where a contact center agent might take a call, be unable to resolve an issue, so send email to a knowledge worker to take action. The Interactive Intelligence business process automation product, IPA, overcomes this issue because it lets users initiate actions with a process as the result of an interaction; for example, a claims clerk might make an outbound call to a customer, and this could trigger another action within the claims settlement process. The IPA product includes capabilities that allow users to define, execute and monitor a closed-loop series of processes. The designer tool allows users to use drag and drop capabilities to build process maps. Users can pre-build tasks and decision points and simply drag these items into maps to create end-to-end processes. In a further attempt to simplify the generation of process maps, Interactive Intelligence plans to launch an AppExchange-like capability so users can share pre-built processes. Users can also build personalized forms and work items so that each user is presented with tasks in a format specific to his responsibilities. After the maps are built they are operationalized – the system monitors defined trigger points, and once a trigger has been activated, the next task or tasks are set into motion. One of the differentiators from standard BPM tools is that these triggers can take multiple forms; a communication occurs (a call or email is received or sent), a web form is completed, an alert or message is received from a mobile app, or a transaction occurs within a business application (an address is updated, a payment is posted): all of these can be used individually or in combination to set one or more tasks into action. To reduce the effort required to extract triggers or information from business applications, the system supports multiple ways to integrate with applications: web services, purpose-built interfaces to several email servers, browser-based applications and database actions to access ODBC-compliant databases. The system monitors whether actions occur as they should, or, conversely, whether an action that should have happened has not. The systems monitor itself in real time and produces reports and analyses that show how processes are performing, allowing users to intervene if necessary. The latest release of the product includes the capability to build complex data types that can be used in triggers or reports; for example, an address can be defined to mean the combination of house number, road, city, state and ZIP code. More integration tools let users define a data source and data items in that source that can be accessed or upgraded using point and click capabilities. Integration with SharePoint means updating of a SharePoint document can be used as a trigger, and items can be written or extracted from SharePoint. All this is good news for companies that want to automate processes, and especially those dependent on communication events. The bad news is that the product is currently only available to CIC customers; a standalone version is planned but not anticipated until mid-2013. For the same timeframe, the product is available only as a premises-based deployment. Only the most mature, customer-centric companies have begun to address the issue of managing communication-centric processes across all business units and channels. As an organization begins to get to grips with these issues, it should investigate IPA, whether or not it is already an Interactive Intelligence client. Regards, Richard J. 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": "The Pathetic State of Dashboards", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/22/the-pathetic-state-of-dashboards", "datePublished": "22/08/2012", "dateModified": "22/08/2012", "articleBody": "Over the last several months, my colleague VP and Research Director Tony Cosentino and I have been assessing vendors and products in the business intelligence market as part of our upcoming Value Index. Tony recently wrote about the swirling world of business analytics, covering many of the dynamics of this industry. He and I have been reviewing the breadth and depth of over 15 of these vendors using our Value Index methodology, which examines the products closely in terms of usability, adaptability, reliability, capability and manageability. As we have gone through this analysis, we see the dashboard as the most common tool for displaying business intelligence. The early forms of dashboards appeared in the 1980s, but in my honest evaluation, today’s dashboards have not gotten much more intelligent in all those years. The graphics have gotten better, and we can interact with charts in what is commonly called visual discovery so you can drill into and page through data to change its presentation. So some progress has been made, but the basic presentation of a number of charts on the screen has not improved significantly and worse yet neither has the usefulness of the charts. Let’s face it: It’s a big mistake to place several bar and pie charts on a screen side by side and assume that business viewers will know what they mean and what is important in them. We cannot assume that individuals in an audience have the ability to interpret charts and draw the right conclusions from them; just being pretty or interactive will not communicate the desired message. The lack of adoption of business intelligence that includes dashboards is notorious in this industry, and so are the billions of dollars that companies have spent on BI products in the last decade. It is not helpful to make a big statement that the technology has failed; we should look for reasons that have held it back. Here we might start by questioning whether the tools present the right information in a useful form for business people or if organizations have properly configured what tools they have purchased. If the goal is to inform them through dashboards, then maybe we need to make it explicit what the dashboard or collection of charts actually mean. Typically, this means describing in words the issues or priorities that need to be examined further. A little discipline in populating the dashboard could help, such as presenting only the charts that clearly point out issues that need attention and determining which ones to use by applying analytics. If we ask why Microsoft PowerPoint is so popular as a business intelligence tool, we probably would find that the answer is the descriptive text boxes that accompany charts, providing summary sentences or emphasizing specific bullets in a list on the slide. While many people do not like the static nature of Microsoft Excel based charts in presentations or PDF versions of them, they do through human intervention with annotation and commentary provide better explanation of the charts than dashboards are doing today. If we expect our organizations to move beyond personal productivity tools and work in a collaborative enterprise environment with dashboards, we better understand how business intelligence should adapt to the way people work and operate not the other way around. In this case it may not be true that, as the old saying goes, one picture is worth a thousand words but a hundred or so hundred words explaining the relevance of the chart could really help. Many technology vendors believe they need to provide better context in their dashboards, so they try to align the charts to the geographic area of focus, or to the product line of responsibility or to management key performance indicators to make them more usable. Providing better role-based dashboards that are generated based on the individual’s level of responsibility and the business context is a good first step, though most business intelligence vendors do not provide this level of support. But just presenting charts tuned to the context of the individual’s role that may or may not require action is not enough. We need to prioritize the information and make it like the news, with headlines and stories that people can read to determine if they need to make decisions or take action. Whether you are reading the physical or the digital version of The Wall Street Journal or USA Today, newspapers have survived over the centuries as the main source of what humans read in formats they can comprehend. When is the last time you saw a dashboard that communicated the story of its charts and explained the analytics? Well, once upon a time analytics and logic were applied to generate stories, in the early 1990s in a product called IRI CoverStory using automated analytic models. Then it was classified as an expert system that programmatically would create English sentences based on the interpretation of the analytics in a memo that the system created. I would even be happy if we had titles and sub-titles to the charts that were dynamically created and represented something to guide an individual to what the purpose of the chart is to represent. Many of the current business intelligence technologies do not even allow for a free form text box that can be placed besides a chart which is really sad as this is one of the most basic methods used in business today. It would be great if dashboards could make these steps forward and make it easier to understand what is presented, but 20 years later, they have not. Another thing dashboards need to do is help individuals take action based on the information they receive. My colleague Robert Kugel has written about action-oriented information technology frameworks and how they can help increase the productivity and effectiveness of our workers. To date, most developments of the notion of an action-enabled dashboard have focused on data discovery and supporting root-cause analysis; that can’t match the familiar people type actions that happen in our organization – collaboration through dialogue to address issues and opportunities. Some of my industry colleagues have written books on dashboards to capitalize on the hype surrounding the topic. It’s about time for a set of books about the death of the dashboard or moving beyond dashboards; the current designs are not advancing the ability to take appropriate action on the information presented or provide the right level of guidance using analytics. We are entering the next wave of discussion on visual discovery, but so far much of this focus is just about using visualization on greater volumes and velocity of data, not making it more useful for the general population of business users. If we want to learn from the disappointing decades of business intelligence deployments, then we should find out what our business users really need to take action and make decisions on the information; delivering prettier charts won’t help. Until then, we are just perpetuating the past, and we know it has not had the best track record in advancing usefulness and adoption of business intelligence and dashboards. I will follow up on this rant of the state of dashboards by writing about the lack of improvement in the types of metrics and indicators as they relate to overall business analytics, which are another source of the problems that underlie our current methods of delivering and providing access to analytics through business intelligence. We all can do a much better job in meeting the needs of business and truly advancing the usefulness of technology that still holds promise for significantly impacting organizations’ effectiveness. 