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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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SAP’s High Performance Analytic Application (HANA), which I think of as a high-availability network appliance, is part of the technology industry movement to increase the performance and scalability across a range of applications, from analytics to transactions, to drive timely insights on data or real-time interactions across a business value chain that includes...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/27/saps-opens-road-for-hana-and-big-data-at-sapphire-now"><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/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/sustainability">Sustainability</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-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology">Business Technology</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/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/information-technology">Information Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coo">COO</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/rim-has-a-blackberry-and-playbook-for-business">RIM Has a BlackBerry and PlayBook 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">25 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>At its BlackBerry World conference earlier this month, RIM promoted its own tablet computer to challenge other providers’ tablet offerings. The <a href="http://us.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet/" target="_blank">BlackBerry PlayBook</a>, which was <a href="http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=4796" target="_blank">unveiled at the beginning of 2011</a>, addresses the growing demand for business mobility – a factor I noted as one of the <a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/02/18/the-business-technology-revolution-in-2011/" target="_blank">five key business technology innovations of this year</a>.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/rim-has-a-blackberry-and-playbook-for-business"><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/google">Google</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/playbook">Playbook</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rim">RIM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-phones">Smart Phones</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-research">IT Research</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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/mobility">Mobility</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/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/sap-brews-new-human-capital-management-for-the-cloud">SAP Brews New Human Capital Management for the Cloud</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">25 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>At SAP’s annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) this month, the company introduced a new portfolio of human capital management applications that will be available on many devices and added mobility options for users, including offerings for <a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/21/the-new-mobile-sap-evolves-stronger-from-sybase-investment/" target="_blank">smartphones and tablets</a> and cloud computing. This move beyond the traditional on-premises approach of SAP’s ERP Human Capital Management product suite is a critical step forward for SAP if it is to remain relevant for HR organizations.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/sap-brews-new-human-capital-management-for-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile-applications">Mobile Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology-innovation">Business Technology Innovation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/ibm-provides-clarity-for-finance">IBM Provides Clarity for Finance</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">25 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>IBM Software recently held a user group conference called Vision 2011 that focused on its <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2010/11/27/ibm-acquires-clarity-systems-for-more-financial-performance-management/" target="_blank">Clarity Systems acquisition’s</a> users but also covered broader finance department topics. For me, the highlight of the show was the continued evolution and enrichment of the Clarity FSR external reporting application designed to automate the close-to-report cycle. This process is commonly referred to as “the last mile of finance,” a term coined by a now-defunct company, Movaris, and adopted by Gartner. If...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/ibm-provides-clarity-for-finance"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/big-data">Big Data</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability">Sustainability</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile-applications">Mobile Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/conference-highlights-social-media-analytics-and-the-customer-experience">Conference Highlights Social Media, Analytics and the Customer Experience</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">25 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>The Directors Club of the U.K. recently held its inaugural National Customer Show in London. The event was well attended and attracted sponsorship from some of the biggest vendors in the contact center industry; among them were platinum sponsors <a href="http://www.inin.com/" target="_blank">Interactive Intelligence</a> and <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/crm/customer-service-support" target="_blank">salesforce.com</a>, and session sponsors <a href="http://www.nexidia.com/" target="_blank">Nexidia</a> and <a href="http://www.sword-ciboodle.com/en-us/home/" target="_blank">SwordCiboodle</a>. I noticed three common themes, covering very different aspects of managing the customer, and I’ll hit the highlights of each.</p> <p>Social Media</p> <p>These days you can’t...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/conference-highlights-social-media-analytics-and-the-customer-experience"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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/nexidia">Nexidia</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-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/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactive-intelligence">Interactive Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/swordciboodle">SwordCiboodle</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/24/ibm-chooses-hadoop-unity-not-shipping-the-elephant">IBM Chooses Hadoop Unity; Not Shipping the Elephant</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 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>Last week I attended the IBM Big Data Symposium at the Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The event was held in the auditorium where the recent Jeopardy shows featuring the computer called Watson took place and which still features the set used for the show – a fitting environment for IBM to put on another sort of “show” involving fast processing of lots of data. The same technology featured prominently in IBM’s big-data message, and the event was an orchestrated presentation...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/24/ibm-chooses-hadoop-unity-not-shipping-the-elephant"><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/emc">EMC</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloudera">Cloudera</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/greenplum">Greenplum</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM</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/infosphere">InfoSphere</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stratahadoop">Strata+Hadoop</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/roambi-innovates-mobile-industry-with-simpler-information-and-analytics-2">Roambi Innovates Mobile Industry with Simpler Information and 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">21 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>To maintain a productive workforce, businesses need to be able to put information in front of users at every level, from executives to front-line managers. Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets can provide analytics and business intelligence (BI), but so far this market niche has been dominated by publishing dashboards and reports that conform to the limits of mobile platforms. Analytics and BI software developers usually opt to publish charts and tables to Web pages on a...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/roambi-innovates-mobile-industry-with-simpler-information-and-analytics-2"><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/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/sustainability">Sustainability</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/google">Google</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-phones">Smart Phones</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-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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/mobility">Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/roambi">Roambi</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-sales-ondemand-comes-alive-in-the-cloud-and-mobile-at-sapphire-now">SAP Sales OnDemand Comes Alive in the Cloud and Mobile at SAPPHIRE NOW</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">21 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>At the SAPPHIRE NOW conference this week, SAP released the production version of the cloud-based <a href="http://www.sap.com/solutions/products/sales-on-demand/index.epx" target="_blank">Sales OnDemand software</a> that it unveiled earlier in the year. There has been a lot of the esoteric commentary of SAP Sales OnDemand from those that exclusively cover the IT industry. Unfortunately the majority of them have never worked in sales or held a quota that prevents a provide a deeper perspective on the relevance to the sales organization and what it can provide to existing SAP customers or...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-sales-ondemand-comes-alive-in-the-cloud-and-mobile-at-sapphire-now"><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/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap">SAP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-compensation">Sales Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-force-automation">Sales Force Automation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-forecasting">Sales Forecasting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management">Sales Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfa">SFA</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/mercer-promotes-possibility-of-the-new-empowered-workforce">Mercer Promotes Possibility of the New Empowered Workforce</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">21 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Less than a week after attending <a href="http://kevingrossman.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/10/adp-advances-workforce-mobility-with-vantage-hcm/">ADP’s industry analyst day</a>, I flew to Washington, D.C., to attend Mercer’s analyst forum, which gave me a chance to compare another human resources juggernaut. While ADP is known primarily for payroll and business process outsourcing, <a href="http://www.mercer.com/" target="_blank">Mercer</a> is known for HR consulting and benefits outsourcing. Mercer is not as big as ADP, with $3.5 billion in annual revenue and over 27,000 customers, most of which are large multinational and midmarket companies, servicing over...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/mercer-promotes-possibility-of-the-new-empowered-workforce"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-planning">Workforce Planning</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-advances-enterprise-performance-management-in-version-10">SAP Advances Enterprise Performance Management in Version 10</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">21 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <div> <p>SAP announced <a href="http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/press/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=15179" target="_blank">the release of version 10</a> of its SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions suite, an enhanced and updated set of applications and capabilities for executives and managers. In our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/fpmvalueindex" target="_blank">Value Index assessment of financial performance management suites</a> and <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2010/11/27/what-is-the-value-of-your-financial-performance-management-software/" target="_blank">my analysis of it</a> last year, Ventana Research gave SAP’s offering the highest score, and this new release builds on that solid foundation that I already <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2010/12/01/sap-hits-suite-spot-for-financial-performance-management/" target="_blank">assessed in my blog</a>. It has been several years since...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-advances-enterprise-performance-management-in-version-10"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planning">Planning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/sustainability">Sustainability</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/forecast">Forecast</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/office-of-finance">Office of Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budget">budget</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting">Budgeting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/xbrl">XBRL</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/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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/agile">agile</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting-software">budgeting software</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ceo">CEO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-finance">Corporate 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/integrated-business-planning">Integrated Business Planning</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/workforce-planning-is-part-of-the-next-generation-of-human-capital-management">Workforce Planning Is Part of the Next Generation of Human Capital 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">20 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Workforce planning is a business process that done right ensures an organization of suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. At a Mercer analyst summit I attended recently, which I wrote about in “<a href="http://kevingrossman.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/18/mercer-promotes-possibility-of-the-new-empowered-workforce/">Mercer Promotes Possibility of the New Empowered Workforce</a>,” one of the sponsor execs kept challenging the HR industry analyst community to do more research on workforce planning, since her company and its customers are spending more time and money on just that. </p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/workforce-planning-is-part-of-the-next-generation-of-human-capital-management"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-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-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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-planning">Workforce Planning</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/the-new-mobile-sap-evolves-stronger-from-sybase-investment">The New Mobile SAP Evolves Stronger from Sybase Investment</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">20 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>At the SAPPHIRE NOW annual conference, (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) the advantage of the mobile technology SAP gained through its acquisition of Sybase is becoming evident. In a blog <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/13/sap%e2%80%99s-new-management-and-products-faces-the-future-at-sapphire/" target="_blank">before the conference</a></span> I touched on the importance of mobility to the company’s future. From walking around, assessing keynotes and sessions and talking to companies using SAP, it seems that the big bet that SAP made on mobility is paying off.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/the-new-mobile-sap-evolves-stronger-from-sybase-investment"><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/sap">SAP</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/google">Google</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-phones">Smart Phones</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-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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/mobility">Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/saps-new-management-and-products-faces-the-future-at-sapphire">SAP’s New Management and Products Faces the Future at SAPPHIRE NOW</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 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>It is no easy task to change the culture of a global technology company, especially one that has a very demanding customer base with high expectations for advancing its widespread product lines. This is the challenge that SAP faces as it transitions from a company of three-letter-acronym collections of applications including CRM, SCM and ERP to one that focuses on specific business processes and needs. (My colleague recently discussed the problems in <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2011/04/26/prospects-for-ending-forklift-migrations-of-erp/" target="_blank">forklift migrations of ERP</a>.) This transition...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/saps-new-management-and-products-faces-the-future-at-sapphire"><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/sap">SAP</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/business-technology-innovation">Business Technology Innovation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-research">IT Research</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology">Business Technology</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/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/information-technology">Information Technology</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>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coo">COO</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/emc-enters-elephant-race-with-hadoop">EMC Enters Elephant Race with Hadoop</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>Earlier this week <a href="http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110509-03.htm" target="_blank">EMC announced</a> it will create its own distribution for <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Hadoop</a>.  Hadoop provides distributed computing capabilities that enable organizations to process very large amounts of data quickly. As I have <a href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/03/03/living-in-the-era-of-hadoop-and-large-scale-data/" target="_blank">written previously</a>, the Hadoop market continues to grow and evolve. In fact, the rate of change may be accelerating. Let’s start with what EMC announced and then I’ll address what the announcement means for the market.</p> <p>EMC announced three new offerings, slated for the third...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/emc-enters-elephant-race-with-hadoop"><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/emc">EMC</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</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/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloudera">Cloudera</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/greenplum">Greenplum</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/stratahadoop">Strata+Hadoop</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-plots-course-for-workforce-analytics">ADP Plots Course for Workforce 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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>One thing became crystal clear while I was at <a href="http://www.adp.com/" target="_blank">ADP</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">’s</span> industry analyst day last week: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://kevingrossman.ventanaresearch.com/2011/05/10/adp-advances-workforce-mobility-with-vantage-hcm/" target="_blank">The world is more connected than ever before</a></span>, and this contributes to making the world more complex than ever before.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-plots-course-for-workforce-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/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/metrics">Metrics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mobile-applications">Mobile Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-mart">data mart</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-advances-workforce-mobility-with-vantage-hcm">ADP Advances Workforce Mobility with Vantage HCM</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Going into <a href="http://www.adp.com/" target="_blank">ADP</a>’s industry analyst day, I was curious about where a 61-year-old “payroll” company fits in today’s market for human capital management. It certainly has a presence, with over 550,000 customers across multiple lines of business – HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration – and nearly $9 billion in revenue with three consecutive quarters of growth coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.  </p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-advances-workforce-mobility-with-vantage-hcm"><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/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/mobile-applications">Mobile Applications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/verint-bolsters-workforce-optimization">Verint Bolsters 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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Recently <a href="http://verint.com/corporate/home.cfm" target="_blank">Verint Witness Actionable Solutions</a> announced the latest release of its <a href="http://verint.com/contact_center/releases_view.cfm?article_level1_category_id=7&article_level1_id=1204&pageno=1&year=2011&dt=pr" target="_blank">Impact 360 Workforce Optimization software</a>, which it calls the first  “fifth-generation” product in this space.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/verint-bolsters-workforce-optimization"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-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-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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/verint">Verint</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/disaster-risk-management-and-the-lean-supply-chain">Disaster, Risk Management and the Lean Supply Chain</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant trifecta that devastated Japan has had a negative impact also on companies that embraced the concept of managing a lean supply chain – one that minimizes inventories at each stage. If news accounts are to be believed, there seem to be legions regretting that decision as disruptions caused by the disasters have a ripple impact, hampering manufacturers’ ability to deliver goods worldwide. But although current events are a wake-up call highlighting the...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/disaster-risk-management-and-the-lean-supply-chain"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing">Marketing</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/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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain">Supply Chain</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/analytics-for-it-cobblers-children-need-shoes">Analytics for IT: Cobbler’s Children Need Shoes</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>As part of our largest-ever <a href="http://www.venetanaresearch.com/bam" target="_blank">research study on business analytics</a>, which surveyed more than 2,600 organizations covering the <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/analytics" target="_blank">maturity and competency of business, IT and vertical industries</a>, we looked at how IT is applying analytics to support their own business activities. One of the things we found is that, charged with enabling business units to use information systems as effectively as possible, the IT department, like the shoemaker’s barefoot children in the old tale, typically stands last...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/analytics-for-it-cobblers-children-need-shoes"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT 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/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/information-technology">Information Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-analytics">IT Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-service-management">IT Service Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/itil">ITIL</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/itsm">ITSM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance-management-itpm">IT Performance Management (ITPM)</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/think-carefully-about-social-media-and-your-customers">Think Carefully about Social Media and Your Customers</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>Unless you have been on a long vacation somewhere without newspapers, mobile phones or the Internet, you must have noticed all the buzz about social media – some of it factual and lots of it hype. Over a billion people use Facebook. There are many millions of tweets on Twitter every day, and YouTube has become the place to share videos, whether for a laugh, for a company’s brand awareness or for training courses. The key question for business is how much of this is useful for commerce and how...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/think-carefully-about-social-media-and-your-customers"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS</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-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/clarabridge">Clarabridge</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/genesys">Genesys</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/responsetek">ResponseTek</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rightnow">RightNow</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-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/information-applications">Information Applications</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> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/sap-diversifies-into-contact-center-and-communications-technology-market">SAP Diversifies into Contact Center and Communications Technology Market</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>Most people associate <a href="http://www.sap.com/" target="_blank">SAP</a> with enterprise software: ERP, CRM and more recently with business analytics and business intelligence. The majority also see the company as committed to providing these as on-premises applications and having only begun its presence in cloud computing for <a href="http://www.sap.com/solutions/ondemand/index.epx" target="_blank">business applications</a>. But there’s more to the story, as I recently discovered. With its <a href="http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/crm/businesscommunications/index.epx" target="_blank">Business Communications Management (BCM)</a> software SAP has quietly diversified into the contact center market, while at the same...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/sap-diversifies-into-contact-center-and-communications-technology-market"><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/sap">SAP</a>, <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/social-crm">Social CRM</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-intelligence">Business Intelligence</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/information-applications">Information Applications</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/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/marklogic-revs-up-information-applications-with-new-energy-and-leadership">MarkLogic Revs Up Information Applications with New Energy and Leadership</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>At this year’s user conference, it was clear that change is afoot at <a href="http://www.marklogic.com/" target="_blank">MarkLogic</a>, whose technology platform enables users to access information more easily accessible within applications and devices. Last month the board of directors appointed a new <a href="http://www.marklogic.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2011/ken-bado-joins-marklogic-as-chief-executive-officer.html?PHPSESSID=ptresicpmn0o5110mofu2gtfu4" target="_blank">CEO</a>, Ken Bado, created the new position of <a href="http://www.marklogic.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2011/marklogic-appoints-joe-dalton-as-chief-marketing-officer.html?PHPSESSID=ptresicpmn0o5110mofu2gtfu4" target="_blank">chief marketing officer (CMO)</a> and named a <a href="http://www.marklogic.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2011/marklogic-names-keith-carlson-as-executive-vice-president-of-global-services-and-alliances.html?PHPSESSID=ptresicpmn0o5110mofu2gtfu4" target="_blank">head of global services and alliances</a>, all within three weeks. The Silicon Valley software company has been growing in the last several years but appears not fast...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/marklogic-revs-up-information-applications-with-new-energy-and-leadership"><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/marklogic">MarkLogic</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting">Reporting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/xml">XML</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/content-management">Content Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/document-management">Document Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-platform">Information Platform</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/search">Search</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/successfactors-finds-learning-management-system-and-more-with-plateau-acquisition">SuccessFactors Finds Learning Management System and More with Plateau Acquisition</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Consolidation in the human capital management software market is in full swing. Recently  Peopleclick Authoria <a href="http://kevingrossman.ventanaresearch.com/2011/04/07/peopleclick-authoria-elevates-workforce-analytics-by-acquiring-aquire/" target="_blank">acquired Aquire Solutions</a>, and just this week Golden Gate Capital and Infor agreed to buy Lawson Software for about $2 billion, which my colleague <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2011/04/28/acquisition-of-lawson-complements-infor%e2%80%99s-portfolio/" target="_blank">Robert Kugel commented</a>.