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": "Tibco Bets on Event-Driven Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/20/tibco-bets-on-event-driven-analytics", "datePublished": "20/08/2012", "dateModified": "20/08/2012", "articleBody": "Over the years Tibco has provided infrastructure for enterprise data integration and has built a substantial installed base. Now the company positions itself as supplying next-generation analytics for big data through service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA has been around for a while; Ventana Research has been tracking it since 2006 and conducted benchmark research on SOA. But it remains a vaguely understood technology. Our research shows that SOA is not clearly defined in the market and that interpretations vary across the software industry. The basic function of an SOA is to provide common components and a common implementation that enable programmers to plug in and share applications through open application programming interfaces (APIs). In recent years, SOA has morphed into more of a general approach than a fixed set of standards. SOA architectures (though not always called SOA) are at the heart of modern platforms such as salesforce.com, Facebook and Amazon Web Services. In SOA Tibco competes with IBM and Oracle, among others. The company’s promotion of SOA is unique; none of its competitors lead with it. Originally, SOA standards were based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), but in the past few years standards based onREpresentational State Transfer (REST) have been gaining more adoption. From an architectural and development perspective, however, SOA is still quite viable, and for this reason Tibco’s messaging strategy may succeed. Our research shows that as business use of mobile devices grows, so will adoption of distributed architectures such as SOA and cloud computing. From this SOA orientation, Tibco introduced Tibco Silver for cloud computing in 2009. While Silver was originally compared by some to Amazon’s EC2, it is more of a development environment that needs a public cloud infrastructure to run its applications. In fact, Tibco Silver now uses Amazon Web Services as its infrastructure provider to offer services such as its Spotfire product (which I will discuss later). Beyond Spotfire, Tibco Silver offers private cloud as well as public cloud services including grid computing resources and platform as a service (PaaS). Tibco differentiates its cloud products competitively in two ways. The first is dynamic provisioning, in which the system automatically provisions the necessary resources to meet the demand for a growing customer base. The second differentiator is to embed in it the company’s complex event processing (CEP) software, BusinessEvents. The BusinessEvents software is a key part of the company’s strategy. CEP, covered in our benchmark research on operational intelligence, is about processing and analyzing multiple data streams in real time. To illustrate, think of what a car’s computing system does at the moment of a collision. Reacting to a number of signals, the computer is able to process input and command the airbag to deploy within a fraction of a second. This is CEP in a specific, contained environment. Tibco is one of the leaders in this CEP category and competes against companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. The company also sells CEP to a range of industries. One of the prominent sectors is travel where it helps airlines and railroads make real-time adjustments to factors such as schedules and personnel in response to changing weather conditions. The fastest-growing product in the Tibco portfolio is Tibco Spotfire, its visual discovery and analytics tool. Tibco positions Spotfire between what the company sees as standard BI reporting tools, such as IBM Cognos, Oracle OBIEE and SAP Business Objects, and the statistical “heavy lifting” tools such as SAS, SPSS and the R packages. Spotfire 4.5, released in May, provides robust visualization capabilities and iterative analysis capabilities through its associative discovery model and in-memory processing engine. Spotfire is one of a growing class of data discovery tools that employ either an interactive visual approach or a search-based approach. Of the two, Tibco Spotfire is in the former category. A demonstration of the software impressed me with its ease of use, intuitive qualities and graphing of embedded predictive analytic functions. It’s important to note that other companies are not standing still in this area. Almost all of the major players have products in the visualization space including IBM Cognos Insight, MicroStrategy Visual Insights, Oracle’s integration of Endeca into the Exalytics platform and SAS Visual Analytics Explorer. Visualization features and functionality may have been a competitive advantage a year ago, but most companies are catching up and basic visualization aspects now are table stakes in a market where the leading edge is shifting toward collaboration and mobile access. In short, Tibco’s strategy is to insist that SOA and CEP are essential to enable the near-real-time responses to changes in business conditions and customer demand that will convey competitive advantage in the future. These capabilities are part of the latest release of Spotfire 4.5 where it also supports access to Hadoop data and can access predictive analytics from providers like MathWorks and SAS. The market seems to approve of it, as Tibco’s stock price has gone up 50 percent this year and retail revenue doubled year over year. Some of the strength in retail likely derives from Tibco providing Amazon’s next-best-offer (NBO) analytics, which it can use to pitch predicative analytics to other major retailers. Tibco is transitioning itself as well as its customers from a 20th century enterprise integration model to a 21st century analytics model. Organizations considering both stand-alone visual discovery tools and tools that integrate CEP into the analytical mix should look to Tibco. It also offers a one-year trial version of its Spotfire software that enables companies to test-drive the product for an extended period. Regards, Tony Cosentino Vice President and 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": "Making Better Use of Ratios in Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/17/making-better-use-of-ratios-in-analytics", "datePublished": "17/08/2012", "dateModified": "17/08/2012", "articleBody": "For the past several years Ventana Research has focused more on analytics and their importance to improving business performance. We’ve done extensive benchmark research in business analytics, detailing how they are used generally in business and in major functional areas of companies as well as their application in specific industries. We adopted this focus because technology advances are changing the landscape of analytics. Its use in business management, for example, is getting new scrutiny these days because of three important changes in information technology. One change is the increasing wealth of data that companies can use. It’s not just the data now available in the cloud. Over the past decades, organizations have implemented a range of systems for managing core business processes and collecting the data that go with these processes. ERP and CRM systems were among the first, but especially in larger companies, just about every function and every department uses some system that collects data. Almost all of these systems store this information in ways that make it feasible to access it. Second, so-called big data is making it possible for organizations to process much larger data sets than ever before to gain intelligence and insight into business operations and markets. Third, in-memory data processing is enabling companies to get immediate answers to queries, even through complex analyses of very large data sets, rather than having to wait minutes, hours or days. This accessibility changes the dynamics of planning and review meetings, for one thing, because it enables a far more fluid and interactive dialog around the questions “Why did we get the results we got?” and “What should we do next?” than has been the case in the past. Yet all of this progress shouldn’t obscure the enduring value of simple ratio analysis. This technique for understanding business performance predates even the adding machine, going back centuries. Although it is widely used in the finance function, I think most companies today underutilize ratio analysis. Our benchmark research in finance analytics shows that finance groups do a good job with basic, well-established metrics such as profit margins or days sales outstanding (DSO) as well as debt and liquidity measures. But they – and the rest of the organization – do less well in monitoring and reviewing ratios that combine financial and nonfinancial data, especially where these involve key performance measures. Ratio analysis can help here. It is particularly useful for assessing the efficiency of processes and the effectiveness of results, and at its core, business is about transmuting inputs into outputs, such as pounds or kilos of steel or direct labor hour per completed product unit. Indirect cost efficiency also can be measured as a ratio, such as the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) employed per 1,000 invoices processed. Effectiveness can be measured by, for instance, the percentage of repeat customers, manufacturing defects per 100 units or, in customer support, the percentage of first-call resolutions. Finance departments tend to focus on financial ratios and overlook operational ones, which may be viewed only by that specific part of the business. Thus, a periodic assessment of the profitability of a particular retail store may only include revenue and costs. However, without looking at the gross profit per sales employee and/or the average revenue per sales employee, it’s difficult to distinguish between the direct and indirect factors that are determining branch profitability. Because they measure the relationship between inputs and results, ratios are especially useful as quantitative performance metrics. Potentially, there are thousands of these ratios that a company can use for setting objectives, monitoring results and assessing performance. However, it’s important to focus on the “key” performance ratios – those that have the greatest impact on the results of individuals, business units and the company as a whole. Companies can have a difficult time identifying their key factors. This is where driver-based modeling and planning come in because the process of creating these models sorts out the important from the marginal measures. The use of advanced analytics is growing in importance as technology provides companies another way to achieve an edge on their competitors. At the same time, it’s critical that executives and managers build on the basics. If an organization cannot formulate the most important ratios that define business performance, and if it cannot readily access the data needed to perform this simple division, it’s unlikely to be able to handle large sets of data effectively and benefit from more advanced analytic techniques. Instead it is likely to wind up experiencing the “big garbage in, big garbage out” syndrome. 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": "Predictive Analytics Move Toward Center Stage", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/17/predictive-analytics-move-toward-center-stage", "datePublished": "17/08/2012", "dateModified": "17/08/2012", "articleBody": "In this second in a blog series on business analytics I focus on the increasingly important area of predictive analytics. Our benchmark research into predictive analytics shows that while the vast majority of companies see this technology as important or very important for the future of their organizations, most are not taking full advantage of it. This finding suggests that there is an opportunity for companies to gain competitive advantage by implementing predictive analytics in the near term. Earlier this year I spoke at the Predictive Analytics Summitin San Diego as part of a panel entitled “Winning with Data Science: Transforming Complexity into Simplicity”. Listening to my fellow panelists and presenters as well as speaking with vendors at their booths confirmed that the category of predictive analytics is still being defined. In fact, the environment reminded me a bit of the dot-com era in its energy as well as its disorder. But the two are different: The dot-com era was built on a “field of dreams” where companies built massive web properties but the consumers they expected to come never arrived. The value for the consumer was not obvious. The value of predictive analytics is much clearer and much more rooted in the realities of business. This is confirmed by our benchmark research, in which more than two-thirds of companies view the use of predictive analytics as conferring a competitive advantage. Because the term predictive analytics is sometimes confused with others, let’s take a moment to define it. In its simplest sense, predictive analytics is about using existing data to predict future outcomes. For example, in database marketing it is often associated with scoring a customer record with the probability (or likelihood) of a desired behavior such as purchasing a particular product. Predictive analytics differs from descriptive analytics in that the latter is about describing existing data and examining how an existing dataset behaves. Descriptive analytics is exploratory in nature, and it is the basic approach used with legacy BI systems as well as with the new class of visual discovery tools. In descriptive analytics, the data is what it is; in predictive analytics, we use the existing data and the laws of probability to predict the future. The market for predictive analytics is best understood by viewing it as divided into three subcategories: business operations and financial predictive analytics, industry-specific predictive analytics and customer behavior and marketing predictive analytics. Operations and financial predictive analytics includes the use of predictive analytics in areas such as financial planning, workforce management, IT and supply chain operations. Financial forecasting (the domain of my colleague Robert Kugel) has been a part of the predictive analytics world for a long time. Financial predictive models utilize many different factors, including past company performance and leading economic indicators, to predict revenues and to budget more effectively. More recently, in areas such as supply chain management, predictive analytics is allowing companies to match their stock with customer demand, thereby reducing inventory costs. In such a system, a manufacturer may collaborate with the retailer to look at run rates and predict stock-keeping unit (SKU) levels. Traditionally this was done with a store manager’s guess or by applying uniform assumptions across all inventories. By applying this type of predictive analysis, companies are able to reduce the inventory levels needed by their partners and segment the market to more efficiently align to an increasingly niched retail market environment. Predictive analytics has applicability across an array of other areas as well. Workforce management systems, for example, use predictive analytics to understand the staying power of an employee based on his or her job history, or to plan capacity and rationalize new hires. IT is using predictive analytics to analyze log data and automate systems, thereby reducing the time it takes to manage the company IT infrastructure. Industry-specific predictive analytics encompasses niche undertakings like fraud prevention, risk analysis and disease prediction. Police departments, for instance, do a better job of matching resources to threats when they use predictive models to determine when and where a violent crime might occur. Niche applications in sports analytics (think “Moneyball”) are changing how teams recruit players and even play their games. Healthcare companies and practitioners increasingly are predicting the occurrence of diseases and using these predictions to shape clinician behavior, drug production priorities and treatment protocols. Big data approaches make possible interesting predictive analytics opportunities in specific areas such as Internet security. Predicting and preventing security threats, for example, is complex since it involves multiple variables that are constantly changing and new variables that are constantly being introduced. The ability to analyze the large volumes of network flow, log and new malware data to understand the different patterns and threat vectors now makes it possible to build predictive algorithms that can be used to recognize and score potential harm to the system. Customer behavior and marketing predictive analytics is the area that likely hits closest to home for the many business managers who have been hearing that big data and predictive analytics are changing the world. In fact, according to our benchmark research, revenue-producing functions are the business areas where predictive analytics are being used most, with 65 percent of organizations using the technology in marketing and 59 percent in sales. Loyalty and customer analytics are hot topics right now, and analytical CRM frameworks married with the right toolsets are providing sophisticated ways of not only predicting attrition but preventing it from happening. Companies are looking at individual-level behavior and wallet share across both online and offline environments. This individual-level view currently predominates, and it is proving to be a powerful tool when supported by the right data. One area in particular where this sort of modeling is effectively being used is sales attribution, which is a major component of return on marketing investment (ROMI). The adage often attributed to John Wanamaker that “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half” has been applied to marketing spend as well, but it may not necessarily be true any longer in the era of big data and predictive analytics. Implications and Recommendations The adoption of predictive analytics, particularly in the important areas of marketing and sales, is forcing an uneasy partnership between CIOs and CMOs. This is because data quality and information management issues, traditionally the domain of the CIO, need to be resolved in order to realize the true value of predictive analytics. From the CMO’s perspective, predictive analytics has enormous power to predict things such as the next best customer offer, but if the product or customer data is incorrect, the value of the prediction is severely diminished. On the flip side, some marketing services categories and approaches face disruption due to the emergence of predictive analytics. Media buying is an obvious one, but also impacted is the lesser known cottage industry around market-mix modeling. This modeling technique uses multivariate regression techniques to predict the impact of various promotional channels (that is, of the market mix) on future sales. As companies are able to do predictive behavioral modeling on an individual basis, they can fine tune how they tie together promotions and sales. This diminishes the need for less precise aggregate approaches such as market-mix models. Increased reliance on predictive analytics may also result in realignment of business processes and roles. As business decision makers are able to do their own exploratory analysis and predictive “what-if” modeling and take immediate action based on that, sophisticated BI tools used by those executives may begin to replace the traditional analyst. However, with executive level baby boomers extending their stay in corporate America and the first generation of “digital natives” just graduating from school, such a scenario isn’t likely for mainstream businesses anytime soon. As organizations move forward with their predictive analytics initiatives, I recommend they think broadly about how the models will be integrated into their existing systems, what type of modeling is needed, and how complex the models need to be. And organizations should by all means explore making use of the support offered by the vendors of the applications and tools that are deployed. At the moment IBM’s SPSS and SAS are leaders in the predictive analytics space with a broad range of tools and models addressing a wide range of use cases. MicroStrategy takes a different approach with its 9.3 release, allowing R to be programmed inside the software so that the functions run in an embedded manner. Many providers including those mentioned above support Predictive Modeling Markup Language (PMML), an XML-based standard that allows predictive models to be shared across applications. For big data initiatives, there are some interesting offerings: Datameer has partnered with Zementis, for example, to develop a universal PMML plug-in that allows SPSS, SAS, and R to be integrated with their Hadoop-based engine. Approaches such as these help overcome the challenge of architectural integration, which was one of the key obstacles to the deployment and use of predictive analytics identified in our benchmark research. The integration of models is difficult because the statistician who builds the model rarely has the skill set to code the model, and so there is often much misalignment between the intent of the model designer and what the model actually does once it is implemented. With more and more vendors embedding analytic support in their portfolios and further adoption of the PMML standard, this should become less of an issue. Companies should also pay close attention to the human factor when rolling out a predictive analytics initiative. Our Predictive Analytics Maturity Index shows that of the four dimensions (People, Process, Information, Technology) in terms of which we evaluate maturity, the People dimension is the least mature when it comes to predictive analytics. This issue, which largely is about available skills sets, potentially can be addressed through hiring of recent graduates, as many schools are teaching the R language and graduates are coming out with an appreciation of its power. Open source R is an increasingly popular language that is in many ways the “Lingua Franca” for predictive analytics. Going one step farther, IBM is working with schools such as Northwestern University to put SPSS and other of its advanced analytic tools in the hands of educators and students. SAS, meanwhile, has a very strong and loyal user base already resident in many of today’s corporations. Predictive analytics initiatives should involve only organizational data sources in which managers have complete confidence. In the longer term, the right way for companies to do this is first to address the adequacy of their information management before embarking on wide-ranging predictive analytics initiatives. Our recent benchmark research into Information Management shows that organizations continue to face information management and data quality challenges. These result from the heterogeneous environment of disparate systems in organizations, the lack of a common metadata layer, and most of all a lack of attention and budget resources available to tackle the issue. My colleague Mark Smith offers a more in-depth look at the data quality and information management issues in his recent blog post. The net/net is that predictive models are no different than any model; if garbage goes in the front end, it’s garbage that comes out on the other side. As organizations address these issues and respond to competitive market pressures, operational intelligence and predictive analytics inevitably will gain center-stage. Though businesses are still early in the maturity cycle with respect to predictive analytics, we at Ventana Research see companies capitalizing on the market advantage that predictive analytics provides. In some industries – financials, insurance, telecommunications, and retail, for example – things