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/successfactors-finds-learning-management-system-and-more-with-plateau-acquisition"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning">Learning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning-management-system">Learning Management System</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-planning">Workforce Planning</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/acquisition-of-lawson-complements-infors-portfolio">Acquisition of Lawson Complements Infor’s Portfolio</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <div> <p>Golden Gate Capital and Infor (which is owned largely by Golden Gate Capital) will <a href="http://www.infor.com/company/news/pressroom/pressreleases/lawson-infor/" target="_blank">acquire Lawson Software for approximately $2 billion</a> in a transaction that is expected to be completed sometime in this year’s third quarter. Lawson is the latest in a string of enterprise software acquisitions made or financed by Golden Gate that began almost a decade ago. Today, Infor is made up of legacy companies such as Baan, Comshare, ePiphany, Dun & Bradstreet Software, SSA, Sun Systems and Symix, to name...</p> </div> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/acquisition-of-lawson-complements-infors-portfolio"><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/erp">ERP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</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/business-technology">Business Technology</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/oracle">Oracle</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/infor">Infor</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-finance">Corporate Finance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management">Financial Performance Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/datawatch-offers-shorter-path-from-data-to-information-3">Datawatch Offers Shorter Path from Data to Information</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">12 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Turning data into information for taking actions and making decisions has bedeviled businesses throughout the computer age. Many organizations have data in dozens of applications and legacy systems along with many reports in various business intelligence systems. The challenge is to get data from each of the reports and assemble it into contextualized views of information for particular business needs. In our benchmark research on what we call information applications, only 11 percent of...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/datawatch-offers-shorter-path-from-data-to-information-3"><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/sustainability">Sustainability</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting">Reporting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology-innovation">Business Technology Innovation</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/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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/datawatch">Datawatch</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/document-management">Document Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/zyme-solutions-tackles-channel-data-challenge">Zyme Solutions Tackles Channel Data Challenge</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 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Companies (especially in high technology) that sell through an indirect channel face a difficult challenge because global sales channels are complex, fragmented and changeable, with different business practices and customs than direct channels. Keeping track of which products have sold in and sold through which partners can be a difficult task. Unless a company is working with only a handful of channel partners, just collecting the data is time-consuming. Not only is the data complex, much of...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/zyme-solutions-tackles-channel-data-challenge"><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/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/zyme-solutions">Zyme Solutions</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/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/channel">channel</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/prospects-for-ending-forklift-migrations-of-erp">Prospects for Ending Forklift Migrations of ERP</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">03 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Back in the old days (20 years ago or so) companies that wanted to expand or update their telephone systems had to do what was called a “forklift migration.” In other words, they had to remove big, heavy and very expensive boxes of electronics from an equipment room and replace them with newer big, heavy and very expensive boxes. The process of adding, deleting or changing people, offices and phone numbers was equally burdensome and costly. This all seems quaint now because digital telephony...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/prospects-for-ending-forklift-migrations-of-erp"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap">SAP</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/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/oracle">Oracle</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infor">Infor</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/its-time-for-the-contact-center-to-change">It’s Time for the Contact Center To Change</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">03 May 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg" width="200" !important: srcset="//blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=100&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 100w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=200&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 200w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=300&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 300w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=400&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 400w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=500&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 500w, //blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Ventana_Research_Sept_2016/images/shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg?width=600&name=shutterstock_314838419-1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px"> </div> <p>Twenty years ago, when I began consulting in the contact center industry, building a call center was a hard, resource-consuming task. Just to begin handling calls required purchasing lots of proprietary equipment, such as PBXs and automatic call distributors (ACDs), as well as software for computer/telephony integration (CTI) and business applications such as case management and CRM – and then spending a lot of time and effort integrating them. Lots of tasks were managed using spreadsheets, and...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/its-time-for-the-contact-center-to-change"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap">SAP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-analytics">Customer Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-data-management">Customer Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-feedback-management">Customer Feedback Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/incontact">InContact</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/liveops">LiveOps</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactive-intelligence">Interactive Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-management">Workforce Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contactual">Contactual</a> <hr> </div> <script> // Check active classes var checkClass = function() { if ( $('.fil_item').hasClass('hide') ) { $('.fil_item').removeClass('hide'); 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-model">business model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-objects">Business Objects <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-objects-predictive-analytics">Business Objects 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/business-performance">Business Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(739)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance-management-bpm">Business Performance Management (BPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-plan">business plan <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-planning">Business Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(95)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-process">business process <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-process-execution">business process execution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-process-management">Business Process Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-process-monitoring">business process monitoring <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-process-outsourcing">business process outsourcing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-suite">Business Suite <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology">Business Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(40)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-technology-innovation">Business Technology Innovation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-value">business value <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/calabrio">Calabrio <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center">Call Center <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(301)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-center-analytics">call center analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-copy">Call Copy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/call-routing">Call Routing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/callidus-software">Callidus Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/calliduscloud">CallidusCloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/callminer">Callminer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/calltower">CallTower <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cambridge-semantics">Cambridge Semantics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/camelon-software">Camelon Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/candidate-engagement">candidate engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(30)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capacity-utilization">capacity utilization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capital-adequacy">capital adequacy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capital-budget">capital budget <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capital-markets">capital markets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/capital-spending">capital spending <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cash-management">cash management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ccaas">CCaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cdh3">CDH3 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cdp">CDP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/celergo-hcm">Celergo HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cem">CEM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ceo">CEO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ceo-cfo-financial-performance-management-forecasti">CEO, CFO, Financial Performance Management, Foreca <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cep">CEP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ceridian">Ceridian <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(164)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/challenge">challenge <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/channel">channel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/channelinsight">ChannelInsight <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chargebacks">chargebacks <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chart-of-accounts">chart of accounts <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chatbots">Chatbots <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chatter">Chatter <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chief-risk-officer">Chief Risk Officer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/chro">CHRO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ci-cd">CI/CD <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cicero">Cicero <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cincom">Cincom <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(112)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio-callenges">cio callenges <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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 Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/costing">costing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cpaas">CPaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cpq">CPQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/credit">credit <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crisis">crisis <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/crm">CRM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(267)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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 href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service">Customer Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(289)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-service-and-support">customer service and support <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(20)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cxm">CXM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cybersecurity">Cybersecurity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dashboard">dashboard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dashboards">Dashboards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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 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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 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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> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/innovation-awards">Innovation Awards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/insights">Insights <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intacct">Intacct <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/integrated-business-planning">Integrated Business Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-automation">Intelligent Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-cx">Intelligent CX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-marketing">intelligent marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-memory">Intelligent Memory <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-sales">intelligent sales <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intelligent-self-service">Intelligent Self-Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/interactions">Interactions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(74)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intradiem">Intradiem <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/intuit-quicken">Intuit Quicken <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inventory-management">inventory management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inventory-optimization">Inventory Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iot">IOT <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iot-and-edge-computing">IoT and Edge Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iot-operationalintelligence-real-time">IOT, OperationalIntelligence, 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/ipam">IPAM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it">IT <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-analytics">IT Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-analytics-performance">IT Analytics & Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-controls">IT controls <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-cost">IT cost <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-governance">IT governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(178)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance-management-itpm">IT Performance Management (ITPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-research">IT Research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-risk-management">IT Risk Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-service-management">IT Service Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/itil">ITIL <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/itops">ITOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/itsm">ITSM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jacada">Jacada <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jaspersoft">Jaspersoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jd-edwards">JD Edwards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jda-software">JDA Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jibe">Jibe <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jobscience">Jobscience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jobvite">JobVite <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/johnson-controls-panoptix">Johnson Controls Panoptix <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/jonova">Jonova <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/journalism">Journalism <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/json">JSON <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kalido">Kalido <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kana">Kana <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kapow">Kapow <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kapplets">Kapplets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/karmasphere">Karmasphere <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kenandy">Kenandy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kenexa">Kenexa <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/key-performance-indicators">Key Performance Indicators <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/key-performance-indictors">Key Performance Indictors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kinaxis">Kinaxis <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/knoahsoft">KnoahSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/knopahsoft">KnopahSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/knowlagent">Knowlagent <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/knowledge-management">Knowledge Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kofax">Kofax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kognitio">Kognitio <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kpi">KPI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kri">KRI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kronos">Kronos <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kxen">KXEN <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kyriba">Kyriba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/kyriba-financial-performance-management">Kyriba Financial Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lagan">Lagan <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lan">LAN <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lasr">LASR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lawson">Lawson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lawson-software">Lawson Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning">Learning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning-management">Learning Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(66)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning-management-system">Learning Management System <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-accounting">Lease Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-and-tax-accounting">lease and tax accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lease-management">Lease Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/leasing">leasing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/leonardo">Leonardo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/linux">Linux <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/liveops">LiveOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lms">LMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(18)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/local-ly">Local.ly <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-analytics">Location Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/location-intelligence">Location Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(90)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/logi-analytics">Logi Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/logitech">Logitech <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/logixml">LogiXML <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/longview">LongView <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/looker">looker <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lucent">Lucent <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lumira">Lumira <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/lxp">LXP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-conversational-computing">Machine Conversational Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-data">Machine data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-learning">Machine Learning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(36)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-learning-and-cognitive-computing">Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(21)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-learning-digital-technology">Machine Learning Digital Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/machine-learning-operations">Machine Learning Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/management">Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/manticore-technology">Manticore Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/manufacturing">Manufacturing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mapr">MapR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/mapreduce">MapReduce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/market-agenda">Market Agenda <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/market-research">Market Research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing">Marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(102)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing-automation">Marketing Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing-performance-management">Marketing Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing-planning">Marketing Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketing-sales">marketing sales <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/marketo">Marketo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> 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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 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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 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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 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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 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dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumtotal-systems">SumTotal Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sungard">Sungard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sunsystems">Sunsystems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supplier-relationship-management">supplier relationship management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain">Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-management">supply chain management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(253)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-planning">Supply Chain Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surface">Surface <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surveys">Surveys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability">Sustainability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-and-esg">Sustainability and ESG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-management">Sustainability Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/swordciboodle">SwordCiboodle <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase">Sybase <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-iq">Sybase IQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/syncsort">Syncsort <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/synygy">Synygy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau">Tableau <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau-software">Tableau Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tagetik">Tagetik <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talemetry">Talemetry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talend">Talend <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-acquisition">Talent Acquisition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-generation">Talent Generation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(133)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/taleo">Taleo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talx">TALX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tamr">Tamr <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tanner-labs">Tanner Labs <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax">Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(35)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-compliance">tax compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-department">tax department <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-planning">tax planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-software">Tax Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-datawarehouse">Tax-Datawarehouse <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-tax-provision-transfer-pricing">tax; tax provision; transfer pricing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tcm">TCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology">Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation">Technology Innovation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation-award">Technology Innovation Award <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-spending">Technology Spending <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-vendors">Technology Vendors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/telephony">Telephony <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata">Teradata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata-aster">Teradata Aster <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(182)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tez">Tez <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/thomson-reuters-multinational">Thomson-Reuters multinational <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-landscape">Threat Landscape <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-management">Threat Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tibco">Tibco <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tidemark">Tidemark <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/time-attendance">Time & Attendance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm">TM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm1">TM1 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/topic">Topic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-compensation-management">Total Compensation Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(46)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-rewards-management">total rewards management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson">Towers Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson-talent-management">Towers Watson Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/training">Training <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/transcom">Transcom <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/transera">Transera <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/treasury">Treasury <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tribehr">TribeHR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/trifacta">Trifacta <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/twitter">Twitter <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ucaas">UCaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/uda">UDA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ui">UI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ukg">UKG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ultimate">Ultimate <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ultimate-software">Ultimate Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unanet-technologies">Unanet Technologies <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/uncategorized">Uncategorized <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(103)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unica">Unica <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unicorns">Unicorns <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unified-communications">Unified Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(83)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/unit4">Unit4 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/upstream-works">Upstream Works <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/us-gaap">US-GAAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/us-gaap-accounting">US-GAAP accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/usability">Usability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/use-cases">Use Cases <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ux">UX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/value-index">Value Index <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/value-added-tax">Value-Added Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vantage-platform">Vantage platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/varicent">Varicent <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vat">VAT <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vendavo">Vendavo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vendavo-price-pricing-optimization-revenue-custome">Vendavo, price, pricing, optimization, revenue, cu <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vendor-management-systems">Vendor Management Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vendors">Vendor(s) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/verint">Verint <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/verizon">Verizon <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vertex">Vertex <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vertical-solutions">Vertical Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vibe">Vibe <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/virtual-audit">virtual audit <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/virtual-close">virtual close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/visi">Visi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vistaar-technologies">Vistaar Technologies <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/visual-insight">Visual Insight <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/visualization">Visualization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vitria">Vitria <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vivisimo">Vivisimo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vmware">VMWare <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vocalcom">Vocalcom <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vocalcom-and-zeacom">Vocalcom and Zeacom <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-analytics">Voice Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-automation">voice automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer">Voice of the Customer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(260)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/voice-of-the-customer-interactive-intelligence">Voice of the Customer Interactive Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/volly">Volly <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vovici">Vovici <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vpi">VPI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/wall-street-journal">Wall Street Journal <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/wan">WAN <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/warehouse-management">warehouse management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/watson">Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/wearable-computing">Wearable Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/webon">Webon <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/wellness">Wellness <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/wfm">WFM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/work-and-resource-management">Work and Resource Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(18)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/work-experience-management">work 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/work-management">Work Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> 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"@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "SAP’s Opens Road for HANA and Big Data at SAPPHIRE NOW", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/27/saps-opens-road-for-hana-and-big-data-at-sapphire-now", "datePublished": "27/05/2011", "dateModified": "27/05/2011", "articleBody": "At this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW conference (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) SAP demonstrated its in-memory computing technology and applications. SAP’s High Performance Analytic Application (HANA), which I think of as a high-availability network appliance, is part of the technology industry movement to increase the performance and scalability across a range of applications, from analytics to transactions, to drive timely insights on data or real-time interactions across a business value chain that includes everyone from customers to suppliers. As part of the in-memory computing initiative, SAP demonstrated its in-memory database, which uses a columnar data store that employs technology SAP acquired with the Sybase IQ product. As I noted before the conference, in-memory technology is part of a major new focus for this global business applications company. In a technology keynote, SAP CTO Dr. Vishal Sikka let the customers do the talking. More than a couple of dozen testimonials came from the likes of CIOs at Caterpillar, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, P&G and other global companies, all of whom said they have been implementing HANA not just to run faster and more cost-effectively but also to enable new levels of efficiency in business processes. To make the case that you do not need a dedicated appliance like the hardware HP, IBM and Oracle sell, SAP cofounder Dr. Hasso Plattner demonstrated that HANA can operate on platforms as small as an Apple server or as scalable as a Dell PowerEdge R910 rack server. The company highlighted its partnership with Dell to further its message of interoperability. SAP demonstrated many applications it has built on top of HANA, including strategic workforce planning, a dynamic cash flow management for supporting financial operations for managing cash and accounting operations across AR and AP, and a new available-to-promise (ATP) order-inquiry application that had many attentively watching. In addition, SAP showed a range of modeling and calculation operations that can be computed on the platform and that could be part of any planning process. It is building a new advanced planning optimization (APO) system for companies that have struggled with limitations of the existing SAP APO. Many of these applications were presented through Microsoft Excel to demonstrate the power of SAP HANA, though eventually they will be more formalized, like the applications SAP offers under its the business analytics umbrella for lines of business and vertical industries. SAP partners offered demonstrations, too, among them Centrica, showing smart-meter analytics, and Medidata, using HANA in a cloud edition for supporting clinical trials and analytics against patient and outcome data. SAP NetWeaver BW will add support for SAP HANA in the fall with the NetWeaver service pack 7.5 and the SAP HANA service pack 3. HANA will be able to replace the existing database with in-memory computing, which will not just speed up performance but also reduce the cost of database maintenance and support. This new combination should dramatically increase the throughput of BI tools using SAP BW and help further the adoption of the recently released SAP Business Intelligence version 4 that my colleague assessed. SAP is clearly in the big-data market, where a lot is going on now. A main focus has been on the open source application Hadoop. Commercialization of Hadoop by providers such as EMC and Cloudera illustrates that we are living in the era of large-scale data. IBM is focusing on the unification of Hadoop and large sets of data and shifting away from its acquired Netezza and IBM DB2. Meanwhile, Teradata is expanding its processing power with in-memory computing using solid state disk and the acquired Aster Data to help reach data across multiple platforms. Oracle is advancing its Exadata appliances using Sun hardware and storage with Oracle database technologies as part of its playbook. Part of the vision of HP’s new CEO, ex-SAP CEO Leo Apotheker, includes analytic database technology from newly acquired Vertica, but HP’s technology is yet to be proven to be scalable and ready to compete in this market though the company is promoting like it did with its predecessor product called HP Neoview. So this is a very busy market of technologies to address the need for faster computing of data to support business. In order to compete successfully in this developing market, SAP must continue to focus on the business applications aspect of big data and in-memory computing. The company has been committing on-site resources for its customers to demonstrate HANA’s capabilities. SAP HANA will extend its Enterprise Information Management products to advance what’s possible in management of data across analytical processing and operational execution. SAP made it clear that HANA and the future integration with SAP NetWeaver BW are part of its new generation of applications and that the company is eager for competitive bake-offs on its reliability and scalability. SAP HANA is definitely something to examine if you are looking to gain significant throughput of your data and analytics for business for which our benchmark research finds to be in high demand by organizations across the globe. Let the games begin. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "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": "RIM Has a BlackBerry and PlayBook for Business", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/rim-has-a-blackberry-and-playbook-for-business", "datePublished": "25/05/2011", "dateModified": "25/05/2011", "articleBody": "At its BlackBerry World conference earlier this month, RIM promoted its own tablet computer to challenge other providers’ tablet offerings. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which was unveiled at the beginning of 2011, addresses the growing demand for business mobility – a factor I noted as one of the five key business technology innovations of this year. Last week SAP, at its annual conference, SAPPHIRE NOW, endorsed RIM and its PlayBook as a platform for its mobile applications and tools. The use of RIM’s tablet was evident in many SAP applications areas, including sales. About the size of a hardbound book, PlayBook makes it easy to run business applications or explore the Internet. It addresses some of the limitations of the Apple iPad with its support for Adobe Flash and a multitasking environment for applications and browser-based tools. The PlayBook provides secure tethering to the BlackBerry smartphone and supports Wi-Fi networking; RIM is expected to introduce a new model that will operate across Sprint’s 4G network. The company also realizes it needs to create a 3G version to work with other carriers. The PlayBook’s technical specifications are sufficient for a first entry into the market. It comes with a dual-core processor that is symmetric multiprocessing and runs at only 1GHz. It comes with 1GB of internal memory and up to 64GB of internal storage. Its screen resolution of 1024-by-600 pixels is sufficient for most general consumer and business use. From my hands-on analysis and discussion with people at SAPPHIRE, the PlayBook’s touch screen can be hypersensitive and takes a little getting used to. In a business environment, the PlayBook is designed to run tethered to a BlackBerry smartphone. RIM is helping integrate the tablet with corporate telephony by working with Avaya, Cisco and others so employees can get calls through unified communications. RIM has also released a video chat application to drive more collaboration on the tablet. RIM also introduced BlackBerry Balance, an application designed to improve security of a BlackBerry employed for both business and personal use. But anyone who wants to use a PlayBook without a BlackBerry will encounter some challenges. For instance, the PlayBook lacks a native email client so users must employ a Web browser or a third-party application to connect to their mailboxes. Software providers in the applications and analytics and business intelligence market have been blazing a trail in mobility for many years. SAP, with its BI version 4 continues to support RIM as it has over the years. However, others such as IBM and MicroStrategy have said nothing about support of the RIM tablet in their recent communications of mobile strategy. Overall, software providers have been slow to announce support for the platform, unsure how quickly users will adopt it, which will determine the amount of investment they care to make to support another mobile platform. On the other hand, many of the software providers have more confidence in RIM than in Microsoft and its Windows Phone 7 or HP’s webOS and its new mobile technologies. To make the PlayBook a success, RIM must get a commitment by a broad range of application providers, in the way many have embraced Apple and the iPad. Key applications include talent and workforce management, like that from Kronos, Saba and SuccessFactors, as well as sales applications like those from Oracle and salesforce.com. At the same time it is pushing its PlayBook tablet, RIM is advancing its family of smartphones, with new 9900 and 9930 models to support a range of near-field communications (NFC) and meet demand for easier and sexier smartphones in business. RIM is also focused on helping corporate IT manage large deployments of its smartphones and tablets by providing device and application management in an upcoming version of its server powered by software acquired from ubitexx. On the fun side of mobile computing, RIM is working with gaming companies to ensure that their games work within the PlayBook environment. The business and consumer balance of application and games is a critical driver for adoption, and RIM knows that for success. In addition the PlayBook supports high definition (HD) 1080p playback for movies and videos that could be for pleasure or business. RIM has moved fast to make the PlayBook available for purchase in as many channels as possible. RIM supports BlackBerry Java apps, and also provides SDKs to help developers of Android-based applications port programs to RIM’s platform. The company created BlackBerry App World to provide a place to find a range of applications. And of course no smartphone or tablet would be complete without support for Facebook. Can the RIM PlayBook grow its market share fast enough to make a dent in the massive adoption of Apple iPad and Google Android tablets? PlayBook reviews have been mediocre, but I believe the tablet has great potential as a business tablet if RIM can strategically engage with software providers and carriers to make the PlayBook an independent tablet as much as a tethered one. The PlayBook has many advantages over the iPad, and I am not just speaking about security and supporting Adobe Flash, but also its form factor and design to support collaboration, video and multi-tasking better than its peers. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & Chief Research Officer", "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": "SAP Brews New Human Capital Management for the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/sap-brews-new-human-capital-management-for-the-cloud", "datePublished": "25/05/2011", "dateModified": "25/05/2011", "articleBody": "At SAP’s annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) this month, the company introduced a new portfolio of human capital management applications that will be available on many devices and added mobility options for users, including offerings for smartphones and tablets and cloud computing. This move beyond the traditional on-premises approach of SAP’s ERP Human Capital Management product suite is a critical step forward for SAP if it is to remain relevant for HR organizations. SAP’s established HCM applications cover the basics of talent management including recruiting, performance, succession, learning, planning and analytics and employee and manager self-service, along with core HRMS features of payroll, benefits, time and attendance, scheduling and deployment. While the suite is robust, so are the costs and resources necessary for businesses to install, upgrade and maintain the on-premises applications. This burden has influenced HR departments in the last five years to shift their focus and investment to applications that can be rented and readily deployed across organizations. Quick access to on-demand talent management applications has fueled the growth of companies such as Peopleclick Authoria, Plateau, Saba, SuccessFactors, SumTotal, Taleo and Workday. Many of these talent management software providers have grown due to their focus on a couple of key applications including performance management and compensation management that have been in demand for access and use in business which we have confirmed through benchmark research. SAP still has a significant base in global and domestic HR organizations due to its long presence in the HRMS market and support of languages and currencies around the world. The company provides upgrades to SAP Business Suite 7 for HR with enhancement packages and the SAP Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS) approach to application deployment. SAP also works closely with software partners to round out its offering to meet the growing demand to manage human capital across the entire workforce. For example, SAP has worked closely with Nakisa for many years to provide visualization software like the applications available from Human Concepts and Aquire. (Aquire was recently acquired by Peopleclick Authoria.) SAP should explore additional ways of looking for talent across social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and online job boards to streamline the recruiting and hiring processes, as SAP partner Talent Technology has done with Talemetry. At SAPPHIRE NOW SAP executives discussed and demonstrated new directions for their human capital management applications. Career On-Demand will build performance, development and analytics around employee activities and evaluate what employees can do to advance their careers. To compete better SAP has redesigned the application’s user experience to be more efficient. In addition, as seen in the new Sales On-Demand application that I recently analyzed, SAP has a new approach to business collaboration and social networking across the enterprise. This will probably take shape within SAP’s human capital management software as it has in sales since the existing collaborative manager and employee dialogue could use improvement. The conference also saw new developments and customer validation with SAP’s high-availability network appliance (HANA), which provides in-memory computing for analytics and transactions. HANA is the foundation for a new suite of applications that can process large volumes of data for a range of business analytics and planning needs. A new HANA-based application for strategic workforce planning can handle large volumes of employee hiring, promotion and termination data to predict the three- and five-year makeup of the workforce. This next generation of human capital management is more sophisticated than regular workforce planning for looking at headcount, salary and succession planning. We recently completed a business analytics benchmark that researched the needs for workforce analytics and found the majority of organizations still using spreadsheets. Instead of this ineffective practice, HR organizations should employ a workforce analytics foundation that can integrate data to develop key people metrics and indicators. SAP has outlined an aggressive roadmap for its HR line of business, with a quarterly release of new software in on-premises, on-demand and mobile platforms such as the Apple iPad. It faces competition from global providers of HRMS and Talent Management such as Oracle, with its Fusion HCM application suite, and Infor, whose acquisition of Lawson is not to be underestimated. In addition, many talent management products, such as SumTotal Systems and Workday, come with an underlying HRMS for managing the employee record, which is sometimes required to retrofit the entire set of human capital management processes. I see 2011 as a critical year for SAP to keep its relevance to HR. It must expand its footprint of applications to meet the next generation of needs in human capital research management. It looks like SAP will be busy with plans for a portfolio of new applications and advancements. HR professionals who are using SAP ERP and HR applications should examine these plans and balance them against today’s human capital management needs.", "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": "IBM Provides Clarity for Finance", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/ibm-provides-clarity-for-finance", "datePublished": "25/05/2011", "dateModified": "25/05/2011", "articleBody": "IBM Software recently held a user group conference called Vision 2011 that focused on its Clarity Systems acquisition’s users but also covered broader finance department topics. For me, the highlight of the show was the continued evolution and enrichment of the Clarity FSR external reporting application designed to automate the close-to-report cycle. This process is commonly referred to as “the last mile of finance,” a term coined by a now-defunct company, Movaris, and adopted by Gartner. If you think about it, though, it isn’t “the last mile” for the tens of thousands of companies that don’t publish financial statements and is only one of several important finance department processes that follow the accounting close (such as internal reporting and tax statement preparation). Finance departments have long needed to automate the assembly of periodic documents that combine words and numbers. These documents include the quarterly and annual reports public corporations are required to submit to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Canadian Securities Administrators, the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and other agencies. Historically, companies have cobbled together these filings from bits of text created by a variety of people in several departments (chiefly finance and legal), using numbers that come from a range of sources. These sources include accounting data from a consolidation system, other enterprise systems, data warehouses and spreadsheets that track headcount, leased premises, stock performance, advertising expense and executive compensation, to name just five. FSR automates the document creation process, eliminating the need to perform repetitive, mechanical functions and reducing the time needed to ensure accuracy and the time spent managing the process. Manually assembling this information into a document has always been a chore, even after word processing and spreadsheets were adapted to this purpose decades ago. These filings are legal documents that must be completely accurate and conform to mandated presentation styles. They require careful review to ensure accuracy and completeness. Complicating this effort recently are increasingly stringent deadlines, especially in the U.S. Anyone who has been a party to these efforts knows that there can be frequent changes in the numbers as they are reviewed by different parties, and those responsible need to ensure that any change to a number that occurs (such as the depreciation and amortization figure) is automatically reflected everywhere that amount is cited in the document (in this example, that would include the statement of cash flows, income statement, the text of the management discussion and analysis and the text or tables of one or more footnotes). Those managing the process spend a great deal of energy simply checking the document to ensure that the various sections include the latest wording, that the numbers are consistent in the tables and text, that amounts have been rounded properly (which can be really complicated) and that the right people have signed off on each and every part of the filing. FSR workflow-enables the process, meaning that handoffs are automated, participants get alerts if they haven’t completed their steps in timely fashion, and administrators can keep track of where everyone is in the process. Despite the fact that technology (specifically document management systems) has been widely available to automate the close-to-file process for a couple of decades, it was not widely adopted by finance departments. Some of this reflected the cost and effort required to deploy these heavy-duty systems and some was the usual “we’ve always done it this way” resistance to change. To be fair, about 50 years ago the SEC’s 10-K (annual report) and 10-Q filings were rather sparse and there wasn’t much to check. They have only gradually become the data- and disclaimer-rich documents we know today. Companies would have kept pulling these reports together manually except that the SEC mandated tagging that they use eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). This represented a tipping point in the workload because although tagging the basic financial statements is not labor-intensive, the broader requirement for tagging footnotes is. This has been enough for many companies to adopt tools like Clarity FSR. FSR, built on Microsoft software components, takes advantage of a wide familiarity with Excel and Word to reduce the amount of training required of end users. The time required to prepare the document is reduced, since once a company has configured its system to establish, in effect, a template, it’s relatively easy to create each quarterly or annual XBRL-tagged filing for the SEC. IBM Clarity has continued to incorporate new techniques in FSR for simplifying and further automating the creation and tagging processes. The users conference included a presentation by Time Warner, which was an early adopter of FSR. Its reasons for using the software to do the work, rather than relying on a third party (such as a financial printer or service provider), seem sound to me. Namely, it saves time and reduces the effort required to produce an accurate and complete document. Moreover (and personally I think this is extremely important), it gives those responsible for external financial reporting, the legal department and the company as a whole greater control over the process. Corporations can have more time (even a crucial day or two) to review what is in the document and concentrate more on what the document should contain rather than defaulting to what’s practical in the time allotted. (As they like to say in auditing, the threshold of materiality rises exponentially as deadlines near.) Although FSR was designed specifically for the SEC’s XBRL mandate, once FSR is in place, it can be used in many other ways. For example, Time Warner is using it to file statutory reports in the U.K. The number of jurisdictions that require XBRL-tagged filings is increasing worldwide, and not just for periodic corporate financials. This is especially true for financial services companies engaged in banking and insurance. Companies can and should also offer their financial press releases in a tagged format to make them easier for analysts and investors to incorporate these numbers in their models at the time earnings are announced. (This was one of the reasons why XBRL was created.) Beyond external financial reporting, FSR can be used by finance organizations to create any periodic document (even ones simply for internal consumption) that combines words and numbers. This would be especially useful where multiple people must collaborate to produce narratives and collect data from multiple sources. It can cut the amount of time and effort required to produce them and it gives whoever is responsible a valuable administrative tool for automating workflows and monitoring the status of each component. FSR has evolved from its original release, with ongoing improvements that have increased the efficiency of the process. I think finance departments in midsize and larger corporations, especially public companies, can benefit from utilizing a tool such as FSR. I also believe most companies that are outsourcing the tagging process and have avoided automating their document assembly are making a strategic mistake. The benefits of automation are greater and the net cost of using this sort of tool is much lower than they probably realize. I recommend that companies that are considering a tool for automating their periodic external filing include IBM Clarity FSR in their software evaluation list. Best Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP 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": "Conference Highlights Social Media, Analytics and the Customer Experience", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/25/conference-highlights-social-media-analytics-and-the-customer-experience", "datePublished": "25/05/2011", "dateModified": "25/05/2011", "articleBody": "The Directors Club of the U.K. recently held its inaugural National Customer Show in London. The event was well attended and attracted sponsorship from some of the biggest vendors in the contact center industry; among them were platinum sponsors Interactive Intelligence and salesforce.com, and session sponsors Nexidia and SwordCiboodle. I noticed three common themes, covering very different aspects of managing the customer, and I’ll hit the highlights of each. Social Media These days you can’t escape discussions about social media and the impact it is having on how companies interact with customers and prospects. As I recently wrote, social media is here, and millions of people are using it to communicate with friends, colleagues, businesses and even government. But all the hype, statistics and YouTube videos are masking the realities of business use. My research shows that as yet social media has had little impact on the contact center, and at the show I found confirmation of this point. I also heard more people than usual, even from salesforce.com, uttering cautionary words about social media. The reality is that business use outside of marketing and training videos is still low and consumer use is largely confined to complaining. Several people picked up the latter point; whereas in the past one complaint was heard by a few tens of people, now a single complaint may be heard by thousands (and potentially by millions) of people. Companies need to be aware of this; they need to monitor comments and take positive action about them and do whatever is possible to not let the things that generated the complaints happen again. So the message was monitor social media, have a process and people in place to take appropriate action and have a process to address the root cause of customer issues. Contact Center Analytics Throughout the show, and at one session I chaired, I heard conversations about the need for companies to review their existing metrics and add new metrics that reflect their business goals, rather than settle for efficiency metrics that just show how well things are or are not working. The general consensus seemed to be that no one metric is going to fit the bill for all companies. Yes, net promoter scores add insight to potential new business, and having good customer effort scores makes sense from an efficiency and customer perspective because making it easy for customers to interact with your company is likely to generate more business at lower costs. But companies need a balanced set of metrics from contact center analytics that I recently researched that reflect their business and priorities. I was pleased to find considerable support for my view that having “metrics for metrics’ sake” is pointless and that companies need to have in place processes that ensure action is taken based on their key performance metrics. The Customer Experience As a concept, customer experience management is going the same way as CRM, in that it means many things to different people. For me it is about proactively managing the experience customers receive at any touch point. So when it comes to the most popular channel – calls to the contact center – CEM is about how agents handle each and every customer call. This theme was echoed during one session I attended that connected customer experience with agent empowerment. My benchmark research into CEM has shown that the major influence on the customer experience is the agent’s attitude. The discussion took up the theme that if agents are not empowered to handle calls effectively then customers are likely to go away unhappy. Empowerment seemed to come down to doing some basic things well: process (not doing dumb things), training and coaching, motivation, and setting rewards and performance metrics that positively encourage agents to do a good job and deliver to the company’s business requirements. Personally I like the theme “take the dumb out of handling customer interactions.” Too many times companies do dumb things: asking customers to repeat information they have given before, having metrics that drive agents to do the wrong things (keep calls short rather than solve the problem), using IVR menus that don’t match what customers want to do, providing inconsistent information on different channels – the list goes on. If companies would stand back and examine objectively the dumb things they are doing and put them right, we would all get a better experience. In this day of social media fixing broken processes is even more important. Dumb things will end up exposed in public. This begs the question of who should be responsible for social media, because one dumb response can cause more trouble than the original issues. As a result companies need to pay more attention to interaction-handling than ever before. Are you ready to cope with this new environment? Can you be certain that interactions are being handled consistently and effectively across all channels? How is social media impacting customer experience and do you use analytics to gain better visibility to what you do not know. If so, I’d love to know how you do it. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "IBM Chooses Hadoop Unity; Not Shipping the Elephant", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/24/ibm-chooses-hadoop-unity-not-shipping-the-elephant", "datePublished": "23/05/2011", "dateModified": "23/05/2011", "articleBody": "Last week I attended the IBM Big Data Symposium at the Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The event was held in the auditorium where the recent Jeopardy shows featuring the computer called Watson took place and which still features the set used for the show – a fitting environment for IBM to put on another sort of “show” involving fast processing of lots of data. The same technology featured prominently in IBM’s big-data message, and the event was an orchestrated presentation more like a TV show than a news conference. Although it announced very little news at the event, IBM did make one very important statement: The company will not produce its own distribution of Hadoop, the open source distributed computing technology that enables organizations to process very large amounts of data quickly. Instead it will rely on and throw its weight behind the Apache Hadoop project – a stark contrast to EMC’s decision to do exactly that, announced earlier in the week. As an indication of IBM’s approach, Anant Jhingran, vice president and CTO for information management, commented, “We have got to avoid forking. It’s a death knell for emerging capabilities.” The event brought together organizations presenting interesting and diverse use cases ranging from traditional big-data stories from Web businesses such as Yahoo to less well known scenarios such as informatics in life sciences and healthcare, by Illumina and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), respectively, low-latency financial services by eZly and customer demographic data by Axciom. Eric Baldeschwieler, vice president of Hadoop development at Yahoo, shared some impressive statistics about its Hadoop usage, one of the largest in the world with over 40,000 servers. Yahoo manages 170 petabytes of data with Hadoop and runs more than 5 million Hadoop jobs every month. The models it uses to help prevent spam and others that do ad-targeting are in some cases retrained every five minutes to ensure they are based on up-to-date content. As a point of reference CPU utilization on Yahoo’s Hadoop computing resources averages greater than 30% and at its best is greater than 80%. It appears from these figures that the Hadoop clusters are configured with enough spare capacity to handle spikes in demand. During the discussions, I detected a bit of a debate about who is the driving force behind Hadoop. According to Baldeschwieler, Yahoo has contributed 70% of the Apache Hadoop project code, but on April 12, Cloudera claimed in a press release, “Cloudera leads or is among the top three code contributors on the most important Apache Hadoop and Hadoop-related projects in the world, including Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Zookeeper, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, and Hue, among others.” Perhaps Yahoo wants to reestablish its credentials as it mulls whether to spin out its Hadoop software unit. If such a spinoff were to occur, it could further fracture the Hadoop market. I found it interesting that the customers IBM brought to the event, while having interesting use cases, were not necessarily leveraging IBM products in their applications. This fact led me to the initial conclusion that the event was more of a show than a news conference. Reflecting further on IBM’s stated direction of supporting the Apache Hadoop distribution, I wondered what IBM Hadoop-related products they would use. IBM will be announcing version 1.1 of InfoSphere BigInsights in both a free basic edition and an enterprise edition. The product includes Big Sheets, which can integrate large amounts of unstructured Web data. InfoSphere Streams 2.0, announced in April, adds Netezza TwinFin, Microsoft SQLServer and MySQL support to other SQL sources already supported. But this event was not about those products. It was about IBM’s presence in and knowledge of the big-data marketplace. Executives did say that the IBM product portfolio will be extended “in all the places you would expect” to support big data but offered few specifics. IBM emphasized the combination of streaming data, via InfoSphere Streams, and big data more than other big-data vendors do. The company painted a context of “three V’s” (volume, velocity and variety) of data, which attendees, Twitter followers and eventually the IBM presenters expanded to include a fourth V, validity. To illustrate the potential value of combining streaming data and big data, Dr. Carolyn McGregor, chair in health informatics at UOIT, shared how the institute is literally saving lives in neonatal intensive care units by monitoring and analyzing neonatal data in real time. Rob Thomas, IBM vice president of business development for information management explained the role of partners in the IBM big data ecosystem. As stated above, IBM will rely on Apache Hadoop as the foundation of its work, but will partner with vendors further up the stack. Datameer, Digital Resaoning, and Karmasphere all participated in the event as examples of the types of partnerships IBM will seek. IBM has already demonstrated, via Watson, that it knows how to deal with large-scale data and Hadoop, but to date, if you want those same capabilities from IBM, it will have to come mostly in the form of services. The event made it clear that IBM backs the Apache Hadoop effort but not in the form of new products. In effect, IBM used its bully pulpit (not to mention its size and presence in the market) to discourage others from fragmenting the market. The announcements may also have been intended to buy time for further product developments. I look for more definition from IBM on its product roadmap. If it wants to remain competitive in the big-data market, IBM needs to articulate how its products will interact with and support Hadoop. In my soon to be released Hadoop and Information Management benchmark research that I am completing will provide some facts on whether or not IBM is making the right bet on Hadoop. 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": "Roambi Innovates Mobile Industry with Simpler Information and Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/roambi-innovates-mobile-industry-with-simpler-information-and-analytics-2", "datePublished": "21/05/2011", "dateModified": "21/05/2011", "articleBody": "To maintain a productive workforce, businesses need to be able to put information in front of users at every level, from executives to front-line managers. Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets can provide analytics and business intelligence (BI), but so far this market niche has been dominated by publishing dashboards and reports that conform to the limits of mobile platforms. Analytics and BI software developers usually opt to publish charts and tables to Web pages on a smartphone or tablet. However, the usability of mobile-based Web browsers leaves a lot to be desired, which is particularly unfortunate in light of our recent benchmark research in business analytics, which found that usability was the number one consideration in 57 percent of organizations, while 89 percent said mobile applications need to be simpler to understand and use. A company called MeLLmo appears poised to capitalize on the demand for accessible mobile BI information. Two years ago MeLLmo introduced a free application called Roambi for Apple’s iOS platforms. Roambi consumes the output of BI reports and dashboards from players such as IBM Cognos, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP BusinessObjects, SAS, Microsoft Excel, Salesforce CRM and others by integrating their data and reports into information you can visualize and interact with on your iPhone or iPad. Being an independent provider of mobile-based BI software gives MeLLmo or more often known as Roambi the ability to demonstrate interoperability across many reports and applications, meeting the needs of organizations that have more than a couple of BI tools in their portfolio. Roambi provides a unique interactive and graphical interface that stands out from other BI tools focused on the Apple platform and the software has caught the attention of large corporations that are looking for something easy they can use to adapt their current reports. Hundreds of Global 2000 customers have embraced the technology. For instance, on the Apple website you can find a business profile of Dow Corning showing how its CEO and CFO have been using Roambi, along with one on Novartis who also are major customers of applications from SAP. That’s a pretty impressive feat for a young company in this market, but Roambi founders have a strong track record – they were the makers of Infommersion Xcelsius technology, which Business Objects purchased to advance Web-based interactivity in its BI suite. MeLLmo knows that to continue to differentiate will require innovation in the user experience and use of analytics on mobile technologies. To foster that innovation, the company looked not ahead at some esoteric interface, but back to a traditional form of information used by millions of business professionals and consumers every day: the newspaper, and electronic versions thereof. The newspaper has been the standard information consumption paradigm for a couple of hundred years, but using this metaphor has eluded the BI industry. The traditional BI approach has focused on providing business users methods to page through reports of data with little descriptive text or view dashboards of pie charts and tables that developers created assuming users would understand what to do by drilling or paging through data. This simply will not fly in today’s fast-changing mobile world. Faced with unintuitive interfaces, many organizations have had to resort to hiring people to build custom business briefing books by copying and pasting charts into Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and creating custom views with explanatory text. Most are then published to Adobe Acrobat for print and electronic distribution. These silos of information are useful but resource-intensive to create, and they don’t provide business users the ability to interact with the information or easily find the supporting analytics that represent their key performance indicators. By contrast, MeLLmo decided it could adapt a proven information model using mobile technologies like the tablet. At SAP SAPPHIRE NOW the company announced a product called Roambi Flow that builds on Roambi’s high-quality mobile business analytics. The software provides the ability to generate what I call information applications through its publisher and provides an electronic newspaper view on the iPad in a digital magazine it calls Roambi Book or in the interactive Roambi Present format. Like Flipboard for reading information from publishers on social media on the Internet, Roambi Flow is simple to use and interact with. It also allows publishers to select page layout and design and place text, video and analytics from Roambi along with feeds from the Internet in a single application. Roambi Flow takes the rich information applications (RIAs) for regular Web deployment that evolved over the last couple of years to the next level on the tablet like Apple iPad, which is rapidly becoming the common technology for business executives and management. I hope to see Roambi Flow advance further automation in the generation of the text around Roambi analytics, making it even easier to have an information-ready application for deployment. I also expect to see further integration with collaboration technologies to facilitate discussion and dialogue with others in the organization. This demand for collaboration on information was very important and important to 82 percent of organizations and providing information ready applications on mobile devices was found to be very important and important to 51 percent of organizations in our information applications benchmark. Roambi Flow is already in use by many Roambi customers and will be released for the general market in June. The appearance of this application creates an opportunity for businesses to rethink mobile BI technologies and simplify the use of business analytics which our benchmark research to be important to over 89 percent of organizations. Having mobile-based applications and information is critical to ensure your investments are properly used. Not everyone can figure out how to drill down on charts and tables and figure out what is good, bad or indifferent. Businesses need to provide users with information that they can assimilate easily and then act upon. On a historical perspective this approach of using a newspaper style presentation of business analytics was delivered into the consumer packaged goods industry and what was referred to as automating the news and information finding for marketing professionals. It was called Coverstory back in 1990 and was documented in a working paper by John Schmitz and John D. Little at Alfred P. Sloan School of Management who were early pioneers in the use of analytics and expert systems for business. It was designed for Ocean Spray and was commercially available by Information Resources Inc. who is now known as SymphonyIRI Group. The application was designed before the Internet and HTML/URL standards were developed but provided actionable hyperlinks on words within sentences. This text and sentence driven method enabled analytics to be changed by a business user who could dynamically interact with analytics through its actual representation or story. It unfortunately was left behind to the lack of maturity in the industry and readily available computers for business professionals to use and demand a newspaper based presentation of its business analytics. It got left behind by the mid 1990’s but the precedent was set over 20 years ago. Recently, BI software developers have begun to embrace the native experience and technology for mobile platforms such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. These mobile operating systems have become the new leaders in the consumer and enterprise markets, surpassing offerings from HP, Microsoft and RIM. I have written about how this migration to mobile technologies has led a new wave of innovation in the new world of mobile business. Current BI providers that support the Apple platform are looking for a low-cost, lowest-common-denominator approach to supporting the diversity of mobile platforms, and thereby increase profits. It’s a little early to make such a risky move, since Apple’s market share is based on its brand value and simplicity, which are not yet a commodity or even matched by other platform providers. Many BI providers say they are going to support the native experience of each platform but have yet to provide a document stating what they will keep or lose in their changes. By contrast, MeLLmo is investing in and deepening its work with the Apple platform to ensure it can further differentiate its offering. MeLLmo is not alone in offering native apps for Apple mobile technology. In the BI software market in the last year a small group of providers (Actuate, MicroStrategy, QlikView and SAP) has built native tools for Apple iOS that can access predefined reports and views of business intelligence tools. But MeLLmo has leapfrogged the others by providing iPad software for accessing and publishing information with analytics that feels natural for anyone who reads. It is bringing the power of business analytics to a new generation of tools that will change how business people interact with and expect information to be provided on tablets. Our business intelligence benchmark research finds that 46 percent of organizations plan or hope to deploy mobile technologies, and that provides a great opportunity for MeLLmo to grow. The focus on and investment in Apple is now paying off as the iPad rapidly becomes a platform for business that Apple is investing in too. MeLLmo’s use of a newspaper-style interface could be an inflection point for a shift in the mobile BI market. If Roambi Flow evolves it can become the popular interactive Flipboard of business analytics. The ability to provide information to business that can be assembled and deployed without custom coding helps reduce the cycle time for getting access to information and can offer businesses more routine daily and weekly accountability for their activities and results. 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": "SAP Sales OnDemand Comes Alive in the Cloud and Mobile at SAPPHIRE NOW", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-sales-ondemand-comes-alive-in-the-cloud-and-mobile-at-sapphire-now", "datePublished": "21/05/2011", "dateModified": "21/05/2011", "articleBody": "At the SAPPHIRE NOW conference this week, SAP released the production version of the cloud-based Sales OnDemand software that it unveiled earlier in the year. There has been a lot of the esoteric commentary of SAP Sales OnDemand from those that exclusively cover the IT industry. Unfortunately the majority of them have never worked in sales or held a quota that prevents a provide a deeper perspective on the relevance to the sales organization and what it can provide to existing SAP customers or those evaluating it for the first time. I covered some critical perspectives in my research agenda on sales as a background to my analysis of this new offering. The Sales OnDemand offering is now available and brings together what I call the five business technologies that can innovate sales including: cloud computing, social media, business collaboration, business analytics and business mobility. SAP has embraced these five areas as part of their first release to help sales reps access the application in the cloud through renting it in software as a service (SaaS) method. Also SAP has integrated mobility and analytics in the applications, along with blending collaboration and social media methods to help sales work together in a team and organizational based approach. Looking at Sales OnDemand application in more detail it focused on the sales rep and automating sales activities like found in traditional SFA including that in SAP CRM. With a new interface design and a social sales approach with capabilities like Facebook’s or Twitter’s to monitor and engage in conversations, Sales OnDemand offers a new approach to integrating social networking within an application – in contrast to salesforce.com’s Chatter, which supports it externally. Sales OnDemand provides the basic sales automation tasks – accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, products, activities, documents and competitors – all easily accessed from any area in the application. It also provides quick ways to adjust the application view of each area, along with simple drill-down capabilities for more details for reviewing and updating information. The new software makes it easy to access sales information like accounts and contacts from within Microsoft Outlook. Just as important are the integration of sales information into the Outlook calendar and the ability to utilize it within email. SAP has integrated analytics into the sales application to provide analysis on a range of areas from accounts, opportunities, pipeline and needed perspective for sales rep, including the ability to quickly examine the data in Microsoft Excel. For example, you can quickly analyze sales activities in the pipeline to see how progress to quota is going and then setup activities that need to be accomplished to improve. Sales OnDemand has an advanced analysis capability to review sales opportunities based on priorities. Our benchmark research on sales analytics found that using analytics to improve the efficiency of sales processes was businesses’ second-most important investment priority, behind increasing revenue. The application provides nice multitasking capabilities; for instance, a salesperson can review a customer and competitors while still maintaining focus on the sales pipeline. The interface is simple and usable, which our sales research finds as number one priority by sales organizations. However, sales reps who want to do what-if role-playing with deals to see how they align to reaching quotas and target commissions are left to the spreadsheet or must rent or purchase separate applications for those tasks. SAP also provides direct integration with ERP and SAP BusinessByDesign to provide access to back-office information related to customers, products, prices and even quotes. Information can shared from within Sales OnDemand. This social-media-like collaboration lets a salesperson access information and reference what SAP calls the Feed – an area where users can broadcast to all relevant others or send direct messages to individuals for specific needs. You can also follow people and customers who are relevant to your role and responsibility. A simple way to post and keep track of tasks in what SAP calls the Shelf can improve both personal productivity and team selling. SAP has moved quickly to provide Sales OnDemand on the Apple iPad and iPhone and RIM BlackBerry. In addition to having all the normal functions found in desktop software, users can leverage location information from the iPad to map customers for analysis and activity review. Providing a full set of capabilities on smartphones and tablets is part of SAP’s overall strategy to expand further into mobile applications. This level of mobile support and usability is a competitive edge for SAP compared to its current SAP CRM and others in the SFA market. Can SAP Sales OnDemand fend off cloud- and rental-based competitors I have assessed, particularly salesforce.com, Oracle CRM OnDemand[JB1] and Oracle’s new Fusion for Sales? It depends on the competency and maturity of the sales organization. The application is designed for sales reps but does not have as robust workflow and lead-development features as salesforce for example. It lacks Oracle Fusion’s focus on managers’ needs, with forecasts, territories, compensation plans and quotas. In addition, suppliers such as Merced, Varicent, Synygy and Xactly Systems have been expanding from the focus on management and operations of sales to help directly with sales managers and reps. SAP should look beyond just the sales rep to the sales manager, sales operations and to the management and executive team to determine how to help the entire sales organization. Look at the peripheral tasks that sales people spend so much time in using spreadsheets, presentations and email to address to further address sales needs. I will spend more time looking at Sales OnDemand as part of this year’s vendor and product RFP assessment of sales applications for the entire sales organization, including operations, management, managers and reps. This sales application suite was not released in time for our 2011 Sales Performance Management Value Index at the end of 2010, where our evaluation rated SAP CRM a Warm vendor (the best is Hot) as it needed to improve usability and manageability and was lacking other capabilities but was very good at adaptability. At the SAPPHIRE NOW conference I got to hear from a couple of Sales OnDemand customers, Phillips and PGi, though only IT representatives were present who spoke about how they are moving to SAP Sales OnDemand from spreadsheets, existing SAP CRM and a variety of salesforce and NetSuite applications. Both users said the software is simple to configure and set up and are working through integration with non-SAP systems; it does not appear that SAP has spent enough time on cloud-to-cloud or cloud-to-enterprise application and data integration that will be needed to scale its customer adoption but neither has the other SFA providers. The scope of a migration to a new system should not be underestimated, and could be improved with more dedicated tools to automate the migration process and continuous synchronization tasks. The existing SAP CRM is a heavy-duty system deployed on-premises (though it is evolving from my analysis). But many organizations lack IT resources and time for a traditional purchase, install, customize and deploy cycle like needed for SAP CRM. The new SAP Sales OnDemand does not address all the needs of managers and sales operations teams, but SAP is committed to advancing its presence in sales and the cloud computing and on-demand area. This new offering does address the top two SPM impediments we found in our sales performance management benchmark: unifying scattered information and inconsistent execution. Now SAP must get its first hundred customers and sales organizations using it and persuade the market that it can grow the applications for everyone in sales. If you want to see it for yourself, SAP has a free trial for you to explore. 