are moving quickly. Companies in these industries that are not currently taking advantage of predictive analytics or are not actively evaluating their options may be putting their businesses at risk. What’s your thinking on the deployment and use of predictive analytics in your organization? Let me know! Regards, Tony Cosentino VP and Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_predanalytics_benifits_of_predictive_analytics-6.png", "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": "The Collaborative Enterprise to Support Customer Interactions", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/16/the-collaborative-enterprise-to-support-customer-interactions", "datePublished": "16/08/2012", "dateModified": "16/08/2012", "articleBody": "I’ve challenged a lot of the hype about the social enterprise, because I feel “social” gives the wrong impression. For most people, social media is predominately about socializing. While everyone likes to feel that going to work is partly about interacting with friends, when it comes down to it running a business is about winning customers, selling them your products and services, and providing customer service when needed. In today’s competitive markets, none of these are easy tasks. As I look across four of our benchmark research areas: customer information management, customer experience management, customer feedback management and customer relationship maturity, I have come to several conclusions: Organizations have a mass of customer-related data, and an increasing amount of it is unstructured – call recordings, paper-based communications, text messages, IM logs, CRM notes, social media posts. Indeed, my research shows that 26 percent of companies have 20-plus sources of customer-related data. As a result, most companies don’t have a single view of their customers; my research shows that only 31 percent have such a view. Consumers now want – demand – to interact with organizations through an increasing number of channels – everything from face-to-face to phone calls, letters, email, customer portals, text messages, chat, video calls and not forgetting social media posts and forums. My research shows companies support an average of five such channels, and the number is going up. At the same time the overall volume of interactions with each new channel is adding to rather than reducing the volume through existing channels. In a quest to answer more interactions the first time, organizations are getting more experts involved, so interactions are being handled by almost every business unit. Companies collect feedback from customers, but different business units do the collecting. Only 34 percent of organizations respond to every customer. Most companies are on social media, but few have yet to use it to provide customer service, and most don’t systematically analyze what consumers say about them on social media. Those that do lack formalized processes for responding. Add all these together and they present a major issue for companies as they look to improve the customer experience and make it consistent across all touch points – human and electronic. I believe companies can best address the issue by increasing collaboration – breaking down communication barriers between business units, having processes that flow across business units, synchronizing data, sharing information and having a customer experience strategy driven from the top, across the organization. To help improve the situation, my research into customer experience management shows that organizations are beginning to introduce roles such as chief customer officer or customer experience manager. Having someone with those responsibilities helps, but organizations need to look to technology to support these efforts. The good news is that several technologies can help: Unified communication allows individuals to quickly find in-house experts who can help them resolve issues, and lets organizations share data and information. Internal Facebook-style applications allow groups to share information and collaborate on issues. Social CRM applications allow organizations to communicate with customers through the social channels of their choice, and to create forums where customers and the organization can share information and resolve issues. Social media analytics can capture data from social media, analyze it and provide organizations with a view into what consumers are saying about their products and services. Smart desktop technology allows organizations to build interfaces that make it more intuitive for any user to access systems and information they need to resolve issues, and to collaborate with other users. Mobile applications offer the opportunity for customers to self-serve and to more easily interact with agents to resolve issues. Many of these technologies are now available in the cloud, making them more accessible, affordable and easier to implement and use. Even so, not all of them will suit all organizations. I recommend organizations consider how they want to interact with customers and improve those experiences, develop a cross-organization and communication channel strategy, and then implement processes and technology that allow the organization to collaborate internally and with customers. Regards, Richard J. 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": "Put a Smile in Your Last Mile of Finance", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/15/put-a-smile-in-your-last-mile-of-finance", "datePublished": "15/08/2012", "dateModified": "15/08/2012", "articleBody": "People used to use the phrase “the last mile” solely to refer to a condemned prisoner’s path to execution. Then the telecommunications industry picked it up to describe that part of a circuit between a major trunk line and a subscriber. Later still a defunct software company, Movaris (now part of Trintech), used the phrase in an analogy to refer to the set of activities that take place between when a company closes its books and the point where it finishes its external reporting activities, such as disclosing periodic earnings and financial conditions to investors or filing financial statements with regulators or lenders. It was an attempt to focus attention on the need to automate and better coordinate the multiple, disparate but interconnected threads that have to be orchestrated to complete the external reporting tasks accurately and on time. Personally, I’ve never cared for the phrase being used in this context; there are really multiple “last miles,” with multiple and sometimes overlapping destinations. I prefer “the close–to-report cycle” because it’s more precise in its description, and because rather than pointing to finality, “cycle” defines it for what it is – a repetitive periodic activity. And because it is periodic and repetitive, it benefits from process optimization and automation, which can substantially reduce the effort required to complete a cycle and alleviate the stress certain departments often feel as deadlines loom. The close-to-report cycle suffers from the same sorts of issues that hold back progress in improving the execution of the financial close. Earlier this year I completed our latest benchmark on the financial close process. The research shows that companies are taking longer to close their books (on average one day longer for both the monthly and quarterly/semi-annual close) than they took five years ago. Only 15 percent of companies say increased regulation and a poor economy have been issues that lengthen their close. Instead, the research suggests that the biggest factor lengthening the financial close has been the persistence of heavily manual and overly complicated processes coupled with a general reduction in headcount in finance organizations since the onset of the last recession. With fewer hands to do the work, it takes longer to complete the accounting cycle. The same issue is at play in the rest of the close-to-report cycle. Creating external reports requires considerable choreography, especially in larger companies, because it requires the efforts of multiple people in multiple functions in multiple locations. These sorts of reports bring together data from multiple sources, not just from the financial consolidation system. They are assembled in a template (sometimes one that is legally or contractually determined) and consist of boilerplate sections, text-based narratives, tabular presentations of data and references such as footnotes. Happily, these are just the sort of documents that lend themselves to automation. Today, this software is most often part of a broader financial performance management suite offering. In many respects, I think the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) did large and even large midsize companies a favor when it implemented its interactive data mandate, which requires companies tag their periodic reports using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Since companies are already pressed for time to complete their periodic filings, the tagging requirement has forced some to automate their close–to-report cycle in order to complete a heavier workload with no change in reporting deadlines. Using software to manage and automate the process speeds up this repetitive task, as built-in process management functions streamline handoffs and reduce administrative burdens. The software diminishes the potential for errors and cuts the amount of time required for editing and correcting documents. If the technology is used properly, I expect some if not most companies can produce XBRL-tagged SEC filings sooner and/or with less effort than they manually create filings without the tags. Moreover, companies can use this sort of software for more than just creating and editing XBRL-tagged documents. Finance departments can and should use the same application to manage the creation of all of their external reports that involve combining numerical data (both financial and operational) with written narratives. Examples include reports to non-financial regulatory authorities and reports required by lenders or lienholders. (In time, it’s probable that some or most of these parties will require tagging.) Businesses may also find generating reports useful for internal purposes, such as those for the board of directors or the audit committee, Every organization should eliminate wasted time in the financial close and in the creation of reports that follow from it. Such time could be better spent on other activities, such as enabling a company to consider different reporting options or allowing for deeper analysis. To date there’s been encouraging initial adoption of automated tools, but too many companies still rely on purely manual processes. We include automation of the close-to-report cycle in our Financial Performance Management Value Index because it’s essential to the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance function. For too many companies, the close-to-report cycle is a nerve-wracking, nail-biting exercise of lashing together numbers and narrative, checking and rechecking to ensure accuracy and (for those reporting to the SEC) tagging these reports. It’s time for companies to put a smile in their last mile by automating a process that clearly benefits from eliminating time-wasting manual effort. 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": "Stibo Is Red Hot for Product Information Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/13/stibo-is-red-hot-for-product-information-management", "datePublished": "13/08/2012", "dateModified": "13/08/2012", "articleBody": "When it comes to managing product information, organizations know they have room for improvement; only 27 percent trust their efforts completely, and less than a fifth (19%) are very satisfied with them. Almost half (48%) say they have too many incompatible tools, while 41 percent do not have a centralized information repository and 45 percent use a manual process to create a single complete, consistent and reliable product record. All of these facts and more from our product information management (PIM) benchmark indicate that businesses need a set of integrated processes and applications to meet their responsibilities. The benchmark found that adaptability, functionality and usability top technology and vendor considerations among the core components of our Value Index methodology. While some IT analyst firms think that PIM is just a subset of master data management, they could not be more wrong. The business processes related to product information have specific requirements that are more about the process and channels than just focusing on master product data. In addition, the leadership and budget for PIM comes from businesses that realize that transformational steps can significantly improve their performance. Our recent Value Index research on the technology providers in product information management rated Stibo Systems the hottest Hot vendor on an overall weighted basis. Its level of support in manageability, reliability and capability topped all other vendors. Stibo Systems’ focus on business needs across departments has been essential to its success. Stibo’s STEP Information Server includes a publisher, portal and workflow that can be adapted easily to just about any industry needs. In its latest STEP 5.3 release, which is a solid platform for product information management, Stibo has improved its search and product information lifecycle support to span across channels where versions and details could vary. It has also has advanced its digital asset management capabilities to ensure these assets can be managed across roles and used in different ways across channels. It has improved the adaptability of the platform with its information integration and synchronization in cases where its software must integrate into existing systems. While many organizations might already have their own specific information management, data integration and master data management technologies, Stibo can integrate with existing investments and adapt to existing architectures. Critical to product information management is the ability to perform reporting and analytics on the information; our benchmark found this the most important technology for improving product information management. In this latest release Stibo has improved its ability to make it easier to optimize product information processes with facts and not just opinions. It integrates product information in a master repository and provides it across the varying channels in which product information needs to accessed and shared efficiently. While the product offers much to admire, the company could benefit from more specific product marketing that would better communicate its capabilities and use across roles, and highlight its support for tablets and mobile devices. Stibo is poised for growth with a solid foundation and a mission to address the highest benefit (47%) we found in our PIM research, eliminating errors and mistakes in product information. But let’s not forget that customer satisfaction is critical, and in fact is the number one business case factor in more than half of organizations. With more than half (57%) of businesses planning to change their existing product information management in the next 12 to 18 months, Stibo has a significant opportunity, but fierce competition will keep the company busy improving its products to meet the expanding needs of its customers. You should look at Stibo Systems, a red Hot vendor for product information management. Regards, Mark Smith CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/pim_ventanaresearch2012_hotvendor-3.jpg", "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": "Anaplan is on a Mission for Planning Driven Performance Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/10/anaplan-is-on-a-mission-for-planning-driven-performance-management", "datePublished": "10/08/2012", "dateModified": "10/08/2012", "articleBody": "When it comes to the task of managing performance, many organizations still find themselves fixated on the past rather than planning for improvement in the future. When performance management processes operate efficiently, technology to support activities such as modeling and analytics can optimize outcomes and help align them to targeted goals and objectives. This might seem trivial or easily done, but the reality is that most organizations lack a unified platform that anyone in the enterprise can easily engage and leverage. This is where a company called Anaplan comes in, with an integrated platform that provides tools to help everyone participate in a common planning and analytics environment to foster well-managing performance. The company provides an easy-to-use software-as-a-service environment. Since my last analysis the company has brought in some heavy-hitting management to help it foster growth, including CEO Frederic Laluyaux, who comes from SAP and Business Objects, and Vice President of Products and Marketing Matt Howard. Most significantly, in the last year its software has evolved to meet the needs of executives, directors and managers across operational areas such as sales, operations and finance. It also has had many new releases of its software that operates in a cloud computing and Internet based access approach. It lets any type of business analyst develop models and apply analytics as tools for understanding past and future performance and be directly involved with scenario planning and performance management tasks to optimize and align activities and resources to target goals and objectives. Our benchmark research into business analytics found that analysts are not able to spend enough time in scenario planning and what-if analysis because they are weighed down with the task of getting the data together to do the modeling and analytics. Also, our sales forecasting benchmark found that many tasks that businesses rate as most important are not easily achieved today, such as unit forecasting over time (47%) and what-if scenario planning (43%). Our benchmark into sales earlier this year found that forecasting and pipeline (65%) and analytics (47%) were the highest application priorities in sales. There is still a lot of room for improvement in the areas of sales operations and interface to operations and finance to help provide more direct interaction across departments that should integrate business planning to not just manage but improve performance. Anaplan can help in the task of maximizing resources and revenue from sales territories. It can allocate accounts based on quantitative sales team and customer metrics. It supports a range of spreading options to identify areas for improvement, or individually hold certain targets by territory while planning for improvement in others. It also can start business initiatives for seasonal or new product introductions that need to have specific, integrated plans for assigning targets across sales and marketing, while planning for operations, manufacturing and distribution. All of Anaplan’s functionality is designed for businesses to use without IT involvement and without having to increase the load on the analysis team. These are just two examples of what you can do with Anaplan. Anaplan brings together the disparate tasks of sales forecasting, demand planning, sales and operations planning, financial planning and range of analytics into one environment in a way that I refer to as integrated business planning that we routinely educate organizations how to improve. The twist is that Anaplan has designed a tool to achieve this planning through direct engagement by those in business and not just analysts. Anaplan want to excel at integrated business planning to support performance management across marketing, sales, operations, finance and other areas that usually do not work well together because they have incompatible tools or methods to analyze and plan their own results. This antiquated approach leads to wasted time and resources, and is not smart business. Even so, Anaplan has room to improve, not so much in the area of products and technology but in its communication of the value it provides in bringing a unified approach to planning and performance management. If you are looking for a business and planning driven approach to performance management, you should look at Anaplan. Regards, Mark Smith CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_sales_application_priorities-9.png", "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": "Make IT Spending Transparent", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/09/make-it-spending-transparent", "datePublished": "09/08/2012", "dateModified": "09/08/2012", "articleBody": "What does it cost to run an IT department? That’s an easy question to answer, but for most companies, why it costs that amount is not. IT departments often complain that most of their budget is devoted to funding daily operations and basic maintenance (“keeping the lights on”), but often, one big overlooked problem is the chargeback process that most companies use to assign IT department operating costs. From a cost allocation perspective, IT spending falls into three basic categories. One includes general IT costs such as expenditures for organization-wide infrastructure (networks and hardware, for example), the salary and bonus of a company’s CEO and items that are either too small in value or too difficult to allocate with any kind of accuracy. These items are (and should be) allocated to business units based on some formula that approximates their utilization of these core costs. A second category includes the costs incurred directly by a budgetary unit (division, department or business unit) that can be assigned to it unambiguously, such as software used only by a single unit or licensed on a named user basis. It’s the third category that poses the problem: the costs of supporting the business operations of each of the units. Typically, organizations have a poor understanding of IT department cost drivers because they have not created systems that track IT department activities and connect them to the “things” consumed by each of the business units. Consequently, they assign these costs in the form of a general tax that is beyond the control of operating managers. Since the managers have no understanding of how their actions drive IT costs, they cannot optimize their consumption of IT services. Their only incentive is to limit or reduce IT spending overall. Depending on the nature of the business, how the corporation is structured (centralized versus decentralized) and what executives considers essential, this third category of costs typically represents 20 to 50 percent of IT operating expense. Using a general expense allocation formula for costs that ought to be directly assessable creates a dysfunctional spiral. The lack of transparency in IT cost drivers almost inevitably winds up increasing IT department focus on maintenance and decreasing focus on innovative or productive uses. With no incentive to dig into how they affect IT costs, business managers keep demanding items of marginal value. Managers with budget authority argue for keeping IT spending as low as possible so that they can show greater profitability or have more resources that they control directly. If IT charges are viewed as a general tax, it discourages innovation because the impact of an increased expense allocation is clear but benefits are not. Yet, since this part of IT is a common cookie jar, managers have little incentive to refrain from asking for services or not using them as wisely as possible. If IT organizations want to broaden their activities well beyond