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": "Mercer Promotes Possibility of the New Empowered Workforce", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/mercer-promotes-possibility-of-the-new-empowered-workforce", "datePublished": "21/05/2011", "dateModified": "21/05/2011", "articleBody": "Less than a week after attending ADP’s industry analyst day, I flew to Washington, D.C., to attend Mercer’s analyst forum, which gave me a chance to compare another human resources juggernaut. While ADP is known primarily for payroll and business process outsourcing, Mercer is known for HR consulting and benefits outsourcing. Mercer is not as big as ADP, with $3.5 billion in annual revenue and over 27,000 customers, most of which are large multinational and midmarket companies, servicing over 4.2 million employees. But it is just as influential because of the global benchmark research and market data it provides to clients. The day included an overview of the Mercer business, including global outsourcing and consulting on retirement, health and benefits, talent and rewards, and institutional investments; I talked with a few of the company’s health and benefits outsourcing and consulting customers who validated the quality of work. Mercer also is helping companies navigate the coming healthcare reform (from an HR point of view, the 2014 changeover is right around the corner), and it does extensive research on the current state of human capital management and workforce planning in organizations around the world. But what I found most interesting was Mercer’s product development work as it relates to workforce planning – the goal is to enable organizations to ensure access to talent for future business needs, and that includes all potential talent sources internal and external (full-time and part-time, temp, contingent, virtual, partnerships and others). Compared to ADP’s clearly defined HCM products, mobile solutions and workforce analytics, Mercer’s foray into similar development territory is not as far along. Although promising, its product portfolio at this point seems more convoluted and less integrated. I did not have an opportunity to look at Mercer’s Human Capital Connect, a partnership with Peopleclick Authoria. Human Capital Connect combines Mercer’s content and consulting practices with the technology offerings of Peopleclick Authoria. Mercer’s Information Product Solutions (IPS) provides compensation and benefits benchmarking data, software and tools to help manage HR processes such as compensation analysis and workforce planning, and it supports services for transactional HR activities such as data manipulation and market pricing. IPS has conducted more than 700 benchmarking surveys in more than 100 places worldwide, focusing on global mobility, metrics and analytics. Mercer ORC Worldwide is the global mobility product, and it offers tools for a world where workforce mobility has become one of primary keys to growth and success. For example, the Global HRMonitor is a Web-based application that supports users in managing expatriate employee compensation worldwide. ExpatMonitor is a complementary expatriate compensation calculation management tool. And MercerPassport is a Web-based tool that helps expats and their families prepare for, navigate and settle in their new home country. It’s also used by business travelers and short-term assignees. Ultimately the product that attracted most of my attention, due to the workforce analytics benchmark research we’ve done recently and use for educating HR and business, was Mercer WIN, which provides organizational benchmarked data, workforce analytics and planning. Company executives pitched it as a one-stop shop for HR professionals to access all data, intellectual capital and decision support tools offered by IPS (both Mercer’s and other market intelligence sources). It contains data compiled from over 20 million employees in more than 8,000 organizations and includes input from HR professionals and consultants around the globe. Unfortunately we didn’t get a hands-on demonstration because of technical difficulties and had to settle for a series of screen shots highlighting the user experience; how information is displayed; how users can evaluate market competitiveness; and how users can personalize their analysis through custom markets and peer groups. The benchmark data can help companies compare themselves to equivalent organizations, providing details on mobility, compensation and benefits as well as HC metrics that are available by geography, sector, size of company and other views. Currently only companies participating in the benchmark research project get access to WIN; Mercer plans to offer access to nonparticipating companies eventually but at triple the cost. This kind of global benchmark data is critical for companies in today’s competitive business environments. But in order for WIN and similar externally data-driven tools and resources to be of value for workplace planning, immediate and long-term, organizations must be able to aggregate and analyze their own internal data and metrics across all lines of business to understand what talent they need where, when and why. As I’ve said before, the increased complexity of HR administration for a worldwide contingent and virtual workforce requires organizations to take account of the diversity of each country’s workplace cultures and regulatory ideologies. They need analytics software that is easy to deploy and use to help them manage workforce data effectively and to develop insights into their talent management and enterprise workforce planning. Mercer provides the external comprehensive HR benchmarking data, but providing internal workforce analytics and planning is still a ways out and according to its own roadmap won’t be ready until 2013 at the earliest. Getting WIN right will be a necessity for Mercer to succeed in providing clients the macro and micro lenses they’ll need to align future talent with business strategy. One of the Mercer execs kept challenging us all through the day to do more research and analysis on workforce planning since the company and its customers are spending more time and money on just that. Well, next on my HCM research agenda is workforce planning, which is part of what I call next-generation workforce management. I’ll explain what that means in a future post. Regards, Kevin W. Grossman – 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": "SAP Advances Enterprise Performance Management in Version 10", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/sap-advances-enterprise-performance-management-in-version-10", "datePublished": "21/05/2011", "dateModified": "21/05/2011", "articleBody": "SAP announced the release of version 10 of its SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions suite, an enhanced and updated set of applications and capabilities for executives and managers. In our Value Index assessment of financial performance management suites and my analysis of it last year, Ventana Research gave SAP’s offering the highest score, and this new release builds on that solid foundation that I already assessed in my blog. It has been several years since SAP began acquiring and assembling its performance management and analytical software assets, and the company has progressed to the point where discussing the integration efforts is becoming irrelevant. This release revamps the user interface of the different components to provide a more consistent look and feel – a crucial factor in facilitating training and improving user productivity. Outside of the suite itself, the current release is designed to integrate better with ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, risk management and BI. In facts it establishes a foundation for finance analytics that I have researched and is essential for doing what I call and have written about in putting the “A” back in FP&A. EPM incorporates a range of financial and performance management functionality, including strategy management, planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP), financial information management, profitability and cost management, spend management and supply chain performance management, as well as finance department process management software for financial consolidation, intercompany reconciliations and disclosure management. These components now have a more consistent user interface and all have been given some enhancements to their functionality especially in the path to supporting the need for I call integrated business planning that SAP has indicated is strategic to its future and use of its in-memory computing technology called HANA. SAP also has improved integration of EPM with mobile devices like Apple iPad, which allows executives and managers who spend a large portion of their time away from their desks to have access to the information they need in a timely and contextual fashion, and lets them interact with the data to gain deeper understanding of underlying causes and potential outcomes. (My colleague Mark Smith covered mobile business intelligence in this blog.) Release 10.0 includes the Disclosure Management application, which enables companies to automate the process of preparing external financial reports and regulatory disclosures. This capability will aid the increasing number of public companies in the U.S. that need to file their financial statements with a more complete set of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) tags that I already assessed on the importance of automating. Companies can save considerable time using the software by systematizing their data collection, using workflows for managing the assembly of the text that goes into these filings, applying tags to text and data (if necessary) and automating the assembly of text and numbers in the exact format required. Automating this process gives executives more time to review filings and lessens the risk of reporting errors by changing mainly manual processes into a more systematized one. Performing this work in-house rather than outsourcing it gives companies greater control over the process and likely will save them a considerable amount of time following a relatively short learning curve. I provided some insight on this advancement when SAP acquired software assets for this new offering that has now come to market. The current release builds enhanced enterprise risk management procedures into the overall performance management process. Outside of financial services, few companies explicitly quantify risk in their planning and performance assessment processes. Too often, managers are evaluated solely on productivity measures and therefore can be given disincentives to weigh risk factors. These risks may be well understood by business unit and divisional managers but are almost never communicated to senior executives. As I noted in a previous blog, this gives rise to agency risk within a company. Although almost every company is mindful of achieving its profitability objectives, many fall short in coordinating the actions of their various silos and operating units to optimize the trade-offs they must make, especially as events unfold after the annual planning process. Profitability management enables senior executives to analyze and assess alternatives and optimize these trade-offs. EPM 10 continues the necessary evolution of the financial performance management suite. It’s not necessary for finance organizations to manage performance and core finance operations using software from a single vendor (and most don’t). However, suites give companies the option of doing so, which can be a less costly way of buying and maintaining this functionality. Finance organizations looking at a consistent user experience and technology for GRC will find SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10 is empowered by SAP EPM 10 capabilities. Today, technology is pushing a fundamental shift in how companies use financial performance management software. The increasing availability of in-memory computing (HANA in SAP’s case, which my colleague David Menninger discussed in his blog), cloud computing and mobile devices enables a fundamental shift from today’s once-a-month, accounting-based rear-view-mirror approach to assessing performance via an anywhere, anytime interactive view that blends financial and operating results and provides a richer, more accurate measure of results. In fact my colleague at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 user conference has already seen how SAP was demonstrating a new dynamic cash flow management on SAP HANA to help advance the efficiency of accounting and financial operations. I recommend that organizations considering any component of a financial performance management suite should include SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10 in their list of products to investigate. This application suite can clearly help finance and is a better path than doing what I call the ERP forklift migration Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Workforce Planning Is Part of the Next Generation of Human Capital Management", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/workforce-planning-is-part-of-the-next-generation-of-human-capital-management", "datePublished": "20/05/2011", "dateModified": "20/05/2011", "articleBody": "Workforce planning is a business process that done right ensures an organization of suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. At a Mercer analyst summit I attended recently, which I wrote about in “Mercer Promotes Possibility of the New Empowered Workforce,” one of the sponsor execs kept challenging the HR industry analyst community to do more research on workforce planning, since her company and its customers are spending more time and money on just that. Workforce planning has been an HR trend for more than a decade. The most comprehensive and compelling definition of it I’ve come across is by Dr. John Sullivan, a thought leader in the field: Workforce planning is an integrated and forward-looking process that is designed to predict (what, when, how much) will likely happen in talent management and then to provide action plans that will cause managers to act in the prescribed way. As a result of the planning process, managers will be able to avoid or mitigate people problems, take advantage of talent opportunities and to improve the “talent pipeline,” so that your organization will have the needed “people capabilities” required to meet your business goals and to build a competitive advantage over other firms. Companies big and small must ensure they have past, present and future “crystal ball” views of their entire workforce, as well as access to all potential talent sources internal and external for future business needs. As Sullivan writes, an organization’s “people capabilities” must align with its business goals if the organization is to gain competitive advantage. To date there have been a handful of documented workforce planning success stories with 3M, UBS, IBM, Toyota, Google and others documented on www.workforce.com, but for the most part workforce planning remains an elusive HR management best practice. That’s because before you can practice workforce planning, you must have sound workforce metrics and analytics, and that’s not an easy task for many organizations. Our workforce analytics benchmark research found that organizations are only slowly gaining the ability to apply analytics to the workforce and in the human resources arena. The Ventana Research Maturity Model™ is a research-based evaluation of the maturity of organizations in a given market or with respect to a business or IT process. In the case of workforce analytics, our research shows that only 12 percent of companies are truly innovative in how they aggregate, track and manage analytics to improve their workforce and business performance – despite the fact that for 77 percent of executives and managers who participated in our research, the performance of the workforce is the most important metric. Our research also shows that companies tend to rely on traditional cost- and budget-related metrics and use spreadsheets heavily (universally or regularly for 96%). I prefer to think of workforce planning as part of the next generation of human capital management. It must encompass the entire enterprise workforce of today – full-time and part-time employees, salaried and hourly employees, contractors, consultants, strategic partner labor and outsourced labor. It requires benchmarked data from companies around the world on workforce best practices. And lastly, the sheer complexity of HR administration for a worldwide, in-country and virtual workforce requires organizations to account for the diversity of each country’s workplace cultures, time and attendance processes, payroll and benefits, compliance and regulatory ideologies. All of this needs help from technology tools. In addition to historical and predictive workforce analytics, next-generation workforce planning must take into account technologies that change the way we acquire, develop and retain our talent, four of them in particular. A critical one is true business collaboration – the bringing together of people and technology to increase productivity and performance for competitive advantage. There’s social media, which encompasses not only external networking but also internal social networking and social learning that inspire collaboration and knowledge sharing, training that sticks, talent mentoring, and employee satisfaction and engagement. As well, mobile computing gives employees and managers extended real-time communication and collaboration via smartphones, tablet computers and netbooks. And then there’s the impact of more companies moving to software as a service (SaaS) and cloud deployments of their workforce software. Optimal next-generation workforce planning products must take into account all of these factors while at the same time considering past, present and predictive workforce analytics, global benchmarking data and the HR complexity of global compliance and multiple employee types. How might this benefit an organization? Consider the following scenario: One of Company X’s primary HR initiatives are to get more women into leadership development programs worldwide. HR doesn’t realize that while more woman are moving internally, more men are getting promoted, particularly in countries A, B and C, that the attrition rate among the women is much higher than for the men, and that it’s off the charts when compared to other organizations’ benchmarked data globally. With workforce planning solution in place, HR would be able to spot these kinds of negative talent trends and implement corrective measures before the bleeding gets too bad. Such a solution could compare several factors: internal talent mobility across global divisions, the number of promotions within each of those divisions and the attrition rates, broken down by position, gender, ethnicity and time with the company (as well as a myriad of other data points, all from a single data mart). It could also spot positive, high-growth talent trends that would validate HR’s acquisition, development and retention programs. We’ll embark on research soon will reveal how organizations are conducting workforce planning and the systems they’re using to do so. We will also evaluate vendors that provide workforce planning solutions in the human capital management marketplace. Some talent management vendors currently integrate workforce analytics and workforce planning functionality within their suites, but many stand-alone vendors still supply quality analytics and planning capabilities. Our research indicates that human capital management buyers prefer a single-vendor solution, but currently they cobble together internal HR systems and spreadsheets inside whatever HCM product they’re using. Operational effectiveness and high-growth business performance are still the ultimate end games for global companies searching for integrated next-generation human capital management solutions. We aim to illuminate their search. Regards, Kevin W. Grossman – 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 New Mobile SAP Evolves Stronger from Sybase Investment", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/21/the-new-mobile-sap-evolves-stronger-from-sybase-investment", "datePublished": "20/05/2011", "dateModified": "20/05/2011", "articleBody": "At the SAPPHIRE NOW annual conference, (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) the advantage of the mobile technology SAP gained through its acquisition of Sybase is becoming evident. In a blog before the conference I touched on the importance of mobility to the company’s future. From walking around, assessing keynotes and sessions and talking to companies using SAP, it seems that the big bet that SAP made on mobility is paying off. One year ago at this annual conference SAP announced that it would enlist the people and technology of Sybase in executing its larger application strategy. Collaboration with the Sybase additions in areas from analytics and databases to mobility is now proving integral to SAP’s efforts. The company insists that mobile devices are the new desktop for the enterprise, and the rapid adoption curve is justifying that statement. The acquisition of Sybase allows SAP to add sophistication to its infrastructure and enhance tool and application development for mobile platforms. Sybase has a heritage of mobilizing information for access and commerce, which makes for a sound partnership to advance SAP’s business applications. Sybase has been positioning itself as platform-neutral in providing support for the range of mobile technology stacks from Apple, Google and Android, RIM and HP and Microsoft. As well it has been the major and in many cases sole provider of the underlying routing software of SMS and data across wireless networks. SAP itself made its initial bets on Apple, with the iPad as the primary platform for its applications, and RIM, for smartphones for internal employees – though the success of Android appears to have SAP and Sybase busy examining growing its support and diversity of mobile technologies. Our benchmark research into current mobile technologies and demand shows a base of legacy Microsoft and RIM customers, but many organizations are reevaluating their mobile technologies. SAP still has not employed the Sybase technology to secure iPhones for use internally, but that could happen. SAP did support its long-time partner RIM by demonstrating its applications on the new RIM Playbook. Though the Playbook addresses Apple’s lack of Adobe Flash support and multitasking and tethering limitation, it is still working through some challenges. I asked SAP and Sybase executives about the absence of HP and Microsoft mobile technologies at the conference. Their obviously rehearsed response emphasized the rapid adoption of Apple in business, the continuing use of RIM within specific industries and SAP’s plans for supporting the Android ecosystem. My checks among the large and midsize application and tool software companies finds the same indifference to HP and Microsoft, due to their lack of penetration into business and challenges associated with their shifting technology stack. Microsoft, which has begun to stabilize Windows Mobile after some turbulent years in technology transition, is now busy with its strategic partnership with Nokia. While that effort is rumored to be leading to an acquisition, it is clearly a distraction from the focus on the business and enterprise ecosystem that Microsoft must apply to recover the market share it has lost in that area. In new software news, SAP introduced a collection of mobile applications that supports field service workers with alerts, orders, visit mapping and post-visit debriefing. For the retail industry the company provides support for field sales activities from visits, surveys and account management to product and category reviews. The plant and maintenance operations team can have mobile access to work orders, location, inventory and partner and customer information. While SAP was demonstrating these industry-specific applications, it was also talking about mobile applications for employee self-service for leave requests and time capture and for managers or HR staff doing employee lookups and approvals. Mobile capabilities for procurement activities are also in the works, along with manager and employee operations in travel and expenses, and field sales functions for accessing SAP CRM for product availability, notification, order status and customer lookup. All things said, Apple remains the platform SAP has progressed farthest with. SAP has been steadily providing iPhone access to its applications, such as SAP Business ByDesign. It has extended its cloud-based platform to support SAP Sales OnDemand on the iPhone and iPad. In the Apple application store you can also find SAP Commissions Check, a simple way to help sales folks check their progress towards quota and commission, along with collaborative technology called SAP StreamWork. The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile tool works with RIM BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. For native support for SAP Business Intelligence for Apple iPhone or iPad you can use the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and work with SAP on configuring it. SAP also announced version 2.0 of its Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP), which is a Java-based application development platform for building mobile applications that can be deployed to diverse mobile platforms. The software hooks to SAP connectors and single-sign-on services and supports encrypted HTML5 Web storage and transport. This version adds a hybrid Web container that programmers develop to and utilizes HTML5, JavaScript and CSS, and it has hooks to native mobile operating system specifics in its SDK and user interface framework. The SDK and native support for Apple iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile will be released first, with Android support coming later. Mobile applications will introduce new challenges with application and information lifecycle management within SUP. Sybase executives did not reveal much substance on how they are going to support mobility from within SUP, but support for mobile platforms will become more important as the volume of development increases. Version 2.1 of SUP is due later this summer and will be critical for deeper integration between SUP and the SAP NetWeaver platform, and for the development of mobile applications across analytics and BI, as well as the broader portfolio of industry and lines of business. Sybase and SAP are betting they can simplify mobile application development with a common platform while leveraging the native experience of the mobile technology provider. This development strategy is good for simplifying product development and for IT, but it’s not clear yet how it will come to fruition. Organizations that want to develop mobile applications will have to use SUP as the preferred platform and will need trained IT resources who understand Java SDK development. Beyond traditional application development is the need to provide line-of-business and industry-specific applications that offer a range of information from content and data to prebuilt analytics. The current approach with SUP is very technically focused and not focused on empowering business to assemble and publish information into applications for mobile devices. For SAP the current effort seems to be on providing tools that partners can use to develop mobile applications. This means that potential SAP customers may need to look elsewhere for assembling information or deploying analytic applications. Many organizations have been looking at alternatives from MicroStrategy, which has released a mobile platform that my colleague David Menninger covered, and provides a BI application assembly environment. Another alternative is the new MeLLmo Roambi Flow technology I just assessed, which can assemble and publish information or analytics in a digital magazine or newspaper format. Overall, the outlook for the combined company is optimistic. Under SAP, Sybase gains significant industry and business expertise in applications, which was one of its largest challenges. SAP has committed significant resources to work with Sybase to address this new market demand. Sybase is also helping bring commerce to bear in mobile applications with its Sybase365 offering, which adds secure and scalable mobile commerce services into the realm of mobile application development. Mobile interfacing to SAP applications was everywhere at the conference, with dozens of customers and partners demonstrating mobile applications. Mobility is a smart place for SAP to invest and a way to differentiate its application portfolio from those of competitors such as Oracle and Infor. SAP was clearly looking for assistance from its partner ecosystem to further its mobile strategy and help organizations adapt to a potentially complex environment of mobile technologies. Dozens of partners were at SAPPHIRE NOW. In one major move SAP announced a partnership with Accenture to further its global presence with consultants and support of enterprise deployments. We at Ventana Research are already working on benchmark research on the competency of organizations to advance into mobile business and meet the challenges of transitioning people and processes to change how they work. SAP has made a significant commitment to mobility and is ahead of most of its peers as it brings to market a new portfolio of mobile-based applications. Now it will need to ensure it does not make mobile application development too complicated for developers or too complex to leverage the native experience of the mobile technologies. If the applications are too generic in their experience or take too long to develop they could fail to appeal to individuals and the workforce who are adopting Apple and Android-based smart phones and tablets. SAP has made significant progress over the last year, and I expect the company to make even more progress over the next year. 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": "SAP’s New Management and Products Faces the Future at SAPPHIRE NOW", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/saps-new-management-and-products-faces-the-future-at-sapphire", "datePublished": "13/05/2011", "dateModified": "13/05/2011", "articleBody": "It is no easy task to change the culture of a global technology company, especially one that has a very demanding customer base with high expectations for advancing its widespread product lines. This is the challenge that SAP faces as it transitions from a company of three-letter-acronym collections of applications including CRM, SCM and ERP to one that focuses on specific business processes and needs. (My colleague recently discussed the problems in forklift migrations of ERP.) This transition is necessitated by the shift of purchasing power and influence for applications back to business after over a decade of IT control. This alone might not seem like a drastic change, but reframing its entire dialogue and sales approach is not simple for a company the size of SAP. It must continue to grow through new applications and substantive upgrades of existing ones and cannot rely just on maintenance fees from the installed base. Over the last several months we’ve kept an eye on SAP as it builds up of its annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference, investigating changes in products and management. I’d like to share some of our firm’s analysis with those of you who have invested with or are looking to invest in SAP. SAP decided in 2010 it had to make fast changes to the business in this current global economic environment. It began with the appointment of Bill McDermott and Jim Hagermann Snabe (Bill and Jim for short) as co-CEOs, which I covered at the time. Since then there have been other significant management changes under the covers of SAP designed to further drive change in the culture and operating behavior. This January saw an array of new assignments and promotions including Sanjay Poonen as president of the global go to market with focus on lines of business, industries, the portfolio of business analytic solutions and technology, Eric Duffaut as president of global ecosystem and channels, Jose Duarte as president of global services, Franck Cohen as president of SAP EMEA and Robert Courteau as president of SAP North America. In addition, as global CIO of SAP Oliver Bussmann is charged with making SAP itself one of those “best-run businesses that run SAP,” a long-overdue agenda item. As everyone knows, previous leader Leo Apotheker is now CEO of HP, and he is bringing SAP employees to HP, apparently with little objection from SAP. In particular Apotheker hired SAP’s chief marketing officer Marty Homlish as the new CMO of HP. This opening leaves room for SAP to change and innovate in under marketing EVP Jonathan Becher, who might be in line for the CMO role. Marty rarely communicated directly to the market, Jonathan brings a completely opposite, more open approach to marketing that is getting many to notice. More interesting is the jockeying of HP to position itself as directly competing with SAP in enterprise software from analytics, mobility and appliances; its competency is yet to be proven, as even my sources inside HP are skeptical. But my sources inside of SAP seem not to be worried about this threat and are focused on the transition away from past leadership and lower-level managers who have left the organization to adapt to the new marching orders. SAP is also moving to change its style of communications with the assignment of Hubertus Kuelps as head executive. He already is shaking things up. This comes after the departure of Bill Wohl as head of public relations and more recently with Don Bulmer as head of industry analyst and influencer programs. This is not a surprise as many of us from the outside have seen politics and ineffective processes hinder SAP over the last decade. The large number of individuals in this organization who do not embrace social media and communicate efficiently across LinkedIn, Twitter and other channels is a glaring example of its old-school approach. There is no doubt that this is the new reality of communications and marketing; by 2013 over half of the U.S. workforce will have been born after 1977, and they expect to consume information much more differently than we did in the past. For my views on this, read “Social Media Ignorance in the IT Analyst Industry.” As I have noted recently SAP is also invigorating its technology strategy and taking steps to continue its innovation and engineering leadership under global CTO Vishal Sikka. Changing the technology stack and innovating is hard work, as my colleague points out and having a great team can make the difference. SAP has promoted a range of new technology leaders in the past year, including the new EVP T.K. (“Ranga”) Rengarajan and SVP Sethu Meenakshisundaram to lead the new scope of business analytic products and technologies. In addition SVP Guido Schroeder within SAP Labs is leading a new generation of solutions that are cloud-based and engage analytics and collaboration. Group VP and chief architect Adam Thier is leading the architecture of its large-scale HANA technologies; he has led financial and business application product development at Hyperion and Lawson. Dr. Raj Nathan from Sybase is leading the drive for a new portfolio of mobile applications that clearly will be important to the future of SAP. The focus on business analytics by SAP has been changing also, and the new leadership is taking it very seriously. As well as Sanjay Poonen, he has a new leader reporting to him with Steve Lucas as global GM, and also John Schweitzer as SVP in SAP North America, and global group VP of marketing Stephanie Buscemi and Jeff Stiles as SVP Solution Marketing. SAP has felt pressure from the global competition of IBM and has armed itself with people and products to respond and advance its competitive agenda. This has become a two-team global race, leaving Microsoft and Oracle on the sidelines with smaller investment in leadership and products for this growing segment. Our recent benchmark research on business analytics studying almost 3,000 organizations found a significant demand and necessity of investment into them. SAP is also retrofitting and advancing its underlying BI and information management to ensure that its applications can be implemented in a timely and business-focused manner. This was seen recently with my colleague David Menninger’s analysis of version 4 of SAP EIM and SAP Business Intelligence. These are also foundations for new products that my colleague Robert Kugel has assessed in SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10 and SAP EPM which we recently reviewed in our Value Index for Financial Performance Management. These are all part of Bill and Jim’s agenda to drive change. To do that they are setting the tone and engaging new leaders from within and from the outside who can help rally the spirit of their large organization. This is requires passion as well as experience, and SAP has to see that its future lies in the new world of cloud computing, analytics, mobility, collaboration and social media, which is what I outlined as the future of business technology revolution in computing. The Sapphire conference is next week, and I expect to see a more focused presentation than last year on the introduction of new technology and applications. The foundation of many new applications will be HANA, an in-memory technology that is enabling a new range of applications that were previously could not operate in a single instance globally. In addition SAP will deepen its presentation of mobile applications for helping business operate and also engage customers and the broader world of consumers. I also expect to see more in what SAP is doing in the area of contact center and communications technology that my colleague Richard Snow did some preliminary analysis on. I’ll look for a refined focus on sales, where SAP has to improve to compete in the business category of sales performance management that I recently assessed and the direct needs of sales. These areas have much greater potential than investing in the past with CRM, which I discovered is still a SAP priority I also was shown some of the new advances being made in human capital and talent management, a market that SAP has been slow to address but seems to taking more seriously; my colleague Kevin Grossman believes will this be the next boom in focus on the people and not just the processes of an organization. The next round business analytics for the lines of business and vertical industries will be another major part of the event. There’s a rumor that the day-one keynote will provide a forecast of how businesses will operate in 2015; day two will have a dialogue with Bill and Jim on the customer’s view of SAP and its future; technology gets the spotlight on day three with global CTO Vishal Sikka and founder Hasso Plattner. The keynotes will provide an opportunity for these leaders to lay out their view of the new world of technology, picking up from last year and perhaps showing a sharpened competitive edge and spirit. I am packing up for the week to head to SAP’s annual conference, and if you want to find me, look me up on Twitter (@marksmithvr), drop me a message and we can meet up. It will be an interesting venue to see how this global technology and applications supplier is changing to meet the future. 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": "EMC Enters Elephant Race with Hadoop", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/13/emc-enters-elephant-race-with-hadoop", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Earlier this week EMC announced it will create its own distribution for Apache Hadoop. Hadoop provides distributed computing capabilities that enable organizations to process very large amounts of data quickly. As I have written previously, the Hadoop market continues to grow and evolve. In fact, the rate of change may be accelerating. Let’s start with what EMC announced and then I’ll address what the announcement means for the market. EMC announced three new offerings, slated for the third quarter of 2011, that leverage its acquisition of Greenplum last year, ranging from an open source version to incorporation in its data warehouse appliance. The EMC Greenplum HD Community Edition is a free, open source version of the Apache Hadoop stack comprising HDFS, MapReduce, Zookeeper, Hive and HBase. EMC extends Hadoop with fault tolerance for the Name Node and Job Tracker, both of which are well-known points of failure in standard Hadoop implementations. The EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, interface-compatible with the Apache Hadoop stack, provides several additional features including snapshots, wide-area replication, a Network File System (NFS) interface and some management tools. EMC also claims performance increases of two to five times the performance over standard packaged versions of Apache Hadoop. The EMC Greenplum HD Data Computing Appliance integrates Apache Hadoop with the Greenplum database and computing hardware. The appliance configuration provides SQL access and analytics to Hadoop data residing on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as external tables, eliminating the need to materialize the data in the Greenplum database. Until now Cloudera has dominated the emerging commercial Hadoop market and faced little or no competition since it introduced the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH). The EMC announcements are both good and bad news for Cloudera. On the one hand they suggest – you might even say validate – that Cloudera has chosen a valuable market. EMC seems to be willing to invest heavily to try to get a share of it. On the other hand, Cloudera now faces a competitor that has significant resources. For customers competition is generally a good thing, of course, as it pushes vendors to innovate and improve their products to win more business. EMC’s approach to the market differs dramatically from IBM’s strategy. IBM announced on Twitter at its Big Data Symposium held this week that it is putting all its weight behind Apache Hadoop in the hope of avoiding the fragmentation that plagued the UNIX market for years. EMC’s Enterprise Edition promises to tackle issues well known to the Hadoop market, but EMC faces competition from others who are also tackling these issues. If lower-cost or free competitive offerings adequately address these issues it could seriously undercut the market for EMC’s Enterprise Edition. While EMC brings more enterprise credentials to the Hadoop market than Cloudera, it has less experience with Hadoop. Multiple vendors are attempting to bring enterprise class capabilities to Hadoop, and it’s too soon to see who will succeed. However, overall, the Hadoop market will benefit from all the attention and investment. I find it interesting and a little ironic that prior to its acquisition by EMC, Greenplum (along with Aster Data, now part of Teradata) helped popularize MapReduce, one of Hadoop’s most commonly used components, by embedding MapReduce as part of its databases. These proprietary implementations could be credited with helping to bring Hadoop into the mainstream big-data market because they combined data warehousing with MapReduce. It spawned a debate in which database guru Mike Stonebraker at first dismissed MapReduce and then embraced it. The debate attracted attention, a key ingredient in building any new market. Now EMC Greenplum completes the circle by embracing Hadoop. To its credit, EMC aligned a dozen partners around these announcements, creating an ecosystem of third-party products and services. Concurrent, CSC, Datameer, Informatica, Jaspersoft, Karmasphere, MicroStrategy, Pentaho, SAS, SnapLogic, Talend and VMware all announced their support for the EMC products in one form or another. Most of these companies also partner with Cloudera, so this is a good move but not a coup for EMC. The Hadoop market continues to evolve. We are now analyzing the data collected in our benchmark research on the state of the large-scale or now called the big data market, including Hadoop. Stay tuned for the results. It will be interesting to see where the market ends up. I expect more changes and innovation driven in part by the increased competition. The Hadoop market is no longer a one-elephant race. Regards, David Menninger – 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": "ADP Plots Course for Workforce Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-plots-course-for-workforce-analytics", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "One thing became crystal clear while I was at ADP’s industry analyst day last week: The world is more connected than ever before, and this contributes to making the world more complex than ever before. For human capital management this means it is easier for organizations to communicate and collaborate but more difficult to manage the increasingly massive amounts of workforce data in core HR systems, multiple databases from other lines of business and a myriad of divisional and interdepartmental spreadsheets. Many companies can’t even pull together an accurate employee headcount, much less understand the internal movement of employees, including which have been promoted, are flight risks or are retiring, as well as the impacts on gender, ethnicity, age group, knowledge sets and skills gaps. All of this information is important when planning talent acquisition, talent management and workforce planning strategy that is part of my 2011 research agenda. For example, consider the increased complexity of global payroll and benefits administration for a larger, worldwide contingent and virtual workforce, which must take account of the diversity of each country’s workplace cultures and regulatory ideologies – and the U.S. is at the top of that list. An ADP exec joked that of the five countries with the most complex workforce compliance regulations, the U.S. is the top three (with Japan and France crowding in noisily behind). Amid this complexity, global organizations need analytics software that is easy to deploy and to use to help them manage workforce data effectively and to develop insights into their talent management and workforce planning across all lines of business. This kind of product has not been a strength of ADP to this point. ADP plans to release its integrated, cloud-based ADP Vantage HCM suite this fall (it’s now in pilot) and is upgrading the fairly new Workforce Now system for small and midsize companies and better integrating Virtual Edge (for recruiting), Workscape (benefits) and GlobalView (payroll) with both Vantage and Workforce Now, its core HCM products. Its customers demand greater manageability and accessibility of data and transparency into their global workforce. To provide these capabilities, ADP needs better metrics management and predictive and visual analytics capabilities. To be clear, when we refer to analytics we mean programs or algorithms that derive meaning from data. Metrics are measures of business performance, and performance indicators are specific metrics chosen to measure the performance of an organization or some component of it. According to our own benchmark research on workforce analytics, a variety of workforce metrics are important to organizations. From a financial perspective, adherence to budget and profitability are the top metrics in more than half of organizations, followed closely by return on investment. In process terms, more than three-fourths of participants said onboarding new hires and making them proficient is most important, and time-to-hire is most important in more than two-thirds of organizations. For 77 percent of executives and managers who participated in our analytics research, the performance of the workforce is the most important metric. All these aspects of talent management require analytics that can measure performance. But our benchmark research also found that almost half of organizations are not satisfied with their current process to create workforce analytics, and this view is even more prevalent among management (65%) and in very large organizations (62%). For vendors of both integrated HCM suites and stand-alone workforce BI analytics I’ve spoken to of late, providing predictive, visual insight into the state of the workforce as it relates to business growth (and lack thereof) is a work-in-progress at best. ADP is working hard on developing comprehensive workforce analytics and business intelligence (BI) capabilities that address what organizations want to see today. A release is planned for 2012 and beyond. As well as expanded BI, it will include a global system of record in which companies will be able to maintain all employee records across payroll, compensation, benefits, core HR, time and attendance, talent acquisition, talent management, performance management, career management and development, in a single data warehouse. (Similar efforts are afoot with other vendors.) It will facilitate greater metrics, data visualization and predictive analytics capabilities as well as standard and ad-hoc reporting. Overall our analytics research found that the larger the organization, the more important the data warehouse is, which indirectly validates ADP’s global system of record development. Other exciting functionality in the works includes being able to benchmark workforce analytics against other areas of the organization as well as other companies. ADP’s mobile strategy includes giving executive management and analysts on-the-go access to comprehensive workforce analytics. Workforce analytics offer capabilities more helpful than reports from a human resources management system (HRMS) or the dashboard of a stand-alone talent management application. They can help maximize an organization’s return on its labor investment and ensure that it retains talent as long as desired. As workforce metrics management and analysis matures and companies become more sophisticated in selecting the technology they’ll need to give them the insight they want to make timely talent management decisions, ADP and other HCM vendors will face intensified competition. It’ll be interesting to see who gets there first. And second, even third. To find out who’s “hot” in this space, look for our Workforce Analytics Value Index evaluating the current vendors in this space coming soon. Regards, Kevin W. Grossman – 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": "ADP Advances Workforce Mobility with Vantage HCM", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/adp-advances-workforce-mobility-with-vantage-hcm", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Going into ADP’s industry analyst day, I was curious about where a 61-year-old “payroll” company fits in today’s market for human capital management. It certainly has a presence, with over 550,000 customers across multiple lines of business – HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration – and nearly $9 billion in revenue with three consecutive quarters of growth coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Throughout the day ADP executives did an impressive job of highlighting their product development strategy, particularly when it came to revealing more about their highly anticipated, cloud-based ADP Vantage HCM suite now in pilot testing and to be officially launched this fall. They said that current payroll and benefits products and services customers at complex global enterprises kept asking for better platform integration that also included time and attendance, HR and talent management capabilities, which motivated them to develop Vantage. The previously released cloud-based Workforce Now for small to midsize companies was actually the starting point of this product development and is revving into version 3.0. Workforce Now has gained more than 10,000 clients in less than two years on the market, and ADP says that 70 of them each have more than 1,000 employees. That’s impressive in such a short time and an indication that ADP is paying attention to its HCM software buyers are looking for today. Even though ADP did have nearly $500 million in acquisitions during the past year, some of which won’t be integrated into Vantage any time soon, the new HCM software platform built on the success of Workforce Now, collapsing and consolidating the code base to integrate ADP’s existing payroll, benefits, HR and time and attendance platforms. As I Tweeted during the analyst day: “This ain’t your father’s payroll company.” But what caught and held my attention more than anything else during the day was ADP’s single mobile solution called ADP Mobile for Enterprise, which can be used to access Vantage and most other ADP products. (By the way, mobility is one of the five emerging business technologies my colleagues and I are focusing on this year – see my HCM agenda. The idea of a single mobile solution is to have one application configurable for various smartphones and tablet computers that gives employees and managers access to HR and payroll systems through widgets; this is an alternative to a single-sign-on app that only accesses one dashboard in the system and requires the user to navigate with extra steps. We’ve seen many HCM vendors of late release mobile apps for apps’ sake apparently without thinking through the whole complex of employee needs, management needs and organizational needs as well as form factors and the where, how, when and why of work today. The ADP product strategy and development execs told me that while they don’t crowd-source many of their 550,000 customers for evaluative product feedback and development, they do use customer advisory councils, focus groups and automated customer experience software. The idea to develop a single mobile solution came from talking with over 700 customers and prospects. We’re going to dig deeper into the state of HCM mobile software soon with our Next Generation Workforce Management and Mobile Business benchmark research efforts in 2011. In the meantime ADP presented some interesting findings from its recent survey of trends in workforce mobility that helped form its strategy in developing the mobile component for Vantage. Here are a few I thought noteworthy: Growth of smartphones is fueling expansion of enterprise software applications; they represent 50% of the workforce that utilizes mobile systems. Over 50% of employers see value in providing employees with HR mobile access. 40% say mobile HR is critical or important in their HR outsourcing decision. 50% to 80% plan to implement mobile services in the next 18 months. Businesses will spend over $1.4 trillion on investments in mobility, and enterprise applications are the fastest growing segment. Based on this data, ADP’s technology executives questioned further their customer and prospect pools, and the consensus was that the first thing their customers want is more employee self-service adoption. This is critical because to eliminate the employee/employer divide in organizations today, employees must feel comfortable with the technology and systems they are asked to use, which means allowing them intuitive access to their payroll, benefits and other core employee information, as well as company services and resources, and preferably with more than one way to access the data – a mobile option. Once they are empowered to do this, we can expect employees’ comfort and confidence levels to elevate and communication with management to improves, as they no longer feel they’re kept in the dark about things that matter to them. I got to play with the mobile application first-hand, and I found it very cool (and seemingly productive) – think a configurable iPhone app with configurable widgets for employees and managers; the focus is on the employee experience first, though. The app includes access to payroll, time and attendance, scheduling, workforce management, corporate directory, 401K valuation, benefits and other systems. According to ADP, the single mobile solution increases communication and collaboration, productivity, engagement and decision-making. There are two mobile releases planned, and the first has only a few configurable widgets that are functional while client testing goes on with others. Right now the single app is native to Apple products as well as mobile Web enabled for BlackBerry and Android devices. One last comment about all things mobile per my conversations with HR suppliers recently: Vendors may not be able to monetize mobile technology soon, but it will be table stakes and could make the difference in closing future deals. I say that because, as with the current “freemium” models of social networking software – which let you test-drive the software for free before you buy – companies won’t be willing to pay for a technology like mobile HR apps that don’t make a strong business case in user adoption, enhance workforce management and show a significant return in driving revenue via greater productivity. That said, I believe ADP’s single mobile solution is on the right track to eventual profit. In my next post I’ll review the workforce analytics development for ADP Vantage HCM. This is an exciting time to be an HR and talent management executive because the technology choices available are finally addressing the true needs of the global workforce and the way we manage it today. Regards, Kevin W. Grossman – 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": "Verint Bolsters Workforce Optimization", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/verint-bolsters-workforce-optimization", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Recently Verint Witness Actionable Solutions announced the latest release of its Impact 360 Workforce Optimization software, which it calls the first “fifth-generation” product in this space. Verint has a comprehensive suite of applications that help companies get the best out of their agent workforce; it includes call recording, quality monitoring, workforce management, learning and coaching, customer feedback and analytics. I recently covered one of Verint advancements in multichannel interactions. Recently it enhanced the suite by adding several new analytics applications. It is marketing some of the applications to support activities not just in the contact center but in some back-office business units as well. Some of the suite has been developed in-house, some added by way of acquisitions and some gained through partnerships. This somewhat mottled history held the suite back in our evaluation in the recent Agent Performance Management Value Index 2010, where it lost out to suites that have been developed from inception as fully integrated, and architected to a common standard. Verint’s new release addresses this fundamental issue. The company describes it as a “strategic architectural” release that strengthens integration between the applications, making them easier to use, and making it easier to navigate between applications. The suite now provides a single point of administration and as well as numerous functional enhancements to meet the needs of a modern-day contact center. As part of the release Verint also announced the availability of Voice of the Customer Analytics. This platform brings together a variety of data sources and types of analytics to provide a comprehensive view of customers and customer-facing activities – something my research into customer analytics shows has become vitally important to companies. The suite includes analytics for structured data, speech, text, the Web, social media and other interaction sources. It also includes predictive and sentiment analysis capabilities so that companies can begin to predict future customer behaviors based on historic analysis. Voice of the Customer Analytics is linked into the rest of the suite, delivering to executives, managers and agents information they can use to improve customer-facing activities and back-office processes. In my experience not all companies like to buy a suite of applications from a single vendor, preferring niche products to address specific needs. The key advantages to buying a suite come through tight integration, a common user interface and ease of administration – but of course the components must deliver the required functionality. I never really trust marketing slogans like “first fifth-generation,” but from what I see this release contains the best aspects of buying a suite and delivers enhanced capabilities. I therefore expect in my next APM Value Index that this new release from Verint will climb the list of recommended products. Are you working to improve the performance of your agents? If so, which path are you going down – suite or niche? I’d love to know, so please come and let me know. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Disaster, Risk Management and the Lean Supply Chain", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/disaster-risk-management-and-the-lean-supply-chain", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant trifecta that devastated Japan has had a negative impact also on companies that embraced the concept of managing a lean supply chain – one that minimizes inventories at each stage. If news accounts are to be believed, there seem to be legions regretting that decision as disruptions caused by the disasters have a ripple impact, hampering manufacturers’ ability to deliver goods worldwide. But although current events are a wake-up call highlighting the risks inherent in a lean supply chain approach, a worse danger is that some companies may overreact, especially those where blame for bad outcomes – not bad decisions – are the focal point of damaging reviews and assessments. Perhaps some background will help illuminate this point. Adoption of lean supply chains began in the late 1980s as companies started using increasingly powerful information technology to manage their inventories more effectively. Effectiveness, in this case, means handling the trade-offs that are part of decision-making in ways that are consistent with corporate strategy rather than having decisions shaped by the objectives of any organizational silo. Effectiveness here also means that the decisions explicitly include a disciplined process of identifying, assessing, managing, mitigating and monitoring the associated risks. For the past month or so I’ve been trying to sort out whether the lean supply chain has proven to be a bad bet or today’s re-examination of leanness is simply a case of people questioning a fundamentally good decision that – at least at the moment – has turned out wrong. It seems to me that the issue isn’t really lean vs. fat but the degree of leanness for specific parts or supplies that provides the optimal trade-off between the costs of holding inventory and the risk of not being able to fulfill orders. That optimal point depends on a company’s specific circumstances, including its risk tolerance. The only rational way to answer how lean or fat a company’s supply chain should be is to apply a combination of objective supply chain risk analytics to what ultimately will be a subjective corporate soul-searching undertaken to determine the proper balance between the company’s appetite for risk and its efficiency. In other words, we recommend applying performance management concepts to optimize an organization’s supply chain profile. Supply chain performance management means having key performance indicators (KPIs) and key risk indicators (KRIs) that are aligned with each other and with the company’s strategy and objectives so that decision-makers can assess trade-offs intelligently. These indicators are never static. Companies must review them periodically and change them when necessary. The indicators are vital tools for aligning day-to-day business execution across multiple departments (such as purchasing, sales, manufacturing and shipping) and across multiple business units. Defining the metrics that produce the indicators may seem like a straightforward task, but many companies have a difficult time establishing a measurement system that works across multiple departments and setting metrics that are acceptable to all. Having a robust set of supply chain analytics can alleviate this issue; such analytics also are critical to enhancing visibility for managers and executives as I discussed in an earlier blog. To support their KPIs, companies need a high degree of visibility into their supply chains. “Visibility” is the ability to access relevant information quickly. Thus, “supply chain visibility” is the ability to know the location and status of the physical components, from raw materials to finished goods, as they move from suppliers through the stages of production to delivery to customers. Often, poor visibility is the result of not having transparent data – that is, lacking access to the data collected by a company’s supply chain systems. The data may be in diverse and fragmented systems, and some of it may be in desktop spreadsheets and thus inaccessible for all practical purposes. Although I believe that the current period of re-examining lean supply chains is simply the natural and rational response to good decisions gone bad, I think it’s also worth considering that the era of you-can’t-be-too-lean may be coming to an end. Some – maybe even most – companies will need to consider strategies for plumping up their supply chains. The recent disaster is occurring against a backdrop of rapidly rising worldwide consumption of primary materials after decades of surplus. It may be that shortages and outages will now be more common than ever. This isn’t a new phenomenon. During the 1970s – even before the first oil embargo – shortages of primary materials became enough of an issue that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as part of its “full disclosure” initiative, instituted a requirement that companies disclose where they had supply chain vulnerabilities. (There even was a shortage of toilet paper – but that’s another story.) Going forward, companies need to periodically assess optimal inventory levels, sourcing and siting options in a way that balances the requirements of each part of the business. As my colleague has pointed out, it would be a mistake to believe that your current set of ERP and supply chain management applications alone will be able to provide executives, managers and employees with the intelligence, insight and visibility they need. The current turmoil in worldwide supply chains may be extraordinary, but its lesson for organizations should be that they need to manage their supply chains more nimbly and intelligently. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP 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": "Analytics for IT: Cobbler’s Children Need Shoes", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/analytics-for-it-cobblers-children-need-shoes", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "As part of our largest-ever research study on business analytics, which surveyed more than 2,600 organizations covering the maturity and competency of business, IT and vertical industries, we looked at how IT is applying analytics to support their own business activities. One of the things we found is that, charged with enabling business units to use information systems as effectively as possible, the IT department, like the shoemaker’s barefoot children in the old tale, typically stands last in line for resources to manage its own performance. In trying to understand and tune the collection of networking and operating systems, middleware and applications an enterprise needs to operate, IT professionals usually have to make do with small sets of historical data stored in spreadsheets and data warehouses and marts that are not as well managed as the systems they maintain to support the business. In most cases IT cannot apply the same level of analytics to its own operations that it provides to business units. This also has effects beyond IT itself: To the extent that the result is subpar performance of its core information systems, the business will suffer. To break out of this frustrating cycle, IT needs to make the rest of the organization aware of the role it actually performs, of course, and it needs metrics and measurements, which require analytics to standardize and routinely generate them. IT needs to be able to analyze both historical and real-time events involving data and processes so managers can determine the right level of automation and efficiency to demand from the technology. And IT needs the capability delivered by predictive analytics to anticipate situations and outcomes so it can prepare properly for them. In short, the CIO and IT staff need to manage their portfolio as a business asset, not merely a collection of technologies. Metrics about its own operations and systems also enable IT to determine priorities for improvement. To fully understand the state of their existing investments and processes, IT organizations should not just measure them but analyze them to develop insights on future outcomes of their systems. This more sophisticated approach to analytics can help IT determine where to focus resources and what to do with legacy systems. Knowing this, it is possible to prioritize precious budget dollars and justify IT investments more convincingly. Our research found that IT’s concerns currently center on cost and operational efficiency. The most important financial metrics are return on investment, cost per project, budget utilization and adherence to budget. The most important process metrics address timeliness in IT’s core function of service to the business: delivery of projects on time, speed of technology implementation and help desk response time. In our research, which we presented in this webinar on IT analytics, of the participants’ perceptions of which metrics are most important for executives and managers, two loomed large: business user satisfaction and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs). The executives themselves rated the two metrics nearly equal in importance, but their management reports (vice presidents) by a slight margin most often named adherence to governance and risk management requirements rather than either of those. These responses suggest that people may work somewhat at cross-purposes in pursuing IT analytics. The research also finds strong suggestions that organizations ought to involve more people in the process of establishing requirements for defining analytics. Research participants asserted overwhelmingly that they and the head of their business unit are involved in establishing requirements important to their jobs, but percentages drop for heads of other business units and business analysts in other business units. This disparity takes on more weight when we recall that business user satisfaction and SLA compliance are important metrics for leaders. For analytics to deliver value, they must be available to those who need them; the research shows that this is an issue for many organizations. No more than half have analytics generally available to address any of seven major IT management tasks, and only for budget analysis are analytics completely available in even one-fourth of organizations. In a related finding, more than half said it is very important to make it simpler to provide analytics and metrics; less than 10 percent said that is only somewhat important or not important. As well, over a third said they can significantly improve their use of analytics and performance indicators, and over a third are not satisfied with the process currently used to create analytics. The process of applying analytics also impacts IT’s effectiveness. The IT Analytics benchmark research found that users in nearly two-thirds of all organizations spend most of their time in unproductive chores that precede analyzing their data: preparing it for analysis, reviewing it for quality and consistency and waiting for it. And before that, issues in collecting the data raise another roadblock. In more than half of organizations, doing that is very difficult or a challenge that impedes creating metrics and performance indicators. These functional barriers also can get in the way of analysts performing important tasks. Among capabilities they need in order to work effectively with analytics and metrics, 42 percent said access to source data is the most important, and at least one-third identified as most important the abilities to search for existing data and analytics, to take action based on analytics and to design and maintain both business models and metrics for analytics. Applying predictive analytics to project future outcomes, a hallmark of advanced maturity in the use of IT analytics, was cited by 31 percent. IT professionals need appropriate tools to facilitate these and other analytics-related activities. In more than half of these organizations, business intelligence technologies for query, reporting, analysis are the most important of these tools. Yet even in this technologically astute environment, desktop spreadsheets are often used to generate analytics and are an important information source for building IT. But spreadsheets require manual effort to populate the data and are prone to error, and thus are not appropriate for collaborative and enterprise-wide activities. We think their widespread use is a factor in half of organizations being only somewhat satisfied or not satisfied with their organization’s current technology for creating and applying analytics. As part of our benchmark research methodology, Ventana Research has developed a model for assessing maturity that classifies organizations at four maturity levels (from bottom to top, Tactical, Advanced, Strategic and Innovative) in each of four categories: People, Process, Information and Technology. With respect to their use of and plans for IT analytics, our Maturity Index analysis found only 15 percent whose responses place them at the highest Innovative level of maturity. One important finding reflecting on organizations’ maturity is that two-thirds said the data used in preparing metrics and performance indicators is only somewhat accurate or somewhat inaccurate. As well, it takes 35 percent of organizations more than one week to provide updated metrics and performance indicators to people and nearly as many up to a week to provide them. It is a positive sign that improvements, if made, will be done most often to improve business processes or decision-making rather than for operational efficiency and cost savings. The first two motivations are more likely to produce better business results. Similarly, maximizing IT effectiveness and improving the value of IT to business managers are more important than issues involving resources, costs and budget. However, these opinions come from organizations that plan to change the way they generate and apply analytics in the next 12 to 18 months, and they comprise only 28 percent of the total; another 36 percent said changes are needed but are not currently a priority. The primary barriers to such an initiative are both fiscal (lack of resources and budget) and perceptual (lack of awareness and a sense that the business case is not strong enough). Recognizing a problem but not being willing or able to remedy it is another sign of immaturity. To maximize its value, IT should use analytics and metrics to help set its own goals and objectives and to ensure they serve the business strategies of the organization. This innovative path is embracing IT performance management. Few organizations have taken the necessary steps to actually manage performance and align, optimize and understand the range of their IT processes and resources. We believe, and this benchmark research confirms, that it is time for them to take those steps, supported by executive management in providing resources. 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": "Think Carefully about Social Media and Your Customers", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/think-carefully-about-social-media-and-your-customers", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Unless you have been on a long vacation somewhere without newspapers, mobile phones or the Internet, you must have noticed all the buzz about social media – some of it factual and lots of it hype. Over a billion people use Facebook. There are many millions of tweets on Twitter every day, and YouTube has become the place to share videos, whether for a laugh, for a company’s brand awareness or for training courses. The key question for business is how much of this is useful for commerce and how much is just socializing. I started researching this movement and its intersection some time back and last year spoke about Customer Service in the Social Media Age. Companies should be looking at social media as another channel of communications with their customers and prospects. My research into the state of technology in contact centers shows that companies on average now support four channels of communications but that as yet social media is the least used. This is due to some extent to its newness, but I believe other factors also come into play. Social media is different than other channels. It is much more open-ended, and it is impossible to control who (and how many people) might see an entry. Therefore, companies and customers should be careful about what they post (or allow employees to post in their name). Social media generates high volumes of communications and thus can consume lots of time and effort both to keep up with and respond to entries. And like it or not, it is open to abuse, such as with disgruntled consumers running negative campaigns against companies, companies manipulating entries to sway consumers’ views and both sides reacting badly to provocative entries. Another significant difference is that use of social media transcends business units; this might be the hardest thing for companies to reconcile. As a speaker pointed out at the recent IQPC Executive Customer Contact Exchange (ECCE) conference, business can use social media for four activities – brand management (marketing), sales, customer service and product development. Of these it seems that the most use is for brand management, with marketing departments using it as a “cheap” channel to place advertising and also to monitor consumer comments about the company or brand. The next widest use is in the largely negative side of customer service, as customers post negative comments about companies, products and the quality of service they receive, and some companies respond. At the very least companies should be monitoring these comments using one of the many social media analytics tools; doing so they can extract a wealth of insights into what they and others are doing right and wrong (most often the latter). At the present time other uses are less common. A few companies have extended the use of social media into their end-to-end customer service processes, such as in picking up entries requesting information on how to get a product working. This typically involves capturing social media entries using one of the engines now available, routing service entries to the contact center or customer service group, and then having someone post a response through the same channel or if appropriate a different channel. In a similar way some companies are picking up potential sales opportunities, as in the form of entries requesting information about a product, and routing these into their sales process. Finally some innovative companies are using social media forums to solicit feedback on potential product developments or enhancements. It is still uncertain which of these uses will deliver real business value, but as companies experiment with social media, I advise them to take into account that typically each of these four uses is the responsibility of a different business unit. My research on the use of technology shows that one of the most important things for companies and customer alike is consistency – of information and experience. Inconsistency in either means increased costs (providing multiple channels to get an answer), increased customer frustration and loss of potential business. To avoid these, companies should regard social media as a cross-business-unit responsibility and ensure that all use a single source of customer information and synchronize their processes across unit boundaries. There was also a lot of discussion at the ECCE event as to how companies should put together their social media strategy. It seems to me that the first thing companies should do is “listen” to how their customers are using social media and what they are saying on different sites. Several vendors are doing this that I have been assessing including Attensity, Clarabridge, Genesys, ResponseTek, RightNow, salesforce.com and SAS These products, some of which are deployed in the cloud, can extract relevant entries from different sites and use text analytics to assess the content. Once you have this ability to listen you’ll be in a position to decide strategy and how best to benefit from social media going forward. Where does your company stand with regard to social media? What uses are you making of it? Do you have a product in place to monitor what is happening? Drop me a line and tell me about your experience. Regards, Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "SAP Diversifies into Contact Center and Communications Technology Market", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/sap-diversifies-into-contact-center-and-communications-technology-market", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Most people associate SAP with enterprise software: ERP, CRM and more recently with business analytics and business intelligence. The majority also see the company as committed to providing these as on-premises applications and having only begun its presence in cloud computing for business applications. But there’s more to the story, as I recently discovered. With its Business Communications Management (BCM) software SAP has quietly diversified into the contact center market, while at the same time increasing its presence in the cloud. BCM originated with SAP’s acquisition of Wicom Communications, a Finnish company, in 2007. Wicom developed its product from a customer project and had some success selling it in the Nordic countries. SAP has built on this foundation and is now offering BCM globally. It is a multichannel, VoIP-based communications management application that helps companies control their interactions with customers. It is designed so that calls are kept locally but where they are routed and which are recorded can be controlled either locally using an on-premises application or in the cloud. BCM includes call recording, IVR and unified interaction routing (interactions from multiple channels are routed through a single queue). It has a built-in directory of valid users that works in conjunction with presence capabilities so that one user (agent) can identify others who are available on the network, either to collaborate on the resolution of an interaction or for one user to transfer the interaction to another. The directory lists users’ skills to help one pick out someone who has the right skills to handle a particular customer interaction. All of BCM’s capabilities are fully integrated with each other, and there is a single point of administration. This close coupling makes it possible to centralize reporting and analysis and to combine information from multiple sources to provide a broader base of information for reports and analysis. Integration also extends to other applications, particularly others from SAP such as SAP CRM, ERP, ByDesign, BOBJ and BI for more extensive reporting. These integrate at the lowest level, thus providing more out-of-the-box interoperability than normally is possible between third-party applications. Other non-SAP applications can be integrated using Web services. The products are available from SAP on-premises and in the cloud from its partners. SAP also provides consulting services to help customers get up and running. In summary the set of products provides tightly integrated capabilities with VoIP-based smart PBX functionality, core capabilities of unified communications (presence and collaboration), multichannel routing, and reporting and analysis; alongside tight integration with CRM. This does not make a fully functional contact center, but the communications management supports companies as they try to improve the way they handle customer interactions. SAP positions BCM as enabling “communications-enabled business processes.” I have two issues with this concept. In my experience most call centers don’t think about “process” but rather a set of activities such as handling incoming calls (and other interactions) that have to be delivered to the most qualified person and enabling that person to get on and resolve the call; for many people technology just gets in the way. Second, in my experience applications are not very friendly to call-handling; callers don’t seem to structure their conversations in the logical way that applications work and don’t respect what screens have to accessed and what data has to be entered in what sequence; that is, the applications don’t flow the same way as conversations flow. So I’m not sure about communication-enabled processes, but from what I have seen and heard BCM does enable smart interaction management and therefore should help companies improve the way they interact with customers which is something I have extensively researched into customer interaction technology. SAP is clearly deepening its focus with CRM as my colleague expressed recently. Are you ready for communications-enabled processes or customer interaction activities and technologies? If so, I’d love to know what you are doing and what technology you use to support your efforts. Regards Richard Snow – VP & Research Director", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "MarkLogic Revs Up Information Applications with New Energy and Leadership", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/marklogic-revs-up-information-applications-with-new-energy-and-leadership", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "At this year’s user conference, it was clear that change is afoot at MarkLogic, whose technology platform enables users to access information more easily accessible within applications and devices. Last month the board of directors appointed a new CEO, Ken Bado, created the new position of chief marketing officer (CMO) and named a head of global services and alliances, all within three weeks. The Silicon Valley software company has been growing in the last several years but appears not fast enough for its board members. There have been a lot of advancements since my in-depth analysis in 2010 and at last years conference. I had a chance to meet with MarkLogic’s new executives, who have extensive experience in operating large-scale technology organizations; they said they will reset some priorities to ensure it can meet its goal of being a half-billion-dollar company in five years. In our conversation they emphasized building a better and larger community for developers and launching more viral communications about their technology. I agree that MarkLogic needs to expand and be more consistent in use of its own technology for providing information to the industry; it also needs to make it easier for customers to onboard and try the technology, which provides the ability to assemble and deploy what we call information applications. Moving in this direction, already MarkLogic has started to supply more information and examples to its developer community and announced support for deployments to Amazon EC2, which it didn’t from my opinion communicate well over the last year. To its user conference the company brought customers in publishing and government who have been using its products to meet a growing demand for access to and searching of information within both the enterprise and the Internet. Numerous customer presentations discussed applications built on MarkLogic Server 4.2, which was announced last fall. Our benchmark research on information applications and underlying platforms for them found that only 11 percent of organizations are very satisfied with their existing efforts in this area. The conference sessions suggest users are making progress using the MarkLogic technology to handle huge volumes of data and large-scale information management deployments; some are integrating MarkLogic Server with Hadoop to take advantage of that open source community. The interfacing to Hadoop is something my colleague has been researching in great detail. In fact MarkLogic is accessing petabytes of content that is indexed and accessible through its search methods to its XML information store. Early information about its next major release indicates it will be able to store more binaries and content. The use of XML and Xquery, along with interfacing to SQL, is adding versatility to the platform’s ability to integrate semistructured information across the enterprise. Our research confirms that SQL and XML are the top two standards that more than 55 percent of organizations must interface to in providing an information platform for assembling applications. I think MarkLogic has been too secretive about the upcoming major release and not specific enough on its roadmap even to its customers. But its conference keynotes did offer some information. Jason Monberg, VP of product management, discussed three types of usage of its technology, which he called enterprise intelligence, situational awareness and information applications. They cover the bulk of how customers are using or integrating its technology. His discussion outlined a range of what is possible but was short on what capabilities are new or are being improved. It appears that the company is struggling with what to call these customer accomplishments, but the key point is that the applications are information-centric. Ron Avnur, VP of engineering, discussed what will be the three technological pillars of its next major release: a shared-nothing architecture, concurrency and indexing, along with clustering and integration with Hadoop. My conclusion is that this is an information infrastructure that can adapt to existing architectures in the enterprise for the purpose of building information applications. One of the big challenges for MarkLogic in regard to technology and integration is how to support mobility in smartphones and tablet computers. Many potential customers and partners are adopting such products, and MarkLogic needs to lay out a clear product roadmap across the disparate Apple, Google Android, HP webOS, Microsoft Mobile and RIM platforms. The buzz at the user conference showed that customers and partners are demanding more from MarkLogic in this area, and the new executives seem to understand that they need to respond. Our research in information applications confirms the importance of supporting the gamut of mobile devices for access to information. For the future, the company has to make its server easier to manage in terms of the information life cycle and storage and able to manage the large-scale distributed demands for data. Our research into information applications found little confidence among business people that their organization’s current skills and resources can meet the demands for information internally and even less confidence in providing it to customers and consumers. MarkLogic and other technology providers in this area should realize that for potential customers inclined to consider others than IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, the drivers are to increase workforce productivity, improve operational efficiency and gain a competitive advantage. Making it simpler to assemble and use information applications can support these goals, and thus they should make this a priority. MarkLogic has enlisted consulting firms to help reach more users, but according to our research not many organizations want to hand off this responsibility; 42 percent want business analysts to work with IT to build new systems, and only 7 percent want to work with consultants, while 36 percent prefer building in IT and 15 percent would purchase packages. MarkLogic will have to be careful not to slow the time to value in getting applications deployed by pushing lengthy consulting engagements but rather deliver them in an iterative approach based on revision. Despite the challenges, MarkLogic has a large opportunity for growth, as competing larger vendors like IBM, Oracle and SAP are focused on middleware and IT’s agenda, paying less attention to helping lines of business get the information-centric applications they desire. The point of information applications is to get the information you need, both inside and outside of the enterprise, to be better informed; they can provide direct access to the value chain of consumers, customers and suppliers, and that’s what business people want. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & EVP 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": "SuccessFactors Finds Learning Management System and More with Plateau Acquisition", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/successfactors-finds-learning-management-system-and-more-with-plateau-acquisition", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Consolidation in the human capital management software market is in full swing. Recently Peopleclick Authoria acquired Aquire Solutions, and just this week Golden Gate Capital and Infor agreed to buy Lawson Software for about $2 billion, which my colleague Robert Kugel commented. SuccessFactors is at it again this week as well, announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Plateau Systems, a provider of learning management system (LMS) and talent management software. This deal will build out further the SuccessFactors LMS after its purchase of social video and mobile learning provider Jambok back in March. Until this announcement the Jambok purchase was interesting albeit awkward in both customer and vendor circles, but now it makes sense. The obvious point of the Plateau purchase was for the LMS product and knowledge capital, and assuming the deal closes this summer, integration and assimilation with Jambok and CubeTree and the greater SuccessFactors BizX suite will follow. This expansion of the SuccessFactors BizX suite could solidify the company as a learning leader in the talent management space, with a true end-to-end SaaS platform that raises the stakes for Saba, SumTotal Systems, ADP Workscape, Workday and others. Sources at some of these companies admitted to me it’s a great move for SuccessFactors, while pointing out that integration of the products may be difficult in the short term once the deal is done. Integration could be an issue in another sense as well because these are two different corporate cultures. SuccessFactors is a public company and Plateau is privately held, and there are contrasting styles between their progressively aggressive West Coast and conservative and cautious East Coast orientations. The two have never had a formal partnership that could have helped with integration and assimilation as well as customer service, marketing and sales once the acquisition goes through. Until then, they’ll be operating as two separate companies. On the other hand, according to SuccessFactors, they are more alike technologically than any competing platforms (which SuccessFactors determined while shopping around). Because Plateau, like SuccessFactors, is built using Enterprise Java (JEE), both teams expect a smooth code assimilation. I asked them about their integration plans and product roadmap plans, but there wasn’t much they could share because of the regulatory aspects of the pending deal. But that’s how it is with these deals until they’re done, and the sooner they’re done and the integration has begun the better for customers, prospects and employees (I’ll get to that in a minute). We note also that SuccessFactors is not only purchasing a stellar learning management system, it will gain the rest of Plateau’s talent management suite, of which the compensation application recently scored “Hot” in our latest 2011 Total Compensation Management Value Index, only one of three that did so and much higher rating than SuccessFactors. What else will Plateau bring to enhance the BizX suite? I’ll bet that compensation and the iContent portal technology are second only to the learning capabilities. SuccessFactors is already very strong in performance management as well as workforce analytics and planning for where they acquired two companies youcalc and Inform that my colleague had assessed, which these tools complement but also overlap with Plateau recent advancements in its own analytics. Both platforms tout the customer benefits of cloud computing, but with all the chatter about cloud-based SaaS in business today (including HCM), you’d think that the stability and security for customers would be clearer. I’ve been asking more cloud HCM vendors what they’re doing to ensure that stability and security (consider the Amazon cloud computing outages last week. The answers are pretty cloudy other than “we’ve got that covered.” SuccessFactors spokespeople told me it has been running cloud-based SaaS for 10 years without major incidents, and with Plateau they expect to own the HCM cloud-based SaaS market. Based on their initial estimates, the combined companies will have more than 15 million users. That could make for a lot of unhappy customers if the cloud should be compromised. All it takes is one security or stability breach to lose credibility. Among those 15 million users, the companies said they share some customers, although how many and how big they either didn’t know or didn’t want to say. For the time being, clients and prospects alike will be asking themselves, “Should I be buying from Plateau, and if I do, will SuccessFactors take care of me?” And Plateau’s current employees no doubt wonder, “Will they take care of me, whether I stay or am let go?” I believe SuccessFactors will do so to some extent on both accounts, but the sooner it’s all done the better it will be for all concerned. Regards, Kevin W. Grossman – 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": "Acquisition of Lawson Complements Infor’s Portfolio", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/acquisition-of-lawson-complements-infors-portfolio", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Golden Gate Capital and Infor (which is owned largely by Golden Gate Capital) will acquire Lawson Software for approximately $2 billion in a transaction that is expected to be completed sometime in this year’s third quarter. Lawson is the latest in a string of enterprise software acquisitions made or financed by Golden Gate that began almost a decade ago. Today, Infor is made up of legacy companies such as Baan, Comshare, ePiphany, Dun & Bradstreet Software, SSA, Sun Systems and Symix, to name just a handful. Compared to Oracle’s acquisition approach, I would describe Golden Gate’s as more of a “rollup” of applications software vendors because it incorporates a larger number of smaller companies. While Oracle has focused primarily on serving the largest corporations, Infor’s customers tend to be midsize to large companies or divisions of very large corporations. Nonetheless, with this acquisition Infor will have a larger base of revenue and installations to work from in an industry where size and economies of scale drive profitability and competitiveness. Lawson’s focus has been on two main vertical segments that I think nicely complement Infor’s lineup: services-oriented S3 strategic industries, which includes healthcare and public sector organizations as well as the cross-industry market for human capital management (HCM) software that my colleague recently outlined its importance for 2011; and light manufacturing-oriented M3 strategic industries, which targets fashion companies, equipment service management and rental as well as food and beverage. The HCM portfolio of Lawson will significantly help Infor who has not been as aggressive with its workforce management solution acquired many years back and for a market that is growing and consolidating rapidly in the last several years. Lawson’s strategy has been to focus on midsize-to-larger organizations in its core markets with a vertical-specific product focus and a value proposition of lower cost of ownership. One objective in an acquisition such as this is to keep customers paying maintenance as long as possible. (I covered this topic in an earlier blog, “The Technology Stack and Innovation.”) When the final deal was announced it was accompanied by a letter from Infor’s CEO, Charles Phillips, to Lawson’s customers aimed at reassuring them that Infor is in it for the long run to keep them as customers and that Lawson’s current products will continue to receive support. Beyond the goal of continuing to receive maintenance fees on Lawson’s existing product lines, I think that the Lawson acquisition reaffirms Infor’s basic product approach of making it simple for its customers to migrate from their existing software to a next-generation Infor offering. Software companies that like Infor have acquired an array of similar business applications have big incentives to move established customers onto a new or substantially updated system as painlessly as possible; otherwise they are likely to stop paying maintenance and start evaluating a full set of alternatives. (I just covered this point in a recent blog on ending “forklift migrations.” Reducing migration pain makes it much easier for a vendor to keep customers on maintenance and hold onto an important and highly profitable source of revenue. Moreover, it’s a way for these vendors to consolidate the number of code bases they are maintaining, which at the very least will make their development programs more effective, rationalize sales efforts and offer operating savings. While the price Golden Gate and Infor are paying is hardly cheap (at about 2.6 times this year’s projected revenue for Lawson), it does give the acquirers a large, incremental, maintenance-paying installed base that can be targeted with a “pain-free” migration offering. Whether this ultimately pays off for Infor’s and Golden Gate’s investors depends, of course, on execution. Infor has been a company with good (and some not so good) products with unfulfilled potential. It’s up to Charles Phillips who already and his team to realize that potential and put into action his letter to Infor and Lawson on the announcement. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP 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": "Datawatch Offers Shorter Path from Data to Information", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/12/datawatch-offers-shorter-path-from-data-to-information-3", "datePublished": "12/05/2011", "dateModified": "12/05/2011", "articleBody": "Turning data into information for taking actions and making decisions has bedeviled businesses throughout the computer age. Many organizations have data in dozens of applications and legacy systems along with many reports in various business intelligence systems. The challenge is to get data from each of the reports and assemble it into contextualized views of information for particular business needs. In our benchmark research on what we call information applications, only 11 percent of organizations said they are satisfied with their existing efforts to do this; more than half of organizations see the current process as too slow and not adaptable to the changes that necessarily occur in assembling actionable information. Against this background I have been reviewing the efforts of Datawatch, which provides capabilities to gain access to data transparently from reports and other information generated in common formats such as Adobe Acrobat, HTML and XML from existing ERP, CRM and other applications and legacy systems. Its products also can process Microsoft Office documents including Microsoft Excel and spreadsheets, which is the technology most commonly used for business analytics and for business intelligence, according to our benchmark research on those topics. Helping organizations reduce the copy and paste activity and provide consistency of information is essential for improving the quality of information used across the enterprise. Instead of focusing on data integration and movement of data to a centralized database, Datawatch provides the ability to access data that has already been generated such as from transactional systems and applications. Our recent research in information applications found that leveraging reports from BI systems is important to 57 percent of organizations and getting to the data from source ERP, CRM and other applications is important to 71 percent. This ability to harvest existing reports and information that has already been created not only enables companies to utilize existing investments but also reduces the time it takes to get to information that people know already exists. Datawatch is known for this capability in its Monarch platform and with a customer base of forty thousand users around the world since its original release from more than a decade ago, which generates a consistent view of information from any format of data or report. Datawatch has continued to refine its ability to dynamically integrate data from reports and output from across the enterprise into a common report, dashboard or application. Its current platform and set of tools called Monarch Enterprise Server can customize the output and generate information applications from it. The company recently announced a new release of the server that provides more flexibility for the business user and assembler of information to navigate among sources and interact. New capabilities for administration and storage of the actual reports allow easier access to the source data. The new release also addresses the top two vendor and product considerations for purchasers identified in our benchmark research in information applications: usability and reliability. Datawatch also has been making it easier to apply analytics to the data its tools bring together, which should be attractive to users in the lines of business and vertical industries. If Datawatch adds mobile access from smartphones and tablet computers and perhaps makes its products available through cloud computing, it could find even more new customers. Datawatch also provides a document management system called Datawatch Business Document Server (BDS) that can help organizations maintain a repository of source data for downstream information needs. Datawatch BDS also provides the ability to provide notification, workflow, email archiving and records management that can help manage the information life cycle from storage and retention to overall governance through policy management. Datawatch also recently released a new version of this technology that adds operating system support for Red Hat Linux and deeper security for data across enterprise deployments; it also expands support for language translation along with report and document redaction. A public company, Datawatch recently announced that it has appointed a new CEO, Michael Morrison, who is a veteran of many successful companies in the information and analytics domains including IBM, Applix and Cognos. This executive change is important as the company has not grown significantly in recent years and was not often mentioned in the industry and buyer dialogue about information management and business intelligence or the emerging market in business analytics. Morrison already has begun to simplify the company’s marketing and sales processes and is focusing on additional types of buyers. Though Datawatch does not compete directly in terms of functionality with BI technologies, it does compete in the larger buying agenda to improve information accessibility in the enterprise. If the company can gain recognition as a harvester of existing investments in applications and systems by capturing and utilizing data in them, it could increase in size and recognition. Datawatch’s customers range from the Fortune 500 to the midsize. It is looking to expand by touting a faster, more cost-effective method of increased benefit from existing systems, including business intelligence systems and reporting tools. Now it has to make it easier for enterprises on both the IT and business sides to see how Monarch Enterprise Server can be the platform they need for rapid assembly of information for any line of business’s requirements. Our business analytics benchmark revealed that in the analytics processes people spend 69 percent of their time waiting for, preparing and reviewing data rather than actually analyzing it. We also found that the capability analysts in more than half of organizations need most for business analytics is sourcing data. This suggests that Datawatch could play a valuable role in addressing the accessibility and time pressures for supporting business analytics. It might find a niche in business analytics initiatives by filling the business technology gap in rapidly assembling information applications. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & EVP 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": "Zyme Solutions Tackles Channel Data Challenge", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/zyme-solutions-tackles-channel-data-challenge", "datePublished": "04/05/2011", "dateModified": "04/05/2011", "articleBody": "Companies (especially in high technology) that sell through an indirect channel face a difficult challenge because global sales channels are complex, fragmented and changeable, with different business practices and customs than direct channels. Keeping track of which products have sold in and sold through which partners can be a difficult task. Unless a company is working with only a handful of channel partners, just collecting the data is time-consuming. Not only is the data complex, much of it is taken from disparate IT systems of individual channel partners. They report their data at different times and in different ways using a mishmash of data structures, aggregations and nomenclature, so companies have to go through a data-cleansing step to acquire a consistent data set with which to work. Yet having accurate, detailed and timely data is important to both the day-to-day and strategic management of a corporation. Without that, it’s hard to manage customer and partner relationships effectively and have a timely, accurate view of aggregate indirect channel sales and inventory positions. Not having reliable, complete or timely sales information from indirect channel partners can delay revenue recognition, lead to inaccurate reserves for returns or cause material errors in inventory valuations. It can impair a company’s ability to do sales planning, market analysis and channel partner effectiveness assessments and is part of an overall sales performance management program which my colleague recently articulated. And the lack of visibility makes it difficult to understand which incentive programs are working and which are not. Thus companies may be missing opportunities to give their best partners better treatment or to attract new ones. Compensation and incentives also are much harder to manage accurately because of missing information and long time lags between when events occur and when reliable data is available. Both sales people and channel partners are unhappy if they think they have not been properly credited or if waiting for information extends delays in payments. Moreover, there’s an asymmetry when it comes to compensation: Sales people and channel partners never complain when they are overpaid, which inflates costs, requires time and effort to correct and can produce hard feelings. I think there’s a broader issue at play here, too. The lack of timely, reliable channel data makes it harder for company executives to design and execute channel-based strategies and to manage the day-to-day business. It may not be possible to ensure that the right resources are applied to the right channel partners. Measuring results in an accurate and timely fashion may be infeasible to support the kind of agility required to compete effectively in dynamic markets. Moreover, it’s difficult to manage any organization well when information is not immediately at hand. In other words, channel data visibility is important for the CEO, COO, CFO and the finance department, as well as the sales and channel management organization. It’s not that companies haven’t been trying hard to get the channel data they need. Until recently, however, they have had to make do with improvised and imperfect solutions. Now, however, Zyme Solutions offers an array of products that help companies manage their channel visibility more cost-effectively. Its TrueData enables companies to capture validated worldwide channel data from hundreds partners and end customers. Its TrueID enables them to identify their channel partners and end customers and match them to point-of-sale transactions. TruePay automates the validation of an organization’s channel incentive programs, allowing for faster and more accurate compensation. Zyme dashboards – and the Zyme Analysis Portal – enable companies to present data in the most effective fashion, along with the Tech Channel Index that companies can use to benchmark their performance. ChannelView brings channel visibility into a company’s CRM system (Zyme has prebuilt integration with salesforce.com) that was brought to market in 2010. Zyme also offers professional services support with its data steward services. By specializing in providing channel visibility and focusing on the technology sector, Zyme Solutions is able to achieve economies of scale that it can pass on to its customers. Few companies on their own have a scale of operations that can support or justify the investment required to ensure channel data integrity. Consequently, they wind up making do with what they have, which often fails to provide sufficient visibility. In this context, it’s not surprising that within the high-technology vertical market, Zyme’s most common competitor is the desktop spreadsheet and other home-grown solutions. I recommend that companies with dynamic product lines that use worldwide indirect channels – especially those that are in the technology sector and/or use salesforce.com to manage their indirect channel partnerships – compare the cost and quality of Zyme Solutions’ channel visibility offerings with the quality and timeliness, as well as the direct and hidden costs, of the data they currently have to work with. Regards, Robert Kugel - SVP 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": "Prospects for Ending Forklift Migrations of ERP", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/prospects-for-ending-forklift-migrations-of-erp", "datePublished": "03/05/2011", "dateModified": "03/05/2011", "articleBody": "Back in the old days (20 years ago or so) companies that wanted to expand or update their telephone systems had to do what was called a “forklift migration.” In other words, they had to remove big, heavy and very expensive boxes of electronics from an equipment room and replace them with newer big, heavy and very expensive boxes. The process of adding, deleting or changing people, offices and phone numbers was equally burdensome and costly. This all seems quaint now because digital telephony and voice over IP (VOIP) have completely changed the technology underpinnings of voice communications. I bring this up because we may be on the verge of substantially reducing the “forklift migration” equivalent of replacing or updating on-premises ERP systems and other enterprise software. This possibility is important for software vendors as well as users. Retaining a maintenance base and revenue stream has become a key strategic objective for any enterprise software provider. In North America in particular, companies that have outgrown their enterprise system or want to replace it almost never exhibit total brand loyalty. Instead they begin the replacement process by looking at alternatives, winnow it down to a short list and then select the best of the lot. If migration is as much work as implementing a new system, organizations are likely to view replacement as an equally attractive option, increasing the probability that the incumbent vendor will lose a customer. But if there’s little pain in changing an ERP system to acquire new functional capabilities or meet other objectives, incumbent vendors stand to benefit. It seems to me that facilitating migration is the rationale behind Oracle’s creation of a data integration hub (which I covered in a blog last fall). Infor also is heading in the same direction for the same reason. (SAP doesn’t have this problem because it hasn’t pursued a roll-up strategy.) Software companies that have acquired a set of similar business applications software vendors have a big incentive to move established customers onto a new or substantially updated system. Reducing migration pain makes it much easier for them to keep customers on maintenance and hold onto an important and highly profitable source of revenue. Moreover, it’s a way for these vendors to consolidate the number of code bases they are maintaining, which will offer operating savings. Easing migration to a more capable, standard platform will benefit vendors that provide this option to its users. I expect companies that are operating multiple enterprise systems from different software companies will be more likely to standardize on the system that is easiest to consolidate – if their features and capabilities are roughly the same. Oracle and Infor take the approach of constantly feeding data from each of their applications to a multidimensional data store. This immediately enables them to use the data store for business intelligence and analytics. (SAP achieves much the same result with its HANA In-Memory Appliance software and promises to deliver multidimensional capabilities in future versions, which my colleague David Menninger recently discussed.) Since a company may have a broad range of functional applications feeding this data store, it also becomes easier for users to perform complex analytics because more information is centralized and therefore more accessible to a larger number of individuals and business analysts. For example, since it dispenses with the traditional financial ledger structure, it’s possible to do some degree of instant consolidation of financial data. (This can be complete or nearly complete for internal business reporting although likely not for statutory accounting purposes.) Both Oracle and Infor plan to run their next generation of enterprise applications on a multidimensional database. The effect of this should be that when the time comes to switch from, say, Oracle’s PeopleSoft to its Fusion Financials, or from SyteLine or Baan to Infor’s next-generation ERP system, it will involve considerably less effort from the standpoint of handling the database layer since few if any changes would be required, if you don’t want them. (One exception would be if a company decides to split a set of data among two or more dimensions.) If the software vendor keeps the user interface (UI) in its next generation the same as one available in legacy products, it can eliminate or substantially reduce employee training and learning curves in adapting to a new UI or workflows. Indeed, Infor has rolled out Infor Workspace, a universal UI that can be used today for its LN, SyteLine, EAM, FMS SunSystems and Expense Management applications. When the time comes to switch from legacy to new system, it will be possible for these users to keep the same UI, which in theory means transitions can be smoother and less time-consuming. “In theory” is the operative phrase, since we won’t really know where the “gotchas” are and how best to address them until the first wave of pioneers go through the process. The history of the adoption of new information technology by business is littered with examples of extravagant analyst optimism that did not pan out. ERP itself was touted as a panacea because it enabled central collection of related information for the business enterprise, but it did not substantially address the need to make the information accessible and useful. Historically, too, companies have used any change-over in financial applications as an occasion to clean up and rationalize their charts of accounts and other items. This can be time-consuming by itself, but it doesn’t have to be part of the move from one system to the next. Use of multidimensional databases as the data store for accounting and other enterprise transactions systems has another potential plus for users of these systems: greater flexibility. Our ERP research finds that companies underutilize the capabilities of their financial systems. One reason is because most larger companies find it difficult to make the changes necessary to do more. Although there can be many reasons why making any sort of change to an ERP system is time-consuming and expensive, some types of changes can be accomplished more readily in a multidimensional structure than in a relational one. This may prove very useful for, say, HR and tax departments because accounting systems are rarely provisioned with their needs in mind. Typically ERP financial management systems are configured around an organization’s business structure: for example, divisions, functional silos and geographies. Although it’s possible (and to my mind recommended) to set up a company’s books to be tax-aware, they rarely are. Most large companies’ legal structures do not align perfectly with the business structures. Consequently, people who work in tax departments routinely waste valuable time doing work to adapt tax reporting to the structure of the business. Since making an accounting ERP system tax-aware would just involve adding another dimension, I believe it would be far easier to implement the change than in a system built on a relational data store. The same applies to having an HR system that is more adaptable to the fluid organizational structures and broader categories of employees (such as outsourced and contract workers) that companies need to count these days. In an effort to find a way to hold onto their maintenance base, some enterprise software vendors may have inadvertently come upon a way to improve the usability and utility of their complex software systems – by making it easier to access and use the data contained in them and add and split dimensions to the data structure over time. It remains to be seen how much pain the vendors will be able to take out of migrating from their legacy to their new applications but at first glance, it’s a promising innovation. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP 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": "It’s Time for the Contact Center To Change", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/05/04/its-time-for-the-contact-center-to-change", "datePublished": "03/05/2011", "dateModified": "03/05/2011", "articleBody": "Twenty years ago, when I began consulting in the contact center industry, building a call center was a hard, resource-consuming task. Just to begin handling calls required purchasing lots of proprietary equipment, such as PBXs and automatic call distributors (ACDs), as well as software for computer/telephony integration (CTI) and business applications such as case management and CRM – and then spending a lot of time and effort integrating them. Lots of tasks were managed using spreadsheets, and if you wanted anything more than the basic reports available from your PBX/ACD supplier, you would have to budget a great deal more money. Right from those early days, call center managers focused on efficiency and relied on basic metrics such as queue lengths, average call-handling time, hold times and call transfers. Not far into the evolution of call centers, consultants – including me – told companies to deploy interactive voice response (IVR) because it would support more advanced call routing. We also advised companies to deploy Web-based self-service applications because letting customers perform tasks themselves would be cheaper than paying agents to handle calls, and consumers would demand such capabilities. To help drive efficiency, vendors developed workforce optimization systems to record calls (hardly any of which were actually listened to), products to help increase agent utilization and systems to let companies monitor agent performance more rigorously. The name of the game was still efficiency, and although people started talking about first-call resolution, the focus remained on average hold time (AHT). According to my research, two decades later, things have not changed much. My latest research into contact center analytics shows AHT is still the number-one performance metric. My research into the use of technology in contact centers shows that routing to the next available agent is still the most popular use of call routing. The success of IVR is questionable, with more than 70% of visitors to IVR choosing the option to speak with an agent, and the same is true of Web-based self-service, where again more than 70% of people opt to call an agent. The same research does shows two significant changes. More than 60% of companies have transitioned to voice over IP (VoIP), and companies have been hectically implementing additional channels of communication. My latest research into the state of contact centers shows companies now support an average of four communication channels. However, the focus on efficiency hasn’t changed – the transition to VoIP was made not to use all its new features but to save on communication costs and equipment, and the deployment of additional channels was done largely to divert calls from the contact center. At this point I believe that contact centers can’t continue in this fashion, for three fundamental reasons: Consumers have grown used to using social media. If a company doesn’t support it, some consumers will not do business with it, and poor-quality products or service are likely to produce adverse comments on social media, with potentially major business implications. Customers have become more demanding. The purpose of having multiple channels of communication should no longer be cost savings or diverting calls from agents; it is about embracing consumers who want to work with you through the channel of their choice. However, consumers demand consistency across channels; if the information on self-service channels doesn’t match their expectations, consumers will be unhappy and will drive up your costs as they try other channels, especially the phone, until they get what they expect – or stop doing business with you. The business market has changed, and retaining existing customers or winning new ones has gotten harder. This means companies need more cooperation across business unit boundaries, especially when it involves social media. Interaction-handling processes have to be improved – for example, companies need better IVR menus, need to avoid asking callers to repeat information and must not promise to call back and then not do it. Finally, companies need better information to drive strategy, to give to customers and to measure performance against key business goals. The good news is that vendors in this space “get it,” probably more than the majority of end-user companies. Vendors have developed more and better products: while I used to cover about 20 products seven years ago, now the number is close to 100. More products are developed based on standards, making them easier to integrate. Vendors have put together more integrated suites or have developed close partnerships that deliver preintegrated products, and more and more are providing access to these products via the cloud. Leading vendors such as Contactual, inContact, Interactive Intelligence, LiveOps and SAP BCM have developed suites of products that support the majority of contact center requirements – and have made these suites available as cloud-based services. Why are cloud services important? Yes, they save capital expenditures; yes, using a service provider means having to depend less on skilled in-house resources; yes, such services are accessible from anywhere. More importantly, however, the products have rich functionality. They put business users in control through features such as configuration and parameter-driven functionality. The vendors make them secure to access and use. They are scalable to meet most user demands. And vendors take care of housekeeping activities such as operations, product upgrades, backup and recovery. In summary, cloud-based services afford companies the opportunity to innovate in the way they handle customer interactions at affordable costs. Our Ventana Research Maturity Index shows around 10% of companies have improved their processes, information and technology and reached the highest Innovative level of contact center maturity. Others would do well to learn from their experiences. The emergence of the contact center in the cloud might just be the stimulus to bring about a surge of innovation in the next few years. 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