keeping the lights on, they must track and manage their expenses more intelligently, in ways that enable them to accurately allocate costs to business users. Companies need an approach that enables them to accurately determine what’s driving their IT department costs, but several complications stand in the way of doing this. One is the inability of a company’s systems to track the connection between specific costs and cost drivers. This may be because the IT organization has not created the means to track costs or because it has not identified specific cost drivers. As a consequence, these IT costs wind up in a general pool charged back to business units using some agreed-upon formula. While the formula may not appear arbitrary, it is a barrier to achieving greater value from IT spending because it effectively eliminates any “vote” that a business manager has on an element of IT spending for which he has responsibility. If the allocation is based, for example, on occupied space, the manager would have to shrink his footprint to reduce IT costs – a difficult proposition because space may be under a long-term lease. Even if it were determined by a headcount formula, such a process holds managers ransom. In order to lower their IT costs, they would have to let people go. Or, it may just be a negotiated percentage of revenues – in effect an excise tax. In order to increase IT spending transparency, companies need to use activity-based costing as well as IT asset/portfolio management processes and software, which help track the sources driving IT department costs. Activity-based costing is way of accurately assigning costs (especially indirect costs) to products and services produced by a business unit. It first identifies specific activities performed by an organization, then assigns the cost of the resources consumed in the creation and delivery of those activities. For example, the creation and maintenance of a custom application used by several business units consumes IT personnel time and processing cycles among other costs, and these costs would be assigned to specific business units. IT departments can accurately keep track of the cost of these activities using project portfolio management. PPM is an approach to scheduling and tracking the activities of services organizations such as consulting firms or IT departments in a way that connects the costs of specific resources (people, subcontracted services and the like) and the projects performed. A project in this sense might be a formal, multi-period task involving a large working group, or it might be an individual work order performed by a single individual on demand. If IT departments want to do more than keep the lights on, they need to do a more accurate and transparent job of allocating IT costs. To address this strategic issue, IT executives must recognize the connection between shortcomings in their chargeback systems and the reluctance by many line-of-business executives to spend more on IT. Addressing the issue requires an ongoing process in both IT and finance departments for accurately identifying the cost drivers and having the software and systems in place to measure them. CIOs must work in partnership with finance organizations to ensure that IT dollars are spent most effectively. 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": "Making Sense of the Swirling World of Business Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/09/making-sense-of-the-swirling-world-of-business-analytics", "datePublished": "09/08/2012", "dateModified": "09/08/2012", "articleBody": "Our benchmark research on business analytics suggests that it is counterproductive to take a general approach to the topic. A better approach is to focus on particular use cases and lines of business (LOB). For this reason, in a series of upcoming articles, I will look at our business analytics research in the context of different industries and different functional areas of an organization, and illustrate how analytics are being applied to solve real business problems. Our benchmark research on business analytics reveals that 89 percent of organizations find that it is important or very important to make it simpler to provide analytics and metrics. To me, this says that today’s analytic environments are a Tower of Babel. We need more user-friendly tools, collaboration and most of all a common vernacular. With this last point in mind, let’s start by defining business analytics. Here at Ventana Research, business analytics refers to the application of mathematical computation and models to generate relevant historical and predictive insights that can be used to optimize business- and IT-related processes and decisions.This definition helps us to focus on the technological underpinning of analytics, but more importantly, it focuses us on the outcomes of business and IT processes and decisions. To provide more context, we might think of the what, the so what and the now what when it comes to information, analytics and decision-making. The what is data or information in its base form. In order to derive meaning, we apply different types of analytics and go through analytical processes. This addresses the so what, or the why should I care about the data. The now what involves decision-making and actions taken on the data; this is where ideas such as operational intelligence and predictive analytics play a big role. I will look to our benchmark research in these areas to help guide the discussion. It’s important not to think about business analytics in a technological silo removed from the people, process, information and tools that make up the Ventana Maturity Index. In this broader sense, business analytics helps internal teams derive meaning from data and guides their decisions. Our next-generation business intelligence research focuses on collaboration and mobile application of analytics, two key components for making analytics actionable within the organization. In addition, our research shows a lot of confusion about the terms surrounding analytics. Many users don’t understand scorecards and dashboards, and find discovery, iterative analysis, key performance metrics, root-cause analysis and predictive analytics to be ambiguous terms. We’ll be discussing all of these ideas in the context of business technology innovation, our 2012 business intelligence research agenda and of course our large body of research on technology and business analytics. Organizations must care about analytics because analytics provides companies with a competitive advantage by showing what their customers want, when they want it and how they want it delivered. It can help reduce inventory carrying costs in manufacturing and retail, fraud in insurance and finance, churn in telecommunications and even violent crime on our streets. The better organizations integrate data sets and utilize both internal and external information in a coherent fashion, the greater the value of their analytics. I hope you enjoy this series and find it useful as you define your own analytics agenda within your organization. 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": "CIOs Need to Make Information Management a Real Priority", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/cios-need-to-make-information-management-a-real-priority", "datePublished": "08/08/2012", "dateModified": "08/08/2012", "articleBody": "Our recent benchmark research on information management uncovered some startling facts about the level of technology adoption necessary for efficient information-centric organizations. Chief information officers (CIO) are responsible for the availability of information to their businesses in a consistent and timely basis, but in most organizations, information management is seen as just a delegated set of tasks and is not the CIO’s top priority. This unfortunate outlook can have a lasting impact on the efficiency and profitability of a business. Our business analytics benchmark of more than 2,800 organizations found that two-thirds spend the majority of their time on data-related tasks rather than analytic ones. Analysts spend too much time using tools such as Microsoft Excel to copy and paste the data they need to communicate to meet information requests. Lack of availability and lack of consistency in a company’s information has a severe negative impact on its business analytics. Our benchmark research on information management found some opportunities for businesses to gain ground. Almost two-thirds (63%) have confidence in their organizations, saying they have the right team to improve information availability, but at the same time they admit that data spread across too many applications and systems (67%) and multiple versions of the truth (64%) are barriers to information management. Getting the right accurate information still plagues most organizations, and most do not have a plan to improve this situation. While organizations have complained for decades about lack of access or accuracy of the data, today the impact of these issues is better known. Only 19 percent of organizations indicate business and IT work well together, while 56 percent say they work fairly well together and are focused on improving. Most organizations still operate in silos and talk about working together more than they actually do. Our research found a lack of adoption of key initiatives to help manage information assets more effectively. Even key initiatives that are completed, from master data management (MDM) (10%) to data virtualization, data quality, data integration and data governance (16%) are employed by just a fraction of organizations that should be mastering the science of information management. We saw some potential for improvement; initiatives in data integration and data quality are in effect at 28 percent of organizations, but in other areas the number was smaller. The majority of initiatives focus on customer-centric data: The number ranges from almost three-quarters of some organizations to much less in financial, employee, product and supplier data. These data-related initiatives are critical for organizations that need to deliver information management. An organization that does not have them completed and working together is taking significant business and financial risk by running at an unacceptably low level of efficiency and accuracy. Information management in a distributed enterprise environment is no easy task when you need a common information warehouse. We found that too many incompatible tools (57%) and many unsynchronized metadata stores (42%) were the top two obstacles to having a common information warehouse. IT management puts itself in a difficult situation when it fails to invest in resources and technology to improve information asset management. While projects are being initiated and planned, in many cases data availability is not being improved fast enough to meet business needs. We found the largest obstacles were insufficient staffing (68%), inadequate budget (63%) and insufficient training and skills (59%), which means that many organizations are ignoring this issue or operating with less than skilled resources that are already overstretched. This has to change, and our benchmark found a lot of potential places for improvement. CIOs need to create a strategic plan for information management to ensure they are focused on the factors necessary to equip their information architecture to meet business needs. Unfortunately, even as organizations begin to see the importance of information management, we have the current fixation on handling big data, which takes away resources that could be devoted to getting information management efforts in order. The reality is that big data does not operate efficiently without an efficient information management environment. Just adding another data source that is not well-integrated inevitably increases costs and uses more resources. Your next step should be to make information management a strategic top agenda item for your CIO. Other priorities, including business analytics, business applications and big data, will not reach their full potential without top-notch information management that integrates business and IT efforts. Regards, Mark Smith CEO & Chief Research Officer", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2035844/Imported_Blog_Media/vr_infomgt_barriers_to_information_management-11.png", "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": "Meeting the XBRL Challenge Takes Inventiveness", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/meeting-the-xbrl-challenge-takes-inventiveness", "datePublished": "08/08/2012", "dateModified": "08/08/2012", "articleBody": "For several years the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has mandated that filers apply eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) tags to their financial statements. XBRL was developed to make it easier for investors to use a company’s financial information. Now XBRL US has kicked off its second annual XBRL Challenge, a contest designed to encourage development of open source analytical tools that can use XBRL-formatted corporate financial data from the SEC’s EDGAR database. Sponsoring the effort are the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Institute (of which I am a member) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. XBRL US hopes to raise awareness of the wealth of available XBRL data and provide incentives for application developers to create open source software that enables broader and more frequent use of the standard. The contest will award $20,000 grand prizes to the two teams, and judging will be based on how well each submission improves access to corporate data and provides analytic capabilities in an original, user-friendly way. This competition is a terrific idea because it addresses the least well developed element in the drive to improve the communication of corporate data to investors. Earlier this year I reviewed some of the submissions to the first XBRL Challenge. Although the first round of software offered a good start, much more needs to be done to encourage use of XBRL. In some ways, the situation with XBRL today mirrors the evolution of ERP systems in the 1990s. Companies deployed them expecting finally to have easy access to accounting and corporate data that had been difficult to reach in the scattered proprietary systems that the new software replaced. Instead, they discovered they needed complementary technologies – business intelligence tools, analytical applications and data stores – to derive full value from those ERP investments. Although ERP systems are great at collecting and storing data, they need other systems to enable people to access and use the data. Similarly, without useful applications easy for the general public to use, the tagged information from more than 8,800 companies in the SEC’s EDGAR database will remain underutilized. Before I assessed the winners of the last competition I asked myself what I should expect from an open source application. After some reflection my answer was: quite a lot. After all, there are plenty of examples of open source software that meet the needs of demanding users, some of which are every bit as sophisticated and full-featured as proprietary offerings. Others may fall short of what professionals would demand, but nevertheless offer sophisticated features aimed at “prosumers” – enthusiasts who want products that fall between expensive and complex professional applications and consumer-grade software. In the first go-round, there were examples of simple, easy-to-use consumer apps but nothing that reached the prosumer level. The world of “free” software supports business models that enable developers to monetize their efforts, even if the software is free to the user. And the software itself could be completely transparent to the user. I expect that at some point investor sites such as Yahoo! Finance and online brokers will offer XBRL-enabled features. Though we’re still in the data collection phase of XBRL’s evolution, that doesn’t mean that companies are being asked to make too much effort or that the effort is useless. I expect steady progress over the next several years in making XBRL-tagged data usable and useful. Mass adoption is not far off, and when it comes it will give United States financial markets an advantage over their competitors. I hope to see submissions to the new XBRL Challenge that provide steps in this direction. 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": "Calabrio Provides Integrated Workforce Optimization", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/08/calabrio-provides-integrated-workforce-optimization", "datePublished": "08/08/2012", "dateModified": "08/08/2012", "articleBody": "Calabrio offers a suite of workforce optimization (WFO) products used in call centers that includes call recording, quality recording, workforce management and performance management, and it also offers a purpose-built speech analytics product. From a briefing and demonstration, I confirmed that the core WFO products support the capabilities that our research shows companies expect of these products. Ventana Research defines agent performance management (APM) as WFO plus capture of all forms of customer interaction, agent training and coaching and agent compensation management, as well as all forms of contact center-related analytics such as text, voice and desktop. The recent Ventana Research APM Value Index shows that this market is highly competitive, as all the top five vendors scored within one percentage point of each other. Calabrio differentiates itself from the competition in three ways. First, unlike some of the vendors in this market, it provides a purpose-built suite that was developed from the ground up, so its capabilities are tightly integrated, for example allowing users to sign in once to all applications and enter data once to populate all related data fields. This enables organizations to close the loop between related processes; for example, they can link quality monitoring with agent performance management. Second, the suite includes a purpose-built speech analytics product that uses an industry-standard engine to extract data from call recordings and uses phonetics-based analysis to extract insights from the data. Third, it has other capabilities that support annotation of call playback to show when words and phrases were used, and display a link to what agents were doing at their desktops at the time particular words and phrases were used. These add up to what Calabrio presents as its main differentiator – making WFO easy to use through a user-friendly interface and linked capabilities. The experience starts at sign-on when users are presented with a dashboard that has been previously customized to their own requirements. It presents users with information they want to see, in a useful format, and it lets them drill down into more detailed information relevant to the tasks they need to carry out. During the demonstration I was able to compare the old and new software interfaces, and the new one lives up to most of the claims. It is easier to use than many products I have seen, and from the examples I saw I expect it to improve further in time. Calabrio now has more than 3,000 customers, 50-plus partners and many case studies showing customers’ business success. However, as I indicated earlier, this is a tough, competitive market, so Calabrio needs to continue to invest in its core strengths to remain successful. If it does so, I recommend that companies looking to improve agent performance take Calabrio into account. Regards, Richard J. 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": "Karmasphere Addresses Big-Data Skills Gap with Collaboration and Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2012/08/04/karmasphere-addresses-big-data-skills-gap-with-collaboration-and-analytics", "datePublished": "04/08/2012", "dateModified": "04/08/2012", "articleBody": "Karmasphere has an interesting story to tell. Much like Datameer, which I recently blogged about, Karmasphere sits on top of the Hadoop distributed platform where companies such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR compete. Karmasphere provides a collaborative environment and an analytical workbench that help companies write applications and workflows that run on top of Hadoop. The company’s business model looks to leverage legacy skill sets, such as SQL, which are already resident in most organizations, in order to ingest, analyze and act on big data. Karmasphere’s approach begins with the common assertion that business intelligence tools were built to analyze only structured data. They use descriptive statistics and provide historical views of data, but they are limited in their iterative discovery processes and in their ability to add new data in a timely, practical manner. Newer tools, such as in-memory databases and appliances, address the old technological limitations but have their own issues. While memory is becoming less expensive and speed is improved, proprietary hardware can lock businesses into a particular technology, and the way these tools manipulate data is often proprietary, too, in terms of how data is written back to disk and what types of data are stored on disk. It’s through this gap in the market that Hadoop developers and companies like Karmasphere want to capitalize. Hadoop provides an ideal platform for companies exploring and analyzing big data because it is built to maximize disk I/O, run on commodity hardware and scale in a linear fashion. Given that commodity hardware by definition is fast, cheap and available, Hadoop clusters fit the bill for advancing big-data analytics. The market is responding to this logic. Not only are we seeing venture capital pouring into the space, but our own benchmark research on Hadoop shows that it is being used in 33 percent of companies’ big-data environments and evaluated in another 20 percent. Very likely these numbers are increasing as I write this. A big issue for Hadoop adoption is the skills gap. In our research on business analytics, 89 percent of participants said it is important to make it simpler to provide analytics and metrics to all users who need them. Last year big data was the domain of ninja data scientists creating MapReduce functions. Now, while big data is still a nebulous concept for many business people outside the data world, it is starting to come into focus, and the conversation is moving to the front lines of organizations. The discussion now is about how to match the power of Hadoop with the current skills of developers, data analysts, business analysts and end users. Karmasphere addresses the skills issue. The company previewed its 2.0 release at the Hadoop Summit in June. The release focuses on the collaborative workspace and includes a shared repository for analytical assets in a role-based Web environment. With this team-oriented focus, Karmasphere is hitting a sweet spot in the market, as end users are becoming more involved in both usage and buying decisions. We’re looking forward to discussing this trend in our next-generation business intelligence benchmark research, due out soon. As you might expect with an integrated Hadoop approach, Karmasphere 2.0 can ingest data from multiple sources, including data from Omniture and DoubleClick. Its wizard-based approach is helpful in identifying and consuming diverse data sources into the Hive tables native to Hadoop. The software enables users to do basic descriptive data exploration to determine the techniques and algorithms that they might want to apply. From there, analysts can conduct ad-hoc queries and iterative SQL analyses to test hypotheses and find insights from the data. Karmasphere also includes support for Hive UDFs and analytics packages such as SPSS and SAS for more complex analysis. Finally, Karmasphere helps users embed their insights in other systems through REST APIs and to publish through other BI applications such as Tableau and Spotfire. By positioning the software more toward collaboration and analytics and less toward visualization, Karmasphere appears to be trying to carve out a unique space and avoid direct comparisons with companies such as Datameer that have advanced analytics and visualization capabilities. Karmasphere’s approach to visualization seems to be to provide some basics and partner with firms such as Tableau to provide more robust front-end user tools. This strategy allows Karmasphere to focus both its messaging and development efforts on the core value of bridging the Hadoop skills gap with analytics and collaboration tools. Karmasphere has a strong story, but broader questions remain about how the Hadoop ecosystem will evolve from early adopters to early majority. A lot of money is still flowing into the Hadoop community, but I anticipate a shakeout in the space at some point, and only vendors that provide strong time-to-value propositions will remain intact. Karmasphere provides a compelling proposition around team analytic processes, collaboration and bringing the value of Hadoop to the front lines of organizations. By competing to fill the space between the technical aspects of Hadoop and the existing skills in the market, it manages to address a critical challenge around adoption. 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Our firm has been researching this software category for many years, and our latest benchmark research in product information management, coming out shortly, finds PIM software providing substantive benefits in new channels of interaction with suppliers and customers. I am excited to provide research and education on this critical enterprise software, which is essential in just about every industry. We are the only research firm with a dedicated focus on product information management. Our benchmark research on organizations using this software not only uncovers best practices and trends, but it also highlights what businesses can do to improve competencies across their people and processes. The new Value Index for Product Information Management assesses vendors and products and their suitability to businesses’ needs and priorities based on our upcoming benchmark research. The Ventana Research methodology utilizes a request for proposal and assessment approach. Each value index takes six months to complete; unlike other analyst firms, we look at the product details that have the most importance in successful adoption and use. We evaluate PIM vendors across seven critical categories that are essential for achieving planned benefits: usability, reliability, manageability, adaptability and capability of the products, and also the customer assurance areas of validation and TCO/ROI. We weight each category according to its priority to buyers, and sum the results to 100 percent for scoring purposes. In the process we identify best and worst practices that further refine how we assess technology vendors in each category. For instance, this year we placed a heavier emphasis on adaptability, a factor that organizations in our 2012 benchmark research indicated is becoming more important. You can read the details on our methodology and process in the full 2012 Product Information Management Value Index report. Our Value Index analysis for product information management looks at the range of needs across all industries and in enterprise, commerce, supplier, consumer and business–to-business areas, along with support of the product life cycle. This year it also examines the emerging needs for mobile access and deployments, finds further points of integration and provides more depth on analytics across specific roles. The Value Index examines needs by job role, including management and managers, analysts and administrators, and looks at IT and information-specific needs for extraction, integration and distribution. We also examine in-depth capabilities for specific types of integration with other applications and processes. Since PIM is focused master data management (MDM), we assess the range of data management needs for adapting to an organization’s information systems. Our analysis this year found eight vendors that provide robust offerings and deserve to be rated Hot, which is the highest value level and demonstrates maturity of offerings. Stibo Systems ranks at the top, followed by Heiler, Riversand, Enterworks, Hybris, SAP, Agility and WebOn. We note in our analysis that Heiler, Riversand and Enterworks showed rapid product advancements, and their focus on usability, manageability and capability as well as validation and TCO/ROI helped raise them in the ratings from last year. IBM and Oracle have their work cut out to stay relevant in PIM in the coming years. These vendors focus more on the master data management aspects of PIM, but this IT focus fails to keep pace with the shift of priority and adoption led by business. A lot has changed among the dedicated PIM suppliers since our last Value Index. For instance, Enterworks, Heiler, Riversand and Stibo released new versions that advanced the usability, manageability, reliability and adaptability of their offerings. Many providers have added support for mobile devices, which for all vendors is just beginning to improve. Many are getting better in analytics, simple reporting and quick-review dashboards. In many cases, improvements to role-based features have helped newly rated Hot vendors gain customer adoption. The PIM category is maturing rapidly, with new applications and capabilities often available for rent in the cloud by organizations that prefer that approach to buying and installing software. We take pride in our Value Index, and we believe it is cool to be a Hot vendor. Unlike us, IT-focused analyst firms that do not research or advise organizations can have little depth and focus on PIM except from a MDM or content management perspective and have created more confusion than clarity. Some analysts even claim that PIM does not exist, being just MDM. It does not take long to see the uselessness of this commentary, as the vendors in this category demonstrate, and as do the companies that have adopted their software to become more efficient and maximize profitability. Congratulations to the vendors that stood up to our detailed assessment processes and granular analysis, which represent how organizations assess and select vendors. We’re proud of our objective and in-depth analysis, which we publish without review or editing by the technology vendors like other analyst firms. While some vendors may object to the results, our independence provides the basis for the most trusted research in the industry. If you want further information, please download the executive summary. We look forward to offering continued guidance to buyers on this critical application category for business and IT professionals who need to have the most efficient and profitable results-oriented organizations. 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The company has grown from being a supplier of CRM in the cloud to a vendor with diverse offerings that include a development platform, an app exchange, platforms that support marketing, sales and customer service, knowledge management, desktop technology, collaboration, website development, social media support and analytics. Along the way it has also become a powerful marketing machine – which sometimes gets in the way of understanding just what its products do and don’t do, and where they all fit. This obfuscation also extends to its extensive range of partners, where again it is sometimes hard to know who it deals with and how. The situation is particularly true for the contact center. The company’s marketing message would have us believe that salesforce.com plays in the contact center market, but it has partners – Cisco, Interactive Intelligence, LiveOps, NewVoiceMedia and Vocalcom to name a few – that are better recognized as providers of contact center systems. As a result I have been a little skeptical of salesforce’s marketing messages and have urged organizations to take care to learn just what the company has to offer in this space. But as I learn more and spot new trends in the market, I see salesforce.com beginning to play a bigger part in customer interaction-handling, multimedia customer service and customer experience management. My recent research into customer relationship maturity has led to me to these conclusions: Organizations have to provide multimedia customer service. They have to support more channels of communication, including social media. Interactions are being handled across the organization, including by home and mobile workers, so companies need to support employee collaboration and mobility. Consumer use of social media has gone crazy, so companies have to develop sound social media strategies and move beyond using it mostly for marketing, and thus just having a Twitter handle, a Facebook page and a few YouTube videos. Most importantly, they have to understand what consumers are saying about them on social media so they can respond appropriately. The growing use of tablets and smartphones means companies have to consider providing mobile customer service apps. Considering that my research into contact centers in the cloud shows that companies see moving to the cloud as the answer to these challenges, we can see that salesforce has a portfolio of products that meet most of these requirements. The desktop in Service Cloud allows agents to view the information they need to resolve multimedia customer interactions. Service Cloud includes CTI and call-routing capabilities to get interactions to the right people to handle them. While Desk.com doesn’t support CTI, it allows agents to access the information they need to handle interactions. Chatter supports collaboration both internally and with customers. Heroku allows companies to build social and mobile apps. Radian6 provides insights into what consumers are saying on social media and supports companies taking action based on what they see. Data.com allows companies to manage their customer data and enhance it so they have a fuller picture of their customers – a point often overlooked by organizations, but our research into customer relationship maturity shows that the lack of a single source of high-quality data and a single shared set of customer-related reports and analysis are two of the main barriers preventing companies from providing excellent customer service and experiences. Recently I received updates on Service Cloud and Desk.com that uncovered lots of new developments – too many to cover in detail – which, as highlighted above, extend salesforce further into interaction and customer experience management. During my discussions with the company, one of my objectives was to better understand the differences between the desktop at the heart of Service Cloud and Desk.com. Functionally they are similar, but as mentioned above, Desk.com does not support CTI. The big difference is the target markets: Desk.com is aimed at the small enterprise (100 to 200 users) and Service Cloud is aimed at the midsize to very large enterprise. What the company lacks in a contact center in the cloud is what is now popularly called communications in the cloud – managing all the bits and bytes of sending and receiving interactions – and what we call agent performance management – managing the time and activities of people who handle interactions. 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